www.iafor.org/about/partners

IAFOR Global Partners

University of Belgrade

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

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ACAH/ACSS2020 Organising Committee

Grant Black

Clementina M. Cardoso Joseph Haldane
OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, Osaka
University, Japan

IAFOR

Donald E. Hall

Bradley J. Hamm

Fan Li

Chuo University, Japan

University of Rochester, USA

James W. McNally

University of Michigan, USA & NACDA
Program on Aging

Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, USA

Haruko SatohOsaka University, Japan

LePing Social Entrepreneur Foundation &Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), China

Sela V. Panapasa
University of Michigan, USA

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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 ACAH/ACSS and ACAS/ACCS
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 ACAH/ACSS2020
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 ACAH2020 will offer a remarkable opportunity for the sharing of research and bestpractice, and for the meeting of people and ideas.
The 11th Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH2020) is a multidisciplinary conference
held concurrently with The 11th Asian Conference on the Social Sciences (ACSS2020). Speakers
will provide a variety of perspectives from different academic and professional backgrounds.

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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 25, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Monday at a Glance
16:00-16:15
			

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

16:15-17:00
						

Keynote Presentation
Embracing the Power of Difference as an Elementary Idea
Chris Dalton, University of Reading, United Kingdom

17:05-17:50
						

Keynote Presentation
Embracing Difference by Design: Virtues and Vices
Bruce Brown, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom

17:50-18:30
			
			
			
			

Embracing Difference: Discussion Session (with both Speakers)
Chris Dalton, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Bruce Brown, Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Co-Moderators: Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan& Joseph Haldane, IAFOR, Japan

18:30-18:45

IAFOR Documentary Photography Award

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May 26, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday at a Glance
12:50-13:00
			

Welcome from the Organising Committee
Haruko Satoh, Osaka University, Japan

13:00-14:15

Live-Stream Session I

14:15-14:30		

Virtual Coffee

14:30-16:10

Live-Stream Session II

16:10-16:20		

Virtual Coffee

16:20-17:00
Keynote Presentation
		
Numeratives in Japanese: How speakers perceive things			when they count			Asako Iida, Chuo University, Tokyo
17:00-17:10
						Discussion
Asako Iida, Chuo University, Tokyo
Moderator: Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan

17:10-18:00

Live-Stream Session III

18:00-18:15		

Virtual Coffee

18:15-19:30

Live-Stream Session IV

19:30-19:45		

Virtual Coffee

19:45-21:00

Live-Stream Session V

21:00-21:15

Networking Session
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May 27, 2020 | All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Wednesday at a Glance
09:35-09:45
			

Welcome from the Organising Committee
James W. McNally, University of Michigan, United States

09:45-11:00

Live-Stream Session I

11:00-11:15		

Virtual Coffee

11:15-12:55

Live-Stream Session II

12:55-13:40		

Lunch Discussion Groups

13:40-14:30

Live-Stream Session III

14:30-14:45		

Virtual Coffee

14:45-16:00

Live-Stream Session IV

16:00-16:15		

Virtual Coffee

16:15-17:55

Live-Stream Session V

17:55-18:10

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 27, 2020 through the online system. The
proceedings will be published on July 27, 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 Reuben Martens and Yong-Jun Park, who have been selected by
the conference Organising Committee to receive grants and scholarships to present their research
at ACAH/ACSS2020.
IAFOR's grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early
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 theeducational 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 each conference.
Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: www.iafor.org/financial-support

Reuben Martens | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
57074 (ACAH2020)
Energy’s Proleptic Promises: Locating Infrastructure and the Future Anterior in Yamashita and Lerner
Reuben Martens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter Vermeulen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Reuben Martens is currently a visiting researcher and KU Leuven Fellow of the B.A.E.F. with the
Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (2019-2020), and a PhD Fellowof the Research Foundation - Flanders at KU Leuven (2017-2021). His PhD project looks atcontemporary narratives that depict energy futures and aims to trace how such narratives either
challenge standard petrocultural aesthetics and ideologies or unwillingly comply with them, and theway in which they reveal society's tense reliance on hydrocarbons and the difficulties of imagining
the transition towards sustainable energy futures.

Yong-Jun Park | IAFOR Scholarship Recipient
56506 (ACAH2020)
Contested Citizenship in South Korea: Re-nationalisation, Populism and Democracy in the Case of
Yemeni Refugee Crisis
Yong-Jun Park, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mr Yong-Jun Park is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and he reads the sociology ofeducation at St. Edmund's College.

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May 25Plenary Session

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Keynote Presentation: Chris Dalton

Embracing the Power of Difference as an
Elementary Idea
Monday, May 25 | 16:15-17:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

This presentation is a response to the call of this conference to embrace difference.
Difference is more than simply a driver or inhibitor of creativity, it is the elementary source of all
information. It defines us and is often how we define ourselves. In humans difference is embeddedin the act of perception, yet we rarely stop to understand the nature of difference as an idea. This talkargues that difference is the basic building block of knowledge, but its properties are often overlooked,
misunderstood or ignored. Embracing Difference means understanding it, and this involves a shift inseeing. Social science, which here includes management learning and education, has struggled toreconcile varying perspectives between disciplines, between methodologies, and between individual
researchers. “Difference” has generally become a synonym for “disagreement”. This will not do, as
it does not address the complexity of issues we face or the multidisciplinary response required. This
presentation uses the context of post-experience management learning in a European Business
School to illustrate some of the problems and pitfalls of difference, as well as the tremendous
potential of an awareness of its true nature. It will propose three fundamental, universal properties ofdifference; zero-dimension, inter-connectivity and generativity. These form a conceptual framework
for multidisciplinary researchers and practitioners to re-evaluate their perceptions and dialogue.

Chris Dalton
Chris is Associate Professor of Management Learning andLeadership at Henley Business School at the University of Readingin the UK. A dynamic and creative tutor and facilitator, Chris joined
Henley in November 2005 and until 2010 was the Programme
Director for Henley Distance Learning MBA (Flexible Learning), a
course with over 2,500 executives enrolled worldwide.
Chris has over 26 years of experience in management educationand training. Before coming to Henley, he worked at the Central
European University Business School (and its predecessor, theInternational Management Center) in Budapest, Hungary, where
his posts included Director of their full-time and modular MBA program (part of the Weatherhead
School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA). Chris teaches on the
Executive MBA and runs corporate workshops and seminars related to management development inmany parts of the world, including South Africa, central Europe and the Middle East. A Fellow of theHigher Education Academy (FHEA), Chris holds a PhD in Management Learning and Leadership from
Lancaster University, and an MBA from Henley. His research is focused on the use of Reflection in
Personal Development in post-experience Management Education.
His first book, The Every Day MBA, was published at the beginning of 2015 and his second, Brilliant Business
Strategy for Business, released in February 2016. A second edition of the MBA book, re-titled MBA Day by
Day, was published in September 2019. Chris was visiting professor at Soka University in Japan 2018-19,
where he was on a year-long sabbatical devoted to writing and research, and is also visiting Professorof Foundations of Management at Cotrugli Business School, Croatia. He is currently writing a book onleadership and personal development in management, to be published at the end of 2020.
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Keynote Presentation: Bruce Brown

Title Embracing Difference by Design:
Virtues and Vices
Monday, May 25 | 17:05-17:50 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

The emergence of design as a professional discipline in the 1950’s heralded a new age of consumption
and individualism. In response to the traumas of two world wars, design brought the promise of new
utopias and a stable world. Being tied to industrial mass production the design of this Modernist
utopia was built on “problem-solving”, “form follows function”, “less is more” and a conviction thatthe evils of society could, and should, be eradicated. This 20th century view of a virtuous world wasshattered by 21st century communications technologies. Here the tools of centralised authorities
were replaced by social networks with their decentralised cacophonies of voices and avalanches of
information. But, if an old world order has receded then a new kind of order still needs designing tomeet these contemporary conditions and prevent societies from slipping back into anarchy, mob ruleor tribalism. Indeed, we seem to have liberated ourselves from the industrialised tyrannies of one-overmany to inhabit a new extreme in which the many are starting to dominate the few and information
overload works like anaesthetic. We seem to have oscillated from one polarity, “problem, solving” to its
antithesis, “wicked problems” – ones that cannot be solved due to the complexity of their conditions.
This, in itself, forces binary options to be adopted so that paralysis is avoided and decisions made. If theexistence of such polarities is to be managed then the multifarious differences of a messy world must
be embraced and structured for a new order to emerge. As the relentless march of industrialisation
forced people to migrate from countryside to city so did the word “virtue” assume a new meaning.
Setting itself against the vices of inner city existence (prostitution and crime) virtue became associatedwith chastity and innocence (as we still know it today). But, its original meaning was different – virtue
being the soundness of judgment to find points of equilibrium between opposing vices (e.g. between
excess or deficiency, heaven or hell, sex or love, rich or poor, fast or slow). In other words, to embrace(not neutralise) difference as a key to finding new ways of making the world in which we want to live.
This is the virtue of design in meeting our challenge.

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 experience is like anesthetic thatneutralizes our attention and subsequent ability to make informed decisions. The economic theory
underpinning this is that our attention is now such a scarce commodity that is being sold to thehighest 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, etc.) need to capture ourattention 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 inmost societies are championed by the dominant groups while the marginalized groups try to forward
alternative definitions to varying levels of success (be they among classes, between corporations,
between governments). [Continued on the following page].
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Responsible Design
The new, and powerful, interactions between data, technology, privacy and security, 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
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 Deanof the university’s Faculty of Arts & Architecture. In 2018 Bruce
was appointed by the University Grants Committee of the Hong
Kong Specialist Administrative Region of the People’s Republicof 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 hechaired Main Panel O in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Bruce served as a member ofthe Advisory Board of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and has advised internationalorganisations including the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation and 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 invited by the Portuguese Government to
conduct an international review entitled Reforming Arts and Culture 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.

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TuesdayMay 26
Parallel Sessions
Abstracts appear as originally submitted by theauthor. Any spelling, grammatical, or typographicalerrors are those of the author.

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13:00-14:15 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday Live Stream Session I
Session Topic: Language, Linguistics
Session Moderator: Haruko Satoh57743

13:00-13:25

Pictograms and Japanese Construal in Cognitive Linguistics
Yoshihito Sasaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Recent scholarship in cognitive linguistics reveals that Japanese speakers prefer subjective construal, while English speakers prefer
objective construal. Japanese speakers conceptualize a scene subjectively, where the speaker involved is submerged in it. English
speakers tend to represent events objectively from the perspective of a bystander or observer outside the scene. This paper calls thisparadigm into question. For example, for the forthcoming 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan’s Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry announced in 2017 that they revised the standardized set of Japanese pictograms. The revision, however, is nota simple modification, but arguably reflects something larger: a shift in construal. Previous pictograms represented the object of theaction alone with no subject, while new pictograms include the subject of the action. This means a shift in focus from an object/thing
to a subject/person, addressing who makes an action and what kind of action. Old pictograms that lack the subjects of action reflect
the exemplary characteristics of Japanese construal, that is, subjective construal. Japanese speakers typically place themselves within
the scene to be construed; in many cases it is not necessary to express the self-evident or obvious subjects of action. New pictograms,by contrast, are geared toward objective construal. The subjects of action are visibly embedded in the scene, in which the (heretofore
invisible) subject becomes the object of expression and observation. By analyzing the modification of pictograms, this paper seeks toreconsider the characteristics of the Japanese way of construing scenes and events.
57526

13:25-13:50

Recreating Discourse Community in Academic Writing Instruction for Law Undergraduates
Suman Luhach, Bennett University, India

Academic writing is highly important for law undergraduates. Project reports, essay writing on current socio-legal affairs and research
paper writing comprise requisites in academia for law learners. The discourse community of the students in an academic writing classroom
is typically passive as the teacher is expected to provide feedback to students on their writing during tutorials. This leads to the creation of
only one feedback centre, restriction of the scope for varied perceptions and formation of multiple small discourses where the teacher isthe central point of reference in every discourse. Consequentially, students fail to grow as self/peer-critiques in the ongoing discourse. The
present paper has its focus on disruption of traditional pedagogy and recreation of peer-to-peer learning ‘Paragogy’. Various instructional
scaffolds have been provided to ensure creation of zone of proximal development for students. Consecutive sampling technique has
been used as all available subjects are taken into consideration. The paper attempts to see how law students involved in essay writing
tasks given on university Learning Management System behave as a discourse community and get benefited through peer feedback
and enhance their knowledge of the genre of essay writing, its subject matter and rhetoric involved. For this, classroom and online
interaction transcripts have been analysed. The results of the discourse analysis of students’ interaction transcripts support recreation ofa constructive, bigger discourse community in academic writing instruction.
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13:50-14:15

A Blended Learning Model for Public Senior High Schools in the Division of Laguna
Ma. Cecilia G. Adefuin, Department of Education-Laguna, Philippines
Neil P. Balba, Lyceum of the Philippines-Laguna, Philippines

This study aimed to design a blended learning model for public senior high schools in the division of Laguna. A descriptive-quantitative
research design was considered in the study and utilized the neo-positivism for objectivity and neutrality of the research process. A
survey using Mercado’s eLearning readiness assessment tool and eLearning System Readiness Assessment(ELSRA) based on
Mckinsey’s 7S were used to collect data from respondents. Pearson r correlation test, percentage, mean, and frequency count were used
for analysis. Results showed that the technical specification of eClassroom provided by DepEd Computerization Program satisfied the IT
infrastructure standards for eLearning system. The proposed project team was identified with their roles and qualifications to manage
the implementation of blended learning. The assessment of student’s eLearning readiness has a computed mean value of 52.17% fortechnology access, 56.37% for technology skills, and student's attitude towards eLearning was evaluated “Almost Ready”. The assessmentof teacher’s eLearning readiness has a computed mean value of 83.86% for technology access, 87.74% for technology skills, and teacher's
attitude towards eLearning was evaluated “Almost Ready” for abilities, motivation and time management; and “Completely Ready” forteaching styles and strategies. The schools revealed that 93.33% were ready for administrative support and 83.66% for resource support
to eLearning system. The division management officials agreed (68.34%) to the identified 7S that support eLearning implementation.
The designed Adefuin & Balba Blended Learning Model is composed of Technology, People, and Process phases supported by K-12 SHS
curriculum with continuous improvement process through Monitoring and Evaluation. It is recommended to implement blended learning
using the designed model in public senior high schools in the division of Laguna.

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14:30-16:10 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday Live Stream Session II
Session Topic: Ethnicity, Difference, Identity
Session Moderator: Hiroshi Ishida57068

14:30-14:55

Slowly but Surely Shifting From Homogeneity: Multiculturalism and Pluralization in Japan
Xiaoxian Liang, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Globalization drives the cross-border movements of goods and labor, bringing the challenges of pluralization and multiculturalism to many
countries that used to be considered as ethnically and culturally homogenous. This is also the case in Japan, where the nation-building
myths of homogeneity take deep roots. Some researchers insist that even the Japanese society has witnessed an intense process ofinternationalization, this dominant paradigm of homogeneity is little challenged and changed. To argue against that, this article traces andanalyzes the changes in official policies, education frameworks and public opinions in response to the intensifying multicultural situation
during the past thirty years. Besides, the article also analyzes the emergence and diffusion of the idea of multicultural coexistence, a term
which is frequently used when discussing the multiculturalism in Japan’s context. Based on these analyses, the article attempts to pointout that the changes in ideological paradigm of Japanese homogeneity do occur as more space is being opened up for inclusion of theminority and expression of differences, which provides potential for building a multicultural coexistence society.
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14:55-15:20

Emerging Leadership Orientations in a Changing World
Frederique Corbett, Pepperdine University, United States
Matthew Sweeney, Pepperdine University, United States

This paper presents findings from a quantitative research study conducted among the adult population of the United States and AsiaPacific. The study sought to quantify how leadership is transforming so that theoretical and empirical contributions can be made towards
a new genre of leadership that can yield significant benefits to organizations in their search to foster greater leadership efficacy. The
main results of this study demonstrate that leadership orientations are evolving from the traditional view of power, authority, control, andhierarchy to a system of shared relationships grounded in connecting people and information sources to create collective influence. Basedon the data set presented in this research, it is possible to classify leadership orientations into three groups: (1) traditional, (2) status-quo,and (3) emerging. Answering the IAFOR 2020 Special Theme of “Embracing Difference,” the manuscript proposes a conceptual reflection
on alternative forms of leadership emerging in the United States and Asia. The data underscores the widespread evolution of leadership
perceptions toward more collective and connected forms, while at the same time, provides evidence of how Asia is leading this evolution.
The paper challenges the perennial perceptions of leadership presenting emerging forms of leadership for future research and scholarly
exploration. As such, the study aims to advance the field of leadership studies by showing how “difference” in conceptualizing leadershipcan provide new opportunities for researchers and business practitioners. It affords leaders around the world new avenues to navigate
collectively, better understand differences, embrace and work together for better global coexistence.
56506

15:20-15:45

Contested Citizenship in South Korea: Re-nationalisation, Populism and Democracy in the Case of Yemeni
Refugee Crisis
Yong-Jun Park, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Over the past few decades, particularly after what Samuel Huntington named the ‘third wave’ of democratisation from the early 1970s,
it is clear that world politics has changed dramatically. Among one of the several nation-states to ride the third wave of democracy,
Korea is arguably one of the most successful cases of robust democratic transition. However, in contrast to their economic vitality andcompetitiveness, Korean society has been plagued with various illiberal norms, practices, and powers that repeatedly tend to compromiseor distort citizens’ legitimate rights and political status to the service of oligarchic political interests. Can a particular kind of citizenshipeducation counter the anti-democratic moves such as populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism with which many contemporary
political accounts of the surge of political right tend to conflate? At a historical moment when the prospects of democracy have beenchallenged by various counter-movements (i.e. re-nationalising trends or populist uprising), it may be valuable to examine the citizenshipeducation as a part of democracy’s sources of strength. This study aims to investigate how citizenship is intertwined with democratic
development and social change by posing timely questions about how Korean young people perceive, navigate and negotiate contesting
narratives of citizenship as part of their experiences of living, belonging and participating as citizens. By investigating the stratified
subcultural articulations of citizenship expressed by Korean youth, this research seeks to develop a more nuanced and integrated
understanding of the ways in which citizenship is conceived and exercised by youth beyond its formal legal status.
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15:45-16:10

Religious and Ethnic Pluralism in Contemporary Democracies – A Challenge in the Era of Globalization
Phillip Calington, Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge, France
Danijela Vukovic-Calasan, University of Montenegro, Montenegro

In the ethno-cultural and religious sense, the contemporary societies are plural. The processes of globalization in different aspects, ismaking this pluralism a tendency. How do contemporary democracies manage this kind of pluralism? There is only one acceptable way ofmanaging it - by allowing religious and ethnic communities to keep their identity specificities, while trying to integrate them into democraticsocieties. Assimilation and segregation are not viable alternatives in the management of ethno-cultural and religious pluralism. This istherefore one of the main reasons that since the second half of the 20th century, multiculturalism is the dominant model in dealing withethno-cultural and religious pluralism in democratic countries. It is also essential to mention a tendency of instrumentalization andpoliticization of this pluralism in countries that may be considered as less democratic, or as younger democracies. In this way, many
post-communist countries violate the principles of secularization, by trying to utilize traditional identities of various ethno-cultural andreligious groups for achieving political goals.

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Keynote Presentation: Asako Iida

Numeratives in Japanese: How speakers
perceive things when they countTuesday, May 26 | 16:20-17:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Japanese language has morphemes which only appear next to a numeral when a speaker counts
things. They are called josuushi or “numeratives”. Typical examples are -ko, -mai, -hon, and -dai.
They also categorise the referent of a noun terms of its animacy, shape, size, function, and properties.
It is estimated that there are more than 500 numeratives in modern Japanese. This presentationis going to analyze what kind of cognitive activities are working when a native speaker picks anappropriate numerative out of the vast list of morphemes. For example, -hiki is a numerative used
when we count creatures in general, such as insects, fish, reptiles, small mammals and even bacteria.
Bigger mammals, such as elephants, horses, and whales are preferred to be counted with -tou, while
we have collected several examples which allow the use of -tou to count beetles, butterflies, andsmall mammals. It proves that speakers see some common features between elephants and beetles
when they count.
Another example is -hon considered to be used in counting long objects such as pens, strings,
trees and roads. It is interesting that this numerative is also used to count shapeless entities suchas homeruns, rehearsals, phone calls, pieces of email correspondence, TV programs, and Judo’s
techniques.
In conclusion, we will show the cognitive frameworks which are filtering the morphological applicationof numeratives in Japanese, and consider the cultural backgrounds affecting them.

Asako Iida
Dr Iida holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo and is a professor
in the Faculty of Global Management at Chuo University, in Tokyo,
Japan. She was a visiting scholar at UCLA from 2015 to 2017, andhas been a Director of Japan Naming Association since2019.
Her area of specialisation is in the field of linguistics, focusing
particularly on analysing how to count things in modern Japanese,
known as “numeratives”. She is one of the pioneers in this field,
well known as the author of Kazoekata-no-Jiten (The Dictionaryof How to Count Things) (Shogakukan, 2004), which has soldmore than 110,000 copies worldwide.
Currently she is instructing students who specialise in advertising, and holds a seminar titled “Howto Attract Consumers from a Linguistic Approach”. She is an active copywriter winning prestigious
advertisement contests, such as The Senden-kaigi Award (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019). She also
was an active member of the “Tokyo Sky Tree” Name Review Committee. Her research regarding thetechniques of writing copy is crystallised in the book ‘A, Sore Hoshi!’ to Omowaseru Kōkoku Kopī no
Kotoba Jiten (I want it! The Word Dictionary of Ad Copy) (Nikkei Business Publications, 2017).
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17:10-18:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday Live Stream Session III
Session Topic: Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
Session Moderator: Clementina Cardoso
56989

17:10-17:35

Animalist Visions: Frida Kahlo’s Monkeys and Nanao Sakaki’s Salmons
Yaxkin Melchy Ramos, University of Tsukuba, Japan

As Australian scholar Deborah Bird Rose has pointed out, facing ecological thinking, the human-animal boundary has become a site ofextreme contestation (2012). In this presentation, I will explore some visions connected with animals, proposed by the Mexican painterFrida Kahlo (1907-1954) and the Japanese poet Nanao Sakaki (1923-2008). These animalist visions of subjectivity can be used within
an ecopoetical approach to explore alternative identities and histories of becoming human with other creatures. To illustrate this point I’ll
analyze Frida Kahlo's self-portrait paintings “Self-portrait with a little monkey” and “The wounded deer”, and Nanao Sakaki's poem “Bikki
Salmon”. I'll explore what these artists have ecopoetically in common: a vision of identity in togetherness with animals that challenges
the ontological separation created by Western humanism. Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits suggest the aboriginal idea of nahual, common in
Mexico’s countryside, while Nanao Sakaki´s poem gets inspiration from salmons in the Ainu culture of Hokkaido. This study aims to show
some ways in which arts contribute to cosmopolitical thinking by proposing profound and complementary visions towards creatures.
57030

17:35-18:00

From Self Portraits to Geminoid Androids – Identity and Difference in Robotic Doppelgängers
Fabrizia Abbate, University of Molise, Italy

The real and the virtual maintain ambiguous relations in the contemporary context of artificial intelligence. From the social
phenomenon of Self-representation in digital identities to the robotic phenomenon of Replication of human beings, cultural models
of identity are going to quickly change: "difference" will play a primary role at the heart of identity. The focus of this paper will beon the link between self portraits in art, the doppelgänger in literature and robotic process automation in Geminoid androids. A
geminoid robot appears and behaves just like its source person. How important is it to overcome the discomfort of an uncanny
resemblance? Is similarity in robotics going to be the access key to the source of the Self? Because of their resemblance to people,
androids have the potential to contribute to an understanding of human behavior and the roles our brains and bodies play in it. Is ittrue that "certain questions about human beings can only be answered by employing androids experimentally", as robotic engineers
write? Our studies will try to answer these new questions.

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18:15-19:30 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday Live Stream Session IV
Session Topic: Media Studies
Session Moderator: Clementina Cardoso
57123

18:15-18:40

Digital Literacy as a Factor for Sustainable Society
Valentina Milenkova, South-West University, Bulgaria
Dilyana Keranova, South-West University, Bulgaria
Dobrinka Peicheva, South-West University, Bulgaria

Digital literacy should be seen as directly related to the strengthening of information and communication technology. The integration of
information and communication technologies into education at all levels and in all areas of training requires the development of skills andcompetencies related to the knowledge and use of digital media. The present paper explores digital literacy representing different aspectsof the person who is responsible for how technology is used. The analysis argues that digital literacy contributes to the development ofsocial sustainability and personal skills. Digital literacy included both basic skills needed to use the Internet and the skills required forunderstanding and creating online content. The research project “Digital Media Literacy in the context of "Knowledge Society": state andchallenges” carried out in 2019 with team leader V. Milenkova, used the self-assessment method to measure digital skills and applied
to 232 young people (18-40 years) randomly selected. The most frequently used indicators in measuring digital literacy include skills
for finding information, communicating, creating content, critical thinking, etc. The results obtained revealed that young people use theInternet anywhere and feel confident in creating different digital content and on-line products. They are aware of the new dangers of
emerging hybrid media wars and see the role of the digital media literacy in this direction. The paper reveals that digital literacy is a signof sustainable knowledge society, which includes media, technology and communications, and their impact on the social environment.
57212

18:40-19:05

Going Gaga: Lady Gaga and the Celebrification of Resilience
Kirsty Fairclough, University of Salford, United Kingdom

In January 2020, singer and actress Lady Gaga held a highly publicised interview with Oprah Winfrey as part of Oprah’s wellness tour
presented by WW (Weight Watchers reimagined) entitiled 2020: Your Life in Focus in front of an audience of 15,000. Here she discussed indetail the PTSD, physical and mental traumas she has suffered as a result of her being repeatedly raped as a young woman. The interview
was raw and candid detailing her use of anti-psychotic drugs as a way to cope with her chronic illness. Celebrities involvement in mental
health activism is nothing new and in recent years, the use of celebrities, to promote awareness of the global mental health crisis has
increased and the number of celebrities speaking out about mental health issues appears to have been normalised to some extent. This
paper will consider the ways in which specific aspects of celebrity culture may be used to improve the resilience of individuals aroundthe world and invite consideration of the ways in which we contextualise and process the stigma around the contemporary mental healthcrisis, perhaps even allowing individuals to imagine themselves in a positive way through the lens of celebrity. Lady Gaga’s devotion to
her fan base is so pronounced that the connection with her fans has taken on the form of a whole range activist causes, one of which is
to campaign to remove the societal stigma of mental health illness and medication for trauma as the interview details. It will explore theways in which Lady Gaga has become a figurehead for the mental health awareness movement and will interrogate the ways in which theprism of celebrity might offer more diverse ways to intervene on a range of global platforms.
57035

19:05-19:30

A Soft Museum of Hardware Use: Testimonies From the Early Experience of Digital Devices as Historical,
Pedagogical and Narrative Assets
Heitor Alvelos, University of Porto, Portugal
Daniel Brandão, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Abhishek Chatterjee, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

This research addresses the validation of narrative legacies of a first generation of digital and online media users upon its mass adoption
in the 1980s and 1990s. As a complement to ongoing processes of technological obsolescence, whereby arcane digital media devices
become potential museum objects or trending novelties, we vouch for the testimonies of early adopters: a transition from analogue
to digital-driven routines and competences was often symptomatic of semantic and subjective expectations, of cognitive, expressive,playful and mimetic processes. Often performed intuitively on relatively user-unfriendly hardware and software, early adoption of digital
devices signalled a transition beyond the purely tangible or functional: it provided users with a felt need and desire for a paradigm shiftthat was yet to fully reveal itself, yet itself felt vaguely utopian. The paradigm of digital access and experience was still far from its current,
seamless ubiquity - it often demanded personal effort and investment. However, this past experience is often regarded as an exercise
in nostalgia, a mere path towards the ever-growing sophistication of current media devices; it is this tacit assumption that the current
research questions, by bearing testimony to a singular historical moment of transition from analogue to digital environments - with all thechallenges this entailed. The ongoing research is performed via semi-structured, recorded interviews with early adopters. The interviews
are recorded, and the contained narration provides the primary source material for extrapolation, pattern recognition and storytelling. The
outcomes are intended to serve historical, broadcasting, pedagogical and philosophical contexts.

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19:45-21:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Tuesday Live Stream Session V
Session Topic: Teaching and Learning the Arts
Session Moderator: James Briganti
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19:45-20:10

Interfaces of Knowledge: Digital Media as Mediator of the Contemporary Reactivation of Legacies
Nuno Martins, IPCA and ID+, Portugal
Eliana Penedos-Santiago, ID+ and University of Porto, Portugal
Susana Barreto, ID+ and University of Porto, Portugal
Heitor Alvelos, ID+ and University of Porto, Portugal
Cláudia Lima, ID+ and Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

This paper presents two studies developed within two funded research projects, intended to develop tools that support knowledge transfer
between older and current generations of students and practitioners in art and design. The first study involves a digital archiving andeducational platform designed to promote both practice and research in the field of the Portuguese manufacturing; it aims to support
the preservation and longevity of national and cultural heritage of traditional industries and crafts, thus ensuring effective access to
skills, techniques and artisanal knowledge among present and future generations. The second study concerns an interactive infographic
aiming at synthesizing and unraveling complex information pertaining to individual legacies of retired teachers and researchers in art anddesign. In order to collect and record the testimonies of these informants, a total of 30 interviews with key protagonists were conducted.
Once gathered, the information was extrapolated, analyzed and structured in order to foster pedagogical interfaces for primary use
within educational environments. Both studies aim to ensure bridges of knowledge between distinct, non-communicationg generations.
Through specific interfaces, the projects have outlined key contributions of digital media in the rescue and re-inscription of artistic andcreative legacies among younger generations, fostering dissemination, replicability, and collaboration.
56553

20:10-20:35

Pedagogical Practices for the Appropriation and Activation of Transgenerational Knowledge in Art and Design
Cláudia Lima, Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
Heitor Alvelos, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Susana Barreto, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Eliana Penedos-Santiago, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Nuno Martins, IPCA/ID+, Portugal
Rui Santos, ID+/FBAUP, Portugal
Pedro Amado, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

The paper reports on a set of pedagogical practices aiming at bridging knowledge and experience between older generations of artists
and current art students. The project began with a study of pedagogical practices of the School of Fine Arts of Porto (ESBAP), during the
1960s and 1970s, a remarkable period in ESBAP for its pedagogical approaches and faculty dynamics. This study was performed throughinterviews carried out to 31 artists who attended ESBAP in this period. Based on the best practices reported, three workshops were held inthree art and design institutions. All workshop sessions were free with no basic requirements except for the commitment of the students;
proximity between faculty and students was encouraged, dissipating notions of hierarchy in favor of a collaborative work; a studio-likeenvironment was created to foster greater sharing of ideas. Students were gathered in groups of 10 to 16 elements of different profiles andbackgrounds. Their projects were based on the prior interviews with artists and the study of their artworks. Results were positive: part ofthe students did not know these Portuguese artists, hence the workshops contributed to their education in local art history, as well as afirst step towards an inscription of these artists into the curricular repertoire; students benefited from sharing experiences between peerswith different backgrounds. The outcomes of the workshops are now the source of a series of ongoing public exhibitions, both amplifying
the resonance of the content among cultural and academic contexts, and potentiating further inter-generational dynamics.
56863

20:35-21:00

Tapestry as Community Art and Public Art

Eun-Kyung Jeong, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, United States
This paper is a case study of a community tapestry-making project, a multi-year effort to plan, fund, design, construct, and exhibit acollaborative public art making project, The Tapestry Project, in Western Oklahoma. The study utilizes autoethnography and autobiography
as research methodologies, which allowed me to reexamine and reflect using the photos, video, and personal documentation journals
I collected as the project’s guiding artist, and coordinator, as well as a community activist. This case study also explores the suitabilityof tapestry as a medium for communal public art efforts. This paper shares the challenges, the successes, and the lessons learned in
The Tapestry Project, such as suitability of tapestry as a medium for public art, the involvement of community members and volunteer
groups, roles of an administrator and a professional artist in a multi-year collaborative community public art making project, and various
uses of the completed tapestry project. Though my study is particular to Oklahoma, it posits guidance to arts administrators, artists, andcommunity members undertaking collaborative community art projects. The Tapestry Project models offers experience in strategies forraising interest in and awareness of public art in rural communities.

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09:45-11:00 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Wednesday Live Stream Session I
Session Topic: Gender and Families
Session Moderator: James W. McNally
56705

09:45-10:10

Marriage Inequality: How Family Registry Systems Effect Marriage Equality Movements in Japan and Taiwan
Jonathan Gilleland, University of North Georgia, United States

LGBTQ rights have progressed quickly in the 21st century. Much of this progress, however, has been in the global West. In 2019, Taiwan
became the first country in Asia to recognize same-sex marriage, leaving behind, Japan, which has not yet moved to recognize same-sex
marriage. Through a comparative political analysis, using case study methodology this study explores why Taiwan progressed towardmarriage equality and Japan has yet to do so. This study explores how family registry systems have affected LGBTQ rights and theprogression of marriage equality in two liberal democratic states in East Asia. This paper draws from the literature on the history, use, andcurrent status of the koseki and huji. It also applies gender and queer theory to international relations. The Japanese koseki shaped thecurrent system of marriage and families in Japan. In Taiwan, the island was forced to use a similar system that the inhabitants subverted
or disregarded in an effort to delegitimize the Japanese government. This study hypothesizes that these systems, known as koseki inJapan and huji in Taiwan, are patriarchal, heteronormative, and discriminatory and hindered the fight for LGBTQ rights and marriage
equality. In Japan, the koseki continues to discriminate against women, children born out of wedlock, and the LGBTQ community. In
Taiwan, the system continues to be subverted by residents. As an emerging beacon for LGBTQ human rights in Asia, Taiwan, as a norm
entrepreneur in Asia, has set an example for many other countries in the region to follow.
55527

10:10-10:35

Rethinking Support for Older People Caring for Their Grandchildren in Hong Kong
Lai-ching Leung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

This study aims to understand grandparenting experiences and their implications for social service support for grandparents who carefor their grandchildren in Hong Kong. Ten focus group interviews were conducted to 47 participants aged 55 years and over. The selection
criteria of the research target were (1) gender, (2) socio-economic background, and (3) age of grandparents. The findings of this study
show that intergenerational care is a social construction of three social dimensions, culture, gender, and class, that shape the experiencesof grandparents of childcare. Chinese grandparents were found to be willing to take up childcare duties mostly because of the influenceof familial ideology. Grandmothers were more likely to provide intensive care to their grandchildren than grandfathers, and some of themeven quit their jobs to take up care duties. Grandparents from low-income families were more likely to be involved in grandparenting thanthose from middle to high-income families. The findings of this study indicate that we need to rethink policy initiatives in three aspects:(1) to revamp the training programme for grandparents; (2) to consider childcare cash benefits for grandparents who provide care on aregular basis; (3) to provide community care services to grandparents to relieve their emotional distress from caring.
56435

10:35-11:00

Perceiving What Comes After War is ‘Natural’: Women Ex-soldiers in Post Conflict Aceh, Indonesia
Sait Abdulah, The National Institute of Public Administration, Indonesia

This paper focuses on the Free Aceh Movement or Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM) women ex-soldiers in the post-Helsinki agreement
period. This article argues that the patriarchal dividend in the form of material reward and higher social standing gained by the GAM
ex-commanders from the peace process are sustained through militarized masculine ideology in domesticating women ex-soldiers
into families and subsuming them into the mainstream GAM ex-military organization (the Aceh Transition Commission or the KPA,
Komite Peralihan Aceh). The research findings confirmed that women ex-soldiers’ subordination has been ‘taken for granted’ by theirex-commanders. The taken-for-granted-ness of the ex-commander's view on women ex-soldiers in the post-conflict Aceh was as aneffect of the gendered power relations. As a result the ex-commanders presumed women ex-soldiers’ return as going back into ‘normal’.
Women ex-soldiers’ return was presumed by their ex-commanders as going back into their families, back into society as ordinary girls or
women in villages. Although to some extent their ex-commanders still ‘recognized’ them as part of the GAM insurgency movement, in fact
their post-conflict retained military status was different from their male counterpart. The women were called by their ex-commanders as‘passive soldiers’ or ‘supporting soldiers’.

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11:15-12:55 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Wednesday Live Stream Session II
Session Topic: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Session Moderator: Clementina Cardoso
56782

11:15-11:40

Managing Small Institutional Portfolios: ETFs as a Viable Alternative
Jeffry Haber, Iona College, United States

Institutional portfolios provide necessary income for the efficient and effective management of the non-profit entities they are affiliated with. Many
(most) colleges have an associated endowment (institutional portfolio) or investment management company. The larger the portfolio the more
the resources available for managing the portfolio. Large portfolios (defining large as at least $2 billion) usually have an investment team that canhandle most of the tasks involved (initial due diligence, on-going due diligence, performance reporting, risk management, etc.). Smaller portfolios do
not have the resources to properly fund an investment office and procure the necessary talent. In the recent past (about 10 years ago) a common
way to manage the smaller institutional portfolio was with the oversight of a consultant who performed due diligence, recommended managers,
provided macro insights and handled performance reporting and elements of risk management. More recently, there has been a move to theoutsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) model, where an investment office has responsibility (and often discretion) over several institutional
portfolios. In the consultant model there were issues with the better investment funds having capacity constraints and the smaller portfolios having
limited (or no) access to these better funds. Similarly, in the OCIO model small portfolios are often unable to find acceptance with the most desirable
OCIOs. With the growth of the ETF market there may exist an opportunity for a smaller portfolio to obtain similar returns in a low-cost framework.
57087

11:40-12:05

Communication for Participation Building in Waste Management in Thungsong Municipality, Nakhon Si
Thammarat Province
Wittayatorn Tokeaw, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand

The objective of this research was to study the communication for participation building in terms of 1) communication problems; 2)communication policy; 3) communication process; 4) communication strategies; and 5) approaches for developing. This was aqualitative research based on in-depth interviews with 34 key informants, chosen through purposive sampling. The results showed that
1) Communication problems: a) local residents lacked understanding of the value and benefit of waste management, how to separate
household waste, the roles and responsibilities of the municipality; b) citizens had incorrect attitudes, thinking waste management was theduty of the municipality only; they lacked public conscience and a willingness to join in problem solving. c) the local residents’ behavior did
not include waste reduction, recycling, trash separation, and joint action to solve the problem of global warming. 2) Communication policy:
join to reduce waste, join to solve problems in a responsible way. 3) Communication process: build awareness, give information, change
attitudes and behavior through traditional media and new media. 4) Communication strategies: build participation in a people-centeredway with citizens as leaders and the municipality as a supporter; set shared goals; find tangible ways to reduce waste; use every medium
possible in the campaign. 5) Approaches to developing: expand the number of core leaders, continuously build awareness and try to
improve people’s knowledge, understanding, attitude and behavior concerning the waste problem by using every form of communication.
Encourage every group and individual to join in thinking, acting, evaluating and reaping the benefits of the project.
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Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach to Transboundary Water Resource Management in
Lower Mekong Basin
Nguyen Phuong Lan, Kyoto University, Japan

Mekong River is one of the major international freshwater sources in the world. The Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) comprised of four downstream
countries, including Thailand, Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Vietnam, plays an essential role in the development of economic, political and social
relations among member nations. The utilization of the basin's water brings substantial benefits to the region ranging from hydropower, fishery,navigation, to trade. In addition, the environment and ecosystem of the basin are experiencing negative impacts caused by the unbalanced
water using. The basic difficulty in transboundary water management is that integrated water management in the river basin can only beachieved if neighbor countries effectively cooperate. One of the most popular methods in the field of natural resource management is a trustable
tool called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP is much appropriate for water resource policymaking, especially for hydropower. The
literature, however, points out that there is no study to both structure the water using hierarchy and employ quantitative (objective) criteria to
the AHP model in LMB case. With regard to water resource management in LMB, there are no previous studies that applied the AHP approach to
LMB case. This study aims to analyze possible consequences of alternative water resource development scenarios characterized by 4 criteria(hydropower generation, fishery production, flood control, and navigation) and to assist in developing a suitable water policy in LMB applying
AHP. The author then suggests that state members should consider the possibility of collaborating according to the best cooperation scenario.
57731

12:30-12:55

Addressing the Behavioural Pitfall for Low-Income Rural Households in Malaysia’s Transition Toward a
Cashless Society
Kar Joon Fan, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore

Malaysia government has been explicit about the intention to transition into a cashless society, following the likes of Sweden, Kenya,
Zimbabwe and the well-known case of India. The main objectives of this move has been promoted as a way to fight corruption and theshift has been well underway with the recent initiatives from the central bank of Malaysia (BNM). The Ministry of Finance has even offeredcash transfer to encourage adoption of digital wallets. A major concern with the shift is that there will be a negative implication towards
those in the low-income household in its current form. From a behavioural aspect, there has been evidence that non-cash payment
method tends to induce higher willingness-to-spend, potentially putting those in low-income status at risk of poor financial choices. The
current state of infrastructure in the country, especially in the wider rural areas are ill-equipped to adopt these changes quickly and withminimal friction, potentially causing disruption to local trade and livelihood. The lack of robust regulation to ensure competitiveness andfairness for consumers will further compound the risk of deteriorating the progress made in financial inclusiveness. There are necessary
short-term pragmatic changes that the government has to priorities as part of its roadmap to cashless society but more in fundamental
regulations will need to be put in place to safeguard the welfare of those who are underserved.

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13:40-14:30 | Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Wednesday Live Stream Session III
Session Topic: Literature/Literary Studies
Session Moderator: Clementina Cardoso
57714

13:40-14:05“The Human Condition” in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
Michiko Tsushima, University of Tsukuba, Japan

In his essay about two brother-painters, the van Velde brothers, Samuel Beckett presents a view that both of them share a profoundinterest in "the human condition" which precedes their interest in painting. This view is related to Beckett’s own conception of art. He
himself was interested in "the human condition" in his creation of art. Beckett experienced the devastating situation in the Second World
War. Through his work (e.g., Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days) he explored the condition of those who survive in the world in
its extremity. This paper sheds light on “the human condition” depicted in Waiting for Godot and examines how it is linked to the questionof human finitude. In this play two tramps, abandoned in a vast ruinous space, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot. A distinctive
characteristic of this play is that "the human condition" is revealed in the act of waiting. Here the act of waiting means last ounce of belief
in the world where they live. In this sense, "the human condition" appears as "the link between man and the world" (Deleuze). The "humancondition" disclosed in this act of waiting involves human finitude. By analyzing specific scenes, the paper discusses the link between“the human condition” and finitude in this play in light of Steven Connor’s observation on Beckett’s "radical finitude". Connor describes it
as "this in-between condition – never at home in the world, but unable to be anywhere else than in the world".
55045

14:05-14:30

Evolution of Narcissistic Narration

Anjuli Thawait, Jagran Lakecity University, India
The study is done to show how the fictional world is influenced by the character’s "Narcissism" and whether it keeps the inner narcissist
in check or if it can turn an otherwise a good and positive character into a narcissist independent of the kind of civilization the characteris a part of. For the study to proceed, a book comparison is made with the narcissistic characters in mind, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
by Oscar Wilde, published in 1890, and the second is "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch, published in 1999. These two novels are about acentury apart; they portray not only the personality disorder in the characters but also a deep-rooted, malignant form of human demeanor
which not only lacks empathy but takes pride in derogating the ones closest to them, the mentality of pretense, the billboard show is allthese characters are cheering for, the question arises about their genre aspect as to why they were not given a psychological angle or was
it after the discovery of the personality trait with the development of abnormal psychology that their dialogue patterns were conclusive.
The subconscious deconstruction of these characters in this research digs deep within to exhibit the masks that they are wearing, andwhat they are when each of it falls off steadily. A brief study is carried out in this direction to contribute to the narration technique of"Narcissism of Characters", which also aligns with the parameters of "Psychological Fiction".

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Wednesday Live Stream Session IV
Session Topic: Aesthetics, Environment, and the Humanities
Session Moderator: Fan Li
55747

14:45-15:10

Possibilian Landscapes: An Exploration on Afterlife Dimensions
Mariah Concepcion, De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

The normality of death has dissolved in the context of society through the passage of time. Death has been celebrated before in the past
as a part of life. In the contemporary era, death is being revisited with a heightened social awareness wherein it is explored in different
facets of interdisciplinary studies, ranging from technological to cultural studies. Because of this phenomenon eventually people will
begin to ask: What comes after death? The afterlife is a realm of uncertainty and of possibilities. Different academic fields such asneurology, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy and the like extensively deconstruct, and in their own ways, define the realm of the afterlife.
Its ambiguous yet mysterious nature provides us with the opportunity to further explore intangible and unmappable landscapes thatare beyond human comprehension. Possibilian Landscapes imagines the idea of the afterlife through David Eagleman’s book on his
philosophy on Possibilianism, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. It explores the possibilities of afterlife dimensions as a means ofcreating new spatial translations in architecture, which would eventually lead to the expounding of the discourse of the relationshipbetween architecture and reality. In this book, she selected stories that possess strong cues in spatial visualization, with each story having
different spatial notions that the author would like to probe, provoke and explore. The author questions reality through architecture using
the afterlife as a platform, adapting and exploiting the energy of the contemporary wave of the afterlife as it sweeps today’s society.
58054

15:10-15:35

A “Misunderstanding” of the Tang Architecture: Interior Arrangements of Shinden-style Residences and Their
Chinese Sources
Yi Zhou, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China

The booming economy of China in recent years and its rising cultural awareness forged a popular opinion that “if one wants to see what
a Chinese Tang structure looks like he should go to Japan.” This oversimplified opinion was partly because Japanese architecture wasintensively influenced by Chinese architectural culture during the Nara and Early Heian period and Japan preserved the earliest examplesof timber structures in the world, it was also out of a nationalist’s nostalgia for the heyday of Chinese culture. With such an opinion in mind,
all differences between Chinese and Japanese early architectures were ignored. This paper develops a comparative analysis of the interiorof a Tang aristocrat’s house and a Heian aristocrat’s shinden-style house. By examining individual pieces of furniture, interior partitions,doors and lattice windows, as well as the way they were arranged in the two houses, this paper reveals how the imported Chinese interior
objects and devices were reinterpreted, used, and reorganized to accommodate the indigenous Japanese way of dwelling. For Japanese
historians who are more aware of the process of Japanization, this paper provides detailed descriptions of the Chinese interior throughreadings of texts, paintings, murals, and stone reliefs reflecting timber structures. In the end, I argue that the change in sitting positions
during the late Tang from floor-sitting to chair-sitting, in comparison to Japanese’ persistent floor-sitting habit, played a key role inshaping the differences in Chinese and Japanese interior of dwelling spaces from the eighth to the twelfth century.
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15:35-16:00

Theatre in Vietnam as Critique of the Environmental and Social Crisis
Anh Cao, Hanoi University, Vietnam
Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara, Italy

Halfway through the 2010s, Vietnam started to face major environmental and social problems in the race for globalization. Vietnamese
people have experienced a growing sense of anxiety and discomfort about the state of economy and started to realize that their priorities
may include responding to wider environmental issues. Since 2003 a special satirical comedy named Gặp nhau cuối năm, literally meaning
Year-End Gathering, also known as Táo Quân, has aired on the Vietnamese television. The show is a re-writing of the legend of the
Kitchen Gods, three imaginary figures who supervise and give an account of every household to the Jade Emperor, the ruler of the world.
Featuring their annual report to the Emperor, the show praises the improvements and criticizing the problems throughout the year throughsatirical narratives and parodic songs. Very popular among viewers for its hilariousness, the show also urges reflection on the social andenvironmental crisis and occasional indifference of the Gods. Its success calls for a reevaluation of theatre as a form of art that stimulatessocial awareness by intersecting entertainment and critique. This paper explores how the theatre can encourage people to develop criticalthinking and take responsibility. It also assesses the use of satire and parody in Gặp nhau cuối năm, its effectiveness as a form of social
critique entwining global and local concerns, the ways in which the TV can shape public opinion in Vietnam, and the people’s response to
unsettling topics involving micro and macro levels of comprehension.

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Wednesday Live Stream Session V
Session Topic: Politics, Public Policy, Law & Criminology
Session Moderator: Fan Li
56718

16:15-16:40

What does the Policy Formulation Process of East Lantau Metropolis and Lantau Tomorrow Vision Policy
Imply Hong Kong Policy Style
Poon Tsz Fung, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

East Lantau Metropolis, a Hong Kong reclamation plan of 1,000 ha in the Central Waters, appeared to have reached consensus in aterritory-wide consultation. However, the Government did not move forward to policy execution, but introduced a more aggressive andenhanced 1,7000 reclamation proposal of Lantau Tomorrow Vision. Such a move received even more grievances in the divided and highly
politicised community. The controversies of this issue can be seen and summarised 1) in terms of ideas that why the Government goes
far beyond the perceived consensus reached and introduced a brand-new proposal, and 2) in terms of actors and institutions that what
are the driving forces behind Lantau Tomorrow Vision. This paper explains and analyses this unconventional change in the policy processaccording to the four phases of policy formulation process as well as a key stakeholder analysis. Together with the consideration of thecurrent governance in Hong Kong, the unique policy style in Hong Kong under "One Country Two Systems" is conceptualised – implying a
conflicting mixture of Chinese Authoritarian style and British Majoritarian Style. This policy style can also be understood and is applicablewhen looking into other salient issues and the long-lasting anti-Government protest in the polarized society of today's Hong Kong.
56523

16:40-17:05

De-radicalization Style in Indonesian Pilot Prisons: Classification Scheme to Support Risk Reduction Theory
Maya Trisdamayanti, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Muhamad Syauqillah, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Jerry Marcellino Longahan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Puspitasari, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

In order to tackle radicalism and terrorism phenomenon in the 21st century that become a more serious threat for national security,
countries in the world have been implementing various soft approach methods and techniques that adjusted to domestic wisdom of therespective countries. In Indonesia, the so-called de-radicalization program has been designated for its terrorist prisoners who serve theirsentence in prisons. Numerous studies analyze its advantages and weaknesses, and some have identified its failure. Purpose of thisstudy is to analyze the failure of the Indonesian de-radicalization program and identify its causes. This study uses qualitative method,which supported by data that collected through literature review, observations, and interview sessions. Among some of the causes,
previous studies show that lack of post release (after-care) program, in addition to minimum monitoring and evaluation system, havean impact on recidivism. That said, former terrorist inmates have been identified returning violence and involve in terrorism. Further inthis study, it develops risk reduction theory that requires behavioral change of terrorist inmate, in order to reduce the risk of recidivism.
An inmate classification scheme is used to measure risk level of each inmate, and intended to identify prison assignment, the required
level of supervision and control, as well as identifying appropriate de-radicalization program for each terrorist inmate. Prisons in Nusa
Kambangan Island are designated as pilot prisons of this project. The Indonesian prison authorities keep developing the risk reduction
and the inmate classification scheme, working closely with relevant parties in order to achieve success.
57539

17:05-17:30

Communication Management for Building Political Popularity of the Mayor of Muang Ngam in Songkhla
Province, Thailand
Karn Boonsiri, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand

The objective of this research was to study the management of communications to build political popularity used by the mayor of Muang
Ngam Municipality in terms of 1) general situation; 2) communication patterns; and 3) the communications process. This was a qualitative
research based on observation and interviews with 30 key informants. Data collection tools were an observation form and an in-depth
interview form. Data were analyzed by descriptive analysis. The results showed that 1) General situation of communication management:(a) the mayor communicated with the public consistently to build and maintain political popularity; (b) The content was about the mayor’s
mission, vision, policies, plans, projects, work results, leadership and general government news; (c) The media used were group meetings,
social media, community leaders, signs, posters, audio transmissions through the public address system and pamphlets; (d) The results
were that citizens were informed and understood and they were interested and followed the news on a regular basis; (e) A public relations
unit under the direction of the mayor was in charge of the communications management. 2) Communication patterns: (a) formal andinformal; (b) news about the mayor was combined with other news about the municipality; (c) communications were short and to-thepoint, easy to understand and tailored to meet the needs of the audience; 3) Communication management process: (a) fact finding about
the channels, topics and formats; (b) planning communications to reach every target group; (c) communication using every medium; and(d) periodic evaluation to find areas that could be improved.
56992

17:30:17:55

2019 Mayoral Elections in Turkey in the Light of Online Fragmentation and Polarization
Seval Yurtcicek Ozaydin, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Online polarization through fragmentation around ideological lines is a major issue in political communication science. A central questionis whether and how big social events such as elections are contributing to reinforcing the online fragmentation and echo chambers
towards a sharpening polarization. Because of its various aspects, 2019 Mayoral Elections in Turkey was a milestone in Turkish political
history, affecting the general politics considerably. In this work, retrieving and analyzing data from Twitter with specific hashtags aroundthe elections, we shed light onto the evolution of the online political polarization due to elections. Our results aim to contribute not only
to politics in Turkey but in a general sense, to the theory of political fragmentation, echo chambers and polarization around the world.

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Aesthetics, Design
55872

Nature in Ikebana (Japanese Flower Arrangement): Beyond Sustainability
Shoso Shimbo, RMIT University, Australia

Western culture, in particular the Modernism Art Movement has had a significant influence on ikebana since the Meiji period. While ikebana likeother traditional art forms was under the influence of the Japanese fascism in 1930’s, it was this period that ikebana has undergone a culturaltransformation that is closely related to a redefinition of ikebana, incorporating a reconsideration of the attitude to nature in Japan. This study
focus on the works by several ikebana artists and theorists in 1930’s who were particularly conscious of the influence of Western culture on
ikebana. There is an argument that under the influence of Western culture, there was a shift in the view of what ikebana symbolically representsfrom universal structural orders to life energy. However, these external and internal views were both mentioned in the classic ikebana text, Senno
Kuden (1542), where the author discussed his approach in terms of both process and product of creating ikebana for the deeper appreciationof nature. This concept of ikebana as a representation of life energy did not begin with the reformers, it has been around since the early stageof development in ikebana and deserves more attention. This study suggests that, after encountering Western culture, it became necessary for
ikebana artists and theorists to reconsider the essence of ikebana that reflects the differences in the perception of nature in the West and in Japan.
56843

Embracing Difference – The Demonstration of Regional Cultural Aesthetics in Design Elements of Olympics Posters
Yun Lin, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Jiawei Jiang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Kaihsu Sun, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

This research is aimed at analyzing the development and formation of Olympics posters from 1896 to 2019, and studying the regional culturaldifference in poster design features between western and eastern continents. The study concentrated on the content of both summer andwinter Olympics posters, and the importance of visual communication along with visual tension and design features. The KJ method andthe content analysis will be used in this study for primary methodologies, with the focus group interview the examination of content analysis
for the poster samples can help finding the design features in common. This study refines the essentiality of the poster design development,
and reclaim the vital heritage of tradition and glory during the past century, to get prepared for the future of visualization era. Researcher
expects this investigation offers the details of cultural difference in design features and image, and brings out the inspiration of conception.
56987

Study on Communication Design Education Establishing Project-based Advertising Competition
Ching-Jung Fang, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan

Design competitions are often thought as a tool for creating new trends and ideas, so they are widely used in various countries aroundthe world to find good ideas. Participating in the design competition has become an evaluation index for critical teaching achievementsof colleges and universities in Taiwan. A lot of design competitions have been included into the design curriculum. In the past ten years,
students have achieved outstanding performances in the thematic advertising design competition, which has been recognised byacademic fields. However, when students demonstrate excellent designing skills, does it really mean that the training involved in thedesign competition has the values and fit the goals of design education? And do the students really have good results in design education?
These questions are worthy of further study. This project invites industry experts and academic advertising design scholars to understandthe value and goals of designing educational talents. The results of the study can be used as a reference for future curriculum design.
57042

Embracing Difference: Case Study of Boa in Japanese-Korean Pop Music Album Cover Design
Kai Hsu Sun, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Yun Lin, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

BoA is a Korean musician who has a high reputation as an art performer in Asia, especially Japan and Korea from 2000 to 2019. She wasthe very first Korean entertainer that has launched the amount of a million records in Japan with her album “LISTEN TO MY HEART” in
2003. During her career, she reveals the cross-cultural possibilities of art performance, and won the“Most Influential Artist Award” and“Favorite Artist Korea”. This research is focused on the art and graphic design of BoA album cover released in Japan and Korea. Also, look
into design aspects and the cultural difference of Pop Music in East Asia. Case study will be used in this article as the formation of researchmethodology for analysis in various design elements and emphasis on colour and visual style. According to the result of aggregation anddiscussion, the colour tone is mostly harmony in Japan. In contrary, the colour chosen in Korea is instead a contrast combination. It is
important to indicate the diversity of intercultural design perspective when we are facing into a generation of globalization as a designer.
57071

The Micro Motion of Ambient Surrounding – An Exploration of Techno-biophilic Design
Tzu-Yao Yang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
June-Hao Hou, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Biophilia hypothesis was devised by Edward O. Wilson(1984), being based on evolutionary psychology, which suggests that "people havethe innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes". So far, the development of the theory has been invested in many different fields,
which proves that it is helpful for human physical and mental health. It has also attracted attention in the field of architecture and interior.
The mainstream is the planning and configuration of "actual natural" such as the introduction of natural light, vegetation walls, and plantdecorations. In recent years, facing the development of information technology and the Internet of Things, people have become inseparable fromtheir digital lives. It seems push you and me farther away from the nature. Excessive Internet dependence and addiction have caused people tobecome detached from the real environment and cause mental illness. However, can Biophilia return to our lives through digital technology? SueThomas (2015) devised a concept of "Technobiophilia", which is "the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes as they appear intechnology". This study is based on the above review to sum up that the development of digital technology can be a resistance or a help while
facing the biophilia, and the key point is how it coexists and awakens the importance of people's perception of the ambient environment. And
based on the research, this study explores the distance and relationship between nature and people through projected images.

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Arts Theory & Criticism
55385

No Hands, No Feet: Power in the Art Vision of Bahman Mohasses
Parnaz Goodarzparvari, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Francisco Carlos Bueno Camejo, University of Valencia, Spain
Miguel Molina Alarcon, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

As one of the most famous contemporary Persian sculptors, two subjects are important in the work of Bahman Mohasses: the physical aspect andthe treatment of the object based on the growth, decay, and dissolution of the body, as well as the power of isolation or loneliness. In the works ofMohassess, the issue of authority in terms of power and preservation, overcoming others and domination of peripheral conditions is posed. This
dominance ultimately leads to isolation and staying alone. People are great, with huge muscles and physics are complex but at the same time they are
empty from the inside. In appearance, we have a terrible authority, and this apparent character, seen in humans, birds and fish, lacks real power. They can
only impose themselves and the audience. This unscrupulous power is both frightening for the audience and for the person, like a gun. Investigation of
the evolution of his life shows that the main reason for the attitude to the phenomenon of power is to face this concept from a young age. He takes thelead in defying the power of government and the power of public opinion. But it has not benefited from it, so it is walking with disappointment towards
its opposite. There is no achievement there, and so they are both worried. Therefore, his works have a colorful sociological attitude. This power ismanifested in various forms in the work of the Mohasses: in the context of gender, conflict and opposition, confrontation, isolation and re-integration.
55856

Investigating the Digital Sublime through Photographers’ Views of Reality: A Case Study of Jessica Labatte’s Spotting Project
Yi-hui Huang, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, United States

The digital sublime refers to digital-composite photographs that present “the existence of something unpresentable” (Lyotard, cited in Linn, 1996, p. 97)
and that render a matchless look – a sophisticated fabrication, a perfect and clean composition, a maximum color saturation, a multiple-point perspective,
and stunning or new-fangled content (Foster et al., 2004; Lipkin, 2005; Marien, 2002; Ohlin, 2002). Dissatisfied with the representation of the outer worldthat can be easily accomplished by pressing a single shutter button, photographers who painstakingly synthesize images together to create the digitalsublime seem to be compelled to create personal versions of the world, which may be closer to the beliefs through which they interpret and interact
with the world. To gain a better understanding of these photographers’ digital sublime photographs, I propose that we investigate the artist’s views ofreality by asking, “What is your definition of reality?” and “How do you visualize your reality in your digital composite?” This paper cites contemporary
photographer Jessica Labatte’s project Spotting as an example. From the analysis of Labatte’s views of reality, the “unpresentable” substance that
Labatte’s photographs try to present reflects human’s intangible perceptions and experiences, specifically the discrepancy between one’s perceptionof the primary and secondary quality of an object as outlined by British empiricist philosopher John Locke. This paper has a conclusion that Labatte’s
sublime photographs provide viewers with realist knowledge. This study has implications for how digital sublime photographs can be studied and taught.
58157

The Main Thing is That You Know What You Want”: The Matter of Identity and Difference in Tove Jansson's Art
Anna-Maria Wiljanen, Finnish Institute in Japan, JapanThe main thing is that you know what you want"": the matter of identity and its effect on the multifaceted, different world of Tove Jansson and her art. The
quote was made by Snufkin in the Tove Jansson's (1914-2001) book Moominsummer Madness (1954) but it could also describe the art and life of thismultitalented artist. Tove Jansson's Moomin books are immensely popular not only in Japan but worldwide, her artistry well-known and both have been
subject of research. This year marks the celebration of the publishing of the first Moomin book The Moons and the Great Flood (1945) which quite naturally
raises questions like how could Tove Jansson create something so different and meaningful within different art genres? How was the new different way
of writing, painting and illustrations created in her mind? This presentation will focus on the identity of Tove Jansson, the visual artist, comic strip artist,
illustrator and novelist by using different theories of identity developed by for example Stuart Hall and Anthony Giddens. In his publication Modernity and
Self-Identity (1991) Giddens states that individuals often reappropriate fragments of the knowledge and experience previously expropriated by social andnatural sciences. These fragments are then put together and will form stories, self-narratives about the individuals lives, themselves and their worlds. The
second part of the presentation focuses on social network theory by Jacob L. Moreno, how it can be applied to Tove Jansson's identity development andhow the networks can be seen in her art.

First Nations & Indigenous Peoples
56590

Without Dictionaries: Translating Indigenous Oral Literature From GreecePeter Constantine, University of Connecticut, United States

The field of Translation Studies tends to overlook the extensive indigenous linguistic diversity of Europe and the particular issues that translators ofmarginalized and endangered languages face. The European Centre for Modern Languages counts 225 indigenous local languages spoken in Europe,
most of which are at risk of falling out of use. In Greece alone there are several critically endangered indigenous languages, among them Arvanitika,
Pomakika, Vlach, Ndopye, Nashte, and Tsakonika. In my oral presentation I would like to focus on Arvanitika, a severely endangered language spoken
in remote areas of central and southern Greece, and discuss some of the challenges of translating its oral literature. Arvanitika is moribund; it will be
extinct within a generation or two, and Greece will lose an important part of its fragile linguistic ecosystem, leaving a monoculture of Greek. My uncle
Georgios Soukoulis, one of the last fluent speakers in our village in the Corinthian mountains, invented a writing system based on Greek letters in orderto capture our oral history for future generations and to record our legends and poetry. His aim was to create a first (and unfortunately last) extensive
document of our local language so that its words and culture will be preserved, and over the past fifteen years I have made the only sustained soundrecordings of our language. In my presentation I will outline the challenges of being both a translator and language conservationist working in anunder-resourced dying language that has no official writing system, literature, or dictionaries.

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History/Historiography
56227

Space and Politics of Sukarno’s Utopian Vision Exhibition in Gedung Pola, Jakarta, Indonesia
Amy Marku, Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, Russia
Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
M. Nanda Widyarta, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Gedung Pola not only functions as an exhibition room built specifically to exhibit Sukarno’s Utopian vision on architecture and city planning
but also it has become a place to exhibit his political strategy on Nationalism and Modernism. The building serves as a representative
political space for Sukarno’s ideal propaganda for Jakarta citizens in particular and all Indonesian citizens in general. This paper elaborates
on how an exhibition not only was used as a representative visual medium but also how it has become a political strategy. Sukarno’s
ideology could be understood by reciting his archives as evidence, which will be interpreted through a hermeneutical approach to view anarchitecture artefact as a historical phenomenon. In reciting these archives, leftover traces will be interpreted phenomenologically, as away to address the existence of political space in Gedung Pola and also to reveal how an exhibition can be a strategy for political space.
58148

The Japanese Community in Wartime Nanjing
Norihito Mizuno, Akita International University, Japan

This presentation focuses on the life of Japanese community and residents in Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945).
The formation of the Japanese community in Nanjing can be traced back to the very end of the nineteenth century or the beginning of thetwentieth century, but it had remained overshadowed by the larger neighboring Japanese communities in Shanghai and Hankou before
the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945) started. A completely different story awaited the Japanese community after the outbreak of
the war in the summer of 1937. The popular view is that the Japanese seizure of the capital city of the Republic of China in December
1937 led to the so-called "Rape of Nanking", which devastated the city. Another fact is, on the other hand, that the Japanese militaryoccupation brought about the abrupt and large-scale influx of Japanese settlers into the city. By scrutinizing the local edition of theJapanese newspaper publish, Asahi Shimbun, published in wartime Central China, this presentation attempts to describe the wartime lifeof Japanese residents in Nanjing which previous studies had paid quite little attention to.

Language, Linguistics
57446

Error Analysis: The Main Writing Errors of EFL Learners Task 2 IELTs Academic Essay
Leveth Jackson, Keiai University, Japan

This study sought to examine and analyze the frequency of writing errors and determine the causes behind such errors made by first time
test takers of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) academic writing essay-Task 2. The four criteria specified for the
IELTS Writing Band Scores (British Council, 2019) were taken into consideration. A corpus of Japanese adult learners academic writing Task 2
essays in an Intensive Writing Course were carefully examined to determine the main writing errors following the procedure for Error Analysis
proposed by Corder (1967). The research adopted an analytical descriptive approach. The findings revealed that verb tense, article errors,
spelling and subject verb agreement were the most common writing errors made by learners. With regards to cohesion, coherence and lexical
resource, poor progression in paragraphs, parts of the essay being incomprehensible, vague topic sentences, poor use of transition signals
and incorrect use of target lexical items were the most common categories of errors. According to the results it is revealed that male learners
made more written errors in comparison to female learners. Based on the findings of the most common recurring errors, recommendations
and suggestions that are of significant importance to educators, EFL learners and policy makers were presented in detail.
57461

A Cognitive Linguistics Application for Second Language Grammar Pedagogy
Vanessa Pang, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

Due to the complexity of the English tense-aspect system, tense and aspect constitute a major source of error for EFL learners. A Cognitive
Linguistics (CL)-based approach could potentially help learners develop a more meaningful understanding of grammatical constructions
due to its focus on conceptual meaning. In this quasi-experimental study, 60 participants were from three S.4 intact classes at a secondary
school in Hong Kong. The three classes were randomly assigned to one of these conditions: cognitive and task-supported, task-supported,and control. The three groups took a pretest, an immediate post-test and a delayed post-test. This study aims to investigate the pedagogicaleffectiveness of applying CL analysis of English tense and aspect to L2 instruction and integrating CL-inspired explicit instruction into
task-supported instruction on the L2 development of the English tense-aspect system as measured by both controlled and free production
tasks. The findings of analysis of variance procedures and t-test (p <.0001) indicate that participants from the cognitive and task-supported
group outperformed the participants from the task-supported group and the control group and demonstrated a more flexible use of past andprogressive morphology. This study paves the way towards a rethinking of grammar instruction in favour of the CL-based approach.
58168

Illustration Can Be Seen as One Kind of Translation: Case Studies of Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland Picture Books
Peiying Wu, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Through analyzing different versions of Alice in Wonderland picture books, this paper reveals that illustration can be seen as one kindof translations. The aims of a decent translation are to reach three levels: functional – to express meanings understood as original text;
cultural – to show enhanced or hidden implications under different context; and critical – to demonstrate intellectual correspondence inreadings. Illustration accomplishes all these three. Furthermore, in Translation and Interpreting Studies, there is a difficulty in choosing
dynamic equivalence or formal correspondence translation when one transforms a language into another. By using visual technics andtheories from illustration, such as visualization (text into image), visual semiotics, visual perception and color theory, it not only comecross these two problems, but also achieve three levels of a good translation – functional, cultural and critical.

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Literature/Literary Studies
54796‘Space as a Sign System’: Exploring Lexical Semantics in Relation to Cultural Geography – A Case Study of
Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight’
Anupa Lewis, Manipal Institute of Communication, India

The research paper attempts to examine as to how the idea of ‘space’ when regarded as a literary construct, may be ideally mapped in a given text: firstin terms of the literal and obvious elemental descriptions of ‘cartographic geography’ available to a casual reader-aka-somnambulist at a cursory glance;and second, in terms of its logical extension to the abstraction of ‘cultural geography’ that can only be revealed by one consciously mining a labyrinth oflexical structures. The resultant contention is, the dynamics of ‘space’ in a stipulated context can be studied as a comprehensive ‘sign system’, devoid of
extrinsic support. Stemming from this line of enquiry, the proposition is to establish the theoretical connection between ‘Lexical Semantics’ and ‘Cultural
Geography’ using Ursula K. Le Guin’s ethnographic fiction as a potential case study. While Cultural Geography correlates the natural environment with thehuman organization of space, its conceptual base branches into three discursive figments: ‘traditional’ cultural geography (where signs for intervention
in the natural landscape are studied – e.g. buildings, dams, technology), ‘new’ cultural geography (where signs for non-material culture are studied – e.g.
identity, power, ideology), and ‘more-than-representational’ geographies (where signs expand unto the enactment or performance of the more-thanhuman, more-than-textual aspects)(Lorimer, 2005). Similarly, Lexical Semantics as an approach to reading a text seeks to assign meanings to words,
phrases, expressions or idioms by emphasizing the lush nexus of semantic relations in a predatory lexical environment.
57074

Energy’s Proleptic Promises: Locating Infrastructure and the Future Anterior in Yamashita and Lerner
Reuben Martens, KU Leuven, BelgiumThis paper draws on recent developments in the energy humanities to argue for a more multifaceted account of the temporality of infrastructure (beyond the
dyad of continuity and apocalypse) and for the vital role of literature in making an anti-apocalyptic temporality apprehensible. The argument consists of two
steps. First, by interrogating our physical/emotional reliance on (energy’s) infrastructure, this paper intends to excavate a revitalised understanding of thepromises & failures of infrastructure, which can help the field of literary studies move beyond its fascination with apocalyptical thinking. In a second move,the paper will show how contemporary American fiction has begun to model such a mode of physical and emotional attachment to a sustainable and durable
infrastructure that just might survive the current Anthropocene emergency. The case studies are Yamashita’s "Tropic of Orange" and Lerner's "10:04”; twonovels that are deeply engaged with infrastructure, energy, and the urgency to resist apocalyptic thinking. The focus will shift to the use of prolepsis, which
serves to imagine a future that is not an intensification or denial of the present, but that is strangely continuous with what is worth preserving in the present.
57352

Panethnic Moments: Mestizaje and the Philippines in Discourses of Hygiene and Disease
Everet Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States

Gloria Anzaldúa’s mestiza consciousness refers to a new consciousness defined by ambiguity and an attentiveness to difference; mestiza
consciousness’s refusal to let go of difference is what sets it apart from earlier theories such as Jose Vasconcelos’s La Raza Cosmica.
My essay explores the linkages between Asian identity and the Latin American concept of mestizaje through the lens of public hygiene incolonial discourse, particularly within leper colonies established in the Philippines at Culion in the early 1900s. Through these historicalexamples of racialization via public hygiene ordinances, I locate Filipino identity in a liminal space both in between and within Asian and Latin
American identity. By examining the linkages between hygiene, coloniality, and race, I investigate how Filipino identity operates separately
as an Asian identity, and a Latin American identity, while simultaneously existing independently and as a composite of these two identities.
Put simply, I argue in this essay that Filipino identity’s position between and within multiple racial identities brings it into alignment withAnzaldúa’s conception of mestiza consciousness. I expand on this idea by analyzing Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and her development of the
new mestiza consciousness––which finds its foundations in a special attention to difference––in conjunction with a literary analysis ofFilipina expatriate Jessica Hagedorn’s 1990 novel Dogeaters. By reading Anzaldúa’s theory alongside Hagedorn’s seminal work on Filipino
culture, identity, and history, my hope is to illustrate how it is that the suspension of Filipino identity between the worlds of Asia and Latin
America has a generative panethnic potential.
57697

Representation of Spirituality in Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) Eat Pray Love and its Reception in a Chinese Context
Elaine Y. L. Ng, Wenzhou Kean University, China

Elizabeth Gilbert’s (2006) memoir Eat, Pray, Love depicts her journey of self-discovery following a difficult divorce. Her travels consist of three phrases –(1) pleasure-seeking in Italy, (2) finding spirituality in India, and (3) maintaining a balance between the two in Bali. The author’s truth-seeking journey has
resonated with a huge readership worldwide. The research aims to study the rendition of spirituality and its reception in China since the work was firsttranslated by He Pei Hua and published in Taiwan in 2007, and later brought to China in 2008 and reprinted by two different publishers since then. The study
encompasses textual analysis and extra-textual investigation. The textual part studies the rendition of spirituality as expressed in mental clauses containing
the verbs “meditate and think” and speech and thought presentation in the pray part of the book. It explores how the author represents mindfulness andmeditation, and how these terms are rendered into Chinese. For the extra-textual exploration, it focuses on collecting information about the translation andthe translation process, its reception and impact on readers as well as situational factors concerning the publishers, the translator’s biography, and others
that shape its production. Specifically, it investigates the reception of the Chinese versions through the study of readers’ reviews and comments on thetranslated texts posted online. The underlying objective of the research is to explore the translation of Gilbert’s (2006) Eat Pray Love in a Chinese context andhow the work is shaped by an intricate web of inter-relations.

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Literature/Literary Studies (cont'd)
58157“Visual Colonization”: A Discussion on “Visual Expression” in Geling Yan’s Novels

Jia Xin Liu, Jinan University, China
Yuan Hsun Chuang, China University Technology, Taiwan
Visual culture has increasingly shifted into a dominant culture in contemporary society. More and more visual factors appear in non-visual arts and affecttheir creation methods, which results in “visual colonization” (Wei, 2009). As a non-visual art, literature is also influenced. This paper illustrates the film
adaptation of literary works as a way of “visual colonization”, challenges the techniques of literary creation, and aims to make literary creation marketoriented. In order to satisfy the needs of audience, the visual rules of film art such as the visual thinking and film-making have restrained the literary creation.
Particularly, some writers emphasize fostering the technique of visual expression and the use of lens-based narrative strategy. This paper explores four of
Geling Yan’s novels, Xiu Xiu: The Sent-down Girl (1996), The Flowers of War (2007), Little Aunt Crane (2008) and The Ninth Widow (2008) to demonstrate
the visual narration in her creation. It is concluded that Geling Yan uses the technique of “visual expression” and the montage narrative model in her novels
to transcend the boundaries of textual spaces, which is in accordance with the screen aesthetics and wins the favor of adaptation by the film makers.
56638

Double Consciousness in British Asian Writing
Najma Yusufi, University of Brighton, United Kingdom

My father’s work took us all over the world, then to a British boarding school. The result was a duality that ran through me; this was a sensibility that was very
British but at the same time very Indian. This sensibility impacted the way I wrote my novel Begums of Peshawar (Hachette, 2018). Focusing on the recent revivalof critical interest in migration and belonging that, Sara Upstone has spoken of in her work. She comments “Rather than alienation, these novels are seen to offer
self-assurance, dwelling rather than diaspora, and a new hybridity less about being “in-between” cultures and more about the fact that culture is now, in essence,"in-between" raises the question of whether such novels deserve their characterization as dynamic 21st-century departures”. Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane has
characters that question their place in society. Kureshi too has dealt with the theme of belonging in his novel Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and so has Sahota in
his book Year of the Runaways (2015). All three novelists come from a dual background. I address themes of double consciousness in their work. I shed light on
hybridity and belonging that the current Brexit climate has also bought about and how this impacts my second novel. Building on the work of other academics
I suggest that British Asian authors have a double consciousness that informs their writing and enhances their storytelling throwing up questions of belonging.

Media Arts Practices
56736

Glycoscience Augmented Reality Application Demonstrated with Merge Cube
Gwo-Long Lin, I-Shou University, Taiwan

Popular science education of biomedical knowledge can be monotonous and beyond understanding, so it is necessary to involve fun elements and toharness the suitable demonstration tool to make it more approachable. Merge Cube, a cube-like object trending on the Internet, has an iconic designof pattern recognition which is suitable for augmented reality (AR) applications. This has built up Merge Cube’s popularity among schools and it has
now been gradually included in popular science education for teenagers. Nowadays, application of augmented reality has been widely implemented
in all sorts of fields besides popular science education, and it is often promoted via the Unity software due to the software’s easy-to-use and highly
compatible feature. These sorts of application can be performed with the cameras in common mobile devices, making it convenient to be spreadamong the public. Also, when the virtual images are placed in a real-world environment, more interactions can be stimulated, resulting in dynamicchanges throughout the process. In the article, we will use Merge Cube as the platform and the Unity software as our tool to produce biomedical
contents respectively and integrate them into large scale projects. By simply holding the Merge Cube in front of smartphones, users will be able todemonstrate all kinds of digital content to others. Our main demonstration content in the article will be focused on Glycoscience education and related
2D teasers, RPG games and 3D games etc., and we aim to bring users a brand-new experience in the augmented reality environment.
54154

Content Analysis of the Forum Theater Play Melanie on HIV/AIDS Stigma
Kathryna Marie Lopez, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines
Aldo Gavril Lim, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines

The study aimed to determine how the forum theater play Melanie portrayed HIV/AIDS stigma, specifically: 1) count occurrences of HIV/AIDS stigma
based on three conceptual frameworks on stigmatization; 2) analyze how the theatrical codes identified by Kowzan (1975; as cited by Segre, 1980) are
related to the portrayal of HIV/AIDS stigma; and 3) identify the HIV/AIDS themes that surfaced from the open forum. The play was analyzed throughquantitative content analysis. Guided by a codebook, it was studied by watching the recorded performance and reading the script. Reliability results
were observed with values ranging from slight to moderate and one poor rating. A total of 68 scenes were studied and only self-stigma, stereotyping,and producing, legitimizing, and perpetuating social inequality had scenes unanimously identified. Out of the five theatrical codes, only spoken text
and actor’s external aspect were constantly coded in all scenes featuring HIV/AIDS stigma. Meanwhile, HIV/AIDS testing, HIV/AIDS treatment, andHIV/AIDS prevention and risk reduction were the three most frequently discussed themes during the open forum. Most of which were surfaced fromthe answers of the cast. In conclusion, Melanie portrayed HIV/AIDS stigma predominantly through depictions of self-stigma wherein characters insist
that they are HIV/AIDS-negative. Future researchers are suggested to improve coding instructions and the indicators for each type of stigma. It is alsosuggested that other local plays on HIV/AIDS be studied and a comparative study be done to analyze how HIV/AIDS was tackled in the performanceor through the types of stigma presented in this study.

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Media Arts Practices
56958

The Effect of Smell in the Representation of Family in Post-war Japanese Films
Yui Hayakawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan

This study aims to examine the effect of smell in the representation of family in Japanese films of the 1950s and 60s. Previous Japanese film
studies have concentrated on analyzing vision and sound instead of smell because the sense of smell has been thought to be too subjective.
This paper explores the importance of smell in Japanese films of the 1950s and 60s. There has been studies on the effect of smell in fiction.
In these studies including studies of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), smell has often been associated with memory. This
paper focuses on presentiment and intimacy linked to smell. By referring to Chantal Jaquet’s Philosophie de l’odorat (2010), I analyze postwar Japanese films which represent family relationships such as Yasujiro Ozu’s Early Spring (1956), Mikio Naruse’s A Woman’s Place (1962),
and Keisuke Kinoshita’s Times of Joy and Sorrow (1957). When these films depict some presentiments, whether it is comfortable or not, thesense of smell hints at the future which hasn’t arrived yet and is coming soon. Furthermore, the link between smell and intimacy is foundin these films. For example, there are scenes in which characters share the same smell which imply their intimate relationship. Therefore,
although it may be true that the sense of smell is less objective than the visual sense and auditory sense, it represents the psychological andtemporal proximity beyond time and space. The sense of smell plays a very important role in the representation of family in Japanese films.

Other Arts
56921

Embracing Difference: Two Case Studies of Western Painting Style Embroidery in China
Jiawei Jiang, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Yun Lin, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

This study explores how traditional Chinese embroidery representing the special texture of western paintings through changes in stitch, colorand manuscript through case analysis. Chinese embroidery is one of the most important traditional arts and crafts, which developed throughthousands of years’ profound culture. It was originally focusing on representing Ink Art painting and was named “painting embroidery (畫繡)”, which is one kind of ornamental embroidery. With the traditional ornamental embroidery declining, embroidery artists began to absorb
the characteristics of western paintings, especially emphasizing on the colour combination. In the past, the pattern suitable for embroidery
was limited to traditional Chinese paintings. Nowadays, it seems that all kinds of paintings can be referred to. In order to represent thesepaintings, the selection of stitch, color and manuscript must be changed. This research emphasizing on two embroidery techniques, namely,
the “Emulational embroidery” created by Shou Shen and the “random stitch embroidery” created by Shouyu Yang. By using case study, thisresearch expects to understand the innovation of Chinese embroidery techniques. It is found that “random stitch embroidery” is the stackingof embroidery threads by using the density, layer, length and interweaving of needles and threads, showing the changes of light and shadow toreflect the sense of space in western painting. “Emulational embroidery” stitch imitates the sketch strokes and adopts the method of virtual andreal needles for embroidery, paying more attention to the changes of light and shadow in the picture in color.

Performing Arts Practices: Theater, Dance, Music
56315

Keroncong Music and Social Identity in Surakarta, Indonesia
Santosa Soewarlan, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Indonesia

This article aims at exploring how keroncong (folk music) musicians construct identity in community contexts. Performing music is not free from contexts rather it
authorizes their position and role in that society. Being on stage they want to confirm statuses and validate world-views in public. They intend to present ideals andthoughts in larger settings. With that process, they strengthen meanings and legitimize organic structure of the community. They interact and negotiate thoughts
resulting in the formation of identity among the musicians. Leading to the construction of identity musicians formulate a social group guided by three social
categories: individuality, originality, and adaptability. In the implementation of individuality musicians forge social cohesion as a social group. In that process thiscategory is intensified by originality in which the second enhances the quality of the first. Finally, the musicians empower these categories by contextualizing theiradaptability in performance settings. These processes synthesize elements of social categories that eventually lead to specific musicians’ identity.

Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
57569

Keeping Hume’s Guillotine: The Validity & Deontic Irrelevance of ‘is’-‘ought’ Inferences
Melvin Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ever since its formulation in Hume’s (1739) A Treatise of Human Nature, philosophers have had to contend with the idea of an inferential barrier
between non-ethical (‘is’) propositions and ethical (‘ought’) propositions. Much of my work focuses on providing a more logically rigorous
characterization of the is-ought thesis, describing Prior’s Paradox in terms of a dilemma and its two horns, and identifying the implications of thisparadox for the is-ought thesis. An evaluation of various formal defenses to Prior’s Paradox on behalf of Hume will be made. In addition, I will also
introduce the term ‘deontic irrelevance’ to describe Prior-style ‘is’-‘ought’ inferences, draw connections between these formal defenses and otherinformal defenses of Hume’s inferential barrier, and attempt to shed more light on the nature of ethical argumentation and its uses in general.

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Religion, Spirituality
56936

Whose Festival? Ritual Reconstruction and the Shaping of “Sense of Place”: The Mazu Meets the Mary
Xiaochun Chen, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan

On October 20, 2018, in Wanluan Township, Pingtung, Taiwan. A religious activity named "When the Holy Mother (Mazu) From the East Meets the Virgin (Mary)
From the West - Let Love Fly" was co-organized by the Centennial Catholic Church of Wanjin and the Taoist Zongtian Temple of Taiwan. This was the first formal
meeting between the two religions across time and culture in the past millennium. However, although this was a historic moment for Taiwan as well as world
religions, it is also rather controversial. This study takes the activity as a case study through field investigation of the Wanjin Catholic community, includinginterviewing both the leaders and reviewing or analyzing related articles, online videos, and news reports. This paper introduces the two religions’ background,
the religious negotiation and preparatory work before the event, the ritual on the day of the event, the discussion of different opinions, while critically reflecting on
this differentiated interreligious activity in terms of the collision and integration of ritual reconstruction and the shaping of "sense of place". The paper attempts
to answer the following questions: (1) What are the difficulties and opportunities for the two different religions to co-organize the "Let Love Fly" activity? (2) What
are the similarities and differences between Virgin and Holy Mother in this festival? How are differences settled in the festival? (3) whose festival is this activity?
Why is this interreligious activity possible in Taiwan and what could we learn from Taiwan's experience as a diverse multi-religious community?

Teaching & Learning
57487

Applying Teaching Strategies for Design Students’ Learning Effectiveness on Blended Learning
Shu-Yin Yu, Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan

Flipped teaching has been going on for a long time in various ages and academic fields, and the learning effectiveness have been affirmed. This
project is based on the flipping teaching strategy of design education to improve students' performances. The concept of this study is basedon design education is no longer learn the overall skills, but the actual needs to enter the practical workplace. Design students learn about theirown lack of knowledge and ability by self-learning and problem-based learning, and the role of the teacher is transformed into a supporter toassist for the professional knowledge, problem solutions, and design skills required by the student at each stage of the program's execution. With
this purpose, we integrated the blended learning model on in-class learning (professional knowledge and skills) and in-field learning (workplace
practical experiences) to enhance students’ problem-solved learning and team-based learning. In the study, students with different learning
styles were examined their learning readiness and learning engagement to investigate the achievement motivation and learning effectiveness ondesign teaching. SPSS statistical analysis was used to inspect the learning readiness and learning engagement of students with different learning
styles, and whether there is a significant relationship between achievement motivation and learning effectiveness. Through the students' learning
performance and implementation experiences, we will conduct the direction of future implementation of practical design education.
57579

Transformational School Leaders Support Teachers to Foster Student Grit
Wei Zhang, Western Michigan University, United States
Tetyana Koshmanova, Western Michigan University, United States

Grit has drawn increasing intention in the field of educational research. As a crucial noncognitive indicator, grit has been used to understand individual successand performance in various fields. The past empirical research has shown inconsistent findings on the relationship between grit and academic achievement. The
purpose of the study is aimed to explore how transformational school leaders support teachers to foster student grit through discovering what transformational
school leaders' practices inspire teachers' practices in the classroom to the students. The semi-structural interview was conducted in the phenomenology study,
and two school principals and eight teachers participated in the study. The researcher analyzed interview data guided by three theories of Dahlgren & Fallsberg's
seven steps, cultural-historical activity theory, and the critical ecology framework. The Nvivo 12 program was utilized to code and to analyze the interview data.
The study found that grit was a significant indicator of school improvement led by transformational school leaders' belief of core values such as hope, passion,
excellence, resilience, and coherence. The study also found that grit fully or partially mediated the relationship between self-efficacy and school outcome andinfluenced among school leaders, teachers, and students. The significant finding was the strongest correlation between noncognitive factors and school leaders'
belief and teachers' practices of grit, self-efficacy, mindset, and motivation. Results suggested that school leaders would promote grit as one of the school core
indicators for school development; and suggested that the mindset needed to implement in the curriculum practice. Future researches would be recommended.

Visual Communication
53157

Cosmic Vision: The Fine Line of Looking
James Callow, Tamkang University, Taiwan

An installation by the German art-tech collective, RobotLab, features an industrial robotic arm reproducing on a vast canvas, a digital photograph taken by a NASA
rover from the surface of Mars. The arm is programed to render a fine, unbroken line in black ink. Working continuously, the process takes several weeks to produce
its photo-realistic monochrome image, translated from a viewing position dislocated from any embodied human eye. The transition, from captured digital data
to aesthetic ‘landscape’ is an entirely technical one. Human intervention occurs in the algorithmic code rather than any conventional ‘artistic’ practice, with nodirect bearing on the result. Cosmological image-making, such as False Color Images, have long been a matter of transitioning the technical into the aesthetic,
rendering data into images that conform to human sensory comprehension and thereby, human aesthetic history. In line with the conference themes, this paper
reflects on RobotLab’s image and the question of ‘landscape’ as a relationship between terrestrial space and visual embodiment and of western traditions of theobserver, and speculates – after recent critique by the sinologist, Francois Jullien – on what the Chinese concept of ‘landscape’ painting might offer in relation
to the separation of the human observer from the scene as humankind remotely gathers increasingly detailed images of the cosmos and its planetary surfaces.

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Demography, Human Geography & Population Studies
58193

How the Cost of Participation Influence the Inclusiveness of Stakeholder Participation? Experiences in theParticipation Process in Flood Risk Management in Indonesia and the Netherlands
Mustika Anggraeni, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Literature continues to highlight the importance of stakeholder participation, although it also emphasizes that it can be misapplied.
Participation generates a considerable cost for the organizer and participant. This research addresses how organic participation organizedby the stakeholders and how the cost of participation influences the inclusiveness of the process. This study is conducted to compare twocase studies; Indonesia (Semanggi, Surakarta) and the Netherlands (Varik and Heeselt). Both cases involved flood protection infrastructure
planning that includes the possibility of displacement. In the Indonesian case study, the factors that influenced participation process arestrong leadership and solidarity. The cost of participation are shared between participant and the elements of intangible cost, namely;
time, information, network, skill, and economic status. Individuals who can afford their participation are well represented and can exercise
more influence. However, the participation process challenged by the issue of power, in which community has low bargaining position interms of illegality. The Netherlands case study, the community, can create community organization to manage the participation process,which can exercise capability to express their positions, posing argument, and engaging external party to support their interest. The costof participation is perceived high for the group leaders, due to the opportunity cost of time, and anxiety. However, these costs are sharedby the participant with a membership fee for the organization. With ability and willingness to borne the cost of participation, and lengthy
process, a consensus was finally made in favor of the community.

Education & Social Welfare
57816

Development of a STEM Curriculum and Evaluating Its Effects on Promoting the Technology Literacy and Selfdetermination of Students With Disabilities
Pen-Chiang Chao, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

The purpose of this study was to develop a STEM curriculum integrated with educational robotics and the concept of self-determinationand examine its effectiveness on promoting the science knowledge, basic math skills, robotics, literacy, and self-determination of juniorhigh school students with disabilities. Research has showed that compared to their normally developing peers, students with disabilities
have limited opportunities to learn science and technology. Consequently, they demonstrate a significant lower level of scientific andtechnological knowledge. Therefore, it is important to teach students with disabilities the STEM knowledge. Furthermore, according to
the 12-Year Basic Education Curricula in Taiwan, students with disabilities are also expected to develop knowledge and skills related toscience, technology, engineering, and math. A total of 60 students with specific learning disability, intellectual disability, emotional andbehavioral disorder, and autism will be recruited from junior high schools in Taiwan using the purposive sampling method. Participants
will be assigned to a control group (n = 30) and an intervention group (n = 30) which will receive a 9-month STEM Curriculum instruction.
Teachers (N = 30) and parents (N = 30) of students in the intervention group also participate in the study to evaluate their students'/
children’s progress. The data collection is still ongoing and will be completed in June 2020. Data collected will be analyzed using
descriptive statistics, analysis of covariance and repeated-measures analysis of variance. Findings of the study are expected to provide
special education teachers with expertise regarding the implementation of STEM education for students with disabilities.
57108

Emotionals Experiences of High School Students in Mathematics Class
Alejandro Rosas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Cynthia Aragón-Cruz, Universidad de Mavojoa, Mexico

Many students show indifference to learn mathematics, lack of attitude and optimism to obtain basic knowledge in the middle level.
Students and parents know that it is important to know math, yet students avoid math courses. In this research, 30 students of VI
semester (17-18 years old) participated voluntarily, a questionnaire and interviews were used through focus groups methodology. The
theory of Ortony, Clore and Collins (1988) states that there are three kinds of emotions, which are the result of focusing on one of the threehighlights of the world: events and their consequences, agents and their actions and, pure objects and simple. Both the questionnaire andthe interviews focused on obtaining the emotions that students experience. Among the conclusions we obtained that the emotions thatmost affect students are those that belong to the Well-Being group (grief, Boredom and Interest) and the emotions of the group basedon FORECASTS (Deception and Confirmed Fears); The main local variable is DESIABILITY. This means that the emotional experiences
expressed by the students, the majority are within the class reactions to events, according to OCC theory. Some students expressed thatduring childhood they liked math, but then stopped liking them. They also accepted that motivation from their teachers and parents isimportant. If a teacher likes / dislikes mathematics then it is possible that he transmits that love / hate to his students.

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender55153

Numbers and Needed Nuance: A Critical Analysis of the Gender Equity Index (GEI)
Iain Macpherson, MacEwan University, Canada
Mami Taniguchi, Waseda University, Japan
Fabian Froese, University of Gottingen, Germany

Gender equality has become an important societal goal, and a number of indices attempt to measure gender equality on a country-level.
This chapter analyzes Social Watch’s Gender Equity Index (GEI) in terms of its stated aims and associable strengths, weaknesses, andproblematic issues. A distinctive strength of GEI is an authenticity stemming from the independence of Social Watch from prominenttransnational institutions and its decentralized operations. A major weakness is Social Watch’s failure to keep the instrument up to date.
Other problematic issues are shared by almost all country-ranking social indices, involving biases rooted in empirical data-collection
impediments and conceptual and statistical methodological quandaries. Based on our analysis, we advise: (1) updating the GEI andkeeping it updated; (2) the provision of alternate models (dimensions, indicators, weightings) and rankings; (3) more methodologicaltransparency; and (4) synthesizing GEI measurements with qualitative content and analytic aids. These innovations would distinguish the
GEI from an increasingly crowded field. Moreover, and in keeping with Social Watch’s grassroots nature, they would reflect an epistemic
circumspection that could counter concerns about the ideological implications of competitive country rankings.
58166

Learning, Earning, and Leading: An Evaluative Framework for Gender Mainstreaming in Skill Development
Sabeena Mathayas, National Skill Development Corporation, India
Tanya Padda, National Skill Development Corporation, India

Gender inequality is a multi-dimensional issue. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2020 it shall take 99.5 years to close the gender
gaps in education, economic participation, political empowerment and health. Any workable solution must address all these dimensions
and the cultural attitudes that socialize gender inequalities. This is where gender mainstreaming comes in. According to UNDP’s reporton Tackling Social Norms, unequal power relations and gender roles among individuals can be changed through education, awarenessand incentives. The Gender Mainstreaming Framework for Skill Development interacts with all three. It operationalizes education andawareness; while suggesting incentives for inclusivity and opportunity across the gender spectrum. It engages the lived intersectionalityof learning, earning, and leading; i.e. skill development and andragogy, the dynamics of labor market and economies, and the policies,priorities, and instruments to drive sustainable, systemic transformation. The framework is a five by three rubric which focuses on three
dimensions – knowledge (cognitive), competency (skill) and attitude (social-emotional or behavioural). There are five gender sensitivity(GS) levels which show a progression in the three dimensions from GS 1 to GS 5. The framework is not just limited to women. It is open,
flexible and inclusive of all gender identities and performances. The framework can be used to design gender cognizant curricula andcontent as well as evaluate existing ones. Organizations, institutions, and individuals can utilize it to for self-evaluations as well as
assessing gender mainstreaming attitudes, practices, policies – thereby improving quality and gender responsiveness of their processes.

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Politics, Philosophy, Ethics, Consciousness
57850

The Habitat Differentiation for the Fairness
Sachio Horie, Nagoya University, JapanI am a developmentally disabled person. In this paper, we challenge considering formalizing the relationship between the fairness ineconometric analysis of Rawls's theory of justice and Barwise's information flow and propose the realization of an equality society for
persons with disabilities who can be distinguished from non-handicapped persons. Deterministic social structures are being createdby the rapid advancement of information recently. This social structure is called a controlled society. In the controlled society, various
functions that make up the society produce many weak of society. The entities of great power manipulate the social structures. We
consider “Asylum”, the new technical and equality community on the premise that be undesirable most the institutions and industries
in this society. Society certainly appears to have gradually converged to some sort of equilibrium point after a major historical conflict.
In this tide, we have considered a better society, including our predecessor's research, but we consider that as long as the society iscreated by humans, these experiments will not converge. In order to realize Asylum, we will try to manage equality society by machines
in accordance with hacktivism. So, the consensus is important. Using Christianity as a reference, we note that Rawls's justice in justicetheory already includes a consensus method as Christian ethics. This was called Proof of Sacrifice (PoS: saint) in comparison with
PoW (sage) and PoS (millionaire), and this was the basis of “Asylum”. In addition, “Asylum” supports the mechanism design and thetranshumanism to achieve the fairness.
56794

Dilemmas on Lithuanian Energy Issues: From the Aspect of Nuclear Energy
Kentaro Okawara, Keio University, Japan

This paper discusses post-Soviet Lithuanian nuclear energy issues from the viewpoint of political dilemma. The author examines postSoviet Lithuanian energy policies and relevant movements primarily on Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and Visaginas NPP. Although
Lithuania once had a NPP—Ignalina NPP—in the east of the nation, it ceased to work in the 2000s. First, when Ignalina NPP was active,the dilemma was over the issue of risk or energy supply. The NPP, which was made by the Soviet Union, was technologically old andrisky. However, it cannot be denied that the NPP sufficiently met the nation’s electricity demand. When Lithuania was considering theclosure of Ignalina NPP, the dilemma was focused on the issue of energy independence. Lithuanian government tried to close Ignalina
NPP and build a new one. But, Lithuania’s poor resource reserves made it difficult to truly be free from neighboring countries, whichraised questions about the closure. Finally, while Lithuania was focused on the construction of Visaginas NPP, the situation became
far more challenging. The Visaginas NPP plan has hardly progressed, which created a problem for the nations that sponsored it forelectricity. Due to this complex, ambiguous, and liquid situation, the project is now virtually discontinued, though the end of the project
has not been officially declared.

Psychology & Social Psychology
56846

A Structural Analysis of the Social Representations of “Reconciliation” in Cyprus: An Empirical Contribution
Kartika Pepe, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Roberto Fasanelli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Ida Galli, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

In the Cyprus peace process, the practices of co-existence have been centralised in the Nicosia buffer zone. This is where the intergroupcontact and information exchange is facilitated between Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities through the existence of Civil
Society Organisations (CSOs). Considering this context, by employing the theoretical framework of social psychology, this study aims
to understand the internal structure social representations of “Reconciliation” constructed in Cyprus. Moreover, this study intends
to evaluate the discrepancy between social representations of those who are taking part in CSOs compared to the laypeople. This
paper presents preliminary insights drawing on the fieldwork which was carried out in Cyprus involving both communities. Different
approaches have been developed since the formation of Moscovici’s theory of social representations in 1961. Among these approaches
is the Central Nucleus Theory (CNT), developed by Abric (1976), which recognises the existence of a relatively stable central corein every social representation, layered by dynamic peripheral systems. In this framework, the much-used methodological approach
involves free word association and hierarchical evocation strategies. The question of word association is utilised to collect semantic
universes concerning social representations of “Reconciliation” and is followed by a hierarchisation task (Vergès, 1992) as well as ajustification questionnaire (Galli, Fasanelli & Schember, 2018). Two groups of respondents participated in the study: (1) those who are
involved in CSOs or the communities (n=30); and (2) the laypeople (n=40). Data were examined using both a Prototypical and Similitude
Analysis, by IRaMuTeQ an interface of R.

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Research Methodologies, Quantitative & Qualitative
58126

A Transition From Deductive to Inductive Reasoning in Qualitative Research Writing Process: A Case StudyYi-Huey Guo, Tunghai University, Taiwan

Many graduate students doing qualitative research face difficulties in transforming massive textual chunks of qualitative data into
comprehensive analysis due to the inductive and lowly-formulaic style of writing in qualitative research. Nevertheless, there is little
research on their adaptation to inductive reasoning in qualitative research writing. This single case study research investigated a graduate
student’s qualitative research writing process. It discusses how the inductive manner of qualitative research process contradicts the
deductive manner of mainstream thesis writing process. It employed a social approach treating writing as a communicative event andobserved one year on one Chinese-American graduate student’s organization of qualitative data in her thesis research writing process.
The research participant was found using PowerPoint to initiate her writing attempt on the organization and interpretation of data.
PowerPoint was used for meaning-making of qualitative data. This study further addressed the following issues: (1) the ways PowerPoint
was applied to the participant’s qualitative research writing process; (2) the role of PowerPoint in her qualitative research writing process.
It is concluded that PowerPoint headline sentences and bullet points allowed her to arrange complicated ideas into succinct, coherent,
generalizable texts for later development of rich description. It serves as a transition for the student to move from deductive fashionof thesis writing to inductive fashion of qualitative research writing. It simplifies one’s thought and writing. Its inductive writing natureaccords with the nature of qualitative research writing. These characteristics provide ways for the student to identify salient natures ofqualitative data more effectively.

Other
58158

Analysis of Conversation Data With AI Chatbot at the Time of Natural Disaster
Nagayuki Saito, International Professional University of Technology, Japan
Nao Fukushima, Council on AI for Disaster Resilience, Japan
Ryusuke Yonekura, LINE Corporation, Japan
Kazuto Ikeda, LINE Corporation, Japan
Kiyotaka Eguchi, Council on AI for Disaster Resilience, Japan

In recent years, many natural disasters such as typhoons and earthquakes have occurred in Japan. Thus far, disaster information fromlocal governments and television has been the main information source for such disasters. In addition to such information sources, theprovision of disaster and evacuation information through dialogue with AI chatbots has recently begun as a new information providing
medium. This study analyzed dialogue data of victims collected from AI chatbots. The dialogue data used in the analysis is a dataset thatcollected 160,196 dialogues from September 23, 2019 to October 31, 2019, affected by Typhoons 15 and 19. According to the analysis
results, those with the highest number of dialogues with AI chatbots were in the order of the method of obtaining the victim certification, theprocedure of financial support, house repair, disaster prevention information, and lifeline information. Also, when examining the contentsof the dialogue with the AI chatbot in chronological order, information acquisitions are concentrated during the week immediately after
opening the AI chatbot account, and especially information about the victim certification and home repair were concentrated immediately
after the disaster. Based on these results, it is important to provide information on disasters step by step at the disaster prediction stage,disaster occurrence stage, disaster damage processing stage, and subsequent continuous support stage.

Social History
58190

Educating the Indian Woman – India’s National Agendas on Education from 1966-1984
Sabeena Mathayas, National Skill Development Corporation, India

This study concentrates on national policy articulations of women’s educational opportunity and the historical development of women aspolitical objects and subjects during Indira Gandhi's tenure as Prime Minister. My study takes a gendered perspective on the performanceof political leadership, tracing the meta-narratives of masculinity and femininity that fed into educational initiatives. The questions
guiding this endeavor do not take for granted terms or analytic categories, but seek the orchestrations of political commitments andtheir consequent creation of the Indian Woman as a political agent. Through rich narrative, the catachrestic tensions that distancepolicy constructions from sociopolitical realities are critically analyzed through feminist theory’s gendered analysis and public policy
frameworks. Since the goal was to identify the socio-political construction of women’s positions in educational policy, the historicalnarrative of Indian policymaking is followed by a deconstructive analysis of the structures, symbols, and mechanisms for systemic
gendered heteronormativity. The test of legitimacy for any given practice should be embedded in the capacity to respond to the needs
for whom the practice exists. Unless policy design mimics the diversity within its target populations and is punctured by the inclusion of
more data points, policymaking for education will remain an exercise in abstraction, a solipsism bound by socio-political singularities.

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Sociology
57742

Family Caregiving, Work-Family Conflicts, and Well-being in Contemporary Japan: Working Men and Womenin Middle to Late Adulthood
Saeko Kikuzawa, Hosei University, JapanThe rapid aging of the population over the past decades has had several consequences in the lives of Japanese men and women. First, as
the older population increases, more men and women today need to take care of their older relatives while in their in mid to late adulthood.
Second, all adult citizens, regardless of gender or age, are expected to work resulting from a shortage in the working population. The
question addressed in this research is how Japanese men and women juggle the roles of caregivers and paid workers simultaneously.
International literature suggests that caregiving may produce a role conflict or strain that would negatively affect the well-being of working
caregivers; although this has not been fully examined under the current sociocultural context of Japan. This paper aims to study how
family caregiving affects the well-being of Japanese working men and women, using nationwide survey data that were collected in 2019.
Through a series of regression analyses, it was found that providing care to their own parents is likely to produce a work–family conflictamong working women in their mid to late adulthood; however, such associations were not necessarily observed for all types of care.
Significant well-being differences between female caregivers and non-caregivers were discovered and work–family conflict accounted forsome of those differences; these associations were not observed among their male counterparts. Results suggest that the consequencesof combining work and caregiving may depend on the types of care and gender in Japanese society today.

Teaching & Learning
56933

Preschool Teachers’ Learning Self-efficacy in Predicting Technology-teaching Integration: A Comparison
Between Taiwan and Malaysia
Chia-Pin Kao, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Hui-Min Chien, Cheng Shiu University, Taiwan
Man Yee Phang, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Malaysia

In Asia, Taiwan is one of the world’s leading producers of information and communication technology products and government
continuously invest in teacher development on technology to empower teachers to improve school education in the digital era. Somestudies concerned teachers’ technology integration, and their self-efficacy in the online learning context. However, little research has been
particularly conducted to investigate the effects of self-efficacy and attitudes toward professional development on teachers’ intention
to integrate technologies in their teaching activities. This study aimed to explore the relationship between preschool teachers’ learning
self-efficacy and technology-teaching integration in online academic learning contexts. We recruited 120 preschool teachers respectively
from Taiwan and Malaysia. It was confirmed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis that the questionnaire’s two-factor structureholds for both teacher populations. The study results indicate that both groups were more inclined to favor learning self-efficacy thanother factors in online academic learning, while the preschool teachers in Taiwan placed significantly more emphasis than the preschool
teachers in Malaysia on technology-teaching integration. The study revealed that teachers in Taiwan had constructivist perceptions oftechnology-teaching integration than the teachers in Malaysia toward technology learning self-efficacy. The findings of our study may
have implications for researchers and university administrators in that early childhood teacher education programs should aim to equippreschool teachers with appropriate learning strategies for performing Internet tasks. The development of technology enhanced learning
ability should therefore be emphasized in preschool teacher training programs.

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Urban Studies
56911

The Relationships Between Urbanization and Population Change in the Taipei Area
Szu-Hua Wang, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan

Urbanization is one of the most significant changes in the world in recent centuries. Cities expanded into rural areas and became larger
cities, affecting social, political and economic life. However, the demographic changes and land use changes of contemporary urbanization
have been significantly different from the characteristics of the past. Urban areas cover much less than 2% of the earth’s surface andcontribute 78% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Therefore, the relationships among urbanization, urban spatial planning, land-use
change and demographic change need to be further clarified. Their dynamic relationships should be analyzed at a smaller spatial scale
to help examine the abilities of urban spatial planning in controlling urbanization, demographic change and carbon dioxide emissions.
This study will establish relevant statistics and maps of population, land use, economy, income and energy consumption to confirm
the urbanization and demographic changes in the study areas. The study area, the Taipei area, includes Taipei City, New Taipei City and
Keelung City. Spatial autocorrelation analysis and spatial regression model will be adopted to analyze the spatial autocorrelation degreeand spatial heterogeneity of urbanization and demographic change in the study areas.

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Reviewers

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who contribute in a variety of ways to our shared mission of promoting international exchange,
facilitating intercultural awareness, encouraging interdisciplinary discussion and generating andsharing new knowledge. Our academic events would not be what they are without a commitment
to ensuring that international norms of peer review are observed for our presentation abstracts.
With thousands of abstracts submitted each year for presentation at our conferences, IAFOR relieson academics around the world to ensure a fair and timely peer review process in keeping withestablished international norms of double-blind peer review.
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Review Committee
Dr Zahra Al-Zadjali
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Dr Lorna Dimatatac
Technological Institute of The Philippines,
Philippines
Professor Ching-Jung Fang
Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Professor Yi-Ting Kuo
Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing
and Management, Taiwan
Dr Reena Mittal
Mjpru, Bareilly, India
Dr Yi-Chin ShihTamkang University, Taiwan
Dr Mario Slugan
Ghent University, Belgium

Professor Santosa Soewarlan
Indonesia Institute of The Arts, Indonesia
Professor Joseph Sorensen
University of California at Davis, United States
Dr Suranti Trisnawati
Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Anne-Kathrin Wielgosz
Walsh University, United States
Dr Mathew Wong
Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Min-Chia Young
Shu-Te University, Taiwan
Dr Shu-Yin Yu
Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan

ACAH2020

Senior Reviewers
Professor Mohd Dahlan A Malek
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Dr Ma.Cecilia Adefuin
DepEd, Philippines
Dr Punam Madhok
East Carolina University, United States
Professor Nuno Martins
Ipca / Id+ / University of Porto, Portugal
Professor Gilbert Motsaathebe
University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr Chukwunenye Clifford Njoku

Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike, Nigeria

Dr Gina Oracion
St. Mary'S College of Tagum Inc., Philippines
Dr Brian Willems
University of Split, Croatia
Professor Hope Yu
University of San Carlos, Philippines
Dr Phumelele Zakwe
University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

ACAH2020

Reviewers
Dr Mohd Syuhaidi Abu Bakar
Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia
Professor Brunella Antomarini
John Cabot University, Italy
Professor Vera Borges
University of Saint Joseph, China
Dr Parnaz Goodarzparvari
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Dr Rea Dennis
Deakin University, Australia
Dr Yuemin He
Northern Virginia Community College, United States
Professor Gwo-Long Lin
I-Shou University, Taiwan
Dr Tim Lomas
University of East London, United Kingdom

Dr Hari Priya Pathak
Kumaun University, India
Dr Sarbjit Singh Pawar
Institute of Engineering And Technology, India
Dr Fiona Kwai-Peng Siu
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dr Leila Tabatabaie Yazdi
Instructor, IranDr Michiko Tsushima
University of Tsukuba, JapanDr Cedric Van Eenoo
United States
Professor Ya-Ju Yeh
Aletheia University, Taiwan

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Dr Grand H.-L. Cheng
The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Ching-Sheue Fu
Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology,
TaiwanDr Jeffry Haber
Iona College, United States
Professor Tsai-Ling Liao
National Formosa University, Taiwan
Dr Iain Macpherson
MacEwan University, Canada
Dr Vivian Chizoma Njemanze
Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike,

Nigeria
Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki
University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Dr Kittipong Phumpuang
Naresuan University, Thailand
Dr Alejandro Rosas
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Nagayuki Saito
International Professional University ofTechnology, Japan
Dr Nils Sandman
University of Turku, Finland

ACSS2020

Senior Reviewers
Dr Chin-Hui Chen
National Pingtung University of Science andTechnology, Taiwan

Dr Antoni Tsaputra
Regional Development Planning Agency of
Padang City Government, Indonesia

ACSS2020

Reviewers
Dr Grand H.-L. Cheng
The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Ching-Sheue Fu
Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology,
TaiwanDr Jeffry Haber
Iona College, United States
Professor Tsai-Ling Liao
National Formosa University, Taiwan
Dr Vivian Chizoma Njemanze
Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike,
Nigeria

Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki
University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Dr Kittipong Phumpuang
Naresuan University, Thailand
Dr Alejandro Rosas
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Dr Nagayuki Saito
International Professional University ofTechnology, Japan
Dr Nils Sandman
University of Turku, Finland

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A-Z Presenters List
Abbate, Fabrizia			p. 23
University of Molise, Italy
Abdulah, Sait				p. 28
The National Institute of Public
Administration, Bandung, Indonesia
Adefuin, Ma.Cecilia			
p. 20
Department of Education- Laguna,Philippines
Alvelos, Heitor			
p. 24
University of Porto, Portugal
Anggraeni, Mustika			p. 42
University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Barreto, Susana			p. 25
ID+ and University of Porto,
Portugal
Boonsiri, Karn				p. 32
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open
University, Thailand
Brandão, Daniel			p. 24
University of Minho, Portugal
Callow, James				p. 40
Tamkang University, Taiwan
Cao, Anh				p. 31
University of Ferrara, Italy
Chao, Pen-Chiang			
p. 42
Chung Yuan Christian University,
TaiwanChen, Melvin				p. 39
Nanyang Technological University,
SingaporeChen, Xiaochun			p. 40
National Taiwan University of Arts,
TaiwanConcepcion, Mariah			p. 31
De La Salle - College of Saint
Benilde, Philippines
Constantine, Peter			p. 35
University of Connecticut,
United States
Corbett, Frederique			
p. 21
Pepperdine University,
United States
Fairclough, Kirsty			p. 24
University of Salford,
United Kingdom
Fan, Kar Joon				p. 29
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy, Singapore
Fang, Ching-Jung			
p. 34
Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Fukishima, Nao			p. 45
LINE Corporation, Japan

Gilleland, Jonathan			
p. 28
University of North Georgia,
United States
Goodarzparvari, Parnaz		
p. 35
Universitat Politècnica de València,
Spain
Guo, Yi-Huey				p. 45
Tunghai University, Taiwan
Haber, Jeffry				p. 29
Iona College, United States
Hayakawa, Yui			p. 39
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Horie, Sachio				p. 44
Nagoya University, Japan
Huang, Yi Hui				p. 35
East Stroudsburg University ofPennsylvania, United States
Jackson, Leveth			p. 36
Keiai University, Japan
Jeong, Eunkyung			p. 25Southwestern Oklahoma State
University, United States
Jiang, Jiawei				p. 39
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Kao, Chia Pin				p. 46
Southern Taiwan University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan
Kikuzawa, Saeko			p. 46
Hosei University, Japan
Leung, Lai-Ching			p. 28
City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Lewis, Anupa				p. 37
Manipal Institute of Communication,
India
Liang, Xiaoxian			p. 21
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Lima, Cláudia				p. 25
ID+ and Universidade Lusófona,Portugal
Lin, Gwo-Long			
p. 38
I-Shou University, Taiwan
Liu, Jia Xin				p. 38
Jinan University, China
Lin, Yun				p. 34
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Lopez, Kathryna Marie		
p. 38
University of the Philippines Los
Baños, Philippines
Luhach, Suman			p. 20
Bennett University, India
Macpherson, Iain			
p. 43
Macewan University, Canada

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Marku, Amy				p. 36
Saint Petersburg State Universityof Culture and Arts, Russia
Martens, Reuben			
p. 37
KU Leuven, Belgium
Martins, Nuno				p. 25
IPCA and ID+, Portugal
Mathayas, Sabeena			p. 45
National Skill Development
Corporation, India
Melchy Ramos, Yaxkin		
p. 23
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Milenkova, Valentina			p. 24South-West University, Bulgaria
Mizuno, Norihito			
p. 36
Akita International University,
Japan
Ng, Elaine Y. L.				
p. 37
Wenzhou Kean University, China
Okawara, Kentaro			p. 44
Keio University, Japan
Padda, Tanya				p. 43
National Skill Development
Corporation, India
Pang, Vanessa H K			
p. 36
Hong Kong Baptist University,
Hong Kong
Park, Yong-Jun			p. 21
University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Pepe, Kartika				p. 44
University of Naples Federico II,
Italy
Phuong Lan, Nguyen			
p. 29
Kyoto University, Japan
Poon, Tsz Fung			p. 32
National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Rosas, Alejandro			p. 42
Instituto Politécnico Nacional,
MexicoSasaki, Yoshihito			
p. 20
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Shimbo, Shoso			p. 34
RMIT Short Courses, Australia
Smith, Everet				p. 37
University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, United States
Soewarlan, Santosa			
p. 39
Indonesia Institute of The Arts,
Indonesia
Sun, Kai Hsu				p. 34
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Thawait, Anjuli			
p. 30
Jagran Lakecity University, India
Tokeaw, Wittayatorn			p. 29
Sukhothaithammathirat Open
University, Thailand
Trisdamayanti, Maya			p. 32
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Tsushima, Michiko			
p. 30
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Vukovic Calasan, Danijela		p. 21
University of Montenegro,
Montenegro
Wang, Szu-Hua			
p. 47
Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Wiljanen, Anna-Maria 		
p. 35
Finnish Institute in Japan, JapanWu, Peiying				p. 36
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Yang, Tzu-Yao				p. 34
National Chiao Tung University,
TaiwanYu, Shu-Yin				p. 40
Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan
Yurtcicek Ozaydin, Seval		
p. 32Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan
Yusufi, Najma				p. 38
University of Brighton,
United Kingdom
Zhang, Wei				p. 40
Western Michigan University,
United States
Zhou, Yi				p. 31
Beijing University of Civil
Engineering and Architecture, China

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May 27–30, 2020

August 31 – September 02, 2020

The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies(accs.iafor.org)

AAS-in-Asia 2020
(aasinasia.org)

The Asian Conference on Asian Studies(acas.iafor.org)

London, UK, 2020

Barcelona, Spain, 2020
September 17–20, 2020

July 16–19, 2020

The Barcelona Conference on Education(bce.iafor.org)

The European Conference on Education(ece.iafor.org)

The Barcelona Conference on Cultural Studies(bccs.iafor.org)

The European Conference on Language Learning(ecll.iafor.org)

July 24–26, 2020
The European Conference on Arts & Humanities(ecah.iafor.org)
The European Conference on Media,
Communication & Film
(euromedia.iafor.org)

Osaka, Japan, 2020
August 03–06, 2020
The Osaka Conference on Education(oce.iafor.org)

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Tokyo, Japan, 2020

Hawaii, USA, 2021

October 30 – November 02, 2020

January 06–10, 2021

The Asian Conference on Education(ace.iafor.org)

The IAFOR International Conference on
Education – Hawaii(iicehawaii.iafor.org)

November 01, 2020
The Asian Undergraduate Research Symposium(aurs.iafor.org)

November 06, 2020
The IAFOR Global Innovation & Value Summit(givs-tokyo.iafor.org)

November 05–08, 2020
The Asian Conference on Business & Public Policy(acbpp.iafor.org)
The Asian Conference on Sustainability, Energy& the Environment(acsee.iafor.org)

November 11–14, 2020
The Asian Conference onMedia, Communication & Film(mediasia.iafor.org)
The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture(kamc.iafor.org)

The IAFOR International Conference on
Sustainability, Energy & the Environment – Hawaii(iicseehawaii.iafor.org)

Tokyo, Japan, 2021
March 21–24, 2021
The Asian Conference on Education &International Development(aceid.iafor.org)

March 24–27, 2021
The Asian Conference on Language(acl.iafor.org)

March 28–31, 2021
The Asian Conference on Psychology & theBehavioral Sciences(acp.iafor.org)
The Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion &Philosophy(acerp.iafor.org)
The Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology(agen.iafor.org)

May 13–16, 2021
The Southeast Asian Conference on Education(seace.iafor.org)

Introducing the
IAFOR Research Centre
at Osaka University, JapanThe IAFOR Research Centre (IRC) is a politically independent, international andinterdisciplinary think tank based at the Osaka School of International Public Policy(OSIPP), at Japan’s Osaka University, that conducts and facilitates international
and interdisciplinary research projects. The main focus is to encourage mutualinternational and intercultural understanding and cooperation in line with IAFOR’s
mission of encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating heightenedintercultural awareness, promoting international exchange, and generating andsharing new knowledge.
The IRC helps to nurture and capacity build by encouraging students to take part ininternational conferences and research projects, in line with the Osaka University’s
Global 30 commitments from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Scienceand Technology (MEXT).
For more information about the IAFOR Research Centre visit:www.osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp/iaforresearchcentre/
THE IAFOR RESEARCH CENTREOSAKA SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICYOSAKA UNIVERSITY

大阪大学大学院国際公共政策研究科OSIPP
IAFOR研究センター