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ACAH2021

ACAH2021

May 24-26, 2021 | Held online from Tokyo, Japan

ACAH is organised by IAFOR in association with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) in Osaka University, Japan.

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Speakers

  • Jared Baxter
    Jared Baxter
    Independent Researcher, United States
  • Goi Hoe Chin
    Goi Hoe Chin
    NUCB Business School, Japan
  • Frendy
    Frendy
    NUCB Business School, Japan
  • Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin
    Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin
    NUCB Business School, Japan
  • Philip Sugai
    Philip Sugai
    Doshisha Business School, Doshisha University, Japan

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Programme

  • The Roma Festival of the Black Madonna: Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Awakening
    The Roma Festival of the Black Madonna: Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Awakening
    Keynote Presentation: Jared Baxter
  • Academia and Regional Sustainability in the Age of Pandemic
    Academia and Regional Sustainability in the Age of Pandemic
    Panel Presentation: Goi Hoe Chin, Frendy & Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin
  • Measuring Value: 80 Goals for 7 Stakeholders
    Measuring Value: 80 Goals for 7 Stakeholders
    Keynote Presentation: Philip Sugai

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Organising Committee

  • Grant Black
    Grant Black
    Chuo University, Japan
  • Clementina Cardoso
    Clementina Cardoso
    CIHRC Research and Development
  • Donald E. Hall
    Donald E. Hall
    Binghamton University, United States
  • Joseph Haldane
    Joseph Haldane
    The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
  • Bradley J. Hamm
    Bradley J. Hamm
    Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, USA
  • Fan Li
    Fan Li
    Stanford Social Innovation Review, Japan
  • James W. McNally
    James W. McNally
    University of Michigan, USA & NACDA Program on Aging
  • Haruko Satoh
    Haruko Satoh
    Osaka University, Japan
  • Sela V. Panapasa
    Sela V. Panapasa
    University of Michigan, USA

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ACAH2021 Review Committee

  • Dr Mohd Syuhaidi Abu Bakar, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
  • Dr Ma. Cecilia Adefuin, Department of Education- Laguna, Philippines
  • Dr Lorna Dimatatac, Technological Institute of the Philippines, Philippines
  • Dr Norizan Kadir, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
  • Professor Yi-Ting Kuo, Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Taiwan
  • Professor Nuno Martins, IPCA / ID+ / University of Porto, Portugal
  • Dr Reena Mittal, MJPRU, Bareilly, India
  • Dr Elaine Y. L. Ng, Wenzhou Kean University, China
  • Dr Michael Ogden, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
  • Professor Joseph Sorensen, University of California at Davis, United States
  • Dr Leila Tabatabaie Yazdi, instructor, Iran
  • Dr Suranti Trisnawati, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
  • Dr Cedric van Eenoo, NYC, United States
  • Dr Anne-Kathrin Wielgosz, Walsh University, United States
  • Professor Hope Yu, University of San Carlos, Philippines
  • Dr Phumelele Zakwe, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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IAFOR Grant & Scholarship Recipients

Our warmest congratulations go to Sourav Kumar who has been selected by the conference Organising Committee to receive an IAFOR Scholarship to present his research at ACAH/ACSS2021.

Sourav Kumar

IAFOR Scholarship Recipient

Forced Migrations on the Indo-Pak Border: Using Michael Cernea’s IRR Model in Jammu and Kashmir
Sourav Kumar, Panjab University, India

Mr Sourav Kumar is a University Grants Commission (UGC)-Junior Research Fellow at Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He holds a Masters degree in Political Science from University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India and is currently pursuing a PhD in Political Science from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. He also teaches as a guest faculty at the Institute of Social Sciences Education and Research (ISSER), Panjab University, Chandigarh for undergraduate students. His research interests include International Relations, India’s Foreign Policy, and Migration Studies.

IAFOR's grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity in relation to the applicant's field of study, financial need, and contributions to their community and to IAFOR's mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on availability of funds from IAFOR and vary with each conference.

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Jared Baxter
Independent Researcher, United States

Biography

Jared Baxter is an independent researcher living in Washougal, Washington, USA. Over the last six years, his research has focused on Vincent van Gogh, in particular, how Vincent's enduring embrace of Christianity manifested itself in his later life and artwork. His research has been published in the January, 2014 Art History Supplement, and the July, 2014 Anistoriton Journal of History, Archaeology and Art History. Numerous mainstream outlets have also commented on his work including The Huffington Post, ArtNet News, The Siouxland Observer, and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.

Mr Baxter has participated in several previous IAFOR conferences, including as a Featured Speaker at the 2015 Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities (ACAH) and as the Keynote Speaker at the 2019 European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH). He has accepted invitations to other academic conferences, including the 2015 Dutch Association of Aesthetics and the 2016 International Conference on The Arts in Society.

Keynote Presentation (2021) | The Roma Festival of the Black Madonna: Vincent van Gogh's Symbolist Awakening
Goi Hoe Chin
NUCB Business School, Japan

Biography

Dr Goi is a professor in the Faculty of Management at NUCB Business School. He received his PhD in Media and Governance from Keio University and MBA at Waseda University in Japan. His research and teaching fields include Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Development. Goi Hoe Chin has rich experience in management research about student-based venture creation in Japan and the ASEAN region. His publication titled “Dynamic Capability for the Success of Student-Based Gestation Ventures” was awarded the Best Journal Paper Award at the 12th Association for Policy Informatics Conference held in Japan in 2016. In recent years, Goi Hoe Chin employed collaborative and remote based design thinking methods to create solutions for regional towns in Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi and Gifu prefectures in Japan. His corporate partners include Toyota Corporation, Ricoh Corporation and Tokyu Land Corporation, and so on. The design thinking project with Toyota Corporation was chosen as a “Best Partnership Award” (Finalist) at AMBA & BGA’s Excellence Awards in 2021. Prior to his academic and research career, Goi Hoe Chin was the assistant director at the Singapore National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC) and served for more than 10 years in the government sector in Singapore.

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Frendy
NUCB Business School, Japan

Biography

Dr Frendy completed his doctorate and master degrees from the Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, where he was the recipient of the Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship. He obtained a BS in Economics (Honours) with a major in Accounting from the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada – an AACSB-accredited business school in Indonesia. He also holds a US Certified Public Accounting (CPA) license from the State of Illinois and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), and the Japan Accounting Association (JAA). He has presented papers at the American Accounting Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, the European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Congress, the Japan Accounting Association Annual Conference, and other international conferences. He has published articles in international accounting journals such as the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics, the Asian Review of Accounting, and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics. He previously worked as an audit associate at KPMG Indonesia, one of the global Big Four audit firms.

Panel Presentation (2021) | Academia and Regional Sustainability in the Age of Pandemic
Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin
NUCB Business School, Japan

Biography

Dr Hakeem is an associate professor at NUCB Business School, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business. He earned his doctorate and master degrees from the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tohoku University, Japan, and attended Harvard Business School (HBS), Harvard University for executive education. He worked as an adjunct professor in renowned institutions including, Burgundy School of Business, France, Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS), Hosei University, Japan, and the Graduate School, Tohoku University of Community Service and Science, Japan. He received various awards and scholarships during his academic career, including the Japanese Government Scholarship (MEXT) and JSPS Fellowship at Tohoku University. His professional experience includes work in Investment Management, Financial Consultancy, Education, Training, and Career Counselling in different organisations. He has published a number of articles and participated in a series of conferences. His research interests include but are not limited to International Business, Regional Sustainability, Strategic Management, and Network Science.

Panel Presentation (2021) | Academia and Regional Sustainability in the Age of Pandemic
Philip Sugai
Doshisha Business School, Doshisha University, Japan

Biography

Philip Sugai is a Professor of Marketing within Doshisha University's Graduate School of Business where he currently teaches Marketing, eMarketing, Marketing Research, and Sustainable & Responsible Marketing. Dr Sugai also served as a Visiting Professor for Stanford University from 2015-2017, where he taught Innovation in Japan at the Stanford Overseas campus in Kyoto. Prior to joining the Doshisha University faculty, Dr Sugai taught at the International University of Japan in Niigata – where he also served as Dean and Associate Dean of the IUJ Business School for six years.

Philip Sugai is the author of two books, Building Value Through Marketing: A Step-By-Step Guide (Routledge) and The Six Immutable Laws of Mobile Business (John Wiley & Sons) and has published case studies with Ivey Business School Publishing on Suntory, KITKAT Japan, AGL, Hatsune Miku, and Walt Disney Internet Group.

He received his PhD from Waseda University and his MBA in Marketing and Operations Management from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He has worked as a marketing executive at American Express, Muze, Inc., and Lightningcast, Inc., and currently serves as a marketing advisor and marketing strategy consultant to companies both in Japan and globally.

Keynote Presentation (2021) | Measuring Value: 80 Goals for 7 Stakeholders
The Roma Festival of the Black Madonna: Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Awakening
Keynote Presentation: Jared Baxter

Late May -- 1888. Semi-homeless, Vincent van Gogh suddenly witnesses thousands of gypsies descend upon and bridge the Rhône on their annual pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a three-Mary mythic Mediterranean town forty kilometers southwest of Arles. As many beautiful Roma return one week later, Vincent's curiosity gets the better of him. He packs his bags, painting supplies, secures passage on a diligence and spends the next five days immersed in their spiritual aftermath.

Outlined by Dr. Naomi Margolis Maurer in her seminal book, The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, Vincent's own pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries would prove to revolutionize his approach to painting. This presentation will complement Margolis Maurer's work, while also offering new interpretations of Vincent's paintings, spotlighting his correspondence with penpal Émile Bernard as their search for a Symbolist Renaissance was born.

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Image | "View of Saintes-Maries" by Vincent van Gogh, 1888

Academia and Regional Sustainability in the Age of Pandemic
Panel Presentation: Goi Hoe Chin, Frendy & Hakeem Muhammad Mohsin

The study is based on a sustainability-oriented workshop with a public-private partnership context held in central Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research focuses on workshop planning, execution, and follow-up processes in response to the turbulence. A thematic analysis approach is employed to interpret data from different sources including, documents, meeting drafts, workshop interactions among stakeholders, debriefing sessions, questionnaires, and fieldwork findings of participants. The results reveal that interactions among stakeholders enhanced awareness of knowledge gaps, fostered effective communication, enabled knowledge extension, and created shared values. The findings improve our understanding of academics’ roles in collaborative settings. The study uses a multi-node knowledge link model to explore the interactions among stakeholders. Finally, the study draws implications for academic institutions, industry partners, and policymakers to attain the regional sustainability goals during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Measuring Value: 80 Goals for 7 Stakeholders
Keynote Presentation: Philip Sugai

When a company says that it is “creating value” what specifically does this mean? After collecting impact measurement and sustainability reporting and disclosure data from 15 of the world's top ESG and sustainability frameworks, our research team synthesized these into seven unique stakeholder groups, with 80 clear, transparent and objective goals that any organization regardless of size, industry or market can begin focusing on in order to create real and measurable value. This presentation will introduce the results of our assessment of these various value assessors and offer a first draft of stakeholder-focused goals that we have derived from our analyses. We call this goal-based approach to measuring and managing value across these seven stakeholder groups “Ethical Capitalism” which goes one step beyond stakeholder capitalism to provide a clear set of goals towards which firms of any size, or within any industry can aim to collectively achieve. This presentation aims to help business leaders take tangible steps to achieve a common set of sustainability goals and in doing so, create much needed alignment across all stakeholders that they serve.

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Grant Black
Chuo University, Japan

Biography

Professor Grant Black is a professor in the Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, where he has taught Global Skills and Global Issues since 2013. Grant is engaged in diverse roles as a global manager, systems builder, executive leader and university professor. His research and teaching areas include global management skills, intercultural intelligence (CQ) and organisational management. He also has taught Japanese Management Theory at J. F. Oberlin University (Japan), and a continuing education course in the Foundations of Japanese Zen Buddhism at Temple University Japan. Previously, he was Chair of the English Section at the Center for Education of Global Communication at the University of Tsukuba where he served in a six-year post in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds a BA Highest Honors in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara; an MA in Japanese Buddhist Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Doctor of Social Science (DSocSci) from the Department of Management in the School of Business at the University of Leicester. Dr Black is a Chartered Manager (CMgr), the highest status that can be achieved in the management profession in the UK. In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Grant is President of Black Inc. Consulting (Japan), a Tokyo-based firm specialising in international and intercultural project management, communication projects, and executive leadership and training. He is the director of the Nippon Academic Management Institute (NAMI) and the author of Education Reform Policy at a Japanese Super Global University: Policy Translation, Migration and Mutation (Routledge, 2022). He serves as a Vice-President for the International Academic Forum (IAFOR).

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Clementina Cardoso
CIHRC Research and Development

Biography

Clementina Cardoso is the Director of CIHRC Research and Development. Prior to this she was at the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy of the University of London Birkbeck College where she taught courses on Local Government, Public Policy and Management.

Dr Cardoso completed her PhD at LSE and held positions at University College London Institute of Education where she researched, taught and advised MA and PhD students and coordinated training for overseas civil servants and researchers. She has also been a European Commission Research Fellow, LSE, an Associate Fellow at the University of Lisbon and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Bristol Faculty of Social Sciences and Law; and held Visiting positions at the Universities of Lisbon, Louvain and has been Guest Professor on the MA and PhD programmes of, amongst others, the University of S. Paulo, Brazil. She has also been a keynote speaker at the European Parliament and at conferences.

She works within the tradition of British Government and Policy Studies, across the Social Sciences disciplines and uses comparative methodologies.

As a grant holder, she produced research sponsored by the National Science, Research and Technology Council of Portugal and the European Commission on comparative central government policy and political and economic philosophies; comparative methodologies; market-oriented policies, funding and financial management; the involvement of commercial organisations in service provision and management and partnership governance. She has served on Editorial Boards of Academic Journals; lived in Portugal, the United States, England and Hong Kong; is fluent in English, Portuguese and French, reads and speaks Spanish and Italian, has beginners knowledge of Chinese and starters knowledge of Japanese.

Dr Cardoso has an interest in the History, Culture, Philosophy and the Arts of China and Japan.

Donald E. Hall
Binghamton University, United States

Biography

Donald E. Hall is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Binghamton University (SUNY), United States. He was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering at the University of Rochester, United States, and held a previous position as Dean of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University, United States. Provost Hall has published widely in the fields of British Studies, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies, and Professional Studies. Over the course of his career, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University. Before that, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge, where he taught for 13 years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki. He has also taught in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He served on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Association of Departments of English. From 2013-2017, he served on the Executive Council of the MLA.

His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic community-building, the dialogics of social change and activist intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. Among his many books and editions are the influential faculty development guides, The Academic Self and The Academic Community, both published by Ohio State University Press. Subjectivities and Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies were both published by Routledge Press. Most recently he and Annamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, co-edited a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. Though he is a full-time administrator, he continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.

Professor Donald E. Hall is a Vice-President of IAFOR.

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Joseph Haldane
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan

Biography

Joseph Haldane is the Chairman and CEO of IAFOR. He is responsible for devising strategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing the organisation’s business and academic operations, including research, publications and events.

Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has had full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil (France), Sciences Po Paris (France), and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), as well as visiting positions at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France), The School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris (France), and the School of Journalism at Moscow State University (Russia).

Dr Haldane’s current research concentrates on post-war and contemporary politics and international affairs, and since 2015 he has been a Guest Professor at The Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, where he teaches on the postgraduate Global Governance Course, and Co-Director of the OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, an interdisciplinary think tank situated within Osaka University.

A Member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Global Governance, Dr Haldane is also a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Philology at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), a Visiting Professor at the School of Business at Doshisha University (Japan), and a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Educational Foundations at the College of Education of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (USA).

From 2012 to 2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Chubu Region) and he is currently a Trustee of the HOPE International Development Agency (Japan). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2012, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.

Bradley J. Hamm
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, USA

Biography

Bradley J. Hamm is a full professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University, USA, serving as the dean from 2012 to 2018, where he oversaw Medill's programs in Chicago, Washington, DC, and San Francisco in addition to its home campus in Evanston. Previously, he was Dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism in Bloomington and Indianapolis, USA.

Hamm's PhD is in mass communication research from the University of North Carolina, USA. He received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina, USA, and an undergraduate degree from Catawba College in North Carolina, USA.

He also served as the interim dean and associate dean of the School of Communications at Elon University in North Carolina, USA. Hamm has taught in study abroad programs in Japan, China and the United Kingdom and started his career as a newspaper reporter. His teaching and research interests are in journalism history and media theory, particularly agenda setting theory.

He served as a trustee for the Poynter Institute and is a judge for the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards. He serves as an independent, non-executive member of the Board of Directors for Next Digital media company of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Fan Li
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Japan

Biography

Inspired by the power of people with vision and determination to make the world a better place, Ms Fan Li has spent the last 20 years working to connect, engage, and catalyse innovators and change makers in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Ms Li founded Global Links Initiative with Mr Robin Rowland in 2003, a nonprofit organisation that fostered practical links among social entrepreneurs around the world. She was a founding member of the China-US Strategic Philanthropy Partnership (CUSP), a leading network that promotes research, exchange, and collaboration between the philanthropic sectors of China and the United States, and worked with CUSP from 2010 to 2016. Ms Li connected and advised partnership building in Japan and China from 2009 to 2012, which resulted in the first China-Japan social joint venture in sustainable farming.

Ms Li is co-editor-in-chief of Stanford Social Innovation Review China. She also serves as East Asia Regional Representative for Alliance magazine and East Asia Advisor for WINGS (Worldwide Initiatives for Grant-maker Support). She is currently based in Tokyo and runs the East Asia Social Innovation Study Group, a community of research, dialogue, and knowledge sharing on social innovation in East Asia.

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James W. McNally
University of Michigan, USA & NACDA Program on Aging

Biography

Dr James W. McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to health and the aging lifecourse. He currently does methodological research on the improvement and enhancement of secondary research data and has been cited as an expert authority on data imputation. Dr McNally has directed the NACDA Program on Aging since 1998 and has seen the archive significantly increase its holdings with a growing collection of seminal studies on the aging lifecourse, health, retirement and international aspects of aging. He has spent much of his career addressing methodological issues with a specific focus on specialized application of incomplete or deficient data and the enhancement of secondary data for research applications. Dr McNally has also worked extensively on issues related to international aging and changing perspectives on the role of family support in the later stages of the aging lifecourse.

Dr James W. McNally is a Vice-President of IAFOR. He is Chair of the Social Sciences & Sustainability division of the International Academic Advisory Board.

Haruko Satoh
Osaka University, Japan

Biography

Haruko Satoh is Specially Appointed Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering Science in charge of CAREN (Osaka University Centre for the Advancement of Research and Education Exchange Networks in Asia) and also lecturer at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), where she ran the MEXT Reinventing Japan project on “Peace and Human Security in Asia (PAHSA)” with six Southeast Asian and four Japanese universities. She is also the President of the The Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA).

In the past she has worked at the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Chatham House, and Gaiko Forum. Her interests are primarily in state theory, Japanese nationalism and identity politics. Recent publications include: “Rethinking Security in Japan: In Search of a Post-‘Postwar’ Narrative” in Jain & Lam (Eds), Japan’s Strategic Challenges in a Changing Regional Environment (World Scientific, 2012); “Through the Looking-glass: China’s Rise as Seen from Japan”, (co-authored with Toshiya Hoshino), Journal of Asian Public Policy, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 181–198 (July 2012); “Post-3.11 Japan: A Matter of Restoring Trust?”, ISPI Analysis No. 83 (December 2011); “Legitimacy Deficit in Japan: The Road to True Popular Sovereignty” in Kane, Loy & Patapan (Eds), Political Legitimacy in Asia: New Leadership Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), “Japan: Re-engaging with China Meaningfully” in Tang, Li & Acharya (Eds), Living with China: Regional States and China through Crises and Turning Points, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Professor Haruko Satoh is a member of IAFOR’s Academic Governing Board. She is Chair of the Politics, Law & International Relations section of the International Academic Advisory Board.

Sela V. Panapasa
University of Michigan, USA

Biography

Dr Sela V. Panapasa studies family support and intergenerational exchanges among aged Pacific Islanders living in the US and Pacific region. Her work examines changes in elderly living arrangements and headship status in response to demographic and socioeconomic change. Her interests include family demography, race and ethnicity, measuring health disparities and comparative studies.