2020
>>August Workshop
Program title: “Discussing Race Issues Amid BLM”
Presenter: Mr. Baye McNeil
Date & Time: Monday, August 10, 2020, 13:00 – 16:00 JST(Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo time zone)
Venue: Online via ZOOM™
Language: English
Participation Fee:
——-Member 2200 yen
——-Non-member 4200 yen
——-Student (member) 1000 yen
——-Graduate Student (non-member) 1500 yen
——-High School Student and Undergraduate Students Free
Maximum: 50 people
Registration: https://sietar-blm.peatix.com/
Participation Requirements:
Participants are required to have a Gmail account and are able to download Google Chrome to their PC.
Important Notice:
Once we confirm your application, we will let you know the details on how to access ZOOM™. This event will be held on ZOOM™. You may join the event using a computer/laptop.
Please be informed that participation via tablet and smartphone are not suitable, therefore, make sure to connect through secure wifi. Detailed information will be sent out to participants.
Presenter introduction: Mr. Baye McNeil
When Baye arrived in Japan in 2004, he wasn’t looking to or expecting to change a thing about the country. He simply sought to escape the toxic post-9/11 atmosphere of America where fear masquerading as nationalism/patriotism dictated actions. Even in his beloved hometown of Brooklyn, NY there were clear signs that it too had succumbed to fear. So Baye took a break. The break lasted a little longer than expected, though.
16 years later, it is safe to say, Baye, now 54 and at home in Japan, has done a great deal to initiate tangible social change in his adopted home, as well as in areas critical to Japan’s growth, its image on the world stage and success in the global marketplace. Baye, a graduate of Long Island University in Brooklyn with a bachelor’s degree in media arts and English, began his writing career in Japan as a blogger. Prompted by the seemingly innocuous otherization and alienation non-Japanese endure in Japan daily, in 2008 he launched a blog, “Loco in Yokohama” (LIY) to chronicle these incidents and the impact they were having on him emotionally, psychologically and spiritually with thoughtful, passionate and often humorous posts. LIY soon became one of the most recognizable destinations in the Japan expat blogosphere. His success in blogging leads him to publishing.
Baye’s critically acclaimed indie-published first book, “Hi! My Name is Loco, and I am a Racist” was listed on the top 10 list of books by black authors of 2012 and is on the top five list of expat books. His second book, “Loco in Yokohama” is widely considered the go-to book for people looking to get an intimate look at life as a non-Japanese living in Japan.
In 2014, he was approached by editors at The Japan Times, the largest English-language newspaper in the country, about doing a column. That conversation resulted in “Black Eye” which is featured monthly. In it, he has profiled people of color from the African continent and the African diaspora living in Japan, as well as sharing his own reflections on current events. He also periodically lectures, gives speeches, joins panels, and conducts workshops on the black experience in Japan, race issues, and diversity & inclusiveness in Japan, at universities, companies, and various organizations throughout Japan.
He has also directed activism against the Japanese affinity for performing in blackface, spearheading various campaigns, including a successful petition to preempt the airing of a blackface minstrel show on FUJI-TV, in 2015, as well as taking NIPPON-TV to task in 2018 for having a famous comedian perform in blackface on their most-viewed program of the year. He put the network on blast on BBC, in the NY Times, and in several Japanese publications. Since then, after 150 years of Japanese entertaining themselves in blackface, there has not been a single instance of it in the media.
He’s also taken Nissin Noodle company to task with an Op-Ed in the Washington Post for purposely Whitewashing Naomi Osaka, and just recently NHK for utilizing offensive caricatures of racist stereotypes to explain Black Lives Matters to their viewers, garnering apologies to the public from the companies in both instances. The latter was accomplished thanks to the support of Japanese scholars and everyday people who are wide awake as well as CDA Joe Young calling out the program for its insensitivity and offensive content.
One never knows when a crisis is going to arise in Japan, only that they will most certainly continue to as the country creeps towards a globalized future. This is not a simple nor easy task. But Baye believes it’s entirely doable, that Japan will eventually thrive in a global marketplace and enjoy the rewards of acknowledging diversity and increasing inclusivity. Until then, when the crisis calls for it, Baye serving not only as a media watchdog but as a skilled guide and consultant on the handling of sensitive matters inoffensively and effectively will be there to assure accountability and assist on demand.
Baye currently resides with his wife Miki in Yokohama.
For further enquiry please contact, Program directors:
Contact: E-mail : programs@sietar-japan.org
Yuka Suzuki & Amey Kulkarni
>>July Workshop
Program title:“Online seminar: Ecotonos Online”
Facilitators:
——-Kyoko Yashiro ( Professor Emeritus, Reitaku University ),
——-Kumiko Kajitani ( Intercultural communication consultant ),
——-Noriko Kishida ( Online Workshop Designer ),
——-Yuka Suzuki ( Intercultural communication consultant ),
——-Noriko Shimakura ( Program Coordinator )
Date & Time: Saturday, July 18, 2020, 13:30 – 17:00
(If you are not familiar with using ZOOM™, we will have a session starting at 13:20 to teach you how to use it.)
Venue: via ZOOM™
Language: Japanese
Participation Fee:
——-Member 4000 yen
——-Non-member 8000 yen
——-Student (member) 2000 yen
——-Student (non-member) 3500 yen
Registration: https://ecotonos.peatix.com/
*Once we confirm your application, we will let you know the details on how to access ZOOM™.
This event will be held on ZOOM™. You may join the event using a computer or tablet. Please be informed that participation via smartphone is not suitable, therefore, make sure to connect through a secure wifi. Detailed information will be sent out to participants.
Program Abstract:
In the simulation Ecotonos, participants will be divided into three different cultures, each with different verbal and nonverbal communication styles, cultural values, decision making, and negotiation styles. Ecotonos was developed by Dianne Hofner Saphiere, a former member of SIETAR Japan and a kit can be purchased by contacting E-mail : dianne@culturaldetective.com .
The workshop leaders are seasoned facilitators of Ecotonos but will be trying it out via Zoom for the very first time. As many of us have had to transition to online learning, this will be an exciting opportunity to try out an intercultural simulation on an online platform.
Facilitator introduction:
Kyoko Yashiro ( Professor Emeritus, Reitaku University )
Intercultural consultant and trainer. Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR)Japan, Senior Fellow.
Publications: Linking People, Beyond Boundaries, What Do You Mean.
Kumiko Kajitani ( Intercultural communication consultant )
As an EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) Trainer, she has developed unique Intercultural Communication training programs combined with EQ development for undergraduates and graduates of Universities, Corporations, Municipal Governments and Board of education.
Noriko Kishida ( Online Workshop Designer )
She plans, facilitates and provides technical support to a variety of online/hybrid workshops, seminars and events. Her main research specialty lies in the domestic and global marketing research for businesses.
Yuka Suzuki ( Intercultural communication consultant )
A specialist on active learning. She has designed and conducted various training sessions for companies and for higher educational institutions. She has authored numerous books including: Negotiation to Strengthen People and Organizations, Negotiation and Mediation, and a grammar book for Japanese learners.
Noriko Shimakura ( Program Coordinator )
She is a coordinator and training assistant at a company that provides cross-cultural and language education. She has facilitated Ecotonos over 100 times for numerous companies.
Contact: E-mail : programs@sietar-japan.org
Yuka Suzuki & Amey Kulkarni
>>January Workshop
Program title: “Thriving in Today’s AI World: Creating Deeper Connections Through EQ Communication”
Presenter: Kumiko Kajitani (Lecturer, J. F. Oberlin University)
Date & Time: Sunday, January 26, 2020, 13:00 – 17:00
Venue: Sophia University (Room 915, 9th floor, Building 2)
Language: Japanese
Fee:Member 2000 JPY Non member 6000 JPY
Graduate students, member: 500 JPY Graduate students, non-member: 1000 JPY
Undergraduate students: FREE
Please reserve by emailing the information below to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org
1. Your name, 2. Email address, and 3. Your membership status (e.g., member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
In this workshop we will experience components of the EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) training Ms. Kajitani has developed for universities, corporations, and government officials. EQ allows us to connect at a deeper level and develop a strong trust with others. We will cover the following two content areas and two experiential activities.
1. EQ(Emotional Intelligence Quotient) and Communication Skills
2. Improving EQ through Communication Training
3. We will experience some effective EQ activities developed for universities, corporations, and government officials
4. We will experience some activities to increase our EQ as well as our interpersonal communication skills
Presenter introduction:
Kumiko Kajitani
Lecturer, J. F. Oberlin University
Chief Partner and Lecturer, Integrative Education Research Institute
Lecturer, The Mebius Human Capital Graduate School
Kumiko Kajitani is an EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient) Trainer which supports intrapersonal/interpersonal communication effectiveness. She has developed original training programs to deepen mutual trust in interpersonal communication through the exchange of emotions. Her programs include “EQ Communication to connect Human hearts”, “Communication deepening the bond between Parents and their Children”, “EQ Leadership”, “EQ Team Building”, “Mindfulness”, “Mental Health Care”, “ How to realize your potential abilities”, “Realization of one’s vision”, etc. She teaches in a variety of settings, including at University Undergraduate and Graduate school, within Corporations, Municipal Governments and Boards of Education.
She has also been engaged in the study of Voice and in the study of the relationship between Listening and the method of Vocalization, both as a singer and an auditory counselling specialist. She holds seminars and workshops titled “Voice and Speech techniques which reach your audience’s heart” and “Reading Play” to train the voice to open, move or heal your audience’s heart.
She has developed a program to analyze the voice by frequency band which clarifies one’s state of mind and body, pattern of behavior, learning style, communication style and subconscious ability. Using this analytical tool, she leads workshops as well as private coaching sessions to help find one’s true color orientation.
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
2019
»July Workshop
Program title: “How to Adapt to other cultures and still be REAL doing it ”
Presenter: Tom Frengos
Date & Time: July 20, 2019 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Venue: Keio University, Mita Campus, East Research Building 4th Floor Open Lab
Language: English
Fee: Members 2000 yen, Non-members ¥6,000
Graduate Students (Members)¥500, Graduate Students (Non-Members) ¥1,000, Undergraduate Students Free
RESERVATIONS:
As there are only 20 spaces available, advance registration is appreciated but walk-ins are welcome as long as there is space available (Please confirm with us the night before to make sure there is space.)
Please reserve by emailing the information below to: e-mail programs@sietar-japan.org
1. Your name, 2. Email address, and 3. Your membership status (e.g., member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program summary:
Adapting to new cultures can help us fit in, build relationships, gain knowledge and transform us. However, for some people, adapting to a new culture can also be challenging, frustrating and even uncomfortable. Research shows that people may feel inauthentic, and even resentful when adapting, believing that it has been forced upon them and they are sacrificing their individuality.
Drawing from research on Self Determination, and Cross-Cultural Dissonance, this 4-hour workshop explains why some people resist or feel uncomfortable adapting and why authentic adaptation is essential for long-term well being and growth.
Conducted in a workshop/coaching forum, this course will give you space to reflect on your own cultural experiences, identify which aspects of a culture you want to embrace, but feel is too difficult for you. Through support and encouragement from your fellow training participants and facilitator, you will learn how to adapt and still be yourself in the process.
Who is this for?
This program is suitable for the trainer/coach who wants their clients to get the most out of their overseas experience and develop as a global citizen.
What you will learn
This program will help you:
- Understand why adapting is so hard
- Discuss how inauthentic adaption impacts relationships, performance, and wellbeing
- Identify what value conflicts are stopping you from adapting
- Use the REAL model to embrace and internalize new cultures.
Facilitator Profile:
Tom Frengos is an author, lecturer, facilitator, coach and intercultural researcher currently based in Japan and Australia. He holds a Masters of Applied Science (Psychology of Coaching) and a Masters in Education. Born in Canada, he has lived in Japan, Korea, and Australia and has taught university and corporate audiences about cross-cultural understanding and wisdom. He is currently researching Japanese Wabi-sabi and ‘Ma’ philosophy and how it can facilitate intercultural understanding and identity transformation.
Directions:
Keio University, Mita Campus
8-minute walk from Tamachi Station (JR Yamanote Line / JR Keihin Tohoku Line)
7-minute walk from Mita Station (Toei Asakusa Line / Toei Mita Line)
8-minute walk from Akabanebashi Station (Toei Oedo Line)
East Research Building (#13 on the map) East Research Building 4th Floor Open Lab
»June Workshop
Program title: “SHORT AND PRACTICAL INTERCULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR ACTIVE LEARNING”
Presenter: Jon Dujmovich
Date & Time: June 8, 2019 2:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: English (interpreting available if requested)
Fee: Members free, Non-members ¥2,000, Undergraduate and Graduate Students free
*Note: While we normally charge members for half-day and full-day workshops, Mr. Dujmovich has generously agreed to make it possible to offer this for free to members and students.
RESERVATIONS:
Advance registration is appreciated but walk-ins are welcome. Please reserve by emailing the information below to: e-mail programs@sietar-japan.org
1. Your name, 2. Email address, and 3. Your membership status (e.g., member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program summary:
During this practical hands-on workshop designed for both novices as well as seasoned veterans, participants will have a chance to experience many short and creative active-learning activities that can be used to facilitate intercultural learning either in the classroom or in training. These versatile activities will be presented based on the learners’ stages in Milton Bennett’s developmental model. During the workshop, participants will not only experience these fun and creative activities, but will learn how to modify them to suit their audiences’ needs. The goal of the workshop is for participants to walk away with many new techniques they can use in teaching and training. Be ready to get moving, have fun, and take home many new and creative activities!
Facilitator Profile:
Jon Dujmovich has an M.A. in intercultural relations and has been in the field of intercultural communication training for over 25 years. He has been invited to give workshops on teaching intercultural communication internationally and throughout Japan and has twice won the Best of JALT award for his presentations. His experience includes: being an intercultural trainer and language instructor at Matsushita National/Panasonic Overseas Training Center, serving as the Director of Imagination Ink, a cross-cultural education staff and programs support company, and teaching at universities.
In 2008 he was awarded a grant to design and implement an intercultural learning program in English language classes at middle schools in Shizuoka prefecture. Later, in 2010 he co-authored a diversity training manual for the city of Hamamatsu entitled わたし,あなた,みんな, Everyone is Multicultural.
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
>>March Workshop
Program: Analog Drawing Workshop
Date & Time: March 27, 2019 10 : 00 〜17 : 00
PLACE: Reitaku University Tokyo Kenkyu Center (Shinjuku i-Land Tower, 4th Floor)
Presenter: Kristin Newton, Independent Creativity Consultant
Language: English (interpreting available if requested)
Fee: Members¥5000; Non-members ¥7,000; Undergraduate Students¥2000; Graduate Students ¥4,000
* Please note that this workshop normally costs¥10,000 to attend so this is a special price offered through SIETAR Japan.
* RSVP Now! As we need to prepare materials please reserve your seat by emailing the following information to: e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org
1. Your name, 2. Email address, and 3. Your membership status (e.g., member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program summary:
You look but do you really see? “One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil,” is an artists’ motto. Art is a tool that can wake up your non-verbal communication and perceptual skills. How could that affect your life? So many people are afraid of drawing and creativity. Will it open a Pandora’s Box?
We try to draw what we think we see, rather than what we actually see. Would you like to see what is really there rather than what you “know”? Businesses often tackle a problem in the same way – by tackling what they think they see as the problem rather than carefully looking and analyzing what the real problem is. Drawing is nothing but problem solving in action. It shifts you into a different way of thinking. By using analog drawing exercises, we will explore a new way of communicating with your non-verbal self. If you trust the process, surprising answers will appear.
This is a one-day workshop that will teach you a new kind of language, a language of colors and shapes. It sometimes seems like an alchemical process which can reveal the solutions to puzzles in your life that you haven’t been able to solve. It may trigger an ongoing process which can open up unexpected possibilities in your life. One participant described it as taking the lid off his old way of thinking. The results always surprise me, even after teaching it for many years.
Facilitator Profile:
After graduating from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Fine Art, Kristin Newton was told by a career counselor that she may as well hang the degree on the bathroom wall for all the good it would do her, so she started her own business. While attending university she was an apprentice at a French glass artist’s studio which taught her how to survive as an artist. In 1980 she was invited to Japan on an artists’ exchange program as a glass artist and completed many architectural glass commissions in Japan, Hong Kong, and the U.S. before focusing on creativity workshops. Kristin is an artist who gives new eyes to people who think they can’t draw. Using brain friendly, arts-based processes, she has been giving workshops internationally for over 25 years for a number of clients, including Samsung, Ogilvy, SAP, AIG, UNITAR Hiroshima, Fuji Electric, Fujitsu, Unilever, and many more. Three CEOs quit their jobs and two of them went to art school, saying the workshop is “dangerous.”
Kristin has given several TED talks in Tokyo, on the GreatWall of China, and for Sebasi in Korea. In addition to giving corporate workshops, she also teaches art and creativity at The International College of Liberal Arts at Yamanashi Gakuin University during the spring term. As a glass artist, Kristin is currently focused on creating artwork from fused glass and silver.
Directions:
Shinjuku i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station, it is an approximately 10-minute walk. In the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. Follow the corridor to the right until you get to the last door on your left.
2018
>>December Workshop
Program title: “I think therefore I…..Create!”
Presenter: Rab Paterson (BA, MA, CoETaIL, MS, FRAS, FRSA, EdD Candidate)
Date & Time: Saturday, December 1, 2018, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University, Building 15, 3F Room 306
Language: English
Fee: Members, free. Non-members, ¥4,000. Students ¥1,000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
Creative and innovative thinking is a skill set that is now in high demand by many companies as they want it in their employees. Where does it come from, can it be measured, and can we develop it though? These are some of the questions being asked and even NASA has tried to address these problems to some extent to try and get the most from their staff. So to creativity. Most children are naturally creative, however, it has been argued that very few adults are naturally creative as this attribute has in many cases been educated out of them (Land & Jarman, 1998; Robinson, 2010). This workshop is designed to highlight some of the factors that can inhibit creativity in individuals, teams, and organizations. In the session, we will focus on different ways to more successfully address problems in a creative and innovative way by modelling ways of tackling these factors, solutions such as reframing problems, challenging hidden assumptions, and approaches to creative play in teams. The workshop will be highly experiential in nature, requiring each attendee to participate actively, both alone in some cases, and in pairs or teams most of the time. No prior knowledge of any kind is necessary, but be prepared to use your hands and your heads and be ready to have fun! After the session attendees should be able to apply the mindsets needed to fully utilise a creative approach to get past mental roadblocks in their creative thinking and innovative problem solving.
Presenter introduction:
Rab Paterson (BA, MA, CoETaIL, MS, FRAS, FRSA, EdD Candidate) is the Principal Instructor for both Toyo University’s Center for Global Education BEST (Business English Skills and Training) program and the Toyo University-UCLA Extension Center for Global Education’s BEC (Business English Communication) program. He’s also the current Director and Webmaster of the Asia Association for Global Studies, Webmaster and Program Chair for JALT BizCom, and holds memberships in many other educational technology / professional teaching associations. He’s an Apple Distinguished Educator, an Apple Teacher, a Google Innovator, Trainer, Google Educator Group Leader for the West Tokyo GEG, and lives in a semi self-built, eco-friendly, sustainable lifestyle log-house of his own design in the foothills of the Japan Alps with his family, their two dogs and their goat!
Directions:
Aoyama Gakuin University
4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8366, Japan
10 minutes` walk from Shibuya Station of the JR Yamanote Line and Saikyo Line, the Tokyu Line, Keio Inokashira Line, etc.
5 minutes’ walk from Omotesando Station of the Tokyo Metro (Ginza Line, Chiyoda Line and Hanzomon Line)
SIETAR Japan’s year end party will take place on December 1st, Saturday, from 18:00 to 20:00 at La Valse.
Address: Barbizon104 B1F, Minamiaoyama 5‐4-27, Minato-ku
>>November Workshop
Program title: “Diversophy Ⓡ”
Presenter: Juri Hikasa (Juntendo University)
Date & Time: Monday, November 12, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Venue: Shinjuku iLand Tower, 4F
Language: Japanese
Fee: Members free; Non-members ¥3,000; Grad students ¥1,000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
This workshop will be an opportunity to learn how to use the Diversophy Ⓡ.
Presenter introduction:
Hikasa, who was born and raised in Japan, has studied in the US, Australia and Finland. While studying in Finland in 2017, Juri Hikasa first played Diversophy Ⓡ, a card game and great tool for enhancing intercultural competence. She then worked as a virtual intern with George Simon International in France to develop the first Japanese language set of Diversophy Ⓡ cards. She is currently a graduate student at Juntendo University in the Education Department.
Directions:
Shinjuku i-Land Tower can be accessed directly from Nishi-Shinjuku Station on the Marunouchi Line by following the underground path. From JR Shinjuku Station, it is an approximately 10-minute walk. In the building, select an elevator that stops on the 4th floor. Follow the corridor to the right until you get to the last door on your left.
SIETAR JAPAN will hold its 2018 SIETAR JAPAN World Congress.
Theme: Facing Uncertain Times Together: Strengthening Intercultural Connections
Date: August 8 (Wed.) – August 11 (Sat.), 2018
Venue: Chuo University Tama Campus, Tokyo
For more information, please go to our Official SJWC 2018 website!
»June Workshop
Program title: “Knowing the Self, Touching the Other: Bodily Feelings as Intercultural Knowledge”
Presenter: Sachi Sekimoto (PhD., University of New Mexico)
Date & Time: Monday, June 4, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: Japanese
Fee: Members free; Non-members ¥3,000; Grad students ¥1000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
In this workshop, we will explore the possibility of using embodied experiences and bodily sensations as a source of knowledge for intercultural communication. The lived body is both an affective medium of subjective experience and a site where power relations and ideological norms are habituated. The presenter will use her own experiences as a racial minority and cultural Other in the U.S. to examine how an awareness of our own bodily sensations and visceral feelings may help us gain greater insights into intercultural communication.
Presenter introduction:
Sachi Sekimoto (PhD., University of New Mexico) is an Associate Professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her scholarship focuses on culture, embodiment, and sensory experience. She is currently working on a co-authored book on race and the senses. She co-edited Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader with Kathryn Sorrells. Her published articles include: A Multimodal Approach to Identity: Theorizing the Self through Embodiment, Spatiality, and Temporality; Transnational Asia: Dis/orienting Identity in the Globalized World; A Phenomenology of the Racialized Tongue: Embodiment, Language, and the Bodies that Speak; and Race and the Senses: Toward Articulating the Sensory Apparatus of Race.
Minnesota State University, Mankato
https://www.mnsu.edu/cmst/faculty/sekimoto.html
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
»May Workshop No,2
Program title: An Evening with Dr. Condon
Presenter: Dr. Jack Condon
Moderator: Dr. Kaoru Yamamoto
Date & Time: Monday, May 21, 2018, 19:00 – 21:00
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: English
Fee: Members free; Non-members ¥3,000; Grad students ¥1000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
On May 21, Dr. Jack Condon has graciously agreed to take time from his busy lecture schedule for a relaxed evening with SIETAR Japan members in Tokyo. He will add a new take on his previous workshop in Tokyo, discussing the still radical insights of Edward T. Hall, the anthropologist who introduced the term “intercultural communication” and who inadvertently launched our field. Hall’s work takes on new significance in light of advances in neuroscience research. Hall was Jack’s friend, colleague and neighbor for nearly 40 years. Jack’s book on this theme will be published later this year.
This evening program will have the more relaxed and informal structure of a conversation: following brief introductory comments by Dr. Condon, Dr. Kaoru Yamamoto will lead the discussion, welcoming comments and questions from the audience. There will then be an hour for further discussion and conversation over wine and cheese.
Presenter introduction:
John (Jack) Condon is regarded as one of the founders of the field of Intercultural Communication, writing one of the first doctoral dissertations when that was not yet a recognized area of study, and later he was one of the founding faculty of what became today’s Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication (in Portland, Oregon). He also was in the group that would later found SIETAR, and a recipient of awards for his teaching and writing, including the first dedicated college textbook in our field. Of his nearly 20 books, With Respect for Japan is perhaps his best known in Japan. In the 1970s as a professor at ICU, Dr. Condon influenced many of Japan’s future interculturalists. At that time, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan asked him to develop their first intercultural communication workshops. Beginning his college years in Mexico City, Jack eventually would live and work abroad for twenty years, in Latin America, East Africa, and here in Japan. Currently Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of New Mexico, he continues to teach at SIIC and offers workshops and field seminars in northern New Mexico where he lives. Next January he will co-facilitate a new traveling seminar in “Mayan Country” (in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico), with Claudia Chapa Cortés, which will span two thousand years, from the earliest settlements to contemporary intercultural contacts via varieties of tourism and international gentrification.
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
»May Workshop No,1
Program title: Building Privilege and Intersectionality into the Curriculum—A Conversation with Dr. Kim A. Case
Presenter: Dr. Kim A. Case
Date & Time: Saturday, May 12, 2018, 10:00 – 12:00
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: English
Fee: Members free; Non-members ¥3,000; Grad students ¥1000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
We are pleased to invite Dr. Kim A. Case, an outstanding scholar and educator in the field of social psychology and gender studies. Dr. Case will speaking about why it is important to teach about privilege using intersectional approaches and how to infuse this perspective in the teaching of social justice.
Presenter Profile:
Dr. Kim A. Case is a Professor of Psychology, Director of the Applied Social Issues graduate program, Director of Undergraduate Psychology, and the Faculty Mentoring Program Chair at the University of Houston-Clear lake, Houston, Texas, USA. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Her publications include Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom (2013) and Intersectional Pedagogy: Complicating Identity and Social Justice (2017).
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
Sponsored by SIETAR JAPAN and 基盤研究(C)マジョリティに向けた多様化社会の公正教育の在り方:複合的考察(課題番号:16K04622)
2017
»December Workshop
Final Program of the year, 2017. Year-end party will follow from 18:00
Program: “For the Bible Tells Me So” Documentary Film Viewing, followed by lecture by the director, Daniel Karslake
Date & Time: December 2, 2017, 14:00 – 17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F Room 508
Fee: Non-members: 1,000 yen. Members and students free Reservations appreciated. Email: programs@sietar-japan.org
Program Abstract: SIETAR JAPAN’s final event of the year will be a director screening of the award-winning documentary, For the Bible Tells Me So. Director Daniel Karslake will introduce his film exploring the intersection of the religious right and homophobia, focusing on how conservative Christians’ interpretation of the Bible is commonly used as a way to deny homosexuals equal rights. In the film, Karlake follows five families with an openly gay son or daughter to offer a first-hand look at how those in the Christian community with an out child are affected by the homophobic fervor.
Directions: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 508 (5th floor).
Following the program, SIETAR Japan’s year end party will be held from 18:00 to 20:00 at G7 CRAFT BEER HIGHBALL
The fees for food and drinks will be JPY 6,000 for SIETAR members, JPY 7,000 for non-members.
Those who prefer Vegan dishes, please notify us when making your reservation. In order to reserve your seat, please email by November 25th to Email: relations@seitar-japan.org
»October Workshop
Program title: Hāfu2Hāfu(presentation and workshop)
Presenter: Tetsuro Miyazaki
Date & Time: Sunday, October 15, 2017, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: Japanese (interpreting available if requested)
Fee: Members: Members free; Non-members ¥2,000; Students, undergrads free; postgrads ¥1,000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
Hāfu2Hāfu is a unique and ongoing project photographing 192 hāfu (mixed roots people with one Japanese parent) from every country in the world and sharing their most significant questions about identity, sense of belonging or growing up with two different cultures.
Photographer and Belgian hāfu Tetsuro Miyazaki will give a presentation about his project, followed by an interactive workshop about being of mixed roots.
Presentation:
・Project background and personal motives
・First findings
・Current status
・Looking forward
Workshop:
・Interactive group session
・Role playing interviews
・Hāfu2Hāfu in daily life
・What is my question?
Website: www.hafu2hafu.org
Portraits and questions: hafu2hafu.org/portraits/
Presenter Profile:
Tetsuro Miyazaki is a 39 year old half Belgian half Japanese photographer living in the Netherlands. He started Hāfu2Hāfu in 2016 as a personal investigatory project about his half Japanese identity.
After having photographed over 20 Dutch hāfu in 2016, he presented the project at the Hapa Japan Festival in Los Angeles in February 2017. The Shinso Ito Center (USC) and the Isaac Albert Ailion Foundation (Leiden University) have allowed Miyazaki to start working on the next chapter of Hāfu2Hāfu: photographing and interviewing one hāfu from every country in the world. His goal is to collect one question and portrait from hāfu from each of the 192 different country-combinations, of different gender, age, place of birth and upbringing, and sociocultural backgrounds. He is undertaking this project in Japan as well as abroad.
Miyazaki will be in Tokyo in October to photograph and interview more hāfu for his project. This is a call for participants during this period. It also includes a list of countries he has already covered. This workshop he will run for SIETAR Japan will be relevant not only for hāfu, but also for anybody interested in Japanese diversity issues.
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
»September Workshop
Program title: Enhancing Intercultural Competence through Japanese Martial Arts– Working with Oneself and Others Thru Movement
Presenter: Masaharu Nomoto, Representative of Kenju-kai, Training Center of Traditional Japanese Martial Arts
Date & Time: Friday, September 22, 2017, 18:00-20:00
Venue: Building 2, Room 915 (9F), Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Language: Japanese (interpreting available if requested)
Fee: Members: Members free; Non-members ¥1,000; Students, undergrads free; postgrads ¥1,000
*Reservations appreciated. Please respond to e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org with your name, email address, and your membership status (member, non-member, student, graduate student).
Program Abstract:
Are we utilizing our kinetic expression to the fullest potential when we communicate with ourselves, others and the things around us? Through movement exercises with somatic touch, we will learn how to “face” ourselves and others effectively.
Please wear comfortable clothes, even though we will not be doing rigorous physical exercise. It will be best to work barefoot or in socks (or tabi) in order to avoid injury.
*Kenju-kai*
Provides training sessions in various martial art forms, both ones that use various traditional weapons such as katana swords or wood sticks, and without.
Provide training sessions to apply basic martial art movement to learn how to use one’s body most effectively (without unnecessary force) for sports and patient care-giving.
Presenter Profile:
Masaharu Nomoto, Representative of Kenjyu-kai (Training Center of Traditional Japanese Martial Arts, Kobudo), teaches and coaches the general public how to apply basic martial art movement to enhance their effectiveness in individual work performance and human relations in addition to instructing serious martial art students. He teaches at a wide variety of organizations such as local culture centers, individual coaching (including some well-known Japanese celebrities), and a voice training school. He works with athletes, healthcare professionals. and people from all walks of life.
2003. Started to receive instruction by Master Yosinori Kouno, one of Japan’s leading martial artists who also holds workshops on how to move efficiently for health care givers and professionals.
2007 Started receiving instruction from Masaru Nagano, representative of the Juken-Raishin Kai, Martial Arts Training Center.
2009 Received certification as an instructor by the Juken-Raishin Kai, started giving instruction at Culture Centers in Omiya and Kanamachi.
2012 Established branch training center of Juken-Raishin Kai in Kokubunji as the branch director
2013 Established his own training center, KenJu-Kai.
Directions:
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Get off at Yotsuya Station on the JR Chuo/Soubu Line or Metro subway Nanboku or Marunouchi Line. 3 minute walk to Sophia University campus. Building 2, Room 915 (9th floor).
»July Workshop
Program title: The challenges of global forced displacement – can the UN Refugee Agency cope?
Presenters: Dirk Hebecher, UNHCR representative in Japan
Date: July 1, 2017 (Saturday)
Time: 15:00~17:00
Venue: Building 11, Room 1140 (4th floor), Aoyama Gakuen University, Shibuya Campus
Language: English
Fees: Members: Non-members ¥1,000; Members and students free
Pre-registration is encouraged to insure your place: e-mail: programs@sietar-japan.org. Please note whether you are a member or non-member when registering.
Program Abstract:
June 20th is World Refugee Day.
Imagine the desperation that forces men, women and families to leave behind everything they know and love, and risk their lives in flight into an unknown future.
Dirk Hebecker will give a brief introduction to the history and work UNHCR currently does globally in support of refugees and other people of concern. This will include what a refugee is and how a refugee is different from a migrant. He will touch upon the (popular and common media) myths about refugees, challenges of xenophobia and rejection of refugees and migrants by the wealthy global North and West as well as the hurdles to refugees’ integration and well-being.
Finally, he will talk about the situation of refugees and asylum-seekers in Japan, the distinct challenges Japan is facing in this area, how UNHCR is trying to help improve both domestic asylum policy and practice as well as the challenges refugees and asylum-seekers face in Japan.
Presenters:
Dirk Hebecker is the 12th Representative of UNHCR in Japan, arriving in May 2016. He joined UNHCR in 1993 as Associate Repatriation Officer in Hanoi, Vietnam, after working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his native Germany and the German Embassy in Hanoi.
Since joining UNHCR, he has worked in humanitarian affairs in Georgia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, as well as UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva. He was also seconded to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (0HCHR) in the Russian Federation. Prior to his assignment in Japan, he was Representative of UNHCR in Korea.
Hebecker majored in international relations and South East Asia studies and is fluent in English, French, Russian and Vietnamese.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR safeguards the rights and well-being of refugees and stateless people. In more than six decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. UNHCR is on the front lines of the world’s major humanitarian crises, including Syria, Iraq, Central African Republic, Afghanistan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and countless other emergencies.
Visit www.unhcr.org/ – Follow Twitter @Refugees – @Refugeesmedia and www.facebook.com/UNHCR/
Directions:
Aoyama Gakuin University
4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8366, Japan
10 minutes` walk from Shibuya Station of the JR Yamanote Line and Saikyo Line, the Tokyu Line, Keio Inokashira Line, etc.
5 minutes’ walk from Omotesando Station of the Tokyo Metro (Ginza Line, Chiyoda Line and Hanzomon Line)
»32nd Annual Conference(2017)
◆Theme: “Promoting Equity and Social Change: Acknowledging the Diversity Within”
Date: October 7 (Sat) and October 8 (Sun), 2017
Venue: Sophia University Yotsuya Campus, Tokyo.