ACAH/LibrAsia 2012 Keynote Speaker 
Akito Arima
President, Haiku International Association
Director, Japanese Science Museum & Chancellor, Musashi Gakuen
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Akito Arima
President, Haiku International Association
Director, Japanese Science Museum & Chancellor, Musashi Gakuen
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo
Professor Akito Arima is Director of the Japanese Science Museum, Emeritus Professor in the University of Tokyo and the President of the Haiku International Association. A scientist by training, he has had careers at the highest levels of science, academia and government.
Professor Arima is a nuclear physicist of international reputation, known for his invention of the interacting boson model. Most of his academic career was spent at the University of Tokyo, from where he also graduated, rising to become first dean of the faculty of science (1985-1987), vice-president (1987-1989), and then eventually president of the University (1989-1993).
In 1998 he was elected to the Japanese House of Councilors, and served as both Minister for Education, Science, Sports and Technology (1998-1999) and then Minister of State for Science and Technology (1999) in the government of Keizo Obuchi. He was subsequently chairman of the Japan Science Foundation (2000-2011), and is currently Director of the Japanese Science museum, a post he has held since 2004.
Throughout his career as an academic, administrator, politician and policy maker, he has also developed a parallel life as a haiku master of great note, and has been involved in the promotion of haiku both at home and abroad.
He has been conferred with ten honorary doctorates and several honorary professorships from universities around the world, and is the recipient of numerous awards, notably the Nishina Memorial Prize (Japan), the Humboldt Award (Germany), the Franklin Institute’s Wetherill Medal (USA), and the American Physical Society’s Bonner Prize. In 2004 He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, and declared a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government in the same year. In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Culture. He is also a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and holds the French Legion of Honor and the German Order of Merit.
ACAH 2012 Featured Speaker
Georges Depeyrot
Professor, CNRS/ENS, Paris, France
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He began his scientific career in the 70's in studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and now works at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Following his habilitation in 1992, he specialized in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history through a global approach. He has headed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, and those nearby, such as Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco.
The author or co-author of more than one hundred volumes, he founded and currently manages the Moneta publishing house, now the main collection of books on money and monetary economics (www.moneta.be). As well as a continued interest in the studies of ancient coin finds, his current research program is mainly devoted to the history of the 19th century monetary unifications and crises, in cooperation with researchers from European countries, Russia and Japan. A member of the IAFOR International Advisory Board, Geroges spent much of 2011 in Tokyo at the head of a joint research project between the CNRS and the University of Tokyo.
ACAH 2012 Featured Speaker
Monty P. Satiadarma
Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
Monty Satiadarma is an academic and psychologist who has lectured around the world, and who continues to practice in his native Indonesia. He was the Dean of the department of psychology at Tarumanagara University from 1997-2005, and Rector of the University from 2008-2010.
Dr Satiadarma has a particular interest in educational psychology, and in music and art therapy, methods with which he treated survivors of the Indonesian tsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area chair of the International Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association. He is the Asian Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 2012 Conference Co-chair.
ACAH/LibrAsia 2012 Featured Speaker
Conference Workshop: An Introduction to the Art of Haiku & Writing Workshop in English
Emiko Miyashita
Emiko Mitashita is a prominent haiku poet and translator who writes in both Japanese and English, and is a councilor for the Haiku International Association, and Secretary of the Haiku Poets’ Association’s International Department. She has been an invited speaker at haiku conferences and events in the U.S.A., Canada and the UK, and has been an emissary of the Japan Foundation to India, lecturing and giving workshops on the art of haiku at both the Tagore House in Kolkata and the Japan Foundation in New Delhi.
A member of study group of translation in Japan at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Ms Miyashita is also Managing Director of the Japanese branch of the English Speaking Union.
Conference Registration and Information Desk
Sunday Closing Session: 16:45-17:30
PLEASE NOTE THIS PROGRAMME MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Professor Arima is a nuclear physicist of international reputation, known for his invention of the interacting boson model. Most of his academic career was spent at the University of Tokyo, from where he also graduated, rising to become first dean of the faculty of science (1985-1987), vice-president (1987-1989), and then eventually president of the University (1989-1993).
In 1998 he was elected to the Japanese House of Councilors, and served as both Minister for Education, Science, Sports and Technology (1998-1999) and then Minister of State for Science and Technology (1999) in the government of Keizo Obuchi. He was subsequently chairman of the Japan Science Foundation (2000-2011), and is currently Director of the Japanese Science museum, a post he has held since 2004.
Throughout his career as an academic, administrator, politician and policy maker, he has also developed a parallel life as a haiku master of great note, and has been involved in the promotion of haiku both at home and abroad.
He has been conferred with ten honorary doctorates and several honorary professorships from universities around the world, and is the recipient of numerous awards, notably the Nishina Memorial Prize (Japan), the Humboldt Award (Germany), the Franklin Institute’s Wetherill Medal (USA), and the American Physical Society’s Bonner Prize. In 2004 He was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, and declared a Person of Cultural Merit by the Japanese government in the same year. In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Culture. He is also a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and holds the French Legion of Honor and the German Order of Merit.
ACAH 2012 Featured Speaker
Georges Depeyrot
Professor, CNRS/ENS, Paris, France
Professor Georges Depeyrot is a monetary historian at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He began his scientific career in the 70's in studying coin finds and joined the CNRS in 1982. After some years he joined the Centre de Recherches Historiques (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) and now works at the Ecole Normale Superieure. Following his habilitation in 1992, he specialized in international cooperative programs that aim to reconsider monetary history through a global approach. He has headed many cooperative programs linking several European countries, and those nearby, such as Georgia, Armenia, Russia, and Morocco.
The author or co-author of more than one hundred volumes, he founded and currently manages the Moneta publishing house, now the main collection of books on money and monetary economics (www.moneta.be). As well as a continued interest in the studies of ancient coin finds, his current research program is mainly devoted to the history of the 19th century monetary unifications and crises, in cooperation with researchers from European countries, Russia and Japan. A member of the IAFOR International Advisory Board, Geroges spent much of 2011 in Tokyo at the head of a joint research project between the CNRS and the University of Tokyo.
ACAH 2012 Featured Speaker
Monty P. Satiadarma
Tarumanagara University, Indonesia
Monty Satiadarma is an academic and psychologist who has lectured around the world, and who continues to practice in his native Indonesia. He was the Dean of the department of psychology at Tarumanagara University from 1997-2005, and Rector of the University from 2008-2010.
Dr Satiadarma has a particular interest in educational psychology, and in music and art therapy, methods with which he treated survivors of the Indonesian tsunami on behalf of the International Red Cross and the United Nations. He is a board member and area chair of the International Council of Psychology, and a founder and board member of the Asian Psychology Association. He is the Asian Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences 2012 Conference Co-chair.
ACAH/LibrAsia 2012 Featured Speaker
Conference Workshop: An Introduction to the Art of Haiku & Writing Workshop in English
Emiko Miyashita
Emiko Mitashita is a prominent haiku poet and translator who writes in both Japanese and English, and is a councilor for the Haiku International Association, and Secretary of the Haiku Poets’ Association’s International Department. She has been an invited speaker at haiku conferences and events in the U.S.A., Canada and the UK, and has been an emissary of the Japan Foundation to India, lecturing and giving workshops on the art of haiku at both the Tagore House in Kolkata and the Japan Foundation in New Delhi.
A member of study group of translation in Japan at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Ms Miyashita is also Managing Director of the Japanese branch of the English Speaking Union.
Conference Registration and Information Desk
The Registration and Information Desk will be open from 15:00-17:00 on Thursday afternoon, and from 8:00-18:00 on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Presentation ScheduleParallel panels are organized into thematic streams and run on Friday, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday. The plenary session will be on Saturday.
Friday Plenary Session: 9:00-12:00
Friday Parallel Sessions: (1) 13:30-14:30, (2) 14:45-16:15
Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:30
Sunday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:30Friday Parallel Sessions: (1) 13:30-14:30, (2) 14:45-16:15
Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:30
Sunday Closing Session: 16:45-17:30
PLEASE NOTE THIS PROGRAMME MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Events
Welcome Drinks Reception - 18:00-19:00
Thursday Evening: Complimentary welcome reception with wine and soft drinks. No need to reserve: everyone welcome
Thursday Evening: Complimentary welcome reception with wine and soft drinks. No need to reserve: everyone welcome
Conference Dinner: Saturday Evening - 19:00-21:00
Friday 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 see the registration page or mail conferences@iafor.org
For more information see the registration page or mail conferences@iafor.org
