Dear Colleagues:

We have the following lecture in Osaka on 9 December.
It is open to the public. No reservation is necessary except for "Supper study gathering."

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Special Lecture at Osaka University
（http://sugita.us/12092013.htm）

Time: 16:20 ? 17:50, December 09 (Monday)
Venue: Academic Conference Room, 3rd floor of E Building, Minoh Campus, Osaka U.
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/index.html#minoh
（access map）
http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/minoh/minoh.html
（campus map）（3rd floor of ＃3）

Lecturer：Silja Keva (University Teacher, University of Turku, Finland) http://www.utu.fi/en/units/soc/units/ceas/unit/personne
l/Pages/Silja-Keva.aspx
Title: Asia-Europe Parliamentary cooperation

（Synopsis）
The Asian and European parliaments meet each other every two years within the framework of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process. The cooperation, which started in 1996, is part of a bigger trend of internationalization of parliamentary activities, which has often been seen as a response to globalization and as a way to democratize international relations.
Although the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership
(ASEP) seeks to contribute to and influence the ASEM leaders' summit, it still remains more or less outside the official, governmental ASEM process. The lecture introduces the Asia-Europe Parliamentary Partnership, its main features, possibilities and challenges and relationship vis-a-vis the ASEM process.

Silja Keva is a University Teacher at the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland. She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on the Asia-Europe Meeting process. In 2006 Silja Keva worked as a researcher in the "Ten Years of ASEM" research project commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and in addition helped to organize the ASEM6 Summit in Helsinki.

We will have a “supper study gathering” between 18:30 and 20:00 with Silja Keva after the above lectures.
Graduate students and younger (at heart) scholars present their “state of their research” for 3-5 minutes in English and Silja Keva will respond/give comments. This is an informal meeting over supper.
Reservation is necessary for this gathering. (for reservation, send a note to Yoneyuki Sugita:
sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)

For any inquiry, please send note to Yoneyuki SUGITA sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp
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Yoneyuki Sugita