Category: Meeting

　　　SIETAR Kansai May 2017 – Annual Field Trip

Saturday, May 27 — meet at 11：15 a.m.

 

 

May is the month for our annual field trip. In the past we have visited the Kobe mosque, the Cathedral of St. Maria of Tamatsukuri of Osaka, the Buddhist community of Shinnyoen in Settsu-Tonda, Osaka, and last year the Quaker community of Kansai. This year our plan is to visit the Jewish synagogue in Kobe. Ohel Shelomo Synagogue is officially the Jewish Community of Kansai, and it is the oldest surviving Jewish community in Japan. The Jewish people have had a long history in Japan, and specifically in Kobe starting from the turn of the 20^th century.

To learn more about this important history and about the Jewish religion, you are invited to join our field trip. This is open to all who are interested, both SIETAR members and non-members alike. We will meet at 11:15 noon at the west exit of Sannomiya Hankyu Station in front of McDonald’s. We will walk to the synagogue from there. Participants should be prepared to bring 1000~1500 yen for the donation. There will be people who can explain things in Japanese and in English. We will have lunch in the synagogue after the service.

To sign up, please contact Donna Fujimoto at fujimotodonna@@gmail.com (the deadline is May 23) In your email, write your full name, and cell phone. There may be a limit of participants, so please be sure to send your email asap.

 

  

The Contrast Culture Method (CCM) is an intercultural education method that was developed in the 1960s by Dr. Edward Stewart—a pioneer of the intercultural field. SIETAR’s CCM Special Interest Group (SIG) was formed in 1999 and has been offering sessions for different groups ever since then. For the first time, the CCM SIG is offering an intensive 3-day workshop (May 5-7), which will be open to anyone who is interested in experiencing the method (day 1), to be followed by trainings for those interested in learning more about CCM involving training to become a role player and/or a facilitator (days 2 & 3).

Venue:  Nanzan Gakuen Research Center, Irinaka, Nagoya.

Accommodation: available at the Center for very reasonable rates for those interested

Required:  Application form available through Donna Fujimoto at fujimotodonna@@gmail.com

Deadline:  Sun. April 23, 2017

For the application form, map to the venue, poster and any questions or further details,  contact

Donna Fujimoto at fujimotodonna@@gmail.com

 

SIETAR Kansai meeting — April 2017

(This event is co-sponsored by JALT OSAKA)

Panel:  Young Voices from Iran

 

Panelists:  ​Ali Khajuee (car designer)

​Mehrasa Alizadeh (PhD candidate, Osaka University)

​Parisa Mehran (PhD candidate, Osaka University)

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Date:       ​Saturday, April 22, 2017  (14:00pm – 17:00)

Place:      ​Nishinomiya Daigaku Koryu Center(ACTA East Tower 6F) Room 2

2 minutes from Hankyu Nishinomiya Kitaguchistation

 

Tel: (0798) 69-3155http://www.nishi.or.jp/homepage.daigaku/

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

 

Language:​English

 

Social event: We will have a meal after the session at a nearby restaurant. Reservations for dinner required by Tuesday, April 18.  Contact fujimotodonna@@gmail.com

 

 

Panel description: Some of SIETAR Kansai’s ongoing goals include involving young people and informing our members of little known topics, as well as stimulating thinking about taken-for-granted stereotypes. With that in mind, we have invited three young people from Iran, who live and work in Japan, to share their experiences and perspective with us. Rather than a usual presentation, we will have an informal panel where our guests will answer questions about why they came to Japan, what they are doing, and their views on various topics. Audience members will also be able to engage with our guests.

 

 

Panelists:

 

Ali Khajuee was born in Shiraz, Iran, and has lived in several cities including Tehran, Gachsaran, a small city in the south of Iran, and now in Kobe. He received a Master’s of Industrial Design from the University of Tehran, and he has worked for four years in different fields, including product design, branding, advertising, and web design. In Japan he received another Master’s degree from Kobe Design University and is currently a car designer for Daihatsu.

 

 

 

 

Mehrasa Alizadeh was born in Babol, a city in the north of Iran and moved to Tehran where she earned a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from Allameh TabatabaiUniversity, Tehran. She taught English at Iran Language Institute (ILI) for eight years. She came to Japan in 2014 on a Japanese government scholarship (Monbukagakusho). She is currently a PhD candidate at Takemura Lab, InformediaEducation Division, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, where she is collaborating with Parisa Mehran designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating a blended course of Academic English targeting Japanese learners. Her main research interests include computer assisted language learning (CALL), online course development/quality assessment, and AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) applications in language teaching.

 

Parisa Mehran was born and raised in Tehran. She has a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), from AlzahraUniversity, Tehran. She has taught English for academic purposes (EAP) at Alzahra University, and received a Japanese government scholarship (Monbukagakusho) in 2014. She is currently a PhD candidate at Takemura Lab, Informedia Education Division, Cybermedia Center, OsakaUniversity. Her research interests include computer-assisted language learning (CALL), online course design, and AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) applications in ELT. Her doctoral dissertation concerns the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of an online course for teaching academic English to Japanese undergraduate students at Osaka University.

 

 

 

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​​​​​Ali Khajuee​​     Mehrasa Alizadeh​​Parisa Mehran