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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 held on 15-16 August, 2010

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"

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