PUBLIC EVENTS 2024 ~ 2025
Workshop Series “Insider Perspectives: Scholars Investigating their Own Cultural Milieu in Japan” organized by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach
Vietnamese Perspectives on Vietnamese Migrants in Japan
Mai Chi Nguyen, Sophia University
Phuong Anh Le, Waseda University
Bao Quyen Tran, Sophia University
Hong Vy Huynh Vu, Waseda University
June 23, 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
What’s So Great About Global Art?
Ownership, Nationalism, and Hybridity
Alan Chong,, Independent Scholar of Art
June 14, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
The Whaling Issue Will Never End, even if Whaling Collapses
Akamine Jun, Hitotsubashi University
June 10, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Special Guest Lecture co-hosted by ICC and the Department of English Studies
CROSSING CULTURES, MAKING MOVIES
Eric McEver, Screenwriter & Director
May 29, 2024, 19:30 (Doors open from 19.00)
Library, Room 921, Sophia University
No registration necessary. Open to the public.
ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
‘Living like a Common Man’ Screening & discussion with Sanderien Verstappen and Darshan Patel
Sanderien Verstappen, Social and Visual Anthropologist (University of Vienna)
June 12, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
Please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/YRfdXeybLt
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Abstract Landscapes: Avant-garde Artists and the Negotiation of Self-Expression in Wartime Japan
Jeongwon Yoon, ICC Visiting Researcher, Doctoral Fellow of the Japan Foundation, Ph.D. Candidate in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas
May 23, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Yukinori Okamura, Curator, Managing Director, Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
May 31, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a panel discussion
Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation
Janine Beichman, Professor Emerita, Daitō Bunka University
Alisa Freedman, Professor, University of Oregon
Masako Iino, Professor Emerita and former President, Tsuda University
Kate Nakai, Professor Emerita, Sophia University
Anne Walthall, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine
May 23, 2024, 17:30 - 20:00Venue: Room 821, 8F, Sophia Library
Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/pqyeZAyBmm
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
“A Sociology of Confucianism as a World Religion”
Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
May 15, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
ICC Sophia University and the Free university of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series
Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Hosted by Megha Wadhwa & David H. Slater
Sanderien Verstappen, Social and Visual Anthropologist (University of Vienna)
12 June 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, Curator (University of Amsterdam)
16 July 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Laura Liverani, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker
13 August 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker (Vice-president at Archive of Migrant Memories)
17 September 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Megha Wadhwa, Anthropologist, Filmmaker and Writer (Free University of Berlin)
22 October 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Özgür Çiçek, Media and Culture Studies (University of Amsterdam)
12 November 2024, 19:00 to 21:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CET)
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Creating a World-Beating Peruvian Restaurant in Tokyo
Santiago Fernández, The head of the kitchen Maz, a Michelin two-star restaurant
May 16, 2024, 12:30-14:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Hong Kong Identity Past, Present, and Future
Gordon Mathews, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 8, 2024, 18:30-20:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
In person only / No registration required
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Narratives of Indian and Chinese Migrants in Singapore's Multicultural Mosaic
Megha Wadhwa, Free University of Berlin’
Ruth Achenbach, Goethe University, Frankfurt
April 24, 2024, 18:00-19:30
Hybrid
Venue: Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
“Ways of Eating: Explorations in Food History and Culture:”
A Book Talk and an Invitation to Food Studies via Japan
Merry White, Boston University
April 25, 18:30-20:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Hip Hop film showing and discussion with Dr. Natalia Koutsougera
Dr. Natalia Koutsougera, Department of Social Anthropology Panteion University, ICC Visiting Fellow
April 26 (Fri) From 17:30 - 19:00
10-301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
In person only / No registration required