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Event Date: Jun 15, 2026
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第58回人間知・脳・AIセミナー（CHAIN Academic Seminar #58）開催のお知らせ「An Architecture of Denial: Western Metaphysics, Buddhist Thought, and the Wound of Transience」 -
Event Date: Jun 22, 2026
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第59回人間知・脳・AIセミナー（CHAIN Academic Seminar #59）開催のお知らせ「Consequences of Modernity? From the loneliness epidemic to technologies of the future」
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Jun 01, 2026
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2027年度 文学研究院・文学部 研究生出願要項【外国人留学生】を掲載／Application Guidelines for Research Students in 2027(International Students)2027年度の「研究生出願要項【外国人留学生】」を掲載しました。 「研究計画書」の書式が更新されていますのでご注意ください。 詳細につきましては関連リンクをご覧くださ... -
Feb 06, 2026
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HSI2026: Early Application will open from March 2Since 2016, the Hokkaido University has started the Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI), a summer program that bri […] -
Jan 29, 2026
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All courses for the Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025 offered by the Graduate School / School of Humanities and Human Sciences completedOn September 5, all courses for the Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025 offered by the Graduate School / School of […] -
Jan 29, 2026
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Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025: National Heritage Tourism: The Case of Hokkaido 2025 heldFrom September 1 to 5, the five-day course “National Heritage Tourism: The Case of Hokkaido 2025” was offered […] -
Jan 29, 2026
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Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025: Social Structure: Demography and inequality in contemporary Japan heldFrom July 22 to 26, 2025, the Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences course “Social Structure: Demography an […] -
Jan 29, 2026
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Hokkaido Summer Institute 2025: Social Change: Gender Studies 2025 heldFrom August 6 to 8, 2025, the Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences course “Social Change: Gender Studies 2 […]
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We will show you the charm of various research on humanities and human sciences developed by the faculty members and the content of education with high degrees of freedom in an interview format.
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Aiming to be a messenger who inspires people: Literary research contributing to a better tomorrow -
Language does not always convey the literal meaning---“chotto” does not mean only “a little”. We make use of context, or read between the lines, to understand the full meaning of what people say. -
Ethnography, an endless field—even at Antarctic stations and in space