International Women’s Day Symposium “Understanding Feminist Movements Across Borders: Building Transnational Solidarity”
イベント予定シンポジウム/SymposiumFriday, 31 March 2023, 10:00-11:30 am
In honor of International Women’s Day, Tokyo College’s “Gender, Sexuality & Identity” collaborative research group will host a panel that will explore the role of translation in practices of transnational feminist solidarity. Panelists will discuss the recent protests in Iran for “Woman, Life, Freedom” as a case study for contemplating how women led movements may be translated into different contexts to facilitate multi-directional relationships of learning and solidarity.
Animals, Disasters, and Mountains: Rethinking Environmental Humanities (Prof. Haruo SHIRANE )
イベント予定講演会/LectureTuesday, 4 April 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm
What is the relationship of humans to animals and to mountains in Japanese culture? To natural disasters? How can these complex relationships help us generate an environmental ethics relevant to the present? Shirane proposes an “ecology of disaster, afterlives, and rebirth” as a means to rethink the relationship of the human to the non-human.
Japan’s Language Policy and Assumptions about Learner Identities: Promotion of English Language Teaching for Japanese and Japanese Language Teaching for Foreigners (ft. Dr Kayoko Hashimoto)
イベント予定ワークショップ/Workshop講演会/LectureMonday, 17 April 2023, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm (JST)
The embedded notion of the inseparable relationship between the nation, the language, and the people has shaped Japan’s language policy. In this talk, Dr.Kayoko Hashimoto (The University of Queensland) discusses how learners’ identity has been constructed in so-called “English education” in Japan and how learners’ identity has been assumed in the promotion of Japanese language teaching overseas.
Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed?
イベント予定講演会/LectureWednesday, 19 April 2023, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm JST
Is our language inundated by loanwords? Or is it being enriched by absorbing foreign vocabulary? We often hear such discussions in contemporary Japan. Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? explores the relationship between language and identity through an examination of public attitudes towards lexical borrowing in the Japanese language.