Open Lectures

Lectures (open to the public)

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June 10

”Immigration, Race, and Citizenship in US Political Culture”
Matthew Frye Jacobson （William Robertson Coe Professor of American Studies and History, Yale University）

2012

June 5	”Whistler's Golds: Classicism, Japanism, and Modernist Authority” Aileen Tsui（ Associate Professor, Washington College in Chestertown）
December 7	Charles L. Briggs （Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ”Making De-Racialized and Pathologically Racial Bodies and Minds： U.S. Television and Print News Coverage of Health Issues”

2011

January 13

Marjorie Perloff (Sadie D. Patek Professor Emerita of Humanities, Stanford University)
"Regulated Anarchy: A Reappraisal of 'Decenteredness' and 'Difference' in the Aesthetic of John Cage and Merce Cunningham

2010

May 21	Mutsumi Tsuda (Photographer, Associate Professor, Seian University of Arts and Design) "Remembering the Tatura Camp"
May 28	Kevin K. Gaines (Professor, the University of Michigan) " President Barack Obama and African American Politics: Into the Mainstream--and Oblivion?"
June 11	Scott Kurashige (Associate Professor, the University of Michigan) "Towards a Multiethnic Analysis of Race, Politics, and Culture: Rethinking Black/Asian Relations in the U.S."
Novermber 10	Joyce Chaplin (James Duncan Pillips Professor of Early American History, Harvard University) ”Around-the-World Travel: A History of the Planet and the Human Body"

2009

June 26	David Armitage （Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University) "The American Declaration of Independence in Global Context" (joint hosting with Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Project)
November 5	Ines P. Mallari （Administrator, Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku, Philippines) "Philippine Nikkeijin Experiences Then and Now" (joint hosting with Center for the Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education)
January 22	Fulbright Visiting Professor Open Lecture Paul Sracic (Professor, Youngstown State University/Fulbright Visiting Professor, the University of Tokyo and Sophia University) "The Obama Presidency and the 2010 Midterms: What might happen, and what it might mean for the Obama Presidency"

2008

April 30	David Galef (Professor, University of Mississippi / Fulbright Visiting Professor at Sophia University and Japan Women's University) "But Is It Art?: Creative Writing Workshops in the U.S."
June 17	Tristanne Connolly (Assistant Professor, St. Jerome's College in University of Waterloo / Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo) "'I Identify with the Parasites': the Early Films of David Cronenberg"
July 18	Stephen H. Sumida (Professor, University of Washington / Fulbright Visiting Professor at Tsuda College and Tokyo Institute of Technology) "The Continuing Problem of Reading American Literature"
January 15	David D. Hall (Professor, Harvard Divinity School) "Literature and Religion in Antebellum America, from Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Harriet Beecher Stowe"

2007

May 15	Tristanne Connolly (Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo) "Canadian Literature in English: A Postcolonial Introduction"
June 21	Mông-Lan (visual artist and writer) "Poetry Reading"
June 25	Hirokazu Miyazaki (Cornell University) ”Hope as a Social and Cultural Issue: Recent Discussion in Japan, U.S. and Australia"
December 11	Karen Shimakawa (Associate Professor, New York University/Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tokyo and Kyoritsu Women's University) "Mind Yourself: Soundwalking in the Other's Shoes"
January 24	Bill Corbett (Poet and Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Poetry Reading"

2006

June 15, 20	Dr. Leo P. Ribuffo (Professor, George Washington University) Lecture I : Varieties of American Conservatism since 1929 Lecture II : Religion and the Bush Presidency
October 11	(Under the joint auspices of Faculty of Theology) James A. Donahue (President and Profesor, Graduate Theological Union) "Interfaith Dialogue and the Global Future"
November 8	Marie-Claire Vallois (Professor, Romance Studies, Cornell University) "On Women's Rights and History"
November 28	Dr. Richard Pratt "Higher Education Reform in America―Where Is It Going?" (Director and Professor of Public Administration, University and Hawai'i at Manoa/ Fullbright Lecturer at Sophia University and Japan Women's University)

2005

June 21
John D. Meehan
(Assistant Professor of History at Campion College, University of Regina)
Book：The Dominion and the Rising Sun: Canada Encounters Japan (The University of British Columbia Press, 2004)
"Pacific Beginnings: Canada Arrives in Japan, 1929-1941"

2004

May 13	Goodman, Loren (Ph. D Candidate SUNY Buffalo, 2003 Yale Younger Poet) "Poetry Reading"
July 2	Timothy Lenoir (Professor and Chair of History of Science Program, History Deoartment, Stanford University) "Inventing the Entrepreneurial Region--Stanford and the Co-Evolution of Silicon Valley--"
September 12	Student Forum with the 42nd President of the United States W.J. Clinton (sponsored by Asahi Shimbun) *canceled due to his bypass surgery
March 19	Policy Address by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Co-Sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America and Sophia University)

2003

July 22	Ammons, Elizabeth (Harriet H. Fay Professor of English, Tufts University/Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer) "Edith Wharton and the Myth of Imperiled Whiteness"
November 14	Rutland, Peter (Professor of Government, Wesleyan University/Fulbright Professor at Sophia University and Kyoritsu Women's University) "US Foreign Policy: What went wrong and what went right?"
December 5	House, Roger (Assistant Professor of American Studies, Emerson College/Fulbright Visiting Professor at Ryukyu University) "The Recorded Journey of Bluesman William 'Big Bill' Broonzy, 1893-1958"

2002

October 10	Robbins, Tom (Novelist) "Lecture and Reading"
December 10	Hybel, Alex R. (Professor, Connecticut College) "Lecture"

2000

November 7	Yoshikawa, Mako (Tufts University)
November 20	Taniguchi, Yumiko. (Translator) "Translation of American Children's Literature in Japan"
December 2	Bernstein, Michael A. (Professor, University of California, San Diego) "Statecraft and Expert Knowledge: Rethinking Economics and Public Policy in Twentieth Century America"

1999

June 15	Harper, Christopher. (Professor of Journalism, Ithaca College) "Journalism in the Digital Era"
January 11	Perloff, Marjorie. (Professor, Stanford University) "Watchman, Spy, and Dead Man: The Frank O'Hara, Jasper Johns, John Cage Circle in the 60's"

1998

April 28	Albright, Madeleine K. (United States Secretary of State) "Japan's Role in the International Society."
May 6	Charters, Ann. (Professor of English, University of Connecticut) "Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation."
May 15	Charters, Samuel. (Poet) "The Blues in the Age of Multiculturalism."
May 21	Nunn, Robert. (Professor of Theatre and Dramatic Literature Programmes, Brock University) "American Influence on Canadian Theatre from a post-colonial perspective."

1997

June 12

Jensen, Richard. (Professor of History, Illinois University)
"The Culture Wars, 1965-1995: A Historian's Map."

1996

April 22	Bernstein, Samuel J. (Professor, English, Northeastern University) “The Motif of Transcendence in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill.”
July 15	Rheins, Rex. (Science Writer, McGraw Hill) “High Technology in America.”
November 29	Fox, Valerie. (Lecturer, Poetry & Drama, Sophia University) “Poetry Reading.”

1994

May 12	Hosay, Philip M. (Professor, International Education and Sociology, New York University) “Pleasure of American Studies.”
May 19	Slovic, Scott. (Associate Professor, Southwest Texas University; Visiting Scholar by Fulbright Scholarship, University of Tokyo, St. Paul’s University,Sophia University) “Environmental Education: Literature, Ecology, and the ‘Transition to a Sustainable Society.’”
November 22	Evans, Sara. (Chairman, Department of History, University of Minnesota) “American Feminism Today: Toward a Feminism Approach to Public Life.”

1993

May 28	Vizenor, Gerald. (Professor, English, University of Oklahoma; Scholar of Native American Literary Studies) “The Literary World of Native Americans.”
June 8	Brooker, Jewel Spears. (Professor, Eokerd College; Visiting Professor, Doshisha University) “Tradition and Female Enmity: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s Criticism of T. S. Eliot.”
June 28	Gill, Stephen R. (Professor, Political Science, York University) “Aspects of the Emerging World Order.”
December 1	Slovic, Scott. (Associate Professor, Southwest Texas University; Visiting Scholar by Fulbright Scholarship, University of Tokyo, St.Paul’s University, Sophia University) “Hungering for Nature: Environmentalism and American Literature.”

1992

July 6	McCaffery, Larry. (Professor, English, San Diego State University) “Contemporary American Writers: Robert Coover, Donald Bathelme, William Gass, Raymond Carver and Anne Beattie.”
November 12	Schultz, Elizabeth A. (University of Kansas) “The illustrations in Melville’s Moby-Dick.”

1991

May 2	Ishikawa, Yoshimi. (Commentator; Nonfiction Writer) “The Strawberries of Wrath: The Changing American Farmers.”
May 29	Staines, David. (Professor, English, University of Ottawa) “Canadian Literature Today.”
November 8	Sato, Hiroaki. (Translator; Essayist; Columnist; Commentator; Director of Research and Planning at JETRO New York) “How to Translate Japanese Poetry into English: Japanese-English Translation and Interpretation in America Now.”
November 14	Bagneris, Dennis R. (Louisiana State Senator) “The African-Americans in American Politics: Its Implications on the 1992 Elections.”

1990

April 24	Fairbanks, Carol. (Professor, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire) “Women on the American and Canadian Prairie Frontier: Similarities and a Few Differences (Based on Fiction and Historical Document).”
May 28	Okawa, Yoshio. (Japanese Ambassador to Canada) “Three Perspectives for Understanding Canada.”
October 19	Durrell, James A. (Mayor of Ottawa) “The Role of Cities vis-a-vis Regional, Provincial and Federal Governments.”
November 20	Mooney, Michael. (President, Lewis and Clark College) “Mythology, History, and ‘New Science’ of Vico.”

1989

June 12	Ishikawa, Yoshimi. (Commentator; Nonfiction Writer) “The Japan-U.S. Relations from the American Soil.”
June 15	Takashi, Yoshida. (Photographer; Photographic Journalist) “Shooting Pictures: 20 Years of America.”
October 19	Okamoto, Yukio. (Director of the First North American Division, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) “U.S.-Japanese Negotiations: What We Really Think.”
October 26	Baba, Kyoko. (Freelance Writer) “Japanese in U.S.-Japanese Cultural Friction.”
November 7	Frisch, Michael. (State University of New York at Buffalo) “The Meeting of the 60s: Where have the Flowers Gone?"
November 16	Nakamura, Akira. (Department of Politics and Economics, Meiji University) “Integrated Administrations in U.S. and Canada: Small Independence Makes Big Happiness?
December 14	Gagne, Wallace D. (Part-time Lecturer, Sophia University) “Canadian Politics: Insights and Comparisons.”

1988

April 27	Turner, Ralph H. (Professor, Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles) “The American People: Individualists or Joiners?”
May 16	Siebes, Jos William. (Representative, Office of Quebec State Government in Japan) "Quebec’s Perspectives and the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.”
June 9	Bailey, J. Albert. (Professor, Department of Social Sciences, University of Michigan) “Expansion Outward!: U.S. Overseas Involvement at the Turn of the Century."
June 10	Kenny, Stephen Donnell. (Visiting Professor, Canadian Studies, Kansei Gakuin University)　 “Canada’s Uniqueness: A Historian’s Perspective.” Needler, Martin C. (Professor, Political Science, University of New Mexico) “The United States’ Policy toward Latin America: The Central America and Panama Crisis.” (This lecture was jointly held with the Sophia University Institute for Ibero-American Studies.)
June 13	Irwin, Yukiko. (Benjamin Franklin’s Descendant in the Seventh Generation; Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New York) “Oriental Mentality: As a Descendant of Benjamin Franklin.”
June 28	Hart, Gary. (Former-U.S. Senator)“U.S. Presidential Election and U.S.-Japanese Relations in the Future.”
October 28	Schultz, John A. (Associate Professor, Mount Allison University; Visiting Professor, Canadian Studies, Tsukuba University) “Canadian Immigration Policy.”
November 21	Taniguchi, Yumiko. (Translator) “Little America on the Prairie: The West of Laura Wilder.”
December 1	Matsuo, Fumio. (Kyodo News Agency) “The Status of American Politics: A Reporter’s Views.”
December 7	Casella, Donna. (Assistant Professor, Mankato University, Minnesota) “Atomic Bomb and Changing American Consciousness.”

1987

June 12	Walker, Robert H. (Professor, American Civilization, George Washington University; National President, American Studies Association) “The Reform Frontier and the American Character.”
June 23	Shalala, Donna E. (President, Professor of Political Science, Hunter College) “American Politics and the Coming Presidential Election.”
July 2	Kommers, Donald P. (Professor, School of Law, University of Notre Dame) “Race Relations and the American Constitution.”
October 19	Kobayasi, Takeji. (International Department of the National Police Agency; Ex-Staff of the Japanese Embassy at Washington) “Crimes in American Society.” Farr, David M. L. (Chairman, Department of History, Carleton University) “Canada's Role and Functions in the World.”
February 10	Bullock, Charles. (Professor, Political Science, University of Georgia) “American Presidential Election.”