Events Contemporary Global Challenges: Reflections from Politics, Sociology, and Philosophy

We live in a precarious, globally entangled world. Academics can no longer remain in ivory towers as mere theoreticians oblivious to the contemporary contexts we all live in. In this workshop, we gather three academics who reflect on contemporary political issues from theoretical perspectives. The aim of the workshop is to engage academics in discussing contemporary issues from their own theoretical backgrounds. The theme is deliberately broad to foster discussions among thinkers from different academic backgrounds.

15:30-15:40 Welcome and Remark on the Workshop: Director of NIRC, Prof. Dr. Nozomu Yamada

15:40-17:00 Presentations

Prof. Dr. Christian Volk, Department of Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin

“Migrant Protest as a Politics of Personhood”

Prof. Dr. Johanna Hoerning, Department of Sociology, Technical University, Berlin

“Dividing the World: Spatial Binaries in Global Perspective"

Prof. Dr. Nobuo Kazashi, Department of Philosophy, Emeritus Kobe University and Hiroshima City University

“Robots and Ghosts -Imaginary Bodies and the “Real” Hidden in Postwar Japan: Re-reading S. Tsurumi’s Postwar Manga-Thought”

17:00-18:00 Final Discussion

Moderation and Comments: Dr. Yoko Arisaka, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture

Contact (for the Zoom link):

Dr. Enrico Fongaro; fongaro@nanzan-u.ac.jp

Dr. Yoko Arisaka: arisaka@nanzan-u.ac.jp