Announcement about lectures by Professor Roland Robertson
event date: 2018.06.30
Lectures by Professor Roland Robertson
University of Pittsburgh, USA / University of Aberdeen, UK
We are pleased to announce that the Center for Glocal Studies (CGS) of Seijo University and the International Center/ School of Global and Community Studies of the University of Fukui will jointly invite one of the world’s leading sociologists in global studies, Professor Roland Robertson, to visit us from late June to early July, 2018. He will talk at both universities on glocalization and glocal studies in the age of globalization. We hope to see you at the lectures.
Director of the CGS, Seijo University,
Tomiyuki Uesugi
1. Lecture at Seijo University
Title : The Nation-State as Glocal: National Membership of the International System
Date & Time : Saturday, June 30, 13:00–15:30
Venue : Room 322, 2nd Floor, Building No. 3, Seijo University
Sponsor : Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
Co-sponsor : International Center, School of Global and Community Studies, University of Fukui
＊Admission is free
＊Language: English, with simultaneous interpretation from/to English & Japanese
＜Abstract＞
In using the word “glocal,” I refer to the mixture—more specifically, the interpenetration—of the global and the local. For example, the United Nations Organization can be regarded as global, whereas Japan could be regarded as local. The same kind of relationship applies to every country in the world, as members of the UN. In this lecture, I will be discussing the ways in which membership of the UN, to take but one example of the global, varies from country to country. In other words, membership of individual countries in the UN varies across the entire world. Even though membership of the UN is in one sense standardized for all member countries, in a more specific sense it is particularized—again for all countries.
Therefore, in this lecture, I will be concentrating on Japan, and will note in so doing that Japan and the USA entered what we now know as the international system at approximately the same time at the end of the nineteenth century; although it should be noted that the UN was not founded until much later, that is, the late 1940s. I will therefore be examining in this lecture, and in some detail, the theme of “the glocal” as a synthesis of Japan as a UN member, on the one hand, and the United Nations system, on the other.
2. Lecture at University of Fukui
Title : Geopolitical Issues and Impressions of Fukui Through a Glocal Lens
Date & Time : Tuesday, July 3, 15:00–
Venue : Academy Hall, University of Fukui
Sponsor : International Center, School of Global and Community Studies, University of Fukui
Co-sponsor : Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
＊Admission is free
＊Language: English, with interpretation from/to English and Japanese
＜For Further Information＞
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