Talks / Lectures

Sample lecture topics:

Crossing Cultures:  A Way of Life

Crossing Cultures:  A Personal Journey

Crossing Cultures:  A Two-way Street

Living and Working in Japan:  Challenges and Rewards

An American Mother Looks at Japanese Education

Living, Writing and Raising a Family in Japa

Breastpocket Moountain:  Living and Learning in the Japanese Countryside

The Art of Crossing Cultures:  Adapting, Adjusting, Accepting

Crossing Cultures Creatively

Crossing Cultures, Merging Identities

A partial list of lecture engagements:

• Women in Business, American Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo 2014
• International House of Japan, 2013
• Seitoku Women’s University, Chiba, November 2012
• American Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo 2011
• Tokyo American Club Women’s Group, 2010
• AmerAsian School in Okinawa, 2010
• Foreign Executive Women, Tokyo, Japan 2006
• Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan 2006
• Guildford College, North Carolina  2004
• JET Re-contracting Conference, Tokyo, June 2002
• Kalamazoo College, Michigan, May 2002
• Society for Intercultural Education and Research (Japan) Tokyo, September 2001
• America-Japan Society, Tokyo, September 2001
• Japan-U.S. Education Committee, Fulbright Program, September, 2001
• JET Re-contracting Conference, Kobe, May 2001
• Tokyo Educational Research Institute, May 2001
• Great Lakes Colleges Association lecture tour (DePauw University, Earlham College, College of Wooster, Kalamazoo College) April 2001
• Komono-cho, Mie-ken, Board of Education, February 2001

• Japan Exchange & Teaching Program, Mid-year Seminar, Shizuoka, November 2000

• Temple University Japan, Cross-cultural Symposium, November 2000

• International MBA Program, Temple University Japan, Tokyo, July 2000

• Japan International Science & Technology Exchange Center, Tsukuba  June 2000
• Saitama High School Teachers Association,  May 2000
• Educational Research Institute Tokyo Association of Private High Schools, May 2000
• American Chamber of Commerce Young People’s Group, Tokyo, October 1999
• George School, Newtown, Pennsylvania, October 1999
• Shinagawa Joshi Gakuen, Tokyo, July 1999
• Keynote Speaker, Japan Exchange Teachers Renewers’ Conference, Kobe, May 1999
• Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management, Tokyo, May ‘99
• Board of Education, Hamamatsu, February 1999

• Association of Foreign Wives of Japanese, 30th Anniversary Conference, Jan1999

• WICE Educational and Cultural Institute, Paris, France, March 1998

• Great Lakes Colleges Association-Associated -Colleges of the Midwest Lecture Tour: De Pauw University, Oberlin College, Ohio-Wesleyan University, Albion College, Lake Forest College (March 1998)

• Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, Tokyo, January 1998

• Ark Hills Academy, Tokyo, July 1997 and January 1998

• International Christian University, Tokyo, November 1997, February 1999

• American Chamber of Commerce, Tokyo, April 1997

• Tokyo Union Church, Women’s Society, February 1997

• Senior High School Teachers Association, Central District of Shizuoka, Feb 1997

• International Working Women’s Association, Tokyo, April 1997

• Earlham College Institute for Education on Japan, J.Bailey Distinguished Lecture 9/96

• Shizuoka University, School of Asian Studies, January 1996

• Hockaday School, Allman Lecture, Dallas, Texas, September 1996

• Keio University, School of Business and Commerce, December 1996

• Fuji Phoenix College, Gotemba, December 1996

• Shizuoka Mutual Assistance Research Organization, Shizuoka  1996

• Orientation, Japan Exchange and Teachers Program (JET), Tokyo, 1996 and 1995

• Doshisha University, Associated Kyoto Program Center, Kyoto, 1994 and 1995

• International University of Japan, Graduate School of Management, Niigata, 1996

• Howard University, International Affairs Center, Washington DC, September 1996

• Shizuoka Chamber of Commerce, International Business Exchange Assoc. Nov1995

• Temple University, Center for East Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 1995

• U.S. Department of State, Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA, March 1995

• Lincoln University, International Symposium, Pennsylvania, April 1995

• Tokyo American Club Women’s Group, March 1995

• Hiroshima International Women’s Club, Hiroshima, March 1995

• Japan Association of Language Teachers (JALT), January 1994

• Toyo University, Tokyo, November 1993

• Daito Bunka University, Department of English Literature, December 1993

• National Association of Japan-America Societies: Hawaii, Oregon, California, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Alabama, Boston, Indiana, New Mexico, Ohio

• Japan-America Women’s Club, International House, Tokyo, January 1994

• National Defence College of Canada, Canadian Embassy, April 1994

• Foreign Executive Women, Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Tokyo, April 1994

• College Women’s Association of Japan, Tokyo American Club, June 1994

• Nagoya International Center, Nagoya, July 1994

• Hamamatsu Junior Chamber of Commerce, May 1993

• High School Teachers Association of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, February 1993

• Seirei College of Nursing, Hamamatsu, June 1993

• Renewers’ Conference for Japan Exchange Teachers, Kobe, June 1993
• Keynote Speaker, Kobe, May 1999

• JET Program prefectural seminars:  Gifu, Shizuoka, Shiga, Kanazawa, Mishima, Atami

• Represented Japan at Journalists’-Global Islands Symposium‘93, Naha, Okinawa,