Date and time: January 12, 2026 (Monday holiday) 13:30-16:30
Location: The University of Osaka, Minoh Campus, 1st floor large lecture room or online
Target audience: UOsaka members (faculty, staff, and students), and the general public
Participation fee: Free
Application: By noon on Friday, January 9, 2026FormPlease apply from here.
Speakers:
Honma Naho (CO Design Center / Professor, Graduate School of Humanities)
"Dialogue with people living in multiple cultures"
Takeshi Enomoto (Professor, Department of Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities)
"How Multiple Voices Go Unheard: From the Perspective of Linguistic Anthropology"
Akira Miyahara (Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Department of Foreign Studies/Institute for Leading Interdisciplinary Research)
"Can Sinophone be Surpassed?—Polyglot of Dharani and Zhuangzi—"
commentator:
Lin, Chu-mei (Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of Humanities)
Takaya Hayashi (Lecturer, School of Letters, Mukogawa Women's University)
This symposium will explore the perspectives and strategies necessary for people living in multilingual and cultural environments to thrive while utilizing the resources they each possess.
Why not try to understand diverse realities empirically and consider their essence theoretically by studying across academic fields such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and education?
Contact:
Diversity & Community Engagement Research Center
contact (at) derc.hmt.osaka-u.ac.jp
