9, 12/07/2025 Poland’s Days in Kansai
Category: Polish Days in Kansai
Poland’s Day at the Yamato University
Date: 9/07/2025
Venue: Yamato University
Organizers: Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw
Recordings of presentations about Poland by students of the Chair of Japanese Studies will be screened before the workshop and during the breaks,
- Outline of Polish history
- Famous places in Poland
- Evacuation of Polish orphans from Siberia by the Japanese Red Cross
- Consul Sugihara Chiune’s contacts with Poles
- Chopin and Polish folk songs
Poland’s Day at the Kyoto University
15. Anniversary of the Polish language course for at the Kyoto University
Date: 12th July 2015, 13.30-18.00
Venue: Kyoto University (the Building of Faculty of Humanities, 2nd floor Room 4)
Organizers: The Chair of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw and Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto University
13.30-13.40 Welcome speeches (prof. Nakamura Tadashi, Prof. Agnieszka Kozyra, Dr. Katarzyna Starecka)
13.40-14.30 University of Warsaw (UW) presentations: Anna Fender, Gabriel Popławski, Alicja Kobiernik, Zofia Piskorek, Szymon Góralski, Małgorzata Wysmyk, Zofia Jakubiak, Alicja Ziembińska, Natalia Jura (Polish cuisine, National parks in Poland, Places in Poland recommended by Polish students)
14.30-14.40 Japan in Poland: activities of the UW Japanese Studies Students Science Club ‘Maru’
14. 40-14.55 Urszula Mach-Bryson, MA, Chanoyu in intercultural perspective – practice for peace
14.55-15.10 Break
15.10-16.10 Kyoto University presentations
Furuya Yōsuke, Kyoto’s industrial heritage and the canal to Lake Biwa
Farakawa Noiki, Kuniyoshi Utagawa – painter of ukiyoe
Taniguchi Yūto, Wagashi (Japanese sweets) from Kyoto
Takeda Chihiro, Japanese and Chopin
16.10-16.30 Favorite Polish song sung by Japanese students and favorite Japanese song sung by Polish students
16.30-16.40 Anna Fender, Polonez – Polish dance of the nobility
16.40-17.00 Break
17.00-18.00 Polonez (UW) and performance of Polish folk dance by students from Kyoto University – workshop