FY 2022
Beyond Women’s Day: Strengthening Communities of Female Talent in Japan
Date | May 20, 2022 |
Venue | Zoom Webinar |
Overview | Japan faces a shortage in female talent in the paid workforce, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Join us as we invite Ksenia Zolotareva, a Women@JP Career Pillar Lead and Senior Business Consultant at Google Japan, to speak about her experiences and strategies for strengthening communities of female talent in Japan. Women@JP is Google’s Employee Resource Groups (ERG). Symposium Poster Related link |
Registration | Registration Form |
Contact | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo tokyo.college.event[at]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Tokyo College Lecture: Globalisation, Empires, and the Making of the Modern World”
Date | May 13, 2022 |
Venue | Tetsumon Memorial Hall, Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Bldg. (University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus) |
Overview | This talk describes three phases of globalisation that have occupied the last five centuries and their role in making the world we know today. The first two phases were associated with the rise of Western empires, which integrated large parts of the world through a process of compulsory globalisation. The third phase, which began after 1945, brought empires to an end and produced the current world order and disorder. Symposium Poster Related link |
Registration | Registration Form |
Contact | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo tokyo.college.event[at]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |

Tokyo College Lecture: “Trade war, global pandemic, Ukraine: What we know, and don’t know, about the new political and economic order”
Date | May 10, 2022 |
Venue | Tetsumon Memorial Hall, Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Bldg. (University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus) |
Overview | Recent years have featured the US-China trade war, the coronavirus pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, each of which we can consider “radically uncertain” events that were not in any real sense predictable. This lecture seeks to identify how these events fit into conventional frameworks for explaining the world, how these events might have changed that framework, what elements of the framework remain unknown, and how we should respond to this age of uncertainty. Symposium Poster Related link |
Registration | Registration Form |
Contact | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo tokyo.college.event[at]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |

Interview Series “The Ukraine Crisis: Perspectives From Around the World”
Date | To be released sequentially throughout April |
Venue | Tokyo College YouTube Channel |
Overview | In this series, we ask researchers interested in the politics, economics, cultures, and societies of regions around the world to talk about how the current crisis is being perceived or understood in their area of study. Symposium Poster (Japanese language only) Related link |
Contact | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo tokyo.college.event[at]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |

Tokyo College Lecture: “Self-organization for Materials Synthesis”
Date | April 5, 2022 |
Venue | Tokyo College YouTube Channel |
Overview | A wide variety of new structures are created using the phenomenon of “self-assembly,” in which molecules spontaneously assemble and order themselves. This presentation introduces the tiny world of manufacturing, where new structures are magically created simply by mixing metal ions and organic molecules. Symposium Poster (Japanese language only) Related link |
Contact | Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo tokyo.college.event[at]tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |