We hold Hitotsubashi University Interanational Seminars with the financial support from Josuikai, the university alumni association.
The purpose of the Hitotosubashi International Seminars are as follows:
- To raise awareness on research and learning for young researchers and students
- To contribute to nurturing talented individuals to take an active part in developments throughout the world
- To aim for taking its place as a competitive institution of research and learning in a worldwide context
Seminar Schedule
| Date | Sunday, March 25, 2012, 13:30-15:00 |
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| Place | Faculty Building 3, East Campus |
| Speaker | Sybille Krämer Institut für Philosophie, Freie Universität Berlin Professor Dr. |
| Title | Verkörperte Sprache |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Associate Professor, Taiju Okochi Tel: 042-580-8522 |
| Date | Friday, March 23, 2012, 14:00-17:00 |
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| Place | Sano Shoin, West Campus |
| Speaker | Dr. Annette Sell The Faculty of Philosophy and Education, Ruhr University Bochum Privatdozent |
| Title | Das Leben in Hegels Logik |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Associate Professor, Taiju Okochi Tel: 042-580-8522 |
| Date | Sunday, March 18, 2012, 15:00-16:00 |
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| Place | Meeting Room, 7F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Phillip McCalman University of Melbourne Professor |
| Title | Why Trucks Jump: Offshoring, Product Characteristics and Productivity |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor,Jota Ishikawa Tel: 042-580-8794 |
| Date | Saturday, March 17, 2012, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | Meeting Room, 7F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Prasanta Pattanaik University of California, Riverside Emeritus Professor |
| Title | On Multidimensional Welfare Measures |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor,Naoki Yoshihara Tel: 042-580-8354 |
| Date | Thursday, February 23, 2012, 15:30-18:00 |
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| Place | Sano Shoin, West Campus |
| Speaker | Sang Bing Sun Yat-Sen University Professor |
| Title | Rethinking Ethnicity and Frontiers in Chinese History |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 16:00-18:00 |
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| Place | Sano Shoin, West Campus |
| Speaker | Michael Perelman California State University, Chico Professor |
| Title | Classical Political Economy and Marx on Primitive Accumulation |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | Saturday, February 18, 2012, 10:00-12:00 |
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| Place | Meeting Room, 7F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Hector Chade Arizona State University Professor |
| Title | Dynamic Contracting |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | Saturday, February 18, 2012, 15:30-17:00 |
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| Place | 3506, 5F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Jane Freedman Université de Paris 8 Professor |
| Title | Persecution and Protection: Gender, Asylum and Migration in the European Union |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | Thursday, February 2, 2012, 13:30-15:00 |
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| Place | 5F, LS/CSE Building, East Campus |
| Speaker | Lee Sang Lan Sogang University, School of Humanities Professor |
| Title | Creative Reception of Tradition and Reciprocity in the Contemporary Korean Theater -- with a Focus on Oh Tae Suk's Theatrical Work |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University |
| Date | Tuesday,January 31, 2012, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 217, 2F, Faculty Building2, West Campus |
| Speaker | Paul Jensen The University of Melbourne Associate Professor |
| Title | How Do Patents affect Academic Scientists’ Choice of Research Projects? |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor,Hiroyuki Okamuro Tel: 042-580-8792 |
| Date | Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 16:00-18:00 |
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| Place | Isono Building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Wu Xiao An Peking University Professor |
| Title | Theories and Case Studies of Overseas Chinese in South East Asia |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Tomoko Shiroyama Tel: 042-580-8857 |
| Date | Friday, January 13, 2012, 14:30-17:30 |
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| Place | 4F, LS/CSE Building, East Campus |
| Speaker | JUAN Xueyan Department of Foreign Languages, Tsinghua University professor |
| Title | Translation of Waka and Haiku |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society Associate Professor, Toshiaki Yasuda Tel: 042-580-9027 |
| Date | Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 14:00-17:00 |
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| Place | 1F, LS/CGE Building, East Campus |
| Speaker | Sim Dong-Sup Korean Culture Center, Korean Embassy in Janpan Senior Director |
| Title | History of Korea and Cultural Differences between Korean and Japanese |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Commerce and Management Professor, Hiroshi Ota Tel: 042-580-9009 |
| Date | Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | Meeting Room, 4F, Institute for Economic Research, West Campus |
| Speaker | Shuhei Nishitateno Australian National University Researcher |
| Title | "Relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and Exports: New Evidence from Product-Level Data" |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Jota Ishikawa Tel: 042-580-8794 |
| Date | Thursday, December 22, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | Room#317, Isono Building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Yuichi Yamamoto Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Lecturer |
| Title | Learning and Long-Run Cooperation |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Assistant Professor, Takashi Kunimoto Tel: 042-580-8805 |
| Date | Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 14:30-16:30 |
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| Place | 4F, LS/CSE Building, East Campus |
| Speaker | Park Myoung-Kyu Seoul National University, Department of Sociology Professor |
| Title | Peace Studies in East Asia: An Approach through the Study of History of Ideas |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society Professor,Keisuke Kasuya Tel: 042-580-9015 |
| Date | Friday, December 16, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 217, 2F, Faculty Building2, West Campus |
| Speaker | Alex Novikov University of Technology, Sydney Professor |
| Title | An approach to calculating asymptotic variance of Bayesian estimators |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor,Katsuto Tanaka Tel: 042-580-8789 |
| Date | Sunday, December 11, 2011, 15:00-20:00 |
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| Place | 3506, 5F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Dr. el-Said Abbas Zaghloul National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, Egypt Professor |
| Title | Egypt in the Mediteranean Perspective. |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Yauhiro OTSUKI Tel: 042-580-8271 |
| Date | Thursday, December 8, 2011, 10:30-12:00 |
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| Place | Room#38, 3F, Main building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Tangjun Yuan School of Economic, Fudan University Associate Professor |
| Title | Is the Chinese Economic Growth Sustainable? |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Assistant Professor, Qun Liu Tel: 042-580-8495 |
| Date | Thursday, December 8, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 217, 2F, Isono Building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Uwe Hassler Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Professor |
| Title | New Insights into the Effect of Temporal Aggregation |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Eiji Kurozumi Tel: 042-580-8787 |
| Date | Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 14:30-16:15 |
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| Place | Meeting Room, 4F, Institute for Economic Research, West Campus |
| Speaker | Shane Greenstein Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Professor, Kellogg Chair of Information Technology |
| Title | The Lexicon of Network Economics in Evolving Markets |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Reiko Aoki Tel: 042-580-8312 |
| Date | Tuesday, December 6, 2011, 16:00-18:00 |
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| Place | Reception Room, 1F, Main building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Rhacel Parreñas University of Southern California Professor |
| Title | Moral Imperialism and the U.S. War on Trafficking |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Ruri Ito Tel: 042-580-8264 |
| Date | Thursday, December 1, 2011, 15:00-17:00 |
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| Place | Faculty Building 3 , East Campus |
| Speaker | Gerardo Esquivel El Colegio de Mexico Professor |
| Title | The Economics and Politics of Drugs and Violence in Mexico |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Hidenobu Okuda Tel: 042-580-8761 |
| Date | Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 15:00-17:00 |
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| Place | Faculty Building 3 , East Campus |
| Speaker | Gerardo Esquivel El Colegio de Mexico Professor |
| Title | Mexico and the International Financial Crisis: Impact and Perspectives |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Hidenobu Okuda Tel: 042-580-8761 |
| Date | Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 15:00-17:00 |
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| Place | Faculty Building 3 , East Campus |
| Speaker | Gerardo Esquivel El Colegio de Mexico Professor |
| Title | Why Isn't Mexico Rich? Why It Should Be? |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Hidenobu Okuda Tel: 042-580-8761 |
| Date | Thursday, November 24, 2011, 16:00-18:00 |
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| Place | Reception Room, 1F, Main building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Hsia Hsiao-Chuan Shih Hsin University Professor |
| Title | Globalization, Marriage Migration and State Intervention in Taiwan |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Ruri ITO Tel: 042-580-8264 |
| Date | Thursday, November 24, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 317, 3F, Isono Building, West Campus |
| Speaker | In-Ho Lee Department of Economics, Seoul National University Associate Professor |
| Title | Moral Hazard and Forbearance in Financial Regulation |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Koichi Tadenuma Tel: 042-580-8603 |
| Date | Monday, November 21, 2011, 14:00-16:00 |
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| Place | 3506, 5F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Heba El Laithy Cairo University Professor |
| Title | "Youth" and Revolution in Arab Countries |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Hiroshi Kato Tel: 042-580-8267 |
| Date | Saturday, November 19, 2011, 15:00-17:00 |
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| Place | Seminar Room 1, Institute of Economic Research, West Campus |
| Speaker | Giandomenica Beccio Department of Economics, University of Torino Assistant Professor |
| Title | Carl Menger and the Second Edition of his Principles |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor, Tamotsu Nishizawa Tel: 042-580-8362 |
| Date | Saturday, November 19, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 3F, Faculty Building3, East Campus |
| Speaker | Simon Mohun University of London at Queen Mary Professor |
| Title | Profitability and Business Cycles in the US Economy |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor, Naoki Yoshihara Tel: 042-580-8354 |
| Date | Thursday, November 17, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 317, 3F, Isono Building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Yasutora Watanabe Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Assistant Professor |
| Title | Entry by Acquisition: Estimates from a Two-sided Matching Model with Externality |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Akira Okada Tel: 042-580-8599 |
| Date | Thursday, November 10, 2011, 10:30-12:00 |
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| Place | Room#38, 3F, Main building, West Campus |
| Speaker | Ichiro Otani Otani Economic Policy Consultancy, Washington DC, USA Economic Policy Consultant |
| Title | China's Financial Sector Reform : History and Current Issues |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Assistant Professor, Qun Liu Tel: 042-580-8495 |
| Date | Monday, November 7, 2011, 16:30-18:30 |
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| Place | 3F, Faculty Building3, East Campus |
| Speaker | Zhang Jishun East China Normal University Professor |
| Title | The National Popular Vote in Shanghai in the Early 1950s |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Hiroko Sakamoto Tel: 042-580-8463 |
| Date | Saturday, October 22, 2011, 13:30-16:30 |
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| Place | Hitotsubashi Memorial Hal (National Center of Sciences Building 2-1-2, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku) |
| Speaker | Jan Grotheer The lawyers`Association of Japan and Germany A former President of the Fiscal Court of Hamburg |
| Title | "The Procedure of Fiscal Court mainly on fact finding in Germany" |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law Professor, Tadatsune Mizuno Tel: 042-580-8503 |
| Date | Saturday, October 8, 2011, 10:30-12:00 |
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| Place | East Lecture Building 1, East Campus |
| Speaker | Josef Brada Department of Economics, Arizona State University Professor |
| Title | Bubble economy in Transition |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor, Masaaki Kuboniwa Tel: 042-580-8381 |
| Date | Wednesday, August 3 , 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 1F, Faculty Building2, West Campus |
| Speaker | Masashige Hamano University of Luxembourg Invited researcher |
| Title | The consumption-real exchange rate anomaly with extensive margins. |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Commerce and Management Professor, Masaru Konishi Tel: 042-580-8469 |
| Date | Thursday, July 28, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 3506, 5F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Ron Harstad Department of Economics, University of Missouri Professor |
| Title | Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Akira Okada Tel: 042-580-8599 |
| Date | Friday, July 22, 2011, 13:00-16:00 |
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| Place | 3F, Faculty Building3, East Campus |
| Speaker | HUANG YA-HSIN National Taipei University of Education, Department of Language and Creative Writing Associate professor |
| Title | Describe "Washengren" : the Literary Position of Dajiangdahai |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Ko Ikujo Tel: 042-580-8496 |
| Date | Thursday, July 21, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 3506, 5F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | Richard Baldwin International Economics Graduate Institute of International Studies Professor |
| Title | Gravity Chains: Estimating the gravity model when trade in parts is important |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Jota Ishikawa Tel: 042-580-8794 |
| Date | Sunday, July 17, 2011, 15:00-19:00 |
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| Place | Sano Shoin, West Campus |
| Speaker | Gabriella Airaldi University of Genova(Universita degli Studi di Genova) Professor |
| Title | The Genoese international relations and its colonial system in the Middle Ages. |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Professor, Yasuhiro Otuki Tel: 042-580-8271 |
| Date | Friday, July 15, 2011, 16:30-18:30 |
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| Place | 3508, 5F, Mercury Tower,East Campus |
| Speaker | Bao Yinghua Inner Mongolia University Lecturer |
| Title | Tradition and modernization of Mongolian women in the first part of the twentieth century |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Hiroko Sakamoto Tel: 042-580-8463 |
| Date | Friday, June 24, 2011, 16:30-18:30 |
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| Place | 3508, 5F, Mercury Tower,East Campus |
| Speaker | Helena Hirata National Center for Scientific Research, France Research Director |
| Title | Gender, Work and Care: Research Trends in France |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Social Sciences Professor, Ruri Ito Tel: 042-580-8264 |
| Date | Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 217, 2F, Faculty Building 2, West Campus |
| Speaker | Marcus Asplund Royal Institute of Technogy, Stockholm, Sweden Professor |
| Title | Did the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly set Monopoly Prices? |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research Professor, Yukinobu Kitamura Tel: 042-580-8394 |
| Date | Monday, May 30, 2011, 14:30-16:15 |
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| Place | 2301,3F, East Lecture Building 2, East Campus |
| Speaker | Benjamin Friedman Harvard University, Department of Economics Professor |
| Title | Moral Consequence of Economic Growth |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Commerce and Management Professor, Masaru Konishi Tel: 042-580-8469 |
| Date | Friday, May 20, 2011, 14:00-18:00 |
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| Place | 3104, 1F, Mercury Tower, East Campus |
| Speaker | David.t.Johnson University of Hawaii Professor |
| Title | The Lay Judge System and the Death Penalty in Japan |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law Professor, Wang Yunhai Tel: 042-580-8615 |
| Date | Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | 2F,Faculty Building2, West Campus |
| Speaker | Worawat Margsiri Fordham University Assistant Professor |
| Title | The Impact of Holdup Problems in Early Supplier Involvement on New Product Development Preference |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Associate Professor, Daiji Kawaguchi Tel: 042-580-8851 |
| Date | Thursday, May 12, 2011, 16:30-18:00 |
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| Place | Isono Building West Campus |
| Speaker | Ichiro Obara Department of Economics, UCLA Associate Professor |
| Title | Collusion in Bertrand Competition |
| Contact | Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics Assistand Professor,Takashi Kunimoto Tel: 042-580-8805 |
No admission fee is required.
For inquiries about international seminars please contact each faculty members in charge.
