• "Researcher/Advisor, Embassy of Japan in Mexico" (Mexico, Central America and Caribbean Division; Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Bureau; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan). Due by January 22, 2018.

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #11

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at Deloitte Digital, Spain)

• UTokyo LAINAC Mexico Month (October 30, 2017 - December 3, 2017)

• Brown Bag Series #26

Antonio Blat

"La mirada del diplomático Enrique Dupuy de Lôme al Japón Meiji"

• The 3rd Japan-Mexico Rectors' Summit (November 30, 2017 - December 1, 2017).

• Primer encuentro y tertulia de Cineclub Latinoamericano

• Brown Bag Series #25
  

  
  

  Héctor Abad Faciolince
  
  "Escribir sobre el amor en medio de la violencia entre la memoria y el olvido"

• Brown Bag Series #24

Gerardo Villadelangel

"El libro rojo. Continuación. El México moderno a través de la crónica de sus grandes crímenes"

• Brown Bag Series #23
  

  
  

  Gladys Teresita LECHINI
  (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
  "Three different models in the Latin American Approach to African countries: Cuba, Brazil and Argentina"

• The approaches made by UTokyo LAINAC to The Autonomous University of Madrid have successfully paid off, and the university has been added to the list of 'University - wide Student Exchange Program (USTEP)'.

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #10

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)
"A Follow-up Session on Machine Learning"

• Guidance of "Global Praxis in Mexico"

• 【Call for Papers】"International Congress: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Argentina", March 22-24, 2018, Ottawa, Canada (Organizers: The Embassy of Argentina in Canada and the University of Ottawa). Proposals due by November 15, 2017.

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #9

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"Introductory session on Machine Learning"

• 【Call for Papers】Global Perspectives on Motherhood, Mothering, and Masculinities (Co-­Editors: Tola Olu Pearce and Andrea Moraes; Demeter Press). Abstracts & biography due by October 31, 2017 (from Dr. Tola Olu Pearce, LAINAC Global Scholar, University of Missouri Columbia, USA).

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #8

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"Practical Training on NLP (a follow-up session)"

• Brown Bag Series #22
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Area Studies (Latin American Studies)
  

  
  

  Ewald Hekking
  (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico)
  "Otomi-Spanish dictionary from Queretaro, Mexico: three decades of research and language documentation"

• Brown Bag Series #21
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Area Studies (Latin American Studies)
  

  
  

  Roberto Aurelio Núñez López
  (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico)
  "Hñäñho phytonymy: etymology, lexical borrowings and neologisms of the plants of the ñäñhos from Amealco, Queretaro"

• The 38th Annual Congress of Japan Association for Latin American Studies (Supported by LAINAC)

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #7

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"Practical Training on NLP (coding session in R and Python)"

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #6

Koki Washio (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

• UTokyo LAINAC @ LASA2017 in Lima, Peru (April 30, 2017 - May 1, 2017).

• Embajada de Colombia en Japón: Concurso de Oratoria en Español (Due on June 16, 2017)

• Kota Miura (LAINAC Member) has been selected for Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of JSPS (DC2 for FY2017-2018)!

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #5

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"A training on natural language processing (basic level)"

• The strategic partnership projects, led by UTokyo LAINAC, have been adopted for its second term, which will be the four years from 2017. We will further develop collaborative researches and student exchange programs with academic institutions, main ones being El Colegio de Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Chile and Catholic University of Chile.

• 【Study Abroad】 V Spanish as a Foreign Language Course for Tourist Guides and Undergraduate and Graduate Students from FEALAC East Asian Countries, August-November 2017 (Due: April 21).

• 【Study Abroad】 The International Summer Program at El Colegio de México  (Due: April 30, 2017).

• A book of essays by Soseki Natsume, translated into Spanish, by Professor Kayoko Takagi Takanashi (LAINAC Global Scholar, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the National Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) was published. 

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #4

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"The DOM tree: How to navigate the contents from HTML webpages and RSS feeds"

• Professor Hiroto Ueda (Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo) gave us his final lecture in the language-analysis room located on the first floor of Building 18. 

• Dr. Eduardo Vera (Director of International Relations Office, Center for Mathematical Modeling) visited Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo and met with Dr. Haneda (Executive Vice President), Dr. Naoto Sekimura (Vice President), Dr. Mamoru Doi (Graduate school of Science), Dr. Hiroyuki Ukeda (LAINAC member) and Dr. Takeshi Wada (LAINAC representative) to discuss ideas for developing strategic partnership projects in the future (February 14 & 24, 2017).

• Shunsuke Matsuo (LAINAC Staff) has been selected for 2017 PhD Students Research Grant Programme of the IOC Olympic Studies Centre!

• A documentary film screening: "What are you afraid of? Women who experienced feminism in Japan" & A talk session with Dr. Chizuko Ueno (January 26, 2017). 

• Seminar Series "Big Data and Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences & Humanities" #3

Nestor Alvaro (Data Scientist at BEEVA, Spain)

"Consuming News Feed"

• Dr. Aldo Panfichi (Professor of Catholic University of Peru, President-elect of LASA) and Dr. Enrique Peruzzotti (Professor of Torcuato di Tella University, Argentina) visited UTokyo LAINAC. (Tokyo, January 10, 2017)