NANZAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES Volume 41 (2019): 75-80
Activities of the Center for American Studies, 2019
[Activities Mainly Sponsored by the Center for American Studies]
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Date: January 25th, 2019 Time: 17:15―19:15
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Kikuchi Masao (Former Professor, Nanzan University / Emeritus Professor, Mie-Chukyo University)
Title: Political Thought of Communitarian Etzioni as a Public Intellectuals
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Commemorative Event Welcoming Guests from the U.S. Embassy and Consulate Nagoya
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsor: Nagoya American Studies Association Date: June 6th, 2019 Time: 17:00―18:30
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q Speaker: Paul Finkelman (President & Professor, Gratz College)
Frank Ravitch (Professor, Michigan State University) Title: The American Constitution at 230 years
Carolyn Glassman
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Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsors: Graduate School of International Area Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: December 7th, 2019 Time: 14:00―18:30 Venue: Room R49, 4th Floor, Building R
Speaker: Uesugi Shinobu (Emeritus Professor, Yokohama City University) Title: United States of America, from the View Point of Protesting
African Americans in the Rural South: Why and How I wrote my Paul Finkelman
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Uesugi Shinobu
Araki Wakako
Commemorative Photo
Yui Daizaburo
[Activities Co-sponsored by the Center for American Studies]
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Faculty of Global Liberal Studies
Joint Sponsors: Center for American Studies and Graduate School of International Area Studies
Date: January 15th, 2019 Time: 17:00―18:30 Venue: Room Q504, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Kubo Fumiaki (Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School for Law and Politics)
Title: A Perspective for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Kubo Fumiaki View of lecture meeting
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Graduate School of International Area Studies Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Date: November 9th, 2019 Time: 15:00―17:00 Venue: Flatten Hall, 1st Floor, Building R
Speaker: Watanabe Yasushi (Professor, Keio University)
[Regular Meetings of the Nagoya American Studies Association]
Regular Meeting in April
Date: April 27th, 2019 Time: 14:00―16:30
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Shimizu Ippei (Completed master’s program at Aichi Gakuin University Graduate School of Letters, Department of History, an office worker)
Title: Eisenhower Administration and West German Rearmament Issue: Based on Recent Research Trends
Speaker: Yamazaki Yushi (Part-time lecturer, Aichi Prefectural University and Kinjo Gakuin University)
Title: Internationalism and the Politics of Solidarity in the History of Social Movements in the Japanese Immigrant Community: Focusing on the Trajectory of Karl Yoneda
Regular Meeting in December and General Meeting of the Academic Year 2019
Date: December 7th, 2019 Time: 10:15―12:30 Venue: Room R49, 4th Floor, Building R
Speaker: Kirimura Chisako (Graduate of Master’s program of Graduate School of International Area Studies, Nanzan University)
Title: Historical Significance of the Underground Railroad: From Abolitionism to Modern American Racism
Commentator: Uesugi Shinobu (Emeritus Professor, Yokohama City University)