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.
Mary Wollstonecraft: An English Woman Observing and Writing the History of the French Revolution (Prof. Pierre SERNA)
イベント予定講演会/LectureMonday, 27 February 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm
The general public is more familiar with Mary Wollstonecraft’s daughter Mary Shelley, who imagined Frankenstein as a monstrous metaphor of modernity. Historians are also aware that Mary Wollstonecraft died giving birth to Mary Shelley.
However, among scholars, the two texts of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Men as a response to Edmund Burke and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, are of foremost importance. In this lecture, I will introduce another less-known and long-depreciated text titled An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution; and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe. I intend to show that it is one of the first great histories of the French Revolution, proposing a new narrative and a new historiographic epistemology.
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.
“The Future of Higher Education” #7 Regional Collaboration to Promote “Knowledge Diplomacy”
イベント予定対話/DialogueWednesday, 1 March 2023, 10:00 am - 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.
Discussion Forum “The Future of Higher Education”
イベント予定パネルディスカッション/Panel discussionWednesday, 8 March 2023, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm JST
Challenges that both concern and span the globe, such as those indicated by the SDGs, are drawing increasing attention, and the problems resulting from pandemics and economic turmoil have grown more significant. Many of these challenges become apparent as they come in contact with issues at the local and regional level. Rather than attempting to solve individual challenges, however, more fundamental, forward-thinking social transformations are required. In this discussion forum, we explore what social responsibilities universities should fulfill in these circumstances with a special focus on the impact on knowledge production. The forum will also summarize the contents of “The Future of Higher Education” dialogue series held by Tokyo College over seven sessions from December 2022 to March 2023.