Prof. Norie Takazawa received a grant to host a workshop for a international group of French and Japanese researchers focusing on the social status of women in the early modern Society of Orders in France.
Isabel Arredondo
State University of New York, Plattburgh
USA
Patrick Lonergan
National University of Ireland
Ireland
Eviatar Zerubavel
Rutgers University
USA
ICU graduate student, Daniel Fernandez, received a grant to execute an experimental Butoh-based mixed media performance. The project seeks to engage the key themes of JICUF’s Rethinking Peace Studies: Translation, Memory and Dialogue.
Robyn Shinozaki and Takehiro Mouri received a grant to launch Techrise, a coding bootcamp to train and develop Nepali youth into programmers.
ICU student group, Theater NIJI. received a JICUF grant to travel to schools and nursing homes in Indonesia and perform some musicals and plays. Their trip also included acting workshops for the children and some volunteering activities as well.
ICU students Marina Nakamura and Shiho Takahashi received a grant to being their popular Facebook page, Humans of ICU, to part of Tohoku. The project seeks to inspire students to think about way to continue helping in the revitalization of Tohoku.
Aomi Kuwayama received a ¥150,000 JICUF grant to compare educational inequalities between urban and rural areas in the Philippines. The research will serve as a part of her senior thesis and the basis of her master’s thesis.
Twelve members of the ICU UNESCO Club traveled to the Czech Republic and Poland in March with the support of a JICUF grant. They learned about WWII and the Holocaust and contemplated upon how history could be used to promote peace. We asked some participants to share their experiences.
