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Acclaimed Director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Wind Rises is based loosely on the life of Jiro Horikoshi. Young Horikoshi is in love with flight, but cursed with poor eyesight, making his dream of becoming a…
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| International House Philadelphia3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104
Dr. Patricia Henwood, through the lens of working with Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, will address emergent epidemics, and the global response to diseases in our inter-connected world. Dr. Henwood is the Director…
Shirin Nezammafi is a graduate of Kobe University, where she received her B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2004 and her M.S. in Information Technology in 2006. She currently works for Microsoft Gulf in the United Arab…
Rooted in indigenous traditions and Western influences, ethnology (minzokugaku) emerged as a social scientific discipline in early twentieth-century Japan. Ethnology developed in tandem with empire: scholars supplied…
Sophie Richardson is the China director at Human Rights Watch. A graduate of the University of Virginia, the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, and Oberlin College, Dr. Richardson is the author of numerous articles on domestic…
Thomas Kellogg is director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations. He is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. At the Open Society Foundations, Kellogg focuses most closely on civil society…
