Programme and Events: Friday March 30 - Sunday April 1, 2012
Conference Registration and Information Desk
Conference Registration and Information Desk
The Registration and Information Desk will be open from 15:00-17:00 on Friday afternoon, and from 8:00-8:45, and 12:00-18:00 on Saturday, and from 9:00-18:00 on Sunday.
Presentation Schedule
Parallel panels are organized into thematic streams and run on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. The plenary session will be on Saturday morning.
Saturday Plenary Session: 9:00-12:00
Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 13:00-14:30, (2) 14:45-16:15
Sunday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 11:00-12:30, (3) 13:30-15:00, (4) 15:15-16:45Sunday Closing Remarks: 17:00-17:15
Events
Welcome Drinks Reception - 18:00-19:00
Friday Evening: Complimentary welcome reception with wine and soft drinks. No need to reserve: everyone welcome.
Conference Dinner 19:00-21:00 - Za Watami Izakaya
Saturday Evening:
The official conference dinner will be held in a downtown Osaka izakaya,
and provide a relaxed and enjoyable environment to meet and network
with
other delegates. This is ticketed and there are a limited number of
places. For more information mail conferences@iafor.org
ACERP 2012 Featured Speakers
The Reverend Professor Stuart D. B. Picken
Chairman, IAFOR IAB
Stuart D. B. Picken is the founding chairman of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. The author of a dozen books and over 130
articles and papers, he is considered one of the foremost
scholars on Japan, China, and Globalization in East Asia. As
an academic, Professor Picken has devoted more than 30 years to
scholarship in Japan, notably as a professor at the International
Christian University in Tokyo, where he specialized in ethics and
Japanese thought, and as International Adviser to the High Priest of
Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Mie prefecture). He has also served as a consultant to various businesses, including Jun Ashida Ltd., Mitsui Mining & Smelting Corp., Kobe Steel, and Japan Air Lines. In November 2008, the Government of Japan awarded Professor Picken the Order of the Sacred Treasure for his pioneering research, and outstanding contribution to the promotion of friendship and mutual understanding between Japan and the UK. The honour is normally reserved for Japanese citizens and is a mark of the utmost respect in which Professor Picken is held by the Japanese Government.
Although now resident in Scotland, Professor Picken maintains his interests in Japan, as Chair of the Japan Society of Scotland, and through his work with IAFOR. A fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, he lives near Glasgow with his wife and two children.
Lowell Sheppard
Asia Pacific Director
HOPE International Development Agency, Canada/Japan
Lowell
Sheppard is Asia Pacific Director of the HOPE International Development
Agency, an organization focused on working with world's extreme poor in
their quest to climb out of poverty. Aside from his 25-year involvement with Hope, Lowell has dedicated much of his life to social and environmental improvement projects throughout the world. He was the chairman of the Whose Earth initiative in the United Kingdom, and was the founding chairman of Novimost, a non-government organization responding to the needs caused by war in the Balkans. He was also CEO of one of the United Kingdom's largest youth charities and an executive member of Spring Harvest, an annual Christian festival which attracts more than 60,000 people each Easter, and raises more than one million dollars for charities every year. A fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Mr Sheppard is the author of six books, which reflect his diverse intellectual interests, and life experience. His latest book, Boys Becoming Men, examines the importance of rites of passage, including adventures, for children becoming adults.
Lowell is
a noted public speaker, and has given lectures at both undergraduate
and postgraduate level on Corporate Social Responsibility and
Sustainability, and he is vice-chairman of the CSR Committee for the
American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Lenard is deeply concerned with the role of trust in democratic political communities. In most contemporary democracies, high rates of immigration are increasing the number of religions, races, ethnicities and cultures living together and governed by shared political institutions. Her forthcoming book – Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State University Press, 2012) – places trust at the centre of democratic politics and then examines its relationship to diversity. In particular, she argues that ethno-cultural diversity as a result of increasing rates of immigration may, if managed improperly, generate distrust. She calls on democratic communities to generate purposefully the conditions under which trust between newcomers and ‘native’ citizens can be built, so that the quality of democracies is not compromised.
Dr Patti Tamara Lenard
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Ottawa
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Ottawa
Patti Tamara Lenard is Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Lenard is deeply concerned with the role of trust in democratic political communities. In most contemporary democracies, high rates of immigration are increasing the number of religions, races, ethnicities and cultures living together and governed by shared political institutions. Her forthcoming book – Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State University Press, 2012) – places trust at the centre of democratic politics and then examines its relationship to diversity. In particular, she argues that ethno-cultural diversity as a result of increasing rates of immigration may, if managed improperly, generate distrust. She calls on democratic communities to generate purposefully the conditions under which trust between newcomers and ‘native’ citizens can be built, so that the quality of democracies is not compromised.
MORE SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
