The 2nd Kyoto University-Universität Hamburg Symposium 2018
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General Info
Objectives
Kyoto University holds international symposia in collaboration with selected partners around the world as a means to share knowledge and new research developments, promote international interdisciplinary research collaboration, and accelerate the generation of new ideas and innovation for the benefit of global society. These goals are in accordance with Kyoto University’s WINDOW Concept, which was formulated in 2014 as overall strategy to guide the institution in its current phase.
Founded in 1919 by local citizens, Universität Hamburg will celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2019. Its alumni include several Nobel laureates and other internationally lauded scholars, as well as one of Germany’s former chancellors. It has strong collaborative links with partners in Asia, and is one of Germany’s leading instructions in several academic fields, such as Japanese and Asian studies, physics, and environmental studies.
In recent years, Kyoto University has been actively developing its partnership with Universität Hamburg, including collaboration in the fields mentioned above. The 1st Universität Hamburg-Kyoto University Symposium was held in Hamburg in June 2017, and at that time the two institutions concluded formal agreements for academic cooperation and student exchange.
The second joint symposium aims to further develop the ongoing exchange and collaboration between the two institutions, and also explore several new areas for potential research cooperation that focus on issues relevant to both Japan and Germany. Beyond their own institutional cooperation, the two universities seek to broadly contribute to research collaboration between Germany and Japan as a whole, and to help foster the next generation of highly-skilled international human resources in diverse fields of specialization.
Report
The 2nd Kyoto University-Universität Hamburg Symposium was held at Kyoto University. (Kyoto University ‘s website)
Program
Overall Program
Last update: September 13, 2018
October 9
| 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Parallel Session 7. Climate session only |
| 6:30 pm
Venue: “Fortune Garden Kyoto” |
Opening Dinner
Welcome address and greetings
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October 10
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Registration |
| 9:30 – 10:00 am
Venue: Symposium Hall, 5F, International Science Innovation Building |
Plenary Session
Opening Addresses
Greeting from guest
Gift Exchange |
| 10:00 – 10:10 am | Group Photo |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
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Parallel Sessions |
| 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
Venue: Foyer of Symposium Hall, 5F, |
Lunch |
| 1:00 – 5:45 pm | Parallel Sessions Except for 7. Climate session |
| 6:00 pm
Venue: “La Tour” |
Dinner
Opening Remarks
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October 11
| 9:30 – 11:00 am | Parallel Sessions
Preparation for wrap-up
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| 11:00 – 11:15 am | Coffee Break
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| 11:15 am– 12:15 pm
Venue: Symposium Hall, 5F, International Science Innovation Building |
Plenary Session
Wrap-up of Parallel Sessions Presentations
Closing Addresses
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| 12:30 pm | Depart for Lunch and City Tour |
Session Detail
| 1 | Law |
Transjudicial and transnational dialogues – transnational elements in legislation, doctrine and jurisprudenceAlong with internationalization and globalization, world or regional organizations such as the United Nations, the European Union, and the Council of Europe are unifying and coordinating national legal systems. On the one hand, efforts for higher international standards of human rights and liberties are desirable, and in some areas, international cooperation is inevitable for effective regulation. However, it is not realistic to assume that the differences between legal cultures and traditions will disappear. International jurists now face questions of how to distinguish between different goals and to propose effective international measures to realize different policies. Coordinators: |
| 2 | Sociology |
Care and MigrationThe purpose of this session is to clarify how Germany, Japan, and other countries deal with the aging process in relation to the good quality of elderly care and the lack of workforce to meet the increasing care demands. International migration of caregivers is driven in the form of domestic workers, care workers, nurses, or even marriage migrants. Sustainable international mobility has already become an international agenda. Germany and Japan have long-term care insurance and provide a good perspective in comparison with other countries. This session also provides wider coverage, going beyond certain welfare regimes. Coordinators: |
| 3 | Management |
Accounting and corporate governanceThis session examines the present research themes in accounting and corporate governance from an international perspective. First, the session examines the internal and external corporate monitoring systems related to auditing and accounting. In this context, it elaborates, for instance, on digitization and recent developments in accounting and audit regulation. Second, it examines recent changes in the accounting and corporate governance practices of Japanese firms. These include how the M&A performance of firms in Japan is affected by the voluntary adoption of IFRS. The session ends with a wrap-up of the papers and suggestions for future collaborative research between the two universities. Coordinators: |
| 4 | Digital Transformation in Logistics |
This session addresses real-world topics arising in transportation, logistics, and supply-chain networks. Systems engineering approaches such as modelling, simulation, and optimization techniques are crucial for managing complex and multi-modal networks. In addition to these bottom-up approaches, top-down perspectives are required to provide a novel framework considering social and economic issues. In this session, we aim at reducing the gap between and synthesizing the two directions through discussions by experts in each field of research. Coordinators: |
| 5 | Ecological Research |
In this session for ecological research, we aim to exchange information about our research in the diverse fields of ecology, evolution, and systematics under the unified title “Towards an understanding of biodiversity in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.” Speakers from Kyoto University will talk about the diversity and evolutionary history of organisms in Lake Biwa and management of the lake ecosystem under the subtitle “Ecology, evolution, and management of the Lake Biwa ecosystem.” Speakers from the University of Hamburg will talk about the diversity, systematics, and evolution of aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates (gastropods, crustaceans, and orthopteran insects) under the subtitle “Evolutionary systematics of invertebrates.” Coordinators: |
6Development
Struggles toward sustainable development
This session is an inaugural exploration of opportunities for future joint research and publication among researchers in Kyoto University and Universität Hamburg on sustainable development from the perspectives of political science, economics and other social sciences. Speakers are expected to highlight implications of their past and/or current research on sustainable development, sustainable development goals (SDGs), and transformation for sustainable development.
Coordinators:
Akihisa Mori, Kyoto University
Cord Jakobeit, Universität Hamburg
7Climate
Climate change and its impact
Meteorological hazards such as tropical and extratropical cyclones, heavy rainfalls, and high winds sometimes spawn natural disasters from flooding, inundation, landslide, storm surge, and high wave activity and therefore have significant impacts on societies. Climate change under future global warming further enhances such impacts owing to severe meteorological hazards, sea level rise, and oceanic changes. In this session, we will exchange and share recent developments and ideas on the studies of such meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic issues that both Germany and Japan are now facing. Through discussing those issues deeply, we hope that this session will be the foundation for our future collaborations.
Coordinators:
Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto University
Detlef Stammer, Universität Hamburg
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