Symposium


  

2012

June 8







 June 9

 Sophia Symposium "After Katrina and 3.11:  Representation, Politics, Culture"

Keynote Lecture: 6:30pm, Sophia Library, Room 911

Diane Negra, University College Dublin (Ireland)
“Comparative Cultural Narratives of Disaster: Katrina and 3.11”


Paper Session: 1:00-3:45pm, Sophia Library, room 911

・Joy Fuqua, Media Studies, Queens College (US)　“Proximity of Disaster: Spatial Dislocation and 　　　 TelevisualPresence from New Orleans to Japan”

・Stephen Shapiro, English and Comparative Studies, Warwick University (UK)
 “Cultural World-Systems Periodization and Periodicity: Methodologies
 for Comparative Catastrophe for Literary, Lens Media, and Cultural Studies”
・Yayoi Haraguchi, Sociology, Ibaraki University (Japan)
　“Reviewing Resilience: Nature, Society, and Technology”
・Nobuko Nishizaki and Kaoru Terunuma, Fukushima University (Japan)
　"Severe Circumstances in Fukushima and the Importance of Hoyou Projects after 3.11"

Chair and comment: Julia Leyda, Sophia University (Japan)

Community Arts Activism Presentation and Student Workshop:
4:00-5:45pm, Sophia Library, room 911

・Anne Gisleson, co-founder of Press Street Collective and community arts activist (US)
  “Nourish and Flourish: Community Arts Initiatives in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
・Julia Leyda and Anne Gisleson, facilitators
 “Nourish and Flourish in Post-3.11 Japan” Student Workshop
　

2011

July 11

 Symposium:  “Get Away From Me”: Canadian Popular Music and American Culture

Part I: “Old School”: Symposium on Neil Young, The Band, and Joni Mitchell  12:30-14:30
Moderator：Motoyuki Shibata (Tokyo University)
            Hidetoshi Tomiyama (Meijigakuin University)
　         Ted Goossen (York University)
             Steve Clark (Tokyo University)

Part II: Talk on the Quebec Music Scene and Performance 14:30-15:30
　        Chair: Julia Leyda (Sophia University)
            Performer: Frederic Gary Comeau
　
Part III: “From Prog to PoMo”: Symposium on Rush, Saga, and the Peaches  15:45-17:45
　        Chair and Panelist: Tristanne Connolly (St. Jerome’s University)
　        PaAngus Whitehead (National Institute of Education, Singapore)


　

2010

June 5

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　


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 Symposium: "Together on Global Security Challenges for the Future"

          Group Discussion
       1) U.S.- Japan Relations and Regional Security
           Steve Clemons (New America Foundation)
           Toshihiro Nakayama (Aoyama Gakuin University)

       2) Counter-terrorism
           Scott Bates (Center for National Policy)
           Katsuhisa Furukawa (Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society)

        3) Environmental Security and Climate Change
            Miranda Schreurs (Freie Universitat Berlin)
            Toshi H. Arimura (Sophia University)

         4) Informal Movement of Labor and People Across International Borders
            Cristina Rodriguez (New York University)
            Naoko Hashimoto (International Organization for Migration Tokyo

 Symposium
 Keynote Speech: James Fallows (National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly)
Moderator: Kazuto Oshio (Sophia University)
Panel Moderator: Toshi Minohara (Kobe University)
Panel: Toshi H. Arimura, Scott Bates, Steve Clemons, James Fallows, Naoko Hashimoto, Toshihiro Nakayama,      Cristina Rodriguez, Miranda Schreurs
December 11 Symposium: "Rethinking the Global Sixties from Transnational and Inter-Group Perspectives"
　

Session I: Global Sixties: Crossing National Boarders in the Sixties
Chairperson: Tadahisa Izeki (Chuo University)
Commentator: Hideo Otake (Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts)
Panelists:
"Democratic Culture, Social Change Movements and the International Sixties"
 David Farber (Temple University)

"Between Prague Spring and French May: Transnational Dimension of the 1960s/1970s Protest Movement in Europe"
 Joachim Scharloth (Dokkyo University)

"Interpretations of the Sixties in Japan and the US: Historical Assessment and Voices from the Sixties Generation"
 Daizaburo Yui (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)


Session II: Interactions for Social Change: Crossing Social Boundaries in the Sixties America Chairperson: Kazuto Oshio (Sophia University)
Commentator: Natsuki Aruga (Saitama University, Emeritus)
Panelists:
"African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Global 'Long Hot Summer' of the 1960s"
 Kevin K. Gaines (University of Michigan)

"The Sixties in the Age of Three Worlds: The Impact of Third World Revolutions on the American Left"
 Toru Umezaki (Ferris University)

"An International Perspective on the Impact and Legacies of the American Anti-Vietnam War Movement"
Hiroshi Fujimoto (Nanzan University)

"Defining Women: American Struggles over Sex and Gender in the Sixties"
 Beth Bailey (Temple University)

　


2009

　

September 4

 Symposium: "Cracking the Glass Ceiling":The Evolving Role of Women in Politics
(joint hosting with the U.S. Embassy Tokyo and Sophia University)

Keynote Speech: Donna Brazile (Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University)
                         "Are We There Yet?"

Dialogue: Donnna Brazile and Yuko Ando(Journalist)
                        "Women in Politics in the United States and Japan"

Address: Barbara Palmer (Assistant Professor, American University)
                        "From Early Pioneers to Hillary Clinton: Women Overcoming Obstacles and Winning
                           Elections in the United States"

Panel Discussion:"From Early Pioneers to Hillary Clinton: Women Overcoming Obstacles and Winning
                          Elections in the United States)
 Moderator: Mari Miura (Associate Professor, Sophia University)
Panelists: Yoriko Madoka (Member, House of Councillors)
               Kumiko Shindo (Professor, Toyo Eiwa University)
               Donna Brazile
               Barbara Palmer 

2004

November 26

 Symposium: The World through American Looking Grass
(This symposium was jointly held with Taishukan Publishing Co., Ltd.)

1991

December 7-8

Sophia University International Symposium
“Beginnings of the Soviet-German and the U.S.-Japanese Wars and 50 Years After.”
(This symposium was jointly held with Sophia University Institute for the Culture of German-Speaking Areas, the Department of History, and the Department of Russian Language and Studies.) 

1997

December 6

 Sophia Symposium 
"Area Studies and Foreign Language Education in Cultural Pluralism"
(This symposium was jointly held with Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies and Languages.)

1998

December 11-12

 Symposium: The 1898 War (The Spanish-American War)
(This symposium was jointly held with Sophia University Iberoamerican Institute.)