International Symposium on Exploring our Sustainable Future

International Symposium on
Exploring our Sustainable Future
--Socio-economic and Cultural Transfiguration and the Systemic
Sustainability under the Globalization Dynamics

Satta Hall, Ichigaya-Campus, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
16 March 2011

The globalization  dynamics  have been transfiguring  overall  politico-economic and social
systems globally for the past three decades. Their far-reaching impacts affect almost all
aspects of political and socio-economic spheres, and even those of culture, thoughts and
ideology. Globalization of firms, finance and information, together with shifts of the
governmental functions to neoliberalism, which have been constituted the major driving forces
of the globalization so far, have brought about many  problems  and  even  revealed  systemic
instability of global politico-economic orders, as has been shown by the recent global financial
and economic  crisis originating in the U.S. All-out institutional restructuring seem to be
inevitable, which constitutes  an epochal transformation of the modern politico-economic  and
social systems in the modern world.

This symposium aims to elucidate the reality of the globalization dynamics and to explore the
sustainable future for our society, with a special emphasis on the local and regional community
level in the context of the complex and multi-layered new politico-economic nexus created by
the globalization dynamics. The sub-national level of transformation must be a crucial basis to
elucidate the reality of globalization dynamics. In this sense, the symposium constitutes a quite
important part of the  comprehensive research project currently being undertaken by the
Institute for Sustainability Research and Education (ISRE), Hosei University: “Synthetic
Elucidation of the Socio-economic and Cultural Transformation and the Systemic Sustainability
under the Globalization Dynamics.”

*Date: March 16, 2011
*Venue: Satta Hall, Ichigaya Campus, Hosei University, Tokyo
*Speakers and Panelists:
Dr. Tetsuji Kawamura, Dean of the Graduate School of Economics, Professor of the Faculty
of Economics, Hosei University, Japan
Dr. Saskia Sassen, Professor of Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Sunanda Sen, National Fellow of Council of Social Science Research / Visiting Professor,
Academy of Third World, Jamia Milia University and Institute of Studies in Industrial
Development(ISID), India
Dr. Suwattana Thadaniti, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn
University and Kasetsart University, Thailand
Dr. Armando Montanari, Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Roma, Italy
Dr. Darko Radovic, Professor, Department of Systems Design Engineering, Keio University,
Japan (Former Professor of the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering,
Centre for Sustainable Urban Regeneration)
Prof. Harutoshi Funabashi, Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University, Japan
Dr. Hidenobu Jinnai, Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Hosei University, Japan
*Languages: Japanese and English (Simultaneous Japanese-English translation will be
provided).

Program:
9:00 – 9:20 Registrations
9:20 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
9: 30 – 10:00 Keynote Speech 1:
“Globalization Dynamics and Systemic Sustainability: A Research Agenda”Dr. Tetsuji Kawamura, Professor, Faculty of Economics, Dean of the Graduate School of
Economics, Hosei University
10:00 – 10:45 Keynote Speech 2:
“Territory, Authority, Rights: Emergent Sub-National and Global Assemblages”
Dr. Saskia Sassen, Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA.
10:45 – 11:30 Keynote Speech 3
    “Global Economic Sustainability in the Context of the Recent Crisis: A non-Mainstream
Interpretation”
    Dr. Sunanda Sen, National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Visiting
Professor, Academy of Third World, Jamia Milia University and Institute of Studies in
Industrial Development (ISID), India.
11:30 – 12:00
“The Sufficiency Economy as a Way for Sustainable Development under Globalization:
The Case of Thailand”
Dr. Suwattana Thadaniti, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:30
“Sustainable Development in Coastal Areas: How to Deal with Conflicts?”
Dr. Armando Montanari, Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Roma, Italy
13:30 – 14:00
“Towards Radical Realism: Contextualizing Eco-urbanity”
Dr. Darko Radovic, Professor, Faculty of Systems Design Engineering, Keio University
14:00 – 14:20 Coffee Break
14:20 – 16:00 Panel Discussion: “Globalization Dynamics and the Regeneration of Our
Sustainable Future”, Chaired by Professor Tetsuji Kawamura
Panelists:
Dr. Saskia Sassen
Dr. Sunanda Sen
Dr. Suwattana Thadaniti
Dr. Armando Montanari
Dr. Darko Radovic
Prof. Harutoshi Funabashi, Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University
Dr. Hidenobu Jinnai, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Hosei University              
16:00 – 16:20 Closing Remarks
Prof. Harutoshi Funabashi, Director, ISRE, Faculty of Sociology, Hosei University

Information:
Dr.Saskia Sassen: http://www.saskiasassen.com
Dr. Sunanda Sen: http://isid.org.in/facSS.html
Dr. Suwattana Thadaniti: http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~usuwatta/
Dr. Armando Montanari: http://w3.uniroma1.it/studieuropei/docenti/montanari.htm
Dr. Darko Radovic: http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/staff/darko/

Please register online here → https://www.hosei-web.jp/fm/10108.htm