Date/Time: 1 November 2014, 10.30-17.00 (Registration starts at 10.00)
Venue: Elizabeth Rose Hall U Thant International Conference Hall, UNU(Aoyama, Tokyo)

Programme
Opening Remarks:

• Kazuhiko Takeuchi (Senior Vice-Rector, UNU)
  Sawako Hanyu (Rector, Ochanomizu University)
  

Session 1, 10:30-12:00
Education for Sustainable Development and Gender:

• Koto Kanno (Visiting Researcher, Ochanomizu University Institute of Gender Studies)： Introductory remarks
• Soohyong Choi (Director, Division for Teaching, Learning and Content, UNESCO):
  Keynote Report: Education for Sustainable Development and Gender – The Nexus for Future (Video Message)
• Hyunjoo Song (Professor, Korean Institute for Gender Equality Promotion and Education):Statement: Gender and the Post 2014/2015 International Development Agenda

Lunch Break

Session 2, 13:00-17:00
Towards a Sustainable Society with a Gender Perspective

• Kaoru Tachi (Professor Emerita, Ochanomizu University):
  Introductory remarks
  
  Natsuko Hagiwara (Professor, Rikkyo University):
  Challenges of Ecological Feminism
  
  Ayako Takao (Lecturer, Ferris University):
  From Anxiety to Vision: linking Citizens’ movement in Germany to Fukushima
  
  Naoko Miyaji (Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School):
  Trauma and Gender in Earthquake Disaster
  
  Sachie Okabe, Oiso Eneshift and Junko Watanabe (Member/Former
  Chairperson of Oiso Town Assembly):
  Community-based Energy Shift – What a town of 30,000 population can do?

Plenary Discussion: Sustainability and Gender: its Perspective and Suggestions for Post-2014 ESD, Question and answer session with the panel presenters

• Commentators:
• Yumiko Tanaka (Senior Advisor on Gender and Development, JICA)
  Yuto Kitamura (Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo Graduate School)

Closing Remarks

• Mariko　Adachi (Director　of  Institute for Gender Studies, Ocanomizu
  University)
  

Registration
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（Admission Free, Simultaneous interpretation available (English-Japanese)).

Organizers: United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability and Ochanomizu University/Institute for Gender Studies

Co-organizer: Global Environment Outreach Centre

Supporting partner: Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, National Women’s Education Center and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Cooperating organizations: Ferris University

Secretariat of the International Symposium “Sustainability and Gender”
susgen@cc.ocha.ac.jp

International Symposium "Gender Mainstreaming in East Asia in the Era of New Challenges”

Date & Place
January 25(Sat.), 2014, 12:30-16:30
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Hall

Organizer:
Shin, Ki-young (Associate Professor,Ochanomizu University)

Speaker:
Huang, Chang-Ling (Professor, Taiwan National University, Taiwan)
"Uneasy Alliance: Gender Mainstreaming under the Conservative Government in Taiwan"

Kim, Kyoung-Hee (Professor, Chung-Ang University, Korea)
"Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming: South Korean Case"

Lương Thu Hiền (Founding Executive Director, Center for Women in Politics and Public Administration (WiPPA)／Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration, Viet Nam)
"Gender Policies in Contemporary Vietnam: Achievements and Challenges"

Miura, Mari (Professor, Sophia University, Japan)
"Lessons from Earthquake and Tsunami Disasters in Indonesia and Japan : Toward ‘Disaster Resilient Society’"

Discussant:
Ida, Kumiko (Professor, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
Adachi, Mariko (Professor, Ochanomizu University, Japan)

Registration
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（Admission Free, Simultaneous interpretation available (English/Japanese))

Organized by:
・Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University

International Symposium "Challenging Gender Inequality in Disaster Reconstruction" by “Living Together in Global Society for Disaster, Reconstruction and Gender Equality” Project

Date & Place
January 14(Mon.), 2013, 13:30-17:30
Graduate School of Humanities & Sciences Building 607, Ochanomizu University

Speaker:
Parichatt KRONGKANT (Independent Researcher for a JICA Project on National Disaster Management Capacity Building in Thailand)
"Aged people’s Evacuation Decision in Response to Typhoon Warning : Case Study of a Rural Southern Village in Thailand"

Arabiyani ABUBAKAR (Former Director of Women, Gender and Children’s Welfare Division, Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh and Nias, Indonesia)
"Acehnese Women : Toward the Future after Conflict and Tsunami"

Keiko HIRANO (Ochanomizu University)
"Analyzing Indonesian Decentralization and Disaster Reconstruction / Rehabilitation from the Perspective Gender Mainstreaming"

Keiko IKEDA (Shizuoka University; Director of Training Division, Women's Network for East Japan Disaster (Rise Together))
"Lessons from Earthquake and Tsunami Disasters in Indonesia and Japan : Toward ‘Disaster Resilient Society’"

Subevent
Photo Voice, 12:00-18:00, at 602 room.

Registration
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（Admission Free, Simultaneous interpretation available (English/Japanese/Bahasa Indonesia))

Organized by:
・Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University
・Global Collaboration Center, Ochanomizu University

International Symposium, Comparing Work -Life Balance in the U.S. and Japan: from Gender-Sensitive Perspectives

WORK-FAM (Work-Life Balance from Gender-Sensitive Perspectives) is a 5-year project that has been researching on issues related to work-family balance in Japan and the U.S.A. In this international symposium, distinguished scholars are invited to discuss work and family care responsibility issues. We hope the symposium will provide an opportunity to help achieve women’s career development, men’s family involvement and children’s well-being.

Date & Place
July 2(Mon.), 2012, 18:00-21:00
Science Department 3-701, Ochanomizu University

Speaker:
Dr. Susan Houseman (Senior Economist, Upjohn Institute)
"Labor Market and the Changes in Work and Family in the U.S."

Dr. Joan Williams (Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings
"Issues on Family Care Responsibility Discrimination"

Dr. Nobuko Nagase (Professor of Economics, Ochanomizu University
"How Do Japanese Women Manage Career and Family Responsibilities?"

Commentator:
Ms. Yoko Kobayashi (Manager of Fender Equality Bureau of the Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)

Chair:
Ki-young Shin (Associate Professor of Political Science & Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University)

Registration
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（Admission Free, Simultaneous interpretation available (English/Japanese))

Nursery Service available　（Fee free: June 20th is deadline for application）

Organized by:
・WORK-FAM（Work and Life Balance from Gender-Sensitive Perspectives: Designing Work Style that Enables Career Development, Family and Community Activities program）　
・Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University

Asian Institute of Technology ☆ Ochanomizu University Joint Workshop 2011-2012

Gender and Disaster: Responses from Young Scholars
As a part of student exchange program between Ochanomizu University and Asian Institute of Technology of Thailand, the Institute for Gender Studies holds a joint workshop on the natural hazard and disaster that both Japan and Thailand were inflicted on in 2011. The vast region of Northeastern Japan was affected by great earthquake on March 11th and Thailand was flooded by heavy rain in summer. How did such natural hazard and disaster affect local people in those areas? Did women and minorities experience disaster differently and therefore have different needs and support? Students, faculty of Gender and Development Studies, and NPO practitioners from Thailand and Japan get together to discuss the impact of devastating disasters in two countries from a particular perspective of gender and ethnicity.

Date & Place
February 29(Wed.), 2012, 13:00-17:00, Ochanomizu University

Speaker:
　Etsuko Yahata (Miyagi Jonet: Miyagi Women’s Support Network)
　Philippe Doneys (Asian Institute of Technology)
　Kyoko Kusakabe (Asian Institute of Technology)
　Shinobu Sasaki (Graduate Student, Asian Institute of Technology)
　Samedy Thann (Graduate Student, Asian Institute of Technology)
　Polly Stannard (Graduate Student, Ochanomizu University)
　Chihiro Takata (Graduate Student, Ochanomizu University)

Commentator:
　Keiko Ikeda (Shizuoka University, Rise Together for Women in East Japan Disaster)

Chair:
　Ki-young Shin (Ochanomizu University)
　Junko Toriyama (Graduate Student, Ochanomizu University)

Coordinator:
　Yukiko Nakamura (Graduate Student, Ochanomizu University)
　Junko Toriyama (Graduate Student, Ochanomizu University)

Organized by:
　Gender and Development Studies, Ochanomizu University 　
　Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University

Current Issues on Global Economy and Gender: Macroeconomic Issues and Social Construction

Public Forum for Asia-Pacific Capacity Development of Gender and Macroeconomic Issues 2nd Regional Intensive Course
Formulating Inter-collegial Network for Peacebuilding in Global Society Project

Date & Place
July 9(Sat.), 2011, 10:00-17:00, Ochanomizu University

Speaker:
　Diane ELSON（Essex University）
　Maria FLORO（American University）
　Mari OSAWA（The University of Tokyo）
　Marina DURANO（Universiti Sains Malaysia）
　Keiko IKEDA（Shizuoka University）
　Mieko TAKENOBU（Wako University）

Coordinator/Discussant:
　Mariko ADACHI (Ochanomizu University)

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IGS International Seminar

Asia and Gender after the Global Financial Crisis

2011.3.14(Mon.), 15:30-18:45, Ochanomizu University

Speaker:
　Saskia SASSEN (Columbia University, USA)
　Sunanda SEN (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

Chair:
　Mariko ADACHI (Ochanomizu University)

・The Institute for Gender Studies (IGS)
・Institute for Sustainability Research and Education, Hosei University
・Japan Association fot Feminist Economics

IGS Symposium

2011.1.8(Sat.), 13:00-16:00, Ochanomizu University

Speaker: Julie A. Nelson, "For Love or Money? Current Issues in the Economics of Care"(TBA),

Discussants: Prof. Kumiko IDA and Prof. Mariko ADACHI.

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Prof. Eva F．Kittay, "From the Ethics of Care to Global Justice"

2010.11.13(sat.), 18:00-20:00, Ochanomizu University

Speaker: Eva F. Kittay (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University / SUNY)

Discussant: Yumiko EHARA (Tokyo Metropolitan University)