PUBLIC EVENTS 2021 ~ 2022
The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out：A View from South Africa
Jean-Pierre Rossouw, Publisher of Rossouw’s Restaurants
A discussion with
Prof. James Farrer (Sophia University)
Prof. Krishnendu Ray (New York University)
Event on Zoom
March 30, 2022, 10 pm (Tokyo time)
March 30, 2022, 3 pm (Johannesburg time)
March 30, 2022, 8am 9 am (NY time)
Please register from HERE
The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
Krishnendu Ray, Professor of Food Studies, New York University
James Farrer, Professor of Sociology, Sophia University
Event on Zoom
8:00-9:00 PM: US Eastern Standard Time, January 28 (Friday)
9:00-10:00 AM: Japan Standard Time, January 29 (Saturday)
Q and A session following the discussion
Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/25kG4K2Cfs
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2021
Imagining a Slow City by Building and Dwelling in a Smart City
Mihye Cho, Assistant Professor at Sociology Department and a Leader of the MA in Inter-Asia NGO studies, SungKongHoe University
Jan. 17, 2022, 19:00 ~, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, On Zoom
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Presents
Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo
Thomas Baudinette,
Senior Lecturer in Japanese and International Studies
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Languages and Literature, Macquarie University
Jan. 13, 2022, 19:00 ~, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, On Zoom
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents:
Visualizing Racial Issues and critical stories across cultures
Shiho Fukada, visual journalist, and filmmaker
Keith Bedford, filmmaker, video producer, photo editor
Jan. 7, 2022, 20:00 ~, Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo, On Zoom
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
With the Support of Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
Symposium: Confucian Scholars in the Late Tokugawa Period
Dec. 19, 2021, 13:00 ~ 16:30 (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a Panel Discussion on
"Looking at the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état as a Burmese student in Japan"
Moderated by:
David Slater, Sophia University
In cooperation with the Sophia Refugee Support Group
Dec. 11, 2021, 14:00 ~ (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW
Screening of “Josō 2020” Female cross-dress boom in Japan:
Discussion and Q&A with Sharon Kinsella and David Panos
Sharon Kinsella (Director), University of Manchester
David Panos (Producer), Conditions Art Studio
Nov. 26, 2021, 19:00 ~ approx. 20:30 (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW
Citizen power reveals “What’s Happening in Myanmar”
Ayako Takada
Nov 20, 2021 18:30 (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW
Another Japan is possible, too:
Free speech, knowledge transmission and the acceptance of human flaws in the world of Rakugo Storytellers
Marco Di Francesco
Nov 9, 2021 18:30 (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW
Family Networks in the Tokugawa Period
Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Nov 11, 2021 18:30 (Tokyo time)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture for SORW
“Sushi Before Sushi, Umami Before Umami”
-- The Hidden (Fermented) History of Japanese Food.”
Eric C. Rath
Nov.6, 2021, 10:00~12:00
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2021
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND RESILIENCE AMID COVID-19
Alice Guerville-Ballé
June 3, 2021, 19:00~20:00 (JST)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
Digital Social Science and Oral Narrative Research Unit presents
Women Speaking up for Fukushima then and now:
video oral narrative research
May 29, 2021, 10:00~11:30 (JST)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2021
Gambling, Dignity, and the Narcotic of Time in Tokyo's Day-Laborer District, San'ya
Klaus K. Y. Hammering
May 26, 2021, 19:00~20:00 (JST)
On Zoom. Please register from HERE
“Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 Booklet” with talk abstracts, links to articles and videos is now available.
Download PDF from HERE!
Former online paper collection "Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region (ICC, Sophia University, 2010)" is now available as a Reissued Collection.