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Lectures by Professors Retiring in 2022

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2022.2.9 Wed - 2022.3.29 Tue

Professors retiring at the end of the 2021-2022 academic year are presenting special lectures. Those interested are cordially invited to attend these lectures.

Department

Professor

Date, Time, and Venue

Lecture Title

Cultural Representation Program, Graduate School of Letters

KINSUI Satoshi

Friday, March 11

15:00~17:00

To be held online

For details, click here

Character and Personality: Subtexts Conveyed Through Japanese First-Person Pronouns

Graduate School of Human Sciences

MUTA Kazue

Monday, February 28

Time TBD (Between 14:00~17:00)

*The format of this lecture will be decided based on the university’s COVID-19 response levels.

My 40 Years of Study in Gender Issues -- Education, Research, and Lawsuit

Graduate School of Human Sciences

SATO Shinichi

Saturday, March 5

15:00~16:30

Assembly Hall, 1F, Osaka University Hall/online

*Advance registration required. To register, click here.

Birth, Death, and Life: Geriatric Psychology and Clinical Thanatology


Graduate School of Human Sciences

USUI Shinnosuke

Tuesday, March 15

15:00~16:30

Lecture Room 51, 5F, Main Bldg., School of Human Sciences

My 45 Years of Study in Human Sciences: The Human Condition, Unchanging and Ever-changing

Graduate School of Human Sciences

KURIMOTO Eisei

Friday, March 25

14:00~16:30

Lecture Room 51, 5F, Main Bldg., School of Human Sciences

Rain, Violence, and Power – A Range of Cases of Conflicts in the Headman Systems and Graded Age System


Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science

KONNO Takumi

Friday, March 4

13:30~15:00

Lecture Room D501, 5F, D Bldg., Graduate School of Science and online

To make an application to view this lecture online, click here. (Deadline: March 2)

Enchanted with the Beauty of Metal Complexes: Pursuing them Without Being Affected by Trends or Chasing After Functionality

Department of Macromolecular Science, Graduate School of Science

SATO Takahiro

Friday, March 4

15:30~17:00

Lecture Room D501, 5F, D Bldg., Graduate School of Science and online

To make an application to view this lecture online, click here. (Deadline: February 28)

Special Lecture on Research Practice

Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine

ISO Hiroyasu

Friday, March 25


15:30~17:00


Lecture Hall, Lecture Bldg. A, Faculty of Medicine

(This lecture is also scheduled to be streamed live.)

Developing Approaches to Public Health from the Local Level to the Global Level: Integration of Research and Education


Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Medicine

KIKUCHI Akira

Tuesday, March 29


17:00~18:30


Multimedia Hall, 1F, Center of Medical Innovation and Translational Research, Graduate School of Medicine

(This lecture is also scheduled to be streamed live. To make an application to view this lecture online, click here.)

Biochemistry of the Soul: Learning Mechanisms of Chemical Processes


~Lessons from Experiments~

Graduate School of Dentistry

YOSHIDA Atsushi

Friday, March 25

17:00~18:30

This lecture will be held online. To make an application to view this lecture, click here.

37 Years of Education and Research: Anatomy Education and Research on Facial nerve that Provides Sensory and Motor Functions

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

TAKAGI Tatsuya

Friday, March 11


13:30~


Online via Zoom

Applications | Details

The Past, Present, and Future of Bioinformatics

Division of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering

CHATANI Naoto

Tuesday, February 22

14:00~15:30

MO Hall, Convention Center

*The number of attendees will be limited to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

*This lecture will also be streamed simultaneously on YouTube. For details, click here.

Development of a New Methodology for Bond Activation: Focusing on New Types of Transformations and Blessed with Luck

Division of Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

BABAGUCHI Noboru

Monday, February 28


15:10~16:40


KOBAYASHI Keijiro Memorial Hall (Lecture Room 115, 1F, E1 Bldg., Graduate School of Engineering)


*Will also be streamed live on YouTube

To apply, click here.

Bridge Over Troubled Semantics

Thermo and Fluid Dynamics Area, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering

KAJISHIMA Takeo

Tuesday, March 8

13:30~15:00
Room 211, U3 Bldg. Graduate School of Engineering
Subject to change due to the status of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Get Immersed! --Thinking from the Perspective of Fluids

Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering

TODA Yasuyuki

Thursday, March 10

14:00~15:00

Science and Engineering Library Hall

My 43 Years of Research on Hull-propeller-rudder Interaction – No Progress from My Senior Year of College?

Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering

FUJIKUBO Masahiko

Friday, March 11


13:30~16:30 (This including the memorial gathering)


Science and Engineering Library Hall


*This lecture will also be broadcast live over Zoom as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.


To apply, click here.

Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering: My 40+ Years with Ship and Ship-like Floating Structures

Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering

HIROSE Akio

Friday, March 18

15:00~16:30

Okada Memorial Hall, Room 312, R1 Bldg., Graduate School of Engineering/online
In-person attendance will be limited.

My Research Journey: Welding, Joining, and More

Department of Materials Engineering Science, Graduate School of Engineering Science

MASHIMA Kazushi

Tuesday, February 22


16:00~


Sigma Hall, Engineering Science International Bldg. / broadcast live via Zoom

An Artisan Wandering into the Uncharted Territory of Organometallic Chemistry

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture

OUCHI Hajime

Wednesday, February 9

13:00~

Lecture Rooms 628 and 629, 6F, Research and Education Hub, Minoh Campus

Spain During the Reconquista (tentative)

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture

MIYAMOTO Marasri

Saturday, February 12

14:00~16:30

Large Lecture Hall, Research and Education Hub, Minoh Campus

Japan, Thai Language Education, and Me

Studies in Language and Society, Graduate School of Language and Culture

FUJIMOTO Yuko

Saturday, March 12

15:00~

Large Lecture Hall, Research and Education Hub, Minoh Campus

Captivated by the Persian Language

Studies in Language and Culture, Graduate School of Language and Culture

ISE Yoshio

Thursday, March 10


14:00~15:00


Room 301, Common Hall for Humanities and Social Sciences (to also be held online)


Details will be posted at a later date.

Discussions about Cultural Mechanisms Focusing on the Enculturated, Rebels, and the Basis of Sense of Values

Language and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Language and Culture

WATANABE Hideki

Thursday, March 10
14:00~15:00
Online
To apply, click here.

Metaphor Rhetoric

Reading Between the Lines: Dialogue with Men of Letters in the Old Times

Comparative Public Policy, Osaka School of International Public Policy

MATSUNO Akihisa

Tuesday, February 22

13:30~15:00

Online (details will be posted at a later date)

Research on Political Violence during the Cold War – Case Studies of Indonesia and East Timor

Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology

INOUE Katsuro

Wednesday, March 9


15:00~16:00


Icho Kaikan Hall/online

TBD

Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Neuroscience Laboratories, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences

FUJITA Ichiro

Monday, March 7


16:00~17:30

Online via Zoom

The Brain, the Senses, and Me

Neuroscience Laboratories , Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences

YAMAMOTO Nobuhiko

Friday, March 11

16:00~17:30

Seminar room, 2F, Biosystems Bldg./online

To apply, click here.

Plasticity and Specificity of Neural Circuit Formation"

Laboratory of Stem Cell Pathology, Integrated Biology Laboratories, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences

Stem Cell Pathology, Department of Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine

NAKANO Toru

Monday, March 14


15:30~17:00


Multimedia Hall, 1F, Comit Bldg., Faculty of Medicine


Also scheduled to be streamed online

Partway Through an Interesting Life:

There is More to Life than Doing Research

Nuclear Dynamics Group, Biomolecular Networks Laboratories, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences

HIRAOKA Yasushi

Thursday, March 17


13:30~14:15


Hankyu Railways-Sanwa Bank Hall, Icho Kaikan/online


Chromosome–Nuclear Envelope Interactions

To be held together with the Commemorative Lecture by Specially Appointed Professor HARAGUCHI Tokuko

Osaka University Law School

TANIGUCHI Setsuo

Monday, February 14


14:00~15:30

For details, click here.

Three Things in Progress – Looking Back on My Life at the University

Department of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, SANKEN

SASAI Hiroaki

Thursday, March 17


Lecture Hall, SANKEN/online

*Subject to change due to the state of the COVID-19 pandemic
For details, click here.

Development of Reactions Using Catalysts Made Based on Novel Concepts

Laser Fusion Science Research Division, Institute of Laser Engineering

SHIRAGA Hiroyuki

Tuesday, March 1


13:00~16:00


Large Hall, Institute of Laser Engineering/online via Zoom

Reflections on My Research about Implosion of Fuel Targets for Laser-driven Inertial Confinement Fusion

Japanese Language Education and Research Team, Center for International Education and Exchange

NISHIGUCHI Koichi

Tuesday, February 15


10:30~12:00


Hankyu Railways-Sanwa Bank Hall, Icho Kaikan

Advance registration required. (Application deadline: February 13, 2022)

To apply, click here.

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