AY2014-2015
Monday,May 11,2026Categories: Public Lectures & Symposiums Before 2015
AY2014-2015
The Third Regular Conference on Dietary Culture
June 28, 2014 (Co-sponsored by ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies)
Eating Better: Asian Dietary Culture and Islam
Research Associate Yukari Sai, Organization for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University
The Prohibition of Meat Diet in Bodhisattva Percepts and Japanese Idea
on the Attainment of Buddhahood by Plants and Trees
Professor Kosei Ishii, Komazawa University
Encountering Life through Hospice Care
Dr. Jun Hosoi, Hospice Kibō-kan, Vories Commemoration Hospital
Dark God: Cruelty and Violence in the Old Testament
Professor Thomas C. Römer, OT Studies, Collège de France / Université de Lausanne
May 9, 2014
The Fourth Regular Conference on Dietary Culture
December 13, 2014 (Co-sponsored by ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies)
Jin Ping Mei (Gold Plum Vase) and Design in Dining Spaces: Its Text and Illustrations
Assistant Professor Takane Takai, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
The Tales for Children in the Seishoku (Macrobiotic) Movement in Showa Period
Mr. Junichiro Kuroda, Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
The Description of Diets in Novels: Shiga Naoya and Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
Professor Akira Ooka, Department of Business Administration, Tokyo Keizai University / Novelist
“War will be the concern for men”? - Hector in the Iliad VI Reconsidered *
Professor Emeritus Shigenari Kawashima, Classics
October 4, 2014
* joint hosting with Pedilavium Society
The Third Conference on Dietary Culture
March 28, 2015 (Co-sponsored by ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies)
Rice and Japanese: From the Aspect of the Intellectual History of Shinto
Mr. Kota Saito, Doctoral Student, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo
The Life-World of Colonists: Concerning Manchurian Edition of Shufu no Tomo
Ms. Kyoko Ooka, Research Associate, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, ICU / Doctoral Student, Graduate School of of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
The Kitchen in Nazi Germany: A Near-future of Dietary Culture
Associate Professor Tatsushi Fujihara, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Humans and Humanity: Science and Values Today *
Professor Willem B. Drees, Philosophy of the Humanities, Tilburg University
March 20, 2015
* joint hosting: Conference “The Presence and Future of Humanity in the Cosmos: Why Society Needs both the Sciences and the Humanities”, John Templeton Foundation, Niwano Peace Foundation, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Wesley Foundation, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, and JICUF (Japan ICU Foundation)
From Convert to Cradle: Exploring Generations of Lived Conservative Evangelicalism
Associate Professor / Research Fellow Susan B. Ridgely, American Religious History, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh / ICU
February 4, 2015
David Hume, Thomas Reid and Moral Realism
Professor Gordon Graham, Ethics / Philosophy of Religion, Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts, Princeton Theological Seminary
January 26, 2015
The Priestly Writing, Its Origin and Significance *
Associate Professor Christophe Nihan, OT Studies / History of Ancient Israel, Université de Lausanne
January 8, 2015
* joint hosting with the course “Biblical Studies I”
Royal Figure or Servant of the Temple? The High Priest after the Exile
Associate Professor Christophe Nihan, OT Studies / History of Ancient Israel, Université de Lausanne
January 7, 2015

