2013 Disaster Conference Revised Programme

PROGRAMME

Day 1          Venue: Leong Auditorium

8:00            Registration

9:00            Welcome Remarks

Filomeno V. Aguilar, Ph.D

Dean, School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University

Opening Remarks

Shūji Takatori,

Director, The Japan Foundation Manila Office

9:30-10:00   Documentary Film

                      Lessons from a Disaster: The Great East Japan Earthquake

10:00-11:50     Session 1:

Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction for the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Satoshi TANAKA, Ph.D

Fuji Tokoha University and Graduate School

Business Responses to Crisis: Conflicting Paradigms and Reorientation

Hendrik Meyer-Ohle, Ph.D

National University of Singapore            

11:50-1:00  Lunch

1:00-2:00    Documentary Film

                   Can You See the Lights? First Festival after the Tsunami

2:00-2:15    Coffee Break

2:15-4:05    Session 2:

Social Capital, Social Media and Sociality in Post-3.11 Japan

David H. Slater, Ph.D

Sophia University

Filipino Communities in Tohoku after the Disasters of March 11

Takefumi Terada, Ph.D

Sophia University

4:05            Closing Remarks

Antonio G. M. La Viña, LLB, LLM, JSD, Dean, Ateneo School of Government

Day 2          Venue: Leong Hall

8:30            Registration

9:00-10:30  Session 3:

Reviving Tohoku after 3/11: Food Heritage Preservation and Tourism

Stephanie Assmann, Ph.D

Akita University,

Risk Distribution of Fukushima-related Disaster Waste―From a Risk Governance Perspective

Miori NAGASHIMA, Setsuko ICHIHARA and Etsuko ITOKAWA

Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University

        

Medical Disaster in the 3-11 Triple Tragedy in Northeastern Japan: An Analysis of Disaster Response Issues and Problems

        Arnel E. Joven, Ph.D

        University of Asia and the Pacific

                       

10:30-10:45     Coffee Break

10:45-12:15 Session 4:

  Social Capital and volunteerism after the Great East Japan Earthquake

 Cecilia Manoliu

University of Tsukuba

Disaster Vulnerability and Coping in a Foreign Environments: The Narrative of the  

Pinoy Scholars in Tohoku During 3.11

                     Lisette R. Robles

                     Sophia University

           

The March 2011 Japan Disaster: Trade and Economic Implications to the  

Philippines

Ferdinand T. Abocejo

Cebu Normal University

12:15          Closing Remarks