Research
Special Seminars
We invite dinstinguished scholars from abroad. Doctoral students thus have opportunities to deepen their academic knowledge through lectures delivered by renowned scholars visiting from overseas institutions.
Prof. Jean Gascou GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
Title: Egyptian hagiography and Religious History : open meaning; hidden meaning
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012, 2:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
GCOE Workshop
Prof. Shigeru Miyagawa GCOE Lecture Meeting
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Visualizing Cultures
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 2:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: Japanese
Dr. Lucia Dolce GCOE Lecture Meeting
SOAS, University of London
Title: Ritual Embryology in the Japanese Tantric Tradition:
Another Mediaeval Soteriological Shift?
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 5:00 PM
Venue: Lecture Room 127, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Claude Pierre Perez GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université de Provence
La littérature comme herméneutique de Baudelaire à Proust.
Prof. Philippe Walter GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université Stendhal (Grenoble 3)
Title: Essai d'herméneutique d'une rumeur historique au Moyen Age :
l'inceste de Charlemagne et de sa soeur
Date: Monday, August 30, 2010, 3:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: French (interpretation to Japanese available)
Dr. Ruey-Lin Chang GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université de Strasbourg
Title: Reconstitution de papyrus grecs fragmentaires :
trois rouleaux fiscaux d'èpoque romaine conservès à Strasbourg
Date: Monday, July 20, 2010, 3:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: French
Prof. Gisèle Séginger GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université Paris-Est
Title: Le sentiment religieux dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 2:30 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: French (interpretation to Japanese available)
Prof. Stephen Harrison GCOE Lecture Meeting
University of Oxford
Title: Victorianising Vergil
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 4:30 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Yi-long Huang GCOE Lecture Meeting
National Tsing Hua University
Title: Cultural interaction between East and West
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 3:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: Chinese (interpretation to Japanese available)
Prof. Paul Fouracre GCOE Lecture Meeting
The University of Manchester
Title: The 'Life of St Wilfrid's' account of Wilfrid on the Continent. Should we believe it?
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 5:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Vincent Vivès GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université de Provence
Title: Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Lautréamont :
la révolution du langage poétique au XIXe siècle en France
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: French
Prof. George Hughes GCOE Lecture Meeting
Formerly at the University of Tokyo
Title: England and Englishness: The Modern Problem of an English Identity
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 5:30 PM
Venue: Meeting Room 130, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Irène Rosier-Catach GCOE Lecture Meeting
CNRS, Université Paris 7
Title: Intentions, conventions, performativity:
medieval discussions about sacramental formulas and oaths
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 5:00 PM
Venue: Main Meeting Room, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Dominique Barthélemy GCOE Lecture Meeting
Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
[Lecture 1]
Title: The Beginnings of European Chivalry (XIIth century)
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2009, 4:00 PM
Venue: Global COE Office, Nagoya International Center Building 15F
Language: English
Title: Noble Warriors of Japan and France in the XIIth and XIIIth centuries
Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 6:00 PM
Venue: Global COE Office, Nagoya International Center Building 15F
Language: English
Prof. Greg Clingham GCOE Lecture Meeting
Bucknell University
Title: Literature, Ends, and the Possibility of Happiness
Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 5:00 PM
Venue: Lecture Room 2B, Graduate School of Letters
Language: English
Prof. Alain Dierkens GCOE Lecture Meeting
Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Title：Childéric († 481) et Clovis († 511). Histoire,
archéologie et production de documents crits.
Chilideric (died in481) and Clovis (died in 511)
-history, archeology, document production-
Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 2:00 PM
Location: Graduate School of Letters large conference room
Language: French (with interpretation)
Dr. Satoshi Toda GCOE Lecture Meeting
Adjunct Instructor at Hitotsubashi University, History of Ancient Christianity, Eastern Christian Literature
Title: Eusebius of Caesarea and Syriac Christianity Literature
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 2:40PM
Location: School of Letters, Graduate School of Letters, 1st floor large conference room
Dr. Jacques Dalarun GCOE Lecture Meeting
Former Director, Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes (IRHT) / Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
[Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 6:00PM] GCOE Office in the Nagoya International Center
[Tapisserie de Bayeux as a historical record]
[Thursday, November 27, 2008, 2:30PM] Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters, Large Conference Room
"Gender Relationship Between St. Francisco of Assisi and St. Clara"
(Language: English)
Professor Shigeru Miyagawa, Serial Lectures
Professor, MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters, Global COE, Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration
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1st Lecture
Title：(Agreement I)
Date：Tuesday, June 3, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Place：Nagoya University School of Letters, Graduate School of Letters Large Conference Room 1F
2nd Lecture
Title：Visualizing Culture
Date：Wednesday, June 18, 2008 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Place：Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters, Global COE Office
(1-47-1 Nagono, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Nagoya International Center Building 15F)
(Global COE Open Lecture)
3rd Lecture
Title：Sentence Structure
Date：Tuesday, July 1, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Place：Nagoya University School of Letters, Graduate School of Letters Large Conference Room 1F
4th Lecture
Title：Agreement II
Date：Tuesday, July 8, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Place：Nagoya University School of Letters, Graduate School of Letters Large Conference Room 1F
<language in use>
Japanese
Dr. Lawrence Michael O'Toole, Serial Lectures
Professor Emeritus, Murdoch University (Australia)
Nagoya University Graduate School of Letters, Global COE, Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration
<date and title>
1st Lecture: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Title: FUNCTIONAL THEORIES OF LANGUAGE: The Background to Systemic
Functional Linguistics
Sentence → Exchange → Poem
2nd Lecture: Friday, February 15, 2008, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Title: A TRI-FUNCTIONAL VIEW OF ARCHITECTURE:
Domestic - Sydney Opera House ? Noyori Conference Centre
3rd Lecture: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Title: MULTIMODALITY: ENGAGING WITH PAINTING
Botticelli ? Canaletto ? Rembrandt ? Seurat
(Global COE Open Lecture)
4th Lecture: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Title: ADVERTISING: WORDS AND IMAGES
Picasso and Cannon Copiers
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1st, 2nd and 4th Lecture: Nagoya University School of Letters, Graduate School of Letters Room 128
3rd Lecture: Nagoya International Center Building, Nagoya University, Global COE Office
<language in use>
English
