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Bianca Briciu PhD is an assistant professor in the Providence School of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality. She is interested in the cultivation of human potential in all areas of intelligence: cognitive, embodied, emotional, spiritual. She is currently engaged in research on the transformative effects of mindfulness, empathy and compassion as aspects of emotional intelligence. After many years of researching the individual and social cost generated by systems of domination, inequality and injustice, Bianca is committed to the intellectual and spiritual development of leaders that can transform their communities and organizations.
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ECS 5112 - TRAUMA, HEALING AND RECONCILIATION
Violence and trauma in the context of identity-based conflicts. Emotional, spiritual, physical and cognitive dimensions of the human person. Reconciliation, forgiveness and trauma healing.
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HUM 5121 - Transformative Leadership and Spirituality
Study of approaches and methods of spirituality as a fundamental experience of lived faith and values for individuals and communities. Learning to lead from an articulated understanding of spirituality consistent with the student’s personally-defined values and the values of the organization in which the student works. The impact of spirituality on the student leader’s’ identity and practice.
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HUM 5303 - Practicing Leadership: Practicum III
Building on previous learning in collaboration with the onsite mentor and practicum professor, students identify specific learning goals emerging from Practicing Leadership I and develop and evaluate action plans to enhance their leadership abilities. Leadership skills that serve transformative processes are emphasized. Graded S/NS.
Prerequisites: HUM 5301 Practicing Leadership and Professional Ethics: Practicum I.
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ISC 3305 - Psycho Sociology of Mass Communications
Main theories and concepts in social psychology useful for the understanding of following phenomena: communication, progression of the information and their effects. Classical concepts: attitudes, attribution, persuasion, cognitive dissonance. Mains concepts of contemporary social cognition theories: bias, heuristics.
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ISC 2331 - Conceptions of Society
Great traditions in social thought. In particular: the functionalist tradition; the conflictual tradition; the interactionist tradition; the economical conceptions of social reality.
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ISC 4300 - Argumentation and Persuasive Communication
Elements of the theory of argumentation. Concept of arguments in communication. Writing and public intervention exercises.
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ISC 2729 - Communication interpersonnelle
Principales théories et techniques d’analyse des processus de communication interpersonnelle. Conditions pour une communication interpersonnelle réussie. Apprentissage expérientiel des principaux phénomènes de la communication interpersonnelle à partir de situations en milieux professionnels et dans d’autres situations sociales. Communication non verbale.
PhD Cultural Mediations, Carleton University, Canada, 2013
MA Film Studies, Carleton University, Canada, 2008
MA Gender Studies, Kobe University, Japan, 2005
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The Revolutionary Art of Love
This is a project that explores the multidimensionality of love, building a case for more awareness of our emotional landscape for optimal experiences of love. -
The Transformative Capacity of Imagination: Experiencing our Shared Humanity
This paper analyzes the intersubjective dimensions of imagination, focusing on strategies that help us experience at an embodied level a sense of shared humanity. -
Empathy and Social Responsibility in Documentary
This research analyzes the representation of the refugee experience in documentaries, arguing that these films rely on powerful strategies of eliciting empathy for spectators, engaging them at a deep emotional level and making the case for social responsibility. The first part focuses on theories of empathy and identification and the second considers the articulation of an embodied refugee experience in films like Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and Human Flow.
1. Book Chapters
“The Female Body as Transgressor of National Boundaries in Imamura Shohei’s The History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (Nippon sengoshi, madamu Onboro no seikatsu, 1970)” in The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura, edited by Lindsay Coleman and David Desser, Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
2. Refereed Journals
1. Become Undone-The Ecstatic Potential of Pleasure and the Barriers of Mind/Body and Gender Dualism in Writing from Below, La Trobe University, Australia, 2019-paper accepted
2. Educating the Heart. Mindfulness and Compassion in the Study and Practice of
Traditional Thai Massage in Journal of East-West Thought, June, 2016
3. Universal or National Peace Education? The Visceral and the Moral in the 1950s
Japanese Antiwar Film in Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies,
2013
4. Love and Power: The Objectification of the Female Body in Hani Susumu’s
Inferno of First Love (Hatsukoi jigokuhen, 1968) in Journal of Japanese and
Korean Cinema, 2013
5. At the Frontier of the Skin: Rape and Body Politics in Intentions of Murder (Akai
satsui, Imamura Shohei, 1964), in U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, Josai
University, Tokyo, August 2012
6. Symbols of the Mother in Depth Psychology and Contemporary Feminism in
Cross-Cultural Studies, Kobe University, No 11, 2004
3. Translations
1. “Postwar Japanese Melodrama,” by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Review of Japanese Culture and Society: Unfinished Business: The Endless Postwar in Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture, Vol. XXI , 2009, Pp. 19-32
2. “Beyond Fuji Mountain and Lenin’s Hat-The Danger of Identity in Taniguchi Senkichi’s Akasen kichi (The Red Light Military Base, 1953)” by Nakamura Hideyuki, Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema, Routledge, 2019
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Conquering Countries, Possessing Bodies – Policies of Imperialism
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“Japanese Devil” or Universal Humanist? – Refashioning the Japanese Male Subject in The Human Condition (1959 – 1961)
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Bitter Memories or Peace Education? The Visceral and the Moral in the 1950s Japanese Film.
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Documenting Japan’s Transnational Embodied History: Imamura Shohei’s Documentaries.
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Empathy and Social Responsibility in Documentary Film
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The Transformative Capacity of Imagination: Experiencing our Shared Humanity
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Teacher of the Year
2015
I have an interdisciplinary formation and an insatiable curiosity about the world which helps me stay engaged at all times. I lived and studied in Japan and Thailand and I am interested in contemplative thought and practices as well as the more recent presence of these practices in the field of psychology. I love working with people and expanding their horizons about the world and themselves.
