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Cultural Interconnections Lab
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The lab considers the role of scholarship in the age of globalization by studying the processes through which cultures meet and change.
AboutAbout the lab
Cultures change form as they meet
Once a culture is born, it moves across eras and spaces, changing form through repeated contact with other cultures. It is this kind of intercultural contact that has built human civilization.
Building on the results of the Cultural Genesis Lab, the Cultural Interconnections Lab explores what scholarship should look like in the age of globalization by examining what happens in intercultural contact.
Key terms
- Intercultural contact
- People or societies with different cultures meeting and influencing one another
- Globalization
- The strengthening of worldwide connections as people, goods, and information cross national borders
ResearchResearch themes
The lab seeks to clarify, over long spans of time, the process in which the fluidity and the persistence of culture contend with each other.
*Illustrative imageEveryday Life and the Body amid Environmental Transformation and Crisis
Professor Tomoko Sakai researches "Everyday Life and the Body amid Environmental Transformation and Crisis."
*Illustrative imageThe Russo-Turkish War and Georgian Society
Associate Professor Junji Ito researches "The Russo-Turkish War and Georgian Society."
*Illustrative imageA History of Environmental Technology in Modern and Contemporary Japan Across Land and Sea
Associate Professor Kjell David Ericson researches "A History of Environmental Technology in Modern and Contemporary Japan Across Land and Sea."
*Illustrative imageA Comprehensive Study of Ethnographic Practices in Modern Japan
Assistant Professor Akira Kikuchi researches "A Comprehensive Study of Ethnographic Practices in Modern Japan."
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTomoko Sakai
- ProfessorTakahiro Fuke
- ProfessorAtsuo Morimoto
- Associate ProfessorJunji Ito
- Associate ProfessorERICSON Kjell David
- Associate ProfessorSatoru Kobori
- Associate ProfessorYurie Sugawara
- Assistant ProfessorAkira Kikuchi
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorAkira Kubo
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Old Tbilisi town in Tbilisi, Georgia 02” GeoO / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Everyday Life and the Body amid Environmental Transformation and Crisis: “The Stroud Street Murals, Belfast - geograph.org.uk - 7885469” Marathon / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- The Russo-Turkish War and Georgian Society: “Boj u Ivanovo-Chiflik” Pavel Kovalevsky / Public domain (cropped)
- A History of Environmental Technology in Modern and Contemporary Japan Across Land and Sea: “Fishing pier and nori poles of Ariake Sea in Hashimotomachi, Yanagawa” Peka / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- A Comprehensive Study of Ethnographic Practices in Modern Japan: “Yanagita kunio mh02 1920” 663highland / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Research Creation Lab (Ishii)): “Theyyam at kadachira Mandothum Kavu 3” Shagil Kannur / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Humanities Informatics Innovation Center Lab): “Center for Innovative Digital Humanities, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 2026” 犭 / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Contemporary China Research Center Lab): “The Bund ( )” Can Pac Swire from Toronto, Canada / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Genesis Lab): “Kamado-M1685” Fg2 / Public domain (cropped)
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