The Second Annual Convention
The Second Annual Convention
Fusion of Sciences and Humanities, and Restoration of Humanities and Social Sciences II
The second annual convention of ASPOS will be held at Doshisha University September 18-19, 2011 as follows. We encourage you to join us and are looking forward to seeing you at the convention!
Dates and Venue
Dates: | September 18-19, 2011 |
Venue: | Doshisha University
Rinkokan Bld., Imadegawa Kochi (Shinmachi Campus) Imadegawa-dori Karasuma Higashiiri Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 169-8050 Phone: +91-75-251-3860 JAPAN |
Program
DAY 1: SEP. 18 (SUN)
Opening Remarks
10:00-12:30: Plenary Session I, Place: Rinkokan
The East Japan Great Earthquake, and Japanese National Economy, Local Economy and Decision-Making (Inter-Academic Associations Programs for Corresponding Earthquake)
Chair: | Hiroo Harada (Senshu University) |
Paper 1: | The Problems on Japanese National Economy
Takao Komine (Hosei University) |
Paper 2: | The Problems on Local Economy and Industrial Reconstruction
Junichi Nagamine (Kwansei Gakuin University) |
Paper 3: | The Problems on Decision-making
Hiroshi Taniguchi (Chuo University) |
Disc: | Ichiro Ishikawa (Kyoto Newspaper) |
10:00-12:30: Plenary Session II Place: Rinkokan
Multiple Dimension of Asia-Pacific Regionalism (Language: English)
Chair: | Toru Oga (Kyushu University) |
Paper 1: | The United States and Japan: Two Allies Facing Asian Regionalism
T. J. Pempel (University of California, Berkely) |
Paper 2: | East Asian Regional Cooperation: Historical Reconciliation and
Regional Identity Building Xianming Zhang (Beijing University) |
Paper 3: | Financial Cooperation and East Asian Regionalism
Jin-yong Kim (Pusang University) |
Disc: | Naoko Sajima (Senshu University) |
12:30-13:30: Lunch and Board Meeting
13:30-14:00: General Assembly
14:00-15:00: Special Lecture
Let’s Return to the Renaissance Human: Encouragement on System Dyanamics
Speaker: | Kaoru Yamaguchi (Doshisha University) |
Chair: | Tatsuro Arakawa (Doshisha University) |
15:15-17:45:
Common Theme: Toward the Formation of Global Environmental Consortium,“Wisdom of International Society”
Chair: | Yoichiro Sato (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) |
Paper 1: | The Plan on Japan-Russia-China-Mongolia Academic Consortium
for the Utilization and Preservation of the Environment in The Amur Valley and the Sea of Okhotsk Shiroiwa Yakayuki (Hokkaido University) |
Paper 2: | Consortium for resolution of Groundwater Problems of Megacity
Masato Taniguchi (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) |
Paper 3: | Cooperation for Global Environment in International Relations:
From Perspectives of Functional Cooperation Aysun Uyar (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) |
Disc: | Hiroshi Ota (Waseda University)
Toru Morodomi (Kyoto University) |
18:00: Reception at the 1st Floor of the Kanbaikan, “Hamac de Paradis”
DAY 2: SEP. 19 (MON)
10:00-12:30: Plenary Session Ⅲ, Place: Rinkokan
Security: US-Japan Relations and Asian Regionalism (Language: English)
Chair: | Hiro Katsumata (Waseda University) |
Paper 1: | Explaining War and Peace in Asia since 1945
Muthiah Alagappa (East-West Center) |
Paper 2: | Rising China: Political Leadership, Foreign Policy, and their Chineseness
Shi Yinhong (Renmin University of China) |
Paper 3: | US Military Commitment to the Asia-Pacific and Demilitarization of Japan
after Japan after the Korean War: Impact of Japanese Financial Community Yoneyuki Sugita (Osaka University) |
Disc: | John Endicott (Woosong University) |
10:00-12:30: Plenary Session IV, Place: Rinkokan
Some Thoughts on Fukushima Nuclear Plant Disaster: Lessons from Experiences of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Chernobyl
Chair: | Hirotaka Watanabe (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
Paper 1: | The Development and Prospects of Disasters of Fukushima Nuclear Power Station
Masaharu Hoshi (Hiroshima University) |
Paper 2: | Study on Human Errors as the Cause of Nuclear Disaster
Tetsuji Imanaka (Kyoto University) |
Paper 3: | UThe Collapse of Social Foundation by Nuclear Disaster:
The Case of Nuclear Town, Pripyat Tokuyuki Kawano (Hiroshima University) |
Disc: | TBA (Kyoto Shimbun) |
12:30-13:30: Lunch and Board Meeting
13:30-14:30: Special Lecture
Paradigm Shift: Quests for Global Civil Society and Alternative Publicity
(Inter-Academic Associations Programs for Corresponding Earthquake)
Speaker: | Tsugio Ide (Nihon University) |
Chair/Disc: | Kakyoko Murata (World Watch Institute) |
14:30-17:00: Common Theme/Round Table
Difference in their Historical Approaches between Natural Science and Social Science
Chair: | Yoshinobu Araki (Musashino University) |
Paper 1: | On Economics
Kiichiro Yagi (Setsunan University) |
Paper 2: | On Political Philosophy and Political History
Minoru Iwasaki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
Paper 3: | On Global Environmental Science
Takeshi Nakatsuka (Nagoya University) |
Closing Address
Note: There will be a section of simulation of system dynamics on 9:00-10:00 am, September 19. Bring your own laptop computer and experience it! Please register for it in advance at the reception desk on September 18.