{"id":9114,"date":"2018-11-16T12:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2018-11-17T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T06:06:55","slug":"%e3%80%90sign-up-period-nov-15-nov-26-900am%e3%80%91tokyo-medical-and-dental-university-waseda-icc-english-discussion-cafe-lets-talk-about-lgbt-issues-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/news\/2018\/11\/16\/9114\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Sign Up Period: Nov 15-Nov 26, 9:00AM\u3011Tokyo Medical and Dental University &#038; Waseda ICC English Discussion Cafe &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about LGBT issues!&#8221; (Dec.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/11\/25ba873fa70154243d603b2bf0959fd6.pdf\">Poster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In ICC English Discussion Cafe, a diversity of people who are from different undergraduate or graduate schools,nationalities, and cultural backgrounds gather up and have the opportunity to discuss about particular issues in English.<br \/>\nFor this semester, our collaboration event with Tokyo Medical and Dental University will be on the theme of LGBT.<\/p>\n<p>How familiar are you with LGBT (one of the general terms that stands for sexual minorities)?<br \/>\nIn fact, it has been told that there is as many LGBT people as the same percentage of left-handed people, people with AB blood type, even the population of Kanagawa prefecture, and higher than the total number of people whose last name is \u201cSato\u30fbSuzuki\u30fbTakahashi\u30fbTanaka\u201d.<br \/>\nLGBT has been featured in the media lately, nonetheless, the reality in Japan is that there exists no legal framework to protect the rights of the LGBT people.<\/p>\n<p>In this Discussion Cafe, we will discuss about the reality of sexual minorities and especially how the people is suffering from the discrimination and prejudices.<br \/>\nIt will be a perfect occasion to rethink about our unconscious bias and learn how can we take an action against that.<\/p>\n<p>Since students from various fields from both university is attending, you will have a chance to glance at unexpected ideas and values.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t need professional knowledge regarding the topic, nor fluency in English.<br \/>\nIf you want to practice expressing your thoughts in English, or discuss interesting topics with students from other universities, then please come and join the ICC English Discussion Cafe!<\/p>\n<h5>Date &amp; Time<\/h5>\n<p>December 1 (Sat), 2018, 1:00-3:00pm<\/p>\n<h5>Program<\/h5>\n<h6>1:00-1:15pm<\/h6>\n<p>Icebreaker &amp; Self Introduction<\/p>\n<h6>1:15-3:00pm<\/h6>\n<p>Discussion<\/p>\n<h5>Place<\/h5>\n<p>Tokyo Medical Dental and Dental University, Yushima Campus M&amp;D Tower (4th floor)<\/p>\n<h5>Eligibility<\/h5>\n<p>Waseda Students<\/p>\n<h5>Language<\/h5>\n<p>English<\/p>\n<h5>Cost<\/h5>\n<p>Free!<\/p>\n<h5>Registration<\/h5>\n<p>Via MyWaseda: <a href=\"https:\/\/my.waseda.jp\/application\/detail\/application-detail?communityContentLinkId=191851732\">https:\/\/my.waseda.jp\/application\/detail\/application-detail?communityContentLinkId=220748064<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Deadline<\/h5>\n<p>November 26 (Mon) 9:00am<\/p>\n<h5>Capacity<\/h5>\n<p>Limited to 30 Students. \u203bA lottery will be held if this limit is exceeded. Successful participants will be notified by mail on the application deadline day.<\/p>\n<h5>Inquiries<\/h5>\n<p>ICC\u3000Tel: 03-5286-3990\u00a0 E-mail: icc-cafe@list.waseda.jp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poster In ICC English Discussion Cafe, a diversity of people who are from different undergraduate or graduate  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[82,132],"class_list":["post-9114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-events-en","tag-talk-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/icc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}