The NITech HOMECOMING day is November 3, 2016.

Category：Event｜Publishing : September 28, 2016

Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) will hold the 2nd Homecoming Day on November 3 (Thursday/Holiday), 2016. All alumni and their families are welcome to NITech campus.

SPECIAL VISITOR: Dr. Roald Hoffmann, a 1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Honorary Professor Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University

photograph by Michael Grace-Martin

Special Seminar & Play

1pm to 4pm @NITech Hall ★Prior booking essential, 300 people only, for FREE.

Seminar ; "Returning, Remembering, Forgiving - a little boy in hiding in World War 2 returns 62 year later to Ukraine"

Play ; "Something That Belongs to You", Japan Premire!

The play "Something That Belongs to You" was written by Dr. Hoffmann. The story can be found in his website. Ms. Keiko Kawashima, a professor of Nagoya Institute of Technology is one of his Japanese friends, so she translated the play into Japanese language.

NOTICE

1. For booking and inquiries, please contact General Affairs Division. The contact detail is below in this page.

2. The seminar and play are ones of the program of the Homecoming reception ceremony. The speeches of Dr. Hiroyuki Ukai, President of the Nagoya Institute of Technology and of Mr. Toshio Mizushima, Chairperson of Nagoya Kogyokai (alumni association) will be followed by the seminar and play.

Message from Dr. Hoffmann

To my Japanese friends

Is there something to learn from a personal story of survival more than 70 years old? And the way it shakes a family some decades later? Yes, for every day, today, the news brings us terrible images of human cruelty to other human beings, of refugees, of families and children desperately striving for survival. Yet, in the midst of that suffering there is humanity, one person reaching out to another, despite risk to oneself and family -- reaching out a hand, and helping. The gods... stand by; it is human beings who make choices for good and for evil. The play you are about to see performed, or to read, is my story, but it is also for all of us.

Roald Hoffmann