On the auspicious occasion of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship Year 2013, the Japan Foundation Center for cultural Exchange in Vietnam, in cooperation with the Universities of Social Science & Humanities – Vietnam National University, Hanoi & HCMC, will host public lectures on “Japan’s New International Relations” on Tuesday 19 March in Hanoi and on Friday 22 March in HCMC.
In the midst of drastic change in the international circumstances surrounding Japan, especially inaugurations of newly appointed prime ministers of Japan and China, as well as the U.S. President’s second term in motion, two Japanese eminent scholars on international relations and diplomacy will conduct public lectures, followed by a round-table discussion with Vietnamese scholars and experts.
The public lectures will be conducted in English with Vietnamese simultaneous interpretation. Admission is free but pre-registration in advance by phone or e-mail is highly recommended.
■ Time & Venue:
| Hanoi | |
| Time:sdds | 08:30 – 12:00 Tuesday 19 March 2013 |
| Venue: |
8F, Building E |
| The University of Social Sciences & Humanities – VNU Hanoi 336 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi |
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Program (Hanoi):
| 08：30 – 08:40 | Opening Greetings |
| jghjg | |
| 08:40 – 10:10 | Session I: Keynote Addresses |
| 08:40 – 09:25 | Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Soeya (Keio University) |
| “The Rise of China and Japan’s Responses: Implications for regional security”dsadasdsdasdasdsadasdaa | |
| 09:25 – 10:10 | Prof. Dr. Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University) |
| “Soft Power and Japan’s International Cultural Engagements”dsadasdsdasdasdsadasdaa | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | (Coffee break) |
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| 10:30 – 11:30 | Session II: Round Table Discussion |
| Moderator: | |
| Prof. Dr. Pham Quang Minh (Vietnam National University) | |
| Speakers: | |
| Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Soeya (Keio University) | |
| Prof. Dr. Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University, Japan) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hoang Khac Nam (Vietnam National University) Dr. Pham Quy Long (Institute of Northeast Asian Studies, VASS) Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thiet Son (Institute of American Studies, VASS) |
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| 11:30 – 11:55 | Session III: Open Discussion (Q&A) |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Closing remark |
| Ho Chi Minh City | |
| Time:sdds | 08:30 – 12:00 Thứ 6 ngày 22 tháng 3 năm 2013 |
| Venue: | 1F, Main Hall, Building D |
| The University of Social Sciences & Humanities – VNU HCMC 10-12 Dinh Tien Hoang, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City |
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Program (HCMC):
| 08：30 – 08:40 | Opening Greetings |
| jghjg | |
| 08:40 – 10:10 | Session I: Keynote Addresses |
| 08:40 – 09:25 | Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Soeya (Keio University) |
| “The Rise of China and Japan’s Responses: Implications for regional security”dsadasdsdasdasdsadasdaa | |
| 09:25 – 10:10 | Prof. Dr. Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University) |
| “Soft Power and Japan’s International Cultural Engagements”dsadasdsdasdasdsadasdaa | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | (Coffee break) |
| fsdf | |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Session II: Round Table Discussion |
| Moderator: | |
| Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Tien Luc (Vietnam National University) | |
| Speakers: | |
| Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Soeya (Keio University) | |
| Prof. Dr. Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University, Japan) Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Lich (Vietnam National University) Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Dung (Vietnam National University) |
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| saa | |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Session III: Open Discussion (Q&A) |
| 11:55 – 12:00 | Closing remark |
■ Profiles on Japanese scholars
Prof. Dr. Yoshihide Soeya
Yoshihide Soeya earned a Ph.D. in World Politics from the University of Michigan in 1987. He is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the Faculty of Law of Keio University. He also serves as the Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the same university. Dr. Soeya currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Japan Association of International Studies, and is a member of the International Advisory Group of the International Council of the Asia Society in New York. He served , in 2010, as a member of the “Council on Security and Defense Capabilities in the New Era” in the Prime Minister’s Office.
His publications in Japanese include Japan’s “Middle Power” Diplomacy (2005), Japan’s Diplomacy and China: 1945-1972 (1996). His recent publications in English include “A ‘Normal’ Middle Power: Interpreting Changes in Japanese Security Policy in the 1990s and After,” in Yoshihide Soeya, et.al., eds, Japan as a ‘Normal Country’? A Country in Search of its Place in the world (2011); and “Japanese Domestic Politics and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia,” Council on Foreign Relations (December 2009).
Link: http://www.clb.law.mita.keio.ac.jp/soeya/professor.html (Japanese)
Prof. Dr. Yasushi Watanabe
Yasushi Watanabe earned a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1997. After post-doctoral research at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, he joined Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) in 1999. He is currently a full Professor and has taught courses on Cultural Policy, Human Security, and American Studies. His books include After America: Trajectories of the Bostonians and the Politics of Culture (2004), which won a Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities and a Hiroshi Shimizu Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies; Culture and Diplomacy: The Age of Public Diplomacy (2011); and the co-edited volume Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States (2008).
He was a recipient of an Abe Fellowship and housed at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 2003-04. In 2005 he was awarded a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship and a Japan Academy Medal; he was also a Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge in 2007. He has served as the Executive Director of the Japanese Association for American Studies and on the Advisory Council on Public Diplomacy of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he is currently an editorial member of Gaiko (Diplomacy) magazine and a book reviewer for Asahi Shimbun, et al.
Link: http://vu9.sfc.keio.ac.jp/faculty_profile/cgi/f_profile.cgi?id=2d9618a0d5b77089 (Japanese)
http://vu9.sfc.keio.ac.jp/faculty_profile/cgi/f_profile_e.cgi?id=2d9618a0d5b77089 (English)
■ Press release:
■ For inquiries and reservations, please contact at:
Ms. Ha Nguyen (04 3944 7419 ext: 113) / Mr. Yoshioka (0123 384 4138)
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam
27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam TEL 04 3944 7419 www.jpf.org.vn
