Symposium ”Asian Cities and the Human-Centered Society”
イベント予定シンポジウム/Symposium共催/Joint EventTuesday, 31 January 2023, 10:00 am - 1:30 pm JST
This symposium discusses the trajectory of human-centered society development in Asia through interdisciplinary and transnational dialogues. To what extent can technology support human-centered approaches to urban living? Does the trajectory for human-centered society development address human interests, values, and well-being, or simply the technology itself? Where are cultural, societal, and heritage values situated within this trajectory?
“The Future of Higher Education” #4 Nelson Mandela University in its Context
イベント予定対話/DialogueWednesday, 1 February 2023, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Higher education around the world is experiencing vast changes in its multiple environments as a result of numerous factors, including globalization, shifts in the boundary conditions of truth, the effects of technology, geopolitical uncertainties, and calls for ‘decolonisation’. This seminar series explores the impact of these factors on the future of higher education.
Language and Identity Workshop I: Theory and Methods of Linguistic Identity
イベント予定ワークショップ/WorkshopFebruary 2, 2023 18:30-19:30 JST
In this workshop, we are aiming to present up-to-date approaches to linguistic identity and multilingualism. Focusing on linguistic identity as emerged through various forms of natural speech, we will discuss how transnationalism, migration, pandemic, and digital communication affect linguistic identities.
Transpositioning: A New Take on Translanguaging and Identities (ft. Prof. LI Wei)
イベント予定ワークショップ/Workshop講演会/LectureThursday, 2 February 2023, 17:30 - 18:30 JST
This talk extends the concept of translanguaging by looking at transitional mutilinguals’ journey of 'transpositioning,' a process where people break from their pre-set or prescribed roles and switch perspectives with others through communicative practices such as translanguaging and transmodalities.
The UK’s Indo-Pacific Tilt: What Changed in 2022? (Lecture by Prof. Alastair MORGAN)
イベント予定講演会/LectureFriday, 3 February 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm
In 2021, the British Government announced and put in train a ‘tilt to the Indo-Pacific’ in defence, security, development and foreign policy. How has this fared in 2022, in the face of developments including political turmoil and economic difficulties in the UK, and the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Life Support: Youth, Life and Viability in Rural North India (Lecture and film screening)
イベント予定講演会/LectureWednesday, 8 February 2023, 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Craig Jeffrey and Associate Professor Jane Dyson will show how young people in rural Uttarakhand, north India, attempt to make viable lives as they respond to environmental and socio-economic crises and engage in everyday social action. They will also screen Professor Dyson’s documentary film Spirit, which explores related themes.
“The Future of Higher Education” #5 Realizing the Democratic Mission of Universities in a Time of Global Crisis
イベント予定対話/DialogueWednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:00-11:00 am
Higher education around the world is experiencing vast changes in its multiple environments as a result of numerous factors, including globalization, shifts in the boundary conditions of truth, the effects of technology, geopolitical uncertainties, and calls for ‘decolonisation’. This seminar series explores the impact of these factors on the future of higher education.
“The Future of Higher Education” #6 The Politics of Knowledge and the Imperative of Decolonization: Reflections from Africa
イベント予定対話/DialogueWednesday, 15 February 2023, 3:00-4:00 pm
Higher education around the world is experiencing vast changes in its multiple environments as a result of numerous factors, including globalization, shifts in the boundary conditions of truth, the effects of technology, geopolitical uncertainties, and calls for ‘decolonisation’. This seminar series explores the impact of these factors on the future of higher education.
Affective (Kansei) Robotics in Japan: Designing and Programming Gender and Emotions in Humanoid Robots (ft. Prof. Jennifer ROBERTSON)
イベント予定講演会/LectureMonday, 20 February 2023, 4:00-5:30 PM
A number of humanoid robots in Japan have been supplied with gender and emotions, qualities that are stereotyped and greatly simplified in order to create algorithms. Artificial intelligence (AI), which is comprised of numerous algorithms, is useful for tasks that rely on pattern recognition, but AI can also perpetuate and reproduce the everyday social biases of their human designers. In this presentation, Prof. Jennifer Robertson discusses these robots and the implications that their design has for other industries, including surveillance.
Exploring the Changing Perceptions of Masculinity in Asia and Beyond through the Lens of Sociolinguistics (ft. Dr. HIRAMOTO Mie)
イベント予定ワークショップ/Workshop講演会/LectureWednesday, 1 March 2023, 15:00-16:00
In this presentation, Dr. HIRAMOTO Mie explores the changing ideas of masculinity in Asia and beyond through the lens of sociolinguistics. She focuses on the relationships between sociocultural stereotypes and masculinity ideologies, as well as the ways in which genre, style, and medium shape our understanding of these concepts. Drawing mainly on Agha’s works, the theoretical concepts of mediatization and enregisterment, as well as figures of personhood, will be employed in the analysis of three case studies.