ICC NEWS  10.03.15 |
| ・ICC Lecture annoumcement |
Date and time: April 24 (Sat), 2010 From 15:30 to 17:00 |
| NOTICE: A reception will follow the talk. Please RSVP by April 14 to Ms. Shinohara Junko mnoffice@sophia.ac.jp (03-3238-3543) if you are able to attend. |
| ・ICC Workshop on "Culture of Debt: Morality, Economy, Microfinance"
will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010, from 13:00 to 15:30 at room 301
in Building 10. In this workshop, we will brnig scholars to explore the cultural and moral dimentions of microfinance across different national contexts. As such, one of the issues the workshop interrogates is how the state of being in debt shapes a culturally specific understanding to self and society in the name of economic well being.(Workshop organizer, Tak Watanabe and Tatsuo Murakami) For more information, click here: CULTURE OF DEBT WORKSHOP or contact Tak Watanabe by email. |
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・ICC would like to announce the publication by the online journal Policy Innovations of the collection of papers from the Right to Move Conference at Sophia University on December 12-13, 2009, sponsored by Sophia University, the Institute of Comparative
Culture, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in
International Affairs.
The collectionsinclude papers by distinguished scholars, practitioners and
public servants, including Mark Raper, Mathias Risse, Hiroshi Kimizuka, Florian Coulmas, John Haffner, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Midori Okabe, Devin T. Stewart, Michele Wucker, Kosaku Yoshino , and
James Farrer.
Page Leading to The Right to Move Conference Papers http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000159 |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Not-together but not-separate: “Blurred boundaries” in changing Japanese
families" will be held on February 15, from 18:00 at room 301 on the third
floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Dr. Jane M.
Bachnik, Professor of Anthropology, National Institute of Multimedia Education
(ret), a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University Institute of Comparative
Culture. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "A New Form of Community-Based Life-Long Learning: Challenge of Shibuya University" was held on January 18, from 18:00 at room 301 on the third floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Mr. Yasuaki Sakyo, President of a NPO Shibuya University Network |
| ・Sophia International Education Workshop "Changing Profiles and New
Challenges" will be held on Saturday, January 23 from 13:00 to 17:00.
The program of the workshop is now online. PDF (6MB) PDF(1.3MB) This workshop is supported by ICC. |
| ・ICC will be closed from December 23 to January 11, 2010. We will resume work from January 12. We wish you all a happy and peaceful holiday season and all the best for the coming Year of the Tiger! |
| Sophia Symposium The Right to Move? Symposium program is now online. |
| ICC presents two lectures on contemporary Chinese culture and society on
November 30 from 5 pm at Room 301 on the thrid floor of building #10, Sophia
University. The Resurgence and Strategy of Chinese Popular Religion in North Rural China Professor Fan Lizhu (Fudan University) “Created Equal” or “Born Equal”: An Issue in Intercultural Communication Professor Chen Na (Fudan University) No registration required / Lecture in English |
| ・ICC, in cooperation with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International
Affairs, is hosting a Sophia Symposium on the Right to Move?: Debating the ethics of global immigration on December 12 and 13. For more information, click the link above. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The Rise and Decline of Systems of Scientific Creativity" will be held on November 26, 2009, from 17:00 at room 301 on the
third floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Dr. J.
Rogers Hollingsworth, Professor at Departments of History and Sociology,
University of Wisconsin. You can check out his achievments at his web page, http://history.wisc.edu/hollingsworth |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Japan, South Korea, and China: In Search of a Shared Historical Awareness" by Dr. Lionel Babicz (Department of Japanese Studies, the University of Sydney)will be held on November 19 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Dialogues on the Intersection of Art and Scholarship: An Introduction to
New Research Methodologies" by Dr. Ho Sik Ying (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work
and Social Administration) will be held on November 12 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Governance Challenges for Family Businesses in Japan" by Dr. Timothy Goydke (Professor of Japanese Economy and Society, Bermen University of Applies Sciences) will be held on November 5 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| new publication ・Institute of Comparative Culture is happy to announce that now the ICC Working Paper Series No. 6, Global Insecurities and Nationalism in Advanced Industrialized Societies: Evidence from Japan and the United States, by Dr. Emmanouil Tsatsanis, is published online. Click here to read more. |
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・Institute of Comparative Culture office will be closed during the period of August 14 (Fri) through September 3 (Thu).
We hope this will not inconvenience you too much and thank you in advance
for your kind understanding.
We wish you all a wonderful summer vacation. |
| ・Due to great interest in our Studies of Japanese Popular Culture Workshop, we cannot take any more pre-registration at this time. Those who have not pre-registered will be allowed in on a space-available basis. Thank you for your understanding. |
| ・International Conference: “The Role of Religion and the Study of Religion in the Crises Confronting
the World” will be held on July 18 and 19 at 10-301, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University.. Those who wish to attend are asked to contact Prof. Murakami and register due to limited number of seats available. For more information on the event, please click here. |
| ・CHANGE OF SCHEDULE AND VENUE ICC Workshop "Studies of Japanese Popular Culture: Examining the State of the Art and the Nature of the Gap with Miyadai Shinji and Azuma Hiroki" will be held in L-911 on the 9th floor of the Library Building. It will also last until 5 pm instead of the originally announced 3 pm. Those who are intending to attend but haven't registered yet, we strongly advice you to register ASAP. Those without registration may not be able to attend. |
| ・Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a Public
Seminar on Global Politics: A Critical Engagement with David Chandler (Professor of International Relations at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London), Julian Reid (Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London), Gideon Baker (Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Griffith University,
Australia) on June 30, 2009. The talk starts from 5 pm at Room 301, building 10,
Yotsuya Campus. Lecture in English / No prior registration necessary |
| ・ICC Workshop "Studies of Japanese Popular Culture: Examining the State of the Art and
the Nature of the Gap with Miyadai Shinji and Azuma Hiroki" will be held on July 11, 2009. For more information, click the link embedded
in the workshop title above. |
| ・ICC Workshop "Three-Dimensional Reading: Modernism and Spatial Configuration in Interwar Japanese Fiction (1910s-1930s) 「立体読書 現代日本文学におけるモダーニズムと空間構想」" will be held on June 22, 2009. For more information, click the link embedded
in the workshop title above. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Being Half Japanese in the Transnational Age: An Enquiry into Culture and Identity" by Marcia Yumi Lise and Natalie Maya Willer will be held on June 25, 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Open Innovation: Issues and Challenges" by Dr. Ben Dankbaar (ProfessorNijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen) will be held on June 22, 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Mini Conference Revisiting Postwar Japan as History: A Twenty Year Check-up on the State of the Field will be held on May 31, 2009. For more information, click the link embedded
in the conference title above. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The ‘End of History’ Thesis Revisited: Reflections on the Ideological
Landscape of the Global Age" by Dr. Manfred B. Steger (Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University) will be held on June 18, 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "In the Eyes of Others: Self, Sociality and Suicide in Japan" by Dr. Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Emory University ) will be held on May 29, 2009, from 18:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Eating Local: Nostalgia, identities, and Japanese American Delicatessens
in Hawai'i" by Dr. Chiristine Yano (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i)
will be held on June 4, 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University
Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "China for Example: China and the making of modern international law" by Dr. Teemiu Ruskola (Professor of Law at Emory University, USA)
will be held on May 21, 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University
Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Legal and illegal eating: Restaurants in 1940s Japan" by Dr. Katarzyna J. Cweirtka will be held on April 24, 2009, from
17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The general situation of foreigners in Shaghai and their social and cultural
incorporation" by Dr. Tian Xiaohong will be held on April 23, 2009, from 17:00
at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10. The lecture will be
in Chinese with English translation. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Turn of the Tide?" by Dr. Ronald Dore will be held on April 14, 2009, from 17:30 at
Room L-911, 9F, Sophia University Library building. |
| ・ICC and Graduate School of Global Studies are co-sponsoring the following
talk on March 24, from 4 pm. For the details of the talk, click the link. "Dialogues on the Intersection of Art and Scholarship" by Dr. Petula Sik Ying Ho (Associate Professor, Deaprtment of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong) |
| ・ICC is co-sponsoring the Thrid Urban Representations Conference: Shanghai.
Check out the conference webpage for more information. THIRD URBAN REPRESENTATIONS CONFERENCE: SHANGHAI |
| ・ICC Global Food Project invites you to a Symposium on "Globalizing
Food Consumption and the Production of Social Identity". Please click
here for a more detailed account of the event. Global Food Project Web page (updated on Jan. 30, 2009) |
| ・ICC Office will be closed from December 23, 2008 to January 4, 2009.
We apologize for the inconveniences this might cause you. We will be open
again from January 5. (Office hours: from 10am to 5pm) Thank you. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Making Place" in Transitional Japan: Youth, Konbini, and Everyday
Life" by Dr. Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology & Sociology, International ChristianUniversity (ICU)) will be held on 8 January, 2009. |
| ・ICC Mini Conference Revisiting Postwar Japan as History: A Twenty Year Check-up on the State of the Field will be held on May 31, 2009. If you wish to participate, click the link
embedded in the conference title above. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "China’s Regional Labour Migration: Economic and Social Consequences" by Dr.Ding Lu (Professor of Economics,
University of the Fraser Valley, Canada) will be held on 8 December, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Casting the net wider: The dynamics and implications of globalization on the international seafood
business, fisheries and society " by Dr. Kenneth Ruddle (Professor,
School of Policy Studies,Kwansei Gakuin University) will be held on 27
November, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The Curious Lives of Objects:The Netherlandish Map Comes to Japan " by Dr. Mia M. Mochizuki (Jesuit School of Theology / Graduate Theological Union, University of California, Berkeley / ICC Visiting Scholar) will be held on 20 November, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Gay and lesbian identity debates in Japan" by Dr. Wim Lunsing, author of Beyond Common Sense: Sexuality and
Gender in Contemporary Japan (Kegan Paul, 2001) was held on October 23,
2008 |
| ・The overview of the research conducted by Global Food Project during 2007
will be presented at the Sophia University Research Institute Festival (上智大学研究機構FESTIVAL) Title: Globalizing food consumption and the construction of social identity Speaker: James Farrer September 30, 12:00-12:30 / Room 1702, 17th Floor, Sophia University, Building #2 |
| ・The date for the Global Food Project Symposium has been finalized. Symposium on “Globalization, food and social identities in the Pacific region” Feb. 21-22, 2009 Read more about the symposium |
| ・A discussion sponsored by the Institute of
Comparative Culture Youth in Contemporary Society Anne Allison: Professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University David Slater: Associate professor of cultural anthropology at Sophia University |
| ・ICC Office will be closed from August 1, 2008 to August 19, 2008. We
apologize for the inconveniences this might cause you. We will be open
again from August 20. (Office hours: from 10am to 5pm) Thank you. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Advocating the Local on a Global Basis: The Slow Food Movement in Japan" by Stephanie Assmann (Lecturer, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University) will be held on July 28, 2008 |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "NGOs, Regional Governance and Sustainable Development in East Asia" by Kim DoHyang Reimann (Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Georgia State University, Atlanta) will be held on July 17, 2008 |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Is Global Governance Bad for East Asian Queers?" by Josephine HO (Professor and Coordinator, Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Chung Li, Taiwan) will be held on July 10, 2008 |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The Virtual Economy of Crayfish Farming in China" by Sidney CHEUNG (Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong) took place in June 26. |
| ・ICC announces its new Director and Vice Director (effective July 1st
2008) Director: James Farrer (Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts) Vice Director: Emmanuel Chéron (Professor of Marketing, Faculty of Liberal Arts) |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Impact of "Bug-Finding" Tools on Testing Capability - Evidence
from Software Development" by Allan SUMIYAMA will be held on June 12, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The Concept of the Future and Perspectives on Women's Lives in Meiji Japan" by Kyoko KURITA (Pomona College, CA USA) will be held on June 10, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "The Cultural Logic of Chinese Reproductive Behavior" by Dr. G. William Skinner (University of California, Davis) will be held on May 26, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Figuring the Digital Text" by Jun MIZUKAWA (ICC Visiting Researcher/ Department of Anthropology, Columbia University) will be held on April 24, 2008. |
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| ・ICC Mini Conference Urban Image and the Re-Writing of the Japanese Metropolis will be held on January 12, 2008. |
| ・ICC Lecture Series Evolving Memory: Changes in How China Remembers Nanjing by Dr. Takashi Yoshida (Abe Fellow 2005) will be held on December 20 (Thu), 2007 at Building #10, room 301 from 6pm. (Dec.4, 2007) |
| ・ICC Lecture titled "Empire to Nation: How the Qing Became China" on November 21 (Wed) by Dr. Joseph W. Esherick from University of California, San Diego. |
| ・LATEST information on ICC Mini Conference "New Directions in the Sociology of Culture"is now available. Click here to check out the time and venue. (Nov.15, 2007) |
| ・ICC Lecture, "Superflat Pacific West: LA as the Global Gateway of Contemporary Japanese Arts and Culture" by Dr. Adrian Favell on October 25 (Thu). |
| ・ICC Welcomes Dr. Joseph Esherick from University of California, San Diego, as a Visiting Scholar. |
| ・ICC Welcomes Dr. Ye, Wa from Getty Conservation Institute, as a Visiting Scholar |
| ・ICC Working Paper Series IBE-5 "The Impact of China's Rising Trading Power on Japanese Industries" by Lu, Ding is published. |