David M. Malitz (DIJ)

Milinda Banerjee (St. Andrews)

13:15 Keynote:

Joseph S. Alter (Professor, Director of the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh): Paramahansa and the Maya of Things: Enlightened Sages, Bar-headed Geese, and the Swan Song of Transcendence

14:30 Panel 1: Multispecies Entanglements

Chair: Joseph S. Alter (University of Pittsburgh)

Barbara Holthus (Deputy Director, DIJ): Constructions of the Animal World, Welfare, and Well-Being in Contemporary Japan.

Milinda Banerjee (Lecturer, University of St. Andrews): Multi-species Democracy: Towards a Global Intellectual History

Yamazaki Wataru (Professor, Kyoto University): Socio-ecological Background to the Frequency of Emerging Infectious Diseases: The Need for a Planetary Health Approach as an Effective Countermeasure.

16:30 Panel 2: Economic Entanglements

Chair: Franz Waldenberger (DIJ)

Markus Heckel (Principal Researcher, DIJ): Sustainable Consumption: Comparing Japan and Germany.

Takahashi Takuya (Professor, The University of Shiga Prefecture): Ohmi-Merchants and the Threefold Satisfaction (Good for Seller, Buyer, and Society): A Japanese Tradition of CSR and SDGs.

Akkanut Wantanasombut (Researcher, Chulalongkorn University): Itthibath Si and a Thai Approach to Social and Solidarity Economy: A Case Study of Tamsang-Tamsong. 

Friday, 16 June 2023
8:30 Panel 3: Social Entanglements

Chair: Nora Kottmann (DIJ)

Shuvatri Dasgupta (Associate Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, and PhD Student University of Cambridge): A Brief History of Women and Care: Ecofeminism and Multi-species Wellbeing in Colonial India.

Isaac Gagne (Principal Researcher, DIJ): Listening to the Community: Grassroots Mental Healthcare in Local Communities.

Arisa Ema (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo) and Celia Spoden (Senior Research Fellow, DIJ): Staying Connected: Telepresence Robots at School in Japan and Germany.

Kevin Wiggert (PhD Student, Technische Universität Berlin) and Martin Meister (Lecturer and Researcher, Technische Universität Berlin), Robots as Co-Workers in Care Facilities? Cases from Germany and Japan.

10:30 Panel 4: Brahma's Net - Buddhist Entanglements

Chair: Akkanut Wantanasombut (Researcher, Chulalongkorn University)

Soraj Hongladarom (Professor Emeritus, Chulalongkorn University): Breaking out of Brahma's Net: Achieving a Pathway through the Ecological Crisis.

Chayanin Nuisin (PhD Student, Chulalongkorn University): Rights and Liberty in the Mist of Karma: Secular Values in the Thai Constitutional Context and their Tension with Buddhist Values.

David Malitz (Senior Research Fellow, DIJ): Uncanny Parallels: The Buddhist Dharma between the Silicon Valley and Bangkok Barracks.

12:00 Closing Remarks

 

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