Student projects 2022 – Japanese Popular Culture & Tourism

This semester I’m getting my students to post their final project videos on YouTube (again); that way, they have to think about a prospective audience when creating their content (of course, they’ve been instructed – and repeatedly reminded – not to post any personal information & be careful about copyrighted material). I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with. For most of them, the deadline is next week (mid-January), so you won’t find too many videos just yet, but here are the channel links: Japanese Popular Cultures 2022 – Student projects  Tourism and Local Cultures 2022 (Spring semester) & 2022 (Fall semester) – Student projects     

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Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

The inaugural issue of the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists is out now, and it’s open access. I have really been looking forward to reading this! I’ll probably write more on it once I have a chance to read it all, but for now, here’s the link: Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – 1st issue. And in case you want to submit an article (I hope to do so in the near future!), here is the PDF with the Author Instructions (Brill).

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‘Philosophy beyond Boundaries’, The 25th World Congress of Philosophy

Sapienza University will host the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in 2024 (Aug. 1-8) – ‘Philosophy beyond Boundaries.’ CfP: to be announced Here are the thematic sessions (as per their Facebook page, because no other formal announcement has been posted as of now): ⦁ Aesthetics and philosophies of art⦁ African philosophy⦁ Africana philosophy⦁ Bioethics and medical ethics⦁ Buddhist philosophy⦁ Chinese philosophy⦁ Christian philosophy⦁ Comparative, intercultural, and cross-cultural philosophy⦁ Confucian philosophy⦁ Contemporary philosophy⦁ Daoist philosophy⦁ East Asian and South-East Asian philosophies⦁ Economic philosophy and business ethics⦁ Environmental philosophy and sustainability⦁ Ethics⦁ Ethics of artificial intelligence⦁ Experimental philosophy⦁ Feminist philosophy⦁ Game theory⦁ Gender and queer philosophy⦁ Greek, Roman, and Byzantine philosophy⦁ History of analytic philosophy⦁ History of philosophy⦁ Human rights⦁ Indian philosophies⦁ Intersectionality⦁ Islamic philosophy⦁ Italian philosophical traditions⦁ Jewish philosophy⦁ Latin-American philosophy⦁ Logic and philosophy of logic⦁ Marxist philosophy⦁ Medical humanities and philosophy of medicine⦁ Medieval philosophy⦁ Metaethics⦁ Metaphilosophy⦁ Metaphysics⦁ Mystical traditions in philosophy⦁ Moral psychology⦁ Ontology⦁ Phenomenology and existential philosophy⦁ Philosophical counseling and practices⦁ Hermeneutics⦁ Philosophical issues about race⦁ Philosophical anthropology⦁ Philosophy, film, and TV series⦁ Philosophy of education⦁ Philosophy and literature⦁ Philosophy and popular culture⦁ Philosophy and oral traditions⦁ Philosophy and psychoanalysis⦁ Philosophy with children⦁ Philosophy of action⦁ Philosophy of

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JAPANESE STUDIES NEWS [July 2019]

A new restoration of Yasujiro Ozu’s silent comedy 突貫小僧 Tokkan Kozō (1929, “A Straightforward Boy”) will be streaming on Le Cinéma Club for a few days, until July 25th.  On July 27th, Tōyō University’s Inoue Enryō Research Centre (Hakusan Campus) will hold a mini-conference on the early reception of Western philosophy in Japan, 明治期の西洋哲学の受容と『哲学雑誌』(13:00~15:00). Link here. 

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Black dots

You’re but black dots, unthreatening and bland. Yet I step closer, and then I start to shiver. I’m making out the contours of a black gas mask, and then another. And another. Under the suffocating, eerie tick-tock of the clocks, you’re trying to catch your breath. You’re now in thousands, time ticking you right by. You’re running out of air, you’re running out of time. Yet to our naked, urban eye, you’re nothing but a black dot in a row. We check on you from time to time, during our annual remembrance season; but then you blend again into the disconnected worlds inside our phones.  That’s it. You’re back to being but black dots in an uncanny row. (A.M., January 2019) *** Hirakawa Kota, Black Colour Timer, 2016-2017 (acrylic, glass primer and oil on radio-controlled clocks).  ‘Catastrophe and the power of art’, Mori Art Museum, 2019

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