・Forthcoming Lectures
・Records of History of Science Open Forum
Lecturers belong to ICU, unless otherwise specified (titles as of lecture date)
Discipline names indicate fields of study, not necessarily of teaching
Chronological Index of ICC Lectures
■ Special Open Lecture
■ Thematic Lecture Series
| ・Style | ・Time, Space and Travel | ・What is the Proprium of the Humanities? |
■ History of Science Open Forum
| ・List of HSOF in the Past |
■ Special Open Lecture
AY2012-2013
J.J. Rousseau's Scandal
Professor Jeremiah L. Alberg (Philosophy)
May 8, 2012
Irish Poetry Month, 11-26 April, 2012
11 April, Openning Ceremony, Opening Remarks: Dr./President Hibiya Junko (ICU), Dr./Lecturer Peter McDonald (Literature, Christopher Tower Student of Poetry, Christ Church, Oxford)
12 April, W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Legacy, and Inheritance, Dr./Lecturer Peter McDonald (Literature, Christopher Tower Student of Poetry, Christ Church, Oxford)
13 April, An evening of poetry and music: The poetry of W.B. Yeats and Peter McDonald,* Reciter: Dr./Lecturer Peter McDonald (Literature, Christopher Tower Student of Poetry, Christ Church, Oxford), Piano: Dr. Aya Nishizono-Maher
* Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Research and Service, ICU
26 April, A Visit to ICU by the Irish Ambassador to Japan, Speaker: John Neary, Ambassador of Ireland
11-26 April, W.B. Yeats Exhibition 'The Life and Works of William Bulter Yearts' (Coutesy of the National Library of Ireland, Dublin)
AY2011-2012
'Just as are the generations of leaves, such are those of men' − Glaucus' conception of life and death in the Iliad VI
Professor Emeritus Shigenari Kawashima (Classics)
January 25, 2012
State and Church in Modern Japan: Ebina, Danjo; Uemura, Masahisa; Tanaka, Goji
Professor Emerita Akiko Yoshinare, Keisen University, History of Modern Japanese Political Thought / History of Christianity in Japan
December 16, 2011
Hume and Modern Natural Jurisprudence
Professor Kiyoshi Shimokawa, Gakushuin University, British Philosophy / Ethics / Political Philosophy
December 15, 2011
Uchimura Kanzo and Folk Song in the Meiji Era
Research Fellow of JSPS (PD) Kei Saito, Musicology / Japanese Music History
November 11, 2011
AY2010-2011
Symposium
Socio-economic Structures of Judah and Its Neighbors in the Persian Period
Professor Avraham Faust, Biblical Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University
Professor Akio Moriya, Biblical Studies / OT Studies, Tokyo Woman's Christian University
Associate Professor Johannes Unsok Ro, Biblical Studies / OT Studies, International Christian University
Senior Lecturer Oren Tal, Biblical Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
Senior Associate Professor Yoshinori Sano, Classics / Philosophy, International Christian University
Senior Lecturer Alexander Fantalkin, Biblical Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
February 17 - 19, 2011
History and Religion at the Service of Politics in Augustan Rome: A General Approach
Assistant Professor Vaios Vaiopoulos, Latin Literature and Culture, Ionian University
October 21, 2010
Kipling's 'The Absent-minded Beggar'
Senior Lecturer John Lee, English Literature, Bristol University
September 10, 2010
Some Considerations on Translation of the Bible from the Viewpoint of Comparative Languages
Professor Emeritus Takashi Koizumi, Ethics / Comparative Thought, Keio University, former professor of ICU
June 8, 2010
World of Azumakaido-Yotsuya-Kaidan *
Lecturer Kenji Yanai, History of Performing Arts and Culture, Kyoto University of Arts and Design
May 26, 2010
* joint hosting with the Department of Literature
Victorianising Vergil *
Professor Stephen Harrison, Classics, Oxford University
April 12, 2010
* joint hosting with the Department of Literature
AY2009-2010
Documentary Film: Le droit à la philosophie: les traces du Collège international de Philosophie *
Discussion: Principles of University, and Institusions: with the film Le droit à la philosophie
Lecturer Yuji Nishiyama, French Contemporary Thought, The University of Tokyo
Senior Associate Professor Yoshinori Sano, Classics
December 21, 2009
* joint hosting with Mr. Kohei Muto, Division of Arts and Sciences
A Month in the Life of John Calvin
Professor Elsie A. McKee, Church History, Princeton Theological Seminary
June 8, 2009
Charles James Fox and Heracles in Homer *
Fellow / Lecturer Malcolm Davies, Classics, St. John's College / University of Oxford
April 14, 2009
* joint hosting with the Department of Literature
AY2008-2009
No Lecture
AY2007-2008
Antisemitism and Antijudaism: Life and Work of Jules Isaac (1877-1963)
Associate Professor Kenji Kanno, French literature, Tokyo Metropolitan University
February 1, 2008
The Old Testament as a Christian Sacred Book: Is the OT Necessary for Christianity?
Lecturer Satoshi Toda, History of Christianity, Hitotsubashi University
January 23, 2008
The Violence of God: Before and After
Professor Theodore W. Jennings, Jr., Biblical and Constructive Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary
December 12, 2007
What Can Literature Do in a Harsh Society?: Faces of Contemporary Israeli Literature
Professor Yasuko Murata, Hebrew Literature/Comparative Literature, Toho University
September 13, 2007
Bodies, Koans and Self-Cultivation: The Questions of Zen Ethics
Assistant Professor Gereon Kopf, Studies of Religion, Luther College
June 5, 2007
AY2006-2007
Questioning the Church and its 'Sacredness': Criticism against the Church from a Lesbian Perspective
Rev. Yuri Horie, representative, the Ecumenical Community for Queer Activism
February 2, 2007 (Co-sponsored by the
Center for Gender Studies, ICU)
Christian Ethics and American Culture: The Challenges of Sexuality
James A. Donahue, president and professor of ethics and theology of Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Ca.
October 10, 2006
Religion and the American Presidency
Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, George Washington University
June 16, 2006
Telling the Story of Pain: Lamentations over the Destruction of Cities, from Jerusalem to Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Tom Sakon, lecturer of OT/TaNaKh studies, humanities division)
June 15, 2006
Pamela vs. Shamela: Parody and the 'Rise' of the English Novel
Takayuki Shima, associate professor of English literature, Jissen Women's University
June 8, 2006
"Tit for Tat" or "the Other Cheek"?: An Assyriological View of Biblical Retribution and Forgiveness
Izumi Yoda, professor of Assyriology, OT/TaNaKh studies, Tokiwa University)
June 6, 2006
AY2005-2006
The Book of Job and Yahwist
Koichi Namiki, professor of O.T. studies, graduate school of comparative culture
February 25, 2006
Church and State in Early New England:
Did the Puritans Believe in Liberty of Conscience?
David Hall, professor of church history,Harvard Divinity School
January 17, 2006
God's Asian Names: Rendering the Bible God in Asian Contexts
Archie Chi Chung Lee, professor of theology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
June 13, 2005
"The General Point of View" in Hume's Treatise
Naoki Yajima, associate professor of ethics, Keiwa University
June 6, 2005
AY2004-2005
A Story about "Holy Land": Reading Mitri Raheb's I am a
Palestinian Christian
Mika Yamamori, senior lecturer, Tel Aviv University (OT studies)
February 4, 2005
The Birth of Monotheism in Ancient Israel, Revisited
Koichi Namiki, professor of Biblical Studies. GSCC
December 17, 2004
The Birth of "Play": From Aesthetics of Kant and Schiller to early Nietzche
Hitomi Goromaru, lecturer, Tama Art University
May 30, 2004 (Co-sponsorred by the ICU Society for the Study of Comparative Culture)
How Far Can Theology and Philosophy Dialogue
Osamu Sakai, professor emeritus of philosophy, Kyoto Univeristy
May 25, 2004
Intertexts in the Gospel according to Matthew
Ulrich Luz, professor emeritus of NT studies, Bern University
May 17, 2004
AY2003-2004
Lady Audley's Colourful Secrets: Pre-Raphaelite Painting and the Sensation Novel
Clair Hughes, professor of literature
February 20, 2004 (farewell lecture)
Canons of American Fiction: Then and Now
Peter Rawlings, professor of literature, University of the West England, Bristol
Janurary 9, 2004
Ein Versuch zur Bildung einer interkulturellen Utopie -- Die Naechstenliebe des Christentums und die Upanischaden in der schopenhauerschen Ethik
Chizuko Hashimoto, research fellow of philosophy, ICC
December 17, 2003
Baqashot: Quasi-liturgical Music of the Oriental Jewry in Jerusalem
Kumiko Yayama, ethnomusicology, lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 17, 2003
Kanzo Uchimura's Poetic Works in the 1890s
Yoshiya Imataka, former research fellow of history of Japanese thought and literature, ICC/Miyagi Gakuin
October 27, 2003
The Epistemological Foundation of Mutuality in British Empiricism
Naoki Yajima, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Keiwa University
May 26, 2003 (Co-sponsorred by the ICU Society for the Study of Comparative Culture)
AY2002-2003
Liberal Arts Education at High Schools of Prewar Japan
Professor Hideichi Fukuda (Division of Humanities, Japanese Literature)
2003/1/28 (Farewell Lecture, Co-sponsored by the ICU Institute of Aisan Cultural Studies)
St. Augustine on Freedom
Professor Masao Okano (Division of Humanities, Philosophy)
Fabruary 13, 2003 (Farewell Lecture)
Neoplatonism and the history of Western philosophy
Fumiaki Okazaki, professor of philosophy, Kanazawa University
January 28, 2003
"What colours do virtues wear?": Cesare Ripa's Iconologia
Aki Ito, assistant professor of Art, Humanities Division
January 21, 2003
Rembrandt-Leiden-Siebold connection
Willem van Gulik, professor of history of art, Universiteit Leiden
2002/11/4 (Co-sponsored with the Student Services Division)
Musical Life at Cathedrals and Chapels in the Church of England
Teruhiko Nasu, associate professor of musicology, Aoyama Gakuin University
October 25, 2002
Society and Religion in Wilhelmine Germany with Particular Reference to Adolf von Harnack
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, professor of theology and ethics at Das Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
September 26, 2002
Hymnology in Japan
Shun'ichi Teshirogi, research fellow of hymnology
September 13, 2002 (Co-sponsored by the ICU Sacred Music Center)
AY2001-2002
Fading Kakure Kirishitan heritage on Goto islands
Megumi Takasaki, lecturer of religion and anthropology, Toyo Univ./ICU
January 22, 2002 (Co-sponsored by the ICU Society for the Study of Comparative Culture)
Leibniz, the Realist
Kiyoshi Sakai, professor of philosophy, Gakushuin University
December 17, 2001
Modernity in 18-century Japan: Eclectic Travelers Discovering a New Reality
Herbert Plutschow, professor of Japanese literature, University of California, Los Angeles
November 12, 2001
Panim (faces) in the Old Testament
Shigehiro Nagano, professor of OT studies, Keiwa College
October 30, 2001
Text and Image in Medieval English Religious Manuscripts
Takami Matsuda, professor of medieval English literature and history of ideas, Keio University
September 18, 2001
Heidegger's Phenomenology of Technology
Hayo Krombach, research fellow of philosophy, Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics
June 15, 2001
AY2000-2001
An Encounter of Poetic and Religious Spirits in Interwar Japan
Yoshiya Imataka, former ICC fellow of Japanese thought, Miyagi Gakuin
January 26, 2001
Christianity: A Jewish Perspective
Rachel Elior, professor of Jewish mysticism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
September 20, 2000
Diana, Princess of Wales, and British Identity
John Taylor, visiting professor, ICU/professor of history, Southern Illinois University
May 22, 2000
The East Comes West: Asian Religions in America
Carl T. Jackson, professor of history, University of Texas, El Paso
May 15, 2000 (Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Comparative Culture)
Christian Intercultural Education in Hawaii
Ryo Yoshida, associate professor of history of music, Doshisha University
May 12, 2000 (Co-sponsored by the College-wide Program, College of Liberal Arts)
Politics and Religion in Islam: The Case of Suhrawardi
Norio Suzuki, assistant professor of Islamic studies/political philosophy, Aichi University
May 8, 2000
AY1999-2000
The Odyssey and the Sea: A Focus on the Salvation of Odysseus, the Wanderer
Shigenari Kawashima, professor of classics, ICU
March 4, 2000
The Benign God in Milton's Paradise Lost
Kazuaki Saito, professor of English literature, ICU
February 15, 2000
God and the Nature in Jukichi Yagi's Literature
Yoshiya Imataka, ICC visiting fellow of history of Japanese thought
January 11, 2000
Constantinos Cavafis, the man and the poet
Constantinos Vassis, poet, former ICC visiting fellow, former Greek ambassador to Japan
December 9, 1999
A Secret Visit: Goethe and the Swiss Pastor's Wife
Adolf Muschg, novelist, former lecturer of German literature, ICU
November 2, 1999
Music in Blind Education of Meiji Japan
Shun'ichi Teshirogi, ICC visiting fellow of hymnology
October 20, 1999
Philosophy of History: Its Possibility, Meaning and Method
Atsushi Tanaka, professor of philosophy, ICU
September 24, 1999
AY1998-1999
Man, Nature and God in To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf and Plato
Takako Niwa, professor of English and English literature, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine
December 9, 1998
Music and Missions: Christianity and School Music in Meiji Japan
Shinichi Teshirogi, history of Christian music in Japan, Ferris University
May 28, 1998
Bible in the American Public School's Classroom
Benjamin C. Duke, professor of education, ICU
May 19, 1998
AY1997-1998
The Protestant Century: Christianity in Japan, quo vadis?
Stuart D.B. Picken, professor, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration
February 13, 1998
An Issue of the Oral Torah in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Maimonides vs. Crescas
Isaiah Teshima, lecturer of Hebrew Bible, Rikkyo University
November 11,1997
Modern Greek Literature: Its Background and Main Features
Constantinos Vassis, poet essayist and former Greek ambassador to Japan
June 5, 1997
Christians in Muslim Spain: Attempts at Co-existence in 9th Century Cordoba
Adachi Kaori, Ph.D., ICU Graduate School of Comparative Culture, 1997
May 9, 1997
AY1996-1997
New Perspective on the Decalogue
Yasumasa Ono, professor of Old Testament studies, Kwassui Women's College
December 13, 1996
Why Doesn't Biblical Hebrew Have Words for evil, fear, or anger? --- A Linguistic Analysis
John Myhill, associate professor of English department, University of Haifa
September 27, 1996
Besieged LDS Intellectuals: The Mormon Encounter with Modern Secular Thought
Hiroshi Takahashi, professor of American studies and comparative culture, Shukutoku University
June 14, 1996
Christian Understanding of Freedom
Earnest Gordon, Dean of the University Chapel, emeritus, Princeton
May 21, 1996 (Co-sponsored with the Religious Center)
Monuments of the Early Christian Period in Bulgaria and South-East Europe
Julia Valeva, senior research member, Institute of History of Art, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
May 14, 1996
AY1995-1996
The Significance of the Christian University Today
John B. Cobb, Jr., emeritus professor of Theology, Claremont Graduate School
October 16, 1995 (Co-sponsored with ICU Religious Center)
Religion in Higher Education
John F. Wilson, Professor of Religion, Princeton University
September 26, 1995 (Co sponsored with ICU Religious Center)
Religious Pluralism and the Uniqueness of Jesus
Yung Han Kim, professor of theology, Soong Sil University
June 27, 1995
Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Japan -- A Peculiar Case of Religious Encounter between East and West
Evgeny Steiner, associate researcher, Sophia University
April 11, 1995
AY1994-1995
The Spirituality of the Old Testament
Rolf Knierim, emeritus professor of Theology, Claremont Graduate School
May 30, 1994
Herodotus and Religion
John P.A.Gould, emiritus professor of Greek, University of Bristol
2 November, 1993
Religion and Politics in a Secular African State: The Nigerian Case
F.U. Okafor, senior lecturer of University of Nigeria
17 December, 1993
■ Thematic Lecture Series
■ What is the Proprium of the Humanities?
Some Aspects of the Expressions concerning Fate in Homeric Epics
Yoshinori Sano, Senior Associate Professor of Classics and Philosophy
June 16, 2010
Love, Nature, Quotidian: Sense Inhabiting Life
Shoichiro Iwakiri, Professor of Literature
April 21, 2010
"Idle and Extravagant Stories in Verse": 400 Years of Story-Telling, from Sir Gawain to Wordsworth
Christopher Simons, Associate Professor of Literature
November 10, 2009
Hume's Theory of Sympathy as the Principle of Human Nature
Naoki Yajima, Senior Associate Professor of Philosophy
November 4, 2009
The Mode of Chinese Thoughts: Art of Divination and Yin-Yang Five Elements Theory
Tomoko Koto, professor of Chinese Philosophy
June 10, 2009
To Know Myself - Dialogue with the Transcendent
Masao Okano, professor emeritus of philosophy, ICU (President, Ferris Jogakuin)
May 13, 2009
Art-Craft, East-West: New Polarities in Taisho-era Tokyo
Richard Wilson, professor of Art / Archaeology, ICU
February 20, 2009
Essential Facts of Life: H. D. Thoreau & Emily Dickinson
Naoki Onishi, professor of literature / American studies, ICU
January 21, 2009
Saint Anthony's Temptations / Les Tentations de Saint-Antoine
Christine Kodama, senior associate professor of French literature, ICU (presider/interpreter: Prof. Shoichiro Iwakiri)
October 29, 2008
Why Do People Need Music?
Masakata Kanazawa, professor emeritus of music, ICU
September 24, 2008
Conceptualizing the Human Being: From the Biological to the Anthropological
Yoichiro P. Murakami, professor of history and philosophy of science / science, technology and society, ICU
June 11, 2008
Beyond the Limits (kokoro: the essence of Japanese traditional culture)
Tzvetana Kristeva, professor of Japanese literature, ICU
May 28, 2008
Is God Dead? Then, Isn't Humanity Dead?
Atsushi Tanaka, professor of philosophy, ICU
April 30, 2008
Freedom of the God, Freedom of the Man: Human Dignity in the Book of Job
Koichi Namiki, professor emeritus of Hebrew Bible Studies, ICU
February 13, 2008
Human Beings and Beyond: On the Problems of Honor and "Justice of Retaliation" in Greek Literature
Shigenari Kawashima, professor emeritus of classics, ICU (Professor, Otsuma Women's University)
December 7, 2007
Some Thoughts on the Role of the Human(ities) in Modern Society
Gerhard Schepers, professor emeritus of German literature, ICU
November 20, 2007
To Err is Human, To Forgive is Also Human
Anri Morimoto, professor of theology, ICU
October 5, 2007
■ Time, Space and Travel
Time and Space in the Novel
Christine Kodama, professor of French literature
September 17, 1999
Literature and Time -- Modification of signifie
Shoichiro Iwakiri, assistant professor of French literature
October 29, 1996
The Allegory of the Voyage -- Its Spiritual Implications
Philip Edwards, emeritus professor (English literature), University of Liverpool
June 2, 1995
History and Climate (Fudo), or Time and Space in Style, as Observed in Tetsuro Watsuji's Criticism of Martin Heidegger
Atsushi Tanaka, professor of philosophy
September 30, 1994
■ Style
Style in English Poetry -- On Contemporary Poets
Kazuaki Saito, professor of English and American literature
October 28,1994
Style and Representation in Kenzan Ware
Richard Wilson, associate professor of art and archaeology
June 16, 1994
The Floral Woman -- A 19th Century Theme in Literature and Art
Clair F. Hughes, associate professor of English and American literature
May 6, 1994
On the Wall Paintings in the Catacomb at Via Latina, Rome
Tomo Miyasaka, lecturer, Nanzan University
23 April, 1993
Forget Not What You Were as a Novice
Kenichiro Sato, Professor, Musashino Art University
4 June, 1993
History of 'Yugen'
Hideichi Fukuda, professor of Japanese literature
14 September, 1993
Musicians and the Tradition of the Stammbuch: Cases of
Haydon, Mozart and Beethoven
Tatsuhiko Itoh, assistant professor of music
15 October, 1993
Style and Ritual in Politics, Religion and Society
Stuart D.B.Picken, professor of philosophy
24 April, 1992
Form, Style, Pattern
Ryoen Minamoto, former professor of intellectual history
18 September, 1992 (cosponsored by the graduate school of comparative culture)
Loss of Awareness: Style and Quest of Scientific Cognition -- Can Style be conceptualized at all? --
Atsushi Tanaka, professor of philosophy
30 October, 1992
The Form and Face of God in the Old Testament
Koichi Namiki, professor of religion
18 December, 1992
