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Center for Intercultural Studies

This institute is one of the bases for research and educational activities related to cultural exchange.

The main activities carried out here include the collection and use of advanced research materials on cultural exchange and comparative culture, research groups related to a variety of specific academic projects, and planning and editing work for advancing original publishing projects.

The Institute will inherit the outstandingly successful work and valuable collection of books established under Honorary Chairperson Hideka Fukui at the Anglo-Norman Institute, and will serve as a base for further expanding the scope of research into cultural exchange.

Research and Exchange Activities

Symposium

  • International Symposium "Japan from the Perspective of Pop Culture" March 2024
  • International Symposium "Interpersonal, Cultural and Regional Exchange through Coffee" March 2023
  • International Symposium "Cultural Inheritance in Content Tourism" March 2022
  • International Symposium "The Current State of Experiential Events in the COVID-19 Era" March 2021
  • International Symposium "Considering Urban Spaces during the Occupation: How to Preserve Memory" November 2019
  • International Symposium "Why teach manga in schools? - The case of Japan and Asia" December 2018
  • International Symposium "Studying Abroad by Western-style Painters in the Early Meiji Era and Japonism in France" December 2017
  • International Symposium "Cultural Studies of Animation - Japan and France" November 2016
  • International Symposium "Exchanges between Japan and France in Literature and Art - The Tronquoy Collection and its Surroundings, Part 2" November 2015
  • International Symposium "Adaptation and Penetration of Japanese and French Manga Culture" November 2014
  • International Symposium "Exchange of Japanese and French Literature and Art" November 2013
  • International Symposium "Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 1930s" October 2012
  • International Symposium "Translating/Comparing Poetry" November 2011
  • International Symposium "A Comparative History of East Asian Literature" July and November 2010
  • International Symposium "Tradition and Modernity in East Asia" February 2010
  • International Symposium "Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 1920s" November 2009
  • International Forum "A Country So Close Yet So Far Away - From Seoul and Beijing" November 2008

Kids Seminar

2023

  • Kids English Seminar
  • Kids Design Seminar
  • Kids Animation Seminar

Book Translation

  • "The last one standing"
  • "George Eliot in Conversation with Milton"
  • "Victorian Historical Novel"

Public Lectures

  • 2023 "Otemae University Lecture"
  • 2017-2019 "Otemae University Cultural Exchange Lecture Series"
  • 2016 "Otemae University Cultural Lecture"
  • 2013-2015 "Otemae University Literary Lecture Series"
  • 2011 "Otemae University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Literature Open Lectures"
  • 2010 "Otemae University Faculty of Arts and Sciences New Literature Course Open Lecture"

Research Series

  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 19 Coffee/Cafe Culture and the Hanshin Area" March 2024
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 18 Content Tourism and Cultural Heritage" December 2022
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 17: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Experience-Based Events" January 2022
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 16: Considering Urban Areas during the Occupation" November 2020
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 15 Why teach manga in schools?" November 2019
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 14: Study Abroad of Western-style Painters in the Early Meiji Era and Japonism in France" February 2019
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 13: Cultural Theory of Japanese and French Animation" November 2017
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 12: Revival of Edo Culture" March 2016
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 11: Exchange between Japanese and French Manga" March 2015
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 10: Exchanges in Japanese and French Literature and Art" March 2014
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 9 Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 1930s" May 2013
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 8: Comparative Poetics and Cultural Translation" July 2012
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 7: Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 1920s II" June 2011
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 6: Cultural Exchange in East Asia in the 1920s" March 2010
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 5: Hanshin Cultural Theory" April 2008
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 4: East and West in Natsume Soseki" March 2007
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 3: Victorian Britain and East Asia" April 2006
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 2: Comparative Culture of Visual Arts" April 2004
  • "Otemae University Comparative Cultural Studies Series 1: Tanizaki Junichiro and the End of the Century" April 2002