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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/ACAS2020 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, USA

University of Sydney, Australia

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Letter of Welcome
Dear Delegates,
In more normal times I would be writing this letter to welcome
people to Tokyo, however these are very different times, and so
I welcome you instead online to IAFOR’s May conference series,
from more than fifty different countries around the world.
While this conference is organised in the spirit of hope andwith the possibilities of technology, it is also organised in acontext of global uncertainty in the wake of the coronavirus,
an unprecedented global crisis of enormous proportions. Manyof the things that we have come to take for granted over the
past decades, such as cheap, easy and reliable travel between
countries, has become questioned as different nations have responded to the global health crisis
in different ways, each impacting local societies, economies, communities, and many individual
lives.
Due to travel restrictions relating to the unfolding situation, we have moved the entire conference
online and presentations will either be live or pre-recorded and put on IAFOR’s Online Video Archive.
Links to those videos and an online messaging board where you can directly communicate withthese academics are provided in the Virtual Presentations section of the programme. I encourage
you to watch their presentations and engage directly with authors.
Perhaps the most important thing that this crisis will have taught us is that the freedoms that wehold so close, such as those of expression and movement in a globalised world, bring to the fore
questions of transparency and governance on an international level. This serves to remind us thatquestions of human security and public policy, as they relate to such issues as health, climatechange, pollution, and individual rights and responsibilities, do not happen in sovereign vacuums,
but instead impact other nation-states. If one country is not as transparent as it otherwise mightbe, then the repercussions are not only domestic, but frequently felt across borders. In a globalised
world, our problems are increasingly global, and require concerted cooperative measures between
countries in order to seek solutions.
Let us use this time together to meaningfully engage, to combat complacency, and ensure thatthese conferences, even in trying circumstances, are the best that they can be.
As a response to the ongoing situation, we have decided to open the ACCS/ACAS and ACAH/ACSS
conferences to registrants of either, giving delegates the chance to see ALL presentations in bothconferences over a six day period.
I look forward to meeting you all online. Please enjoy the conferences!
Take care and stay safe!
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/ACAS2020
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 ACCS2020 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and bestpractice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.

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

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May 28, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Thursday at a Glance
14:00-14:15
			

Welcome Address & Recognition of IAFOR Scholarship Winners
Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

14:15-14:30		

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award

14:30-16:00
Plenary Panel Discussion
			The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of Global Politics:
			
A View from Asia
			
Jaewoo Choo, Kyunghee University, South Korea
			
Brendan Howe, Ewha Women’s University, South Korea
			
Kei Koga, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore			
Mingjiang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore			June Park, National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea
			
Haruko Satoh, Osaka University, Japan			
Yang Xianfeng, Yonsei University, South Korea
			This panel is sponsored by The Korea Foundation
16:00-16:30		

Virtual Coffee

16:30-18:00
Plenary Panel Discussion
			Design and Democracy			Bruce Brown, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
			Nagayuki Saito, International Professional University of Technology, Japan			
Ryuji Yamazaki-Skov, Osaka University, Japan			Moderator: Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan
			This panel is co-organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS),
			Japan Office
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May 29, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday at a Glance
09:05-09:15
			

Welcome from the Organising Committee
Baden Offord, Curtin University, Australia

09:15-09:55
Keynote Presentation
			Dislocation/Invitation
			
Donald Hall, University of Rochester, United States
10:00-11:15

Live-Stream Session I

11:15-11:30		

Virtual Coffee

11:30-12:45

Live-Stream Session II

12:45-13:45		

Lunch Discussion Groups

13:45-14:35

Live-Stream Session III

14:35-14:50		

Virtual Coffee

14:50-16:05

Live-Stream Session IV

16:10-17:10
			
			
			
			

Panel Discussion
Communication, Technology and Transparency in Times of COVID
Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mark Pegrum, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Moderator: Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

17:10-17:30

Networking Session
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May 30, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday at a Glance
13:50-14:00
			

Welcome from the Organising Committee
Seiko Yasumoto, The University of Sydney, Australia

14:00-14:50

Live-Stream Session I

14:50-15:05		

Virtual Coffee

15:05-16:20

Live-Stream Session II

16:20-16:35		

Virtual Coffee

16:35-17:25

Live-Stream Session III

17:25-17:40		

Virtual Coffee

17:40-18:30

Live-Stream Session IV

18:30-18:45		

Virtual Coffee

18:45-20:25

Live-Stream Session V

20:25-20:40

Closing Session

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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 June 30, 2020, through the online system. The
proceedings will be published on July 30, 2020.

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Become an IAFOR Member
IAFOR provides an excellent personal and professional environment for academics and scholarsof all ages and backgrounds to come together and exchange the latest ideas, and inform eachother’s perspectives through their own cultural and disciplinary background and experiences. We
are able to do this thanks to the exceptional network of individuals and institutions around theworld who support our work and help shape our exceptional events globally. We emphasise thenurturing and supporting of young academics from different backgrounds, providing mutual advice
and guidance, and offer more senior academics the chance to forge working relationships outsideof their traditional networks.
In a world where division and strife are underlined and played up in national and local 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 of facilitating international
exchange, encouraging intercultural awareness, and promoting interdisciplinary discussion in thehope and expectation of generating and sharing new knowledge. Join us now in this growing globalorganisation, and help make a difference today.
To learn more about IAFOR membership, please visit:www.iafor.org/membership

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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 toreligious 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 comparedto that of the East and began a lifelong mission to bridge the communication and knowledge 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 a time
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 the Order 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 the United Kingdom.
He also served as the International Adviser to the High Priest of the Tsubaki Grand Shrine, one ofJapan’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 community of
supporters. In honour of Professor Picken and his dedication to academia, the ideals of intercultural
understanding and the principles of interdisciplinary study, IAFOR has created the 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 need of funding to complete theirresearch, and whose work demonstrates excellence in the core values of academic rigour, intercultural
sensitivity and interdisciplinarity.
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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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IAFOR Academic Grant& Scholarship Recipients
Our warmest congratulations go to Federica Scaffidi, Hemraj P. Jangir and Tam Nguyen, whohave been selected by the conference Organising Committee to receive grants and scholarships
to present their research at ACCS/ACAS2020.
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

Federica Scaffidi | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
57057 (ACCS2020)
Evaluating Socio-cultural and Spatial Impacts on Brownfields Recycling in Europe. What is theEffect on the City and Territory?
Federica Scaffidi, University of Hannover, Germany
Federica Scaffidi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Design and Planning,
Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). PhD and Doctor Europaeus in “City, Region and LandscapePlanning” at the University of Palermo, UNIPA (2019). Visiting scholar at the Polytechnic of Turin,
POLITO (2015-2016), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016) and LUH (2017). Graduation:MSc, 110/110 cum laude at POLITO (2014), BSc, 110/110 cum laude at UNIPA (2012). Teachingassistant for the Urban design studios (2017-2019) at UNIPA, Restoration studio (2016) at
POLITO. Her research interests (with qualitative and quantitative methodologies) concern: Social
innovation, recycling processes and local impacts; Cultural heritage and social participation;
Rural-urban development.

Hemraj P. Jangir | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
55002 (ACCS2020)
The Issue of Stigmatized Identity and Livelihood: Insights From a De-notified Tribe of Rajasthan, India
Hemraj P. Jangir, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India
Mr. Hemraj P Jangir is currently enrolled in PhD programme at the Indian Institute of Dalit
Studies in New Delhi, India. He has completed an MPhil at the University of Delhi and MSW
from Central University of Rajasthan. His research areas lies around Nomadic and Denotified
tribe, Discrimination and Social Exclusion based on group identity, and Deprivation in accessto education. He has been associated with various local and national level organizations as
an intern. His research in MSW was on 'Parental attitude and children's perception on gender
discrimination in rural India'. He written dissertation in MPhil on 'Backwardness of educationand Health with special reference to children of sex workers or de-notified tribes'. His PhD is on
Nomadic tribes where he is studying the problem of stigma and exclusion.

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Tam Nguyen | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
56539 (ACAS2020)
Confucian Values and Public Service Motivation: The Mediating Role of Paradoxical Leadership
Tam Nguyen, Monash University, Australia
Herman Tse, Monash University, Australia
Ly Fie Sugianto, Monash University, Australia
Sen Sendjaya, Swinburne University, Australia
Tam T.T. Nguyen is a consultant for Public Administration Reform at Vietnam Certification
Body, Ha Noi, Vietnam. She received her MPA at the National Academy of Public Administrationin Vietnam and her postgraduate diplomat certificate in policy analysis at the University ofWashington, USA. She is currently an Australian Award Fellow, has completed her Ph.D. with
the Department of Management, in Monash Business School, at Monash University, Victoria,
Australia. Her research focuses on leadership and public administration in the context of Asia.

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iaforRESEARCH
ARCHIVE

www.papers.iafor.org

Visit the IAFOR Research Archive, where you cansearch and access the repository of research
generated by IAFOR.
You can search by keyword(s), subject area(s), or
speciﬁc conference proceeding(s) to access
abstracts and full papers from past IAFOR
conference proceedings, browse and read them
online, or download them to your device.

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Thursday
May 28Plenary Session

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Panel Discussion: Jaewoo Choo, Brendan Howe, Kei Koga, Mingjiang Li,
June Park, Haruko Satoh & Xiangfeng Yang

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Crisis of
Global Politics: A View from Asia
Thursday, May 28 | 14:30-16:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
This panel is sponsored by The Korea Foundation

The COVID-19 pandemic is now not only a global health crisisbut much more. It has unleashed a cultural war in global politics,
shaken the foundation of the healthy functioning of the global
economy, thrown into sharp relief the fragility of the UN system
when the US leadership is absent, and plunged societies all over
the world into anxiety about an uncertain future. The IAFOR
Research Centre at OSIPP (Osaka School of International Public
Policy) has convened this special panel, as part of its “Korea andJapan in the Evolving China-US Relations” project sponsored by the Korea Foundation, to discuss
the following two issues that are relevant to globally relevant Asian middle powers, Japan and Korea:(a) the impact of China-US relations on the system of global governance; (b) the claim that Asians'"authoritarian tendency” is an asset to tackling the outbreak.

Jaewoo Choo | Kyunghee University, South Korea
Jaewoo Choo is Professor of Chinese foreign policy in the
Department of Chinese Studies at Kyung Hee University, and Vice
President of One Belt One Road Institute in Korea. He is a graduateof Wesleyan University (BA in Government) and Peking University(MA & PhD in International Relations). His research interests are
Chinese foreign policy, multilateral security cooperation, US-China
relations, and China-North Korea relations. Recent publications
include US-China relations for Koreans: From Korean War to
THAAD Conflicts (Seoul: Kyung-In Publishing House, 2017), US
and China’s Strategy on the Korean Peninsula: Reading from theFacts (Seoul: Paper &amp; Tree, 2018).

Brendan Howe | Ewha Women’s University, South Korea
Brendan Howe is Professor of International Relations and former
Associate Dean and Department Chair of the Graduate School ofInternational Studies, Ewha Womans University. South Korea. He is
also currently the President of the Asian Political and International
Studies Association, and an Honorary Ambassador of Public
Diplomacy and advisor for the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at
the Freie Universität Berlin, De La Salle University (Philippines),
the University of Sydney, Korea National Defence University, theEast-West Center (Honolulu), Georgetown University, Universiti
Malaysia Sarawak, and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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Educated at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Trinity College Dublin,
and Georgetown University, his ongoing research agendas focus on traditional and non-traditional
security in East Asia, human security, middle powers, public diplomacy, post-crisis development,
comprehensive peacebuilding and conflict transformation. He has authored, co-authored, oredited more than 90 related publications including UN Governance: Peace and Human Security
in Cambodia and Timor-Leste (Springer, 2020), Regional Cooperation for Peace and Development(Routledge, 2018), National Security, State Centricity, and Governance in East Asia (Springer, 2017),
Peacekeeping and the Asia-Pacific (Brill, 2016), Democratic Governance in East Asia (Springer,2015), Post-Conflict Development in East Asia (Ashgate, 2014), and The Protection and Promotionof Human Security in East Asia (Palgrave, 2013).

Kei Koga | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kei Koga is Assistant Professor at the Public Policy and Global
Affairs Programme, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang
Technological University (NTU). His research focuses on IR
theory, International Security, International Institutions, and East
Asian security, including transformation of US-bilateral security
networks and ASEAN-led institutions in the Indo-Pacific region.
Previously, he was visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS) in 2017; a Japan-US Partnership
Fellow at the Research Institute for Peace and Security (RIPS),Tokyo, in 2012-2014; Postdoctoral Fellow in the International
Studies Program, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School,
in 2012-2013; a Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS in 2009-2010; and RSIS-MacArthur visiting
associate fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), NTU in 2010.
He has published on topics that include East Asian security, US and Japanese foreign policies,
the US-Japan alliance, and ASEAN. His recent publications include Reinventing Regional Security
Institutions in Asia and Africa (Routledge 2017); Japan's ‘Indo-Pacific’ question: countering
China or shaping a new regional order? (International Affairs, 2020); The Concept of “Hedging”
Revisited: The Case of Japan's Foreign Policy Strategy in East Asia's Power Shift (International
Studies Review, 2018); and ASEAN’s Evolving Institutional Strategy: Managing Great Power
Politics in South China Sea Disputes (Chinese Journal of International Politics, 2018). His current
book project is Managing Great Power Politics: ASEAN, Institutional Strategy, and South China
Sea. He received his PhD in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University.

Mingjiang Li | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Li Mingjiang is an Associate Professor at S. Rajaratnam
School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore. He is also the Coordinator of the China
Program at RSIS. He received his PhD in Political Science from
Boston University. His main research interests include ChinaASEAN relations, Sino-US relations, Asia-Pacific security, anddomestic sources of Chinese foreign policy. He is the author(including editor and co-editor) of 14 books. His recent books
are New Dynamics in US-China Relations: Contending for the
Asia Pacific (lead editor, Routledge, 2014) and Mao’s China
and the Sino-Soviet Split (Routledge, 2012). He has published papers in various peer-reviewed
publications including International Affairs, Asian Politics & Policy, Asian Perspectives, the Oxford
Bibliographies, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Journal of Strategic Studies,
Global Governance, Cold War History, Journal of Contemporary China, the Chinese Journal ofInternational Politics, the Chinese Journal of Political Science, China: An International Journal,
China Security, Harvard Asia Quarterly, Security Challenges, and others.
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June Park | National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea
June Park is a political economist specialising in US foreign economic
policymaking on the export-oriented countries of Northeast Asia –China, Japan and South Korea. She works on trade, energy, and techconflicts with a broader range of regional focuses not just on the
United States and East Asia, but also Europe and the Middle East.
She also conducts policy-oriented research on the two Koreas.
Her grand theme of research is why countries fight and how, using
what. She studies why countries have different policy outcomes byanalysing governance structures – domestic institutions, leadership,and bureaucracies that shape the policy formation process. She iscurrently a Next Generation Researcher of the National Research
Foundation of Korea and an Academic Book Publication Member at the National Library of Korea, now
finalising her first book manuscript, Trade Wars & Currency Conflict: China, South Korea, and Japan’s
Responses to U.S. Pressures. Her second book project, Europe's Challenges & Responses: Between
Faustian Bargains with China and U.S. Pressures since Brexit, also utilises the framework of institutionalvariance but moves the stage to Europe and broadens the scope to pressures from two great powers:
China and the United States. She examines each of the policy responses from Germany, France andthe UK post-Brexit to China and the United States in the trade, energy and tech policy realms in theera of geoeconomic conflict between the United States and China. In response to the outbreak of thenovel Coronavirus, she launched a standalone project entitled, “Governing a Pandemic: Beyond Massive
Tracking and Data Privacy in South Korea to Counter COVID-19”. The project centres on the questionsof a social contract on conditional AI-oriented surveillance, patents on health-related technology, andbureaucratic governance in governing a pandemic focusing on the South Korean case.

Haruko Satoh | Osaka University, Japan
Haruko Satoh is Specially Appointed Professor at the Graduate Schoolof Engineering Science in charge of CAREN (Osaka University Centre
for the Advancement of Research and Education Exchange Networks
in Asia) and also lecturer at the Osaka School of International Public
Policy (OSIPP), where she ran the MEXT Reinventing Japan project
on “Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA)” with six Southeast
Asian and four Japanese universities. She is also the President of the
The Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA). In
the past she has worked at the Japan Institute of International Affairs(JIIA), Chatham House, and Gaiko Forum. Her interests are primarily
in state theory, Japanese nationalism and identity politics. Recent
publications include: “Rethinking Security in Japan: In Search of a Post-‘Postwar’ Narrative” in Jain &Lam (Eds), Japan’s Strategic Challenges in a Changing Regional Environment (World Scientific, 2012);“Through the Looking-glass: China’s Rise as Seen from Japan”, (co-authored with Toshiya Hoshino),
Journal of Asian Public Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 181–198 (July 2012); “Post-3.11 Japan: A Matter ofRestoring Trust?”, ISPI Analysis No. 83 (December 2011); “Legitimacy Deficit in Japan: The Road toTrue Popular Sovereignty” in Kane, Loy & Patapan (Eds), Political Legitimacy in Asia: New Leadership
Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), “Japan: Re-engaging with China Meaningfully” in Tang, Li &Acharya (Eds), Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points, (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2009). Professor Haruko Satoh is a member of IAFOR’s Board of Directors, as well as Chair of
the Politics, Law & International Relations section of the International Academic Advisory Board.

Xiangfeng Yang | Yonsei University, South Korea
Xiangfeng Yang is an associate professor at Yonsei University inSouth Korea. A Chinese national, he received his PhD in Political
Science and International Relations from the University of Southern
California (USC). His research has appeared in, among others,
International Affairs (2018, 2020), Journal of Contemporary China,
Current History, Issues & Studies, Pacific Focus, and Chinese
Journal of International Politics.

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Panel Discussion: Bruce Brown, Nagayuki Saito & Ryuji Yamazaki-Skov

Design and Democracy

Thursday, May 28 | 16:30-18:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)
This panel is co-organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), Japan Office

Organized as part of ACAS/ACCS2020, in association with the
OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre at Osaka University, this Panel isco-organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Japan (KAS).
For most people the terms “design” and “excess” are vaguely
understood—so they are more powerful in the hands of people wanting to use them to influence humanbehavior and individual choice. This is important if we are to defend the democratic right of all citizens
to exercise freedom of choice (and to give them choices to make); yet to also recognise that, in a world
based on mass communications, any attempt to manage the democratic exercise of free will, on behalfof all citizens, can produce seemingly irrational results leading to social instability. From this dilemma
has emerged a paradox in which freedom of choice is both a perceived human right and an illusionof political authority. This is an issue of design. But, as has often been observed, “theories of design
developed in the twentieth century have ignored these issues”. From the mid twentieth century onwards
the design profession expanded in line with the mass production of consumer goods. This abundanceof stuff stimulated a culture of desire that served to distract people’s attention away from the humancondition and the exercise of political will.
From the late twentieth century onwards the advent of digital technologies revolutionised theseearlier systems of production, distribution and consumption to create a world of individuals and tribes
where the process of distraction has been further heightened through an excess of stuff and data. As
observed by the American sociologist, Herbert Simon, “a wealth of information creates a poverty ofattention”. This said, the massive changes taking place to design over the last fifty years have largelygone unnoticed. Design has moved from being “a plan to make an artifact” into a space where “todesign is to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones”.
If we are to take seriously the claim that “the modern world lacks harmony” then designers need tounderstand and reclaim this territory—to believe that design has the power to influence human behaviour
for better and for worse. What is at stake here is our belief in the right of all people to human dignity
through democracy. In this context we may have to recognise that the wealth of excess accompanying
freedom of choice is part of the human condition—but learn to manage it productively through design.

Discussion
In order to explore the intersections of design with democracy there are two (amongst many)potential themes for debate.
The Attention Economy: is a theory that the annual avalanche of data and information we now experienceis like anesthetic that neutralizes our attention and subsequent ability to make informed decisions.
The economic theory underpinning this is that our attention is now such a scarce commodity thatis being sold to the highest bidder. It is a design problem because as our attention spans decrease
and we become more exposed to a lot of conflicting stimuli, designers (of products, apps, even art,
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etc.) need to capture our attention and so steer us to prioritize and give attention to "the things
that matter". Defining "the things that matter and are worth our attention" becomes a democratic
question because these definitions in most societies are championed by the dominant groups while
the marginalized groups try to forward alternative definitions to varying levels of success (be theyamong classes, between corporations, between governments).
Responsible Design: The new, and powerful, interactions between data, technology, privacy andsecurity, and design raise serious questions. For example:•••

Are designers complicit in heightening the process of distraction and data mining and extraction
for private gain?
How can we design digital spaces where data owners retain control over who has access to their
data? How can we make this process easy, accessible, flexible and mobile? How can we make it
more democratic but at the same time responsible and accountable?
How has the internet morphed from its democratic origin of "connecting everyone around theworld" to an almost anarchic system dominated by powerful corporations where it seems thatit’s every man/woman for him/herself?

Bruce Brown | Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Bruce Brown was educated at the Royal College of Art in London
where he is currently Visiting Professor. Until 2016, Bruce
was Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Professor of Design
at the University of Brighton. For twenty years previously he
was Dean of the university’s Faculty of Arts & Architecture. In
2018 Bruce was appointed by the University Grants Committeeof the Hong Kong Specialist Administrative Region of thePeople’s Republic of China to Chair the assessment panels for
Visual Arts, Design, Creative Media in the Hong Kong Research
Assessment Exercise 2020. Prior to this he was appointed by
the UK Funding Councils to Chair Main Panel D in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework.
Prior to this he chaired Main Panel O in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Bruce served
as a member of the Advisory Board of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and has
advised international organisations including the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditationand the Qatar National Research Fund. Bruce chaired the Portuguese Government’s Fundação
para a Ciência ea Tecnologia Research Grants Panel [Arts] and was one of four people invitedby the Portuguese Government to conduct an international review entitled Reforming Arts andCulture Higher Education in Portugal. He has served as Trustee and Governor of organisations
such as the Art’s Council for England’s South East Arts Board, the Ditchling Museum and Shenkar
College of Design and Engineering, Tel Aviv. Bruce is an Editor of Design Issues Research Journal(MIT), an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Nagayuki Saito | International Professional Universityof Technology, JapanDr Nagayuki Saito is a professor at the International Professional
University of Technology in Tokyo and a special research Fellow at
the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. He is a former
Policy Analyst of OECD, Directorate for Science, and a Technology
and Industry lecturer at Ochanomizu University, Aoyama Gakuin
University. His field of expertise is social informatics, behavioural
economics, information and communication policy, and from thestandpoint of evidence-based policy making, he is studying theuse of behavioural insight for policy planning. His research themeis young people's Internet use and environment improvement policy. He has also been working on
visualization of youth's Internet literacy. In the research project of the Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications, he was engaged to develop the Internet Literacy Assessment for Students (ILAS).
Representative research books include Internet Literacy in Japan, OECD Publishing.
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Ryuji Yamazaki (Yamazaki-Skov), PhD is a Specially Appointed
Associate Professor at the Symbiotic Intelligent Systems
Research Center, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary
Research Initiatives, Osaka University, Japan. He received a MA
degree in Philosophy from Chuo University, Tokyo, and a PhD in
Knowledge Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Scienceand Technology (JAIST), Ishikawa, in 2004 and 2010. He has
worked as a Researcher at JAIST, Advanced Telecommunications
Research Institute International, Kyoto, Japan, as an Invited
Researcher, member of the PENSOR project (PhilosophicalEnquiries into Social Robotics) at Aarhus University, Denmark, and as an Assistant Professor at
School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Japan. His current research interest is in new media
studies with a focus on social robotics, phenomenology of embodiment, clinical philosophy andethics, and robo-philosophy.

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Keynote Presentation: Donald E. Hall

Dislocation/Invitation

Friday, May 29 | 09:15-09:55 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

IAFOR’s special theme in 2020 is “Embracing Difference”, which builds on two previous years’
themes: examinations of fear for what the future might hold (2018), followed a year later by
explorations of our ability to shape alternate futures (2019). The continuing timeliness of both
topics has been fuelled not only by global political trends, but also (and in ways that largely
account for those trends) the fact that individuals today are being confronted incessantly withforms and intensities of “difference” as never before in human history. Unless we are wholly
off the grid of media and extra-communal encounter (as we might find with self-isolating
religious communities), we are confronted daily with lifestyles, belief systems, languages, andways of being that are radically different from our own. Whether face-to-face or mediated,these continuing micro-shocks of encounters with epistemological difference can be terrifying,exhilarating, disorienting, or even erotically stimulating (if not several of those at once). Much
hinges on how we decide to process such encounters, a choice for which, I argue, we bear
responsibility. To the extent that we can actively choose to frame such “dislocations” as desirable“invitations”– to question the rightness of our own stances, the security of our own “truths,” andthe limitations of our own knowledge – we can welcome encounters with difference as necessary
for learning and growth. Too often, of course, they are processed much more narrowly as violent
threats to insular selfhood, to national and cultural primacy, and to religious absolutes. We asteachers, scholars and public intellectuals have a role to play in reframing a public debate on thefundamental value of “difference”. Beyond our common and often tepid proclamation of respectfor “diversity”, it is imperative that we promote and defend the inherently generative effect of the“unsettledness” that terrifies so many of our fellow citizens. Invitations to rethink our “selves”,
our beliefs, and our values should be celebrated as inherently educational opportunities, rather
than feared as apocalyptic threats to coherence or community.

Donald E. Hall | University of Rochester, United States
Donald E. Hall is Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, andEngineering at the University of Rochester, USA. Prior to
moving to Rochester, he was Dean of Arts and Sciences at
Lehigh University, USA. Dean Hall has published widely in thefields of British Studies, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies, andProfessional Studies. Over the course of his career, he served
as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the
Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department
of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University. Before that,
he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department ofEnglish at California State University, Northridge, where hetaught for 13 years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN,
was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was Lansdowne Distinguished
Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in
Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and was Fulbright Specialist at the
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University of Helsinki. He has also taught in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He served
on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including theTask Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, and the Convention Program
Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Association of Departments ofEnglish. From 2013-2017, he served on the Executive Council of the MLA.
His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility andacademic community-building, the dialogics of social change and activist intellectualism, andthe Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over oursocial, vocational, and sexual selves. Among his many books and editions are the influential
faculty development guides, The Academic Self and The Academic Community, both publishedby Ohio State University Press. Subjectivities and Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory andthe Future of Queer Studies were both published by Routledge Press. Most recently he andAnnamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, co-edited a volume titled The Routledge Queer
Studies Reader. Though he is a full-time administrator, he continues to lecture worldwide on thevalue of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies in students andinterdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.
Professor Donald E. Hall is a Vice-President of IAFOR. He is Chair of the Arts, Humanities, Media& Culture division of the International Academic Advisory Board.

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

Friday Live Stream Session I
Session Topic: Higher Education
Session Moderator: Baden Offord56594

10:00-10:25

Global Commons: Navigating Diversity in a University Classroom
Alexandre Avdulov, Saint Mary's University, Canada

As students from different cultural backgrounds cross paths while studying in other countries, intercultural learning becomes an additional
focus of pedagogy in higher education. It concerns domestic and international students, their parents, faculty, and staff of the universities
today. The increased interest from international as well as Canadian students in contemplative practices offers an opportunity to expand
existing courses, to connect curriculum with real life, to go beyond the curriculum and to offer all students a common shared experience.
Getting students physically and emotionally involved in the learning process gives them better spatial and temporal awareness aswell as awareness of each other. Sensory engagement offers students the therapeutic effects of cultural experience as well as better
understanding of the subject. It may also offer a possible gateway to a better university experience and stronger mental wellness. This
presenter will share a few ways in which contemplative forms of inquiry have inspired students from arts, business and science as well as
members of the local community. A number of issues will be addressed, in particular – the increased integration of international students
into the university environment, the expansion of the limits of the traditional classroom to inspire global learning and the benefits offeredto learners and teachers through the provision of tools to encourage wellness of mind.
57716

10:25-10:50

Black African Immigrant Student's Identities and Education: The Influence of African Indigenous Knowledge
within Canada's Multiculturalism
Hilda Fankah-Arthur, University of Alberta, CanadaCora Weber-Pillwax, University of Alberta, CanadaThis study explains the influence of African Indigenous Knowledge in the education and identities of Black African Immigrant students
within Canada’s Multiculturalism. Black African immigrant student’s identities are formed and shaped by their indigenous experiences,which influences their socio-cultural development in Canada. Canada recognizes and promotes diversity and inclusion through theFederal Multiculturalism Act (1988), which preserves and enhances the multicultural heritage of all Canadians. This exploratory researchis to understand how the exclusion of African indigenous knowledge in the education of Black African Students impacts them; whethera shift to acknowledge and validate African Indigenous Knowledge would create a better educational impact for Black African Immigrantstudents; and how multiculturalism enables the diverse population to understand their Human Rights and support the reclaiming of self
and identity. This qualitative research study uses an Indigenous Research Methodology to apply critical theories that are grounded inindigenous knowledge systems. The findings serve as educational resource for all immigrants in Canada who are on diverse pathways
to bring about change in their communities; provides recommendations on inclusive education that demonstrates Canada’s efforts
to advance multiculturalism; creates awareness and awaken the consciousness of immigrant students to an option for a successful
educational integration; adds to the empirical evidence that position African Indigenous Knowledge as a source of factual knowledge.
African Indigenous Knowledge is a significant part of the identity of Black African Immigrant students and the acknowledgment andvalidation of that knowledge system within a multicultural society creates a better educational experience.
58058

10:50-11:15

Understanding and Promoting Gender Diversity Among Senior Faculty at the University of Tokyo: A Student
Action Project
Maximilien Berthet, University of Tokyo, Japan
Saeko Kawataki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kozue Okamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Mizuki Ishida, University of Tokyo, Japan
Karthik Varada, University of Tokyo, Japan

Despite active efforts by the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) to promote women's academic career development, the ratio of females remains
low throughout the UTokyo community. In particular, the large drop in gender diversity from student level (20% female undergraduates)
to senior faculty (7.6% female full professors), suggests the existence of a "leaky pipeline" along the academic hierarchy. In March 2019,a team of 9 UTokyo students initiated a Student Initiative Project (SIP) to evaluate this hypothesis. SIPs are student-led programs which
provide students with funding to research and respond to cross-cutting social issues. This project aims to support ongoing efforts within
UTokyo to promote gender equality (GE) by focusing on two objectives: (i) to understand causes and solutions for low female faculty
rates, and (ii) to foster a change in campus culture via gender mainstreaming. The methodology included interviews of female and maleresearchers at UTokyo, followed by feedback to two Executive Vice-Presidents and the Office for Gender Equality. In parallel, a trilogy ofinteractive workshops involving panel discussions and documentary screenings were delivered to over 40 UTokyo students and faculty.
This paper provides an overview of major findings from the project. Key lessons learnt are that: (i) a leaky pipeline exists, caused byintersection between gender and wider systemic issues such as job precarity for young faculty; (ii) solutions can be achieved throughsynergies with top-level university priorities such as international research ranking targets; (iii) student-led initiatives offer an effectivemeans of supporting institutional change on gender equality.

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11:30-12:45 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session II
Session Topic: Literary Studies
Session Moderator: Baden Offord
58007

11:30-11:55

Narrative Interpretation in Folklore Studies: Japanese Emigrants to Geomun-do (Port Hamilton), Korea, andTheir Psychic WorldAki Tokumaru, University of Tsukuba, Japan

When researchers encounter storytelling by informants during fieldwork, this serves as important research materials in folklore studies.
Storytellers are by no means informants who simply provide indigenous information useful to researchers coming from outside. Rather,
they are themselves mobile subjects, accumulating lived experiences while moving temporally and spatially across communities andrelocating residences over time. This paper addresses the knotty questions that emerge in using storytelling and vernacular narrative as
materials in folklore studies: that is, how to interpret stories without reducing them into pieces of objective information that are valuable
only to researchers; and how to recover the internal psychic world and subjective thoughts from an oral or vernacular tradition. In thispaper, I choose as a case study Port Hamilton, or Geomun-do, a small group of islands in the Jeju Strait off the southern coast of the
Korean Peninsula, where Japanese fishers began to emigrate in the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period and formed Japanese settlements,
which remained in place until the end of World War II. I will examine the storytelling and narratives by women who were born and lived inGeomun-do until they were repatriated to Japan after the war. I consider the ways in which women’s stories afford an insight into their
psychic world that was formed as Japan underwent rapid changes in the prewar, wartime, and postwar periods.
57745

11:55-12:20

Annotation and Practice of Reading: The Tale of Genji and Kakaisho
Kanako Yoshimori, University of Tsukuba, JapanThe Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, is the most famous Japanese classic novel and the world’s oldest existing novel by a woman. My
paper sheds light on the heretofore understudied Kakaisho, an earliest annotation of The Tale of Genji, written by Yotsutsuji no Yoshinari,in the late 14th century. Kakaisho is characterized by its abundant commentaries on historical facts to interpret the story. In modern
scholarship, historical facts are assumed to serve as precedents that the author Murasaki Shikibu drew on in creating events in the novel.
Yet, interestingly enough, some, if not all, historical events that Kakaisho notes to add additional context to The Tale of Genji actually took
place after Murasaki Shikibu’s death. How are we to make sense of this? This paper seeks to complicate the relation between fiction andhistory. Yotsutsuji no Yoshinari, a medieval scholar, read The Tale of Genji in a way that is different from the way modern scholars read thenovel as a fiction. Through the act of annotating, the author of Kakaisho arguably mutated the fictional story into a history, in which eventsof the past in The Tale of Genji are linked with the present time of the author. The history of annotation of The Tale of Genji provides us
with a good starting point for thinking why this novel is still being read and is coming alive. In the end, the history of annotation researchin the past questions our own reading practice in the present.
58136

12:20-12:45

Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Minjeon Go, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad portrays the African wilderness as a mirror of self-introspection for the human race regarding
their material desire and exploitation of natural resources. The narrator of the novella, Charles Marlow, comes to realize as he ascends
the Congo river towards Kurtz the moral corruption of Western Imperialism and horrors of colonial rule. In addition, the wilderness,an echoing theme in Heart of Darkness, is presented by Conrad as a “mighty and unconquerable entity” and a resisting force which
endures for cessation of Western Imperialism’s invasion. Study of the two important themes calls for a new critical interpretation in a
postcolonial ecocritical approach. Heart of Darkness is a perfect for the study of postcolonial ecocriticism in that it can be studied in
the aspects of globalization, diversification, and sustainability, aspects which ecocriticism focuses on lately. In such context, this paper
intends on first, exploring the postcolonial ecocritical approach in Heart of Darkness, as well as examining the illusion of Imperialism
and the world of African nature which the westerner Marlow, in the times of Imperialism, experiences for the first time. The paper
next investigates the existential meaning of the savage nature resulting from Kurtz’s avarice and of the wilderness represented asa defiant being through the examination of scenes in the novel where the wilderness and western Imperialism conflict. Finally, thepaper observes how ivory is materialized and reenacted as a double metaphor of the illusion of Imperialist market development andcolonialist exploitation of natural resources.

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13:45-14:35 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session III
Session Topic: Japanese Studies
Session Moderator: Joseph Haldane
57744

13:45-14:10

Invention of “Self-Mummified Buddhas” in Japan and Its Historical SignificanceManabu Yamasawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Self-mummification is an aesthetic practice in which a monk goes into a hole underground and remains there without food, a fast designed
to end in death and allow the monk to become a Buddha. As of today, six self-mummified monks are known to exist in Dewa Sanzan or The
Three Mountains of Dewa in northern Japan, an area often associated with the Shingon sect of Buddhism. However, while many historians
have studied the Egyptian funerary practices of mummification, few researchers have studied self-mummification in Japan. This paper
focuses on a monk named Tetsumonkai. Tetsumonkai died in 1829, and his mummified body was dug out and declared a Buddha in theflesh. In discussing Tetsumonkai, I am not so much interested in the actual practice of self-mummification as in the invention of theprocess. Though virtually unknown today, Tetsumonkai in fact never went into a hole in the ground. He died in his sleep in the temple,
and subsequently his body was buried. In one account, his body was hung from the ceiling of the temple and dehydrated by the use of acharcoal fire and candles. In another account, salt water was poured into his body to prevent it from rotting. In no way am I suggestingthat the practice of self-mummification is a fiction or hoax; rather, this paper argues that even this artificial (inauthentic) processing of the
body is significantly informed by a cultural ideology or philosophy, which I would like to discuss through archival work.
57104

14:10-14:35

Modern Japanese Girls Flying Into the Sky: Gender Norms and Aviation Fashion in the 1920s
Yu Umehara, University of Tsukuba, JapanIn 1952, the year of the end of the US occupation of Japan, Japan Women’s Association of Aviation (JWAA) was founded. It presented
a milestone in Japanese aviation history. The sky was hitherto a predominantly male sphere. During World War II, men alone became
soldiers and flew into the sky. Most women (perhaps except for nurses and “comfort women”) stayed at the home front. They could
not fight on the war front because of the Military Service Law enacted in 1927, and there were no female military pilots. Even so, when
peace came, women decided to fly planes, and they established JWAA. Some members had flown planes before the war. Historians such
as Hiraki Kunio, Kano Mikiyo, and Matsumura Yuriko significantly recover the history of prewar Japanese female fliers. However, theirresearches remain mostly biographical. They tell a story of pioneer female fliers such as Hyodo Tadashi, who became the first aviatrix inJapan. Historians find the historical significance of female fliers because they deviated from traditional female gender norms. This paper
would be less interested in how they departed from gender norms than how they refashioned literally or ideologically such norms. In thispaper, I will examine the development of women’s aviation in the 1920s that significantly created a new nexus between the female bodyand speed. Specifically, I will analyze the photographs and images in newspapers. As I hope to show, the air-minded age helped refashion
female gender norms in patriarchal Japan.

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14:50-16:05 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Friday Live Stream Session IV
Session Topic: Chinese Studies
Session Moderator: Joseph Haldane
57962

14:50-15:15‘Judith Butler is Not Suitable for Us’: Queer Capital in China’s Transgender Activist Circle
Yuanzhi Wang, Zhejiang University, China

This paper looks at the transgender activism in China during the last decade, and attempts to elucidate its ambivalent relationships withthe transnational flow of a particular kind of knowledge, known as "queer theory". During interactions between activism and knowledge
taking place in a non-west yet globally-webbed context, a new generation of trans-queer activists has emerged in the activist circle, as
opposed to the older generation of transsexual activists. This study aims to make sense of the embodied cultural capital that enables the
production and expression of the trans-queer activist identities in China. By sketching the interactions and boundaries between the twogenerations of activists, this research argues that trans-queer activists have formed a bounded, normative imagination of what a queer
activist should be like based on their understanding of queer theory, including aspects of linguistic capital, aesthetic capital, and political
capital. This sanctioned repertoire of queerness thus performs as a mechanism of exclusion that marginalizes the transsexual bodies
and renders transsexual’s claims illegitimate since they are "not queer enough". In response, transsexual activists have been invoking a
post-colonial, nationalist logic to discredit the queer theory, chanting "Judith Butler is not suitable for us". This study speaks to the basic
concern of the relationship between knowledge and activism in queer cultural studies. By discussing how the use of “queer”, a subversive
signifier, can have potential backfires on queer activism when reified into an essentialized and class-based identity, we can resist the
cooptation of queerness and regain its critical edge.
56833

15:15-15:40

Chinese Music, Difference and Inter-community Relations in a 19th-century New Zealand Gold-mining Setting
Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand

The socio-cultural milieu of colonial New Zealand changed significantly in the 1860s as a result of the discovery of gold and the subsequent
immigration of Chinese miners at the invitation of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. At first, Chinese miners arrived from the Australian
goldfields, where they had earlier migrated, and later from southern China and especially from Guangdong. The impact of this inward
migration was immense and contributed much to New Zealand’s cultural diversity at the time, which comprised primarily settler British,
who came from various parts of the British Isles, and indigenous Māori. Consequently, a particularly negative outcome of Chinese
migration was the introduction of a discriminatory poll tax and immigration policy in 1881, with media reports often including discourse
prejudiced against New Zealand’s Chinese population. However, in this setting of cultural difference, Chinese music performance was a
distinct part of the sonic environment and was acknowledged in a number of newspaper articles, particularly in connection with intercommunity relations for celebratory occasions or educational events. This paper offers a history of New Zealand’s Chinese past witha focus on Chinese music performance in the nineteenth century as a distinct point of difference that helped bring disparate cultures
together. The methodological orientation of the paper is historical in approach, and it assembles a number of primary sources comprising
English-language newspapers articles written by non-Chinese as a way of critically interpreting how and why Chinese and European
communities interacted in a musical environment of difference.
57066

15:40-16:05

Resilience in Dynastic Transition: Writing on Contemporary Events in Seventeenth-century China
Chui-Joe Tham, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

With the exception of letters and word-of-mouth transmission, news-reporting mechanisms and historical writing usually operated under
government auspices before the seventeenth century in China. The proposed paper will argue that the decades of the Ming-Qing transition(1644-1672) saw a crucial shift toward private, unofficial accounts of contemporary events, produced and disseminated for reasons
unrelated to government aims. With the intention of exploring what ‘news’ and ‘history’ meant in China before the seventeenth century, thefirst section of the paper will briefly examine earlier forms of news and historical writing. The second section will investigate the dramaticincrease in unofficial current-events-writing in the seventeenth century. With reference to four texts, two of them produced rapidly after
the fall of Beijing in 1644, and two several years later, the paper will attempt to answer two questions. What did the people writing thesetexts want their readers to know? More importantly, what can their narratives tell us about the relationship between writing and resilienceduring times of socio-political upheaval? In the absence of official, reliable sources of news and information, and in circumstances
resulting from the mid-Ming developments in commercial printing, seventeenth-century literati in China wrote accounts of the Ming-Qing
transition as a means of ordering a disordered world. Their work represents a valuable opportunity for scholars to gain insight into the actof writing as an expression of human resilience, in the attempt to re-imagine and re-legitimise a world after the Ming.

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Communication, Technology and Transparency
in Times of COVID
Friday, May 29 | 16:10-17:10 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a number of issues into focus relating to governance, decisionmaking and transparency in and between nation states, not least as these involve communicationand technology. This panel will compare and contrast responses from several national contexts, andlook at questions of privacy and freedoms in the context of lockdowns, and the conflicting roles oftechnology to both free and constrain.

Gerard Goggin | Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Gerard Goggin is the Wee Kim Wee Chair in Communication
Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Goggin
is an internationally renowned scholar in communication,
cultural, and media studies, whose pioneering research on thecultural and social dynamics of digital technology has been
widely influential. He has made benchmark contributions to theunderstanding of mobile communication, international Internets
and their histories, with key books such as Cell Phone Culture(2006), Global Mobile Media (2011), Routledge Companion
to Mobile Media (2014), Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (2017) and Location
Technology in International Contexts (2020). Goggin is also a world-leading researcher in thearea of accessibility, digital technology, justice, and rights, especially relating to the cutting-edge
area of disability. In this area, he has published a number of collaborative authored and edited
books including Digital Disability (2003), Disability in Australia (2005), Disability and the Media(2015), Normality & Disability (2018), and the Routledge Companion to Disability and Media (2020).
Professor Goggin has had a longstanding engagement in communications, technology, and social
policy, and was a founding board member of the Australian Communications Consumer Action
Network (ACCAN). In 2018 he was the Chair of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of theinaugural Australian Research Council Engagement & Impact assessment. In recognition of his
contributions to the study of communication, Professor Goggin was made a Fellow of the AustralianAcademy of Humanities, and a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Currently
he serves as Secretary-General of the International Association for Media and Communication
Research (IAMCR).

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Mark Pegrum | The University of Western Australia, Australia
Mark Pegrum is an associate professor in the Graduate School of
Education at The University of Western Australia in Perth, where
he is the Deputy Head of School (International), with responsibility
for overseeing offshore programmes and international
connections. In his courses, he specialises in digital technologies
in education, with a particular focus on mobile learning. He is a
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and his teachinghas been recognised through Faculty and University Excellence inTeaching Awards, as well as a 2010 national Australian Learning& Teaching Council (ALTC) Excellence in Teaching Award.
His current research focuses on mobile technologies, digital literacies, augmented reality, and mobile
learning trails and games. His books include: Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and theInternet, co-edited with Joe Lockard, and published by Peter Lang in 2007; From Blogs to Bombs: The
Future of Digital Technologies in Education, published by UWA Publishing in 2009; Digital Literacies,
co-authored with Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly, and published by Pearson in 2013; and Mobile
Learning: Languages, Literacies and Cultures, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
Mark Pegrum is currently working on a new book entitled Mobile Lenses on Learning: Languages andLiteracies on the Move, due for publication by Springer in 2019. To date, some of his work has beentranslated into Chinese and Portuguese. Mark Pegrum is an Associate Editor of the International
Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, a member of the Editorial Boards ofInteractive Technology and Smart Education, Language Learning & Technology and Technology
in Language Teaching & Learning, and until recently he was a member of the Editorial Board of
System. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Laureate-Cambridge Online Language
Learning Research Network (OLLReN); a member of the Advisory Panels for the Digital Education
Show Asia and EduTECH Asia; a member of the Programme Committee for the International Mobile
Learning Festival; a member of the International Review Panel for mLearn; the Co-Convenor, with
Hayo Reinders, of the AILA research network Mobile Gaming in Language Learning & Teaching; andan external reviewer for the 2018-2019 UNICEF Digital Literacy & Skills scoping project.
Mark Pegrum currently teaches in Perth and Singapore and has given presentations and run seminars
on e-learning and m-learning in Australia and New Zealand, Asia and the Middle East, the UK andEurope, and North and South America.

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14:00-14:50 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session I
Session Topic: Japanese Studies
Session Moderator: Seiko Yasumoto
56729

14:00-14:25

Does the Japanese Language Reflect Self Immersed in the Whole?: A Linguistic Inquiry
Harumi Minagawa, The University of Auckland, New ZealandIde (2019) extends the notion of self in ba theory, which has been developed to illustrate how Japanese interact as part of a larger
whole, into the cognitive sphere, claiming that there is a cultural preference in Japanese to adopt what she calls an ‘interior’ (‘nonobjective’) perspective where ‘the unseen subject … exists… deeply immersed in the context’(4) and becomes part of the whole. She
draws on three linguistic examples as evidence to support her claim. From a linguist’s point of view, however, this paper argues that
Ide’s examples do not successfully support the ‘interior’ perspective of ba she theorizes on the following grounds: there is confusionof ellipsis of personal pronouns (a discourse based-decision) and subjective construal (conceptualization); argument structures were
not accurately understood in the sentences examined; and different narrative modes in literature in Japanese and English were broughtin for discussion and confused with ellipsis. Instead of losing self in the context of a larger whole, this study argues that it is evident in
the linguistic expressions in Japanese that Japanese speakers successfully express self by tactfully negotiating between the desire toposition self around the cognitively and physically motivated self-centered position and the cultural and social awareness to position self
in relation to the whole which includes the addressee and the social relationship with the other who may also be involved in the event.
58191

14:25-14:50

To Develop Interpreters and Translators Who Meet Global Standards in Japan
Akiko Sato, Osaka University of Tourism, Japan

The purpose of this research is to develop interpreters and translators who meet global standards in higher education, including ISO
certified qualifications. In particular, the following investigations are necessary. 1) Investigate the scope of ISO international standards
for interpreting and translation services, degree regulations, and competency requirements presented by each international standard.
2) Survey higher education institutions to see if they grant degrees that satisfy the above scope of ISO international standards. 3)
Conduct research on how the higher education institutions, which give each degree meeting the scope of ISO international standards,
provide their students with translation/interpreting education, which satisfies the competency requirements of ISO international
standards. The ISO9000 series and ISO14000 series, which are indicators for measuring global standards and creditworthiness ofcompanies and organizations in the world, use the PDCA as a basic concept. Companies that operate globally around the world strive
to obtain the above international standards certification for measuring their creditworthiness. The first edition of ISO9000 series,
the international standards for quality management systems, was published in 1987. The first edition of the ISO14000 series, theinternational standards for environmental management systems, was published in 1996. This research is an interdisciplinary study
that combines interpreting/ translation services and educational quality control following global standards. They have been different
disciplines. This research clarifies that higher education institutions have a high significance in training translators and interpreters
meeting with ISO international standards.

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Saturday Live Stream Session II
Session Topic: Cultural Studies
Session Moderator: Haruko Satoh58165

15:05-15:30

Pinking Female Sensuality, Sexuality and Subjectivity from “Girl Hell” to “The Handmaiden” – An Intercultural
Perspective
Hoi Shan Ng, Independent Scholar, Hong Kong

The proposed paper offers an intertextual analysis of Yumeno Kyusaku’s Girl Hell (1977, Japan) in juxtaposition with Park Chan-Wook’s
The Handmaiden (2016, Korea) with a possible feminist critic. Pink Films could be associated with Sexploitation; Pink Films could wellserve as a site for power struggle between the colonizer and the colonized, the aggressors and the victims, and an essential space forprovocative and imaginative filmic representation for the silenced, marginalized, underprivileged and neglected in society of its own time,
however tragic, pessimistic, gloomy and ground-breaking the ending could be. Although the chosen films were made by two respective
male directors of distinctive generations and nationalities, a comparative textual analysis of the two films reveals striking echoes in
the recurring themes such as female sensuality, sexuality and subjectivity; masculinity in femininity; revenge, violence and trickery; thequestion of humanities, etc. Almost 40 years after the release of the Japanese director Yumeno Kyusaku’s sympathetic and gloomy
Girl Hell (1977), the Korean director Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden (2016) not only enriches the thematic vocabulary, plotting andtechnicality of the erotic thriller films, but also illuminates a possibility and an aspiration for an alternative and transcendent narrative of
its own time. Out of all, the paper envisions an exploration of what it means to be humanity, drawing references from Greek mythology topostmodern critical and psychoanalytical theories.
57621

15:30-15:55

Revisiting Rape-Revenge in McDonald’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Fang Lu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China

The surge of female-led rape-revenge films since 1970s on meeting second-wave feminism has been a significant phenomenonin American cinema, which provides a forum for feminist issues to play out. Released at the height of the #MeToo movement, Martin
McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Misourri, centering on an indefatigable woman who stands up to the male establishment, isregarded as “2017’s timeliest movie” (The Daily Beast).Distinguished from conventionally female revenge fantasy films, by situating theviolence motif in the rape-revenge story, McDonagh manages to combine a more serious revision of the rape-revenge myth, a worthwhile
examination of the consequence of violent vigilantism. the film continuously challenges the myth of righteous vengeance in mainstream
rape-revenge films and subverts genre expectation, even the ending is against the genre's laws of justice (where retribution restoresorder following rape). It embodies an emerging wave of revisionist rape-revenge genre against the particular cultural/political milieu of
Me Too movement. This article will analyze the narrative strategies to construct an unconventional female avenger and subversion ofrape-revenge genre. It will also explore how McDonagh offers a revisionist viewpoint on violence of the rape-revenge genre through his
unorthodox narrative contrivances. Finally, it will argue that embedded in its radical alternative narrative, the film responds to the currently
cultural maelstrom of the Trump era, reflecting the cultural and political tension in American society.
55700

15:55-16:20

Too Exotic to Enchant? How the Femme Fatale was sent on Retreat
Michelle Genck, University of Augsburg, Germany

In their latest adaptations of Japanese movies, producers such as Spike Lee, Adam Wingard, and Rupert Sanders all display the femme
fatale in relation to the discourse of patriarchy and female empowerment. She is portrayed as a complex figure who is entangled in power,
desire, femininity, self-determination, and deception. Ultimately, the femme fatale causes the downfall of the hero. Once dominating
countless Japanese productions, this complex figure disappeared in Japanese films from the 1930s until the 1990s and did not yet makea notable return in contemporary cinema. I argue that the decline of the femme-fatale scenario ultimately began in Japanese popular
culture and that she was transformed into a western figure in a foreign land where she was sent on retread. In my presentation, I examine
the archetype of the modern girl and the Meiji school girl as presented in manga and anime originals and demonstrate how western
producers transform them into femmes fatales with potent sexuality and destructive power. The materials to be discussed include Death
Note, Ghost in the Shell and Oldboy.

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16:35-17:25 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session III
Session Topic: Indian and South Asian Studies
Session Moderator: Haruko Satoh56918

16:35-17:00

Rare Encounters: Polish and Indian Soldiers During World War II in Documentary Accounts
Paulina Stanik, University of Warsaw, Poland

The growing number of Indians in Poland, which almost doubled in 2017-2020 did not go unnoticed by the broader society, but therelationship between individuals is not free from tension often fuelled by stereotypes and prejudices. The inability of communities to deal
with the influx of migrants becomes a subject of media attention and heated discussions. Although, at first glance, Poland and India do
not have much in common the two nations were bound together during the Second World War in an unlikely way. Soldiers’ encounters,
which took place mostly while preparing for the Italian Campaign (1943-1945), undergoing training in the Middle Eastern/North African
deserts or playing a friendly soccer match, constitute a valuable insight into the cross-cultural relations in the intercultural British army
and the Poles’ perception of the ‘exotic Other’. This paper aims to contribute to the field of cultural and literary studies by adding thePolish perspective to the existing postcolonial research on the war experience of colonial troops. By analyzing Polish documentary WorldWar II narratives, the study has a potential to add a new value to the existing Polish-Indian relations by shedding light on a period of
unprecedented cooperation that has never been studied before. The largely positive representation of the Indians in the war accounts
could become a point of reference in the shaping of cross-cultural relations in the 2020s.
58163

17:00-17:25

Constructing and Practicing Rights: A Perspective of Female Factory Workers in Bangladesh
Jui Han Kan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mei Hsia Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

In this paper, I analyze the citizenship of female workers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. I discuss how rights are built in response to dynamic
powers and authorities in the context of local governance. For female workers, claiming rights often imply stepping out of a familiarsocial-cultural framework with the goal of pursuing the attention of state. However, in the uneven process of rights obtainment, those
involved could not dispense with obvious traces of clientelism; besides, dwelling in city and participating in urban geopolitics, female
workers in particular experience constant confrontations related to gender order and state policies. Taking the export processing zones
as example, I described how state policies and the influence of transnational capitalism have reshaped gender order. In addition, various
worker organizations, including both local and transnational NGOs and trade unions expanding with the garment industry, have deeply
involved when workers claiming over rights. They provide assistance to worker’s specific needs, such as mental and physical cares andmotherhood responsibilities; these, in turn, consolidate connections between female workers and increase their willingness to participate
in labor negotiations. In this process, various labor-related experiences and the workers’ daily lives are mediated by the organizations. By
examining how dominant forces interplay and destabilize the citizenship of female workers, I point out that female workers in Bangladesh
exercise their rights through various approaches and develop more empirical and relational concepts of rights. The ways female workers
organize and claim their rights reflect the transformation of social-cultural context and nation-building of Bangladesh.

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17:40-18:30 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session IV
Session Topic: Urban Studies
Session Moderator: Sue Ballyn
56868

17:40-18:05

From Policy Change to Livelihoods Strategies: Implications of the New Rural Development Model in Vietnam
Yin Li, University of Sydney, Australia

Since the Doi Moi (Reform) era in 1986, rural development policies in Vietnam have followed a market-based development approach that
only focused on the improving cumulative growth. The top-down bureaucratic structure in policy planning and implementation failed
to engage the community and understand the realities of local contexts. As a result, farmers often find it more difficult to support theirlivelihoods on agriculture. Many rural areas continue to experience rising socio-economic inequalities, low human capital development,
and lack of social infrastructures. At the same time, studies have shown that rural people also have different response strategies toprotect and maintain their livelihoods. Combining field work and a wide range of primary and secondary sources, I contend that while ruraldevelopment policies are implemented in a top-down process, they could also be influenced by livelihood strategies from the bottom up. I
illustrate this through the implementation of the new National Target Program on New Rural Development (NTP-NRD) in a rural commune
located in southeastern Vietnam. Although rural development policies fail to deliver their promises, people in the commune manage tomaintain their agricultural-based livelihoods by specialising in crops that are land and labour efficient. Their initiatives are then picked upby the local government as a pillar of success for the NTP-NRD, which paved the way for new development outcomes such as technology
transfer and infrastructure improvement.
57057

18:05-18:30

Evaluating Socio-cultural and Spatial Impacts on Brownfields Recycling in Europe. What is the Effect on theCity and Territory?
Federica Scaffidi, University of Hannover, Germany

Throughout the last decades, more and more attention has been given by scholars and practitioners to neglected and abandoned sites
and their regeneration. In Europe, at the regional and municipal level, many innovative redevelopment policies and projects have beenpromoted to recycle these spaces and create an impact at the local scale (Bollenti Spiriti Programme of Regione Puglia, Boom-Polmoni
Urbani, Culturability etc.). Starting from the analysis of the state of the art and the comparison of 11 European experiences of brownfields
recycling (Germany, Italy and Spain), the study investigates these creative centres and how their actions and activities affect the places
producing socio-cultural, economic and spatial impacts. In this regard, the research considers as a relevant example the recycling of thesaltworks of Salinas de Añana, in Spain. The study has the purpose to explore and illustrate the impacts on the place of its reactivationand to understand the role of the local community, the local administration and the social enterprise as drivers of social innovation, newcultural activities and urban development. The research adopts qualitative, quantitative and comparative methods, with dialogic surveys,
and semi-structured interviews, demographic and territorial analysis. Considering the analysis carried out, the research aims to observe
how the recycling process can affect the city and its surroundings. In conclusion, the research may constitute a specific contribution
to the existing body of knowledge and provide the basis for future researches, collaborations and practical guidelines for the sociallyinnovative recycling of disused resources in urban–rural contexts.

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18:45-20:25 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Saturday Live Stream Session V
Session Topic: South-East Asian Studies
Session Moderator: Sue Ballyn
56539

18:45-19:10

Confucian Values and Public Service Motivation: The Mediating Role of Paradoxical Leadership
Tam Nguyen, Monash University, Australia
Herman Tse, Monash University, Australia
Ly Fie Sugianto, Monash University, Australia
Sen Sendjaya, Swinburne University, Australia

Although research of leadership and public service motivation (PSM) has been conducted in diverse cultural contexts, it remains understudied
in Confucian Asia. The current study aims to examine how Confucian values influence PSM in Vietnam and also attempts to investigate themediating role of paradoxical leadership in this relationship. Drawing mainly on the institutional theory of PSM (Perry, 2000; Vandenabeele2007), this study proposes to examine whether Confucian values are positively related to paradoxical leadership and such leadership is
also positively related to PSM. This prediction was tested using a sample of 206 public managers-civil servant dyads drawn from different
government departments in Vietnam. Public managers were asked to provide their responses to the established scales of Confucian values
and paradoxical leadership. Civil servants were asked to respond to the scales of paradoxical leadership and PSM for data analysis. The
analytical data procedures were outlined by PROCESS Macro of SPSS developed by Hayes (2013). Results provide support for the mediation
model that Confucian values were found to be positively related to paradoxical leadership, which in turn also exerted a positive impact on
PSM. The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of the relationships between Confucian values, paradoxical leadership, and
PSM in the public sector of Vietnam. The findings also extend to the public management systems in other countries that share some similar
Confucian values like Vietnamese do in Asia. In terms of the practical implications, the public managers should communicate the positive
characteristics of Confucian values and practice the use of paradoxical leadership behaviors to increase PSM among civil servants.
57029

19:10-19:35

Constructing and Performing Narrative: How the Thai Military Justified the 2006 and 2014 Coup D’états
Bavo Stevens, Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the civil-military relations of Thailand, arguably the most coup-prone country in the world. But
while there has been considerable interest in exploring the political power and political economy of the country’s military, relatively less attention
has been dedicated to understanding its legitimization strategies. This paper argues that the Thai military has made extensive use of narratives
that cast it as a central protagonist in existential struggles for the state in order to legitimise it intervention into politics. After close to ten years of
democracy, coup leaders in 2006 pushed a narrative that framed it as a guardian of democracy, while the leaders of the 2014 coup, emphasizeda return to "order" after nearly a decade of on-and-off street protests. Though the 2006 and 2014 narratives remain distinct, they draw from thesame set of nationalistic and moralistic tropes. In both narratives, the military emphasized its duty as the protector of the country’s three corepillars – nation, religion, and monarchy – as well as its duty as the primary defender of national unity in the form of kwampenthai, or Thainess.
In doing so, it cast junta leaders as khon di, good and virtuous persons, and the deposed as corrupt, immoral, and often un-Thai. Through thesenarratives, the military framed its interventions as necessary evils for protecting and preserving the state, and as a consequence, as legitimate.
56883

19:35-20:00

The Life Support Activities for Chinese New Immigrants in Singapore
Yuki Yokohama, Kanto Gakuin University, Japan

In this study, the circumstances of new Chinese settlers in Singapore and support activity for them are clarified with various articles. As a result,it became clear that new immigrants increased rapidly from the 1990s by promotion of the immigration acceptance policy of the Singapore
government. The new settlers are from various areas, such as the northeast part of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the coastal southern part ofChina, such as Fujian and Guangdong, which were the hometowns of many settlers in Singapore in the past. Many of new settlers have a higheducation and high expertise, and are granted permanent residency status in Singapore, and few of them are destitute. Moreover, new settlers,
mainly people from the same town and the Chinese collegial schoolmates, organize mutual aid societies newly, and are doing their work for supportand improvement of new settlers' life. With the increase in new settlers, friction develops between new settlers and Singapore residents because of
the difference in culture, custom, religion, and living habit, Aiming at reconciliation of both sides, Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Associations
plays a central role in doing the work for development of the Singapore society with ethnic collaboration, such as holding Chinese culture eventsand livelihood support seminars for new settlers. Hereafter, it is necessary to investigate how new settlers' identity will change through lives at
actual places, relations with mutual aid organizations and how the network of mutual aid organizations of people of the Chinese sphere will be built.
56344

20:00-20:25

The Transformation of Indonesia’s Defence Diplomacy: Examination of the Post New Order Dynamics
Frega Wenas Inkiriwang, The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

In the Post New Order period, there was a significant development in Indonesia. The military, which was used as a political tool by theauthoritarian regime, underwent a fundamental reform. The process was supported by the military leaders, which resulted in the issuanceof the new Law on the Indonesian National Defence Forces in 2004. This legal basis has since guided how the Indonesian military operates
in dealing with external and internal security threats and curbs the socio-political role of the Indonesian military, which is associatedwith the New Order period. However, it has not explicitly touched upon the implementation of defence diplomacy, which has significantly
increased within the last decade. Hence, this paper aims to analyse the transformation of Indonesia’s Defence Diplomacy in the Post New
Order period. The paper attempts to answer two key questions: “Why has Indonesia increasingly relied on defence diplomacy as part of its
overall diplomacy?” and “What factors account for different practices undertaken in Indonesia’s defence diplomacy?” The paper qualitatively
scrutinises the transformation of Indonesia’s defence diplomacy by comparing three case studies of defence diplomacy activities, namely
strategic consultations, joint exercises, and inter-military assignments, under different administrations in the Post New Order era. In
supporting the analysis, the paper relies on the combination of interviews and observations performed during fieldwork from July 2018 to
July 2019. The paper is critical since it offers an alternative approach to studying Indonesia’s defence diplomacy under democratic control.

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Architecture and Urban Studies/Design
58159

A Study on Agricultural Production and the Vicissitude of Settlements in Japanese Colonial Period – A Case ofKaohsiung Settlement in Taiwan
Yi Ling Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

In the past, traditionally agricultural farming methods usually followed family members in Taiwan. To get cheaper crop materials, the Japanese
government changed the way of agricultural production by capitalism in Japanese Colonial Period. The role of farmers changed gradually in themarket mechanism, return to the complete producer in the market from producer, processor and salespeople. After the invention of changing
structure of production and capitalist, the workforce lost balance. The Japanese government wanted to make up for Taiwan ’s workforce throughimmigration policies, get the shock from immigrants and worker, then changed Kaohsiung Harborside Settlement by immigration indirectly. This
research studied by a geographic viewpoint, case analysis by historical data review, historical map, and statistical data in Dazhu Vil of Kaohsiung
Harborside Settlement. Presenting changes in life support space and settlement area through Penghu immigrants in Kaohsiung. Data showed thatthe settlement location of Penghu immigrants was closely related to the development of Kaohsiung City. They usually chose on the edge of the cityand living areas, changed life support way method accompanied by Southward Policy, and the composition of the migrant settlements was formedby the regional relationship of Penghu. The appearance of Kaohsiung Harborside Settlement mainly composed of regional immigrant settlements.
57089

When the “I” Becomes “We”: The Interplay of Individual and Collective Memories of Heritage in Greek Traditional
Settlements
Ioanna Katapidi, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

Heritage has been valued for its capacity to trigger memories about things created and practiced in the past (Paillard,2012; Rypkema, 2005; 2007).
Heritage as memory is selective in terms of what to be remembered and it can be individual or collective (Lewika, 2008). Due to selectivity, the roleof memories in the identification and evaluation of heritage has been often overlooked in conservation policies and practices, which have tended tofavour historicity as a more ‘robust’ and objective value within an authorized narrative (Smith, 2006: 58). Despite the “increase in memory studies
there has only been a passing concern with memory issues in the traditional heritage literature” (Smith, 2006:58). This research explores the roleof memories in perceptions of heritage, focusing on traditional settlements in central Greece. Stemming from a wider research on the way inwhich people form perceptions of heritage in living heritage places, this part will particularly focus on individual and collective memories and theirinteractions. Expanding the idea that heritage exists as a collective and individual construct (Lowenthal 1979, p.550) the study shows how heritage
may be a collective construct influenced by individual perspectives, reflecting on people’s memories. The study overall highlights the dynamics
between individual and collective memories in the appreciation of heritage, raising questions on how these can inform conservation approaches.

Cultural Studies
55002

The Issue of Stigmatized Identity and Livelihood: Insights From a De-notified Tribe of Rajasthan, India
Hemraj P Jangir, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, India

The people of Nat community, historically known as entertainers for the Rajput patronages, are found in different parts of northern India. Although
they are not significant in number, they tend to carry distinct group identities in contemporary society. From a historical perspective, Rajput losttheir kingship in various states; in consequence, Nat people lost their traditional occupation. In such a given crisis for livelihood, Nat women of thecommunity forced to get engaged in sex work. They have been practicing the profession over the years in rural hamlets as well as in urban red lightareas. What initiatives have been taken to empower the community in mainstream society? With the stigma attached to the women in particularwhat changes have been there in their livelihood patterns? This paper draws on evidence from an empirical study on Nat Community in Ajmer
district of Rajasthan to reflect on inimitable socio-cultural practices, and challenges faced by Nat women in their daily lives. The paper also bringsin the issues of social discrimination and exclusion that the Nat community in general and the Nat women in particular face in day-to-day social
interactions. The study is purely qualitative in nature and employed case study as approach to do in-depth study of Nat hamlet in Ajmer district ofRajasthan. Unstructured interviews had conducted with 25 Nat women. As revealed, the Nat women are not allowed in any religious place in thevillage, and also face discrimination in accessing the public and civic services. Sexual harassments like eve-teasing and molestation against Nat
women and girls are common phenomena. The elderly women who are not active in flesh trade are forced to perform begging in nearby communities
in the festive seasons. The paper argues that discrimination and exclusion particularly against Nat women at structural and societal levels, and lackof legal safeguards and government initiatives for their inclusion into mainstreaming society, make women from multiple marginalized groups likeNat community lack basic opportunities for a sustainable livelihood, and remain vulnerable to all form of human rights violations.
55108

The Sultan/datu Images in Maguindanaon Folktales as a Means of Cultural Identity
Almira Menson, Mindanao State University, Philippines

Basically, this study endeavored to ascertain the ideal attributes that could make an exemplary Maguindanaon ruler. It also aimed toprobe through analytical criticism the folktales for the purpose of discovering what these reveal of Maguindanaon political organizationand cultural identity. The findings of this study were obtained through the use of Joseph Campbell’s Heroic Archetypes as well as thesocio-cultural approach in literary criticism. The folktales included were selected based on their apparent portrayal of the Sultan/Datu
images which happened to be the main focus of the study. The vital analysis was done on the selected folktales clearly showed that themost often ruler hero portrayed were the noble ones who play superior or extreme concept of a datu role by using their power in order tooppress people of lower rank in their kingdom. Nevertheless, there were also ruler character portrayed with generosity, openhandedness,
humility and piety that are basically intended to serve as identities of ideality worth emulating.

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Cultural Studies (cont'd)
56926

Cultural Memory in the Informational Age

Natasha Lushetich, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Cultural memory is often defined as that part of culture that cannot be transmitted by genes (Assman 2008). In oral cultures, important informationis stored in finite human beings and doesn't exceed the capacity of the information carrier. In the digital era, information is stored on externalmnemonic carriers with unlimited storing capacity, which raises the question of excess and proportion. Both differ vastly from the traditional
ordering of the culturally ‘relevant’ versus the ‘less relevant’, based on the periodically revised/re-articulated canons/margins. In the second
decade of the 21st century, two problems stand in the way of re-articulation: acceleration and retroversion. Due to the exponential growth of
the informational mass and its instability, today, we are faced with drastic reversals that render formerly beneficial actions useless(Rothenberg
2010).Both past and present are indeterminate (Gustafsson 2010) while the future is increasingly seen as over-determined(Han 2017). This paperinterrogates the mutually configuring relationship of the universal and the particular, structural and idiosyncratic, standardised and accidental
using Fujihata’s cultural-mnemonic project BeHere (2018-) which ‘resurrects’ the collective past of a Hong Kong district with the aid of ‘found’personal images, randomly sampled from the internet and re-articulated through the use of augmented reality and photogrammetry. In querying
the global informational-cultural enmeshment of public and private, purposefully preserved and accidental, and aligning Fujihata’s work with
Nishida’s interexpression (1987) and Hansen's an-archive (2011), I examine the project’s mnemonic patterns in relation to a) semantics; b)
individual assimilation of symbols via embodied interaction; and c) collectivisation via remediation.
56966

Protests in Hong Kong: From Confucianism to Levinas’ Substitution
Ka Wan Cheung, Humboldt Univsersität zu Berlin, Germany

2019 was a tumultuous year for Hong Kong. The protests began in June with the concern of the extradition bill, but throughout the time,
demands have emerged: withdraw the bill, for officers to step down, an inquiry into police brutality, amnesty for arrested protesters, andfree elections. The call for Hong Kong independence has also increased and activist Edward Leung, who was for Hong Kong independence
and jailed for 6 years on account of social unrest in 2016, became the role model of protestors. Although Hong Kong was colonized byGreat Britain for 155 years till 1997, Confucianism has been deeply rooted in Hong Kong and this is reflected in the thinking of Baby
Boomers Generation and Generation X. Generation Y and Generation Z are acting however differently because of the use of technology
and the rise of Christianity in Hong Kong. The differences between these generations can be easily seen in the protests since June. This
presentation will first discuss the meanings and necessity of revolution from the perspective of Confucianism, then analyse the decisionof Edward Leung about the application of asylum with Levinas’ ethic theory and the concept of “substitution”. After that, the focus will
shift to how this influenced young protestors, especially those who are still studying in secondary school or at university but more willingto risk their future to fight for justices and democracy of Hong Kong.
57102

Disintegration and Reshaping: Northeast Renaissance and the Working Class Narrative
Hao Zhu, Shaanxi Normal University, China

Northeast Renaissance refers to a cultural movement that reflects the spiritual outlook of youth in Northeast China in 2019. The common
inspiration for this generation is the Northeast, which experienced the laid-off reform and guarded the last glory of the old industrial base,and was deeply affected by the popular culture of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1990s.This article explores the ways of the disintegration andremodeling of the Chinese working class by combing different media arts since the 1990s. The Northeast narrative of the 1990s is connectedwith the national industrialization trend. The films Tie xi District and The Piano in a Factory show the loss of eldest son of the Republic, thedisintegration of the factory under market impact, and the call for the return of socialist collective labor. The Northeast narrative after 2000
reflects the fade of industrial background. The novels Moses on the Plains and Winter Swim show that the old industrial area was includedin the consumer society, and the contemporary worker groups lost their revolutionary objects and forces in the post-revolutionary context. In
2019, the Northeast Renaissance triggered by rapper Baoshi Dong is closely related to Revitalizing the Northeast Old Industrial Base plan andthe fast-growing Internet ecology. In the context of global capital logic and the disappearance of class discourse, these new worker groups
who enter the world factory try to express low-level experience and reshape the working class culture.
57582

Afrofuturism 2.0 – A New Cultural Enabler for the Digital Age
Holger Briel, Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China

Afrofuturism as a concept is about 25 years old, with Mark Dery’s interview essay Black to the Future (1993) giving the movement its nameand paving the way for further interventions. Afrofuturistic works typically include novels, paintings, photography, music such as Sun Ra'sand the Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther. Over the last decade or so, a new kind of Afrofuturism has risen, coined Afrofuturism 2.0.
While some of it harkens back to the earlier Afrofuturism, much of it is spearheading into an uncharted digital future. An early indicator
for this change was the special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 3(3), in September 2016 which provided
studies of the work of important recent African Scifi writers such as Okorafor, Beukes, Laing, Bodomo, and Olukotun. In my presentation,
I will chart the culture of this movement along with the now finished seminal Sci-Fi trilogy Wormwood (2018-19) by Nigerian writer
Tade Thompson. The presentation will look at the digital culture surrounding it and put it into perspective vis-à-vis other recent culturalrepresentations of Afrofuturism, including the hugely successful Black Panther film based on the comic series (2018). It will emerge thatthrough digital cultural tools, Afrofuturism has successfully reinvented itself, thereby going beyond its erstwhile narrow fan base andsuccessfully empowering and enabling communities in Africa, particularly so in Nigeria. It has also led to further acceptance of African
Sci-Fi literature in the West, embracing difference.

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Education / Pedagogy
54998

Clients’ Cultural Symbols, Shields/filters and Spirit to Overcome Cultural Oppression
Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, Kean University, United States
Gina M. Miro, Kean University, United States

This presentation will focus on how to engage clients' cultural symbols, use cultural shields/filters and clients' spiritual concerns when being
exposed to cultural oppression. Also, the presentation will discuss how to go beyond a superficial level of awareness when working withclients of diverse backgrounds, define basic terms related to cultural competence, discuss microaggressions, identify strategies that open
or close conversations about diversity, illustrate cultural filters & shields as tools to connect with clients who live with cultural oppression
and how to focus clients on their true desires/aspirations and gratitude for an empowered living. The significance of cultural humility on thepart of the counselor will enrich the discussion on active listening (Shaw, 2016). Presentation will illustrate ways of mitigating these forces
when working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Working with clients’ cultural strengths will be showcased as an empoweringcounseling strategy (Rodriguez & Quijada, 2018; Timmins, 2002).References: 1) Rodriguez, M.del C., & Quijada, C. Latinos in counseling:
cultural and spiritual beliefs/barriers-the road less traveled. ACA 2018 National Conference. Atlanta, GA: April 29. 2) Timmins, C. L. (2002).
The impact of language barriers on the health care of Latinos in the United States: A review of the literature and guidelines for practice.
Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, 47, 80-96. 3) Shaw, S. (2016). Practicing cultural humility. Counseling Today, Dec 27.
58131

Identifying Quality Critical Thinking Apps for K-12 Students
Teresa Chen, California State University-Long Beach, United States
Ronnie Yeh, California State University, Long Beach, United States

This proposed presentation discusses the essential criteria for the evaluation of iOS-based K-12 critical thinking mobile applications (apps)
and reports on the findings of an evaluation study. (The study examines iOS-based apps on the App Store because it offers most educational
apps.) The study attempts to answer the following two questions: (a) what are the criteria that are conducive to the selection of critical thinking
apps for K-12 students?, and (b) what are the apps available that meet the criteria? Scholars have widely recognized that critical thinking is key
to students’ personal and professional success. Educators have accordingly developed curricula, instructional strategies, and assessments toenhance students’ critical thinking. Recently, the educational community has integrated technological innovations, such as apps, into instructionthat fosters critical thinking. However, the lack of evidence-based guidelines in the selection of the apps can undermine instructional effectiveness.
This study fills this void by adapting an evidence-based evaluation instrument and subsequently uses the instrument to identify quality criticalthinking apps for K-12 students. The instrument contains three major evaluation categories (i.e., content, pedagogy, and design) that researchersconsider essential in critical thinking instruction and app design. Each category includes a list of evidence-based items. With the assistance of the
instrument, the study uncovers a limited number of apps that meet the criteria. This presentation shares the findings of the evaluation, highlights
three critical thinking apps that are considered having educational values, and discusses implications for future practice and research.

Environmental Studies
56954

Exploring the Attitude-behavior Gap in Ethical Consumption: Case Study of Zero Waste Design for Sustainable
Fashion Development
Viofelita Gunawan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

It is been a mainstream issue that fashion industry, specifically fast fashion industry, has been nominated as the 2nd bigger polluting agent after
oil industry.The newest sustainable technology study enable fashion industry to recycle the clothing material into the new yarns and fibers but
still need a long way to go until they are fully developed and put into mainstream practice. On the consumer side, actually consumer alreadyhas a good level of awareness but it is not translated into environmental responsible fashion product consumption. This inconsistent behavior
called "attitude-behavior gap". To close this attitude-behavior gap, a case study will be conducted. The aim is to see how workshop could
effects the way people think about ethical consumption. This qualitative research method starts by exploring participant understanding aboutsustainable fashion understanding ethical consumption and attitude behavior gap from literature review. Then, choosing zero waste patternmaking technique as the case study. Zero waste pattern making itself is a design method that eliminates textile waste at the design phase. The
end process of this research will be an evaluation of consumer changing behavior from the workshop which supported by the literature review.

Gender studies / Feminist Theory
54737

The ‘Culture Hero’ in Literary Anthropology: A Gynocentric Perspective on the Narrative Cosmology Constructed
in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Earthsea Cycle
Anupa Lewis, Manipal Institute of Communication, India

Given the compass of literary anthropology, the formulaic predilection for a male ‘culture hero’, charging at or circumventing obstacles while being
engaged in a quest of epic proportions, has long dominated the narrative-scape in fantasy novels traditionally penned by male authors such as J.
R. R. Tolkien, George MacDonald, and C. S. Lewis amongst others. However, this ontological propensity for a preposterously masculinist narrative
where the solitary male hero seemingly penetrates and ultimately achieves dominion over the anthropocene trope of the wilderness – i.e. a longdrawn action consummated in the orgasmic ‘climax’ effected in the narrative – has received much criticism by post-modern feminist scholars,
notably for the regressive phallocentric approach that these texts propound. While till recently, fighting or slaying dragons either real or metaphoric,
mapped in desolate lands and pegged in a far past or a far future, has often taken center stage in fantasy narratives, a novel approach to the very
subject has been sparked by eminent writers and critics, such as the likes of Ursula Le Guin who for one deemed it necessary to redesign narrative
structures to suit a new-fangled ethic of creative expression. As such, the current research paper seeks to explore Le Guin’s conceptualization of aculture hero encapsulated in the narrative cosmology of The Earthsea Cycle, viewed predominantly from a gynocentric perspective.

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Chinese Studies
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Being at Home in Transnational Spaces: Conceptualizing the Lifeworld of Chinese Migrants Abroad
Carsten Schäfer, University of Cologne, Germany

In the scientific discourse in China, overseas Chinese are usually represented as constitutive elements of the Chinese nation-state. In contrast,
Western migration studies tend to analyze Chinese migrant’s identities only in the context of their relation to the host country. In a way, both
approaches fall into the trap of methodological nationalism and thus fail to account for the complex environment in which Chinese migrant’s
lifeworlds are shaped. Against this backdrop, this paper aims at capturing the multiple actors, and their inter-relational power dynamics andcontestations that are critical in defining Chinese diaspora identities. Based on a content analysis of Chinese language print and online media
in Austria, as well as on an online survey, the paper argues that Chinese migrants’ identities (in contrast to the above-mentioned state-centeredapproaches) are exposed to influential factors that emanate from four different social spaces, namely the host country, China, immigrantcommunities within the country of residence („ethnic-enclaves“) and transnational social spaces. It is the constant interplay between actors inthose different spaces that coin overseas Chinese identities. By presenting this analytical framework in which a single nation-state is no longer
treated as the sole unit of analysis, the paper will hopefully contribute to the development of a more comprehensive theory on diaspora lifeworld’sthat is able to recognize its internal diversities and differences shaped by multiple actors embedded in transnational arenas. Consequently, themodel will help us to grasp the multiple and hybrid manifestations of “Chineseness” (and migration) in the globalized world.
57112

Influence of Jingxing Ancient Route to the Changes of Villages Along It in China
Linan Ding, Tsinghua University, China

The Jingxing Ancient Route has been a natural passage linking Hebei and Shanxi Province for over 2000 years in China, and was also the mostimportant route for the contact of Zhao and Qin state in history. In 2006, it was listed in the important heritage sites under state protection of China.
The route stretches from Tumen Pass to the Guguan Great Wall, and now most of the main part is in the central section of Jingxing County, Heibei
Province, which has been a multicultural place for over 2000 years. Apart from being a traffic trunk, this road has three main functions in history. It
was mainly used as an important military road before Tang Dynasty. Then it was a policy immigration route for people leaving from Shanxi to Hebei
in the early Ming Dynasty. With the rising of Shanxi merchants it became a commercial road in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Along this ancient route,there are a lot of historical villages remained, whose changes were deeply affected by it. Through historical research, field research and interviews,
this paper will comb the history of Jingxing Ancient Road, analyses the settlement generations and spatial changes of the villages along this road,and then try to find how a post route with multiple functions can influence the evolution of villages under dual cultures.
58035

A Research on the Evolution Mechanism of Chinese Rural Traditional Buildings Under the Background ofModern Urbanization
Lei Tie, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

Chinese traditional villages belong to a typical "rural society"，However, with the rapid urbanization of China, modern transportation has rapidly
extended from the modern metropolis to the countryside. Meanwhile, not only modern building materials, but also urban building types,
lifestyles and aesthetics have quickly flowed into the countryside, which have a great impact on traditional buildings of Chinese villages.
Against this background, contemporary rural buildings have begun to evolve, and undergo complex and interesting changes. So, what are thetypes and development rules of this seemingly complicated evolution? And what are the underlying mechanisms such as the value systemand thinking mode behind these laws? These are the questions to be explored from the professional perspective of architecture. This article
argues that under the impact of urbanization and modern technology, Chinese rural buildings have not completely abandoned its tradition
or fully accepted urban architecture types, but a hybrid of the two. Based on the traditional building type, and through introducing modernmaterials and structures in part, the hybrid performs and shows a gradual change. The evolution of contemporary Chinese rural buildings
generally shows a process of continuous trial and error. These rural buildings，which always are built by villagers themselves, are graduallyperfected through the mutual learning and imitation of villagers and incessant improvement by them, and finally, a balance between tradition
and modernity will arrive, when and where the building having undergone many changes would begin to solidify into a new building type.

Comparative Studies of Asian and East Asian Studies
54328

Sino-Japanese Infrastructure Rivalry in ASEAN: Dynamics and Impact
Barbora Valockova, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sino-Japanese competition is a crucial structural force for the stability of Southeast Asia and East Asia in general and infrastructure development
in ASEAN is emerging as a new source of intensified rivalry between China and Japan. This paper aims to assess the ASEAN countries’ capacity
to benefit from the Chinese and Japanese infrastructure investment initiatives, without having to sacrifice other strategic interests or cede toomuch influence to either benefactor. Based on Indonesia’s and Myanmar’s case studies, it argues that ASEAN countries are becoming proficient atplaying China and Japan against each other to secure the best investment terms. However, this state of balancing and hedging dynamics increases
both opportunities and risks. On the one hand, it prevents China and Japan from establishing a dominant position in the region and makes themcontinuously engaged in regional governance. For ASEAN countries, it offers a great opportunity to enhance their infrastructure and boost economic
development. On the other hand, it could have a negative impact on ASEAN indebtedness, connectivity, and integration, due to an eventual race tothe bottom and irrational or technically incompatible projects being pushed forward. In view of this, this paper proposes a conceptual framework
for evaluating major factors contributing to positive and negative effects of this infrastructure competition and explores how China, Japan, and
ASEAN countries can contain it to avoid a zero-sum rivalry and instead promote a cooperative competition for the overall benefit of all stakeholders.

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Japanese Studies
57792

Japan and Ukraine: Strengthening Friendship and Partnership Ties in the Era of Reiwa
Violetta Udovik, Institute for Languages and Cultures of Europe and Asia, Japan

Notwithstanding the fact that Japan and Ukraine are separated by a great geographic distance, the two countries have many things incommon. First of all, they are the only countries in the world that have experienced accidents at nuclear power plants. Secondly, Japanand Ukraine are united by the issue of occupation of their territories by Russia. Thirdly, both countries share universal values such as
democracy, rule of law and market economy. The year 2019 saw important developments on both sides. In Japan a new era commenced
with the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito, and in Ukraine a new president was elected. The first high level meeting of Reiwa was heldin October 2019 between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Abe Shinzo during Zelenskyy's visit to Japan inorder to attend the Enthronement Ceremony. Such areas for bilateral collaboration as investment cooperation, dealing with the aftermathof nuclear accidents, further liberalization of visa regime for Ukrainian citizens, cooperation in the IT and security areas were mapped out
as priorities. The friendship and partnership ties between Japan and Ukraine which are based on the deep trust and mutual respect are
expected to see further development. First ever participation of Japan's Self-Defense Forces in Ukrainian-US co-hosted exercise "Sea
Breeze" in the Black Sea planned in 2020 as well as intercultural cooperation in the framework of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics provide a good
opportunity for further broadening of horizon of bilateral ties between Japan and Ukraine.

South-East Asian Studies (including Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos)
56040

Mental Health Needs of Depressed New Filipino Fathers
Jay Errol Baral, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines
Rosalito de Guzman, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

Emerging studies about paternal mental health among new fathers have been seen as a wide interest in terms of experienced postnatal depression. This is because when an unprepared new father feels the need and pressure to adapt with changes in lifestyle and in
his new role as the father in the family, he starts to experience depression equally with the mother but the difference is that new father
is less vocal and by not showing it receives less social support. This study made use of administering Becks Depression Inventory
among 50 new fathers one week prior to the childbirth of their partner to rule out existing depression not caused by childbirth. Qualified
participants who did not have depression prior to childbirth were included in the study. The researcher followed up with them 48-72 hours
after the childbirth to measure their depression level by administering Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the Gotland
Male Depression Scale (GMDS) because some fathers with Postnatal Depression remain undetected by only using one scale. Qualified
participants were invited to participate in an in-depth interview so that findings from their interviews were integrated together with theresults of EPDS and GMDS. As a result of conducting this study, it was revealed that other than depression, sleep problems, and anxiety,they also turn to maladaptive coping.
56657

The Structure Underlying Japan’s Soft Power Tangles in Thailand: Influences and Foreign Policy Directions
Preechaya Kittipaisalsilpa, International University of Japan, Japan

The pursuit of Japan's cultural diplomacy in Thailand holds unique changes after the end of World War II. Amid the shifting politics inthe region, the term ‘soft power’ has started to become a crucial component of Japanese foreign policy towards Thailand. Looking at
the issue comparatively provides the current limitation of the existing scholarship concerns in Japan soft power as instrument policy inThailand. The research argues that Japan’s soft power elements in its foreign policy direction towards Thailand has been characterized bya different level of relationship and by a different degree of importance underlying significance changes in the international structure. The
research reveals the complexities of interaction between Japan and Thailand beyond the usual historical-level analysis while also offersa valuable resource for the study of Japan’s soft power receptions in Thailand. The research examines by showing how principles of soft
power have been refined because of its geopolitical given, international structure, and Japanese foreign policy direction. The researchconcludes that Thailand serves as a useful barometer of evolving Japanese soft power and influence in Southeast Asia. The result is acomprehensive discussion of the growing presence of Japan skillfully crafted foreign policy in Thailand as much as contributing to thecurrent on Japan’s soft power dynamics and the future challenges ahead in the international structure.
56769

Mapping Circumstance: Human Security, Marginality and Precariousness in Southeast Asia
Paul Carnegie, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

A central problem in examining multiple insecurities in Southeast Asia is that each country confronts a different context of human security
and faces a set of specific challenges embedded in people’s daily-lived experience. The ambiguous ways in which the ‘invisibility’ of theirsituations are conditioned and configured are neither readily recognized nor understood. State-led action tends to be generic and imitative
rather than addressing effectively the conditioning factors and social imaginary that render individuals and communities insecure. How
then are we to proceed? The following paper considers this question by examining the complex relationships between ‘safety’ and ‘risk’
and that of ‘trust’ and ‘uncertainty’. It argues that the field of human security needs to engage more fully with a range of sociologicaland anthropological concepts and approaches if it is to gain greater analytical purchase on Southeast Asia’s precarious lives in the
21st Century. In particular, the paper focuses on the utility of important theoretical and empirical developments on marginality and theirrelevance for the Southeast Asian context.

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South-East Asian Studies (cont'd)
58142

An Analysis of Filipino Seafarers’ Return Preparedness and Perception of Successful Return
Fe Elisha Isidro-Banez, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

A Filipino seafarer’s return home is recognized by his family and society, as a culmination of a financially lucrative career and theachievement of lifelong objectives, a model of “calculated strategy.” The study 1) identifies the factors that seafarers consider when
preparing for their retirement; 2) determines their level of preparedness for return to the Philippines; and 3) assesses their individual
perception of successful return and reintegration. Factors reflective of their Return Preparedness, through their successful resource
mobilization of tangible, intangible and social capital, are operationalized. Quantitatively, a pilot study and survey provide a demographic
profile. Cramer Coefficient V was used to establish the association between Return Preparedness and Perception of Successful Return.
Qualitatively, in-depth interviews of retired seafarers constitute the case studies corresponding to the different Levels of Preparedness
and Perception of Successful Return. Research shows that: 1) Seafarers accumulate tangible resources in the form of savings, ownershipof home, car and a small business. Education of both children and the seafarer himself are necessary Intangible Resources. Social
Capital Resource includes family relations with wife and children and their commitment to maintaining a simple life while the father is on
board the ship. 2) Employing Cassarino’s Theory on Return Preparedness, the study identified a Medium Level of Preparedness, wherein
the value of family relations and support has altered the dynamics of perception of successful return. 3) The presence or lack of family
support facilitates or hinders the seafarer’s resource mobilization, influencing his perception of successful or unsuccessful return.

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Reviewers

IAFOR depends on the assistance of a large number of international academics and practitioners
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.
We are grateful for the time, effort and expertise donated by all our contributors.

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Dr Benjamin Ireland
Texas Christian University, United States
Professor William Kunz
University of Washington Tacoma, United States
Dr Chin-Pang Lei
University of Macau, Macau
Dr Kristine Newton
University of Indianapolis, United States
Dr Edem Peters
University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Dr Yanin Rugwongwan
King Mongkut'S Institute of Technology
Ladkrabang, Thailand
Dr Yoshihiko Yamamoto
Shizuoka University, JapanDr Byrad Yyelland
Virginia Commonwealth University Schoolof The Arts, Qatar

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Senior Reviewers
Professor Holger Briel
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China
Dr Fang Tang
Yangtze University, China
Dr Federica Scaffidi
University of Hannover, Germany

ACCS2020

Reviewers
Professor Natasha Lushetich
University of Dundee, United Kingdom

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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-Hong Kong Baptist
University United International College, China
Dr Hooi San Noew
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Dr Asae Sayaka
The Institute of Good Governance for Socialand Economic Dev, Thailand
Professor Jimmy Soria
University of Northern Philippines, Philippines

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Senior Reviewers
Dr Yuemin He
Northern Virginia Community College, United States
Dr Chi Zhang
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

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Reviewers
Dr Antonina Luszczykiewicz
Jagiellonian University In Krakow, Poland
Dr Ram Mohan Mulavana Parameswaran
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India

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A-Z Presenters List
Avdulov, Alexandre			p. 28
Saint Mary's University, Canada
Banez, Fe Elisha			p. 48
De La Salle College of Saint
Benilde, Philippines
Baral, Jay Errol			
p. 47
University of Santo Tomas,
Philippines
Berthet, Maximilien			
p. 28
University of Tokyo, Japan
Briel, Holger				p. 43
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University,
China
Carnegie, Paul				p. 47
Universiti Brunei Darussalam,
Brunei Darussalam
Chen, Teresa				p. 44
California State University,
Long Beach, United States
Chen, Yi Ling				p. 42
National Cheng Kung University,
TaiwanCheung, Ka Wan			p. 43
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin,
GermanyDing, Linan				p. 46
Tsinghua University, China
Fankah-Arthur, Hilda			p. 28
University of Alberta, Canada
Genck, Michelle			p. 37
University of Augsburg, Germany
Go, Minjeon				p. 29
Sungkyunkwan University,
South Korea
Gunawan, Viofelita			p. 44
National Cheng Kung University,
TaiwanJangir, Hemraj P			
p. 42
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies,
India
Johnson, Henry			
p. 31
University of Otago, New ZealandKan, Jui-Han				p. 38
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Katapidi, Ioanna			p. 42
University of Birmingham,
United Kingdom
Kittipaisalsilpa, Preechaya		
p. 47International University of Japan,
Japan
Lewis, Anupa				p. 44
Manipal Institute of Communication,
India

Li, Yin					p. 39
University of Sydney, Australia
Lu, Fang				p. 37
Guangdong University of Foreign
Studies, China
Lushetich, Natasha			p. 43
University of Dundee,
United Kingdom
Menson, Almira			p. 42
Mindanao State University Maguindanao, Philippines
Minagawa, Harumi			p. 36
The University of Auckland,
New ZealandNg, Hoi Shan				p. 37
Independent Scholar, Hong Kong
Nguyen, Tam				p. 40
Monash University, Australia
Rodriguez, Maria Del Carmen
p. 44
Kean University, United States
Sato, Akiko				p. 36
Osaka University of Tourism,
Japan
Scaffidi, Federica			p. 39
University of Hannover, Germany
Schäfer, Carsten			p. 42
University of Cologne, Germany
Stanik, Paulina			p. 38
University of Warsaw, Poland
Stevens, Bavo				p. 40
Ubon Ratchathani University,
ThailandTham, Chui-Joe			
p. 31
University of Oxford,
United Kingdom
Tie, Lei					p. 46
Beijing University of Civil
Engineering and Architecture, China
Tokumaru, Aki				p. 29
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Udovik, Violetta			
p. 47
Institute for Languages andCultures of Europe and Asia, Japan,
UkraineUmehara, Yu				p. 30
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Valockova, Barbora			
p. 46
Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Wang, Yuanzhi			p. 31
Zhejiang University, China
Wenas Inkiriwang, Frega		
p. 40
The London School of Economics
and Political Science, United Kingdom

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Yamasawa, Manabu			
p. 30
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yokohama, Yuki			p. 40
Kanto Gakuin University, Japan
Yoshimori, Kanako			
p. 29
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Zhu, Hao				p. 43
Shaanxi Normal University, China

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