Akira Sawata

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“Et surtout mon corps aussi bien que mon âme, gardez-vous de vous croiser les bras en l’attitude stérile du spectateur, car la vie n’est pas un spectacle, car une mer de douleurs n’est pas un proscenium, car un homme qui crie n’est pas un ours qui danse…“

“And above all, my body as well as my soul, beware of assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of miseries is not a proscenium, a man screaming is not a dancing bear …“

Aimé Césaire, (1939), Cahier d’un retour au pays natal / Notebook of a Return to the Native Land

ESSAYS & BLOG POSTS

  • Sawata, A. (2026, January 9). The ICE shooting and ungrievable lives: How to survive the vortex of grief and violence [Blog post].
  • Sawata, A. (2025, December 24). Hope amidst catastrophe, or on muddling through [Blog post].
  • Sawata, A. (2025, August 29). Queer and class: A story of a night in Houston [Blog post].
  • Sawata, A. (2025, May 13). At the lake of post-apocalypse: Echoing water and songs, or toward multiplied futures [Blog post].
  • Sawata, A. (2024, December 4). Entanglement: Relative time and existential mobility [Blog post].
  • Sawata, A. (2024, November 6). Living as an outsider in this crumbling country [Blog post].

TEACHING – INVITED COURSE LECTURES

  • Intercultural Education, Guest Lecturer, Meiji University (December 2025)
  • Sociology of Education, Guest Lecturer, Sophia University (December 2025)
  • Introduction to Queer Studies, Special Lecturer, Shizuoka University (October 2025)
  • Intercultural Counselling, Guest Lecturer, Rissho University (December 2023)
  • Planning and Execution of the TSUKUBA Action Project, Guest Lecturer, University of Tsukuba (November 2023)

PUBLIC & SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

  • Guest / Panelist / Host / Planner, Study Abroad Seminar: Humanities and Social Science 2025 Winter, Student Council for North American Graduate Students (December 14, 2025)
  • Panelist / Commentator / Lecturer, Rethinking Diversity and Democracy: Through the Lenses of Queer/Trans Feminism, DIVE! Open College, Democracy for Co-Existing (August 19 – October 15, 2025)
  • Guest / Panelist, Snack Social Studies vol. 10 “Where I Am, Where You Are” #1, Snack Social Studies (May 6, 2025)
  • Planner / Logistic Support, LGBTQ+ Allies Salon (March 31, 2023 – March 31, 2024)
  • Official Expert / Logistic Support / Report Author, ILC (Inclusive Leaders College) 4th Season, University of Tsukuba (October 6, 2022 – March 16, 2023)
  • Official Expert / Logistic Support / Report Author, ILC (Inclusive Leaders College) Advanced Programme, University of Tsukuba (October 1, 2022 – March 4, 2023)
  • Lecturer, Special Lecture “Social Problems and Behavior Change,” Kaichi Nozomi Secondary School (January 4 – 6, 2023)
  • Host / Lecturer / Investigator, GJS Cafe Talk Special Lecture: “What is Difference?”, Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University (August 20, 2019)

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