Global COE Program - Kyoto University - In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa

 

Date:April 18, 2011 (Fri.) 14:00～15:45
Venue: No.332 Meeting Room, the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Presentation:
1. Motoko Fujita (G-COE Researcher)
2. Takuro Mori (RISH, Assistant Professor)
3. Naho Sato (CSEAS, Researcher)
4. Toshiyuki Takeda (ASAFAS, Researcher)

 

Date:March 27, 2010 (Sat.) 13：30～
Venue: Meeting Room, the 3rd floor, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Title: Outcome of FY2009 Junior researchers research initiatives

Date: March 14-16, 2010
Venue: KKRホテル Biwako
 

Date: November 27, 2009 (Fri.) 13:30-17:00
Venue: Meeting Room, the 4th floor of Common Building, CSEAS
 

Organizer: Satoko Hamamoto (Kyoto University)

Date:　April 2 ，2009 13:30-17:00
Venue：Inamori Memorial Foundation, Room No. 332, Kyoto University

Date:　March 25-28，2009
Venue：Indonesia

Organaized：Indonesian institute of Sciences

 

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Date: March 16, 2009 (Mon)14:00～17:30
Venue: Room No. 330, the 3rd floor of Inamori Zaidan Memorial Building, CSEAS

【Co-organizers】
・G-COE Program "In Serach of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa, Junior researchers research initiatives (Soichiro Shiraishi)
・The center for the study on development in Africa

【Program】
1. Soichiro Shinaishi（Kanwei Gakuinn University）14:00～14:30
2. Katsuhiko Masaki （Seisen University）14:30～15:30
3. Makoto Nishi（CSEAS, Kyoto University）15:45～16:45
4. General Discussion 16:45～17:15

Date: January 23-25, 2009
Venue: KKR Hotel Biwako

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【Record of Activity】

This symposium was attended by some 40 junior researchers specialized mainly in anthropology and area studies, and in five sessions over the three-day period, a total of ten research reports were presented. Intensive discussions were held aiming at a new style of research, one capable of coping with regional/social changes in contemporary society. Through discussions at these sessions and at the fellowship banquet, it became clear that the researchers at the gathering, specialized in diverse geographical regions and themes, face common circumstances and challenges, captured under the heading of “the contemporary.”
 

In Session 1, held on the first day and titled “Market-Oriented Economic Reform and Spatial Reorganization,” Yu Nishigaki noted that in the Ulan Bator City of Mongol, where rapid market-oriented economic reforms were introduced, public space was reproduced through interactions between the formation of the yurt district of nomads and the activities of NGOs stationed there. Naomi Hosoda followed, touching upon the relation between people’s experience of migration from rural areas into urban areas and changes in the world of magic in the Philippines. In the debate session, discussions centered on a contemporary situation in which market-oriented economic reforms have brought about a new social space.
 

In Session 2, entitled “Subsistence-supporting Livelihood and Ecological Dynamics,” held on the second day of the symposium, Miyo Nagakura took as research subject a mountain people in Lesotho, presenting empirical evidence on the relation between social change before and after the migrant labor boom, and way that this people took advantage of altitude differences in its use of land. Reiji Suzuki highlighted long-term changes in Myanmar’s forest vegetation resulting from the burn agriculture of local farmers and the influence of government policy in recent years. Following these two reports, debates took place on how dynamics of the ecology should be positioned with respect to their relation to political circumstances.
 

In Session 3, entitled “Dynamism of Religions and Changes in Local Community,” Hisashi Ogawa pointed to the friction and conflict introduced into local communities by the Thai Islamic Revival Movement, and Akimitsu Ikeda followed with a presentation of his views on the categories of religions and religious sects in the context of the Lebanese civil war.
 

In Session 4, entitled “Humanosphere Base in the midst of Conflicts,” Toru Sagawa argued that alternation between the two modes of battle and hospitality among the Ethiopian pastoral people emerged between the collectivity of warfare and social relations among individuals. Tadayuki Kubo delivered an interesting argument about the reality of various assistance activities carried out in Burmese refugee camps and the situation of multiple confrontational identities.
 

In Session 5, entitled “State Welfare Policy and the Living World” and held on the last day of the symposium, Teruhiro Yamakita presented arguments on the possibility of communities in Japan embracing the homeless through local community “welfare.” Makoto Kurata showed that the structuring process for health and medical services in Samoa evolved through interaction between the settlers, state administration and indigenous people.
 

At the general discussion session held in the afternoon of the final day, participants debated the question of how researchers should overcome ethical value confrontations with local communities given the contemporary situation faced by area studies, and also discussed how to go about linking success in this area to actual practice.
 

In addition to the eight working papers that emerged out of discussions at this symposium, a network of junior researchers, based mainly in the Kansai district, also came together through the meeting. With all these successes, the symposium turned out to be a very fruitful event indeed.
 

 （Keichiro Matsumura, Shuhei Kimura）

This seminar is co-organized by Iniviative 4, Junior Researchers Seminars and Exploratory Research "Searching for an Area Studies Approach to Disaster Prevention and Rehabilitation from Experiences of Involvement in Rehabilitation Work"

Date: July 11-12  2008 (Fri.-Sat.)
Venue: E207, 2nd floor of East Buildig, CSEAS

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Date:15:00-17:00, June 19 (Thu)，2008
Venue:CSEAS, Kyoto University (E207)

Title: "The Future of Publishing in the Asia-Pacific Has Arrived:
From Paper to Online Publication"

Speaker: Prof. Mark Selden

Dr. Mark Selden is a coordinator of Japan Focus, an electronic journal
and archive on Japan and the Asia-Pacific at http://japanfocus.org and a
Research Fellow, East Asia Program, Cornell University. His recent books
include War and State Terrorism: The United States, Japan and the
Asia-Pacific in the Long Twentieth Century, and Revolution, Resistance
and Reform in Village China. He is the editor of book series at Rowman &
Littlefield, Routledge, and M.E. Sharpe publishers.

Date: May 26, 2008(Mon.),  10：30‐12：00PM
Venue:3rd floor,Center for Integrated Area Studies

Presentation:
Keisuke Hoshikawa (Assitant Prof. Center for Integrated Area Studies)

【Record of Activity】
 In this first seminar of the group to discuss works by Jared Diamond, there was a brief introduction of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and an introductory discussion on how Diamond’s arguments relate to the themes of G-COE.

 In Collapse, Jared Diamond organizes the factors leading to the collapse of a society into five categories: environmental destruction, climatic change, presence of hostile groups, decline of aid from allies, and unsuitable social institutions and cultural values. He enumerates how past and present-day societies were forced into collapse by these factors or how they sustained themselves by successfully eliminating those factors. Through these examples, he shows that among these 5 factors, although climate change does not inevitably lead to collapse, for societies weakened, for example, by environmental destruction, it can be the final blow. Furthermore, he points out the possibility that a culture evolved in one location may hinder the ability to adapt to the environment in a different location, leading to environmental destruction and eventually societal collapse. In the final chapter, he suggests that the essential principle for survival of any society, regardless of how drastically cultural values change, is that there is a shift in values and policies to protect the environment and to not hope that technological advance always solve problems that threaten societies.

 If we interpret the necessary conditions for sustainable humanosphere development, which is the theme of G-COE, using the framework presented in Collapse, it is necessary to first determine if a society under the present conditions (climatic, etc.) is sustainable -- which is to say that industry (agriculture, mining, manufacturing) is not environmentally destructive (exploitive). Next, it is necessary to determine if a society is responsive to climate change, and furthermore, whether it has the capacity (infrastructure) to carry out the necessary adaptations. Here, it is suggested that societies that are able to adapt to climate change can take one of two forms: societies in which sustainability concerns are overwhelmed by productivity and societies that are driven by sustainability . In the former case, a society which is robust enough to handle climate change is created in advance, whereby the population is limited to a sustainable level in terms of food production capacity or, conversely, the food production capacity is engineered such that a particular population can be sustained. In the latter case, preparation for emergency situations is made by creating strong networks between societies, or by putting aside old values and allowing more adaptive responses in times of emergency.

 Participants’ responses to these comments included, for example, the opinion that it is necessary to think of a change in values and technological innovations not as two separate means to ensure a sustainable future but as parts of an inseparable whole.

(Keisuke Hoshikawa)

Date: April 12, 2008(Sat.),  13：30～18：30PM
Venue: Room 447,  Faculty of Engineering Bldg No.4, ASAFAS

Presentation:
1. FURUICHI, Takahisa (Researcher, Institute for Sustainability Science)
Title: Land and water management in Southeast Asia for sustainability of the society; Analysis of land-use change and its integration into land and water management

2. MARUO, Satoshi (Researcher, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
Title: Comparative Study on Resource Utilization and Sustainability of Livelihood System in Musa Crops Growing Areas of Africa

3. SATO, Yasuaki (Ph.D.candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
Title: Changing Process of Local Knowledge on Genetic Resources of Banana-family Crops, Banana(Musa spp.) and Enset(Ensete Ventricosum) in East Africa

4. UBUKATA, Fumikazu (G-COE Assistant Professor)

5. NAKAYAMA, Setsuko (Researcher, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
Title: Changes in resource perception by Lake Malawi fishers: a historical anthropological perspective.

6. NAKAMURA, Kyoko (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
Title: The potentialities of flexible and multi-layered identity of the East African pastoralists.

7. ENDO, Tamaki (G-COE Researcher)

8. KITAMURA, Yumi (Assistant Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
Title: Religion as Humanosphere: A Case Study on Religion and Chinese Indonesians

9. Ragil Widyorini (Mission Research Fellow, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)
Titel: Evaluation of biomass production of plantation forest in tropical area: A case study of Acacia plantation forest, PT Musi Hutan Persada, SouthSumatra, Indonesia

10. KAZATO, Mari (Researcher, Center for Integrated Area Studies)
Title: What are Cultural Values of Precious Metals in Rural and Urban Mongolia Today, Especially of Silver Goods?

11. HOSODA, Naomi (Researhcer, Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
Title: Perspectives from Hyper Mobile Societies: Towards Sustainable Humanosphere Paradigm

12. SATO, Takahiro (G-COE Researcher)

13. ITO, Masayuki (Researcher, Faculty Graduate School of Agriculture)
Title: Isotopic approaches to understanding greenhouse gas dynamics in tropical forest ecosystems

14. KASEZAWA, Masato (National Museum of Ethnology)
Title: Relations of Ethnomedicine as among culture, technical knowledge and intellectual property, Study for sustainable utilization of Traditional medicine

15. FUJITA, Motoko (Researcher, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)
Title: Evaluation of bird biodiversity with special references to avian contribution to nutrient cycling in Acacia plantation forests

16. NISHI, Makoto (G-COE Researcher)

17. KAIDA, Rumi (Researcher, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)
Title: Tree breeding for sustainable industrial forests

18. ADACHI, Toru (Researcher, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere)
Title: Monitoring of the lightning activity in Southeast Asia

Date: March 18, 2008 (Tue.), 13：30〜17：45PM
Venue: E207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Naomi Hosoda (Researcher, CSEAS)
2. Makoto Ishibashi, Yoshihiro Kobari, Akiko Watanabe, Naomi Hosoda
3. Yumiko Moritani (Kyushu Sangyo University)
4. Shingo Iitaka (Graduate School, Tokyo Metropolitan University

Commentator:
1. Koji Tanaka (Professor, Center for Integrated Area Studies)
2. Sukhee Battulga (Aichi Prefectual University)

Date: March 17, 2008(Sat.),  14：30～18：00PM
Venue: E207,  2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Keiichi Kubo (Assistant, Waseda University)

2. Kota Suechika (Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University)

Date:15:00-18:00, March 6 (Thu)，2008
Venue:CSEAS, Kyoto University (E207)

"Getting Published in the English World: Two Perspectives"

15:00-16:00
Reviewing Manuscripts: Developing Potentials, Spotting Problems

Dr. Chris Baker (Independent writer, researcher and translator)
Co-wrote with Pasuk Phongphaichit: "A History of Thailand," "Thailand:
Economy and Politics," and "Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand"

16:00-17:00
English-Language Academic Publishing: What University Presses are
Looking For

Dr. Paul Kratoska (Managing Director, NUS Press (National University of Singapore); Former Editor, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; Regional Editor,International Journal of Asian Studies)

Author of The Japanese Occupation of Malaya: A Social and Economic History (Japanese translation, 2005); editor of Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire

17:00-18:00 Discussion, Question and Answers

Moderator: Associate Professor Caroline S. Hau, CSEAS

Date: February 16, 2008 (Sat.),  15：00-18：00
Venue: Room 307, Common Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Atsuro Morita
    (Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts
    and Sceinces, University of Tokyo)

2. Keiichiro Matsumura
    (Assistant Professor,Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Graduate School of Human
   and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)

Commentator:
Tsuyoshi Kato (Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Ryukoku University)

Datae:16:30-18:00, January 31 (Thu.)，2008
Venue:CSEAS E207

Speaker: Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo (CSEAS/Cornell）

Title:"Publishing in English: A Southeast Asian Studies Vantage"

Language: English

※After the seminar, there will be informal gathering.

Rationale of the seminar:
This special G-COE seminar is designed to help young scholars get published in peer-reviewed international journals as well as academic presses in Asia-Pacific, the United States and Europe. The seminar consists of two parts.

The first is a series of lectures by G-COE professors, visiting fellows at CSEAS and other institutions at Kyoto University, and invited senior scholars who will be asked to share with the participants their experience in getting published abroad. The seminar will also invite academic publishers in Japan and abroad to share insights on how to get published. The second part will be a continuous discussion among the participants on the manuscripts (journal articles and/or books) that they plan to submit for publication.

At this point, the focus will be on the social sciences and the humanities, but the special seminar will, in the near future, be focused on dialogue between humanities, social science and science, an end in view of publishing materials that reflect inter-disciplinary G-COE themes.

Date:January 22, 2008 (Tue.), 15：00〜18：00PM
Venue: HW525, Uji Campus, RISH

Presentation:
1. Masayuki Ito
   (Researcher, Faculty Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)

2. Masato Kasezawa
   (Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)

3. Motoko Fujita
   (Mission Researcher, RISH)

4. Makoto Nichi
    (G-COE Researcher, CSEAS)

5. Rumi Kaida
   (Researcher, RISH)

6. Toru Adachi
   (Researcher, RISH)

Date: December 28, 2007 (Tue.), 13：30～16：30PM
Venue: Room 447,  Faculty of Engineering Bldg No.4, ASAFAS

Presentation:
1. Tamaki Endo
   (G-COE Researcher, CSEAS)

2. Yumi Kitamura
   (Assistant Professor, CSEAS)

3. Ragil Widyorini
   (Mission Researcher, RISH)
   "Evaluation of biomass production of plantation forest in tropical area:
   A case study of  Acacia plantation forest, PT Musi Hutan Persada, South Sumatra,
   Indonesia"

4. Mari Kazato
    (Researcher, Center for Integrated Area Studies )

5. Naomi Hosoda
   (Researcher, CSEAS)

6. Takahiro Sato
   (G-COE Researcher, CSEAS)

Date: December, 13th (Thursday) 16:00 -18:00
Venue: CSEAS E207

Title: The Bumpy Road to Oxford University Press
Guest Speaker: Professor Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS）
Language: Japanese

Rationale of the seminar:
This special G-COE seminar is designed to help young scholars get
published in peer-reviewed international journals as well as academic
presses in Asia-Pacific, the United States and Europe. The seminar
consists of two parts.

The first is a series of lectures by G-COE professors, visiting fellows at CSEAS and other institutions at Kyoto University, and invited senior scholars who will be asked to share with the participants their experience in getting published abroad. The seminar will also invite academic publishers in Japan and abroad to share insights on how to get published. The second part will be a continuous discussion among the participants on the manuscripts (journal articles and/or books) that they plan to submit for publication.

At this point, the focus will be on the social sciences and the humanities, but the special seminar will, in the near future, be focused on dialogue between humanities, social science and science, an end in view of publishing materials that reflect inter-disciplinary G-COE themes.

Date: November 20, 2008(Tue.),  13:30～16:30PM
Venue: E207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Takahisa Furuishi
   (Researcher, Center for Integrated Area Studies)

2. Satoshi Maruo
   (Researcher, ASAFAS)

3. Yasuaki Sato
   (Ph.D.candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)

4. Fumikazu Ubukata
    (G-COE Assistant Professor, CSEAS)

5. Setsuko Nakayama
   (Researcher, ASAFAS)

6. Kyoko Nakayama
   (Researcher, ASAFAS)

Date: October 1-3, 2007
Venue: Room 407, Common Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Noriyoshi Nagahora
   (Assistance Professor, Institution of Sustainability Science)

2. Takashi Kamei
   (Researcher, Assistance Professor, Institution of Sustainability Science)

3. Motoko Fujita
   (Mission Researcher, RISH)

4. Taro Sonobe
    ((Mission Researcher, RISH)