You are cordially invited to the conference

The Relevance of Area Studies for the Sciences and Public Policy: Examples from Europe & Asia
November 15, 2016, 13.30 - 17.00 h

Social sciences, and even more so natural sciences and engineering, tend to neglect local conditions,
i.e. how ecological, social, political or economic issues are perceived and addressed in the
specific context of a country or region and how solutions are sought for and implemented. Area
studies can correct these shortcomings, because they pay close attention to local conditions and
regional differences. Nevertheless, it is far from common practice that area studies specialists and
researchers from other sciences collaborate.

Our conference aims at highlighting possible contributions of area studies to the sciences,
innovation and public policy by discussing concrete examples in highly relevant thematic fields. We
would like to invite you to the public part of our conference which will refer to the outcomes of
our preceding “closed” sessions.

For further information and the full program please refer to our website.
https://www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-relevance-of-area-studies-for-the-sciences-and-public-policy-examples-from-europe-asia/

Location
Sanjo Kaikan, The University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus)
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Please register here: mailto:registration@leibniz-association.eu
Organizers
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg)
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ, Tokyo)
The University of Tokyo [Network for Education and Research on Asia (ASNET), Institute for Advanced
Studies on Asia (IASA)]
Cooperating Institutions
Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES)
Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB)
Leibniz Association
Relational Studies on Global Crisis (JSPS Grant-in-Aid Project)