Joyce E. Chaplin (James Duncan Phillips Professor, Harvard University)
-joint hosting with the Japanese Association of Early Americanists and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “A Civil Society and Citizenship in Antebellum America”
-supported by the Japanese Association for Study of Puritanism
“Adam, Eve, and America in Population Theories before Thomas Robert Malthus”
December 6, 2014 15:00-17:00
Gordon Graham (Henry Luce III Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary)
-joint hosting with the Japanese Association for Study of Puritanism and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No.23520037
-supported by the Japanese Association of Early Americanists
“Natural Theology and Natural Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment”
January 24, 2015 15:00-17:00
Deann Borshay Liem (Award-winning Filmmaker)
Ramsay Liem (Professor emeritus, Boston College)
-joint hosting with the Center for Global Discovery, Sophia University
“A Film Viewing and Talk ‘Memory of Forgotten War’”
May 20, 2014 18:00-19:30
Curtiss Takada Rooks (Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University)
-joint hosting with the KAKEHASHI Project – The Bridge for Tomorrow by Japan Foundation and U.S.-Japan Council
“Asian American Multiracial Identity and Diversity”
June 27, 2014 18:00-19:00
Masao Higashi (Editor, Literary Critic)
“Pacific Rim 1920s: Lovecraft, Kyusaku Yumeno and Ranpo Edogawa”
July 16, 2014 13:30-15:00
Jonathan Okamura (Professor, University of Hawaii)
“The Politics of Ethnicity: Maintaining Japanese American Political
Power in Hawai‘i”
July 9, 2014 17:00-18:30
Pamela Thoma (Associate Professor, Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Washington State University)
“Mutating Figures in Postfeminist North American Chick Culture: Pregnant Teens, Tiger Mothers, and Orphan Clones’”
Commentator: Niels Bjerre-Pulesen (Associte Professor, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark)
November 26, 2014 18:00-19:30
Paul Sracic (Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Youngstown State University)
“U.S. Politics after the 2014 Midterm Elections”
December 17, 2014 17:00-18:30
-joint hosting with Sophia University Department of French Studies and Association japonaise des études québécoises
Louis-Philippe Lampron (Professor, Université Laval)
“Après le projet de Charte des valeurs québécoises : quelle laïcité pour le Québec?”
January 5, 2015 15:15-16:45
Louis-Philippe Lampron(Professor, Université Laval)
“L’interculturalisme québécois : entre multiculturalisme et républicanisme”
January 10, 2015 11:00-12:30
