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Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics 40th Anniversary Symposium (2020)
2020.10.01
Resilience and Human Dignity: Exploring the Principle of Subsidiarity in Social Issues
Up to 40 people (Pre-registration is required. When the number of registrants reaches the limit, the application will be closed.)
How to Register: Application closed.
| Date | 7 November 2020 |  |
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| Venue | Online Conference (Zoom Meeting→Webinar) | |
| Outline | Since its inception in 1980, Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics has consistently gotten to grips with various ethical issues in modern society through an interdisciplinary approach, while pursuing numerous joint research projects to elucidate the reality of "human dignity". As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Institute this year, a symposium will be held to reflect the various ways by which "human dignity" can be respected in a resilient society. While looking into different opinions through discussion with participants about Australia's resource management and suicide measures in comparison with those of Japan, we aim to verify the so-called "Seigel hypothesis" that the subsidiarity principle provides a social ethical basis for resilience. | |
| Language | English | |
| Speakers | Allan Dale, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia Kazuki Kagohashi, Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University, Japan Kairi Kõlves, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University, Australia Karin Moriyama, Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University, Japan |
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| Moderator | Winibaldus Stefanus Mere, Institute for Social Ethics, Nanzan University, Japan |
| Profile | |
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| Prof Allan Dale | |
| Allan Dale is a Professor of Tropical Regional Development at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University. He has a strong interest in integrated societal governance, with a particular focus across the tropical world, northern Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. Allan has both extensive research and policy expertise in building strong societal governance systems, but particularly regarding regional, rural and social development and natural resource management. Allan has been the past Chair of RDA FNQ&TS, CEO of Terrain NRM and before that was responsible for natural resource policy and social impact assessment in Queensland. He is also now the Chief Scientist for the Collaborative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia and an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow with Charles Darwin University's Northern Institute. | |
| Dr Kazuki Kagohashi | |
| Kazuki Kagohashi is an Associate Research Fellow of the Institute for Social Ethics and an Associate Professor of the Department of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University. He has been focusing his research on exploring structural foundations for the realization of sustainable development from the perspective of environmental economics and sustainability theory. His research raises questions about the sorts of environment and resources that are indispensable for maintaining the level of human well-being in the long run and tries to answer it on the basis of the concept of Critical Natural Capital. His current research project, "Social Resilience," investigates the determinants for social resilience by looking at some of the concrete cases of the local communities that have confronted environmental/resource crises, such as land degradation, deforestation, droughts, etc. Through these investigations, this project examines the conditions that can clarify the way of augmenting communities' social well-being in order to create a sustainable and autonomous society. | |
| Dr Kairi Kõlves | |
| Kairi Kõlves is an Associate Professor at the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, and Co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention, School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University. She is also the Course Convenor of Masters Courses. She has been working in suicide research and prevention since 1998. Prior to joining the AISRAP team in 2008, she worked at the Estonian-Swedish Mental Health and Suicidology Institute. Dr Kõlves has been involved in several Australian, Estonian and international projects and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, numerous reports and book chapters on suicide research and prevention. She is a member of different advisory committees. In 2010 she was the recipient of the Australian LIFE Award in Emerging Researcher category, in 2017 the Griffith Health Pro Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award (Mid-Career Researcher) and the Publication Award of the Menzies Health Institute Queensland. | |
| Dr Karin Moriyama | |
| Karin Moriyama is a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute for Social Ethics and an Associate Professor of the Department of Law, Nanzan University. Her research has been focusing on suicide prevention from the viewpoint of political science. The aim of her research is to provide recommendation for policy makers in formulating concrete policy and to create an effective network among multiple stakeholders in order to prevent suicide and to support the bereaved. Her current research project, "Care for Life," has become a common project of the Institute since 2015. Focusing on suicide as one of the serious problems in Japan, this project tries to raise awareness among general public and policy-makers (government) about suicide as a serious life issue and to find out concrete precautionary approach to avoid it and to support bereaved families through care for life networks and governmental policy measures. | |
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| Organizer | Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics This Symposium is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP19H01189. |
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| Contact | Nanzan University Institute for Social Ethics 18 Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8673, JAPAN Tel: 81-52-832-3111 Fax: 81-52-832-3703 E-mail: n-ise@ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp |
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