This symposium is dedicated to the establishment of Center for Asia-Pacific Future Studies (CAFS), Kyushu University.
Date: March 7 and 8, 2015
Venue: Solaria Nishitetsu Hotel
(2-2-43, Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, 810-0001, Japan)
Program Schedule:
Day 1 (March 7)
13:00-14:40 Opening Session
Opening address: Takatoshi MATSUBARA (Director, CAFS)
Welcome remarks: SHIN Gi-Wook (Stanford University),
Norio TANAKA (Director, Graduate School of Law, Kyushu University),
Yoshitaka FURUYA (Director, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University)
Keynote speeches by Jussi LANE (East Finland Univerity),
Akihiro IWASHITA (SRC & UBRJ, Hokkaido Univeristy)
Chair: Kaoru IZUMI (Vice-Director, CAFS)
15:30-17:30 Session 1: Make Border Tourism Together
Speakers: Sergey GOLUNOV (SRC, Hokkaido University), Yasunori HANAMATSU (Kyushu Univeristy)
Chair: Fuminori KAWAKUBO (Chuo-Gakuin Univeristy)
Commentators: Koji FURUKAWA (Chukyo Univeristy), Ed PLFORD (Cambridge University)
17:30-17:40 Closing Session
Concluding remarks: Reiko AOKI (Executive Vice President, Kyushu Univeristy)
18:00- Reception-celebration of the establishment of CAFS
Welcome remarks: Yasutoshi SAKAMOTO (Director, Graduate School of Humanities, Kyushu University),
Mitsuro HAMAMOTO (Director, Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu Univeristy)
Day 2 (March 8)
10:00-12:00 Session 2: Borders and International Relations
Speakers: Sergey SEBASTIANOV (Far Eastern Federal Univerisy, Russia),
Paul Richardson (University of Manchester)
Chair: CHI Hyunjoo Naomi (Hokkaido University)
Commentators: Yasuhiro MATSUI (Kyushu Univeristy), IEE Hong-Pyo (Kyushu University)
13:30-15:30 Session 3: Japan's Borderlands: Past and Future
Speakers: Edward BOYLE (Hokkaido University), Yoshihiro MASUDA (Nihon Bunri University)
Chair: Keiko TAMURA (Kitakyushu City University)
Commentators: Akihiko TAKAGI (Kyushu University), Kaoru IZUMI (Kyushu University)
16:00-17: 00 Session 4: Round Table "The Future of Border Studies in Asia-Pacific"
Chair: Akihiro IWASHITA (SRC & UBRJ, Hokkaido Univeristy)
17:00-17:10 Closing Session
Closing remarks: Takatoshi MATSUBARA (Director, CAFS)
Hosted by CAFS, Kyushu University
Co-hosted by UBRJ, Slavic-Eurasian Center, Hokkaido University
Cooperated by NPO Japan Center for Borderlands Studies (JCBS), Japan International Border Studies Network (JIBSN), EUIJ Kyushu
Persons interested in participation in the symposium should register themselves beforehand by E-mail to cafs[at]jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp or fax to 092-642-7374.
Working languages will be both in Japanese and English with simultaneous interpretation.
Eurasia Unit for Border Research (Japan)
