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Special Lectures in 2022

These lectures/seminars are specially designed for AFLSP scholars. The purpose is to help understand the diversity of cultures and consider international issues, especially relevant to East Asia. Usually a scholar is asked to join all special lectures. Who missed a special lecture (with a strong reason) can take a Special Seminar or to propose an alternative seminar (approval by the committee is required).

The 5th: “Modern”“Japanese” “Art”in Kyoto: Collection, Exhibitions, and Debates

  • Date: Jan 28 (Sat), 2022
  • Time (Tokyo Time, UTC+9): 14:00-16:30 (13:45 open, 14:00-15:30 lecture, 15:30-16:30 discussion)
  • Lecturer: Ms. Xiangming Chen (Oxford University)
  • Venue: Room 201, Higashiichijo-Kan, Kyoto University (access)
  • Abstract: This talk introduces several major art museums in Kyoto and their collections. Tracing their histories, the talk maps out key debates and movements in visual arts and museum studies in Japan through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which struggled to define three important concepts and their relationships with other categories: “modern” (“traditional”), “Japanese” (“Western”, “Asian”), and “art” (“craft”, “technology”, “religion”). The talk also invites the audience to think about some of the questions that emerged with artistic modernization in Japan and the rest of Asia: What happens when a private collection becomes open for public viewing? How to build a modern space to host and display old artefacts, particularly those taken out of their original cultural or religious context? What is the relationship between the artistic trend of the present and the artistic tradition of the past? Is there or should there be a clearly defined line between the aesthetic and the functional? Is art national, regional, or personal?
  • Flyer: 20230128-flyer.pdf

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The 4th: Rakugo in English

  • Date: Nov 19 (Sat), 2022
  • Time (Tokyo Time, UTC+9): 14:00-15:30
  • Venue): Room 201, Higashiichijo-Kan, Kyoto University (access)
  • Flyer: 20221119-flyer-final.pdf
  • Live: The Zoom link to the live session (viewing only) will be uploaded two days before the event (i.e., Nov 17).
  • Link: article by Sayohime

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The 3rd: Digital Society, China, and Future Japan-China Relations

  • Date: July 16 (Sat), 2022
  • Time (Tokyo Time, UTC+9): lecture 14:00-15:30 + Q&A (max 1 hour)
  • Venue (on site!): 112 Meeting Room, Higashiichijo-Kan, Kyoto University (access)
  • Speaker: Mr. Hideo Natsume
  • Abstract: I will talk about my studies on how China has changed into digital society in these years, China Capital to support the Internet industries, and how should Japan gets along with China in the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China.
  • Flyer: 20220716-flyer.pdf

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The 2nd: Reading Intl. Affairs with Info. Wisdom Theory

  • Date: June 25 (Sat), 2022
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (Tokyo Time, UTC+9)
  • Venue (on site!): Room 112/113, Higashiichijo-Kan, Kyoto University (access)
  • Speaker: Dr. Liang Zhao
  • Assoc. Prof. with Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University
  • Detail: From a discussion with information entropy on the difference between nature and life, this lecture tries to explain the two sides, i.e., disorder and order, of life, human society, and international affairs.
  • Flyer: 20220625-flyer.pdf

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The 1st: Tanka in English

  • Date: April 16 (Sat), 2022
  • Time: 14:00-15:30, April 16, 2022 (Tokyo Time, UTC+9), on Zoom
  • Guest speaker: Ms. Haruka Suzuki Instagram
  • Short profile of Ms. Suzuki: Tanka Poet, Tanka Fanzine "SUIKA" Core Member, TOU TANKA-KAI Editing Committee Member
  • Moderator: Prof. Liang Zhao
  • Title: Tanka - The World described by 31 syllables
  • Detail (registration required)

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