JICUF Senior Research Fellow in Science and Religion Thomas Hastings has co-edited a Japanese anthology of essays on science, religion, and philosophy. The anthology, “Entanglements of Religion and Science” was published by Nanzan University, and emerges out of a grant from the Templeton Foundation.
On June 5-6 the Japan ICU Foundation will be sponsoring a Carnegie Council Global Ethics Conference in the Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House at ICU. The Global Ethics Conference is part of the Carnegie Council’s Global Ethics Network and will feature keynote addresses from former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Dr. Michael Ignatieff, the Centennial Chair of the Carnegie Council and Professor at Harvard University, amongst others.
For more information on what Dr. Kotani spoke about in his lecture, read ahead for a link to the full translation by recent alumnus from the ICU summer language program Anatolii Aast and/or refer to the book, The Hidden Impact: Everything You Need to Know for the Next Disaster.
Now in its second year, the summer Global Link program has undergone some changes over the past 12 months, shifting focus from its previous model as a Student Internship to a more comprehensive experience. The Japan ICU Foundation (JICUF) has custom designed the new Global Link to expose ICU students to a variety of organizations and thought-leaders working in the field of sustainability.
On April 30th, the JICUF completed its one-month campaign in North America in support of the ICU Sakura Fund!
ICU Professor Roger H. Geeslin, 83, died March 3, 2015. In addition to teaching mathematics at ICU, Roger was deeply involved in the development of certain ICU buildings and both he and his wife were deeply committed to the creation of various projects and programs, like the ICU Church related preschool, during their 13 years with ICU.
Are you looking to make a significant impact on the world by promoting global peace and cooperation? Rotary International selects some of the world’s most dedicated and brightest professionals to receive fully funded fellowships to study at their six Rotary Peace Centers, including ICU. In just over a decade, the Rotary Peace Centers have trained more than 900 fellows for careers in peace building. Many of them go on to serve as leaders in national governments, NGOs, the military, law enforcement, and international organizations like the United Nations and World Bank.
For the third year in a row, the Japan ICU Foundation partnered successfully with our great ICU Alumni DC Chapter in staffing a special ICU booth at the annual Sakura Matsuri – Washington, DC street festival. As the largest single-day event of its type in the U.S., organized by the Japan-America Society of Washington, DC, it provides us a great opportunity to reach many new and interested prospective international students for ICU. Many thanks to all of our hard-working ICU alumni and friends in DC who made this the best year thus far!
Kumiko Makihara is an ICU alumna who writes about her impressions of life in Japan and the United States, two countries she has been traveling back and forth between for most of her life. Her columns have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times Magazine and Newsweek, as well as in the books Reimagining Japan: The Quest for a Future That Works and Tsunami: Japan’s Post Fukushima Future. She is currently working on a book about her son’s experiences in a Japanese primary school.
Rethinking Peace Studies participant Bahia Shehab stars in the critically acclaimed short documentary Nefertiti’s Daughters, directed by Mark Nickolas. The film just won first place at the 2015 Athens International Film + Video Festival in the Short Documentary Category.
