HSP Seminar #178 “Workshop for youths who want to work at International Organization”

• Description：
  This workshop is for those who want to work at International Organization or at related careers after school. Professor Masako Yonekawa will help participants to understand what is really needed to become international civil servants.
• Date：March, 23rd , 2014 （Sunday）14:00 – 16:00（access）
• Venue：Room 303, 21 KOMCEE , Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
• Lecturer：Masako Yonekawa
  (A specially appointed associate professor, Rikkyo University)
• Co-organizer：Yuichi Sekiya
  (Graduate Program on Human Security, University of Tokyo)
• Language：Japanese
• Material：flier
  
• Organizer：
  Africa Group of 2013 Doi Kanae Seminar
• Co-organizer：
  Graduate Program on Human Security, University of Tokyo (HSP)
  Other organizations

HSP Seminar #177 “INDIGENOUS DISASTER MANAGEMENT: Lessons Learned from the Typhoon and Tsunami Survivors”

• Description :
  Based on field data, collected from Bangladesh, Japan and the USA, the presentation highlights the local perception, prediction and coping strategies of the typhoon and tsunami affected people. It further shows how the set of disaster management knowledge has been generated while living in close contact with nature and transmitted from one generation to the next, through oral tradition.  Regarding Typhoon (as called in the Pacific, cyclone in the Bay of Bengal and Hurricane in the Atlantic coast) certain predictive indicators are similar, irrespective of regional differences.  As regard Tsunami, data has been collected from the frequently affected northeastern part of Japan, facing the Pacific coast. In both the calamities, biotic and abiotic indicators used by the people are revealed and presented in a matrix.  The presentation is expected to enlighten the academic and program personnel to understand the importance of indigenous knowledge for all practical purposes.
• Date : March 19, 2014  18:10-20:00
• Venue : Room 303, Bldg.2 (3rd Floor), Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo (map)
• Presenter : Dr. Shahed Hassan (Department of Anthropology; Professor, University of Dhaka)
• Moderator : Dr. Makoto Maruyama (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Professor, University of Tokyo)
• Language : English
• Organizers :
  Graduate Program on Human Security, University of Tokyo (HSP)
  Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo
• Co-organizer :
  Research Center for Sustainable Development, Institute of Advanced Global Studies (IAGS), University of Tokyo

HSP Seminar #176 “International Symposium: Organic Agriculture and Community”

• Date: March 1, 2014  9:55-17:45

• Venue: Conference Room, Bldg.18 (1st Floor), Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo

• Presenters:
1. Iswandi Anas, Bogor Agricultural University
2. Eniola Fabusoro, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
3. Atilano Loeza, U YIts Ka’an, Yukatan, Mexico
4. Jose Medina, University of the Philippines
5. Cesar Vergara, Gartia Plena Social Action Center
6. Kisaburo Tanno, Tanno Farm, Nagano
7. Teruo Yamada, Yamada Farm, Hokkaido
8. Hoi Yee Fu, University of Tokyo Toru Nakanishi, University of Tokyo
9. Noriko Itoh, University of Tokyo
10. Hidehiko Kikuno, Tokyo University of Agriculture
11. Makoto Maruyama, University of Tokyo
12. Toru Nakanishi, University of Tokyo
13. Etona Orito, University of Tokyo
14. Hiroyuki Ukeda, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
15. Masamitsu Yasaka, University of Tokyo

• Language: Japanese and English (Simultaneous interpretation is available)

• Organizers:
1. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
2. Graduate Program on Economics, University of Tokyo
3. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• Co-organizers:
1. Graduate Program on Human Security, University of Tokyo (HSP)
2. Research Center for Sustainable Development, Institute of Advanced Global Studies (IAGS), University of Tokyo