Continuing from Part 1. of 2. 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. How to Teach…
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. Dr. Lidiya Shamova（Instructor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College） What does…
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,…
By LI Chunyan, Laur KIIK, Cintia KOZONOI VEZZANI Continuing from Part 1. of Behind the Scenes with UT7 and Tokyo College. Dialogue 5 Speaker IGARASHI Kiyohiko (Professor, Department of Biomaterial Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and…
by LI Chunyan, Laur KIIK, Cintia KOZONOI VEZZANI “UT1,000! That may be our new name one day!” This was the answer that Noji sensei gave us when we asked about the story behind the name UT7—the…
Authors: Trent Brown, Kaori Mita, Jesse Rafeiro, Laur Kiik, Cecilia Grandi-Nagashiro The global sustainability challenge requires processes of collective learning. In short, we, as a species, need to learn to do things differently. But are dominant…
The word feminism is extremely difficult to define because it has been theorized, discussed, and practiced in many different ways. I’ve also learned since coming to Japan that “feminism” can be equally as hard to…
I am going to talk today about my relationship to Japan and Japanese literature. The talk will have two parts. The first part will deal with some key experiences related to my encounter with Japanese literature….
I would like to say that my time at Tokyo College was by far the most exciting and productive of all the research appointments in my career. My field is premodern Japanese literature and culture, with…
