EVENT

June 2Thursday

Conference Rethinking Peace Studies

Date and timeJune 2 (Thurs.) – June 4 (Sat.)
Location2F International Conference Room, Kiyoshi Togasaki Memorial Dialogue House(MAP)
Target audienceNo prior registration is required
Participation feeFree
Contact pointssri@icu.ac.jp
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The Rethinking Peace Studies Conference is the culminating event of our three year program. The conference will be held from June 2-4, 2016 at the ICU Dialogue House in Tokyo, Japan. The proceedings will follow the format of a traditional academic conference, with paper readings followed by feedback from a discussant as well as the audience. However, there will be ample time built in for dialogue among conference participants.

Keynote Speakers:

Johan Galtung

Widely recognized as the founder of the academic discipline of peace studies. In 1959, he founded the world's first Peace Research Institute in Oslo and has since helped found many centers for peace and conciliation throughout the world. In 1964, he founded the Journal of Peace Research. In 1993, he founded TRANSCEND, a global Peace, Development and Environment Network.

Ashis Nandy

Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, and critic. A trained clinical psychologist, Nandy has provided theoretical critiques of European colonialism, development, modernity, secularism, Hindutva, science, technology, nuclearism, cosmopolitanism, and utopia. He has also offered alternative conceptions relating to cosmopolitanism and critical traditionalism.

Shin Chiba

Shin Chiba is a representative and well-known leading Japanese political scientist and philosopher. Dr. Chiba's research interests include peace studies, religious studies, ecology, democracy and civil society and the genealogy of freedom.

Panelists include:

Yael Zerubavel (Rutgers University, USA)

Kanchuka Dharmasiri (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

Oliver Richmond (University of Manchester)

Wilhelm Vosse (ICU)

Stephen Bronner (Rutgers University, USA)

Bahia Shehab (The American University in Cairo)

Kamala Liyanage (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

Nela Navarro (Rutgers University, USA)

Catherine Cole (UC Berkeley)

Nitin Sawhney (The New School, New York, USA)

Beverly Curran (ICU)

Suketu Mehta (Author, New York, USA)

Jeremia Alberg (ICU)

Marita Sturken (New York University)

Natasha Zaretsky (Rutgers University, USA)

Leigh Payne (University of Oxford)

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