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ICC on Video
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022
European Restaurant Marketing in a Time of Crisis
a Conversation with ”Smartbox"
Speakers:
Deborah Van Looy (Account Manager Netherlands)
Emiliana De Luca (Account Manager Italy)
Giulia Azzarello (Account Manager Italy)
Guillaume Jollivet (Business Development Manager France)
Leonardo Adoni (Business Development Manager Italy)
Roberta Ringhieri (Key Account Business Development Manager Italy)
On ZOOM
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022
Writing for General Readers about Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan
Sabine Frühstück, Koichi Takashima Chair and Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
On ZOOM
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022
Literary Environmental Testimonies: An East/East conversation in the works of Ishimure Michiko and Abdel Rahman Munif on man-made environmental crises
Munia Hweidi, PhD Candidate in Japanese Studies at Sophia University’s (Tokyo) Graduate Program in Global Studies
On ZOOM
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The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out:Restaurants in Mexico During and Beyond COVID
Scarlett Lindeman, Restaurateur and Food Journalist from Mexico City (CDMX)
On ZOOM
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022
Beyond Bunraku: Japan’s Diverse Puppetry Heritage
Claudia Orenstein, Theatre Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate
Center, CUNY
On ZOOM
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The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out:A View from India in the Wake of Covid
Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal, Culinary Chronicler, Teacher and Corporate
Food Consultant
On ZOOM
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The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series: 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)
On ZOOM
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The Future of Eating Out Lecture Series
Krishnendu Ray, Professor of Food Studies, New York University
James Farrer, Professor of Sociology, Sophia University
On ZOOM
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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
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 7
Invites you to a discussion with David H. Slater, Sophia University and
Rosa Barbaran, Filmmaker of refugee life and politics in Tokyo
Refugee voices in Japan’s detention centers during the pandemic
Date: 2021, March 3
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 6
Invites you to a discussion with Bao Quyen Tran, Sophia University
“Vietnamese Technical Trainees in Japan Voice Concerns
Date: 2021, February 17
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2020
“AFFECTIVE LABOR AMONG THE USED BOOKSELLERS OF JIMBOCHO”
Susan Paige Taylor
Date: 2021, January 30
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 12
Invites you to a discussion with Charles E McJilton, Sophia University
“Food Crisis for the Homeless and others during COVID-19”
Date: 2021, January 27
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 11
Invites you to a discussion with Valentina Giammaria, Sophia University
“COVID-19 in Japan: A Nighttime Disease”
Date: 2020, December 9
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 10
Invites you to a discussion with Masako Tanaka, Sophia University
Date: 2020, December 3
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 9
Invites you to a discussion with Sarajean Rossitto, Tokyo-based social impact architect, and Kozue Oka, Executive Director at Mirai no Mori
“Isolated Together: Amplified vulnerabilities in Japan’s
Date: 2020, December 2
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 8
Invites you to a discussion with Jack Lichten, Tokyo University and Chika Kondo, Kyoto University
Date: 2020, November 25
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 5
Invites you to a discussion with Satsuki Uno, Global Marketer and localizer for a Japanese Gaming Company, Robin O’Day, University of North Georgia
Date: 2020, November 4
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2020
The Urbanization of Tokyo in the 1960s
Eric Häusler
Date: 2020, November 25
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture for SORW
Katarzyna Cwiertka
Professor, Leiden University.
Date: 2020, November 12
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 4
Invites you to a discussion with Megha Wadhwa, Sophia University
“In the Age of COVID-19 – Indian restaurants and the Indian cooksin Japan”
Date: 2020, October 28
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 3
Invites you to a discussion with Rei Ando, Sophia University and Nakajima Sachi, Resilience
“Domestic Violence and Japan’s COVID-19 Pandemic”
Date: 2020, October 21
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 2
Invites you to a discussion with Mark Bookman, University of Pennsylvania
“The Coronavirus Crisis: Disability Politics and Activism in Contemporary Japan”
Date: 2020, October 14
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Special Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid-19 - 1
Invites you to a discussion with James Farrer, Sophia University
“How are Tokyo’s Independent Restauranteurs Surviving the Pandemic?”
Date: 2020, October 7