AY2024: The Faculty of Letters in Exchange
6/1/2024
Globalizing Literary Studies: The World of Gulliver’s Travels Begins in Japan
Rintaro Goyama (Japanese Literature) × Noriyuki Harada (English and American Literature)
Moderator: Satoshi Katsunuma (Asian History)
6/15/2024
The Intersection of Emotions and Fluid Language: Psychology × Ethics × Narrative
Kyoko Ishida (Ethics) × Yuri Terasawa (Psychology)
Moderator: Yusuke Wakazawa (English and American Literature)
AY2023: The Faculty of Letters Beyond Borders
6/10/2023
The Path to the Japanese Archipelago: Rethinking the First Inhabitants of Japan
Reiko Kono (Natural Sciences) and Takashi Nara (Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Physical Anthropology)
Moderator: Takehiko Watanabe (Folklore and Archaeology)
6/24/2023
How Do We See the World: Thinking Through Art
Eiichiro Hirata (German Literature) × Shinsuke Niikura (Keio University Art Center, Art History)
Moderator: Koji Usada (Psychology)
7/1/2023
Books and Letters Transcend Time and Space
Ryuichi Hotta (English and American Literature) x Mari Agata (Library and Information Science)
Moderator: Koji Mineshima (Philosophy)
AY2022: The Faculty of Letters in Dialogue
6/11/2022
Dialogue with the Western Middle Ages
Shiro Yamauchi (Ethics) and Tadaaki Kanzaki (Western History).
Moderated by Koji Mineshima (Philosophy).
6/25/2022
Dialogue between Psychology and Education on Language
Yasuyo Minagawa (Psychology) × Fukutaro Watanabe (Education)
Moderator: Sayaka Suga (Human Sciences)
7/2/2022
From a Place Not to Be Named: The Sisterhood and Modernity
Yuko Nakamura (Faculty of Letters alumna, writer, filmmaker) × Hisayo Ogushi (English and American Literature)
Moderator: Yukari Kato (English and American Literature)
AY2021: The Faculty of Letters in Inquiry
Online video
East and West, Science and Philosophy: On “Nature”
Mario Kumekawa (German Literature) and Sosuke Yoshinaga (Chinese Literature).
Moderated by Senri Tanaka (Philosophy).
Online video
Antiquity as a Different Culture
Touta Kirimoto (Asian History) x Makoto Fujimoto (Japanese History)
Moderated by Takashi Hasegawa (Western History)
Online video
Touching Distant Hearts: Clinical Anthropology of Distance Counseling
Kaito Towhata (Clinical Psychology, Jumonji University) x Junko Kitanaka (Human Sciences)
Moderator: Sayaka Suga (Human Sciences)
AY2020: New Encounters Through the Faculty of Letters
Online video
Philosophy Meets Life Sciences
Keisuke Saito (Philosophy) and Naoki Sato (The University of Tokyo Professor Emeritus, Life Sciences)
Moderator: Senri Tanaka (Philosophy)
Online video
Encounters Through the Classics
Tooru Ishikawa (Japanese Literature) x Peter Macmillan (Lecturer, University of Tokyo and others)
Moderator: Sakurako Inoue (French Literature)
Online video
Examining Nazism
Akiko Shimizu (Western History) x Hidefumi Tsuji (Modern German History, Faculty of Sustainability Studies, Hosei University)
Moderator: Takashi Hasegawa (Western History)
*The affiliations and titles of speakers reflect those held at the time of the lecture.