EVENTS 2024
September17Tuesday [9/17 ICC Special Open Lecture] Hume on the Government of the Passions
| Date and time | Tuesday, September 17, 2024 16:30-18:00 |
| Location | Alumni House (2nd Floor Lounge) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | *No advance registration required *The lecture will be held in Japanese |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Organizers | Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture |
| Contact point | icc@icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/icc/en/ |
| Comments | Lecturer: Dr. Yuhei Yoshioka (Ph.D, The University of Tokyo) |
September10Tuesday Special Exhibition "Palaeolithic Period along Midstream Nogawa"
| Date and time | September 10 (Tue) - November 14 (Thu), 2024 *Open Tuesday through Thursday (except 10/15) and on 9/21 (sat), 10/13 (sun), 10/14 (mon), from 13:00 to 17:00 |
| Location | ICU HACHIRO YUASA MEMORIAL MUSEUM |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Participation fee | Free |
| Contact point | ICU Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum E-mail: |
| Comments | For more information, please visit the Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum websit. |
July20Saturday 2024 Summer Open Campus
| Date and time | July 20 (Saturday), August 16 (Friday) - 17 (Saturday), 2024 10:00～16:00 |
| Location | International Christian University (ICU)（MAP） |
| Application process and deadline | Open Campus Special Webpage
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| Contact point | Public Relations Office Tel：0422-33-3040・3058 Email：pro@icu.ac.jp |
June27Thursday [6/27 SSRI Symposium] Why Should We Protect Refugees?
| Date and time | Thursday, June 27, 2024, 12:30-16:30 |
| Location | International Conference Room at Dialogue House (2F) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from online form. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) ssri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/en/ |
| Comments | Speaker: Professor Matthew J. GIBNEY (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) Panel Discussion: Moderator - Dr. Brian Aycock (ICU) Prof. KIHARA-HUNT Ai (University of Tokyo) Ms. NACKEN Ritsu (Deputy Representative of UNHCR Tokyo Office) Ms. Luz Maria CARRENO (ICU Rotary Peace Fellow) General Moderator: Dr. HASHIMOTO Naoko (ICU) Abstract: Refugee protection in the global North is currently in a situation of crisis as wealthy countries increasingly place barriers in the path of asylum. These barriers force asylum seekers into dangerous voyages and create huge inequalities in the way responsibility for protection is distributed across the world’s states. Taking this crisis as my starting point, I examine the fundamental question of why states like Japan and the UK have a moral responsibility to protect refugees. I will outline four different answers. These stem respectively from considerations of humanitarianism, harm, community, and the system of states. While the existence of a range of different rationales to support a duty to grant asylum should hearten anyone in favour of improving refugee protection, I will show why choosing between them raises difficult political questions.. Language: English and Japanese (Simultaneous interpretation) |
June24Monday [6/24 IERS Open Lecture] Trends in Prosody and Syntax Interface Research: new perspectives
| Date and time | Monday, June 24, 2024, 12:00-17:00 |
| Location | International Conference Room (2F, ICU Dialogue House) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from online form. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Institute of Educational Research and Service (IERS) iers-mygroup@icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/iers/en/ |
| Comments | スケジュール： 12:00-12:30 Opening by Seunghun J. Lee (ICU) 12:30 -13:30 Keynote 1 by Frank Kügler (University of Frankfurt) 13:45 - 14:45 Keynote 2 by Emily Elfner (York University) 15:15 -16:15 Keynote 3 by Haruo Kubozono (NINJAL) Language：English |
June13Thursday [6/13 IACS] The 201st Asian Forum, "Public History and Its Practice Regarding Taiwan's 'Japanese Era' "
| Date and time | Thursday, June 13, 2024, 15:10-16:10 |
| Location | SH-E102 (Science Hall Building in ICU) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please pre-register via this linkform. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian Univercity (IACS) asian＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/iacs/en/ |
| Comments | Lecturer:KO IKUJO (Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hitotsubashi University) 1990年代から「親日台湾」という言説が日本社会に流布し始め、戦前日本の台湾統治を評価する通説として、学術研究の成果を凌駕しながら定着しつつある。台湾では、日本統治期は「近代」と重なることもあり、国内の文脈からは避けて通れない重要な時期である。台湾のパブリック・ヒストリーの実践において、日本統治期はどのように位置づけられるのか、日台間の歴史認識の相互作用の視点から考えてみたい。 *Lecture in Japanese |
June 5Wednesday [6/5 SSRI Open Lecture] Overcoming Isolationism: Japan´s Leadership in East Asian Security Multilateralism
| Date and time | Wednesday, June 5, 2024 11:50-15:00 |
| Location | Science Hall E302 |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from this Link. ※IRL221 students do not have to register it. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) ssri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/en/ |
| Comments | Abstract: This presentation asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia’s first multilateral security forum in 1991, thrusting itself into an unexpected leadership role in regional security. Based on his recent book Overcoming Isolationism, Midford explores what led to this surprising about-face and offers a corrective to the common misconception that Japan’s security strategy is just reactive to US pressure and unresponsive to its neighbors. He draws on newly released official documents and extensive interviews to reveal a quarter century of Japanese leadership in promoting regional security cooperation. He demonstrates that Japan has a much more nuanced relationship with its neighbors and has played a more significant leadership role in shaping East Asian security than has previously been recognized. Language: English |
May29Wednesday [5/29 PRI Open Lecture] "Everyday Reconciliation in Cambodia and South Korea:Exploring the applicability of functional coexistence and agonistic pluralism"
| Date and time | Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 15:10-17:40 |
| Location | SH-N205 (Science Hall Building in ICU) |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from online form. |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Peace Research Institute, International Christian Univercity (PRI) icupri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/pri/en/ |
| Comments | Presenter: Dr. Sung Yong Lee (Soka University) Abstract: This talk critically reviews two sets of theoretical frameworks that have garnered increased attention in academic debates on peacebuilding: functional coexistence and agonistic pluralism. It will then attempt to apply them to examine two examples of post-violence social reconciliation in Cambodia and South Korea, respectively. Specifically, it will first examine how former Khmer Rouge (KR) leaders and the victims of the Khmer Rouge's violence maintained functional coexistence at the local community level in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia. Based on the empirical findings from the analysis, it will discuss the role of functional coexistence in fostering human interactions, through which community members could learn about the complex and multi-dimensional histories and identities of individual Khmer Rouge leaders. Secondly, this talk will introduce a recent academic effort to apply the concept of 'agonistic pluralism' to the analysis of post-conflict reconciliation processes. The case study of South Korea will be incorporated into this examination to present the potential utilities of the framework as well as its underlying limitations. From a broad perspective, through the analysis, this talk will revisit a prevalent notion in contemporary academic debates on peacebuilding, which tends to lean towards a liberal and institution-oriented direction. |
May24Friday [5/24 SSRI Open Lecture] & [5/25 Symposium] Gender of Ethics and Care
| Date and time | Friday, May 24, 2024, 13:20-14:30 (JST) and Saturday, May 25, 2024, 13:20-15:20 (JST) |
| Location | International Conference Room, T-171, Zoom |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Please apply from online form. 5/24 Registration (in person) 5/24 Registration (via Zoom) 5/25 Registration (in person) 5/25 Registration (via Zoom) |
| Participation fee | Free of charge |
| Contact point | Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) ssri＠icu.ac.jp https://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/en/ |
| Comments | Speaker: Professor Joan Tronto (Professor emerita, University of Minnesota) Abstract: By inviting Professor Joan Tronto (Professor emerita, University of Minnesota), the pioneer in the field of studies on gender and politics, as a keynote speaker, we will explore how the perspective of care changes our conventional view of democracy and how it opens up possibilities to foster new perspectives on democracy and gender. We expect this project to bring about two results: first, it promotes interdisciplinary communication on gender and politics; second, it conveys a message that ICU plays a significant role in fostering academic discussions on important issues of gender and politics. * This is a cooperative project by SSRI, CGS, and Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Language: English |
May11Saturday 121th Open Lecture "The Transformation of Clothing in the Edo Period"
| Date and time | May 11 (Sat), 2024, 14:00–15:30 |
| Location | ONLINE via ZOOM Webinar |
| Target audience | ICU faculty, staff and students, general public |
| Application process and deadline | Registration form |
| Participation fee | Free |
| Contact point | ICU Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum E-mail: |
| Comments | Lecturer: Dr. Yukiko Tsubakida, Assistant Professor, International Christian University Moderator: Dr. Robert Eskildsen, Director of the Yuasa Museum, Professor, International Christian University For more information, please visit the Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum websit. |