AY2015-2016
Tuesday,May 12,2020Categories: Public Lectures & Symposiums Before 2015
AY2015-2016
European Union — A Community of Values and Its Meaning in Times of Global Disorientation *
Prof. / Director Ludger Kühnhardt, Political Science, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung
May 26, 2015
* joint hosting with JICUF (Japan ICU Foundation) and ICU Peace Research Institute
Counting, Ancestral Relation, and Various Aspects of Language — Viewed from Frege’s Philosophy and Beyond *
Professor Emeritus Kazuyuki Nomoto, Analytic Philosophy, Tokyo Metropolitan University
October 10, 2015
* joint hosting with Pedilavium Society and ICU Society for Philosophical Studies
Experiencing the World through Sound, Sight, and Touch: Transdisciplinary Dialogue between a Musician and a Life Scientist *
Professor Emeritus Satoshi Ogihara, Biology, Osaka University
Mr. Genzoh Takehisa, Keyboard Player / Composer
October 16, 2015
* ICU 60th Anniversary Project
joint hosting with ICU Sacred Music Center
Pitying Oedipus *
Professor Patrick Finglass, Classics, The University of Nottingham
October 19, 2015
* joint hosting with the course “Greek Language II”
Joint Symposium
Fairy Tales — Their Legacy and Transformation: Gender, Sexuality, and Comparative Literature
November 7, 2015 (Co-sponsored by ICU Center for Gender Studies)
Key Note
Konoike Tomoko’s Wolf Girls in the Woods: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West
Professor Mayako Murai, Literature, Kanagawa University
Presentations
O Mother, Where Art Thou?: Motif of Disappearing Women in Japanese Mythology
Ms. Lindsay R. Morrison, Literature, Doctoral Candidate / Research Institute Assistant, ICU Center for Gender Studies
Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free: Song and Dance as Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Fairy Plays
Senior Associate Professor Christopher E. J. Simons, Literature
“By the side of the beast”: Animal Iconography and Iconoclasm in the Work of Paula Rego
Associate Professor Daniela Kato, Literature, Hiroshima Jogakuin University
Wolves and Witches: Sexual Outcasts in Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales
Senior Associate Professor Natsumi Ikoma, Literature, Senior Associate Professor / Director of ICU Center for Gender Studies
Round Table
Moderator: Natsumi Ikoma
The Fifth Regular Conference on Dietary Culture: Dietary Culture and Identity
November 21, 2015 (Co-sponsored by ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies)
Beef and Wine: Letters of Jesuit Missionaries
Research Fellow Megumi Takasaki, ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies
The Popularity of Japanese Iron Kettle and Life Aesthetics: A Study on the Revival of Traditional Culture in Current China
Associate Professor Zheng Wei, Takushoku University
Origins of Zoni (New Year’s Miso Soup Containing Rice Cakes) and Natto-mochi (Rice Cake Containing Fermented Soybeans)
Professor Osamu Nakamura, Osaka Prefecture University
Joseph’s Second Dream: Towards a Biblical Theology of How God Acts in History
Professor Konrad Schmid, OT Studies, Universität Zürich
December 15, 2015
Symposium for History and Historicity
December 16, 2015
The Conquests of Jerusalem 597 BCE and 587 BCE in History and in Biblical Interpretation (2Kgs 24-25)
Professor Konrad Schmid, OT Studies, Universität Zürich
The Meeting of Croesus and Solon in Herodotus’ Histories I
Professor Yoshinori Sano, Classics
Did Jeremiah Preach at the Temple of Jerusalem in the Year 609 BCE?: An Inquiry into “Deuteronomistic Editorial Layers” in the Book of Jeremiah
Senior Associate Professor Johannes Unsok Ro, OT Studies
Ancient Near Eastern Literature and Its Reception and Reinterpretation in the Bible *
Professor Konrad Schmid, OT Studies, Universität Zürich
December 17, 2015
* joint hosting with the course “The World of Classics”
The Ambivalence of Human Wisdom: Genesis 2-3 as Sapiental Text *
Professor Konrad Schmid, OT Studies, Universität Zürich
December 18, 2015
* joint hosting with the course “Religion and Religiousness”
Prof. Tomoko KOTO Final Lecture
礼書にみる儒学養老思想 *
Professor Tomoko Koto, Chinese Philosophy
February 12, 2016
* Joint hosting with Department of Humanities and Institute of Asian Cultural Studies
How to Read The Wealth of Nations
Professor Jonathan Hearn, Political and Historical Sociology, The University of Edinburgh
February 24, 2016
Katachi-No-Bunka-Kai, the 64th Conference and The Fourth Conference on Dietary Culture
March 19, 2016 (Co-sponsored by Katachi-No-Bunka-Kai and ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies)
Style of Eating at Kenkoku University in Mancyukuo
Research Fellow / Research Institute Assistant Eriko Miyazawa, History of Modern Japan, ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies
In-between Food and Nationalism: UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Culture
Associate Professor Atsuko Ichijo, Sociology, Kingston University
The KATACHI of Food Culture of NAKAHARA Chuya in Kyoto
Ms. Hiromi Kurahashi, History of Japanese Culture, Kyoto Chuya Club
Holy Trees in the East and West: Olive vs. Sal
Professor Emeritus Tsutomu Kaneko, History of Science, Osaka Prefecture University
