EVENTS
November28Friday "28-30 November 2025｜International Conference on Legal and Healthcare Interpreting"
| Date and time | Friday, November 28 – Sunday, November 30, 2025 |
| Location | International Christian University (ICU) |
| Application process and deadline |
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| Participation fee | Conference fee: ￥20,000 (non-refundable) Conference dinner: ￥5,000 (optional participation; payment method TBA) |
| Organizers | Social Science Research Institute and Center for Gender Studies, International Christian University |
| Contact point | legal.healthcare.interpreting.25@gmail.com Official Website |
| Comments | Keynote Speakers: CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. Kaori MINAMITANI, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine; Rinku General Medical Center, Osaka, Japan SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE SPEAKER (sponsored by APU with MEXT fund) Dr. Miranda LAI, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Conference Language: English Mode: Face-to-face Tentative Conference Schedule: Day 1 (28 November 2025): 13:00-19:45 -Registration -Conference Opening -Conference Keynote Speech by Dr. Minamitani -Coffee Break -Parallel Sessions 1 -Welcome Reception Day 2 (29 November 2025): 9:30-17:00 -Parallel Sessions 2 -Lunch -Parallel Sessions 3 -Coffee Break -Parallel Sessions 4 -Conference Dinner: 19:00-22:00 (Optional Participation) Day 3 (30 November 2025): 9:30-17:00 (venue changes to Troyer Memorial Hall after Lunch) -Parallel Sessions 5 -Coffee Break -Parallel Sessions 6 -Lunch -Aichi Prefectural University Public Symposium on Legal Interpreting (at Troyer Memorial Hall) -Keynote Speaker: Dr. Miranda Lai, RMIT University -Panelists: TBA -Languages: Japanese, English, and Japanese Sign Language (JSL) with Simultaneous Interpreting -Entrance Fee: Free (open to public) -Details of the Symposium: TBA -Conference Closing (at Troyer Memorial Hall) |
December 6Saturday TAC FD Symposium：Foreign Language Education and AI
| Date and time | Saturday, December 6, 2025 13:30-16:50 |
| Location | the International Conference room, Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House / Online |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please register via “the registration form (for both in-person and online). ＊Registration deadline: Thursday, December 4, by 4:30 p.m. |
| Organizers | Tama Academic Consortium Co-hosted by Institute of Educational Research and Service / Center for Teaching and Learning |
| Contact point | ICU Center for Teaching and Learning Phone：0422-33-3365 Mail：ctl@icu.ac.jp |
December 6Saturday ICU Chiristmas Concert
| Date and time | Saturday, December 6, 2025 3:00pm (2:30pm) |
| Location | ICU Chapel |
| Target audience | Open to public |
| Application process and deadline | Online tickets are available at Peatix. Reservations are not required, same-day tickets available at the door. (same price as reserved tickets on Peatix) Please check our website for details. |
| Participation fee | General Admission JPY2,500 |
| Organizers | ICU Sacred Music Center |
| Contact point | TEL: 0422-33-3330 e-mail: smc@icu.ac.jp |
| Comments | *This concert is not recommended for children under age 6. |
December10Wednesday [SSRI Open Lecture 12/10] Responses to displacement from conflict: comparing/contrasting Ukraine and Gaza
| Date and time | Wednesday, December 10, 2025 10:10-11:25 |
| Location | TBD |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from this Link. *except for LAW222 and LAW208 students. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Organizers | Social Science Research InstituteInternational |
| Contact point | Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) ssri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/en/ |
| Comments | Speaker: Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Language: English |
January11Sunday Sophia University and International Christian University Joint Symposium: Towards Deep International Learning in Higher Education: Visualization of Learning Outcome and Learning Design
| Date and time | Sunday, January 11, 2026 14:00-16:30 |
| Location | ICU Troyer Memorial Arts and Sciences Hall, 1st Floor, Room 171, and Zoom Webinar (Hybrid) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | If joining via Zoom, please register below. Registration Form |
| Contact point | nmikiko@icu.ac.jp |
| Comments | As the final-year event of the research project entitled "International Joint Research on the Visualization of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education" (led by Professor Miki Sugimura, Sophia University), we will discuss how to deepen international learning, how to embrace diversity, and how to innovate in learning design and assessment in higher education based on the insights from this research project. For the keynote speakers, we invited Professor Masako Watanabe from Nagoya University, who has theorized diverse logical thinking in different cultures, and Professor Kazuko Suematsu from Tohoku University, who designed and assessed international collaborative learning at Tohoku University. We will address educational challenges such as cognitive diversity, learner agency, and innovative course design, all of which have not been widely discussed in the field of higher education until now. |