Category: Meetings

Presenters: SIETAR Japan Members
Deadline for proposals for this workshop is Sept. 5, by email to Noriko_Nakagawa@red.umds.ac.jp (see required proposal information below)
Date: Sept. 28 (Sunday), 2:00pm―5:00pm
Place: Nishinomiya-shi Daigaku Koryu Center　(ACTA Nishinomiya, Seminar Room 2)
2 min. from the North Exit of Hankyu Nishinomiya　Kitaguchi Station.
Tel.（0798）69-3155　　　　http://www.nishi.or.jp/~daigaku/
Fee: 500 yen for members and students, 1,000 yen for non-members
Languages: English and Japanese, depending on presenters

Description of the Workshop
SIETAR members are invited to share their tried and true materials for teaching intercultural communication in Japan. Each presenter will be allowed a maximum of 30 minutes. Five presentations will be selected to assure a balance in the language (presentations may be made in Japanese or English) and topic/content/level.
Call for Presenters:
SIETAR members who are interested in presenting their ICC teaching materials at the September workshop should send the following information by Sept. 5 to: Noriko_Nakagawa@red.umds.ac.jp
＊Please put “SIETAR Sept. Meeting” in the subject of the email.
1. Presenter’s Name
2. Title of proposed presentation
3. Presenter’s professional affiliation
4. Presenter’s contact information: email and phone number
5. Field/level (who will the presentation be directed at?)
6. Length of time needed (max. 30 min.)
7. Short description of the proposed presentation (about 100 words or less)
＊Video machine, DVD player, OHC and projector are available for presentation.
＊Presenters should bring about 20 photocopies your material to the workshop.
＊Successful proposals will be notified in mid-September.

Presenter:    Takehiko Ochiai (RyukokuUniversity)

Date:          July 20 (Sunday),  2:00pm-4:00pm

Place:        Nishinomiya-shiDaigakuKoryuCenter

 (ACTA Nishinomiya East building 6F, Seminar 1)

              2 min. from the North Exit of Hankyu Nishinomiya

 Kitaguchi Station.  Tel.（0798）69-3155

              http://www.nishi.or.jp/~daigaku/

Fee:          500yen for members and students, 1.000yen for non-members

Language:     Japanese

 

Description of the Presentation

Violence, particularly wars and armed conflicts, are one of the most extreme forms of “communication”. The aim of this presentation is to examine various aspects of conflicts in postcolonial Africa such as the reason why Africanists are increasingly hesitating to use the word of “ethnic/tribal conflicts”, the cases and types of modern conflicts in Africa, actors of conflict and conflict resolution (e.g. guerilla forces, private military companies, regional organizations, western powers), issues relating to African conflicts (e.g. small arms control, conflict diamonds, drug abuse in post-conflict society).

 

Profile of the Presenter

Takehiko Ochiai is Professor of International Relations at Ryukoku University. He was born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1965. He started to read African Politics in his undergraduate years and continued his study and research at the graduate schools of Keio University and the University of Birmingham, UK. His research interests include Sierra Leonean civil war, Nigerian politics, and regional security in West Africa. He is married to the psychiatric social worker, Tomoko Kanata, who is working for Kobe College. He likes taking London, their pet dog, out for a walk. The URL of his website is http://www.law.ryukoku.ac.jp/~ochiai/index.htm

Speaker:         Mr. Aditya Kumar

Date/Time:      Sunday June 29, 2008    14：00-16:00

Place:            Takatsuki Shiritsu Sogo Shimin Koryu Center, Room 1

                  (1 minute from JR Takatsuki Station), Tel.0726-85-3721

                 http://www.city.takatsuki.osaka.jp

Fee:              500 yen for members and students;  1,000 yen for non-members

Language:       Japanese (Questions and Answers in English and Japanese)

 

Description of Presentation

Most Indian residents in Japan used to be either Indian restaurant owners or students. But in the past ten years or so, things have changed, with many IT engineers coming to Japan.  I myself started working for an Indian company which develops IT software since April, and have some Indian colleagues at my work place. Meanwhile, I am still in the PhD course at Osaka University.  My Indian colleagues’ experiences, as well as my own, in Japan have given me new insight into how things are in Japan.  In my presentation, I would like to address several impending topics, such as adaptation to Japanese society by an Indian family, education for children, and medical support.  I will talk about how to cope with these problems. It is my great pleasure to do something to contribute to making Japan an ideal global nation with further cooperation between Japan and India.

 

Profile of the Presenter

Mr. Kumar was born in Buddaha-gaya, India in 1981.  After graduating from the

Univ.of Nehru in India where he specialized in Japanese and Japanese culture, he

came to Japan as a fellow of the Japanese Ministry of Education and studied at Osaka

University of Foreign Languages from 2002-2003.  Currently, he is doing his Doctoral

course at Osaka University.  He served as an interpreter for the summit between Japan and India and has also translated and interpreted for TV, magazines and other businesses.  Mr. Kumar presently works for Indian and Japanese companies as an international advisor and teaches English and Intercultural communication at a technical college.