To ensure international acceptability of degrees in graduate education, we will open the defense. The public is welcome to attend.

Defenses will be conducted either in-person or online.
In principle, those who wish to attend the public defense should respond to the form below by noon the day before the defense.

[Application form for Public Defenses of Doctoral Dissertations]

Notes
-Prospective participants are not allowed to speak, record or tape during the defense.
-Participants who do not follow the instructions of the dissertation committee
chair or who act in a manner that interferes with the defense may be asked to leave at the discretion of the dissertation committee chair.
-In the event that the defense, etc. is conducted online, prospective participants must refrain from disseminating information about the meeting to others online. In addition, the camera must be turned on and the microphone must be turned off when participating online.

Department	Doctoral candidate	Committee Chair	Date	Time	Place	Doctoral Dissertation Title
Asian and African Studies・G2SD	Emre Ünür	Tomoki Okawara	Wednesday, July 16th	15:30～17:00	Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, West Building 302	"Religion, Secularism, and Gendered Discourse: A Comparative Study of Political Engagement by the National Outlook Movement and Soka Gakkai （宗教、政教分離、および性差別の言説--ミッリー・ギョリュシュと創価学会による政治参加の比較研究--）"
Theoretical Linguistics	Xin Su	Hiroyuki Eto	Wednesday, July 24th	14:00～16:00	Graduate School of International Cultural Studies 1F Meeting Room	"拡張の意味を有する日本語動詞の多義性の研究 --中国人日本語学習者を視座として--" A Study on the Polysemy of Japanese Verbs of Expanding: From the Perspective of Chinese Learners of Japanese