This symposium will be held to showcase the achievements of the Global Asia Research Center under the University’s Waseda Goes Global Plan, an initiative funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Top Global University Project.
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Date: January 27 (Sat) 2024
Venue: 22-201, 2nd Floor, Building 22, Waseda Campus (and Zoom)
Language: Japanese / English (simultaneous translation)
Registration: https://forms.gle/xM22rXqT1MQC1wgm9
Program:
10:00-11:00 Opening Remarks
Osamu Soda, Senior Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Asian Studies in the World and University Cooperation in Asia
Shing-Ching Shyu, Former President of Chinese Culture University
Yu Tiejun, Professor, Peking University
Liu Jie, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University
12:30-14:00 Break
14:00-15:30 Session 2: Sustainability with community development
Gede Sedana, Rector, Dwijendra University
Catrini Pratihari Kubontubuh, Chairman of Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance
Mitsuru Yamada, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University
Naori Miyazawa, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University
15:30-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-17:20 Session 3: What is reconciliation studies? From the perspective of IARS (International Association for Reconciliation Studies) and several projects for reconciliation
Martin Leiner, Professor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the President of IARS, and Director of Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS) in Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Laura Villanueva, Non-Resident Scholar of JCRS, and Founder and Director, Satoyama for Peace: Ecosystems for Peace and Reconciliation
Toyomi Asano, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, and PI of the Research Project, “Exploring International Reconciliation Studies based on Universal Values and Collective Memory”
Naoyuki Umemori, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University and Co-I of the same project as mentioned above.
17:20-17:40 Closing Remarks
Jordan Sand, Professor, Georgetown University, and Visiting Professor, Waseda University
17:45-18:45 Reception
