Celebrating the Genius of Michio Miyagi

IMJS: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives
cordially invites you to the Concert Marking the 60th Anniversary of the Death of Michio Miyagi (1894-1956)

Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 7:30PM
Celebrating the Genius of Michio Miyagi

Merkin Concert Hall
KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER
129 West 67th Street
New York, NY 10023

Free and open to the public but please register here or go to http://medievaljapanesestudies.org.

 

PROGRAM
Michio Miyagi, Rondon no yoru no ame (A Night of Rain in London)
Michio Miyagi, Sashisou hikari (Confluent Rays of Light)
Michio Miyagi, Ochiba no odori (Dance of Fallen Leaves)
Michio Miyagi, Seoto (Song of a Stream)
Minoru Miki, Hanayagi (The Greening)
Tadao Sawai, Tori no youni (Like a Bird)
Dai Fujikura, Cutting Sky
Michio Miyagi, Haru no umi (The Sea in Spring)

[in the order of appearance]
Satomi Fukami (koto)
Reikano Kimura (koto & shamisen)
Sumie Kaneko (koto)
Yumi Kurosawa (bass koto & 20-string koto)
Masayo Ishigure (koto)
Stephanie Griffin (viola)
James Nyoraku Schlefer (shakuhachi)

Supported by Toshiba International Foundation, Ajinomoto North America, Inc., and the Japan Foundation, New York

and save the date for our Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Musical Instruments

Sunday, April 2, 2017, 4:00PM

Miller Theatre
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
New York, NY 10027Free and open to the public. Registration is to open later.

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International Conference of Undergraduate Research:

International Conference of Undergraduate Research at Baruch College

in Room H-620 in BCTC in the Baruch Library, 151 E. 25th Street, 6th floor

 

Day one – Tuesday 27 September 2016
Time (Baruch, USA) Event – Baruch College
07:30 – 08:00 Registration
08:00 – 09:30 Session 8C – Warwick, Leeds & Baruch
09:30 – 11:00 Session 9B – Warwick & Baruch
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:30 – 13:00 Session 10B – Warwick  & Baruch
  BREAK
17:30 – 18:30 Session A – Monash Australia & Baruch
18:30 – 19:30 Session B – Monash Australia & Baruch

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FROM 8:00-9:30 AM

Theme:  Aging, Health, and New Technologies

 

Speaker 1:  Nicholas Miller (English, French & History, University of Warwick, UK) “Remember this? The issues and advantages of social media as a historical source for memory studies”

 

Speaker 2: Nikita Lai (Medicine, University of Leeds, UK) “Pediatric Meningitis Treatment: Audit 2015”

 

Speaker 3: Seonghee (Joy) Park (Biochemistry, Hunter College/Baruch College) “Generation of a Novel Mouse Model for the Study of Cisplatin Resistant Bladder Cancer”

 

Speaker 4: Stephanie King (Psychology, Baruch College) “The Relation between Theory of Mind and Socio-Emotional Functioning in a Sample of Older Adults”

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FROM 9:30-11:00 AM

Theme:  Attitudes and Experiences

 

Speaker 1:  Eleanor Kerfoot (History, University of Warwick, UK) “Presley Admirers: ‘Delinquent’ Girls in Cold War Germany”

 

Speaker 2: Ma Su Su Aung (Biological Sciences, Baruch College) “Elimination of the pro-apototic pretein Bak effects free-radical production in mitochondria”

 

Speaker 3: Yu Shing (Jason) Hung (Sociology, University of Warwick, UK) “How many more can we take?: The impact of discriminatory media coverage on refugee and asylum seeker experiences in Coventry”

 

Speaker 4: Brianna Vernoia (Psychology, Baruch College) “Obstacles to Habitual Exercise and Mindfulness”

 

COFFEE BREAK AND DIGITAL POSTER SESSION 11:00-11:30 AM

Digital posters will be on view from students at international participating universities, including the following Baruch students

Ishrath Ahmed (Political Science), “Why does India Choose to be a Nuclear State?”

Rachel Parroco (Psychology), “Life Seems Harder When You Haven’t Slept Well”

Alanna McAuliffe (English), “Differences v. Disabilities: Emerging Perspectives on Neurodiversity”

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FROM 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Theme:  Popular Opinion & Changing Cultures

 

Speaker 1:  Monika Jankowski (History/Psychology, Baruch College) “Popular Culture in 1970s and 1980s Poland”

 

Speaker 2: Yustyna Yaremchuk (Finance, Baruch College) “Do Millennial College students at an urban, non-residential university believe that there is a link between material wealth and happiness?”

 

Speaker 3: Lisa-May Mosse (Film and TV, University of Warwick, UK) “Filming the Berlin Clubbing Scene as a Postmodern Construct”

 

Speaker 4: Yasmin Nartey (Politics & International Studies, University of Warwick, UK) “The Changing Cultural Identity of St. Lucia Carnival”

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FROM 5:30-6:30 PM

Theme:  Social Inclusion & Inter-cultural Understanding

 

Speaker 1:  Amanda Er (Radiography & Medical Imaging, Monash Australia) “Medical imaging settings in different countries: a cross-cultural observational study”

 

Speaker 2: Dana Frenkel (Communication Studies, Baruch College) “Decoding Campus Dynamics”

 

Speaker 3: Anna Velychko (Psychology, Baruch College) “Training for Success”

 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 FROM 6:30-7:30 PM

Theme:  Human Rights

 

Speaker 1:  Roger Wu (Human Rights Law, Monash Australia) “Statutory Interpretation and Limits in the Victorian Human Rights Charter”

 

Speaker 2: Anthony Hallal (Human Rights Theory, Monash Australia) “Ticking Time Bombs and Absolute Rights: Is Torture Ever Permissible in Theory or Practice?”

 

Speaker 3: Ruth Laryea-Walker (International Human Rights, Baruch College) “Child Marriage: An Abuse of Children’s Rights—Strengthening Policies to Eliminate It”

 

Day two – Wednesday 28 September 2016
Time (Baruch, USA) Event – Baruch College
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 10:30 Session 18C – Warwick, Leeds & Baruch
10:30 – 12:00 Session 19A – Warwick & Baruch

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 FROM 9:00-10:30 AM

Theme:  Environment, Evolution & Systems

 

Speaker 1: Matthew Lane (Physics, University of Warwick, UK) “The Cosmic History of Galactic Habitability: Probing our Origins and place in the University in the search for the Genesis of Civilization”

 

Speaker 2: Emma Latham Jones (Politics, University of Warwick, UK), “A critical study of the politics of climate change in the main oil-producing states of Latin America”

 

Speaker 3: Cherisse Fraser (Biochemistry, Baruch College) “tRNA Evolution and Remolding in Marine Snails”

 

Speaker 4: Fiona Pye (Geosciences, University of Leeds, UK) “Did Jurassic brachiopods from the Swiss Alps live at methane seeps?”

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 FROM 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Theme:  New Perspectives and Improvements

 

Speaker 1: Zijing Yang (Economics, University of Warwick) “Degree of market segmentation: Price dispersion across and within the US and China”

 

Speaker 2: Jessica Kraker (English & History, Baruch College), “Mental Health in New York: It’s Time to Shed Some Light”

 

Speaker 3: Katharine Spark (International Studies, Monash Australia presenting from the University of Warwick) “How does your country’s immigration policy affect your national security?”

 

Speaker 4: Margia Shiriti (Psychology, Baruch College) “Idiographic Assessment of Self-Efficacy for Everyday Problem Solving in Adult Development”

 

RSVP or information contact [email protected] or see icurportal.com

 

This conference is generously funded by the Office of the Provost, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, the Zicklin School of Business, and the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College.

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Study Abroad Fair (9/15, Thurs.) from 12:30 and 2:30

Study Abroad Fair (9/15, Thurs.) from 12:30 and 2:30.studyabroad

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FROM MURAKAMI TO THE SUN GODS A Talk by Jay Rubin (Emeritus Professor of Harvard University)

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  • The Nippon Club will hold a special lecture by Jay Rubin who is well known as the translator of Haruki Murakami’s novels. The talk will discuss Mr. Rubin’s twenty-five years translating and studying the works of Murakami and take note of Murakami influences in his recent novel, The Sun Gods (published by Chin Music Press in May 2015). His account of the circumstances that led to writing the novel will conclude that identifying influences is no easy task. (This talk will be conducted in English.) Please join us for this fascinating talk! Ask your friends, co-workers and family members to attend, too.

    Thursday, September 20th 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
    Nippon Club 2Fl. Rose Room
    145 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
    Members $ 15 / Non-members・Guests $20 (includes 1 drink)
    For registration or Inquiry: The Nippon Club (Attn: Naito 212-581-2223 or [email protected])

    Jay Rubin
    Jay Rubin was a Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Washington and Harvard University. Now he is an Emeritus Professor and lives near Seattle, Washington, where he continues to write and translate works of Haruki Murakami and other modern Japanese writers. His novel, The Sun Gods, set in Seattle during the Second World War, was published in 2015 and translated into Japanese as Hibi No Hikari by Motoyuki Shibata and Shunsuke Hiratsuka.

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The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Oct. 13th 6 pm)


arai_poster_webAndrea Gevurtz Arai
 (Affiliate Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Please join us on Thursday and welcome University of Washington’s Dr. Andrea Gevurtz Arai, who will give an interesting lecture entitled “The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan.”

The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan
Thursday 13 October, 6 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403, Columbia University
No registration required.

This lecture focuses on how the Japanese financial downturn of the 1990s gave rise to the powerful figures of “the strange child” and “the child problem.” Based on her recent book, Arai uncovers the critical conjunctures behind their forcefulness. She argues that these child discourses refocused concerns about precarious economic futures and provided rationale for neoliberal shifts in human capital development and national-cultural ideology. Arai shows how the young have been made the subjects and objects of dramatically altered life conditions of self-development, independence and patriotism. The talk concludes with examples from her multi-site, long term fieldwork and creative responses by members of the recessionary generation.

Andrea Gevurtz Arai received her Ph.D. in Anthropology (2004) from Columbia University. She teaches Japan and East Asia anthropology and society courses at the University of Washington. She is the author of The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan (Stanford University Press, March, 2016); Co-editor of Spaces of Possibility: In, Between and Beyond Korea and Japan (University of Washington Press, Forthcoming, October, 2016) and Global Futures in East Asia (Stanford University Press, 2014).

All events are free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Orient Finance Co. Endowment for the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.

Please visit our website, www.keenecenter.org, for the latest information on our events.

 

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Suntory Holdings/ Beam Suntory Career Opportunities

JobTessio will be hosting recruitment activities for Suntory Holdings and Beam Suntory. JobTessio Company HP: http://www.jobtessio.co.jp/en/index.html

Details:

【Company Name】 Suntory Holdings Limited

【Company HP in English】 http://goo.gl/pOKKby

【Event URL in Japanese】https://bal-job.com/public/seminar/view/142

【Job Interview Schedule】
■Friday, Oct. 21th, 2016 – Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 2016@Chicago
■Sunday, Oct. 23th, 2016@Sheraton Boston Hotel

【How to apply】
Apply from event URL above.
https://bal-job.com/public/seminar/view/142

【Recruiting Process】
①CV Screening 10/6 deadline
②Japanese proficiency online check (tentative)
③First interview on 10/21~22@Chicago or 10/23@Boston
④Final Interview in Japan
※Transportation fee for traveling to Japan will be covered by the company
※Flexible interview schedule depending on candidates’ availability

【Job Description】
①Business Department (sales, marketing, overseas business)
②Finance and Accounting Department

【Work Location】
All over Japan or overseas branches

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【Company Name】Beam Suntory

【Company HP in English】http://www.beamsuntory.com/

【Event URL in English】: https://bal-job.com/public/seminar/view/140

【Job Interview Schedule】
◆21st (Fri) Oct 13:00 – 18:00 @Chicago
◆22nd (Sat) Oct  9:00 – 16:00 @Chicago

【How to apply】
Apply from event URL above.
https://bal-job.com/public/seminar/view/140

【Recruitment Process】
①Applicant screening 9/29 deadline
※The result will be announced until the begining of Octber
②First Round Interview
③Final Round Interview

【Job Description】
①Marketing Brand Assistantt

【Work Location】
Chicago, IL

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Registration is open for the 2016 JLPT

JLPT

The 2016 Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT; Nihongo Nouryoku Shiken) will be offered at 16 test sites in the United States on Sunday, December 4 (including one new test site this year, in Miami, Florida). Registration is open until October 3.

For American learners of Japanese, the JLPT offers a way to test language skills and evidence of achievement that is comparable with other Japanese learners around the country and the world.

If you live near one of the test sites, please encourage your students to take the JLPT. In particular, if they are interested in attending school or working in Japan in the future, having taken the JLPT will be a credential they can offer to potential employers.

More information, including a list of test sites, a description of the JLPT’s five levels, and a link to online registration, is available at http://www.aatj.org/jlpt-us.

Susan Schmidt, Executive Director
American Association of Teachers of Japanese
Campus Box 366, 1424 Broadway
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0366
Phone: 303-492-5487, Fax: 303-492-5856
[email protected]
http://www.aatj.org

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Baruch Japan Club’s First G.I.M.- Ice Cream Mochi Scoial

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I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day Weekend! With the semester back in full swing, we are very excited to announce our first event happening this Thursday!

It will be our very first General Interest Meeting with an Ice Cream Mochi Social afterwards. Find out all the great things Japan Club has to offer for the year, how to get involved, and then relax and get to know us with some Ice Cream Mochi afterwards!

This Thursday, September 8th, VC Room 9-180, from 12:40PM – 2:20PM, we look forward to seeing all of you!

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Metrograph: Kurosawa X 11

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Akira Kurosawa

The Metrograph will be presenting a selection of Akira Kurosawa’s films through September 8th. Screenings include Ikuru, Red Beard, The Bad Sleep Well, and Hidden Fortress.
Details and Tickets
Location: Metrograph
No.7 Ludlow Street
New York NY 10002

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Conversation Partners Program

This semester’s Conversation Partners Program is about to begin. Are you interested in joining?

The Conversation Partners Program matches native and nonnative speakers of English for informal conversations. It is a great way for nonnative students to gain confidence in English, for native speakers to gain experience in communicating across language barriers, and for both native and nonnative speakers to expand their cultural knowledge, make friends, and build a network of professional contacts. To participate, you should be willing to commit to meeting your partner on a regular basis throughout the semester. If you have met at least seven times, you will receive a certificate at the end of the semester—a great way to enhance your resume.

To learn more and to sign up, go to:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/cpp

Conversation

To sign up, please fill out the Application Form on the website. The deadline for signing up is FR, Sept. 9.

Best,

Elisabeth Gareis
Professor
Dept. of Communication Studies, B8-240
Baruch College
55 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10010
Tel.: 646-312-3731
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/communication/egareis.htm

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