Waseda & Erasmus Mundus-GEM PhD School Joint Summer Institute 2011
Europe-Asia: Comparative Regional Integration
Waseda University Global COE Program:
Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration (GIARI)
August 1 (Monday) – August 5 (Friday)
Call for Participants
The Waseda University Global COE Program, the Global Institute for Asian RegionalIntegration (GIARI), is accepting applications from PhD students to attend the Joint
Summer Institute on Europe-Asia: Comparative Regional Integration. The Institute will
provide students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge about regional integration inEurope and/or Asia and expand their research networks.

The Summer Institute encourages the application of PhD students conducting theoretical andempirical research on issues related to regional integration in Europe and/or Asia from various
aspects, including but not limited to politics, security, human security, economics, sociology,culture, and environment. The Institute will provide a supportive environment where students
can share their ideas, receive feedback on their research projects, and offer constructive andcritical advice to other participants. The five-day program will also include advice on practicalmatters such as conducting fieldwork. The program will include a number of panels, providing
students the opportunity to present their work with the aim to potentially publish the best papers
in the Asian Regional Integration Review published by GIARI.
Program contents:•Lectures & Discussion (Aug 1., 2 , 4, 5)
Morning sessions: Lectures by leading professors on the subject
Afternoon sessions: Student presentations and discussions•

Fieldtrips(Aug 3)
Site visits to a government agency and a private company

Professors:••

Program Coordinators:
Shujiro Urata (GIARI, Waseda University)
Takashi Terada (GIARI, Organization for Asian Studies)
Lectures:Tsuneo Akaha (Monterey Institute of International Studies; GIARI, Waseda
University)
Peter Drysdale (Australian National University)
Wang Yizhou (Peking University)
Dennis McNamara (Georgetown University)
Other professors to be arranged

Call for Participants:•••

The Summer Institute is open to all PhD students interested in European and/or Asian
regional integration
Number of students: 10 (5 students from Asian countries and 5 students from WasedaUniversity)
Fee and payment for those who apply from overseas universities: Airfare andaccommodation expenses (six nights and seven days in Tokyo) will be covered byGIARI.

Application Procedure:••••••Submit an application form as well as an abstract of the paper you will present at theSummer Institute.
Deadline for the submission of necessary documents: May 31, 2011.
The application form can be downloaded from the GIARI Web site.
http://www.waseda-giari.jp
The abstract should be a maximum of 250 words, including your name, affiliation,
paper’s title, and the subject category to which you are applying. Abstracts will be
judged on strength and coherence of argument, originality, appropriate use ofmethodology, and knowledge of existing debates.
The successful applicants should submit papers. The total word count of the paper should
be 5,000～10,000 words. The paper will be passed to the professors before the start of theSummer Institute. The deadline for submitting the papers is July 20, 2010. The best papers
will be considered for publication in Asian Regional Integration Review, Vol. 4 (2012),
published by GIARI, Waseda University.
Necessary documents for applying (application form and abstract) and any inquiries
should be sent to the GIARI Office:GIARI-Staff@list.waseda.jp*Please read “Summer Institute FAQ”carefully before you apply.