Date:Saturday 17th January, 2009
Venue:
* International Forum:
Room "Rainbow", 5th Floor, Imperial Queens Park Hotel
Address: 199 Sukhumvit, Soi 22, Bangkok 10110
Tel: 02-261-9000
Fax: 02-261-9499
* Reception party:
Bangkok Liaison Office, Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Grand floor, Raj Mansion, 31-33, Soi 20, Sukhumvit Road
Program：
13:00-13:30 Registration
13:30-14:00 Opening (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Arai Nobuaki, Kyoto University)
-Welcome address 1: His Excellency Mr. Komachi Kyoji (Japanese Ambassador)
-Welcome address 2: Prof. Yoshikawa Kiyoshi (Representative of Kyoto University)
-Welcome address 3: Dr. Wiwut Tanthapanichakoon (Representative of KUC)
14:00-14:45 Lecture 1 (Chair: Prof. Kono Yasuyuki, Kyoto University)
-Speaker: Prof. Tsujii Hiroshi, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
"World food Crisis and the Roles that Thailand and Japan Should Play"
14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:00 Lecture 2 (Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sucharit Koontanakulvong, Chulalongkorn University)
-Speaker: Dr. Sommai Pivsa and Dr. Sorapong Pavasupree, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
"Energy Crisis from the Perspectives of RMUTT
- Kyoto University Cooperative Works in Energy and Materials Research"
(in Thai language)
16:00-16:45 Lecture 3 (Chair: Mr. Yamamoto Akio, Japanese Alumni )
-Speaker: Mr. Yamada Munenori, President of JETRO Bangkok Center
“ERIA’s Activities on Food & Energy Security”
(ERIA = the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia)
16:50-17:00 Closing (Chair: Prof. Kono Yasuyuki, Kyoto University)
-Closing address: Professor. Mizuno Kosuke (Director of Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
17:00-19:30 Reception Party (Chair: KUC, Japanese Alumni and KU)
-Welcome address 1: Mr. Yamamoto Akio (Mitsui Bussan, Representative of Japanese Alumni)
-Welcome address 2: Assoc. Prof. Krisada Visavateeranon (President of Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology)
Remarks: The above International Forum in Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel is open to the interested public free of charge, whilst the Reunion Party in the evening is open to Kyodai alumni, their families and colleagues with a participation fee of 700 baht per person for Thai participants and 1,000 baht per person for Japanese participants.
Institutional setting：
* Forum：Organized by Kyoto University and KUC (Kyoto Union Club)
Supported by Thai-Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI)
* Reception party：Organized by Kyoto University, KUC and Japanese KU Alumni Association in Bangkok
Contact：KOBAYASHI, Satoru (CSEAS)