PROGRAM

DAY 1 – Wednesday March 8, 2023

ROOM 51 Main Building

12:30-12:55 Registration 

 13:00 -13: 10

Welcome Addresses

Professor Genta KAWAHARA

Executive Vice President (OU)

Professor Tomohide ATSUMI

Dean of the Graduate School of Human Sciences (OU)

13:10 – 13:15 Opening remarks

Prof. Junko OTANI (OU)

Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

13:15 – 13:45 Session 1 Human rights, health and wellbeing following disaster

 Chair: Prof Junko OTANI

Speaker 1: Professor Yasuhide NAKAMURA (online)

Title:  Empathy and Resilience: In the Process of Recovery and Development from Natural Disasters 

Professor Emeritus at Osaka University, President of Friends of WHO Japan

13:45 – 15:15 Session 1

Speaker 2:  Dr Claire LEPPOLD

The age of multiple disasters: Learning how to support people and communities when more

than one disaster occurs

University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health  

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 Session 2 Policies and practices of disaster response from a human rights perspective

 Session 2: Case Study 1 Chair Paola CAVALIERE

Prof Sumiko OGAWA

Title: Undesirable Consequences of COVID-19 on Women and Children in Okinawa

Meio University, Public Health Department (Okinawa)

16:00-16:30 Session 2: Case Study 2

Speaker 4: Dr Julia GERSTER (online)

Title: Representations of women's and children's experiences in disaster

memorial museums in Japan. Towards more inclusive disaster cultural memory

Tohoku University, IRIDeS (International Research Institute of Disaster Studies)

16:30-16:55  Q&A & Discussion

Moderators: Dr Katitza MARINKOVIC CHÁVEZ and Dr Paola CAVALIERE

16:55 – 17:00pm Closing Remarks

Prof. Junko OTANI (OU)

DAY 2 - Thursday March 9, 2023

YUMENE HALL (East 207)

9:30 – 9:50 Registration

10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks

Prof. Lisa GIBBS (UoM)

The University of Melbourne, School of Population and Global Health

10:05 – 11:05 Session 1 人科セミナー (対面＋オンライン提供)

Yumene Hall (East 207)

Mapping collaborative pathways for disaster recovery: a focus on women and children

Session 1 (JINKA Seminar):  Chair: Prof Junko OTANI

Speaker 1:  Professor Lisa GIBBS

Academic findings about long-term impact of disasters: children and women

Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Unit, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne

Speaker 2: Ms Jane NURSEY

Application of academic findings: Clinical aspects of disaster response

Head of Clinical Services at Phoenix Australia (The University of Melbourne)

Miraikyosei website: www.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/mirai-kyoso/events/230214a/

Flyer:  www.hus.osaka-u.ac.jp/mirai-kyoso/events/230214a/poster.pdf 

11:05 – 12:00 Q&A & Discussion

Moderator: Prof Junko OTANI

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 -13: 30 Session 2 Practices in disaster response I

Session 2 Chair: Dr Paola CAVALIERE

Speaker 1: Prof Aya GOTO

Mothers worry and children act, for change in the community 

Fukushima Medical University, Center for Integrated Sciences and Humanities

福島県立医科大学総合科学教育研究センター

13:30 – 14:00 Session 2

Speaker 2: Ass. Professor Takako IZUMI

Title:  Impact of COVID-19 on disaster risk management and its future

IRIDeS (International Research Institute of Disaster Studies

Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Multi-Hazards Program

14:00 – 14:15 Q&A & Discussion

Moderators: Prof Yasuhide NAKAMURA and Prof Sumiko OGAWA

14:15 – 14:45 Session 3 Practices in disaster response II

Session 3:  Chair: Prof Yasuhide Nakamura

 Speaker 1: Prof Jun OYANE

Actual Aspect of Resilience in Disaster Recovery and Vitalization:

The original meaning and the specific example in Great East Japan Earthquake

Senshū University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

専修大学人間科学部社会学科

14:45 – 15:00 Session 3

Speaker 2: Dr Sachiko BABA (online)

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on city-level activity in MCH and in a hospital

Director, Osaka Maternal and Child Health Information Center, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Division of Maternal & Child Health and Community Public Health Development

15:00 – 15:15 Q&A & Discussion

Moderator: Prof Sumiko OGAWA and Prof Yasuhide NAKAMURA

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 15:45 Session 4 Case Studies I

Session 4: Case Study 1

Speaker 1:  Dr. Katitza MARINKOVIC CHÁVEZ

Title: Promoting children and young people’s engagement and participation after disasters

University of Melbourne, Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

15:45-16:00 Session 4: Case Study 2

Speaker 2:  Ms Jing LI

Title: A Study on "Psychological Care" of Self-help Groups in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic：

focus on Self-help Groups for Women with Eating Disorders

Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

16:00-16:15 Q&A & Discussion

16:15-16:30 Session 5 Case Studies II

Session 5 Case Study 4  Chair: Dr Claire Leppold

Speaker: Mr Temirlan DAIR

Topic: Research on the analysis of the level of flood hazard in Kazakhstan

16:30-16:45 Session 5 Case 5

Speaker: Ms Victoria KAPORTSEVA

Topic: Review of COVID-19 crisis in the Republic of Belarus

16:45-16:55 Q&A & Discussion

Moderators: Prof Sumiko Ogawa, Prof Yasuhide Nakamura, Prof Junko Otani and Prof Lisa Gibbs

16:55 – 17:00pm losing Remarks

Prof. Lisa Gibbs (UoM)

DAY 3 - March 10, 2023 - FIELDTRIP

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial (人と未来防災センター)　＋Hokutan shinsai Memorial Park

9:00 Meeting point: Suita Campus & Senri Hankyu Hotel

Student Assistants: Das, Gao, Wang, Shimamura, Arai, Li

9:00 – 10:00 Bus transfer

10:15 – 12:15 The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Memorial

Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution

人と未来防災センター　Hito to Mirai Bosai Center   https://www.dri.ne.jp/en/ c.a. 2 hours located next to JICA Kobe /WHO Kobe Center

12:20-13:20 L

Lunch at JICA restaurant

13:20-14:20 Bus transfer to Awaji Island

14:20-16:00 Earthquake Museum – Awaji Island - Hokutan shinsai Memorial Park

 https://www.nojima-danso.co.jp/ 

16:00-17:30 Bus transfer back to Senri Hankyu Hotel & Suita Campus

End of field trip