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Lecture (Prof. Joel GITTELSOHN) Changing the Urban Food Environment to Reduce Risk of Chronic Disease

This presentation will describe environmental interventions to prevent obesity and non-communicable diseases in urban food environments. Dr. Gittelsohn will highlight strategies, impacts and lessons learned from the Baltimore Healthy Food initiatives, as well as the work of other researchers....

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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Lecture (Prof. Sebastian CONRAD) Nefertiti: The Making of a Global Icon

The talk will address the astonishing global resonance of the bust of Nefertiti ever since its first exhibition in Berlin in 1924. Today, the silhouette alone guarantees recognition around the world. This is a story of how a variety of actors have used the bust for the most diverse purposes...

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Lecture (Prof. Sheldon GARON) “Morale” on the Home Front: Its Transnational Construction and Destruction, 1914-1945

Although few could define it, “civilian morale” emerged as one of the 20th century’s deadliest discourses. In its name, millions of civilians were bombed and starved, as warring nations sought to “break the morale” of the enemy's civil population in Europe and East Asia by air raids and food blockades....

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Lecture (Prof. Gang CHEN) 【Rescheduled】Bridging Basic and Applied Research in Energy and Water

With global warming, energy and water shortages present grand challenges for humanity and demand innovative solutions. Even in mature fields, fundamental and cross-disciplinary research can spark breakthroughs in energy and water technologies. At the same time, the pursuit of practical applications often raises new fundamental scientific questions. This talk will highlight examples from the speaker’s research to illustrate how basic research can generate transformative ideas, and conversely, how applied research can drive fundamental discoveries.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Blog Deep Interdisciplinarity: Reading Michel Serres

It’s my pleasure to introduce a new blog series linked to the Deep Interdisciplinarity reading group at Tokyo College. For the last year, we have been meeting every month to discuss foundational questions about research methods and the future of academic scholarship. In this series, we will share insights gained from these discussions, from our readings, and from our own scholarly practice. It will also be a place where colleagues from across Tokyo College and beyond can also communicate their thoughts on the same themes....

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Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani
May 7, 2025

About Us We are committed to the advancement of critical research questions related to “The Earth and Human Society in 2050.

Tokyo College is an organization like no other. Founded in 2019 to serve as an interface between the University of Tokyo and overseas researchers and research institutions, our core philosophy centers around the “Joy of Discovery and Power of Knowledge.”

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Deep Interdisciplinarity: Reading Michel Serres

2025.05.07
Tokyo College Blog

Author: Cintia Kozonoi Vezzani It’s my pleasure to introduce a new blog series linked to the Deep Interdisciplinarity reading group at Tokyo College. For the last year, we have been meeting every month to discuss foundational…

Yoshimi Hyakuana: Japan’s Layered History

2025.03.04
Tokyo College Blog

Authors: Mark TURIN, Andrew GORDON On a crisp and windy Tuesday morning in mid-February, members of the Heritage Studies and Global History Groups based at Tokyo College, together with a small contingent of associated academic visitors,…

UTokyo Class on Bilingualism (Part 2. of 2)

2024.09.02
Tokyo College Blog

Continuing from Part 1. of 2. This blog post was created as part of the interdisciplinary zengaku seminar “Different Dimensions of Bilingualism” offered at the University of Tokyo during the 2024 academic year.  === “Okinawan languages…

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