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List of Events and Activities in "Sustainability Weeks 2008"

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  • DateJune 23, 2008 (9:00-18:00) finished
  • TitleSustainability Weeks 2008 Opening Symposium
    “Toward a Sustainable Low Carbon Society”
  • Outline
    Officially opens Sustainability Weeks 2008, which will discuss the topic of what we can do now for future generations from various perspectives such as those of natural science, social reform and technological innovation.
  • OrganizerHokkaido University
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sustain.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/sw2008/weeks/opening/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-2093, office2@sustain.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • Speaker's Slide
    Download speaker's slides(Total 9 files)
    (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
    http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/34472?locale=en
  • DateJune 24, 2008 (9:00-18:00) finished
  • TitleHow to make Sustainable Low Carbon Society
    　–Synergy of Social and Engineering System–
  • Outline
    The question of how to produce synergistic effects from the science of public policy, which seeks to reorganize social systems, and engineering, which pursues technical solutions, will be discussed with the aim of accelerating a shift toward a sustainable low-carbon society.
  • OrganizerHokkaido University Initiative for Sustainable Development
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sustain.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/sw2008/weeks/carbon/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-2093, office2@sustain.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • Speaker's Slide
    Download speaker's slides(Total 5 files)
    (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
    http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/34483?locale=en
  • DateJune 24, 2008 (10:00-17:00) finished
  • Title2008 Int'l Workshop on Multi-Media Signal Processing
  • Outline
    An international workshop on the realization of high-quality, high-efficiency multimedia information and communication based on broadband networks, high-speed wireless LAN, mobile systems (ultra-low power systems), etc.
  • OrganizerCenter for Next-Generation Information Technology based on Knowledge Discovery and Knowlege Federation
  • VenueHokkaido University Graduate School of Information Science & Technology
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.gcoe.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/index.php?ml_lang=en
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-6489, miya@ist.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJune 25, 2008 (13:30-16:30) finished
  • TitleGlobal Warming - Messages from Scientists
  • Outline
    The Japanese science community will report on urgent issues caused by global warming, and discuss with citizens how such problems should be dealt with.
  • OrganizerScience Council of Japan, Hokkaido University
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.scj.go.jp/ja/event (Japanese)
  • InquiryFAX: +81-(0)3-3403-6224, p228@scj.go.jp
  • Handouts
    ・Abstracts
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33919 (Japanese)
    ・Seita EMORI, National Institute for Environmental Studies
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33921 (Japanese)
    ・Yasushi HONDA, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33922 (Japanese)
    ・Fumikazu YOSHIDA, The Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33924 (Japanese)
    　　*Links to pages in HUSCAP
  • LanguageJapanese, English
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public
  • DateJune 25, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleDynamics and Pathways of Land System Change
  • Outline
    Efforts will be made to predict the future of the terrestrial environment
    and to avoid environmental degradation by clarifying effects of different types of land use on elements of the terrestrial environment such as soil, ground, water and ecosystems.
  • OrganizerResearch Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Sustainability Governance Project(SGP)
  • VenueCentury Royal Hotel (North5 West5, Sapporo)
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/dc2008/index.htm
  • InquiryPhone:+81-(0)11-7062260, kohyama@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJune 25, 2008 (12:00-17:30) finished
  • TitleEnvironmental Monitoring for Conservation of Ecosystems
  • Outline
    To help understand the current situation and mechanisms of abnormal weather conditions observed globally. The latest results of atmospheric, meteorological and hydrological observation and research at the South Pole as well as in tropical and temperate zones will be reported.
  • OrganizerResearch Faculty of Environmental Earth Science
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/coe21/dc2008/index.htm
  • InquiryTEL:+81-(0)11-706-2200, iwakuma@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, Researchers, College Students
  • Abstractshttp://hdl.handle.net/2115/34126 (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
  • DateJune 26-27, 2008 (9:00-18:00) finished
  • TitleNortheast Asia in the Cold War: New Evidence & Perspectives
  • Outline
    This symposium will bring new international documents and comparative regional perspectives to the study of the very meaning of "ending of the Cold War".
  • OrganizerSlavic Research Center
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/　（To be prepared）
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-4809, ses-coe@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJune 27, 2008 (10:00-15:30) finished
  • TitleNeo-Science of Natural History : Origin and Evolution of Natural Diversity
  • Outline
    Introduces the allure of the Neo-Science of Natural History, a new discipline created at Hokkaido University to explore how the history of the Earth and the evolution of life affect each other.
  • OrganizerHokkaido University (21st Century COE Program on "Neo-Science of Natural History")
  • VenueThe Hokkaido University Museum
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://nature.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/symposium/sw2008/program.html
  • InquiryFAX: +81-(0)11-706-4851, horig@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, Researchers, College Students
  • DateJune 28, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleSustainability Sciences for Protecting Aquatic Ecosystem & Marine Food
  • Outline
    Human beings have no other choice to lean on marine food resource, because the human population is growing faster than terrestrial food production. In this forum, a new sustainable marine resource management based on the ecosystem approach will be proposed for children in the future.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Fisheries Science
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sustain.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/sw2008/fish/
  • InquiryTEL: +81-(0)138-40-5605, FAX: +81-(0)138-40-5605
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, College Students, Hihg School Students
  • Abstractshttp://hdl.handle.net/2115/34128 (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
  • DateJune 28, 2008 (14:00-15:30) finished
  • TitleScience Cafe Event "Outreach for the Most Recent Information on Global Warming"
  • Outline
    Human beings have no other choice to lean on marine food resource, because the human population is growing faster than terrestrial food production. In this forum, a new sustainable marine resource management based on the ecosystem approach will be proposed for children in the future.
  • Organizer
    Graduate School of Environmental Science, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Communicators in Science and Tchenology Educaiton Program (CoSTEP)
  • VenueSapporo 55 building 1st floor (North5, West5, Sapporo)
  • URLhttp://costep.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/sw2008
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-3276, office@costep.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, College Students, High School Students
  • DateJune 28-29, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleTaxonomy Returns!
    -For the Better Understanding of our Mother Nature-
  • Outline
    Although biodiversity is an important area of research worldwide, researchers cannot answer the simple question of how diverse life on Earth is. The present situation in research circles will be analyzed, and countermeasures will be considered.
  • OrganizerThe Hokkaido University Museum, Graduate School of Science
  • VenueThe Hokkaido University Museum
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://museum-sv.museum.hokudai.ac.jp/activity/symposium/symposium23/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-2750, shunfm@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJune 28-29, 2008 finished
  • TitleInternational Student Summit "UNI. SUMMIT2008"
  • Outline
    At the same time as the Toyako Summit, Hokkaido University will hold the International Students' Summit, in which university students from all over Japan will present their activities through exhibition booths and engage in exchanges of opinion.
  • VenueJun 28: Faculty of Science Bldg. #5, Jun 29: Clark Memorial Student Center
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://circle.cc.hokudai.ac.jp/unisummit08
  • Inquiryunisummit2008@gmail.com
  • LanguageEnglish, Japanese
  • Intended AudienceCollege Students
  • DateJune 29, 2008 (13:00-18:00) finished
  • TitleSchool Education for Establishing Sustainable Society in Hokkaido
  • Outline
    How should environmental education be positioned in the school curriculum? Discussions will be held in the following three areas: environmental education as a separate school subject; environmental education within existing school subjects; teacher communities for the creation of environmental education.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Education
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sw2008.jp/weeks/education/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-3100, seess629@edu.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students, Educators
  • DateJune 29, 2008 finished
  • TitleThe Present and Future of Ainu Studies, Part I
  • Outline
    A series of symposiums will look back on the history of research into the Ainu with an eye to ideal research methods for the future, with the first symposium featuring history, archaeology and linguistics.
  • OrganizerCenter for Ainu and Indigenous Studies
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.cais.hokudai.ac.jp
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-2859, ainu@let.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish, Japanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public
  • DateJune 29 - July 1, 2008 finished
  • TitleG8 University Summit
  • Outline
    Presidents of prominent universities from 14 countries will assemble before the Hokkaido Toyako Summit and make proposals from academia for the realization of a sustainable society.
  • URLhttp://g8u-summit.jp/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-2916, kokuryu@general.hokudai.ac.jp
*Seats are restricted to invittees
  • DateEaly July - July 9, 2008 finished
  • TitleTeam Sapporo Omotenashi
  • Outline
    Through their hospitality, the university students are planning programs to promote links between visitors and local citizens so that tey can experience each other's cultures.
  • VenueSapporo City(Sapporo Station, Odori Park, Tanukikoji Shopping Street)
  • Inquiryomotenashi08@yahoo.co.jp
  • DateJuly 2, 2008 (18:00-19:30) finished
  • TitleToward Stronger Ties between Agricultural and Medical Science
  • Outline
    When we think about the most immediate issues of food and health, we need to learn from the past and re-establish a philosophy of harmony between agriculture and medicine. We will consider this important theme.
  • OrganizerSustainability Governance Project (SGP)
  • VenueSapporo 55 Bldg. (N5, W5, Sapporo)
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.sgp.hokudai.ac.jp/SGP.html
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-4530, jimu@sgp.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public
  • HandoutsProf. Katsuyuki Minami (Kitasato University)
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/34139 *Link to a page in HUSCAP
  • DateJuly 2-6, 2008 finished
  • TitleSGP International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture & Environment (SGP-ICSAE)
  • Outline
    We will review modern agriculture as developed by heavy machinery and tremendous input of resources (petroleum, fertilizers, agrichemicals, water), and discuss a new system for the sustainable production of food, fiber and bio-energy.
  • OrganizerSustainability Governance Project (SGP), IR3S Participating Universities
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.sgp.hokudai.ac.jp/sgp-icsae/index.html
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-4530, icsa2008@sgp.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Stuednts
  • Speaker's Slide
    Download speaker's slides(Total 24 files)
    (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
    http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/34408
  • DateJuly 3 (13:00-18:00) - July 4 (9:30-16:30), 2008 finished
  • TitleEnvironment & Health; Human life in changing global environments
  • Outline
    The effects on health from changes in the natural environment such as global warming and environmental pollution will be highlighted, as well as the effects of changes in the social environment caused by round-the-clock economic activity. Measures to recover a rich natural environment and reclaim lifestyles will also be proposed.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Medicine
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.med.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2008/0612/ProgramE.pdf
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-6058, sathonma@med.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese, English
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, Researchers, College Students
  • Speaker's Slide
    Download speaker's slides(Total 8 files)
    (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
    http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/34495
  • DateJuly 5, 2008 (14:00-16:30) finished
  • TitleSymposium on Sustainable Management for Culture & Communities
  • Outline
    In establishing museums, halls, etc. within communities, we have to consider how to gain the cooperation of that community. Managerial approaches to the long-term maintenance and development of cultural facilities will be examined using examples from Hokkaido.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of letters，Japan Association for Cultural Economics
  • VenueHokkaido University Clark Memorial Student Center
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.jace.gr.jp/taikai_ronbun.html
  • InquiryPhone:　+81-(0)11-706-3067, sasaki@let.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, Researchers, College Students
  • DateJuly 5, 2008 (13:30-16:30) finished
  • TitleLet’s talk about “Health of the Earth & People”
  • Outline
    Around the world, 2.2 million infants die annually from unsafe water. Of the one billion people infected with largely preventable tropical diseases, 500 thousand die. Let’s share our ideas regarding these challenges.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Medicine
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://ghe.med.hokudai.ac.jp/ghentd/
  • InquiryFAX: +81-(0)11-706-7374, ghentd@ghe.med.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceCollege Students, High School Students
  • DateJuly 5-7, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleInternational Symposium: Sentinel Earth, Detection of Environmental Change
  • Outline
    Global environmental predictions will be made using satellite and field observation data. In addition, policy exploration will be conducted for “sentinels for the global environment” for prompt control of environments from the North Pole to tropical zones according to prediction results.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Information Science and Technology
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall, Centennial Hall
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sw2008.jp/SEarth/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11－706-6784, hhaya@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers
  • Abstracts
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33941
    [HUSCAP (Hokkaido University collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers)]
  • DateJuly 6, 2008 (9:00-13:00) finished
  • TitleInternational Symposium on Sanitation in Hokkaido University
  • Outline
    Aiming to overturn the current situation in which unsanitary water causes 2.2 million infant deaths annually, the functioning of public health systems will be discussed from the viewpoints of both public health policy and engineering.
  • OrganizerGraduate School of Engineering
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URL-
  • InquiryFAX: +81-(0)11-706-6270, funamizu@eng.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJuly 7, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleCatalysis Leading to a Sustainable Society
  • Outline
    Proposals will be made to the G8 nations for new environmental policies and frameworks toward international cooperation based on catalysts, which are indispensable to the innovative development of environmental and energy technologies.
  • OrganizerCatalysis Research Center
  • VenueHokkaido University Conference Hall
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://www.cat.hokudai.ac.jp/ueda/summit/index.htm
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-9164, ueda@cat.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish, Japanese
  • Intended AudienceResearchers
  • Abstracts
    http://hdl.handle.net/2115/34599
    [HUSCAP (Hokkaido University collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers)]
  • DateJuly 9, 2008 finished
  • TitleInternational Symposium “Peace, Reconciliation & Civil Society: Toward a Sustainable Peace in East Asia & Europe”
  • Outline
    Wars and colonial rule have caused many wounds throughout history.
    Reconciliation seeks to heal those wounds. This symposium aims to consider the power of citizens to promote reconciliation and peace. Prominent experts from around the world will join us in discussing how reconciliation and peace may be achieved.
  • Organizer“Peace, Reconciliation and Civil Society”Symposium Organizing Committee
  • VenueSapporo L･PLAZA
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sw2008.jp/reconciliation/
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-4082, odahiroshi@hotmail.com
  • LanguageEnglish, Japanese
  • Intended AudienceGeneral Public, Researchers, College Students
  • We regret to inform you that this evnet has been canceled. Formore information, please contact the organizer on +81-(0)11-706-3140 or globalg@juris.hokudai.ac.jp.
  • DateJuly 10, 2008 (9:00-17:00)
  • TitleStrategy of Social Inclusion for Sustainable Development
  • Outline
    Aiming to overcome problems caused by exclusionary social structures such as poverty and discrimination, the future of a new policy development known as social inclusion will be discussed by featuring British policy makers and researchers who have made pioneering achievements in the field.
  • OrganizerJSPS: Grants-in Aid for Scientific "Research Comprehensive Research on ideas & policy of civil social democracy"
  • VenueHokkaido University Clark Memorial Student Center
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URL http://www.csdemocracy.com/ (To be prepared)
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-3140, globalg@juris.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJuly 10-12, 2008 (9:00-17:00) finished
  • TitleSustainable Should Be Female Scientists'Career! Environments for Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance in Science
  • Outline
    Improvement of the environment for female researchers to continue careers with vision even during milestone periods in life, such as childbirth, child rearing and nursing care, will be discussed from the viewpoints of gender equality and work-life balance.
  • OrganizerSupport Office for Female Researchers in Hokkaido University (FResHU)
  • VenueHokkaido University Centennial Hall, Faculty House Trillium
  • RegistrationRequired (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://freshu.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/english/sw_2008.html
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-3623, myan@res.agr.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers
  • DateJuly 11, 2008 (13:45-16:00) finished
  • TitleBeyond the Double Helix
    - Life Science for the Disease Free Society -
  • Outline
    Professors Lewis Cantley (Harvard Medical School) and Tadamitsu Kishimoto (Osaka University) will give us a lecture as to provide future directions of the life science of the 21st century.
  • OrganizerInstitute for Genetic Medicine
  • VenueAuditorium, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sw2008.jp/doublehelix, Poster (PDF 750KB)
  • InquiryPhone: +81-(0)11-706-5070, doublehelix@igm.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • DateJuly 11, 2008 finished
  • TitleSustainability Weeks 2008 Closing Symposium
  • Outline
    The results of the Sustainability Weeks will be shared, and will include the announcement of a sustainability project plan to be implemented in earnest.
  • OrganizerHokkaido University
  • VenueHokkaido University Clark Memorial Student Center (Tentative)
  • RegistrationNot required (Charge-free)
  • URLhttp://sustain.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/sw2008/english/weeks/closing
  • InquiryFAX: +81-(0)11-706-2095, office2@sustain.hokudai.ac.jp
  • LanguageJapanese
  • Intended AudienceResearchers, College Students
  • Speaker's Slide
    Download speaker's slides(Total 12 files)
    (Link to a page in HUSCAP)
    http://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/34516?locale=en
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