List of International Symposiums held in "Applied Humanities":
(for details see below)
(for details see below)
- Relational Studies: Refugees from Disaster / Rethinking Humanities for the 21st Century, 2017
- Responding to Refugee Crisis and Disaster / New Approaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018
- Wasted Matter - Wasted Lives, 2019
1st International Symposium in Applied Humanities
"Relational Studies: Refugees from Disaster"
Followed by the 1st International Colloquium
in Applied Humanities:
"Rethinking Humanities for the 21st Century"
Date: November 25th, 2017, 13:00-18:00.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Japan, (Tsukuba University Campus) 人文社会棟 A 520
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
financed by JSPS 科研費: 新学術領域研究公募 17H05116 「越境的統合―ヨーロッパの難民問題」
Participants of the Symposium:
Thomas Brisson (University Paris 8)
Olcay Akyildiz (Bogazici University)
Gerry Yokota (Osaka University)
Hiroko Washizu (Tsukuba University)
Xiuping Li (Tsukuba University)
Eri Koshikawa (Tsukuba University)
Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University)
Refugee mobility is one of the great challenges of our times. People are fleeing for many reasons from many places: from nuclear disaster (Fukushima), from climate related disaster (islanders), from famine (African countries), from war (Syria), oppression and ethnic cleansing (Rohingya). In our global world, disasters do no longer impact just local communities, they change each and every society, those who are struggling to help and those who are standing aloof. This symposium is looking at the effects disaster has on human relationships, human attempts at discursive resiliency (conceptualizations, narratives and metaphors) and 21st century concepts of "humanity" in a relational perspective, bringing together researchers from various countries (France, Turkey, Canada, Germany, China, Japan) and disciplines (literature, anthropology, cultural and political studies) with various research focuses in order to discuss challenges and perspectives.
The Colloquium will discuss perspectives and possibilities for the humanities in the 21st century.
Participants of the Colloquium:
Olcay Akyildiz (Bogazici University)
Gerry Yokota (Osaka University)
Kristie Collins (Reitaku University)
Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University)
Colloquium: Date: November 26th, 2017, 10:00. Place: Tsukuba University Campus, 人文社会棟 A 520.
This symposium on "Relational Studies: Refugees from Disaster" is inaugurating a series of symposiums to accompany the new research field of "Applied Humanities" developed by Herrad Heselhaus at Tsukuba University.
This JSPS research project on "Transnational Encounter - The European Refugee Crisis" by Herrad Heselhaus is part of a wider JSPS "New Research Field Development" by Keiko Sakai from Chiba University: "Relational Studies in Global Crises".
For further information:
on paper presentations
on detailed schedule
contact: [email protected]
2nd International Symposium in Applied Humanities
"Responding to Refugee Crisis and Disaster"
New Approaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences
"Responding to Refugee Crisis and Disaster"
New Approaches in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Core Session at
Tsukuba Global Science Week:
“Driving Sustainable Development”
Date: September 21st, 2018, 10:00-18:00
International Conference Organizer: Tsukuba University, Japan
(Core Session 2-3 at TGSW 2018)
Venue: Tsukuba, International Congress Center, Room 402
Symposium Organizer: Prof. Dr. Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
financed by JSPS 科研費: 新学術領域研究公募 17H05116 「越境的統合―ヨーロッパの難民問題」
Participants:
Magdalena Nowicka (Humboldt University Berlin)
Franz Mauelshagen (Essen/Duisburg University)
Keiko Sakai (Chiba University)
Saeko Kimura (Tsuda University)
Yayoi Haraguchi (Ibaraki University)
Abu Moges (Tsukuba University)
Andrée Lafontaine (Tsukuba University)
Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University)
Global refugee crises and long-term disaster scenarios will be among the major challenges mankind will have to face in the coming decades. Worldwide, humanities and social sciences are developing new approaches not only to understand and find solutions for these problems, but also to promote the concepts and needs of sustainable societies and culture in higher education. This session will introduce “Relational Studies in Global Crises”, “Integration/Migration Research”, “Environmental Humanities” and “Applied Humanities”, accompanied by individual research focusing on Fukushima and Global Refugee Crises.
For further information:
on paper presentations
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contact: [email protected]
3rd International Symposium in Applied Humanities
"Wasted Matter - Wasted Lives"
Date: February 21st, 2019, 10:00-18:00.
Venue: Tsukuba University, Japan, (Tsukuba University Campus) 人文社会棟 A 520
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
financed by JSPS 科研費: 新学術領域研究公募 17H05116 「越境的統合―ヨーロッパの難民問題」
Participants:
Joshua Reno (Binghamton University)
Gerry Yokota (Osaka University)
Yoichi Yuasa (Kanto-Gakuin University)
Saeko Kimura (Tsuda College)
Andrée Lafontaine (Tsukuba University)
Yasushi Uchiyamada (Tsukuba University)
Herrad Heselhaus (Tsukuba University)
This international symposium brings together researchers from various disciplines (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature and film analysis) and countries (United States, Canada, Germany and Japan) with the aim to shed more light on our discourses on waste and on our politics of producing and reducing waste. In the theoretical perspective, it will critically discuss the shift of the concept of waste from matter to human lives and re-evaluate our philosophies and narratives on human life and planetary environment. In a more practical perspective, the symposium will present and discuss various scenarios of “wasting”: such as the ongoing harm done by the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the accumulation of household waste and pollution of our environment, the global production of ever increasing numbers of refugees and displaced persons and the politics of waste towards “marginalized” groups such as women, the elderly and the young.
For further information:
on paper presentations
on detailed schedule
contact: [email protected]