Category: Meetings

Presenter:    Mr. Jeff Plantilla (HURIGHTS OSAKA)

Date:         February 15 (Sunday),  15:30~17:30

Place:        Nishinomiya-shi Daigaku Koryu Center

              (ACTA East building  6F, Seminar Room 2)

             2 min. from the North Exit of Hankyu Nishinomiya

             Kitaguchi Station  Tel. (0798)69-3155

             http://www.nishi.or.jp

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

Language:   English

 

 

Description of the Presentation

    

     Human rights education is an international commitment of governments, and yet it has not been given the support it deserves.

Despite difficulties however, there are human rights education initiatives in various countries, in diverse forms and types of supporting institutions.  Human rights education supports the goal of education: full development of human potentials.

 

 

Profile of the Presenter

 

     Jeff Plantilla works on the regional (Asia) human rights education program of HURIGHTS OSAKA.  He implements projects under the program with the involvement of educators in different countries and with various institutions in Asia.  He undertakes research on human rights issues.  He also prepares the English publications of HURIGHTS OSAKA.

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