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June 2014 SIETAR Kansai Presentation

“Multicultural Job Environments in the UK”

 

Speaker:      　　Ms. Sayuri Shiono 

                            (Instructor at Rakuwa Kyoto Kosei Nursing  School）

Date:                  June 15, 2014 (Sunday)　　16:00-18:00

                           (Dinner after the session at a Thai/Balinese restaurant. Reservations required by June 12.  Contact fujimotodonna@gmail.com)

Venue:             Takatsuki Shiritsu Sogo Shimin Koryu Center,　

                        　3^rd floor（Room 3）
　　    　         (1 minute walk from JR Takatsuki Station) Tel.0726-85-3721
　　                 http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp/db/kurasu/images/koryu.gif

Fee:         　 　　 Free for members and students; 500 yen for non-members

Language:      Japanese (questions and answers in Japanese and English)

 

Description of presentation:

Britain has been known as a multicultural nation especially after experiencing a large influx of immigrants from former British colonies after World War II. Since then there has been a serious shortage of nurses, and Britain commenced to admit overseas nurses in 2000. A large number of nurses have come to Britain, especially from the Philippines, and most of them are still working in NHS hospitals. However, they had a very difficult time in the beginning, since there were problems of discrimination or abuse.

Sayuri Shiono worked as a nurse in an NHS hospital from 2003. At first, she had to train in order to transfer her Japanese nursing license to a British one. Just like Filipino nurses, she faced discrimination, language barriers and cultural differences, and had a difficult time at work. Fortunately, with the support from friends, she managed to complete the training. Afterwards, she worked as a nurse in Britain for 7 years.

Ms. Shiono worked with people from all over the world, so there were naturally linguistic differences or religious boundaries, and people yet had to exist together. Ms. Shiono will introduce the situation of overseas nurses in the UK and that of their patients. She will present basic information, which shows the diversified backgrounds in the UK that cannot be experienced in Japan. By having to learn about the UK, she had the opportunity to learn much about her own country.

Profile of Presenter:

Ms. Sayuri Shiono is currently a Rakuwa Kyoto Kosei Nursing School Teacher of nursing. She is a 1985 graduate of Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine School of Nursing. She worked at University Hospital, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and then left for the UK in 2001. From 2003, she worked at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College of London Hospital. Then she came back to Japan in 2010, working at Kyoto University Hospital and completed graduate school at Kyoto Tachibana University.

 

Fieldtrip: Cathedral of St. Maria of Tamatsukuri of
Osaka–Visiting with Filipino Community Members (Sama Sama)

Places of worship, such as mosques and churches have long been not only important religiously, but even more important as a center of support and place for immigrants to exchange information and interact socially. The Cathedral of St. Mary of Tamatsukuri, currently offering religious services in Spanish, Japanese, English and Vietnamese, has in particular become a valuable meeting place for the Filipino community in Kansai. Originally beginning with around 8 Filipino members, it is estimated that over 200 members of the Filipino community regularly use the church facilities for their activities and meetings.

Fieldtrip participants will be able to see where many Filipinos congregate as well as sample various foods from the Philippines while getting to know and learn more about Filipinos and other non-Japanese living mainly in Osaka.

 

Date:  Sunday, May 25

Meeting place and time: 2:30 pm just outside the North exit of JR Tamatsukuri

Station or 3:00 pm in front of the Cathedral

(Those who choose to go to the Sunday religious service beginning at 2:00, which is

not part of the fieldtrip, should join us at 3:00 in front of the cathedral.)

Place:  Cathedral of St. Maria of Tamatsukuri of Osaka http://www.geocities.jp/general_sasaki/tama-church.html

2-24-22, Tamatsukuri, Chuo-ku, Osaka  540-0004     TEL: 06-941-2332

        

Number of participants:  25 maximum (Advance Reservation is required)

 

●How to apply:  Participants should sign up by May 20 and send the following to Miho Yoshioka by E-mail: uskj30641@@iris.eonet.ne.jp

or Fax: (06)6674-5857.

1)     Name  2) Tel and Email address  3) How many people will participate     4) Which meeting place, a) JR Tamatsukuri Station or b) the Cathedral, you will join us at   5) Whether or not you will join the dinner afterwards

Schedule

14:30        Meet just outside the North exit of JR Tamatsukuri Station

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15:00        Meet at and tour the Cathedral of St. Mary of Tamatsukuri

http://www.geocities.jp/general_sasaki/tama-church.html

http://indigo05.exblog.jp/13535692

 

15:30-17:30  Enjoy the afternoon market and visit with members of the

Sama-Sama Filipino community members, including Jun Yamada and Neriza Saito

 

17:45         Dinner at a Korean restaurant near Tamatsukuri (optional)

 

Speaker:      Dr. Kumiko Kizu

Date:         April 13, 2014 （Sunday）  15:00~17:00

Venue:       Nishinomiya Daigaku Koryu Center (ACTA East Tower 6F, Room 2)

2 minutes from Hankyu Nishinomiya Kitaguchi station,   Tel.(0798)69-3155    http://www.nishi.or.jp/homepage.daigaku/

Fee:          Free for members and students;      500 yen for non-members

Language:    English　(questions & answers in Japanese and English)

Social event:  Dinner after the session at a restaurant. Reservations required

by April 11.  Contact Miho Yoshioka uskj30641@iris.eonet.ne.jp

＊Contact address for the program: sietar.kansai2@gmail.com

＊No application needed for the program.
Description of presentation:

Films are multimedia. They are constructed of images and sounds
(language, music and sound effects), and we understand scenes based on
the combinations of these two media. How are the two media combined?
Are there any regularities found in the combinations of sounds and images in films? These matters have often been discussed in the fields of film criticism and film studies. It has been argued that the two media are instinctively combined by the filmmakers (editors) and that priority is given to images over sounds in deciding their combinations. This may be reasonable given that images are indispensable to films–without images films would no longer be films. However, how about conversational scenes where words play a major part?
This presentation analyzes the combinations of words and images
in films from a linguistic point of view, borrowing the methodology of
Conversation Analysis. The focus is on typical two-party conversational scenes in which two characters are shown in close-up one after the other (this pattern is called the shot/ reverse-shot exchange). Close attention is paid to how turn-taking between the characters is displayed on screen. Scenes from romantic comedies, such as Before Sunrise and You’ve Got Mail will be cited as examples. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of our comprehension of multimedia discourse.

 

Profile of presenter:
Dr. Kumiko Kizu is a native of Kobe. She received her PhD from Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in 2013. Her doctoral dissertation, Taking Turns at Talk on Screen, is about the correlation between words and images in films. She studies cinematic discourse particularly from a pragmatic and communicative point of view. Her research interests include Conversation Analysis and multimedia discourse. She teaches at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe City College of Technology and the University of Hyogo.