Ageing Society in Italy and Japan:

A Multidisciplinary Workshop

distanceS in thE Covid-19 era

November 13

18:00-20:00 (Japan time) - 10:00-12:00 (CET time)

OPENING ADDRESS

18:00-18:10 (Japan time)

Giorgio Starace

Ambassador of Italy to Japan

GREETINGS AND OPENING REMARKS

18:10-18:20

Giorgio Amitrano

Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, ITALY

Paolo Calvetti

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tokyo, JAPAN

Silvio Vita

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Italian School of East Asian Studies, JAPAN

INTRODUCTION

18:20-18:30

Stefania Bandini

Università di Milano-Bicocca, ITALY and RCAST – The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

INVITED LECTURERS

18:30-18:45

Florian Coulmas

Institute for East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY

Viral

18:45-19:00

Katsuhiro Nishinari

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Crowd Management for Keeping Distance with a Focus on the Elderly

19:00-19:15

Laura Liverani

Documentary Photographer, Milan, ITALY

Distant Proximities: Representations of the Elderly in Photography

18:15-19:30

Yukio Ohsawa

Department of Systems Innovation, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN

Stay with Your Community by Designing Preliminary Encounters

19:30-19:45

Alberto Borghese

Dipartimento di Informatica “Giovanni Degli Antoni”, Università degli Studi di Milano, ITALY

Integrating Service Robots and Virtual Communities to Reduce the Distance between Caregivers and Independently Living Elders

GENERAL DISCUSSION

Discussant

Andrea De Antoni

Faculty of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, JAPAN

November 14

17:00-19:00 (Japan time) - 9:00-11:00 (CET time)

INVITED LECTURERS

17:00-17:15 (Japan time)

Tomoo Matsuda

Platinum Society Center, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, JAPAN

How are Japanese Elderly Lifestyles Changing in the Covid-19 Era?

17:15-17:30

Atsushi Sugano

Kodo Cultural Foundation, Sado, Niigata, JAPAN

The Exadon project: Blending Taiko with Medical Care to Benefit an Ageing Society

17:30-17:45

Patrick Heinrich

Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, ITALY

Is There a 'Young Generation' in Japan, and If So, what Sets Them Apart from Others?

17:45-18:00

Paolo Heritier

Università del Piemonte Orientale, ITALY

The Paradox of Distance and Closeness in the Law: Independent Living for Older People and “Thirdness”

18:00-18:15

Daniela Caso, Marcella Bianchi

Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, ITALY

Distance Teaching: The Role of Age on Italian Teachers’ Computer Anxiety and Attitudes toward ICT

18:15-18:30

Vincenzo Paolo Senese

Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, ITALY

How Remembrances of Parental Rejection and Genetic Characteristics Weigh on Depression: A Cross-Cultural Study

GENERAL DISCUSSION

Discussant

Paola Cavaliere

School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

CLOSURE

Silvio Vita

Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Italian School of East Asian Studies, JAPAN