Asia Pacific Conference 2024
Asia Pacific Conference 2024
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and its RCAPS annually host the Asia Pacific Conference. Since its inception in 2003, AP Conference has provided researchers from around the world with an opportunity to present their research. The conference aims to contribute to the realization of "Shape Your World" through academic discussions on issues facing the Asia-Pacific region and the world surrounding it. The AP Conference 2024 will be held with the theme "Bridging Divides for Global Recovery."
Application Form for Presenters
*Presenter’s Application for AY2024 has closed. The one for AY2025 is scheduled to open in April, 2025.
Application Form for Audience (Free of charge)
*Reception will be on the 1st floor of the Green Commons on event days.
Keynote Speech
- 09:00
- Doors Open No Reception Required
- 09:15
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Opening Remarks
by Professor Hiroshi YONEYAMA, President, APU - 09:30
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Keynote Speech
The Role of Youth in Bridging the Global Divides for a More Peaceful and Secure World (Summary of Speech)
Dr. Sukehiro HASEGAWA, President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan - 10:30
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Keynote Speech
Japan’s Path in a Turbulent Global Landscape: Navigating Declining Power Amidst Geopolitical Crises (Summary of Speech)
Mr. Nobukatsu KANEHARA, Executive Director, Sasakawa Peace Foundation - 11:30
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Panel Discussion
with Dr. Sukehiro HASEGAWA, President, Global Peacebuilding Association of Japan
Mr. Nobukatsu KANEHARA, Executive Director, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Ms. Simran WALIA, Associate Fellow at Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS), New Delhi
Professor Yoshifumi OKAMURA, Vice President, APU
Moderated by Dr. Astha CHADHA, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University
Examples of Panel Titles
- CIL Special Session
- Forgotten refugees: How best to support them?
- Converging or diverging Indo-Pacific Visions: Prospects and challenges for a shared Indo-Pacific approach
- Peace in Times of Conflict: How the Younger Generation Perceives Our World Today
- The International Security of Japan and South Korea
- Sustainability, Environmental Preservation, and Livelihood Development
- Sociology of Identity in Film, Family and Resettlement
- Tourism-based community development in Germany, New Zealand and Portugal
- Decoding visual narratives through Lovecraftian Anti-Mythology, cultural hybridization and the Gramscian subaltern.
- Pseudo-Authenticity and Area Studies: Utilization and Evaluation of (New) Information and Communications Technologies
- Is it possible to bridge ideological divides in remembering?: investigations of gendered and institutionalized traumatic memories
- Transformation and Dynamics in East Asian Political Landscape: AI, Media Narratives, and Political Strategies
- Successful tourism practices for sustainable community development
- Environmental Science and Development in Kyusyu
- Navigating Global Shifts: How India and the Middle East are Transforming
- How Can Human and Artificial Intelligences Merge? Visions of Western and Non-Western Philosophical Perspectives
- China and Global Governance in a Changing World
- Japanese Studies Beyond Dichotomies, between the Global and the National, Pre-War and Post-War, and Identity and Diversity
- International Relations in the Indo-Pacific Region
- Japan Foreign Policy
- Taiwan in the changing Asian-Pacific political landscape
Best Paper Award (Only for Graduate Students)
2024 Best Paper Award Guidelines
* Application for AY2024 has closed. Information for AY2025 will be announced in April, 2025.
Past Award-Winning Papers
| AY | Name | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Chhay Lim | Ritsumeikan University | Japan as a hedging power in Southeast Asia: Case of Cambodia’s alignment politics towards Japan |
| Mega Cahyanti | Yamaguchi University | Dark Tourism for Post Natural-Disaster Sites Case Study on Tsunami Memorial Museum in Indonesia and Japan | |
| Kazumi Murakumo | University of Tsukuba | The History of the Migration and Immigration of Indonesian Nurses: The Case of the Japan-Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement | |
| Miguel Niccolo Veneracion Rallonza | Sophia University | The Role of Coffee Producers in Philippine Specialty Coffee: Looking at the Case of Mt. Apo Coffee in Davao del Sur, Mindanao | |
| 2022 | Jose Rodolfo Aviles Ernult | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | Analyzing magical realist narratives through the Freudian uncanny: decontextualized memories in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) |
| 2021 | Raphaelle Delmas | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | International climbers’ behaviour towards the payment of Mount Fuji’s conservation donation |
| Robin Argueyrolle | |||
| 2020 | Tsz Chit Yui | National Sun Yat-sen University | Exploring the Determinants of Cyberloafing in the Workplace: A Conservation of Resources (COR) Perspective |
| Chiung-Ying Wu | National Sun Yat-sen University | ||
| Chien-Chung Kao | National Sun Yet-sen University | ||
| 2019 | Astha Chadha | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) | India's foreign policy towards Japan: Strategic partnership amid regional transformations |
