ASSOCIATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDIES
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES STUDIES
The Association of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Studies organizes study sessions, which serve as a platform for the faculty and students of the ISS course to interact with one another. The study sessions also provide an opportunity for ISS course members to be updated on the latest developments in the field, including disciplines other than that of their own specialization. Details on the latest study session are as follows. As our study sessions are widely open to the public, researchers, graduate students and undergraduate students who are not formally enrolled in the ISS course are most welcome to join us.
- Date: July 3, 2014 (Wed.)
- Venue: Room 308, Building 2, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo (Please click here for a map)
- Title: "The Politics of Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea"
- Presenter: Kenneth Mori McElwain (Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science, University of Michigan)
Record of Recent Study Sessions
【2013】
The 2nd Session (July 3, 2013)
- Date: July 3, 2013 (Wed.)
- Title: Factors Enhancing Survival from the 3/11 Tsunami
- Presenter: Daniel P. Aldrich (Purdue University)
The 1st Session (May 29, 2013)
- Date: May 29, 2013 (Wed.)
- Title: The Politics of Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea
- Presenter: Jiyeoun Song (Oklahoma University)
【2012】
The 2nd Session (March 2, 2013)
- Date: March 2, 2013 (Sat.) 15:00-17:00
- Venue: Collaboration Room 1, Building 18, Komaba Campus, the University of Tokyo
- Title: “Political Science about Local Areas: Book Reviews”
- Presenter: Kentaro Yamamoto (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science); Yosuke Sunahara (Osaka City University); Hajime Kidera (Hokkai Gakuen University)
The 1st Session (February 16, 2013)
- Date: February 16, 2013 (Sat.)
- Title: International Relations and Public Philosophy
- Presenter: Naoshi Yamawaki (Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
【2011】
Third Session (27th January 2012)
- Title: Are East Asian Families Confucian?: East Asian Families in TV Dramas in China, Japan and Korea
- Presenter: Myung Koo Kang (Professor, Seoul National University; Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Second Session (17th January 2012)
- Title: The Environmental Ethics in the Era of Post-Fukushima: Beyond the Conflict between the Inter-generational Ethics and the Earth Ethics
- Presenter: Schuichi Kito (Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo)
First Session (11th December 2010)
- Title: The Initial Stage in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake: 3 days in the Tohoku Regional Development Bureau
- Presenter: Hideo Tokuyama (Director General of Tohoku Regional Development Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
【2010】
First Session (11th December 2010)
- Title: Regarding the book "Movements between political parties and the political system" by Yamamoto, Kentaro (Bokutakusha, 2010)
- Presenter: Yosuke Sunahara（Osaka City University）
Hajime Kidera（Hokkai Gakuen University）
【2009】
First Session (17th April 2009)
- Title: Regarding the book "The political economy of conservatism in the UK: Burke and Marx" by Nakazawa, Nobuhiko (Minervashobo, 2009)
- Presenter：Nobuhiko Nakazawa（Professor at Kansai University）
Record of Recent Study Sessions (continued)
【2008】
Fourth Session (5th March 2009)
- Title: Free Will of Hegel's Philosophy of Law
- Presenter: エミール・アンゲールン（Professor at the University of Basel）
Third Session (17th December 2008)
- Title: Political process of the implementation of trade treaties: Using trade friction with the People's Republic of China as a case study
- Presenter: Megumi Naoi（Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego)
Second Session (19th November 2008)
- Title: The turning point of equality in contemporary society
- Presenter: Akira Inoue（Assistant Professor of the ISS course of our department）
First Session (2nd June 2008)
- Title: On the Road with America’s Poor
- Presenter: キャス・ウェストン（Previously associate professor at Harvard University, currently a guest lecturer at the ISS course of our department）
【2007】
Second Session (14th December 2007)
- Title: Changes observed at the dining table: collapse of the family
- Presenter: Nobuko Iwamura（ASATSU-DK INC）
First Session (12th July 2007)
- Title: Public nursing care insurance scheme in Germany and Japan
- Presenter: Christian Oberländer（Professor at the University of Halle and guest lecturer at the ISS course of our department）
【2006】
Second Session (22nd November 2006)
- Title: Political restructuring during the lost decade: public investment and movements within political parties
- Presenter: Jun Saito（Guest assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Wesleyan University）
First Session (8th July 2006)
- Title: Our Future Economy: Money and Sustainability: The Missing Links
- Presenter: Stefan Brunnhuber（Universität Würzburg）
【2004】
First Session (8th July 2004)
- Title: Administration at the local level: as compared to administration at the national level
- Presenter: Tokihiro Nakamura（Mayor of Matsuyama City）
【2003】
Sixth Session (8th March 2004)）
- Topic of discussion: Issues in contemporary economics：From the sites of production and dissemination
- Presenters: Susumu Miyano（Owner of the Soba ・ Kaiseki restaurant, "Miyano"）
Toshihiro Wada（Owner of the Yakitori restaurant "Bird Land" in Ginza）
Fifth Session (20th February 2004)
- Title: Information society and freedom
- Presenter: Hiroki Azuma（Assistant Professor of the communications center at the International University of Japan・Chief researcher and reviewer）
Fourth Session (11th December 2003)
- Title: Changes in the political administration of Japan, as observed from the budget-making process: Questioning the popularly-held belief in the control of the budget by the Ministry of Finance
- Presenter: Masakatsu Okamoto（Manager of tax revenues at the Ministry of Home Affairs, Guest lecturer at the ISS course of our department）
Third Session (3rd July 2003)
- Title: Issues in modern-day China：from politics and the economy, to the society
- Presenter: 金熙徳（Professor at the Japan Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences・Chief of the foreign affairs research center; Guest lecturer at the ISS course of our department）
Second Session (23rd June 2003)
- Title: Residents' network in Setagaya district： Challenges faced by the social welfare association of Setagaya district
- Presenter: Hiroaki Kaneyasu（Social welfare association of Setagaya district）
First Session (16th June 2006)
- Title: Residents' network in Setagaya district：the case study of Hanegi Play Park
- Presenter: Hideaki Amano（Setagaya Volunteer Association）
Records of study sessions held before 2002 can be seen by clicking here.