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Jason James, Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation will talk about Trinity alumnus Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一), early Western music pioneer

Video event (zoom, link will be sent to all registered in advance)

• 17:00 Tokyo time, Thursday 18 July 2024 start
  • 9:00am UK time, Thursday 18 July 2024
• 17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) James Jason: “Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一, Trinity), Japan’s early Western music pioneer” (zoom)
  • 9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
• 18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
  • 10:00am – (UK time)

Prior registration required until Wednesday 17 July 2024. For registration you can use the form below.

Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一, Trinity 1925)

Eldest son of a wealthy Japanese industrialist, Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一) (Trinity 1925) took his Bachelor’s degree in Moral Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the late 1920s. He was deeply involved in the music scene  at Trinity during his time there, and through something of an accident came to discover the joys of madrigal singing. On his return to Japan he founded a madrigal group (Tokyo Madrigal Singers, 東京マドリガル会) and a string orchestra, and he and his circle played a key role in introducing Western ‘early music’ to Japan. 

Keiichi Kurosawa matriculated at Trinity in October 1925, and graduated with a BA degree in June 1928.

Speaker: Jason James

Jason James OBE is Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 

Having been fascinated by Japan on a choir tour at the age of 13, he chose to read Japanese Studies at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a double scholar (academic and choral), graduating with a “starred first” (only the third time this accolade had ever been awarded by Cambridge’s Japanese Department) in 1987. Subsequently he worked in the financial industry, mostly specialising in Japanese equities, becoming Head of Research in the Tokyo office of HSBC Securities, and eventually Head of Global Equity Strategy at HSBC in London. From 2007-2011 Jason was Director of the British Council in Japan, during which time he also served as Chair of the European Union National Institutes of Culture Japan cluster, a Board Member of the Japan-British Society, and a Board Member of United World Colleges Japan. In London, in addition to his day job he was a Trustee of the Japan Society for six years, and a member of the Japan Season of Culture Action Committee. Jason is currently a member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and a Governor of King’s College School, Cambridge.

Jason’s interest in Japan is broad, covering the economy, financial markets and tax, as well as Japanese literature, art and history, and the relationship between the UK and Japan. Publications range from ‘The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets’ (co-author, Macmillan 1999), to ‘Edmund Blunden and Japan’ (Asiatic Society, 2010). Jason received an OBE for services to UK/Japan relations in The King’s Birthday Honours 2023.

Registration and enquiries:

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Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge

Professor Sarah Teichmann (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab, and alumna of Trinity, has kindly agreed to give us a video talk and discussion on her work.

Professor Sarah Teichmann’s principles: Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Kind.

• 17:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023 start
  • 9:00am UK time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023
• 17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Sarah Teichmann “Mapping the human body: one cell at a time” (zoom)
  • 9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
• 18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
  • 10:00am – (UK time)

Prior registration required until Monday 2 October 2023. For registration you can use the form below.

Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS

Sarah heads Cellular Genetics / Teichmann Lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, is Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, and visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge.

From 2005 to 2015, Sarah was Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity.

In 2020, Sarah was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.

https://royalsociety.org/people/sarah-teichmann-25293/

Sarah completed her Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity with a first class BA in 1996, followed by her PhD at the LMB (Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Teichmann

Teichmann Lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge –

Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Kind.

http://www.teichlab.org

Registration and enquiries:

Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

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All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.

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Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work as Intendant (director) of the Opera House Leipzig.

• 16:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 11 July 2023 start
  • 9:00am Germany time
  • 8:00am UK time
• 16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Tobias Wolff, Intendant, Opera House Leipzig (zoom)
  • 9:15 – 10:00am Germany time
  • 8:15 – 9:00am UK time
• 17:00 – 17:30 (Tokyo time) discussions
  • 10:00-10:30am Germany time
  • 900 – 9:30am UK time

Intendant Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) studied for his MA in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1995-1998.

Tobias Wolff studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1995 to 1998, and viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He gained initial professional job experience at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Since 2002 Tobias Wolff has been living in Leipzig, where he initially worked as a freelance musician, concert promoter and music journalist, e.g. for the Leipziger Volkszeitung and MDR Kultur. In 2006, Tobias Wolff joined the Theater Altenburg-Gera as Chief Dramaturg and Marketing Manager. For the 2010/11 season, he took over the management of the five-branch theatre as Administrative Director and successful crisis manager. He concurrently completed an MBA at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2011, and in the same year was appointed Managing Director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival, one of the world’s longest-standing festivals for baroque music. The cultural manager re-positioned the festival internationally, introduced unconventional formats, and strategically promoted young talent and music education – receiving e.g. no less than two Helpmann Awards, the Music Education Award of the State of Lower Saxony, and EU funding for the eeemerging scholarship programme, which he co-initiated. In the Covid year 2020, Tobias Wolff was engaged in cultural politics as co-founder and spokesman of the Forum Musik Festival, an alliance of over 100 festival organisations throughout Germany.

On August 1, 2022, Tobias Wolff took over the post of the artistic director of Leipzig Opera House. He opened his first season with »Future: Now!«, an open-air spectacle in cooperation with Theater Titanick with the participation of over 220 children and students from Leipzig. Together with his management team, he initiated a consistent course of sustainability that has been awarded, among other things, funding from the Fonds Zero of the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Next Stage Grant of the Fedora network and the eku – Zukunftspreis 2023 of the Free State of Saxony. Oper Leipzig is the pilot institution of a climate calculator specially developed for the cultural sector, an innovation project of the cities of Leipzig and Dresden. Together with the National Opera of Iceland, Oper Leipzig is investigating the life cycle of costumes in the Sustainable Costumes project and will present its first climate-neutral opera production in December 2023 with Mary Queen of Scots. Oper Leipzig is currently striving for a DIN 20121 certification for its entire operations.

https://www.oper-leipzig.de/en/ensemble/person/tobias-wolff/2087

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Wolff_(Intendant)

Oper Leipzig

Leipzig Opera is the third oldest civil music theatre in Europe, founded in 1693, following the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice and the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oper_Leipzig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig_Opera

Registration and enquiries:

Prior registration required until Monday 10 July 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.

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1. which event(s) you are interested to attend,
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   • If you are not associated with Trinity College Cambridge, you may still attend as a guest in certain cases – in this case please write a short sentence why you are interested to attend and participate in the discussion,

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Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) regularly writes on Russia and international security issues.

watch the recording on youtube:

Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on 22 June 2023. Sir Laurie today is President of Hughes Hall following a very distinguished and challenging career in Her Majesty’s Foreign Service, including posts as HM Ambassador to Russia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.

• 17:00 Tokyo time, Thursday 22 June 2023 start
  • 9:00am UK time, Thursday 22 June 2023
• 17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Sir Laurie Bristow (zoom)
  • 9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
• 18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
  • 10:00am – (UK time)

Sir Laurie Bristow

Sir Laurie Bristow, appointed President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge in 2022, was a British diplomat for 32 years.  He was Ambassador to Afghanistan during the fall of the Republic to the Taliban in 2021,  the UK’s Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020, and Deputy Ambassador to Russia from 2007 to 2010.  He was Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007.  Sir Laurie regularly writes and comments on Russia and national and international security issues. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Senior Associate Fellow of the European Leadership Network.

Sir Laurie read English, and completed a PhD on Ezra Pound, the American poet, at Trinity College, Cambridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Bristow

https://www.gov.uk/government/people/laurie-bristow

https://twitter.com/laurie_bristow

Registration and enquiries:

Prior registration required until Wednesday 21 June 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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Professor Eilís Ferran ‘Looking Outwards from Cambridge’

Professor Eilís Ferran talks about her experiences as Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust and University pro-vice chancellor for international relations, and her research on international capital market competitiveness.

Professor Eilís Ferran FBA PhD, Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College and the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust.

Professor Eilís Ferran has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom event:

• 16:00 Tokyo time, Wednesday 10 May 2023 start
  • 8:00am UK time, Wednesday 10 May 2023
• 16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Eilis Ferran “Looking Outwards from Cambridge” (zoom)
  • 8:15am – 9:00am (UK time)
• 17:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
  • 9:00am – (UK time)

Professor Eilís Ferran

Professor Eilís Ferran, FBA PhD is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is also the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which provides scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a major donation from the Gates Foundation.  

Between 2015 and 2021 she was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she had strategic responsibility for Cambridge University’s staff policies and significant international academic partnerships. She led the modernisation of career paths, co-ordinated the University’s response to covid as an employer, and was instrumental in the development of the University’s Strategic Partnerships Office. Between 2012 and 2015 she served as Chair of the University’s Law Faculty.

In her research, Eilís has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law.  Her publications include Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP, 2023, co-authored, forthcoming), Brexit and Financial Services (Hart Publishing, 2017 co-authored), The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, co-edited) and The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (CUP 2012, co-authored). She has advised UK Parliamentary committees and served as an academic member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority.

Eilís is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. She is an independent non-executive director of Euroclear Holding SA/NV and Euroclear SA/NV, and is the Chair of their Nomination and Governance Committees.  She is also a non-executive director of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge.  

https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/ev-ferran/28

https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/gates-cambridge-announces-new-provost

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eil%C3%ADs_Ferran

Registration and enquiries:

Prior registration required until Tuesday 9 May 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is distinguished Japanese career diplomat, and has worked many years in leadership positions at the UN, the OECD and other international organizations, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Kiyotaka Akasaka has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on the topic “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”. Kyotaka may also include climate changes, since in December 1997, he was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.

• 6pm Tokyo time, Thursday 13 April 2023 start
  • 10:00am London Time, Thursday 13 April 2023
• 6:15pm -7:00pm Kiyotaka Akasaka “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”
• 7:00pm – discussions

Kiyotaka Akasaka 赤阪清隆 (Trinity 1972)

Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is President of the Nippon Communications Foundation (Nippon.com). He held the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information for five years from 2007 to 2012. He was in charge of the UN Department of Public Information. In December 1997, Kiyotaka was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.

Before joining the UN, Mr. Akasaka held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in charge of development, environment, and sustainable development. Mr. Akasaka was also Japan’s Ambassador to the UN in 2000 and 2001.

After retiring from the UN in 2012, he held the position of the President of the Foreign Press Center of Japan, a non-profit foundation for assistance to foreign journalists in Japan till 2020. He became President of the Nippon Communications Foundation in 2022.

He is the author of several books relating to the UN and other global affairs.  

He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in law from Kyoto University in 1971. 1972 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in economics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyotaka_Akasaka

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/赤阪清隆

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 February 2007 announced the appointment of Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (Kiyotaka Akasaka’s profile on the UNIC website on the occasion of his appointment):

https://www.unic.or.jp/news_press/features_backgrounders/808/?lang=en

Books

• 国際機関で見た　「世界のエリート」の正体 (中公新書ラクレ) 赤阪清隆 (著)
  • https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/%E8%B5%A4%E9%98%AA%E6%B8%85%E9%9A%86-ebook/dp/B00O9YUJXG/
• The GATT and the Uruguay Round Negotiations (in Japanese)
• The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (in English)

Registration and enquiries:

Prior registration required until Wednesday 12 April 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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All Trinity members, Fellows and students globally are very welcome to pre-register, and I will send a registration link if there are still places available.

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Allegra Spender MP, Elected to the House of Representatives for Wentworth, New South Wales, 2022

Ms Allegra Spender MP, Member of Parliament for Wentworth, (Sydney, NSW) Australia, very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom event:

• 1pm Sydney time, Tuesday 14 March 2023 start
  • 11:00am Tokyo time, Tuesday 14 March 2023
  • 2am UK time, Tuesday 14 March 2023
  • 10:00pm New York time, Monday 13 March 2023
  • 7:00pm San Francisco time, Monday 13 March 2023
• 1:15pm – 2:00pm (Sydney time) Ms Allegra Spender MP
  • 11:15pm – 12:00noon (Tokyo time)
• 2:00pm – discussions
  • 12noon- (Tokyo time)

Allegra Spender MP, Federal Member for Wentworth (Australia)

Wentworth covers an area from Elizabeth Bay along the southern shore of Sydney Harbour to Watsons Bay and down the coast to Clovelly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Wentworth

https://www.aec.gov.au/profiles/nsw/wentworth.htm

Allegra Spender is the independent Member for Wentworth (Australia). She is a local resident who loves the environment our community is lucky enough to share. Her passion to make sure her kids and future generations continue to enjoy that beauty motivated her to run for parliament on a platform of climate action, political integrity, gender equality and decency. She was elected as part of a wave of so called “Teal” independents who swept into the crossbench in May 2022. 

Allegra went to Ascham School Edgecliff, has an Economics degree from Cambridge University and Trinity College, an MSc from the University of London, and has completed business courses at Harvard and Dartmouth College. Before parliament Allegra worked as a business analyst at McKinsey, a policy analyst with UK Treasury and later Managing Director at Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd, her family’s fashion label. Allegra was also the chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company, and CEO of the Australian Business and Community Network, which addresses educational disadvantage by partnering low socio-economic schools with leading Australian businesses. 

As an MP she has taken a leading role with the crossbench in passing a legislated target for reducing Australia’s CO2 emissions, the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and critical examination of the government’s new Industrial Relations legislation.

She is on the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, The Joint Standing Committee on Migration, and is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium Business, Uluru Statement from the Heart and International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).

She is married with 3 kids.

https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=286042

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Spender

https://www.allegraspender.com.au/

https://www.instagram.com/allegra.spender/

https://www.facebook.com/allegraforwentworth

Allegra Spender is one of the ‘Teal Independents’

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_independents

Registration and enquiries:

Prior registration required until Sunday 12 March 2023. Anonymous registrations are not accepted, please introduce yourself briefly when you register.

We will upload the recording to the Trinity in Japan Youtube Channel – by participating you agree to the upload of the recording: 

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