Date： December 17-18, 2011
Venue： Inamori Foundation Building, Third Floor, Middle-Sized Conference Room, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
East Asia is rich in its diversity of ethnic, religious and cultural composition. By and large the region has maintained the coexistence of such diversity while at the same time achieving economic progress, becoming the hub of the flow of people, goods, money and information. Yet the region is also confronted with serious issues such as the decrease of biodiversity and tropical forest, disasters, pandemics, aging population, ethnic and religious conflicts, economic differentiation and poverty. In the face of this, how is coexistence and sustainability possible despite or on account of diversity?
For this purpose, we promote the study of plural coexistence which connects the global and the local dynamically, towards mending the political and economic imbalances of globalization. How can we make public resources out of the region’s social foundations at the basis of people’s everyday lives? How can we connect these in a complementary way with existing systems of governance towards solving problems and issues mentioned above?
This proposed workshop is the first of a workshop series to take place in Kyoto (Dec. 2011), Singapore (2012), and Guangzhou (2013), representing a core component of institutional linkages among the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University in Kyoto, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. The research themes of the workshops are closely linked with the research program entitled “Towards Sustainable Humanosphere in Southeast Asia” currently being undertaken at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University (http://www.humanosphere.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/) and with two of the Five Peaks of Excellence at NTU, namely, “Sustainable Earth” and “The New Silk Road.” (http://enewsletter.ntu.edu.sg/classact/Nov10/Pages/cn2a.aspx). These themes will also have the potential of being connected with the on-going developments of the Sino-Singapore Knowledge City in Guangzhou of which NTU is one of the major participants.
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