{"id":29739,"date":"2024-02-19T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=29739"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:41:56","slug":"event-report-columbia-university-waseda-university-workshop-2023-future-directions-in-japanese-studies-environment-culture-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2024\/02\/19\/29739\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Report: Columbia University-Waseda University Workshop 2023 \u201cFuture Directions in Japanese Studies: Environment, Culture, and Society\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the support of Waseda University\u2019s Top Global University project\u00a0and in\u00a0collaboration with Columbia University<\/a>, a core partner of the Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, a public seminar and a workshop for graduate students were organized. This event was co-organized with the ‘ Humanities in the Anthropocene’ seminar series of the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study<\/a> and the ‘Environmental Humanities’ seminar series of the Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the past, the Global Japanese Studies Model Unit has implemented research and educational programs in response to current academic trends through its partnership with Columbia University. In this, the final year of the Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, seminars and workshops were organized around ‘environment’, an important theme in future Japanese studies, with the intention of broadening the scope of the graduate students’ research to include culture and society.<\/p>\n\n\t\t