​Event Schedule

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: “Reinhabiting This Planet: ‘Planetarity’ in Gary Snyder”

Saturday, 27 November 2021, 10-11AM JST

Speaker: Yamazato Katsunori (Professor of English,  Meio Univeristy)

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: "Breaking Noh: Ishimure Michiko’s 'Shiranui' as Activism Against Tradition”

Saturday, 11 December 2021, 10-11AM JST

Speaker: Sara Newsome (Fulbright scholar / PhD student, UC Irvine)