Center for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility - The Global Centers of Excellence Program, Keio University

Workshop/Research Seminar "Negative Emotions and Culture - A Cross Cultural Approach to Anger, Sadness, and the Feeling of "Hitting the Bottom" and their Representation in Visual Images" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English and Japanese.

Title: "Negative Emotions and Culture - A Cross Cultural Approach to Anger, Sadness, and the Feeling of "Hitting the Bottom" and their Representation in Visual Images"
Date and Time: Sunday, 15th August, 2010; 13:30 ‐ 17:00 / Monday, 16th August, 2010
Venue: Inamori Memorial Building 2F, Chu-Kaigishitsu Conference Room, Kyoto University (Access Map)

Session I Negative Emotions and Culture - A Cross-Cultural Approach
  Sunday, 15th August. 13:30-17:00
Speakers and Themes:
Introduction Keizo Miyasaka (Keio University), Takanori Oishi (Kyoto University)
Cultural Perspectives of "Hit-Bottom feeling": An Anthropological Approach Keizo Miyasaka (Professor, Department of Human Sciences, Keio University)
Negative Emotions in New Guinea and Indonesia: a Visual Anthropological Approach Karl Heider（Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina; Specially Invited Professor at Graduate School of Human Sciences, Keio University）
Ethno-biological/anthropological Approach to Cross-cultural Studies in Emotions: A Comparative Analysis between Slash-and-burn Agriculturalists and Hunters-Gathers in Southeast Cameroon Takanori Oishi (Research Fellow, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
Commentrary Miho Ishii (Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)

Session II Negative Emotions in Japanese Culture: Past, Present, and Future
  Monday, 16th August. 10:00-14:30
Speakers and Themes:
Opening Remarks Keizo Miyasaka (Keio University)
The Influences of Introduced Buddhism over Negative Emotions in the History of Spiritual-Cultural Consciousness in Japan Toji Kamata (Professor, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
Gaman: A Comparative Note on Negative Emotions in Diabetes Care Mohácsi Gergely (Research Fellow, CARLS, Keio University)
Epistemology for Promoting Recovery from Alcoholic Dependency: Focusing on the Role of MAC as an Intermediate Institution Supporting Alcoholics in their Transition to Alcoholic Anonymous Organizations after their "Hit-Bottom" Experience Asami Ohnuma (PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University)
Commentary Kenta Kasai (Research Fellow, Information Center for Religion)

Organized under the Joint Auspice of the Following Institutions:
*Cultural-Medical Anthropological Research on Human Sciences Studies of Emotional Knowing and Embodiment, Cultural Anthropology Group, Philosophy-Anthropology Unit, CARLS, Keio University
*Joint Research Project on "Studies in Negative Emotions: From Vengeful Ghosts to Jealousy" & Interdisciplinary Studies of Kokoro from the Perspective of Micro Cultural Incidents and Visual Practices in Visual Anthropology, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University

Reference: "Negative Emotions and Culture - A Cross Cultural Approach to Anger, Sadness, and the Feeling of "Hitting the Bottom" and their Representation in Visual Images"

Research Seminar "Emotional Terrain of Transnational Immigrants: a Cultural Anthropological Approach" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English and Japanese.

Title: "Emotional Terrain of Transnational Immigrants: a Cultural Anthropological Approach"
Date and Time: Tuesday, 20th July, 2010; 13:00 ‐ 19:30
Venue: 6F G-SEC Lab and 4F G-SEC Seminar Room, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

PART 1: 13:00
Film screening:
   Jaguar (by Jean Rouch, 93 min, 1967, with English subtitles）
   Les Maitres Fous (by Jean Rouch, 35 min, 1954, with English subtitles）
Commentary: Prof. Karl G. Heider (Keio University, Visiting Professor)

PART 2: 16:00
Lecturer: Prof. Miyasa Keizo (Keio University, Cultural Anthropology)
Title: "Diaspora and Emotional Life: An Anthropological Approach"
Discussant: Prof. Matsuoka Hideaki (Shukutoku University)

PART 3: 17:30
Lecturer: Kang Yoon-hee (Nanjyan Technological University, Singapore)
Title: "The Emotional Terrain of Educational Migration: South Korean Early Study Abroad (jogi yuhak) Students and Their Families in Singapore"
Discussant: Prof. Jung Yeong-hae (Otsuma Women's University)
Panel Discussion: Prof. Karl G. Heider and others

Reference (in English) : "Emotional Terrain of Transnational Immigrants: a Cultural Anthropological Approach"
Reference (in Japanese) : "Emotional Terrain of Transnational Immigrants: a Cultural Anthropological Approach"

Semantics Research Group Meetings are to be held on 25th June, 2nd July, and 16th July.
*Admission free, no registration required.

For further information, please check the website "Semantics Research Group".

Lecture by Prof. Akihiro Kanamori (Boston University) and Prof. Juliet Floyd (Boston University) is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Lecturers: Prof. Akihiro Kanamori (Boston University), Prof. Juliet Floyd (Boston University)
Date and Time: Friday, 11th June, 2010; 16:30 ‐ 19:30
Venue: Conference Room A, 1st Floor, Faculty Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Takashi Iida (Global COE CARLS, Keio University)
Organized by: Takashi Iida, Ryota Akiyoshi, Ikuro Suzuki, Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): Lecture by Prof. Akihiro Kanamori and Prof. Juliet Floyd

Lecture "Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Lecturer: Prof. Warren H. Meck (Duke University)
Title: "Functional and Neural Mechanisms of Interval Timing"
Date and Time: Wednesday, 26th May, 2010; 17:30 ‐ 19:00
Venue: G-SEC Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Organized by: Prof. Shigeru Watanabe, Brain and Evolution Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University

This workshop will discuss the global contexts of sociotechnical transformation and shifting cultural sensibilities using the example of computer gaming. The presenter will focus on the emergence of the global game industry as a legitimate and respected business in the everyday consciousness of Korean people. It will be argued that specific government policies, which enabled access to digital literacy opportunities have been instrumental in laying the groundwork for a ubiquitous online game culture in Korea.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Presenter: Florence Chee (Ph.D. Candidate, School of Communication, Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada)
Title: "Globalizing Online Games Understanding the Virtual, Contextual, and Liminal"
Date and Time: Friday, 21st May, 2010; 16:15 ‐ 17:45
Venue: Discussion Room, South Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Chair: Keizo Miyasaka (Professor, Cultural Anthropology, Keio University)
Planned by: Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese) : "Prediction vs Control in Dynamic Complex Environments"

Lecture "Prediction vs Control in Dynamic Complex Environments" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Lecturer: Dr. Magda Osman (Queen Mary, University of London and University College London)
Title: "Prediction vs Control in Dynamic Complex Environments"
Date and Time: Saturday, 1st May, 2010; 16:30 ‐ 18:00
Venue: Conference Room A, Faculty Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Organized by: Dr. Fumihiko Taya, Brain and Evolution Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): "Prediction vs Control in Dynamic Complex Environments"

Lecture "The Frege-Geach Problem: The Role of Logic in Moral Thought" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Lecturer: Prof. Nick Zangwill (Durham University)
Title: "The Frege-Geach Problem: The Role of Logic in Moral Thought"
Date and Time: Tuesday, 27th April, 2010; 16:30 ‐ 18:00
Venue: G-SEC Seminar Room, 4th floor, East Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Organized by: Prof. Noburu Notomi, Logic and Informatics Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): "The Frege-Geach Problem: The Role of Logic in Moral Thought"

Mita Logic Seminar "A Proof Theory Workshop (with Lecture Series by Grigori Mints)" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Title: "A Proof Theory Workshop (with Lecture Series by Grigori Mints)"
Date and Time: Wednesday & Thursday, 17-18th March, 2010; 13:00 start
Venue: Conference Hall, 3rd Floor, North Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Speakers and Themes:
[Wednesday, 17th March]
Grigori Mints (Stanford University) "Epsilon-Calculus and Epsilon-Substitution Method"
Naohi Eguchi (Kobe University) "On provably total number-theoretic functions of fragments of set theories"
Ryota Akiyoshi (Keio University) "Finite notations for Ωμ-rule"
Hirohiko Kushida (Keio University) "A modal logical study of the notion of Gödel sentences"
Gunnar Wilken (OIST) "Derivation Lengths Classification of Gödel's T Extending Howard's Assignment"
[Thursday, 18th March]
Grigori Mints (Stanford University) "Termination of Epsilon-Substitution Method for Arithmetic and ID₁"
Toshiyasu Arai (Chiba University) "Search problems in bounded arithmetics"
Masaru Shirahata (Keio University) "Toward a categorical NCI"
Makoto Tatsuta (NII) "Non-Commutative First-Order Sequent Calculus"
Chair: Takashi Iida (Keio University)

Organized by: Open Research Centre for Logic and Formal Ontology, Keio University/ Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): "A Proof Theory Workshop (with Lecture Series by Grigori Mints)"

Lecture "Atypical dopamine transport inhibitors: mechanisms underlying their potential as treatments for cocaine abuse" is to be held as follows.
　*Admission free, no registration required.
　*This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.

Lecturer: Dr. Jonathan L. Katz (National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health)
Title: "A typical dopamine transport inhibitors: mechanisms underlying their potential as treatments for cocaine abuse"
Date and Time: Sunday, 14th March, 2010; 17:00 ‐ 18:00
Venue: Conference Room A, Faculty Research Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Organized by: Brain and Evolution Unit, Global COE CARLS, Keio University
Reference (in Japanese): "A typical dopamine transport inhibitors: mechanisms underlying their potential as treatments for cocaine abuse"