Last update: October 19, 2019

Day1 (24th October)

Venue: International Science Innovation Building, West Building

10:00-10:30	Registration
10:30-10:45	Opening Ceremony Venue: Symposium Hall 10:30-10:35　Opening Address – Kayo Inaba (Excecutive-Vice President, Kyoto University) 10:35-10:40　Opening Address – Sebastian Schütze (Professor, University of Vienna) (on behalf of Vice Rector Tyran) 10:40-10:45　Gift Exchange
10:45-11:45	Keynote Lecture Venue: Symposium Hall 10:45-11:15　“Transfiguring Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche and avant-garde artists around 1900”　Sebastian Schütze (Professor, University of Vienna) 11:15-11:45　“Longing for Eternity: Oil Painting on Copper in a Pre-Modern Global Context”　Kayo Hirakawa (Professor, Kyoto University)
11:45-13:00	Lunch Venue:Lounge in front of Symposium Hall
13:00-15:00	Parallel SessionⅠ Law “Harmony—Diversity and Stability.” Venue：Coference Room 1 (1F) Cognitive Biology　“Kyoto-Vienna collaboration to enhance understanding of the primate origins of speech and language.” Venue:Conference Room 5a (5F) Art History “Art Centers in the Global World: Toward New Perspectives on Art History” Venue：Meeting Room F (5F) Asian Studies “Interdisciplinary Research on the History and Culture of Inner and South Asia” Venue:Conference Room 5b (5F)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break Venue: Lounge in front of Symposium Hall
15:30-17:30	Parallel SessionⅡ Law “Harmony—Diversity and Stability.” Venue：Coference Room 1 (1F) Cognitive Biology　“Kyoto-Vienna collaboration to enhance understanding of the primate origins of speech and language.” Venue:Conference Room 5a (5F) Art History “Art Centers in the Global World: Toward New Perspectives on Art History” Venue：Meeting Room F (5F) Asian Studies “Interdisciplinary Research on the History and Culture of Inner and South Asia” Venue:Conference Room 5b (5F)

Day2 (25th October)

Venue: International Science Innovation Building, West Building

9:00-12:00	Parallel SessionⅢ Law “Harmony—Diversity and Stability.” Venue：Coference Room 1 (1F) Cognitive Biology　“Kyoto-Vienna collaboration to enhance understanding of the primate origins of speech and language.” Venue:Conference Room 5a (5F) Art History “Art Centers in the Global World: Toward New Perspectives on Art History” Venue：Meeting Room F (5F) Asian Studies “Interdisciplinary Research on the History and Culture of Inner and South Asia” Venue:Conference Room 5b (5F)
12:00-13:00	Lunch Venue: Lounge in front of Symposium Hall
13:00-14:20	Wrap-up Session for All Sessions Venue:Symposium Hall
14:20-14:35	Closing Ceremony Venue:Symposium Hall 14:20-14:25　Closing Remarks – Juichi Yamagiwa (President, Kyoto University) 14:25ｰ14:35　Group Photo
15:00	Excursion to iCeMS, Seifu-so

The 2nd Kyoto University-University of Vienna Joint Workshop (October 24–25, 2019)

The 2nd Kyoto University-University of Vienna Joint Workshop was held at Kyoto University on October 24–25, 2019. The first joint workshop was held in September 2018, prior to the conclusion of a strategic partnership agreement between the two institutions on October 8, 2019.

The workshop’s four parallel sessions sought to further develop exchange and collaboration in the three fields of focus of the previous workshop: comparative social politics, material science, and cognitive biology, and also to expand research collaboration into the two newly added fields of art history and Asian studies. A notable feature of the workshop was that three of the four sessions focused on topics from the humanities and social sciences. An opening ceremony was held on October 24, which featured addresses by Dr. Kayo Inaba, Kyoto University’s executive vice-president for gender equality, international affairs, and public relations, and Prof. Sebastian Schütze, dean of the University of Vienna’s Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies. Keynote lectures were then delivered by Prof. Schütze and Prof. Kayo Hirakawa of Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Letters, after which researchers from both universities delivered presentations in the parallel sessions and engaged in active discussions.

In the evening, Dr. Nagahiro Minato, Kyoto University’s provost and executive vice-president for strategy coordination, research, planning, and hospital administration, and Dr. Hideo Saji, deputy executive vice-president for research, attended the workshop’s reception dinner, during which the participants shared ideas regarding future research collaboration under the strategic partnership agreement.

On the workshop’s second day, a plenary session was held in which representatives from each parallel session shared the outcomes of their discussions and presented their prospects for future collaboration under the strategic partnership agreement. This was followed by a question and answer session, during which the participants shared their opinions. President Juichi Yamagiwa posed several questions relevant to all four session fields before bringing the workshop to an end with a closing address. After the workshop, the participants visited the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) of the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS) and the university’s Seifuso Villa, providing them with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of Kyoto University’s history and research activities.

Related links

• The 2nd Kyoto University-University of Vienna Joint Workshop (24–25 October 2019)
  https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2019-12-25
• Strategic partnerships established with the University of Bordeaux and the University of Vienna (7–8 October 2019)
  https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/2019-11-12-0