Dear colleagues,

Please find the programme below of the ICU-Sophia symposium on Human Security in Crisis? to be held at ICU on Saturday Jan 26. Keynote speakers are Profs.
Kinhide Mushakoji, Mustapha Kamal Pasha and Saskia Sassen.
All are welcome.

For more details see: http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/ssri/

Title: "Human Security in Crisis? Global Insecurity After the Financial Crisis and Fukushima"
Date and Time: January 26 (Sat), 2013, 9:30 – 18:00
Location: International Conference Room, Dialogue House, ICU, Mitaka, Tokyo http://www.icu.ac.jp/en/access.html

Sponsors: Social Science Research Institute (SSRI, ICU) and the Institute for Global Concern (IGC, Sophia)

Language: English and Japanese (simultaneous translation available)


PROGRAMME
Introductory remarks:
9:30-9:35 Professor Junko Hibiya (President, ICU)

9:35-9:40 Professor Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI)
9:40-10:00 Symposium Theme: Human Security in Crisis?
Prof. Giorgio Shani (Senior Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, ICU; Convener)
10:00-11:30 Plenary Session I
Chair: Professor Koichi Nakano (Director, Institute for Global Concern, Sophia) Keynote Presentation:
"Human Insecurity of the Terminal Phase of Westphalian
Capitalism: Human Security after the Lehman Shock, 9-11 and 3-11"

Professor Kinhide Mushakoji (Professor, Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership, Osaka University of Economics and Law; Ex-President, Japan Association Human Security)
Discussant: Professor Shin Chiba (Professor of Political Theory, ICU)
11:30-12:00 Short Film on Post-3.11 Relief Work by ICU Rotary Peace Fellows (Class IX)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Plenary Session II

Chair: Professor Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI, ICU)

Keynote Presentation:
"Expulsions: When Complexity Produces Elementary Brutalities"
Professor Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University/ Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics)

Discussant: Prof. Nana Osihi (Associate Professor of Sociology, Sophia University)

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45- 16:15 Plenary Session III

Chair: Professor Katsuhiko Mori (Professor of International Relations, ICU)

Keynote Presentation:
"Human Security and Abandonment"
Professor Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Sixth Century Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK/ Vice-President, ISA)

Discussant: Prof. Giorgio Shani (ICU/SSRI Member)
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30- 18:00 Panel Discussion: Human Insecurity After Fukushima
Chair: Prof. Wilhelm Vosse (Director, SSRI)
Presentations:

1) The politics of hybrid-monster (Fukushima daiichi)
Professor Hiroyuki Tosa (Professor of International Relations, GSIC, Kobe)
2) Accidents, Contracts, and the Radiated Body: Global Nuclear Order at the Break of Fukushima Prof. Anna Agathangelou (Associate Professor of International Relations, York University, Canada)
3) Human Security after Fukushima: Plus ça change…’
Dr. Christopher Hobson (Research Associate, United Nations University)

Discussants:
Professor Kosuke Shimizu (Professor of International Relations, Ryukoku University) Professor Julian Reid (Professor of International Relations, University of Lapland, Finland)
18:00 Concluding Address:
Professor Koichi Nakano (Director, Institute of Global Concern, Sophia University) Sincerely yours,
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Dr. Giorgio Shani
Senior Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Associate Director of the Rotary Peace Center, Development Studies Major Coordinator and Advisor, International Christian University,
3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8585, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)422-33-3708, Fax: +81 (0)422-33-3229 http://researchers.icu.ac.jp/Profiles/6/0000527/prof_e.
html

Lecturer (part-time)
Human Security: Asian Perspectives
Faculty of Law,
Graduate School of Public Policy,
University of Tokyo, Japan
http://www.pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/faculty/professors/Giorgian
dreaShani.htm