Public lectures and lectures are held at universities and junior colleges that are members of the University Consortium Kyoto as a place where many people can easily come into contact with knowledge and culture in a wide range of fields. We look forward to your participation. This time, we would like to introduce the “Ritsumeikan University Saturday Course”.

Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecture

The Ritsumeikan Saturday Lecture was established with the aim of opening university lectures widely to the public and strengthening the ties between the university and the local community, based on the late President Emeritus Hiroshi Suekawa, who was the president of the university at the time, who advocated that “scholarship and science exist to protect the interests and human rights of the masses, and that it is the university that creates human beings through learning, and that it is important to walk with the masses, think with the masses, and learn with the masses.” On March 31, 1946, in the midst of the turbulent postwar period, Professor Hiroshi Suekawa held his first lecture entitled “On Labor Union Law,” and since then, it has continued for more than half a century, pursuing “open academia” in a practical manner.
In addition to introducing academic trends and research results in various fields, commentary on classics and famous books, the book also covers a wide variety of content that is appropriate for the purpose of opening up university scholarship to the public, such as elucidating actual current affairs down to the dimension of academic methods and theories, and setting themes that are ahead of the times.