www.iafor.org/about/partners

IAFOR Global Partners

University of Belgrade

IAFOR has entered into a number of strategic partnerships with universities across the world to form
the IAFOR Global Partnership Programme. These academic partnerships support and nurture IAFOR’s
goals of educational cooperation without borders, connecting the organisation with institutions thathave an international and internationalising profile, and a commitment to interdisciplinary research.
The IAFOR Global Partnership Programme provides mutual recognition and scope for Global Partner
institutions and organisations to showcase their research strengths, as well as engage in thedevelopment of projects and programmes with IAFOR.

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ACCS/ACAS2021 Organising Committee

Sue Ballyn

Joseph Haldane

Baden Offord

Seiko Yasumoto

Barcelona University, Spain

Centre for Human Rights Education,
Curtin University, Australia & Cultural
Studies Association of Australasia

IAFOR

Donald E. Hall

University of Rochester, United States

University of Sydney, Australia

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Letter of Welcome
Dear Colleagues,
As IAFOR continues with its annual international conference
programme, it does so in recognition of the continued ongoingreality of continued restrictions of movement and gathering intimes of COVID. If we are fortunate, then these freedoms which
lie at the heart of our personal and professional lives, and socentral to the functioning of the academy, shall be recovered. As
they are, we will again be able to meet with our family, friends,
students, and colleagues.
For many, these freedoms are slowly being recovered and life
is beginning to return to normal, and it is a good time for us toreflect on our fundamental rights and privileges, acknowledging that for many people throughout
the world there will be no such restoration, for political or financial reasons. The opportunities andliberties that many of us took for granted before the coronavirus should be used to bring attention
to the fact that this disease is exacerbating national and global divides between the ‘haves’ andthe ‘have nots’.
As we rebuild our lives and our institutions, we must make sure that we do in ways that are more
responsible and responsive, and that allow for international cooperation and collaboration to bestrengthened. The overarching IAFOR theme of 2021-2022 is Resilience and this idea of “buildingback better” is important, because we should strive to learn from the experiences of the past toshape the future with hope and resolve.
For our part at IAFOR, we must make sure that in working towards our internationalising mission,
we reach as many people as possible, through our different platforms, and that we continue tooffer open and safe platforms for the exchange of ideas and research and the dissemination ofimportant ideas. Whether this is onsite, online, or in hybrid form, the ability to communicate freely
and with honesty and integrity is something we are committed to never take for granted, and wewill do all we can to ensure that our international academic forum continues to grow and prosper,
and we thank you for your ongoing support.
Enjoy the conference, and I look forward to meeting you (again), onsite, or online.
Dr Joseph Haldane
Chairman & C.E.O, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR)
Guest Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University, Japan
Visiting Professor, Doshisha University, Japan & The University of Belgrade, Serbia
Member, Expert Network, World Economic Forum

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About ACCS/ACAS2021
Held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public
Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, this international conference encourages academics andscholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue.
This event will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new
contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national and disciplinary borders.
Since its founding in 2009, IAFOR has brought people and ideas together in a variety of eventsand platforms to promote and celebrate interdisciplinary study, and underline its importance.
Over the past year we have engaged in many cross-sectoral projects, including those with
universities (the University of Barcelona, Hofstra University, UCL, University of Belgrade andMoscow State University), a think tank (the East-West Center), as well as collaborative projects
with the United Nations in New York, and here, with the Government of Japan through the Prime
Minister’s office.
With the IAFOR Research Centre, we have engaged in a number of interdisciplinary initiatives webelieve will have an important impact on domestic and international public policy conversations.
It is through conferences like these that we expand our network and partners, and we have no
doubt that ACCS/ACAS2021 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research andbest practice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.

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Conference
Guide
Conference at a Glance
Conference Proceedings
IAFOR Membership
IAFOR Publications
Professor Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
IAFOR Academic Grant & Scholarship Recipients

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June 03, 2021 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Thursday at a Glance

09:00-09:25		
Announcements, Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners
			& Welcome Addresses			Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan			
Donald E. Hall, University of Rochester, United States			Baden Offord, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin 					
University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
09:25-10:00		
			
			
			

Featured Interview Session
Doomed to Happen? The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Anoma van der Veere, The IAFOR Research Centre at the
Osaka School of International Public Policy, Japan

10:00-10:10		

Break

10:10-10:55		
			
			
			

Keynote Presentation
Intercultural Strategies in High-Performance Environments: 		Observations from the Rugby World Cup 2019
Sean O'Connell, Nanzan University, Japan

10:55-11:05		

Break

11:05-12:05								Keynote Presentation
The Case of Jimmy Lai & The Rapid Loss of Freedom in Hong Kong
Bradley J. Hamm, Northwestern University, United States

12:05-12:15		

Break[Continues on the following page.]
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Thursday at a Glance
12:15-13:30		
			

Live-Stream Session 1
Asian & South-East Asian Studies

13:30-13:40		

Break

13:40-15:45		
Live-Stream Session 2
			Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
15:45-15:55		

Break

15:55-17:10		
Live-Stream Session 3
			Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
17:10-17:20		

Break

17:20-18:20		
Featured Interview Session			
Sino-Japanese Relations: History, Martial Culture, Cross-cultural
			
Exchanges and Interdisciplinary Research
			Clementina Cardoso, CIHRC Research and Development, Hong Kong			
Hing Chao, Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings, Hong Kong

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June 04, 2021 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday at a Glance
10:00-11:15		
			Live-Stream Session 1
Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies

11:15-11:25		

Break

11:25-13:05		
Live-Stream Session 2
			Chinese Studies
13:05-13:15		

Break

13:15-14:55		
Live-Stream Session 3
			Education/Pedagogy
14:55-15:05		

Break

15:05-16:20		
Live-Stream Session 4
			Literary Studies
16:20-16:30		

Break

16:30-17:45		
Live-Stream Session 5
			Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
17:45-17:55		

Break

17:55-19:05		
						Featured Interview Session
Selfless: Journeys Through Identity and Social Class
Geoffrey Beattie, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

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June 05, 2021 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday at a Glance

10:00-11:15		
Live-Stream Session 1
			Education
11:15-11:25		

Break

11:25-12:40		
Live-Stream Session 2
			Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
12:40-12:50		

Break

12:50-14:05		
Live-Stream Session 3
			Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
14:05-14:15		

Break

14:15-15:30		
			

Live-Stream Session 4
Identity, Race, and Queer Theories

15:30-15:40		

Break

15:40-17:20		
			Live-Stream Session 5
East Asian Studies (Japanese / Korean)

17:20-17:30		
			

Conference Closing Address
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

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Conference Proceedings
IAFOR Conference Proceedings are Open Access research repositories that act aspermanent records of the research generated by IAFOR conferences. The Conference
Proceedings are published on the IAFOR Research Archive (papers.iafor.org). All
accepted authors who present at the conference may have their full paper publishedin the online Conference Proceedings.
Full text submission is due by July 05, 2021, through the online system. The proceedings
will be published on August 05, 2021.

Conference Catch-up
All live-streamed sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the Conference Catchup page (video-on-demand) via Vimeo. The catch-up page will be publicly available
after the conference.

Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations
A full list of pre-recorded virtual video presentations will be on the conference website
during and after the conference. We encourage you to watch these presentations andprovide feedback through the video comments.

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IAFOR provides an excellent personal and professional environment for academics
and scholars of all ages and backgrounds to come together and exchange thelatest ideas, and inform each other’s perspectives through their own cultural anddisciplinary background and experiences. We are able to do this thanks to the
exceptional network of individuals and institutions around the world who support ourwork and help shape our exceptional events globally. We emphasise the nurturing
and supporting of young academics from different backgrounds, providing mutualadvice and guidance, and offer more senior academics the chance to forge working
relationships outside of their traditional networks.
In a world where division and strife are underlined and played up in national andlocal contexts, and political posturing frequently seeks to ostracise and demonise,
IAFOR is committed to working across cultural and national borders, and to work
to bring people together. We believe that mature human interaction and academic
and cultural exchange are essential to offering positive versions of the future, where
cooperation happens with individuals and institutions who share a commitment tobridge divides, to being good global citizens, and to making the world a better place.
By becoming a member, you will become a stakeholder in the IAFOR mission offacilitating international exchange, encouraging intercultural awareness, andpromoting interdisciplinary discussion in the hope and expectation of generating
and sharing new knowledge. Join us now in this growing global organisation, andhelp make a difference today.
To learn more about IAFOR membership, please visit:www.iafor.org/membership

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www.iafor.org/publications

IAFOR Publications
Introduction
IAFOR’s publications provide a constructive environment for the facilitation of dialogue
between academics at the intersections of nation, culture and discipline. Since 2009, when theorganisation was established, over 20,000 academics have presented their research at IAFOR
conferences – a wealth of ideas have been generated and partnerships formed. Our various
publications, from Conference Proceedings, to peer-reviewed journals, to our online magazine,
provide a permanent record of and a global online platform for this valuable research. All of ourpublications are Open Access, freely available online and free of publishing fees of any kind.
By publishing work with IAFOR, authors enter into an exclusive License Agreement, where they
have copyright, but license exclusive rights in their article to IAFOR as the publisher.

Conference Proceedings
As a presenter at an IAFOR conference you are encouraged to submit a final paper to ourConference Proceedings. These online publications are Open Access research repositories,
which act as a permanent record of the research generated at IAFOR conferences. All of ourConference Proceedings are freely available to read online. Papers should be uploaded throughthe submission system before the Final Paper Submission Deadline, which is one month after theend of the conference. Please note that works published in the Conference Proceedings are notpeer-reviewed and cannot be considered for publication in IAFOR journals.

IAFOR Journals
IAFOR publishes several editorially independent, Open Access journals across a variety of disciplines.
They conform to the highest academic standards of international peer review, and are published inaccordance with IAFOR’s commitment to make all of our published materials available online.

How are papers submitted?
Submissions should be original, previously unpublished papers which are not under consideration
for publication in any other journal. All articles are submitted through the submission portal on thejournal website and must conform to the journal submission guidelines.

How does IAFOR ensure academic integrity?
Once appointed by IAFOR’s Publications Committee, the Journal Editor is free to appoint his or her
own editorial team and advisory members, who help to rework and revise papers as appropriate,according to internationally accepted standards. All papers published in the journal have been
subjected to the rigorous and accepted processes of academic peer review. Neither editors nor
members of the editorial team are remunerated for their work.

Where are the journals indexed?
IAFOR Journals are indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, ERIC, MIAR, TROVE, CiteFactor and EBSCO, SHERPA/ROMEO and Google Scholar. DOIs are assigned to each published issue and article via Crossref.
Please note that indexing varies from journal to journal.

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What’s the reach?
Each of our journal issues is viewed thousands of times a month and the articles are frequently citedby researchers the world over, largely with thanks to our dedicated marketing efforts. Each issue ispromoted across our social media platforms and to our tailored email marketing lists. On average,
each journal publishes biannually.
Selected IAFOR Journals are available for purchase on Amazon. Search for The International
Academic Forum (IAFOR).

What’s the cost?
IAFOR Journals are Open Access publications, available online completely free of charge andwithout delay or embargo. Authors are not required to pay charges of any sort towards the
publication of IAFOR Journals and neither editors nor members of the editorial boards are
remunerated for their work.

How are IAFOR Journals related to IAFOR Conferences and Conference Proceedings?
IAFOR Journals reflect the interdisciplinary and international nature of our conferences and areorganised thematically. A presenter can choose to publish either in Conference Proceedings or
submit their manuscript to the corresponding IAFOR Journal for review.

Current IAFOR Journal titles include
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
IAFOR Journal of Education
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film
IAFOR Journal of Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

THINK
THINK, The Academic Platform, is IAFOR’s online magazine, publishing the latest in interdisciplinary
research and ideas from some of the world’s foremost academics, many of whom have presented
at IAFOR conferences. Content is varied in both subject and form, with everything from full research
papers to shorter opinion pieces and interviews. THINK gives academics the opportunity to stepoutside of the traditional research publishing status quo – to get creative, explore different disciplines
and to have their ideas heard, shared and discussed by a diverse, global audience.
For more information on THINK please visit www.think.iafor.org
If you would like more information about any of IAFOR’s publications, please contact publications@iafor.org

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The Reverend Professor
Stuart D. B. Picken (1942–2016)
The late Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken began his distinguished career in academia asa Rotary Scholar on a research trip to Japan. A native of Scotland who had dedicated himself
to religious studies, he immediately became fascinated by Japanese culture and the practice of
Shinto. He was particularly drawn to the parallels and differences he saw in Western pedagogy
compared to that of the East and began a lifelong mission to bridge the communication andknowledge gap between the two worlds.
Picken was appointed Professor of Philosophy at the International Christian University (ICU) in
1972. Here he turned his Western theological and philosophical training to comparative religious
and cultural studies of Japan, at a time when the country was emerging from the shadows of theSecond World War.
His groundbreaking and controversial work on suicide in Japan made his name within the country,
but it was his subsequent work on Shinto that influenced the rehabilitation of the religion at atime when it was dismissed in the West as pagan and primitive, or unjustly caricatured for its
wartime associations.
Whether in his research or teaching, Picken devoted much of his life to increasing understanding
between his adopted country of Japan and the West, and in 2007 he was recognised with theOrder of the Sacred Treasure, an imperial decoration for his pioneering research and outstanding
contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and theUnited Kingdom. He also served as the International Adviser to the High Priest of the Tsubaki
Grand Shrine, one of Japan’s largest and oldest shrines.
From 2009 he was the founding Chairman of The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), where he
was highly active in helping nurture and mentor a new generation of academics, and facilitating
better intercultural and international awareness and understanding.
Stuart D. B. Picken was a cherished friend and an inspiration to IAFOR and its communityof supporters. In honour of Professor Picken and his dedication to academia, the ideals ofintercultural understanding and the principles of interdisciplinary study, IAFOR has createdthe Stuart D. B. Picken Grant and Scholarship, an award supported by the Stuart D. B. Picken
Memorial Fund. Awards are made to PhD students and early career academics who are in needof funding to complete their research, and whose work demonstrates excellence in the corevalues of academic rigour, intercultural sensitivity and interdisciplinarity.
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Our warmest congratulations go to Yanjun Cai and Yuka Ito, who have been selected by theconference Organising Committee to receive grants and scholarships to present their research
at ACCS/ACAS2021.
IAFOR's grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students andearly career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve
their academic goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on
the appropriateness of the educational opportunity in relation to the applicant's field of study,
financial need, and contributions to their community and to IAFOR's mission of interdisciplinarity.
Scholarships are awarded based on availability of funds from IAFOR and vary with eachconference.
Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: www.iafor.org/financial-support

Yanjun Cai | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
59925
Photovoice in the Age of Social Media: Helping to Build Participation Needed for Urban Climate
Resilience?
Yanjun Cai, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Dr Yanjun Cai is an Associate Research Fellow of the School of International Relations/Instituteof Belt and Road Studies, at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Prior to that, Yanjun finished her
postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2017, Yanjun completed her PhD
in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research centers on
international development planning, community resilience, and nongovernmental governance,
focusing on disadvantaged populations in Southeast Asia. Yanjun has worked with a number ofuniversities, international organizations, and NGOs in the United States, Myanmar, Philippines,
China, and Vietnam.

Yuka Ito | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
59865“Intimacy” and Individuality: The Representation of Refugees in a World Not Ours
Yuka Ito, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yuka Ito is a PhD student at University of Tsukuba.

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THINK.IAFOR.ORG
THE ACADEMIC PLATFORM
THINK.IAFOR.ORG is IAFOR’s online magazine, launched in early 2016. THINK
is an ambitious project conceived by academics, for academics, with the following
objectives:
To provide an international, far-reaching platform for the best researchpresented at IAFOR conferences;
To make original, high-quality, thought-provoking multimedia content
freely accessible to a wide readership;
To facilitate the opportunity for academics to step outside of the
traditional research publishing status quo – to get creative, explore
different disciplines and to have their ideas heard, shared and discussed
by a diverse, global academic audience.
Content published on THINK spans a wide variety of disciplines and the format isvaried, encompassing full research papers, long-form journalism, opinion pieces,creative writing, interviews, podcasts, video, photography, artwork and more.
Current contributing authors include leading academics such as Professor Svetlana
Ter-Minasova, Professor A. Robert Lee, Professor Bill Ashcroft and Professor J. A.
A. Stockwin.
Get involved by visiting the website, following us on Facebook and Twitter andsigning up to our e-newsletter.
facebook.com/ThinkIAFOR
twitter.com/ThinkIAFORSUBMIT TO THINKWe are currently accepting submissions for publication in 2021. We welcome
photographs to accompany articles, as well as topical photo-essays.
Submissions should be between 500 and 2,500 words and sent topublications@iafor.org. Please include “THINK submission” in the subject line.
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ThursdayJune 03
Plenary Session& Parallel Sessions
All times are in Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
Abstracts appear as originally submitted by the author. Any spelling,grammatical, or typographical errors are those of the author.

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Keynote Presentation: Anoma van der Veere

Doomed to Happen? The Tokyo 2020 Olympic
and Paralympic Games
Thursday, June 03 | 09:15-10:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The Olympic Games held in Tokyo in 1964 heralded the arrival of Japan on the world stage in the
midst of rebuilding and regeneration following the Second World War. From global pariah, it was
symbolically embraced into the family of nations. A few generations later the Olympic and Paralympic
Games were once again awarded to Japan and were set to take place in 2020. The handover from
Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo during the 2016 Games by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as he was dressed as
Super Mario, gave us a glimpse of the effort that Japan would put into organising the Tokyo 2020
Games. Soon after, the Olympic clock outside Tokyo Station started counting down the days to the
opening ceremony. However, Tokyo 2020 was not to be, at least not in 2020, and due to the fallout
from the global pandemic and chronic mismanagement by the central government, the games were
postponed and are now planned to be held in the face of widespread apathy and opposition. As wecount down to Tokyo 2020, a year late, and without any foreign spectators, we ask ourselves: whatis the point?
In this conversation, Anoma van der Veere, a researcher on the Japan's Olympics and Paralympics
and health policy will discuss the history of the Games in the country and of these games in particular,
and his perspective on why the prospect of holding the Olympics has sometimes seemed like themost pressing item on the Japanese government's agenda.

Anoma van der Veere
Anoma Phichai van der Veere is a Researcher of Modern Asia
within the Leiden Asia Centre at Leiden University, a Researcher
of Labour Policy at the International Institute of Social History(IISG) at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences(KNAW), and a Research Fellow at the IAFOR Research Center at
the Osaka School of International Public Policy. He is currently
based at Osaka University, Japan, and has published on healthand labour policy, sports, technology, and human rights in Asia
and Europe, and is the editor of the forthcoming volume Public
Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health
Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises at
Amsterdam University Press, a joint publication by the Leiden Asia Centre, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung,and the IAFOR Research Center. His latest publications include: 'Japan’s Fragmented Response:Technology, Governance, and COVID-19' (Leiden Asia Centre, 2020), 'The Tokyo Paralympic
Superhero: Manga and Narratives of Disability in Japan' (Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2020),
and 'The Technological Utopia: Mimamori Care and Family Separation in Japan' (AsiaScape: Digital
Asia, 2019). He is currently the principal investigator in the Road to Tokyo 2020 project, funded by
the Leiden Asia Centre, about local policymaking in disability sports in Tokyo in the run-up to the2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Keynote Presentation: Sean O'Connell

Intercultural Strategies in High-Performance
Environments: Observations from the Rugby
World Cup 2019
Thursday, June 03 | 10:10-10:55 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Heralded as the most commercially successful and socially engaged world cup to date, the Rugby
World Cup 2019 was hosted across 12 cities in Japan from September to November in 2019. A
total of twenty national teams participated in the tournament over a 44-day period and delivered
the most competitive and best attended tournament in the world cup’s history. In order to succeedin the tournament, naturally each of the competing teams were immersed in a high-performance
cultural environment. In this presentation, I will specifically discuss the intercultural strategies(intercultural sensitivity, adaptation and efficacy) witnessed and investigated during the world cup
using a qualitative survey and non-participant observation approach in my role as a researcher andas a Team Liaison Officer for one of the competing national teams. Finally, I will address the researchfindings in terms of future implications for high-performance culture building contexts.

Sean O'Connell
Dr O’Connell is currently a Professor at the Faculty of Policy
Studies, Nanzan University, Japan where he teaches courses inintercultural business analysis, Japanese-English interpretingand intercultural workplace communication skills. He earned his
PhD in Intercultural Communication in 2011 from the University of
Queensland, Australia, and his current research interests include
intercultural workplace communication, high-performance
culture facilitation, and multicultural studies curriculum design.

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Keynote Presentation: Bradley J. Hamm

The Case of Jimmy Lai & The Rapid Loss of
Freedom in Hong Kong
Thursday, June 03 | 11:05-12:05 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The case of imprisonment for billionaire and media leader Jimmy Lai reflects the extraordinary speed
over the past two years in the loss of freedoms in Hong Kong. The July 1 national security law, alongwith other laws and restrictions, has changed Hong Kong from an open society to authoritarian rulein just months.
Hong Kong’s situation also will have significant impact on Asia, though we are still in the earlystages of that effect.
Lai is a central figure in the fight to keep basic freedoms of speech, press and assembly. His Next
Digital media company that includes Apple Daily newspaper is the leading opposition to the legal
changes, including the destruction of the Sino-British Joint Declaration treaty that guaranteedautonomy, rights and freedoms in Hong Kong through 2047.
This talk will discuss the case of Jimmy Lai, the loss of Hong Kong freedoms, and potential impact
for other countries in Asia.

Bradley J. Hamm
Bradley J. Hamm is a full professor at the Medill School of
Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at
Northwestern University, United States, serving as the dean from2012 to 2018, where he oversaw Medill's programs in Chicago,
Washington, D.C., and San Francisco in addition to its home
campus in Evanston. Previously, he was Dean of the Indiana
University School of Journalism in Bloomington and Indianapolis,
United States.
Hamm's PhD is in mass communication research from the
University of North Carolina, United States. He received a master’s degree in journalism from the
University of South Carolina, United States, and an undergraduate degree from Catawba College inNorth Carolina, United States.
He also served as the interim dean and associate dean of the School of Communications at Elon
University in North Carolina, United States. Hamm has taught in study abroad programs in Japan,
China and the United Kingdom and started his career as a newspaper reporter. His teaching andresearch interests are in journalism history and media theory, particularly agenda setting theory.
He served as a trustee for the Poynter Institute and is a judge for the Scripps Howard National
Journalism Awards. He served as an independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors
for Next Digital media company of Hong Kong and Taiwan from 2015-18.
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Featured Interview Session: Clementina Cardoso & Hing Chao

Sino-Japanese Relations: History, Martial
Culture, Cross-cultural Exchanges andInterdisciplinary Research
Thursday, June 03 | 17:20-18:20 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Cultural practices and cultural knowledge are often neglected or allocated a minority role ininternational and intra-national relations.
However, cultural exchange is a fundamental factor in human society, informing artistic andcultural developments, and has been at the root of economic and political relations and a route
to commercial, political, technological and educational relations since the origin of the world
economies and societies. Both material and intangible culture have been embedded in relations
between countries and between peoples when coming together to exchange goods or technology,
knowledge or material artifacts, raw materials or foods. This has been the case within the Pacific aswell as across the seas and continents.
Sometimes such practices and knowledge are lost or kept by individuals or by small communities
struggling to keep them alive and to pass them on to the next generations, as their cultural survivalis threatened by rapid changes in their inhabited landscape and ways of life.
Historically, Sino-Japan relations have been defined by cultural exchanges as the peoples of Japanand China came together to trade, to learn from each other, to adopt each other’s technologies andpractices, ways of doing things and ways of thinking. Such has been the case with martial culturein the two countries, which has influenced one another since the beginning of diplomatic and traderelations, over a timespan of nearly two thousand years.
Hing Chao, a business leader and a scholar dedicated to working collaboratively across sectors and to
the exchange and dissemination of knowledge, practice and the material culture of nomadic groups
and martial arts will discuss the place of martial culture in the history of Sino-Japan relations andwill share the work and activities that are at the root of demonstrating the fundamental importanceof cross-cultural work and of working across disciplines in collaboration across borders.

Clementina Cardoso
Clementina Cardoso is the Director of CIHRC Research andDevelopment. Prior to this she was at the School of Social
Sciences, History and Philosophy of the University of London
Birkbeck College where she taught courses on Local Government,
Public Policy and Management.
Dr Cardoso completed her PhD at LSE and held positions at
University College London Institute of Education where she
researched, taught and advised MA and PhD students andcoordinated training for overseas civil servants and researchers.
She has also been a European Commission Research Fellow, LSE, an Associate Fellow at the Universityof Lisbon and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Bristol Faculty of Social Sciences and Law; andLike us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/iaforjapan | ACAS/ACCS2021 | IAFOR.ORG | 21

held Visiting positions at the Universities of Lisbon, Louvain and has been Guest Professor on the
MA and PhD programmes of, amongst others, the University of S. Paulo, Brazil. She has also been akeynote speaker at the European Parliament and at conferences.
She works within the tradition of British Government and Policy Studies, across the Social Sciencesdisciplines and uses comparative methodologies.
As a grant holder, she produced research sponsored by the National Science, Research andTechnology Council of Portugal and the European Commission on comparative central government
policy and political and economic philosophies; comparative methodologies; market-oriented
policies, funding and financial management; the involvement of commercial organisations in service
provision and management and partnership governance. She has served on Editorial Boards ofAcademic Journals; lived in Portugal, the United States, England and Hong Kong; is fluent in English,
Portuguese and French, reads and speaks Spanish and Italian, has beginners knowledge of Chineseand starters knowledge of Japanese.
Dr Cardoso has an interest in the History, Culture, Philosophy and the Arts of China and Japan.

Hing Chao
Pursuing a cross-sector career, Hing Chao has been active inarts and culture, heritage and education, as well as international
shipping over the past two decades. In the business sector, he
has been at the forefront of thought leadership for maritime
development within the Greater Bay Area, being also the founderof the Greater Bay Area Maritime Forum, the deputy chairmanof the China Sub-committee of the Hong Kong Shipowners
Association,and a trustee of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum.
In the arts and culture sector, Hing is widely known for his
pioneering and wide-ranging work on martial arts, including thecreation of “Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive”, the largest martial arts archive in the world, which
he co-founded with Prof. Jeffrey Shaw (City University of Hong Kong) and Prof. Sarah Kenderdine(EPFL). He has also created several ground-breaking martial art exhibitions, most recently “Way of
the Sword: Warrior Traditions in China and Italy” (2021). Since founding Hong Kong Culture Festival
in 2015, he has been driving innovation in cross-disciplinary artistic partnerships – involving martial
arts, dance, music, and new media arts – in Hong Kong.
He has also made significant contributions to the research and revival of endangered nomadic
hunter-gatherer cultures in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, through the activities ofOrochen Foundation (which he founded in 2004). Its efforts include creating the most comprehensive
Orochen music archive, “Orochen Cultural Preservation Project” (in partnerships with China National
Museum of Ethnology), as well as preserving community oral history among North Tungusic groupsin Hulunbuir.
He is the executive chairman of Wah Kwong Maritime Transport Holdings, the executive director ofInternational Guoshu Association and Institute of Chinese Martial Studies, the founder of Hong Kong
Culture Festival, and the founder of International Martial Studies Conference.

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12:15-13:40 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Thursday Live Stream Session 1
Asian & South-East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Carmina Untalan
59925

12:15-12:40

Photovoice in the Age of Social Media: Helping to Build Participation Needed for Urban Climate Resilience?
Yanjun Cai, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Danny A. Marks, Dublin City University, Ireland

Nontraditional participation is increasingly called for to emphasize inclusiveness and potential transformation from the perspectivesof affected populations for climate resilience. Photovoice, a participatory action research method, has been utilized in various fields forrevealing critical matters through the local lens of participating populations. Meanwhile, social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook
act as an interactive platform to raise awareness and facilitate collective activism among diverse stakeholders beyond geographicalboundaries through new communication forms and structures. Building on a conceptual review of participatory resilience, we examine
the methodology of photovoice and its value in the context of nontraditional participation for climate resilience. Through visual narratives,
unstructured observations, and semi-structured interviews, we investigate the ways in which photovoice integrates with social media
to transform participatory resilience building. We do so through a case study of the Philippines, with an emphasis on disadvantaged
populations. Specifically, this work substituted traditional and digital cameras with smartphones and established a social media groupon Facebook. The integrated action-oriented approach showcases the network of participation as a mosaic, discovering nuances ofengagement from local perspectives. Our article seeks to contribute to the growing literature on contemporary public participation,
advocating nontraditional participation for inclusive climate resilience in the era of social media.
59922

12:40-13:05

The Reflection and Violence in Kashmir: Redirecting from Radical Nationalism to “Radical Passivity” in Basharat
Peer’s Curfewed Night
Yao-hung Huang, Fo Guang University, Taiwan

Born in Kashmir, India, Basharat Peer has written a memoir on the conflict in Kashmir, which depicts how Kashmir changes from a landof peace to an area of violence. As Peer grows up, he decides to become a journalist for an Indian newspaper. While he works hard togather news in Delhi, he does not report what happens in Kashmir. To do this, he quits his much-needed job and returns to his hometown,
a small village near Anantnag, which is also one of the most militant areas in Kashmir. Back at home, he interviews and records the life ofvictims of the massacre, victims’ relatives, and former guerrillas. This paper will analyze how radical Indian nationalism corrodes Kashmiri
autonomy, arrests and tortures its protestors, and kill the innocent through implicit and explicit coercive measures. It will also cover thecorresponding rise of radical Kashmiri nationalism that leaves civilians no place to hide. I will go through the novel through the lens of
Timothy Snyder’s interpretation of how "holocaust" begins. Based on Daniel Chirot’s study of genocide, I will describe the psychologicaldevelopment of the hatred towards others. In the end, I will employ Slovaj Zizek’s discussion of "radical evil and nationalism" and Thomas
Carl Wall’s analysis of “radical passivity” to explain how the narrator withdraws from nationalism and discovers his own solution. The
study of Peer’s book would help state rethink the concept of nationalism.
59884

13:05-13:30

South-South Migration: Social Escalating and Geoarbitrage among Chinese Migrants in Chiangmai, Thailand
Sivarin Lertpusit, Thammasat University, Thailand

Current migratory flows from China are increasing worldwide, particularly, throughout BRI routes. Migrants from China, south country, toother south countries represent a global transforming political economy in many dimensions. This article aims to illustrate the settlement
perspectives on transborder mobility among new Chinese migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The finding draws on research results frommix-method tools; collecting questionnaires, conducting in-depth interviews and observing. The research finds two specific characters of
new Chinese in Chiang Mai. The first group immigrates in pursuit of social escalating, both for economic attractive and lifestyle advantages.
Most new Chinese sojourners in Chiangmai are categorized in this set such as language teacher, interpreter, semi to high-skilled worker,
investor and interestingly parents who accommodate their international school’s students. The second group is to be called geoarbitrageor those who gain advantages from the lower cost of living in a smaller town like Chiang Mai. Their status is retirement, digital workforce
and freelancer who earn their income abroad. Both groups of Chinese migrants decide Chiang Mai as their destination from geography
proximity, cultural linkage, social perception and low cost of living. These rationales and behaviors affirm the differences of South-Northand South-South migration that the latter pattern is more associated with social factors than economic factors.

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Thursday Live Stream Session 2
Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Maxime Jaffré
59903

13:40-14:05

A Test of the Multiple Modernities Hypothesis Based on a Comparison of Japan With the West
Christian Etzrodt, Osaka University, Japan

The presentation aims to test whether all cultures follow one path to modernity or some cultures, as for example Japan, developed
their own path into a unique non-Western modernity. The test relies on two independent dimensions of the individualism-collectivism
dichotomy, which were developed in cultural studies in the tradition of Geert Hofstede. The first dimension divides shame and guilt
cultures (who is sanctioning norm breaking behavior?). Whereas the second dimension focuses on the question of whose outcome ismaximized: one’s own outcome (egoism) or the outcome of the group (altruism)? By combining these two dimensions four ideal-typesof cultures (based on ethics) can be derived: categorical individualism (guilt/egoism), honorific individualism (shame/egoism), honorificcollectivism (shame/altruism), and categorical individualism (guilt/altruism). The GLOBE study collected data for these two dimensionsfor 62 countries in the mid-1990s, which allows the classification of several national cultures into those four ideal-types. The problem of
the GLOBE study is, however, that it does not and cannot address the historical development of those national cultures. In order to fill thisgap, I am referring to the historical analysis of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and others, who have focused on the development of Japan and theWest in much more detail. However, I will use for this task the above described four ideal-types of cultures. It can be shown that Japan
has developed significantly different in comparison to the West, although it can be classified today as a categorical individualistic culture
similar to the Scandinavian cultures.
60258

14:05-14:30

Cultural Formation of the Expo in Japan: The Case of Producer Shinya Izumi
Mitsunori Eto, University of Tsukuba, JapanThe Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970 was the first Expo to be held in Japan and in Asia. The planners of the Osaka Expo not only
struggled to express the uniqueness of the first expo in Asia, but also revised and reinterpreted its significance and format so that it would
be accepted by Japanese society. It famously established a model that subsequent Expos, large-scale expositions, and even theme parks
followed. However, little attention has been paid to producer and designer Shinya Izumi (1930-), who was involved in conceiving the ideaof the Osaka Expo and went on to participate in all Bureau International des Expositions (BIE)-certified events held in Japan, thereby
shaping the direction of expos in Japan. This paper seeks to examine the kinds of expos Izumi created through an analysis of his writings
and activities, personal connections, and the influence of preceding expos. Specifically, I focus on two key concepts: matsuri (festival) andkankyō (circumstance/surrounding/environment), which I suggest played a crucial role in Izumi’s (and by extension, Japan’s) formationof expo images. Additionally, this paper suggests that the understanding and idea of the expo, originating in Osaka, eventually spreadinternationally until the 1994 BIE resolution.
59981

14:30-14:55

Cultural-cognitive Institutional Level Shaping the Professional Agency of Minority Teachers in Post-Soviet Estonia
Liudmila Zaichenko, Tallinn University, Estonia

In the study, the author reports on how professional agency of minority schools teachers in Estonia can be constrained by certain
institutional barriers, including barriers which occur on a cultural-cognitive level and may be grounded in dispositions and believesof the society. This is significant because minority teachers in many countries may face dramatic obstacles in the course of building
their ‘integration projects’ inside the host nation state. The case of post-soviet Estonia may evidence how these teachers professional
agency as a potential tool for transformation and integration may be ‘mediated ideationally’ and constrained by the path-depended
institutional mechanisms. I believe that this study is appropriate for the chosen stream because it addresses the problems of integrationand inequalities inside national education context. The case of Estonia seems to be of a particular interest as this country has shown
outstanding progress in development and integration in the European space during the recent 30 years, however it still is distinct inits highest segregation in all societal domains. Education system is one of the examples of this institutional disequilibrium (where thechildren from Estonian and Russian schools perform differently in PISA representing two opposite cultural elaborations inside the society
on its path to integration). I dare to hope the researchers may find valuable insights from this qualitative study about the path-dependency
of institutional cultural-cognitive levels, which shape agentic orientations of ethnic minorities.
59812

14:55-15:20

Between Global and Local-traditional Kashubian Birth Rites and Cultural Universalization
Agnieszka Małek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland

Kashubia is an ethnocultural region in northern Poland, Europe. In the 20th century, Kashubia as a community underwent huge changes
in the political, socio-economic and cultural spheres. The processes of globalization resulted in the emergence of new, sometimes
mutually contradictory phenomena functioning in various areas of life, also family rituals. Child’s birth is recognized in culture as oneof the breakthrough moments in the human life cycle, hence the accompanying rituals were and are governed by specific behaviors andsymbols. The aim of this paper is an attempt to show the changes that have taken place in the traditional Kashubian child’s birth rituals
under the influence of mutual interactions and flows of people and ideas. Material and methods. Due to the specificity of research, thestudy applied characteristic methods of historical sciences (from cultural perspective). Results and conclusions. Unification of elementsof culture, referring to practices toward pregnant women and unborn child, customs related to birth, giving name etc., are indicated as themost important consequences of cultural globalization. Rituals and ceremonies ceased to be perceived as a means of initiation, passage
and exclusion. However, they still contain discernible traces of tradition, which belong to the legacy of the past generations, regardless of
the label they are given.

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13:40-15:45 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Thursday Live Stream Session 2
Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Maxime Jaffré
59294

15:20-15:45

Challenges and Strategies for Developing Community Sports in Neoliberal Hong Kong
Wai Man Tang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

According to the health standard stipulated by the World Health Organization, each adult should exercise for at least 75-150 minutes eachweek. However, less than half of the local adults in Hong Kong could meet this guideline, far below the global figure of 73%. Meanwhile,the Hong Kong government has been increasing its budget on community sports development by 50.0% over the last eight years but
attains an undesirable result. This paper discusses how the neoliberal policy in Hong Kong has limited community sports developmentfrom coach training to its implementation in the community. Furthermore, drawing on data from interviews and participant observation,
it presents four case studies that have successfully evaded the sports governmentality in Hong Kong to provide physical activities forfour different groups of social minorities, namely people with disabilities, children with autism, ex-convicts, and ethnic minorities. This
paper argues that the bottom-up approach, mutual trust between organizers and participants, and flexibility are key elements to develop
community sports in Hong Kong.

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15:55-17:10 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Thursday Live Stream Session 3
Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Baden Offord
59865

15:55-16:20“Intimacy” and Individuality: The Representation of Refugees in a World Not Ours
Yuka Ito, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Refugees have often been represented as powerless and unable to manage themselves without receiving care and asylum. As Malkki
notes in “Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization” (1996) that the representation of refugees consistsof several conventionalized images, the standardized discourses and representational forms tend to depict refugees as anonymous andunidentifiable people. However, there have been some attempts to resist this tendency. For example, in “Public and Private Photographsof Refugees” (2012), Mannik speaks of photographs taken by refugees themselves that could become counterparts to these stereotypicalrepresentations. In this paper I will focus on A World Not Ours, the documentary film directed by Mahdi Fleifel, premiered at the Toronto
International Film Festival in 2012, and explore how the “intimacy” emerging in this film goes beyond the uniformity of images of refugees
and represents them as individuals. The term “intimacy” means a certain proximity which allows us to have a private, non-stereotypicalview of the person. Fleifel, who was born in Dubai, raised in a refugee camp in Lebanon, and had moved to Denmark at the age of nine,
paints an intimate portrait of Palestinian refugees by assembling home videos and press coverage; the film is, one may then argue,
shot by a marginal man who can be considered both a refugee and a European citizen. By analyzing the composition of this film aswell as interviews of Fleifel, I show how this film enables a representation of refugees as complex individuals instead of people who are
stereotypically labeled.
60120

16:20-16:45

Morphological Integration of Malay Words in the Baba and Nyonya Cuisine
Ong Shyi Nian, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Komalata Manokaran, University of Malaya, Malaysia

The study examines the Baba and Nyonya (Baba Malay) lexicon relationships with the Malay language. According to modern linguistics
principles and procedures, the subject of Malay language inspiration on Baba and Nyonya has not been investigated systematically. Hence,
this study contributes to an understanding of the nature of that contact. This qualitative study aims to examine the linguistic processes,
namely morphological processes. Malay has influenced the linguistic expansions of the Baba Malay, and this study investigates themorphological integration of Malay words and its impact on the structure of the language. Samples are taken from secondary sources (e.g.,
cookbooks, journals, and Peranakan magazines) related to Nyonya cuisine in the Malaysian context. Nyonya cuisine is a blend of Malay
and Chinese cooking styles established with the migration and globalisation of people in the country. The study proved the institution andexpansion of Nyonya cuisine by integrating the Malay language via the exiting cooking terms. Nyonya cuisines are compound words withdouble-level modifications with the integration of the Malay words. The study is to grasp morphological integration in Nyonya cuisine,
which results in cultural crossbreeding by the movement of the Peranakans into the Malay language, geographical propinquity, andpolitical aspects (Oh et al., 2019).
59924

16:45-17:10

Reinforcing the Ideology of Official Memorials Through Personal Social Media Posts: Instagram Posts About
the MLK Memorial in D.C.
Larissa Hugentobler, University of Zurich, Switzerland

The Martin Luther King Junior (MLK) Memorial in Washington, D.C. is the only stand-alone memorial to a member of a marginalized
community along the National Mall, the capital’s prime location for monuments. Aside from short quotes from 14 of his speeches, thememorial includes no information about MLK or the Civil Rights Movement. While memorials mainly serve as markers of public memory
and thereby national identity, an argument can still be made that memorials need more educational information and historical context.
Social media can be powerful tools to challenge official narratives by publishing small stories which, in their collectivity can challenge
grand narratives such as by contextualizing struggles of the commemorated. This study shows that relying on individuals to create a more
inclusive narrative about public memory is not productive, largely owed to the logic of social media platforms. I conducted a qualitative
content analysis of 242 images and videos posted on 132 public profiles on Instagram in the fall of 2020 which were tagged the location“MLK National Memorial.” I furthermore interviewed 16 users and, to create a holistic picture of their posting behavior, also analyzed theirprofiles for posts about other D.C. memorials. The results show that while the interviewees lamented not enough information on site andwanted to contribute to the knowledge about MLK in society, the majority of posts (which most often visually focus on the statue) in factreconstructed the existing ideology without adding any information, thereby supporting the call for more informative memorial sites.

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10:00-11:15 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session 1
Comparitive Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies
Session Chair: Carmina Untalan
59898

10:00-10:25

Criminalization of the Dispossessed: Primitive Accumulation, the Collective Hamlet, and the Bandit Problem
in Japan-occupied Manchuria
Yuanfang Zhang, University of Toronto, CanadaThis paper examines the criminalization of the dispossessed Chinese peasants by Japanese colonial agents accompanying theJapanese agrarian immigration between 1933 and 1939 to Manchuria, and their relocation into the collective hamlet as a specificcolonial apparatus by the Japanese Kwantung Army. The specific way of coping with the dispossessed Chinese peasants wasrooted in the impossibility of integrating the dispossessed, landless peasants into the rationalized capitalist economy. Hence, therelocation indicated the necessity of colonial power to mediate, not dismantle, the relationship between finance capital and thelandless Chinese peasants within the existing limits of political and social structure. This paper aims to revisit the concept of capital's
primitive accumulation in a historical context. It argues that our understanding of primitive accumulation should not be simply
restricted to a specific period. Rather, primitive accumulation is characterized by a specific mechanism of capture that restructures
the social hierarchy and recodes the dispossessed peasants. It functions in association with the expansion of finance capital whose
accumulation relies on the exploitation and expropriation of the colonized people.
59992

10:25-10:50

Won Key: A Historico-biographical Study of Creativity, Inter-cultural Intervention, and Discrimination in a
Nineteenth-century Goldmining Setting in Aotearoa New Zealand
Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New ZealandDuring the latter part of the nineteenth-century gold-mining era in Central Otago, New Zealand, Won Key was a well-known Chinesemerchant living in Cromwell. His activities centred on offering a base for supplying Chinese miners, yet at the same time he provided alink between the disparate cultures that made up this migrant setting. While little is known of Won Key’s roots, he was active in bringing
the Chinese and European populations together, holding regular cultural celebrations and being effective in charitable activities that
benefited all in the local community. While contributing to the re-thinking of music in the making of New Zealand, this discussion
examines Won Key’s creative community activities that offered a setting for inter-cultural understanding in colonial context. This
paper is a historico-biographical discussion of Won Key in a setting of creativity, inter-cultural intervention, and discrimination.
Including a short biography of what is known about Won Key’s background, the study focuses on several distinct case studies as away of analysing discrete examples of Chinese creativity that contributed to the musical making of New Zealand in the late nineteenth
century, yet is so often void in discourse on New Zealand’s music history. The aim of the paper is to add a new perspective to musicin New Zealand, and offer insight on the importance of understanding this sphere of the nation’s musical creativity in a nineteenthcentury goldmining setting.
60355

10:50-11:15

Suzuki Koson (1875-1931): Melancholia and the Critique of Modernity
Philip Flavin, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan

This paper explores the works of Suzuki Koson (1875-1931), a quixotic and problematic figure in the history of contemporary Japanesemusic for the koto. Despite having studied Western music at an early age, unlike other Meiji / Taisho period composers for the koto, heeschewed any hint of Western music, and instead composed in a neo-classic vein that drew upon models of composition establishedin the late Edo period, namely the works of Mitsuzaki Kengyō and Yoshizawa Kengyō. As some of these trends do indeed lead to theformation of modern koto music, it has been suggested that Koson’s musical innovations therefore represent the onset of ‘modern’music, and that his works lead to Miyagi Michio and the Movement for Modern Japanese Music. At the same time, however, his music
differs radically from his contemporaries. His works are indeed modern; however, unlike his contemporaries, who, in responding tomodernity, either transformed themselves into the preservers of tradition, which can be interpreted as nostalgia for an idealised past,or relentlessly pursued the modernisation of Japanese music with nationalist dreams of the future. Koson’s reaction to modernity,
however, I suggest, was unique in that his compositions are characterised by a unique melancholia that serves as a critique of theintense and rapid modernisation Japan was experiencing during the Meiji and Taisho periods.

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11:25-13:05 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session 2
Chinese Studies
Session Chair: Haruko Satoh59764

11:25-11:50

Media Diplomacy: Zeng Jize’s Strategic Engagement of Western Newspapers
Jinniu Zhang, Tsinghua University, China

For decades, scholarship on late 19th century Sino-west interaction has been greatly influenced by the impact-response paradigm while
little is known about how the Chinese proactively influenced the western world. Focusing on Zeng Jize（1839-1890）, the Chinese ambassador
to the Britain, France and Russia from 1878 to 1886, and especially his strategic engagement in western newspapers, this paper explores
how a Chinese diplomat resisted the hegemonic narrative of western media and reshaped western public opinions about China’s politicaland cultural image. Throughout his career, Zeng Jize perceived western media differently for various purposes. In the early days of his
mission, Zeng took a conservative approach to intervening in the public opinion by dispelling rumors in western newspapers. His 1880 revisit
to the Treaty of Saint Petersburg marked a turning point of his understanding of western media from a knowledge pool to a diplomatic tool.
In the early 1880s Sino-French negotiations, Zeng took advantage of the relatively open press environment in France and publicly expressed
his opinions to influence French public opinion on Vietnam issues. Such attempts paid off as French foreign ministry eventually resumed
the suspended Sino-French diplomatic relationship due to the pressure of public opinion and the risk of being overthrown for parliamentary
doubts. In 1887, Zeng’s media diplomacy culminated in the publication of China, the Sleep and the Awakening in which he responded toand corrected the negative stereotypes of Chinese civilization in the Western world. This paper argues that Zeng Jize’s media diplomacy
showcased a successful dialogue with the western public and played a positive role in reshaping the image of China in the eyes of the West.
59906

11:50-12:15

Symbolic Expression in Ethnic Architecture of Hohhot

Yifeng Zhang, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
Public buildings are an important part of urban cultural material. Behind the image of public buildings created by means of architecturalsymbols, there are the grand representations of the city image and even the national image, which is particularly obvious in the Inner
Mongolia Autonomous Region; although the architectural image created by national symbols have got People’s favor, but nationality
comes more from the symbol rather than the building ontology. This paper takes Hohhot Railway Station and Hohhot East Railway Station
as examples, in the Metropolis of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, from the perspective of semiotics, combined with the historicalbackground and public buildings development of the autonomous region, carding the phenomenon of separation between architecturalsymbols and building ontology, and analyzing its reasons; to explore the new balance among ethnic symbols, architectural images andbuilding ontology in the media age, in the hope of contributing to the design of public buildings in ethnic minority areas.
59911

12:15-12:40

Distinction Between “Being or Not” in China — The Unmanned Space in Super Populous Country
Yu Aokun, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Chinali Jingnan, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
Xu Yuejia, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

China has the largest population in the world, so it’s common and reasonable to see people everywhere. However, since 1980s, placesin China have been in a dynamic state switching between "with people" and "without people". “Places without people” have gradually
become places that cannot be ignored. On the macro level, due to the rapid economic development in certain regions, key cities, withunique advantages, keep attracting the population from surrounding towns, resulting in the phenomenon of "empty towns", whichare "places without people" in the traditional understanding. But with the development of Internet of things, 5G technology, artificial
intelligence and other technologies, a series of new places without people has emerged quietly. This new type of "places without people"
can be divided into two categories based on the causes of "with human involvement" and "without human involvement". This study
will, focusing on the "new places without people" generated with the development of science and technology, probe into the statusquo of places without people in China and the possible spatial changes they will bring to the cities in China in the future by analyzing
their causes, types and morphological characteristics. On this basis, this study attempts to explore the possibilities of integration andcomplementarity of "traditional" and "new" types of "places without people" in the future development of cities in China.
60354

12:40-13:05

Facts, Fiction, Propaganda? An Analysis of Chinese Belt and Road Discourses
Carsten Schäfer, University of Cologne, Germany

At the Second Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Forum in Beijing, Xi Jinping described the “new silk road” as a model for international winwin progress through cooperation. Official China claims that the concept is neither “a geopolitical strategy” nor “a China-dominatedgeo-economic scheme”. A closer look, however, reveals that China’s BRI discourses differ immensely depending on the audience.
In multilateral arenas, China proclaims the establishment of a “human community with a shared future” as the sacred purpose of its
initiative; yet on bilateral occasions, Beijing chooses narratives in line with the expectations of the respective listeners, thus offering eachcountry and region a different version of the silk road. In sharp contrast to Beijing’s external communication, within China commentators
lay the focus primarily on China’s - and not other countries' - national interests, including economic, geopolitical, and even military andhegemonic ambitions. Against this background - and based on the “strategic narrative theory” - the paper systematically compares
existing Chinese BRI narratives and asks: What different BRI narratives exist within China - and why? What are, thus, the aims of China’s
initiative? How does China’s external propaganda work in this context? And what actors exert influence on these processes? This study
is based on a qualitative content analysis and a critical interpretation of Chinese state media articles, official Chinese documents, official
statements by Chinese politicians, official publications on BRI, as well as of Chinese language research conducted in China.

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13:15-14:55 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session 3
Education/Pedagogy
Session Chair: Clementina Cardoso
59894

13:15-13:40

A Transitioning Point: Identifying the Needs on Student Discipline Services in an Online Platform
Diana Genevieve Layag, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
Ma. Dinah Espartero-Asiatico, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
Janice Panganiban, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
Joelyn Alerta, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines

With the recent migration of classes and student programs to the online platform brought about by Covid-19 virus, new ways of providing services
to students have been explored. However, not all are equipped and have the basic resources to move away from the traditional setting of classroom
learning, more so extending such services in the technological space. With the goal of improving its offerings for the online format, this researchstudy aimed to meet the following objectives: (1) explore the student discipline office’s programs and services that are relevant to students in the
online platform; (2) identify the gaps and resolutions in the online programs and services; and (3) establish online educator roles and competencies
for the office’s personnel. This action research has two parts: (1) an online focus group discussion with the student leaders from the office’s twovolunteer groups as key informants; and (2) a survey adapted from Donlon, E., Trevaskis, S., Eccles, S. (2019) administered online to 109 students.
Findings from the FGD shed light to the underlying themes on the students’ perceptions of the programs and services in the online platform,
challenges, and the student discipline office’s role in addressing these perceived challenges and in helping students cope with these. The results ofthe survey showed the online educator roles as well as the competencies or skills sets of online educators that students deem relevant.
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Effect of Singapore’s Language Education Policy on Chinese Singaporeans’ Identity – From a Survey of New University Graduates
Yuki Yokohama, Kanto Gakuin University, JapanIn Singapore bilingual education is being promoted due to the influence of globalization, English driven lifestyle and culture have become widespread,especially among young people. On the other hand, some are concerned about the situation in which the younger generation is gradually moving
away from their ethnic language, culture, and traditions. Therefore, I conducted a survey with the aim of considering how the current language
education in Singapore is affecting the younger generation of Chinese Singaporeans. The survey was conducted on five National University ofSingapore graduates in 2019. I conducted a semi-structured interview survey on (1) the status of the language being used, (2) the activities ofChinese clan association, and (3) their own identity. The survey revealed that young Chinese Singaporeans have an English-driven lifestyle. As asymbol of that, few young Chinese Singaporeans knew the existence and activities of the Chinese clan association, which had been the emotional
supports of Chinese Singaporeans. On the other hand, some people were worried about the current situation in which the Chinese dialect is declining
as Mandarin is becoming more widespread due to the influence of the Speak Mandarin campaign. Young Chinese Singaporeans are still interested
in dialects, languages of their ancestors. Regarding Singlish, which is used daily in Singaporean society, speaking Singlish seems to be related totheir identity. I can clearly say that the identity of young Chinese Singaporeans is being established as a Singaporean from a "Chinese" identity,
however the "Chinese" identity is not all gone, nevertheless ambivalent.
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14:05-14:30

Research Capability and Its Impact on the School Performance of Private Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)
Janet Valdez, La Consolacion University Philippines, Philippines

The main concern of this study was the assessment of the significant impact of research capability on the performance of the HEIs. This study usedthe descriptive correlational method of research that utilized standard questionnaires as primary data-gathering tools, substantiated by extensive
documentary analysis. The respondents of the study were 247 full-time faculty members from eight (8) HEIs. The results were processed using theStatistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS), and the data were presented using appropriate tables and texts. The results were analyzed andinterpreted using statistical tests such as regression analysis in assessing the significant impact of research capability on the school performance.
Using the aforementioned procedures, the findings of the study revealed that the higher educational institutions (HEIs) were, more or less, capablein research as manifested by their great extent of researchers’ capacity, training, support and assistance, and environment. The null hypotheses
which stated that research capability does not exert significant impact on school performance was rejected.
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14:30-14:55

Planting Seeds for Success: International Cultural Transition and Study Abroad Achievement in Pre-college Adolescence
Qianhui Hub, DePaul University, United States
Caitlin Meyer, DePaul University, United States

Studying abroad to pursue a post-secondary education in English-speaking countries is becoming a prevalent educational approach among
Chinese families in recent decades. Correspondingly, pre-college education and cultural transition have attracted increasing attention from parents
and educators. While parents chose to send their students abroad, others chose to enroll their children in international schools in China - with alens on mental and emotional health. These schools in China, known as Bilingual Schools or Experimental Schools, offer bilingual learning andinternationally-recognized qualifications. Though the COVID-19 pandemic has slanderously interrupted study abroad activities, online learning
has been recognized as a way to facilitate cultural transition. Thus, with a focus on high school Chinese students who have the agenda to pursue abachelor's degree in the United States, this conceptual paper aims to explore ways of pre-college educational strategy which could lead to a smoothtransition to study abroad experiences. With the aim of getting an overview of existing work and up-to-date reports to understand cultural transition
and international student success, a theoretical analysis is conducted in this library-based study. The findings will add to our understandingof adolescent cultural transition, offer a comparison of studying abroad during high school versus attending international schools, as well as
discourse the possibilities and perils of online education. This research not only provides insight for Chinese parents and students regarding studyabroad preparation, but also has implications for administrators, educators, and counselors in secondary schools who work with international
students in terms of understanding adolescence cultural transition.

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Friday Live Stream Session 4
Literary Studies
Session Chair: Elena Raevskikh
60257

15:05-15:30

International Circulation of Newspaper Novels: British Empire, Japan, and the Yubin Hochi Shimbun
Mika Baba, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Japanese newspaper novels emerged as a genre in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1886, the Yubin Hochi Shimbun (YHS), a hitherto
primarily political newspaper, declared that it would print novels in order to internationalize its readers. The editor Morita Shiken had visited
Europe and America to learn how to run and edit newspapers and translated popular Western novels, including works by Jules Verne andWilkie Collins, for the YHS readership. The YHS ran many novels whose origins were—and still are—unknown. Through extensive archival
research I found that they were translated from English newspaper novels, mostly unsigned miscellaneous pieces and curious stories.
Despite their obscure or anonymous authorship, they had widely been reprinted in newspapers in England, Australia, New Zealand, andthe United States. I would argue that the YHS took part in the international circulation of newspaper novels in the British Empire andbeyond, thereby contributing to fashioning newspaper novels as an international genre. This paper examines the two characteristics
that distinguish Shiken’s translation for the YHS readers: first, shu-mitsu style, verbatim translation traditionally used in translating
Chinese works, which he applied to English, and second, his deliberate selection of first-person novels. Shiken sometimes turned somethird-person novels into first-person works through his translations. As he later explained, Japanese literature did not have the genre offirst-person novels, so “we needed it.” In the end, through translation, Shiken also invented a new genre in modern Japanese literature.
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15:30-15:55

Reading Kenji Miyazawa after 3.11: Region, Utopia, and Resilience
Michael Larson, Keio University, Japan

Interpretations of Miyazawa Kenji's work have gone through several iterations since his death: from virtual obscurity he was recovered
as an author of children’s literature and poetry, and, in the postwar, his writing was appreciated for its incorporation of Buddhist themes
and Miyazawa himself became synonymous with provincial Japan. After the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear accident
devastated northeastern Japan, Miyazawa’s work took on renewed importance, and his fiction and poetry were taken up in new readings
both in and outside Japan. These included popular appreciations of the poem “Strong in the Rain,” scholarly investigations of his work’s
relation to place, and examinations of his anti-modern and utopian themes. A decade after the tsunami, with the reconstruction effort
in the disaster-affected region in various stages of progress, it is worth asking which readings of Miyazawa’s works have endured in theculture and which readings have dissipated or proven inert in the intervening years. We might also question which readings of his work
we might privilege in order to better envision a resilient future for a region still on the road toward recovery. This presentation will briefly
discuss Miyazawa’s standing in Japanese literature before taking up several of the most prominent interpretations of his works thatappeared after 3.11. In a final turn, these different approaches will be evaluated and new readings will be proposed, with special attention
paid to Miyazawa's lesser-known short fiction, such as "The Night of Taneyamagahara" and "Matasaburo of the Wind".
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15:55-16:20

A Tale of Social Conflict, Concord, and the Paucity of Water in Prayaag Akbar’s Leila (2017)
Trina Bose, IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Punyashree Panda, IIT Bhubaneswar, India

India, a land known for her diversity of ethnic and religious groups than most other countries on earth, is marked by conflicts between
freedom of expression and religious intolerance. Indian journalist and novelist Prayaag Akbar’s novel Leila (2017) embarks on a socioecologically critical exploratory voyage into the dystopian Indian future of drinking water and fresh air crises. It also realistically
depicts the hierarchical segmentation of the Indian society based on religious, cultural, and linguistic disparities to name a few and the
predominance of hegemony, ideology, violence, and totalitarianism. In contrast, cultural unification manifests itself in the form of theintercultural conjugal bond between the protagonist Shalini, an elite yet socially illiterate Hindu and Riz, an educated and rich Muslim, andmany other unconventional couples from varied socioeconomic, religious, and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, the scarcity of freshwater
determines the lives of millions, including both the resilient poor and the rich who initially tackle the water crisis by paying preposterous
bribes to the water officials but are unable to continue that in the long run due to increasing water stress. The present paper undertakes
to focus on cultural amalgamation despite the ruptures of many sorts in the environmentally degraded post-climate change era of anear-future Indian society portrayed in the novel under discussion, with the theories of Marxism, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonialism witha special reference to the looming water crisis.

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16:30-17:45 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session 5Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Sue Ballyn
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16:30-16:55

Women of the “Chinese Dream”: Examining All-china Women’s Federation’s Representation of Chinese Women
Xiaomeng Li, Shanghai International Studies University, China

The People’s Republic of China has introduced the concept of the “Chinese Dream” to help strengthen the Communist party-state’s
hegemonic power over society and hail citizens’ enthusiasm to achieve this goal together. However, this ideological strategy fails to
address the heterogeneity of “citizens.” More specifically, where women are situated in China’s all-out construction of nationalism islargely ignored by the official discourses. This article thus explores the positionality of Chinese women by deciphering the multimodal
signs on the website of the 12th National Women’s Congress, as it is hosted by the All-China Women’s Federation, the most influential
organization representing Chinese women from all walks of life. The article reveals how the party-state organs have envisioned
women’s roles in nation-building, and pinpoints that while the ACWF has presented women’s achievements and contributions, itneglects the structural causes of existing difficulties and problems which many women still face.
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16:55-17:20

Thai Military Women and Their Representation: Where Are These Women in the News?
Chanapang Pongpiboonkiat, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Thailand has long been known for its patriarchal society and culture. Legacy of such beliefs has been passed on through Thai
media where women are portrayed with inferiority, innocence and subject to objectification. In this study, media representationsof Thai military women are specifically explored. These women usually experience gender hierarchy in the military that puts themin supporting roles. Thai media also normalise their underrepresentation with the glorification of masculinity. A method of content
analysis was conducted to examine 400 news reports of Thai mainstream news media from 2015 when the Royal Thai Air Force began
its first recruitment of female pilots. Five newspapers were selected considering their level of military-media relations, government
involvement, ownership and readership, which are The Nation, The Bangkok Post, DailyNews, Matichon and Thairath. The codebook
was prepared to consider the research questions of (1) how Thai news media represent military women in the news and (2) to what
extent these women are stereotypically referred to or defined. Methodologically, I looked for repetitions, stereotypes, presence andabsence of their representation that media have produced. Early results from the ongoing methodological analysis show a concept ofmedia framing where media exercise the role of agenda-setting to silence, exclude and underrepresent military women. These media
also dramatise military women who accomplish general military tasks. For women in combatant or essential roles, i.e, medical officer
or pilot, the rhetoric of femininity is amplified to shift the focus onto their gender and sexuality underneath the uniform.
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17:20-17:45

Plants Motifs in Cultural Artefact: From Explicit to Implicit Knowledge Exploration
Velu Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

Culture and the cultural artefacts of our forefathers are assets provided to us to sustain a quality of life, and yet, are frequently ignored
and belittled. Moreover, the current technological products are accepted as a symbol of the modern lifestyle, while, relatively, obscuring
the creations of our ancestors. This article aims to bring cultural artefacts and their decorative motifs to the attention of explicit andimplicit knowledge by outlining the vegetation motifs and their benefits to mankind. With the current rapid increase in the number ofresistant microorganisms, scientists are actively finding new bioactive compounds or compositions of plant species that are suitable
for medicinal use. Thus, plant motifs in ancient cultural artefacts should be given priority by scientists in their scientific findings
because they are rich with medical and implicit knowledge. The motifs and plants are identified using the photo survey method. The
findings show that cultural artefacts functioned as a reliable resource and reference for scientists to identify medicinal plant species.
The motifs, explicit and implicit connotations also provide deep messages to designers about their responsibility towards future
generations through their design creations.

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Featured Interview Session: Geoffrey Beattie & Joseph Haldane

Selfless: Journeys through Identity andSocial Class
Friday, June 04 | 17:55-19:05 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Geoff Beattie has come a long way from his humble beginnings in Belfast, as this stellar student
became one of the world’s foremost experts on non-verbal communication following his studies
at Birmingham and Cambridge Universities. Throughout his career, he has balanced being both anacademic of international renown with parallel explorations into reportage, social commentary andjournalism, and even found the time to write works of non-fiction. He is perhaps most well known
from his burgeoning career as a populariser and interpreter of psychology on numerous television
programmes, including his most high profile position: being the resident psychologist on the UK
version of the worldwide sensation, Big Brother.
In this interview, Professor Beattie speaks to IAFOR Chairman and CEO, Joseph Haldane about hislife and work, and his recently published autobiography, Selfless, and the intellectual, physical andmoral journeys Beattie has undertaken throughout his life.

Geoffrey Beattie
Geoffrey Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University,
UK. Previously, he was Professor of Psychology at the University ofManchester, UK, as well as a Professorial Research Fellow at theuniversity’s Sustainable Consumption Institute. He has also been
Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
USA. He received his PhD from Trinity College, University ofCambridge, UK, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society(BPS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Arts. He has also been President of the Psychology
Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
He has published over 100 articles in academic journals, including Nature and Nature Climate Change
and was awarded the Spearman Medal by the BPS for “published psychological research of outstanding
merit”, and the Mouton d’Or for the best research paper in semiotics.
He is the author of twenty six books with various Chinese, Taiwanese, Brazilian, Italian, Finnish andGerman editions. ‘We Are the People: Journeys Through the Heart of Protestant Ulster’ (Heinemann)and ‘The Corner Boys’ (Victor Gollancz) were both short- listed for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize;‘On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life’ (Victor Gollancz) was short-listed for the William Hill Sports
Book of the Year; ‘Trophy Hunting: A Psychological Perspective’ (Routledge) was shortlisted fora Taylor & Francis Outstanding Book and Digital Product Award in the Outstanding Professional
Category in 2019.
He has presented a number of television programmes in the UK on BBC1 (‘Life’s Too Short’; ‘Family
SOS’), Channel 4 (‘Dump Your Mates in Four Days’) and UKTV (‘The Farm of Fussy Eaters’). He wasalso the resident on-screen psychologist for Big Brother for eleven series on Channel 4 in the UK
specialising in body language and social behaviour.
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His latest book ‘Selfless: A Psychologist’s Journey through Identity and Social Class’ (Routledge)
was reviewed by Professor Marcel Danesi from the University of Toronto, Canada who wrote: ‘Whatis the Self? How is it related to consciousness? This dilemma has entertained some of the greatest
minds of human history. This book contributes in a significant way to that history, written by oneof today’s great thinkers, Geoffrey Beattie. In this unique book, Beattie brings us into his own worldof Self-construction. We thus come away understanding what psychology should really be....It is
required reading by anyone interested in understanding what consciousness is and how it emerges
throughout the life cycle.’

Joseph Haldane
Joseph Haldane is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of IAFOR.
He is responsible for devising strategy, setting policies, forging
institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing
the organisation’s international business and academic
operations, including research, publications and events.
Dr Haldane is a founding Co-Director of the IAFOR ResearchCentre, an interdisciplinary think tank situated at The Osaka
School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University,where since 2015 he has also been a Guest Professor, teachingon the postgraduate Global Governance Course.
A Member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Global Governance, Professor Haldane’s
research and teaching is on history, politics, international affairs and international education, as wellas governance and decision making.
In 2020 Dr Haldane was appointed Honorary Professor of UCL (University College London), throughthe Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management. He also holds Visiting Professorships
in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade, and at the School of Business at Doshisha
University in Kyoto, where he teaches Ethics and Governance on the MBA programme. He is a
Member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Educational Foundations at the
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has had
full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil, Sciences Po Paris, andNagoya University of Commerce and Business, as well as visiting positions at the French Press
Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, The School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris,and the School of Journalism at Moscow State University (Russia).
Dr Haldane has given invited lectures and presentations to universities and conferences around theworld, including at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and advised universities, NGOs andgovernments on issues relating to international education policy, public-private partnerships, andmulti-stakeholder forums. He was the project lead on the 2019 Kansai Resilience Forum, held by theJapanese Government through the Prime Minister’s Office and the Cabinet Office in collaboration
with IAFOR.
From 2012-2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan(Chubu), and since 2015 he has been a Trustee of the HOPE International Development Agency(Japan). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2012, and the Royal Society of Arts
in 2015.

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June 5Live-Stream Sessions
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10:00-11:15 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session 1
Education
Session Chair: Clementina Cardoso
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10:00-10:25

Advancing Civilian and Military Education: The Integration of ADDIE and the Joint Planning Process inCurriculum Design
Zachary Unger, United States Special Operations School, United States
Jennifer Phillips, University of Southern California, United States

The military and education sectors’ knowledge developmental goals are often similar. Literature notes it can be advantageous to
integrate civilian and military design (Cai, F., Zhang, P., & Ling, Y., 2020). Civilian sector education benefits from academic and culturallyderived models for curriculum design. The military often uses its own culturally-derived models of design and implementation.
However, the end goals are often the same, providing knowledge to close gaps, inspire growth, or prepare for future challenges. Eachgroup benefits from proven methods tailored to their specific requirements. How can each sector pursue evidence-based methods ofcurriculum design while still finding efficiencies in efforts with precision in creation? Perhaps an answer exists in the blending of themilitary planning processes with proven academic curriculum design models. The ADDIE model provides educators a five-step model
for curriculum development that has been utilized by civilian educators since the 1970s. The Joint Planning Process provides UnitedStates military planners a set of steps and guidelines for accomplishing tasks that require choosing courses of action and forecasting
success and failure of implementation. The integration of the ADDIE model’s considerations while moving through the steps of the
Joint Planning Process is synchronization of each sectors’ models proposed in this study that provides both sectors with a series ofbest practices when engaging in future curriculum design. Furthermore, it presents an opportunity for these two sectors to examineand flourish through the use of multiple-combined best practices through a new and unique lens of understanding.
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Building Resilience and Connection During the Pandemic: Using Trauma-informed Pedagogy in the Teachingof Chinese and Italian Cultures Through Noodles
Hong Li, Emory University, United States
Christine Ristaino, Emory University, United States

The experience of trauma, both national and personal, may inhibit learning and decrease learner motivation. As the pandemic
raged globally, professors investigated new pedagogies in order to interact effectively with students in an unpredictable world. Our
students had experienced a myriad of hardship, isolation, uncertainty, and fear by the time they enrolled in our summer online course,
Noodle Narratives on the Silk Road: A Cultural Exploration of China and Italy through the Noodles. While redesigning our course, we
implemented trauma-informed pedagogy to create a safe environment and meaningful activities, allowing our students to reexamine
their relationships with food, themselves and their families. The pedagogy we drew from helped our students empower each other bysharing culinary experiences, developing new insights about food and cultures in the process. We argue that teachers can overcome
the challenges of trauma and inspire learning by showing care and empathy and building empowerment and resilience into theirteaching. In this paper, we will introduce the principles of trauma-informed pedagogy and share our course design and activities toillustrate how these principles were implemented. One example we utilize to describe our approach involves our midterm project and a
website that allowed students to share from a multitude of perspectives what it means to make and cook noodles during a pandemic.
Overwhelmingly, students affirmed that making and writing about food forged important connections. The enjoyable, hands-on, andreflective learning experience enhanced student agency and allowed them to become more resilient in the midst of a global crisis.
59822

10:50-11:15

Designing a Discipline Protocol for Students With Mental Health Concerns: A Pathway to Inclusivity Towards
Understanding the Person
Ma. Dinah Espartero-Asiatico, De La Salle University Manila, Philippines

In accordance with the Mental Health Act, the Philippine State "commits itself in the promotion of people’s well-being... Mental healthconditions should be treated and prevented in a timely, affordable, high quality and culturally-appropriate mental health case" (Republic
Act No.11036, February, 2018). One of the objectives of this act is to "integrate strategies promoting mental health in educational
institutions, the workplace, and in communities" (Republic Act No.11036, February, 2018). School discipline challenges may comeacross in between the implementation and strict observance, ensuring inclusivity among its student population and creating school
reforms. As such, the role of the school, its administrators and the relationships built among students and the adults are salient.
Striving to promote better management in handling students with discipline cases, a positive framework where skills are employed
and considered both in the emotional and social level is needed. A Focus Group Discussion (FGD) among the 16 Student Discipline
Investigating Discipline Officers (IDOs) regarding their manner of handling students with discipline related cases including those but
not limited to students with special needs was conducted. The results of the study list down the factors, gaps, strengths and areasof improvement in the current practice in the processing of case involvement of students with possible mental health issues. In
conclusion, designing a discipline protocol for students with mental health concerns are of critical importance from which the service
provider (SDFO) plays a key role.

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Saturday Live Stream Session 2
Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Seiko Yasumoto
60289

11:25-11:50

A Maid in the U.S. House: Architecture, Occupied Japan, and Tokyo Joe
Nominerdene Enkhbayar, University of Tsukuba, Japan

This paper aims to shed light on the hitherto understudied relations between Japanese women and architecture in the postwar Hollywood
film Tokyo Joe (1949), starring Humphrey Bogart. Set in Japan during the postwar U.S. occupation, the film features a well-equipped
dependent housing designated as a "U.S. House" and a nursemaid who works there. In historical actuality, U.S. Houses were upper-classresidences requisitioned from Japanese owners for SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) officials’ residences and werelooked after by a retinue of Japanese kimono-clad maids whose salaries were paid for by the Japanese government. In Tokyo Joe, SCAP
lawyer Mark Landis, his wife, Trina, and a daughter, Anya, live at one of those U.S. Houses. What this paper seeks to examine is not thenuclear family at the center of the U.S. House, but a Japanese nursemaid, a seemingly marginal and dependent character. Specifically, I
focus on Nani-San, a sympathetic nanny turned villain who works for the Landis’ to spy and kidnap their child. As I demonstrate it, she is amediator who connects the U.S. House and its exterior world that is occupied Japan, thereby propelling the narrative forward. By situating
Tokyo Joe at the juncture of two converging histories, the cultural history of architecture and the social history of dependent Japanesewomen, this paper examines the imbricated relation of the nursemaid and the U.S. House in occupied Japan and argues that this relation
significantly complicates the narrative of Tokyo Joe.
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11:50-12:15

Joseph’s Technicolour Psychedelic RenaissanceMichelle Braunstein, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Located in the context of re-emerging psychedelia, this paper asks, as we continue to run out of the material, and increasingly, humanist
subjects turn to the spiritual, can transcendental relations with the text "save" us? How can a new kind of writing support a more immanent
relation with the biosphere, rather than separateness? A zine, produced for a psychedelic plant gathering, inadvertently sacralises thedisembodied mind. It is reimagined as a dream coat, as part of unmasking hermeneutic lines between the biblical master text, about
Joseph’s exceptional kutonet passim (Genesis 37:9), and the trajectory of self-transcendentalising psychedelic milieux and industry. The
text-to-textile process is an immanent methodological intervention, supported by tikkun olam, pre/post-civilisation plant/human logos
and New Materialist theories of immanence. Through consultation with traditional knowledge keepers, the paper finds that the plants inquestion have “become” through Indigenous custodianship of Country, and of Creation itself. The undoing of the zine and its refashioning
and upcycling into a wearable artefact demonstrates an embodied, New Materialist relation with both knowledge (de)construction andthe plant beings which energise it. The paper exegetes this “un-writing” process, furnishing it with close readings of cultures within
psychedelic milieux and industry.
60332

12:15-12:40

Forest Shamans: The Sacred Tree and Narratives of the Folk History
Aki Tokumaru, University of Tsukuba, Japan

This paper examines the oral narratives of female shamans and people involved in their religious practices in modern Japan. Narratives
are told and retold, ultimately becoming traditional oral histories that are closely related to local people’s lives. This paper discusses theways in which such narratives make and can be read as folk history. As a case study, I consider the narratives of female shamans in avillage in Yamaguchi Prefecture, where a legendary, 1,000-year-old tree is said to be the burial place of warhorses that fought for the local
lords in the 15th century. In the early 1990s, a small hermitage called Chigusu-Ann was built and hundreds of carved wooden dolls werehoused in it. Made by female shamans, these wooden dolls were regarded as children, where the souls of dead samurai warriors dwell. I
conducted intermittent surveys in the village for 10 years starting in 1990 and collected the narratives of female shamans and other locals
who were involved in the construction of this hermitage. Focusing on the multidimensional structures of the narratives, I will probe into
the ways in which the traditional worldview centered on the sacred tree is linked to the people’s lived experience and even their “pre-life,”that is, the time of their ancestors. I would argue that this linkage creates the practice of concrete actions.

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12:50-14:05 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session 3
Interdisciplinary: Cultural Studies
Session Chair: Holger Briel
59926

12:50-13:15

Legal Protection of Indigenous Designs Against Misappropriation and Commercial Exploitation
Shahrina Anis Samsudin, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Nazura Abdul Manap, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia
Safinaz Mohd Hussein, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges of protecting Indigenous designs in Malaysia. Indigenous designs signify
spiritual and cultural value and meaning that are important to the communities’ existence. Instead of being mere decorative ornaments,
currently, such designs have become a source of income for the Indigenous communities. Due to the increased of global demand in
Indigenous-based products, local Indigenous designs have been commercially exploited and misappropriated. This study aims to
explore the challenges and potentials of the cultural heritage and trademark law in protecting the Indigenous designs. The Iban’s
designs on Pua Kumbu (hand-woven textiles) and tribal tattoo in Sarawak, Malaysia are used as a case study. This exploratory study
analyses the inadequacy of the cultural heritage law and trademark law in Malaysia, referring to some Model Law and the law of otherjurisdictions. The result is expected to provide input on probabilities of protecting Indigenous designs through either amended or
combined usage of cultural heritage and trademark law.
60367

13:15-13:40

Being Dissident Under the Post 2014 Coup's Illiberal Regime (2014-2021): Thai Activists' Resistance Through"Ordinary" Activities
Yupaporn Tarungsri, Kasetsart University, Thailand

In the aftermath of Thailand’s 2014 coup, Thai activists’ political activities and aggregations have been significantly restricted andsuppressed by the Thai military junta government. Even expressions of political opinions, which were fundamental political rights andguaranteed by the constitution under any typical democratic regimes, have been rendered "illegal" and deemed as destabilising thesecurity of the state. There have been at least 640 arrests of political activists within five years under the National Council for Peace
and Order’s (NCPO) rule. As a result, Thai activists were inevitably forced by illiberal legal conditions to initiate alternative tactics ofdissidence that could allow them to get their intended defiant political messages across while simultaneously avoid being deemed by
the authorities as “political”. In so doing, very “ordinary” activities such as eating hamburgers in front of McDonald’s, reading books onsky trains, handing out sandwiches to the passing people, or even standing still in front of shopping malls were held and represented
as an act of resistance itself. This study aims at examining three following questions:
1) What were narratives in which the Thai military government portrayed anti-dictatorship movements’ activities as threats to the Thainational security?
2) What were tactics in which the anti-military government activists adopted to be politically active under very restricted and illiberalconditions?
3) What are major potentials and limitations of such dissident tactics that pro-democratic movements could learn in order to propel
Thailand’s democratization on in the future?
60267

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The Construction of Dutch East Indies Colonial Memory Through the Lens of Museum Narratives
Desi Prianti, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
I Wayan Suyadnya, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
Sri Handayani, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia

The study of colonialism and its legacies left the category of memory unexplored, though for the colonised subject what theyexperienced in the past inevitably form the discourse of their present and future. While for the coloniser, the narrative they built
represent and define their histories. Therefore, this study will focus on how colonial memory articulates through the museum narrative
both from the colonised and coloniser perspectives. The history of Dutch East Indies colonisation has always been a polemic. Both
Indonesia and the Netherlands articulate different narrative regarding colonial memory. By looking at the work of representation inthis context museum narrative, this study interested to investigate how memory lives on through the circulation of colonial memorythat the museum simulates. In order to answer the research question, museums displaying colonial memory as part of its collection
located in Indonesia and the Netherlands will be compared. While research on how museums affecting society knowledge has beenpart of both memory and museum studies, those two studies never touch upon museums' role in translating colonial memory.

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Saturday Live Stream Session 4
Identity, Race & Queer Theories
Session Chair: Holger Briel
60340

14:15-14:40

Revisiting Cinematic Representations of Interracial Marriage Through the Lens of Paternalistic and Competitive
Race Relations Theory
Mark Beeman, Northern Arizona University, United States

This paper revisits Hollywood's classic attempts to address African American and white interracial marriage as a social issue throughtwo groundbreaking films--D. W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation (1915) and Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Birth ofa Nation has been recognized as the first blockbuster film, and has been praised for its cinematic innovations. Guess Who's Coming
to Dinner was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning two including the award for best screenplay. Both films have appeared on
the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest Films of All Time. Birth of a Nation set the stage for recurring racial stereotypes in
Hollywood filmmaking that continue in some form to the present day. It unequivocally promoted anti-miscegenation, anti-Black racism,and white supremacy. For the next half a century the anti-miscegenation norm went unchallenged in mainstream cinema. Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner challenged this historical norm, indicating that love, not race, is the important criterion for marriage. These films depict
different periods spanning the transition from paternalistic race relations to competitive race relations. Race relations theory provides a
critical lens to contextualize both the historical and institutional influences on the racial norms dominating both films' storylines. This
critical theoretical reading shows that even the more modern representation of interracial marriage contained problematic messaging
about racial equality.
60351

14:40-15:05

Yao Lanbility: Gender/Sexual Disobedience Among Contemporary Chinese Disadvantaged Yaos
Chwen-der Lin, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

My paper aims to explore the disadvantaged "yao" community-based in the L Park, the S City, Northeastern China, and the so-called"lanbility" community members have constituted. The term "yao" refers to people who make a living by male-to-female cross-dressing
prostitution. Local mainstream gay men despise the yaos and call them "lanbi" literally signifying "promiscuous, rotten anus", as they are
engaged in cross-dressing and prostitution. Notably, as a form of shame, "lanbi" has been embraced and at the same time transformedby the yaos. Furthermore, they have constituted through their diverse nasty prostitution practices what I term "lanbility" embedded by
the intersection of economic disadvantage and gender/sexual disobedience and characterized by the politics of shamelessness. My
paper looks into dynamic yet contested interactions between local "lanbility" and Western "queerness" within the contexts of increasingly
Westernized/globalized and gentrified contemporary Chinese LGBT activisms. It employs an ethnographic research approach with a
combination of in-depth interview and participant observation.
59923

15:05-15:30

Di Mana Bumi Dipijak, Di Situ Pelangi Dijunjung: Migration West and the Spatio-Temporal Configuration ofQueer Malaysian Identities in London
Ash Masing, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

This study is concerned with understanding the complex tensions between national and queer identity in the context of migration,
especially migration from the periphery towards the colonial West; here, issues of modernity, progress, and futurity become contested
when the possibility for a queer way of being is made available within the nations responsible for rendering queerness an impossibility inmany non-Western states. Using approaches at the intersection of nationalism, queer theory, and post-colonialism, I specifically focus
on queer Malaysians in London, and the ways migration towards a ‘liberating’ West has informed their relationship to, and articulation of
their nationality and sexualities. After conducting five semi-structured interviews with LGBT+ identifying Malaysian migrants, I conclude
that moving to London has configured these identities along spatial and temporal lines, where queerness is rendered a new kind of present
and potential future, whilst Malaysian identity is conceptualised as a spectre from a ‘repressive’ past. Given the underlying assemblagesof homonationalism and Western hegemony that subsume queerness under the tent of Western values, progression, modernity, andfuturity are made available through the internalisation of a Western queer politics and the formation of new (homo)national affiliations.

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Saturday Live Stream Session 5
East Asian Studies (Japanese/Korean)
Session Chair: Seiko Yasumoto
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15:40-16:05

De-orienting East Asia: Racial Exoticism and Racialization of ‘heug-in’ in South Korea, 2021
Robert Hamilton, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea

In 2020, the non-Korean population living in South Korea exceeded the 2.5 million mark. Along with the growth of non-Koreans came a growing
minority identified and labeled as ‘heug-in’ (Black people) or people presumed to be descendants of African America or African heritage. This
population’s presence alone forces a need to rethink the visual ideal of diversity in the country—which seldom includes a desire for brown anddark-brown skinned people and families. The history of US military race relations in South Korea limits how and where these equivocal subjects
can actively participate and contribute to society. Heug-in, as an emerging yet loosely construed social class, also increasingly serves as acultural foil used to heighten Korean ethnonationalism. Informed by participant-observation as a heug-in residing in the country since 1999,
I use first-hand observation, empirical data, and historical research to explore how televising racial ideologies in South Korea contribute tosilencing and strategic empowering of certain heug-in living in the country. I argue that racialism in South Korea today supplants what Edward
Said referred to as Orientalism in the West. Specifically, building upon Nadia Kim’s Imperial Citizens, I present how South Korean television
broadcasts exoticize 'foreigners' and contribute to contemporary racist consumerism. Rather than presenting heug-in as social equals ormaintaining an explicit discussion of race and racism in televised programming, broadcasts present heug-in as exceptions to their race, atokenism that does little to lift the racialized groups they represent from the social peripheries—either visually or imaginatively.
60145

16:05-16:30

Gross Domestic Product and Gross Domestic Happiness: A Review of Asian Economic Development Models
Ogbonna Onyeisi, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

Comparative analysis of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH) is a strategic approach towards adding value tointernational economic modeling. Over the years, international economics studies have been carried on through the comparative analysis ofexchange of goods and services among nations, using GDP as a measurement yardstick. Recently, many economists have started questioning therationale of GDP measurement since most GDP growth often has not resulted in raising living standard, environmental improvement, and grosshappiness of the citizens, especially some developing economies in Africa and Asia. This paper is an innovation in economic thought and will outline
economic growth and development models that analyze Gross Domestic Products. It will analyze Flying Geese Model (FGM) of Asian economic
development models developed by Japanese scholar, Kaname Akamatsu in 1930s as a key contributor to Asian Economic miracle. The paper will
analyze important variables of GDP and GDH, using Unit Root Test, Co-Integration Tests , and Regression analysis with aim to find correlations andimpacts of these variables in economic development of Japan. The finding is expected to prove that the Flying Geese Model is one of the sourcesof East Asian Economic miracle which took off from Japan and spread and still spreading to other Asian countries. Another economic innovative
analysis included in the study is Confucian Capitalism which introduced morality as important variable in modern economic development analysis.
The paper will conclude that Asian development models are strategic deviation from conventional economic models and that Gross Domestic.
60363

16:30-16:55

Living the Turmoil: The Japanese Living in China in the First Half of the 20th Century
Norihito Mizuno, Akita International University, Japan

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the Japanese living on the Chinese continent in the first half off the twentieth century, especiallyby focusing on the case of the Japanese community in Nanjing. When the Second World War was over in the summer of 1945, approximately 1.7
million Japanese, excluding military personnel, lived in China, including Manchuria formed communities all over the continent. The Japanesecommunity in Nanjing was one of them, and its beginning can be perhaps traced back to the very end of the nineteenth century. The halfcentury before the Japanese community ceased to exist with Japan's defeat in World War II can be roughly divided into three periods. In thefirst decade since the end of the 19th century, the Japanese population in Nanjing continued to grow, albeit on a small scale, as Japan's national
power expanded. However, with the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the Japanese community plunged into a long period of hardship. China fell into
political disunity and chaos, and the Japanese community in Nanjing was repeatedly tossed about by the local situation. At the same time, withthe rise of Chinese nationalism, the Japanese community was exposed to repeated anti-Japanese movements. The Japanese community had
to wait for the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese Conflict and the Japanese conquest of Nanjing in 1937 to regain its peace. Under the Japanese
occupation, the Japanese community in Nanjing experienced unprecedented expansion and prosperity, although the“golden age" was shortlived.
59957

16:55-17:20

Out of Touch: Aikidō During COVID-19
Lilly Gray, Kyushu University, Japan

Aikidō, developed and named in the early 20th century by Ueshiba Morihei 植芝盛平 (1883–1969), is a non-competitive Japanese martial art thatinvolves close contact practice with a partner, including the hands, wrists, shoulders, and neck. Aikidō has undergone many transformations
since its inception, most fundamentally a post-war emphasis on nonviolence and spiritual elements. Practitioners are currently facing yet
another major international event in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic that impacts the contemporary practice and understanding of thismartial way. This question is explored through a case study of a regional dojo in the Aikikai Foundation system. Through interviews withpractitioners and teachers, this work explores the future paradigm of practice and understanding of aikido teachings through non-contact
activity. Close attention is paid to how adoption or rejection of technological approaches for instruction and dissemination may impact thedojo, including the very real issue of funding as the dojo faces declining membership. As one of the exemplary budō, or traditional martial
practices, of Japan, insight on how a culturally significant practice adapts to extraordinary circumstances provides an opportunity to observe
the shift of priority in enshrined tradition, and how a traditional practice reifies its tenets through this change.

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Chinese Studies
59893

Quantitative Study on the Street Interface Form of Beijing Historical District — Taking Dashilar as an Example
Lianting Wang, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, China

Streets are not only the skeleton of a city, but also the label of the quality of a city's public space. Taking Dashilar, a historical districtin Beijing, as the research object, this paper makes a quantitative study on the interface shape of Dashilar pedestrian street from threelevels and 12 indicators. From the urban level, it mainly analyzes the street texture and accessibility; from the architectural level, it mainly
makes quantitative analysis on the building uniformity, interface density, store density, fractal dimension, line sticking rate, transparency
and openness on both sides of the street; from its own level, it makes quantitative analysis on the street curvature, aspect ratio and sky
exposure. Thus, the morphological characteristics of Dashilar street interface are quantitatively analyzed. It also provides a reference forthe future research on street vitality and the quality improvement of urban public space.
59731

Literature Reviewed: Methadone Maintenance Treatment Program in China
Jiaorui Ouyang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

The two literature I have reviewed are both studies of the methadone maintenance treatment program in China, with significant differencesin their timing. The two articles are similar in that they both focus on the factors that influence clients retention, but differ in the specificsubject matter. The former was undertaken in 2009 when the program was still being explored and the authors were also exploring
whether the administration of methadone doses affected client retention. The latter study will be carried out in 2019, which will show
how the project has evolved over the years. The subject of the study is not the client, but the staff involved in providing the service. The
reason for choosing these two articles, their reasons and conclusions can be mutually reinforcing and give us a more comprehensive
view of the methadone maintenance treatment program in China. While both teams understand that the drug problem in China is moreof a moral issue, they focus too much on the exact data in their specific analyses, neglecting the possibility of exploring other aspects ofdata collection such as interviews. The methadone maintenance treatment regimens are still at a rudimentary stage in China and more
research is needed on how to use them more effectively to achieve harm reduction.
59833

Behind the Animal Names: The Wild being Category (獸部) and the Animals in Wuti qingwen jian五體清文鑒Ning Chia, Central College, United States

Sunja hacin i hergen kamciha manju gisun i buleku bithe or Wuti qingwen jian 《五體清文鑒》(The five language compendium or The
Pentaglot Dictionary) reflects the Manchu-deployed comprehensive cognition of the Qing world up to, also beyond, this dictionary’s
completion in 1794. Chapter 31 of the Dictionary, Shoubu 兽部 or “Section for wild animals” delivers the Qing-time knowledge of theanimals and the human relationship with the animals. In the modern concept, the words under the Shou (wild animals) category in thisQing Dictionary belong to two kinds of animals -- the wildlife animals in the natural world and the mythological animals in the humanimagination. In our current word categorization, these two kinds of animals are separately placed into the natural science section andthe cultural section of the ancient belief. Jumbling them together under the same word category conveys the Qing knowledge of animals
without such a division. This knowledge had a strong Chinese influence since many of the mythological animals in this Dictionary werefrom the Chinese tradition. The word categorization with the Qing concept needs scholarly investigation. This investigation will provide
current historians with the Qing perception of human-animal connections. Much more than a multi-language dictionary in the field of
linguistics or beyond a reference tool to assist a multi-language reading, Wutiqingwenjian is an inappreciable resource for history andcultural studies through a scholarly word journey.

Indian & South Asian Studies
59984

Vocal Aesthetics and the Construction of the “Feminine” in Post-independence Hindi Cinema
Natalie Sarrazin, The College at Brockport, United States

Indian cinema is deeply connected to India’s identity, with cinematic themes and narratives influencing and reflecting cultural behaviors
and expectations. After its Independence in 1947, India entered a nation-building phase, and films placed the nation, society, and family(including romance and marriage) at the center of its narratives. Indian construction of femininity was based on conservative beliefs
tempered in Gandhian and Nehruvian visions of a New India. The ideal heroine upheld Indian traditions and was virtuous, self-sacrificing,and pious. In this paper I discuss the female playback singer’s voice and its relationship to the heroine’s onscreen representation. What is
the role of music and the voice in representing women’s identity and agency? How have song picturizations advanced or limited women’s
characterizations? I use examples from films from three eras of Indian cinema, (Post-Partition), middle (Nation-building or Classic),
and contemporary (Post-Liberalization) periods to illustrate the negotiation of Indian female identity and femininity in voice and song.
Analyses include song tessituras, vocal ranges, aesthetics and timbres (e.g. light, airy, reedy, lyrical), vocal production (e.g. nasal, chest,
throaty), and stylistic elements such as use of classical ornamentation or pop effects (e.g. glottal stops, vocal fry) or technology (e.g.
vocoding, autotune). This analysis will help the reader understand India’s national ideals and global aspirations through the female voice.

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South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos)
59887

Work-related learning amongst Economically Marginalized Youth in Singapore
Kiran Mirchandani, University of Toronto, Canada
Alessia Cacciavillani, University of Toronto, Canada

Opportunities for work-related learning are now seen as essential for young people to gain the practical experience so they can
successfully transition from education to work. Research has shown that class advantaged youth engage in “experience-based” work
while they are studying. These may be volunteer or very poorly paid positions but provide experiences which enhance networks or provide
skills which are valuable for their future careers. Economically marginalized youth, by contrast, are more likely to engage in paid work
which allows them to generate funds to pay for education or living expenses; many of these positions offer little opportunity for learningand be unrelated to their education. This division in work opportunities deepens rather than lessens systemic social and economic
stratification. The focus of this paper is on the experiences of work-related learning amongst economically marginalized youth living in
the highly competitive and supposedly meritocratic city-state of Singapore. Their experiences suggest that some young people manage
to gain access to meaningful internship and work opportunities despite their class disadvantage while others are forced to engage injobs that provide little potential to cultivate networks and skills for future meaningful careers. Our results explore four factors which allow
economically marginalized young people to leverage work-related learning opportunities effectively (support of mentors or parents, theability to excel academically, compulsory or built-in internship opportunities and race/gender privilege and three factors which hinder
young peoples’ efforts (racism, poor academic performance and the need to economically support family during teen years).
59439

When the Religion Meets the Internet: Focusing on Naga Images Used by Visual Art in Thailand
Ya Liang Chang, Huanggang Normal University, China

Naga, the guardian of Triratna, dominates the waters, and is an important cultural image of Thailand, as well as an auspicious symbolof ordinary life. There is a large and subtle Naga cultural heritage that includes folk literature and festivals in Thailand. Whether it is an
old tradition or a new cultural creation, many cultural heritages named the Naga theme are combined with visual art, while spreading
the images and beliefs of Naga through the Internet, including sculptures, murals, emoticons, animations, festivals, amulets, fabrics
and exhibition artworks, etc. This article aims to use iconography for analyzing Naga images of visual art in Thailand, and to explore
the changes that Naga worship has resulted in under the Internet. Research results show two important changes: (a), In cultural context
terms, the cultural meaning of Naga images is changed on the internet, making it as a part of the cultural industry, which is different
from previous religious connotations. (b), In the spread of Buddhism, the internet has led to changes in the way the Buddhist doctrine isdiffused, different interpretations of Buddhist scriptures included, which is challenged by virtual worlds.

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Architecture & Urban Studies/Design
60166

Measuring Growing Heritage Ability in the City Competitive Advantage – A Case Study of Pekalongan Creative
City, Indonesia
Eko Nursanty, University of 17 Agustus 1945 (UNTAG) Semarang, Indonesia
Indah Susilowati, Diponegoro University, Indonesia

Measuring the resilience of heritage is related to the value that is often difficult to measure. The tangible side of heritage is often considered
unattractive, dull, and challenging to use, and it needs to be built to be able to adjust to the development of the times. On the other hand,
the intangible value of heritage becomes very high when we find the uniqueness of incomparable, accumulating the time travel time thatthe heritage has owned. This study tried to measure both above interests using a Butterfly-Mamoli method based on the human left
and right brains' ability to understand each object's power of value in a place. Pekalongan city, a heritage city and gained recognition asa Batik Creative City from UNESCO since 2014, has a heritage that appears in the form of Batik both tangible and intangible need to bedone efforts to increase the values in it. This study found that the increase in the value of authenticity in heritage can foster the ability
to compete and raise the city's level of resilience, where the factor of place as a container of uniqueness is located. Ultimately, the paper
aims to measure the growing heritage ability of the city to find itself through various elements found there and its role, in terms of place,community, and culture, including the process in it.
60368

Exploring the Effect of Pull Factors on Recreational Needs in Heritage Tourism
Hung-Ming Tu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Attracting travelers and preserving heritage are important issues in heritage tourism because several heritage sites have failed to attract
travelers. Past studies found that heritage architecture, art activity, wide nature, regional attractions, recreational benefits, and longterm values were critical considerations in heritage tourism. Specifically, heritage architecture, art activity, wide nature, and regional
attractions were pull factors, while recreational benefits and long-term values were push factors. This study further confirms whether
the pull factors of heritage tourism satisfy participants’ push needs and recreational benefits. The questionnaire included pull factorsof heritage tourism (heritage architecture, art activity, wide nature, and regional attraction), push needs (recreational benefits and longterm values), and recreational benefits (emotions, well-being, perceived pressure, landscape preference, environmental restoration, place
attachment, and revisit intention). Data were collected from January 17 to March 14, 2020 at ten heritage sites located in Taiwan. A totalof 393 valid questionnaires were collected. The results showed that heritage architecture, art activity, wide nature, and regional attractions
positively affected participants’ push needs, and resulted in recreational benefits. Heritage architecture, art activity, and wide nature weremajor factors in promoting positive emotions, landscape restoration, and revisit intention. Wide nature and regional attractions were
important factors in producing higher place attachment. In summary, heritage tourism should consider heritage architecture, art activity,
wide nature, and regional attractions to achieve sustainable heritage development.

Cultural Studies
60362

The Role of Soft Power Along the Current Silk Road
Mitrajit Bakshi, Independent Scholar, India

The Silk Routes have long been a passage for exchange of goods and commodities as well as the exchange of religion and culture. One
aspect in the exchange of culture, was the soft power that was generated along with it, which in turn facilitated closer ties between
states and/or formed unique bonds between people of different cultures. Soft power is the ability of obtaining the desired result throughattraction and cooperation and hence, it arises due to the attractiveness of a country’s culture, political ideals, and policies. The networkof Silk Routes helped with the exchange of various aspects of civilization's culture, like art, religion, technology, language and science,
which had been carried along with commercial goods the merchants traded. Hence, cross border trade and cultural exchange helping tobuild mutual respect and trust between states became the legacy of the Silk Routes. The current Belt and Road initiative seeks to directlybuild upon this legacy, increasing economic and cultural connectivity to reduce suspicion and promote common prosperity. The purposeof this paper is to analyze the legacy of soft power of the original Silk Road Trade Routes and in relation to that examine how soft powerplays a part, along the current 'Silk Route,' in creating bonds between states and people.
59786

The Hygiene Films for Propaganda in Manchukuo: Intermedial Encounters Among Medical Support Activities,
Films and Posters
Le Wang, The University of Tokyo, Japan

This research examines how the hygiene films made by Japanese colonial authority were utilized together with other various media andactivities in propaganda activities in rural areas of Manchukuo. The focus is on Manchurian Films, produced by South Manchuria Railway
Company and Manchuria Film Association. Many existing studies have discussed the media interactions emerges at the very beginningof film history. While media histories view films as the first intermedial medium. What has received less attention is the historical context
where an intermedial reaction happens. This research analyses the data from internal publications of the Manchukuo government, PRmagazines as well as video copies made from actual films. This research intends to clarify what kind of hygiene films born because ofintermedial encounters between medical support activities and visual media used by that. This study tries to examine how the propaganda
activities conveyed the ideological slogans through the combination of media and other activities in rural Manchukuo.

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Cultural Studies
59738

The Hispanic Heritage in the Cebuano Harana

Hope Yu, University of San Carlos, Philippines
Raphael Dean Polinar, University of San Carlos, Philippines
A study of the harana, a genre of Cebuano folk music, involves reflection on the complexity of cultural phenomenon which has beencreated and developed in this post-colonial territory. It is a study of historical processes which resulted in the creation of a culture
against a differentiated background of Hispanic and indigenous Filipino components. The harana points to the specific nature of musicalphenomena and to the intrinsic value of Cebuano music in the processes of communication. The directness of musical messages andtheir integrational power are especially relevant in the social mobilization in the Philippines. It leads to the discovery of the traditional
legacy and to evaluating the social function of Cebuano folk music and its significance as communication, taking into account its aesthetic
qualities.
60109

Opportunities and Challenges of Korean Politics With B-class Culture: A Case Study of Pengsoo’s Political News
Wantong Cai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

For a long time, politics and popular culture have been intertwined and inseparable. In America, this connection has reached an
unprecedented height in the Trump era. For this reason, press and social media seized the interest of the audience and published a large
amount of content that combined politics and popular culture during the US election and the coronavirus pandemic. In South Korea, thecombination of politics and B-class culture has also become mainstream. When politicians want to seek the support of young voters,
they will advertise themselves as B-class figures. This trend reached its peak during the 2012 election. The combination of politics andpopular culture uses entertainment to disrupt serious politics and attracts new voters, especially the younger generation. It becomes away to increase the approval ratings of a leader or domestic support for a government, especially during the 2020 legislative election.
However, entertaining politics also has side effects. Too much entertainment will be counterproductive and arouse public resentment. In
the paper, the author will explain how politics and popular culture work together by analyzing B-class representative character, Pengsoo’s
political news from 2019 to 2020. Through sentiment analysis, Koreans are increasingly dissatisfied with the combination of Pengsoo andpolitics. Based on this analysis, this entertaining Korean politics is now facing both opportunities and challenges under the influence ofthe coronavirus pandemic and the dual contradictions of B-class culture itself.
59581

Death Ritual Among Maguindanaon: Its Semiotic Interpretation
Almira Menson, Mindanao State University, Philippines

This paper explores the signs and symbols incorporated in the practice of dulang, a death ritual of the Maguindanaon. The dulang isbelieved to be a ritual of the Maguindanaon where through the use of kulintang(melodic gong music) the bpedtunong( the medium who
performs pag-ipat) enters into a trance and is possessed by a spirit that facilitates healing. Pag-ipat is overlain with symbols comprisinga veritable wellspring of folk expression that is at once symbolic and imbued with meaning. Semiotics, the study of meaning-making,explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of communication. Semiotic theory provides a vital lens through which toview ritual messages. Chandler (2011) states that signs take the form of words, images, sounds, odours, flavours, acts or objects. Umberto
Eco, an Italian semiotician and novelist, claimed that every cultural phenomenon may be studied as communication(Caesar, 1999). Since
all forms of ritual are communicative as stated by Dow(1986), pag-ipat is an interesting topic to be explored using semiotic framework
and analysis. The data were comprised of the objects used in the ritual and were analyzed through Barthe’s semiotic framework ofconnotation, denotation and myth. The study reveals that pag-ipat communicates certain belief and ideology which can be deciphered
through its elements such as form, movement and pattern.
59580

Using Semiotics to Decode Tribal Flag’s Sign on Maguindanaon Culture and Traditions
Almira Menson, Mindanao State University, Philippines

Flags are part of ornamental accents in tourist spots, important events and festivities. The need to study their structures is deemednecessary to establish their significant implications to culture. The varieties of Pandala involved in this study were analyzed throughthe theoretical framework of semiotics. Semiotics is one way of evaluating an image’s message to determine what it portrays (Edgar &Rutherford, 2012). Interviews with key informants and gatekeepers were employed, and triangulated with the prominent tribal leaders andcouncils of elders. Pandal-+a in Maguindanaon term is the flag usually erected in conspicuous places for festivals, burials, wedding, Eidl
Fitr and the welcoming of Haj. The major flag is called Pasandalan while the minor sizes of flags are called Pamanay and those fingerlike ones are called Sambulayan. These original flags are diagonally cut against their fiber to produce raffled and swaying effect in a
combination of Green, Red and Yellow. The modified ones use violet, blue, and pink color. Red flags are decorated and used for ordinary
occasions with common tao while royal people use Golden Yellow. Flags, to the Maguindanaon, reveal the happiness and sadness,richness and poorness of one’s family and culture. Understanding these culture and traditions are simple yet complicated, but it is the key
to peace and harmony. Thus, cultural education this study delved into is very important.

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ACAS2021 Virtual Presentations (Pre-Recorded)
Cultural Studies
59849

Jagannath as the Icon of Odia Identity & Its Challenge for Hindu Nationalism in Odisha
Shyamanuja Das, GD Goenka University, India

Regional consciousness and provincial nationalism in the 19th and 20th century India, centered around linguistic, ethno-cultural andeconomic considerations and how they supported, complemented, confronted and co-existed with the pan-Indian nationalism, is wellstudied. Odisha itself has attracted a lot of interest because of the success of its language movement, leading to the formation of thefirst state in India to be carved out on a linguistic basis. The movement and how it had come in conflict with the pan-Indian nationalist
movement led by the Indian National Congress, has also got some academic attention.
The cult of Jagannath and its influence on the people of Odisha has also attracted considerable scholarship. Lord Jagannath as a rallying
point for Odias is a common topic of discourse, in both academic and non-academic literature. Paradoxically, this phenomenon of
Jagannath, a Hindu deity, as the icon of Odia identity, has not really resulted in smooth rise of Hindu nationalism in Odisha. If at all, it has
unfavorably impacted the latter. The article examines what factors contributed to the establishment of Jagannath as the unofficial state
deity of Odisha from 11th century onwards and why and how has this impacted Hindu nationalism in Odisha, mostly in the late 19th andearly 20th century. While some of the arguments may have relevance for the present, the paper will not explicitly study today’s issues.

Education/Pedagogy
59655

Enhancing Sociocultural Competence of Second Language Acquisition: Through Multimedia and Films
Lin Tsai, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, United States
Ya-Chiu Hsieh, Defense Language Institute, United States

Multimedia and films are a rich source of cultural references and a perfect avenue to engage students in the current student-centeredteaching paradigm as well as to build their language proficiency by effectively learning and developing cross-cultural competence.
Grounded by that, the presenters will provide examples to illustrate how to incorporate multimedia and/or movies in language classrooms
to enhance the understanding of cultural diversity and promote students’ sociocultural competence in second language acquisitions isvery crucial for their language proficiency. With appropriate guidance and facilitation across all proficiency levels, students are actively
involved in the learning process of both linguistic and sociocultural aspects through movies and multimedia in the era of media boom.
Students can gain insight into target language cultural phenomena as they internalize the films’ implicit messages and ultimately acquireintercultural communicative competence.
60068

Being an International Student in Japan 2020-2021: Impact on Their Career Prospects
Tamami Kita, Waseda Foreign Language College, Japan

Under the coronavirus pandemic, its impact on student life and teaching styles have often been discussed worldwide inside and outside
the education industry. However, in Japan, while its impact on economic relations of Japan with Asian countries has often been analyzed
and discussed, its impact on Asian students in Japan and their career prospects have not been examined enough. This research discusses
what difficulties and changes international college students in Tokyo have had since 2020 taking their points of view in terms of careerprospects. The participants of this research are study abroad students from Asian countries in Japan who currently belong to a language
college in Tokyo. The questionnaire reveals problems they have faced inside and outside the classroom and how they changed their careerprospects referring to their academic background and original plans. The supports which hosting colleges and universities in Japan are
expected to provide are also discussed.
60283

The Topsy-Turvy World of the University Classroom
Kayo Ozawa, Kyoritsu Women's College, Japan

This paper will review how the Global Pandemic starting in 2020 has affected classes at a typical Japanese university. Initially, theuniversity students at an all women's college were considered to be passive and not willing to take risks. However, as the instructor wasforced to switch from face-to-face to online classes using the university's platform Kyonet, it has become evident that this was not thecase. The instructor used "World English", an all-English textbook published by National Geographic in her freshman class, and "AFP
World News Report 5" in her sophomore and junior class. In both classes, due to the flip classroom, there was an increase in accuracy instudent-written output, and students created PowerPoint presentations on the topics of SDGs, endangered languages and COVID, andinnovations in Africa using smartphones. The presentations were shared via GoogleMeet using breakout sessions, which has increased
interaction among peers not usually seen in face-to-face classrooms. The online classes have also made interaction between exchange
students (one from China and the other from Benin Africa) and the Japanese students possible. This is extremely important as borders
close during the lockdown and there is little opportunity to study abroad.

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Feminism/Black Feminism
60350

Reading Habits, Feminism and Views About Feminism in India
Sai Shri Ramamurthy, Independent Researcher, India
Manjunatheshwar Prasad Jagadeshwar Rao, Independent Researcher, India

Culture changes from time to time, both men and women are affected by the cultural change in many ways, women empowerment is an
integral part of the same. There are different issues faced by men and women in different countries across the world. And in developing
countries like India there are many different perspectives about feminism and women empowerment, there are diverse factors that havean effect on the same. The target group is the adolescent and young adults as adolescence is the most important part of one’s life when
an individual forms an identity for oneself. This paper discusses about the relationship between reading habits of adolescents and young
adults and their views on feminism. This paper also discusses about the genres preferred by the target audience. The paper compares
the reading habits of people from different specializations, and the relationship between reading non-fiction feminist books, novels,
inspirational books, books written by male and female authors and the attitude of men and women towards feminism and feminists. This
paper sums up the impact of socially conscious literature mainly focusing on women empowerment on young minds.

Indigeneous Studies - World Wide60238

Identity of the ǂKhomani San as Authentic Bushman in the 21st Century: An Ethnographic Study
Celeste McKenzie, The Independent Institute of Education, South Africa

The small indigenous community of the ǂKhomani San Bushmen in the Southern Kalahari Desert of South Africa are grappling to maintaintheir identity in the 21st century. Being authentic Bushman comes with a huge number of challenges for this indigenous community inretaining their cultural links to the land and their San heritage. Their authenticity links closely to being a direct decedent of Regopstaan
Kruiper the legendary San leader or relation through blood such as an ancestor. In 2017 the ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape received
UNESCO World Heritage status for being authentic. This criterion includes ethnobotanical knowledge embedded in the old languages
in the !Ui-Taa languages, spoken by only a few and the transferal of traditions such as hunting, tracking and storytelling. The purposeof this paper is firstly to explore the persistence of cultural practices theoretically. Secondly, this study used ethnographic approaches
such as interviews, photography and video within the community to create an understanding and awareness of such cultural practices
and to document this in a book. The ǂKhomani San regained cultural and symbolic rights to their land in 1999 which includes use ofresources and traditional hunting rights in large parts of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier National Park. Through exploring their identity of
being authentic, the San are drawing on tourism for meaningful development of their cultural practices to engage the youth to retaining
their cultural links

Media Studies
60008

Study on the Usage Environment of Online Games Based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Nagayuki Saito, International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan

Online games enrich children's daily lives by providing places to interact with each other and fun. On the other hand, the negative aspects
are also pointed out such as long-time gaming, health effects, privacy, and security issues. In light of these circumstances, UNICEF
published a report "Child Rights and Online Gaming" in 2019, which states the need for protection while respecting children's right to playonline games, and. mentions the need for voluntary efforts by the game industry to make that happen. The United Nations Convention on
the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) also mentions the need to protect against risks while maximizing children's right to freedom of expression,
promoting their well-being, and supporting their development. Based on these references, this study examined the requirements for an
online game usage environment based on the UNCRC. As a result, it turned out to be important that respect children's right to live in asociety with the game, to use the game, right to be protected from the risks posed by using the game, and right to participate in the gamecommunity. Furthermore, to establish a gameplay environment that adapts to the child's developmental stage is important.

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Sociology
60250

Reinventing the Cross Culture of Paddy in Indonesia

Ahmad Choibar Tridakusumah, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Ganjar Kurnia, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Gani Jaelani, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Iwan Setiawan, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Adi Nugraha, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
The cross-culture of rice is interesting to revisit. After nearly twenty centuries, a clear historiography of West Java's Indonesia rice culture
history is needed. This study aims to reinventing the cross-cultural dynamics of rice in Indonesia by taking a case study in West Java
province from the inception of records on rice cultivation in Indonesia to the current situation. This study uses a literature study approachand in-depth interviews with experts in rice farming culture in Indonesia which was held from April to December 2020. Research resultshow that the record of Lombard regarding the development of rice culture which explicitly states that rice developed massively in WestJava in the 17-18 centuries. If we trace the history of rice in West Java, until now only folklore has been treated to questionable values
and ideals, both absolutely and ecologically. The history of rice in West Java, until now only folklore has been treated to questionablevalues and ideals, both absolutely and ecologically. Japonica and Indica rice that develop in Asia, then in the West Java inland, various
local rice varieties are known, which is the result of a cross or different from the two types of rice that came from China and India. The
research results also identified three weaknesses in the development of rice culture in West Java, including the lack of local monographs,
unsustainable sources of information; and Javanese agrarian historiography has not been comprehensively accepted.

Visual Culture
59915

Record and Reflection: COVID-19 Pandemic Documentary in Japan, China and Korea
Sen Ni, Stanford University, United States

Documentary has always been used to characterize nature, history, and social reality. As a medium text with the spirit of realism andauthenticity, it diverts our attention to the world in which we live. During the epidemic, Japan, China, and South Korea each produced
documentaries on the theme of the epidemic. This paper focused on these documentaries, including "COVID-19.Fighting.a.Pandemic.2020",
and "COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days" produced by NHK, Japan, “The Frontline: China's fight against COVID-19” and “The lockdown:
One month in Wuhan“ produced by CCTV, China, along with “'PANDEMIC” and “Survive the Corona Era” produced by South Korea. The main
body of this paper is divided into four chapters. In the Chapter 1, I define the concept of “Epidemic Documentary" involved in this paper.
And I made a general introduction to the research objects in this paper. Chapter 2 analyzes the common points of the documentaries of
the three countries. It is mainly reflected in these documentaries that reflect the timeliness, integration, and information quality of the
documentary narrative. Chapter 3 focuses on comparing the differences between the three countries’ pandemic documentaries frommultiple perspectives. Specifically, the paper analyzes the characteristics of the pandemic documentary works of different countries interms of style, perspective, and subject matter, and looks for the patterned discourse expression in the works. Finally, Chapter 4 analyzes
the role of these documentaries in the countries’ fighting against the epidemic.

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who contribute in a variety of ways to our shared mission of promoting international exchange,
facilitating intercultural awareness, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion and generating andsharing new knowledge. Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment
to ensuring that international norms of peer review are observed for our presentation abstracts.
With thousands of abstracts submitted each year for presentation at our conferences, IAFOR relieson academics around the world to ensure a fair and timely peer review process in keeping withestablished international norms of double-blind peer review.
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Review Committee
Dr Sara Abdoh, Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University, Egypt
Dr Allan Basas, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
Dr Chai Lee Lim, Beijing Normal University, China
Dr Hooi San Noew, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Dr Carmina Untalan, Osaka University, JapanDr Yuki Yokohama, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan

ACAS2021

Senior Reviewers
Dr Ka Lok Sobel Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Dr Ogbonna Onyeisi, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

ACAS2021

Reviewers
Dr Yanjun Cai, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Dr Ning Chia, Central College, United States
Dr Robert Hamilton, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Dr Sivarin Lertpusit, Thammasat University, Thailand
Dr Zhaoxun Song, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Zi Yan, Waseda University, Japan

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Review Committee
Dr Susan Bacud, University of the Philippines Los Banos, Philippines
Dr Benjamin Ireland, Texas Christian University, United States
Professor William Kunz, University of Washington Tacoma, United States
Dr Eko Nursanty, University of 17 Agustus 1945 (UNTAG) Semarang, Indonesia
Dr Edem Peters, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Dr Anand Wadwekar, School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal, India
Dr Hui Xu, University of Perpetual Help System Dalta, Philippines

ACCS2021

Senior Reviewers
Dr Janet Valdez, La Consolacion University Philippines, Philippines

ACCS2021

Reviewers
Dr Christian Etzrodt, Osaka University, Japan
Dr Yoon Joo Hwang, University of Central Florida, United States
Dr Hong Li, Emory University, United States
Dr Velu Perumal, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Professor Nagayuki Saito, International Professional University of Technology in Tokyo, Japan

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A-Z Presenters List
Aokun, Yu				p. 31
Beijing University of Civil Engineering andArchitecture, China
Baba, Mika
			p. 33
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Bakshi, Mitrajit 			p. 44
Independent Scholar, India
Beeman, Mark 			p. 39
Northern Arizona University, United States
Bose, Trina				p. 33
IIT Bhubaneswar, India
Braunstein, Michelle 		p. 37
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Cacciavillani, Alessia 		p. 43
University of Toronto, Canada
Cai, Wantong 			p. 45
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Cai, Yanjun				p. 24
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Chang, Ya Liang			p. 43
Huanggang Normal University, China
Chia, Ning				p. 42
Central College, United StatesDas, Shyamanuja
		p. 46
GD Goenka University, India
Enkhbayar, Nominerdene		
p. 37
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Espartero-Asiatico, Ma. Dinah		p. 36
De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
Eto, Mitsunori 			p. 25
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Etzrodt, Christian		p. 25
Osaka University, Japan
Flavin, Philip				p. 30
Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
Gray, Lilly				p. 40
Kyushu University, Japan
Hamilton, Robert			p. 40
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
Huang, Yao-Hung			p. 24
Fo-Guang University, Taiwan
Hub, Qianhui 			p. 32
DePaul University, United States
Hugentobler, Larissa 		p. 27
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ito, Yuka				p. 27
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Johnson, Henry			p. 30
University of Otago, New ZealandKita, Tamami				p. 46
Waseda Foreign Language College, Japan
Larson, Michael			p. 33
Keio University, Japan

Layag, Diana Genevive 		p. 32
De La Salle University Manila, Philippines
Lertpusit, Sivarin			p. 24
Thammasat University, Thailand
Li, Hong				p. 36
Emory University, United States
Li, Xiaomeng				p. 34
Shanghai International Studies University, China
Lin, Chwen-Der			p. 39
Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Małek, Agnieszka			p. 25
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland
Masing, Ash				p. 39
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
McKenzie, Celeste			p. 47
The Independent Institute of Education, South Africa
Menson, Almira			p. 45
Mindanao State University - Maguindanao,
Philippines
Menson, Almira			p. 45
Mindanao State University - Maguindanao, Philippines
Mirchandani, Kiran			p. 43
University of Toronto, Canada
Mizuno, Norihito			p. 40
Akita International University, JapanNi, Sen 				p. 48
Stanford University, United States
Nursanty, Eko 			p. 44
University of 17 Agustus 1945 (UNTAG) Semarang,
Indonesia
Onyeisi, Ogbonna			p. 40
Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria
Ouyang, Jiaorui			p. 42
The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology, Hong Kong
Ozawa, Kayo 			p. 46
Kyoritsu Women's College, Japan
Perumal, Velu 			p. 34
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Phillips, Jennifer			p. 36
University of Southern California, United States
Pongpiboonkiat, Chanapang
p. 34
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Prianti, Desi				p. 38
Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia
Ramamurthy, Sai Shri 		p. 47
Independent Researcher, India
Ristaino, Christine			p. 36
Emory University, United States
Saito, Nagayuki			p. 47
International Professional University of Technology
in Tokyo, Japan
Samsudin, Shahrina Anis		
p. 38
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

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Sarrazin, Natalie			p. 42
The College at Brockport, United States
Schäfer, Carsten			p. 31
University of Cologne, Germany
Shyi Nian, Ong 			p. 27
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Tang, Wai Man 			p. 26
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tarungsri, Yupaporn 		p. 38
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Tokumaru, Aki				p. 37
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tridakusumah, Ahmad Choibar
p. 48
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Tsai, Lin				p. 46
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language
Center, United States
Tsai, Lin				p. 46
Defense Language Institute, United States
Tu, Hung-Ming 			p. 44
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Unger, Zachary 			p. 36
United States Special Operations School, United States
Valdez, Janet 			p. 32
La Consolacion University Philippines, Philippines
Wang, Le				p. 44
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Wang, Lianting 			p. 42
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, China
Yokohama, Yuki			p. 32
Kanto Gakuin University, Japan
Yu, Hope				p. 45
University of San Carlos, Philippines
Zaichenko, Liudmila 		p. 25
Tallinn University, Estonia
Zhang, Jinniu				p. 31
Tsinghua University , China
Zhang, Yifeng 			p. 31
Beijing University of Civil Engineering andArchitecture, China
Zhang, Yuanfang			p. 30
University of Toronto, Canada

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