Aoyama Gakuin University
2021 Event Calendar
Online Talk#1: “Waste and Prayer”
Saturday, 17 April 2021, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: YUKI Masami (Professor, literature and environment, AGU)
Online Talk#2: “Boundary and Veil”
Saturday, 15 May 2021, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: TORIGOE Keiko (Professor, soundscape studies and design, AGU)
Online Talk#3: “Animals in the Forest and Anthropological Manga”
Saturday, 17 July 2021, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: OKUNO Katsumi (Professor, anthropology, Rikkyo University)
Online Talk#4: “Pattern as Narrative: The Structure of Botanical Stories”
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 6-7PM JST
Speakers: Elin McCready (Professor, AGU) and Elis Ottosson (U. Gothenburg / HDK Steneby)
Online Book Discussion: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Thursday, 19 August2021, 10-11AM JST
Commentators: ASO Erika (Professor, AGU), NAKAGAWA Tomoko (Professor, University of the Sacred Heart)
Online Talk#5: “How to Be in This Crisis: Reexamining Gary Snyder’s Reinhabitation”
Saturday, 27 November 2021, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: YAMAZATO Katsunori (Professor, American literature, Meio University)
Online Talk#6: “Mapping the Planetary”
Saturday, 27 November 2021, 11-12AM JST
Speaker: SHIMIZU Miki (PhD student, Literature and Environment, AGU)
Online Talk#7:“The Body in Ishimure Michiko's Modern Nō Plays”
Saturday, 11 December 2021, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: Sara Newsome (Fulbright scholar / PhD student, UC Irvine)
Online Talk#8: “"Time of the Earth: Reconsidering Walter Scott from an Environmental Perspective, 250 Years Later"”
Saturday, 29 January 2022, 10-11AM JST
Speaker: MATSUI Yuko (Professor, British Literature, AGU)