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EndedICU ICC Special Open Lecture : Humanities and the Geist of Philology: Marginalia*

Humanities and the Geist of Philology: Marginalia*Lecturer: Professor Emeritus Naoshi Arai (Yamanash... more

EndedICU ICC Special Open Lecture : Hume on the Government of the Passions

Hume on the Government of the Passions Lecturer: Dr. Yuhei Yoshioka (Ph.D, The University of Tokyo) ... more

ICC Office will be CLOSED for Summer Break（2024/7/24～2024/8/6）

ICC office will be closed during summer break (2024/7/24～2024/8/6). Thank you for your understanding... more

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 55

Monograph: Ogata Kenzan: Collected Research. By Richard Wilson (Humanities: Christianity and Culture Extra Issue, Vol. 1)

ICC Office will be CLOSED for Winter Break（2023/12/23～2024/1/8）

ICC office will be closed during winter break (2023/12/23～2024/1/8). Thank you for your understandin... more

EndedICC 60th Anniversary Symposium: "Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment" November 4th, 2023

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: "Aristophanes after the Peloponnesian War", on Saturday, October 28th, 2023

EndedICC 60th Anniversary Symposium: "Perspective on Nature and Environmental Ethics in the Old Testament" Friday, September 30th- Sunday, October 1st, 2023

EndedICU CGS : "Against Compulsory (Hetero-)Sexuality: From Asexual Perspectives" on Saturday, October 7th, 2023

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: なほうとまれぬICUかな , on Monday, September 25th, 2023

ICC Office will be CLOSED for Summer Break（2023/7/24～2023/8/4）

ICC office will be closed during summer break (2023/7/24～2023/8/4). Thank you for your understanding... more

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: "Revisiting David Hume's review of the Rev. Robert Henry's History of Great Britain" on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: Hume’s Epistemology and the Notion of Virtue, on Tuesday, March 14th, 2023

EndedWorkshop: "A Digital Humanities Approach to Asian Catholic Culture", February 16-17th, 2023

ICC Office will be CLOSED for Winter Break（2022/12/24～2023/1/5）

ICC office will be closed during winter break (2022/12/24～2023/1/5). Thank you for your understandin... more

EndedWorkshop, "Christianity and Social Changes in East Asia", November 26th, 2022

EndedICU PRI&ICC Special Open Lecture: "War and Peace in the Hebrew Bible" on Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

EndedSymposium: Perspectives on Nature and Environmental Ethics in the Deuteronomistic History* from 31th October to 4th November, 2022

EndedReconciliation: A Christian Vision of Justice, Peace, and Healing, June 8th, 2022

EndedSymposium, Rousseau and Kant: Philosophical, Political, and Aesthetic Relations, May 25th, 2022

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: "Rousseau’s Critique of the Enlightenment and Kant’s Response: the Critique of Pure Reason" on Wednesday, May 25th, 2022

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: "An Overview of Rousseau’s Theory of Democratic Practice" on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022

Monograph: La gente vestita di blu. By Aki Ito (Humanities: Christianity and Culture Extra Issue, Vol. 2)

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 53

EndedConference of Institute for the Study of Scottish Philosophy: Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment* on March 25th-26th, 2022

EndedSymposium: History Lessons—The Present of Feminist/Queer Film Curation in Japan on Sunday, March 6th, 2022

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: Reading Sexual Selection Theory as “Darwin’s Aesthetics” with Reference to Kant on Friday, February 25th, 2022

EndedICC Special Open Lecture: Chinkon Kishin Methods of Miyagishima Kinsaku wit hin the Shinto Miho Church on Thursday, February 24th, 2022

ENDEDThe 16th Conference of the Japanese Association for the Study of Puritanism

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 52

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture,“Being-in-the-world”－toward a pertinent understanding of the question of Being as the essential task of philosophy－* on Friday, Feburary 26th, 2021

ENDEDSymposium: Modernity and Christianity: Charles Taylor's A Secular Age* on Saturday, Feburary 20th, 2021

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture, "The "spiritual" on trial: An analysis of court cases involving fortune-tellers and psychics in Japan" on Monday, Feburary 15th, 2021

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture, "The Belief in Immortals and Immortality in China" on Friday, January 29th, 2021

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 51

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture, ""International Aid" to Earthquake-stricken Rhodes c. 227 BC: Polybios, Histories 5.88-90" from 16:30-18:00, on Monday, Feburary 10th, 2020

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture, "The Quality of Emperorship in 21st century Japan: Thoughts on the Reiwa Enthronement" from 17:00-18:30, on Thursday, January 30th, 2020

EndedICC Special Open Lecture, "Faith and Love: A Powerful Pair in Luther's Theology" from 17:00-18:30, on Wednesday, January 8th, 2020

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture, "How Qigong Works: Daoist Dimensions of Body and Mind" from 10:10-11:20, on Monday, December 16th, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives,” 11:30 - 12:40, Thursday, December 5th, 2019

ENDEDThis week, the ICC has rescheduled "Symposium: Dialogue between Philosophy and Theology in the Scottish Enlightenment"!

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture "Luther and Music”, Saturday, October 26th, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “Six Theological Topics in the Book of Job” 13:30 - 15:00, Tuesday, October 15th, 2019

ENDEDOpen Symposium "Dialogue between Philosophy and Theology in the Scottish Enlightenment", 13:00-17:00, Saturday, October 12, 2019 will be cancelled

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “The Relationship between Jewish and Christian Martyrdom,” 11:30 - 12:40, Monday, June 17th, 2019

ENDEDEmergency Symposium “Academic Freedom and Gender Studies: The Case in Hungary and a Response in Japan,” 12:00 - 17:00, Saturday, June 8, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “The Creation of the Greek Alphabet: A Socio-Evolutionary Model” 16:30 - 18:00, Monday, June 3rd, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “From Athens to Edo: Virtue, Law and Christian Ethics in Comparative Context,” 12:40 - 13:50, Thursday, June 13, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lectures “Literature’s Ritual Commemoration: The Meanings of a Practice,” 10:10 - 12:30, Thursday, May 30, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lectures “Rite and Creation,” 10:00 - 12:10, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “A Suspended Figure: Repetition and Duplication of the ‘Falling Man’ in the Fictions of 11 September 2001,” 14:30 - 16:40, Monday, May 20, 2019

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 50

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “[Lecture and Demonstration] The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Gidayu-bushi,” 13:15 - 15:00, Thursday, June 6, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “[Lecture and Demonstration] The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Rakugo,” 13:15 - 15:00, Thursday, May 30, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “Prison Religion in Japan,” 11:30 - 12:40, Friday, May 31, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “[Lecture and Demonstration] The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Noh,” 13:15 - 15:00, Thursday, May 9, 2019

ENDEDICC Special Open Lecture “Collective Memory and Crisis Management: The Deuteronomistic History between the Priestly and Prophetic Literature,” 13:30 - 15:00, Tuesday, April 23, 2019

ICC Special Open Lecture [Prof. Hikaru Okuizumi, Novelist, Akutagawa Prize] “日本語のリアリズム小説をめぐって,” 13:10 - 15:00 , Monday, February 25, 2019

ICC Open Lecture “English poetry in Japan: A Reading with Isobar Press,” 13:15 - 15:00, Thursday, January 31, 2019

ICC [Professor Emeritus Tatsuhiko Itoh Retirement Lecture] “A Close-to-Final Lecture: Music, Life, Liberal Arts, and Haydn,” about 15:00 - 17:30, Saturday, March 9, 2019

ICC [Professor Naoki Onishi Valedictory Lecture] “W.S. Clark and Liberal Arts Education,” 15:30 - 17:00, Monday, February 25, 2019

ICC [Professor Richard L. Wilson Valedictory Lecture] “Rinpa: The Korin Style in the World,” 10:10 - 11:20, Monday, February 25, 2019

ICC Special Open Lecture “Immovable Delos Shaken: Delian Earthquake as an Omen of Calamity in Classical Antiquity,” 16:30 - 18:00, Monday, February 18, 2019

Upcoming ICC Open Lecture, on January 21st 2019, "W. E. B. Du Bois and the sacred Music of _The Souls of Black Folk: Essay and Sketches_ (1903)--Across the Centuries"

Sponsored jointly by the Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture and ICU Literiture cour... more

ICC Co-Sponsored Open Lecture “On Peace in Schweitzer’s Theology,” 13:50 - 15:00, Wednesday, December 19, 2018

ICC Co-Sponsored Conference: MARGUERITE DURAS : A CRITIQUE OF REASON

Christian meets Asia: the Past and Future -- Remembering Takeda (Cho) Kiyoko, 12:30 - 18:00, Saturday, November 24, 2018

Open Lecture "You are here": Textures of Place and "Living Maps," 16:30 - 18:00 , Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Open Lecture “An Inquirer who discloses the task or responsibility of philosophy in a clear and unmistakable way, without querying it as the theme. —Apology of Heidegger, of his own—,” 15:00 - , Saturday, October 27, 2018

Open Lecture “Evening of Vocal Music and Vihuela”, 18:00 – 19:00, November 9, 2018

Open Lecture “The Relationship between “Life Science” and Music in the 18th century: the Fashion and the Decline of Armonica, B. Franklin and F. A. Mesmer”, 13:15 – 15:00, Tuesday, October 9, 2018

NEWICC Office Close due to Summer Holiday (2018/7/25-8/24)

ICC Office is scheduled to close during summer holidays during the following period. Summer vacation... more

Open Lecture “Religiosity in Japan,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, November 1, 2018

Open Lecture “Noh Production Kazuraki (The Third Noh Production with Ichiro-no-kai)”, 13:00 – 16:00, Saturday, July 7, 2018

Open Lecture “The Invention of the Homicide Courts,” 16:30 - 19:00 , Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Open Lecture “The Invention of Democracy,” 16:30 - 19:00 , Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Gidayu-bushi,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, June 7, 2018

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Kabuki,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, May 17, 2018

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Noh,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, May 10, 2018

Humanities: Christianity and Culture, vol.49 published (list of articles and summaries uploaded)

Open Lecture, Professor Peter Kail “Hume’s Naturalism and Scepticism,” 15:10 – 17:40, Thursday, February 15, 2018

【CGS/ICC Symposium on Gender, Sexuality and Comparative Literature】 “Detectives and Spies in the Arts”, 10:15 – 14:30, Saturday, January 27, 2018

[JSPS-CNRS Symposium] “Statuts et marges dans les sociétés d’ordres : France et Japon, 16e-19e siècles”, Nov. 24-26, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Douglas Cairns “The Tripartite Soul and its Background: Plato’s Republic 4,” 15:10 – 17:40, Wednesday, October 25, 2017

[time fixed] Open Lecture, Professor Emeritus Koichi Namiki, “Double Vision in the Book of Job,” Saturday, October 7, 2017

[room change] Open Lecture, Professor Malcolm Davies “Greek Myths and the Symposium,” 15:10 – 17:30, Monday, September 25, 2017

Open Lecture Professor Emeritus Koichi Namiki, “Double Vision in the Book of Job,” Saturday, October 7, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Malcolm Davies “From Night to Night: Apollo, Artemis and Hermes in the Iliad,” 15:10 – 17:30, Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Open Lecture, Dr. Jeyaraney Kathirithamby “Maria Sibylla Merian – The Scientist,” 13:30 – 15:00, Friday, September 29, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Malcolm Davies “Greek Myths and the Symposium,” 15:10 – 17:30, Monday, September 25, 2017

Open Lecture "Noh Production Hagoromo (with Hiragana and English subtitles) ," 13:00 – 16:00, Saturday, July 8, 2017

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Kabuki,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, June 15, 2017

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Gidayu-bushi,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, June 1, 2017

Open Lecture, Assistant Professor Tatsuya Akae “The Spread of Non-Church Christianity throughout Japan: Magazines, Associations, and Networks,” 13:30 – 15:00, Friday, May 19, 2017

Open Lecture and Demonstration “The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Noh,” 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, May 11, 2017

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 48

"The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Stage Design of Kabuki," 13:15 – 15:00, Monday, February 13, 2017

"The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Gidayu-bushi," 13:15 – 15:00, Monday, January 30, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Israel Finkelstein “The North Kingdom: Archaeological and Historical Observations, with Emphasis on Megiddo,” 14:30 – 16:00, Saturday, April 8, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Israel Finkelstein “History, Historicity and Historiography in Ancient Israel,” 17:00 – 18:30, Friday, April 7, 2017

Open Lecture, Professor Israel Finkelstein “Jerusalem in Biblical Times, with Reference to the Proliferation of Writing in Judah,” 10:10 – 11:20, Friday, April 7, 2017

"The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Noh," 13:15 – 15:00, Thursday, December 22, 2016

Open Lecture "Guerín Academy," November 18

Center for Gender Studies / Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture Joint Symposium "Liminal Existence in Art and Literature"

[ICU Library Exhibition] “Children in Theresienstadt Camp: Books about Holocausts” (from October 3 to 28)

10月10日（月）- 10月23日（金）パネル展示「テレジン収容所の子どもたち」

10月23日（日）14:00 - 16:00 野村路子氏 公開講演会「テレジン収容所の子どもたち」

〔パネルディスカッション〕「テレジン収容所の子どもたち」10月7日（金）19:10 - 21:00

ICU生涯学習講座 秋期講座のご案内 （総務グループ・生涯学習講座）

[Publications] Lists of articles in Humanities: Christianity and Culture, vol.47, uploaded

Open Lecture Dr. T. Chino "Shakespeare’s Time and Our Time: Focusing on Macbeth" (14:00 – 16:00, Saturday, October 8, 2016)

Open Lecture Professor Philip J. van der Eijk “Health, Lifestyle and Responsibility in Ancient Medical and Philosophical Thought,” 16:30 – 18:00, Monday, September 12, 2016

Publication: A doctoral thesis of Dr. Mikio Miyagi (Research Fellow), "Theology of Social Justice in Okinawa"

Ms. Reiko Mitsui "John Toland and Anticlericalism from the Aspects of Religion, Politics, and Natural Philosophy" (14:00 - 15:30, Friday, July 8, Special Open Lecture)

Noh Production Tsunemasa (14:00 – 16:30, Friday, June 24, 2016)

updated “On This Institute” (research fellows and research associate)

Professor Harvey Cox "The Golden Calf and the Deified Market: A Theological Perspective on Global Consumer Capitalism" (15:30-17:00, May 6, Special Open Lecture)

updated "On This Institute" (members and research fellows)

The Forth Conference on Dietary Culture (March 19, 2016)

〈紹介〉 ICU哲学研究会 第九回 ［別サイト］

Open Lecture "How to Read The Wealth of Nations"

Final Lecture by Professor KOTO, Tomoko (February 12, 2016)

Symposium for History and Historicity (December 16, 2015)

December 18, Special Open Lecture Series by Professor Schmid

December 17, Special Open Lecture Series by Professor Schmid

December 15, Special Open Lecture Series by Professor Schmid

Journal: Humanities: Christianity and Culture Vol. 46

Open Lecture: Counting, Ancestral Relation, and Various Aspects of Language － Viewed from Frege's Philosophy and Beyond

The Fifth Regular Conferece on Dietary Culture: Dietary Culture and Identity

Center for Gender Studies / Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture Joint Symposium

Open Lecture "Pitying Oedipus"

Open Lecture "Experiencing the World through Sound, Sight, and Touch: Transdisciplinary Dialogue between a Musician and a Life Scientist"