This lecture explores Saudi Arabia’s dedication to strengthening its ICT infrastructure to protect businesses and individuals from cyber threats. The discussion includes the Kingdom’s initiatives to reassess its cybersecurity capabilities, its investments in a vision of a digitally secure economy, and a strategic framework to position itself as not only a regional leader but also a global pioneer in collective cybersecurity.

Zoom Webinar
Monday, 24 April 2024, 15:30-17:00 JST

Prof. Gordon will consider two meanings of “dark” in relation to history and heritage. First, the commemoration of shameful or tragic episodes in history. Second, the existence of little known and in some cases nearly hidden monuments which seek to commemorate this history. He will focus on a few among the surprisingly numerous monuments erected in Japan since the 1960s to mark the sites of coerced foreign labor and mourn the deaths of the laborers.

Zoom Webinar
Friday, 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:30 JST

This lecture follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, the lecture addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. This investigation into archival practice asks, what is the global archive, where is it cited, and who are ‘we’ as we cite it? His presentation draws from his new book, Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and its Migrant Histories (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

Zoom Webinar
Friday, 10 May 2024, 10:30-12:00 JST

Today, permafrost undergoes a remarkable revival. Journalists, scientists, citizens, and politicians — everyone appears to be invested in preventing the deterioration of this Arctic ground. But where was permafrost before? As an historian and specialist on the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Prof. Dullin is interested in discussing how Permafrost was invented as a scientific issue and, at the same time, how it was a natural and meaningful ground for the native communities living on it.

Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, 14 May, 2024, 16:30-18:00 JST

The modern world's international landscape is shaped by an investment in anthropological difference since the emergence of "Europe" in the early modern era. This lecture delves into the identity politics of whiteness, where individuals invest in European culture, Western civilization, and a race devoid of color. However, true belonging remains putative, only realized through contrast with the non-European, non-Western, and non-white.

Zoom Webinar
Friday, 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:30 pm JST

Tokyo College was born on February 1st, 2019. The top photo seen below was taken on that memorable day, and it depicts myself with Professor Tokura, who assumed his dual post with Tokyo College that day, as well as the International Strategy Group staff at the University Headquarters who helped with the tedious administrative work before and after the College’s birth.

HANEDA Masashi
24 March 2024

This blog post was created as part of the interdisciplinary zengaku seminar "Different Dimensions of Bilingualism" offered at the University of Tokyo during the 2023 academic year.

Lidiya SHAMOVA
6 April 2024

This blog post was created as part of the interdisciplinary zengaku seminar "Different Dimensions of Bilingualism" offered at the University of Tokyo during the 2023 academic year.

Lidiya SHAMOVA
6 April 2024

Tokyo College aims to generate new knowledge to contribute to the creation of an inclusive society and spark deeper public engagement with the University.