Thematic Lecture Series
Tuesday,April 28,2026Categories: Thematic Lecture Series
■ ICC’s 50th anniversary Open Lecture Series
Humanities: The Next Fifty Years
The Roles of Humanities in our Society
Yoichiro P. Murakami, Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science / STS, The University of Tokyo / ICU
May 9, 2014
Symposium (October 10 – 12, 2013)*
Transgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical?
(On Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’)
* Sponsored by JICUF (Japan ICU Foundation)
The Humanities and the Ideal of Wholeness―Epic Pasts, Partisan Presents, Plural Futures
Professor William Franke, University of Macao (Philosophy and Religion) and Vanderbilt University (Comparative Literature, Italian, and Religious Studies)
October 12, 2013
“Umile e alta più che creatura” (Par. 33.2): Marian Humility, Theosis, and the Transgression of the Commedia
Assistant Professor Brian Reynolds, Fu Jen Catholic University (Medieval Italian Literature, and Mariology)
October 11, 2013
Grammatical Language and the Impossibility of Experience: Agamben’s Transformation of Heideggerian Hermeneutics
Associate Professor Anthony Adler, Yonsei University (Continental Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Literary Theory)
October 10, 2013
Exemplarity and Narrative in the Greek Tradition
Douglas L. Cairns, Professor of Classics, The University of Edinburgh
June 10, 2013
Time and the Human in Sophoclean Tragedy
Shigenari Kawashima, Professor Emeritus of Classics
May 28, 2013
■ 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
April 23, 1993
Forget Not What You Were as a Novice
Kenichiro Sato, Professor, Musashino Art University
June 4, 1993
History of ‘Yugen’
Hideichi Fukuda, professor of Japanese literature
September 14, 1993
Musicians and the Tradition of the Stammbuch: Cases of
Haydon, Mozart and Beethoven
Tatsuhiko Itoh, assistant professor of music
October 15, 1993
Style and Ritual in Politics, Religion and Society
Stuart D.B.Picken, professor of philosophy
April 24, 1992
Form, Style, Pattern
Ryoen Minamoto, former professor of intellectual history
September 18, 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
October 30, 1992
The Form and Face of God in the Old Testament
Koichi Namiki, professor of religion
December 18, 1992
