Academic Lecture Program
The Museum organizes public academic lectures in Osaka and Tokyo. These facilitate cross-cultural understanding and help to increase public recognition of the Museum.
Public Lecture“The Rapidly Changing Indian World: From the Viewpoint of Everyday Life”
Date: March 19 (Thursday), 2009
Cosponsor: Mainichi Newspapers
Supporting Organization: Consulate-General of India in Osaka
Lecturers: MIO Minoru, SUGIMOTO Yoshio, TERADA Yoshitaka
Public Lecture (Celebrating the Centennial of Japanese Immigration to Brazil) “Brazil and Japan: Interaction in the Past and Relations in the Future”
Date: October 17 (Friday), 2008
Cosponsor: Nihon Keizai Newspaper, Inc.
Supporting Organization: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
Lecturers: NAKAMAKI Hirochika, ISHI Angelo (Musashi University), SHOJI Hiroshi
Public Lecture“Minpaku Public Lecture Commemorating the 30th Anniversary Searching for a New Life-Design”
Date: March 7 (Friday), 2008
Cosponsor: Mainichi Newspapers
Lecturers: SASAKI Shiro, SUZUKI Nanami, MORI Akiko
Public Lecture“National Museum of Ethnology’s Public Lecture in Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary Global Cuisine: An Anthropological Perspective”
Date: October 12 (Friday), 2007
Cosponsor: Nihon Keizai Newspaper, Inc.
Lecturers: ISHIGE Naomichi (Professor Emeritus), ASAKURA Toshio, KONAGAYA Yuki
Public Lecture“Living in Japan: Migrant Wisdomand Vitality”
Date: March 2 (Friday), 2007
Cosponsor: Mainichi Newspapers
Lecturers: MINAMI Makito, CHEN Tien-shi
Public Lecture“Toward a Multicultural Co-existence: Cases from Australia”
Date: October 27 (Friday), 2006
Cosponsor: Nihon Keizai Newspaper, Inc.
Lecturers: MATSUYAMA Toshio, KUBO Masatoshi, SEKINE Masami (Professor, Keio University)
Public Lecture“In the Forefront of Performing Arts Documentation: Films and the Transmission of Cultural Properties”
Date: March 3 (Friday), 2006
Cosponsor: Mainichi Newspapers
Lecturers: FUKUOKA Shota, TERADA Yoshitaka
Public Lecture“Changing Models of the Family: Comparative Perspecitves from China, Korea and Japan”
Date: October 28 (Friday), 2005
Cosponsor: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Lecturers: ASAKURA Toshio, HAN Min
Research Dissemination Program“Remembrance of Disasters: Ethnography as a Tool for Community Disaster Management”
Date: March 23 (Wednesday), 2005
Cosponsor: Mainichi Newspapers
Lecturers: SHIGEKAWA Kishie, Rajib SHAW, TERADA Masahiro, HAYASHI Isao
Public Lecture“NGO and NPO after the Great Hanshin Earthquake”
Date: October 8 (Friday), 2004
Cosponsor: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Lecturers: HAYASHI Isao, DEGUCHI Masayuki
Tokyo Public Lecture“From Fields of International Cooperation”
Date: December 19 (Friday), 2003
Sponsor: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Lecturers: MATSUZONO Makio, KONAGAYA Yuki, KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro