Program of the Conference
Please note that the program time below is Japan Standard Time. The conference will be held in English, except Symposium 1.
The Keynote Speech, Symposiums and Plenary Session are open to non-members, and we will send you the URL for the Webinar. Please register from this site.
The two-day conference will be held on October 9th (Saturday) and 10th (Sunday), 2021. On the first day, we will have a keynote speech followed by two symposium sessions. The academic presentations will take place on the second day starting from 9 am.
Day 2. October 10th (Sun)
9:00 -10:30
Parallel Presentations I
Session 1: Human Security and Dignity
●Junko Miura (University of Tokyo)
”Myanmar Refugees in Thailand: Lost the Freedom of Movement and Dignity in Protracted Refugee Situations”
●Rika Masuda (Teikyo University)
”Mechanisms of Escaping Poverty of the "Savings Groups". From the Case Examples in Rural Sri Lanka”
Chair: Yusuke Dan (Toyo Gakuen University; JAHSS President)
Discussant: Yukiko Nishikawa (Doshisha University)
Session 2: Human Security in the Risk Society
●Manuel Sambo (Doshisha University)
"The (de)Securitization of COVID-19 in Tanzania"
●Chiaki Tsuchida (University of Tokyo)
"Japan’s Refugee Policy and Public Order: An Analysis of the Policy Making Process"
Chair: Sho Akahoshi (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Discussant: Yuichi Sekiya (University of Tokyo)
10:45 -12:45
Plenary Session
Health and Human Security
Moderator: Yusuke Dan (JAHSS President)
Short Presentation 1
"Migration, Health and Human Security"
Masami Fujita (Director, Division of Global Networking, NCGM)
Short Presentation 2
"Nuclear Disaster and Human Security"
Noboru Takamura (Professor of the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University)
Short Presentation 3
"Japanese and Vietnamese Perception of Public during Covid-19"
Le thao chi Vu (Keio University)
Short Presentation 4
"Lessons Learned from Japan's COVID 19 Response and Control"
Satoshi Sasaki (Soka University)
Short Presentation 5
"Freedom from Fear, Freedom from Want, Couldn’t Ask for More? Operationalizing Human Security in International Health Cooperation"
Ikuo Takizawa (Deputy Director General, Human Development Department, JICA)
Speech of Acknowledgement
Reiko Mihara (Vice Chair of the Conference Organizing Committee; Doshisha University)
14:00 -15:30
Parallel Presentations II
Session 3: Health Care for Vulnerable Groups
●Oscar A. Gomez (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
”International Migration and Human Security under the COVID 19 Pandemic”
●Keiko Iwasaki, Koryu Sato, Naoki Kondo and Yasuyuki Sawada
(NLI Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto University, University of Tokyo)
"The COVID-19 Pandemic, Child-Rearing, and Wellbeing: Evidence from Japanese Panel Data"
Chair: Hazuki Sasaki (Kanazawa University)
Discussant: Michio Umegaki (Keio University)
Session 4: Human Security and Foreign Policy
●Sakada Leang (Soka University)
”The Success and Failure of United Nation Peace Keeping Operations in the Post-Cold War Era. Why do Some United Nation Peace Keeping Operations Succeed while Others Not? : A Case Study on United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia”
●Craig Mark (Kyoritsu Women’s University)
”Strategic Failure in Afghanistan: Costs to Human Dignity from Australia’s Longest Modern War”
Chair: Kyoko Cross (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Discussant: Masataka Nakauchi (Sophia University)
Session 5: Theoretical Studies on Human Security
●Mahima Natrajan (Soka University)
”From Protest to A Movement: How Muslim Women Transformed Subaltern Politics in Contemporary India”
●Makoto Nakagiri (Japanese Embassy in Cameroon)
”Deception of Development Discourse from the Perspectives of Subalterns: The Case of the Inter-States’ Discussion on the Right to Development”
●Andrei Yamamoto (Ryukoku University)
”Gendering Tokyo: Japan’s Human Securities and the Utilitarian Nature of its Westphalian Behemoth”
Chair: Reiko Mihara (Doshisha University)
Discussant: Ai Kihara-Hunt (University of Tokyo)