David Armitage Seminar at Komaba, Nov. 15, 2010

Kenryu introduces David to the audience.
Seminar paper title: "Civil War: A Conceptual Genealogy"

Joyce Chaplin Seminar at Sophia, Nov. 10, 2010

Joyce giving her paper

Joyce (left), Shitsuyo (right)

Poster designed by Ms. Mika Minoura

CASABLANCA, Cambridge, MA, August 2009

It's all started from here. . . .

Farewell dinner at "Sagami," Sept. 20

Izumi, Juro, David

'O sole mio ~ -- Here comes the Singing Professor.

David, Junko, Chikage

Hall Lecture 2010: U of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Sept. 15

Lecture title: "Women as Actors and Subjects in Religion: Protestant
America, 1650-1850." In the lecture, Hall paid attention not much to
ideology but to actual 'practices' women conducted during the period.
The sacrament of Baptism as a special legacy handed down from mothers
to children in the early American religious life was a fascinating aspect he
pointed out. This means that women played crucial roles in the colonial
New England where the church covenant was extended to function as
the social covenant. In late 18th to 19th c, sentimental power was used
by women to become active and influential agents not only in a domestic
but in a public sphere. This lecture emphasized the empowering dimension
of religion for American women.
My grad seminar students came to the lecture.

Walking in Asakusa, Sept. 12

Macha Icecream time!

Hall Lecture 2010: Daito Bunka Univ. Law School, Sept. 11

Lecture title: "Remaking Religion, Remaking Civil Society: Connections
and Differences, c. 1750-1850." Complexity, ambiguity and multi-layered
aspects of American religious history in its relation to civil society was
emphasized in the lecture.


Shitsuyo, Noriko, Yukimi, Izumi, Juro (Behind: Prof. Chiba and Prof. Sasaki)
Meiji Kinenkan garden in the evening



Prof. Onishi, Juro, Yukimi