[Event Information]
Interactive Evening Lounge
“Book Club Session 22”
23rd May 2019 18:00-20:00
(Seminar room “F”, International Academic Research Building, Hongo Campus)

■Date	:	Thursday, May 23rd, 2019, 18:00-20:00
■Venue	:	Seminar room “F” on the 12th floor of the GraSPP Building (IARB) (Hongo Campus)
■Organizer	:	Dr. Roberto Orsi
■Summary	:	This IEL will consist in the seventh session of our GSDM Book Club, namely a regular gathering of GSDM students and faculty who, having agreed to read the same book, meet to discuss its main themes in the light of the GSDM goals. For this session Ruth Benedict’s The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (1946) has been selected. 　 This IEL has been organized in the form of Book Club, in order to expand the intellectual horizon of GSDM students, by means of making them approach literary works and other books which can relate to the main topics of GSDM, particularly leadership, global affairs, inter-disciplinarity.　 This IEL has been organized in the form of Book Club, in order to expand the intellectual horizon of GSDM students, by means of making them approach literary works and other books which can relate to the main topics of GSDM, particularly leadership, global affairs, inter-disciplinarity.

　
[Outline]
　–　18:00-18:15 Introduction of the Book Club
　–　18:15-18:30 Brief summary of the book by one or more students.
　–　18:30-20:00 Debate