World Social Science Forum 2018,  Sep, 25-28, 2018 FUKUOKA, JAPAN  

Chair: Hyunjoo Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University, Japan & Akihiro Iwashita, Kyushu University/Hokkaido University, Japan

Speakers:

• Minsu Kim, Korea Maritime Institute, Korea
  -Development of Korea’s Arctic Policy: the role as a ‘Responsible Arctic Partner’
• Tony Tai-Ting Liu, the University of Tokyo, Japan
  -Arctic Policy with Chinese Characteristics: The Polar Silk Road Initiative and Its Geopolitical Implications
• Xu Liu, Renmin University of China, China
  -The Ice Silk Road Initiative and Its implication for the Arctic Governance
• Fujio Ohnishi, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University , Japan
  -Development of Japan’s Arctic Policy: The Third Basic Plan for Ocean Policy
• Minori Takahashi, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
  -The emergence of Cold-War-like power relations in the post-Cold War era and their influence on sub-state actors in the Arctic: Thule Air Base as the study case

Discussant: Martin van der Velde, Radboud University, Netherlands

• Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Indian Institute of Technology, India
  - Infrastructure Development in Northeast India: Examining Inequality and Exclusion in the Development Promise of Progress and Prosperity

• Hyunjoo Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University, Japan
  - Transnational Migration and Mobility: Care and Domestic Workers in East Asia

Border Studies Today: Theoretical Development and Its Role in the Contemporary World

Chaired by: Akihiro Iwashita, Kyushu University/Hokkaido University

Abstract:
This edition of the World Social Science Forum focuses upon security and equality for sustainable futures, and is therefore concerned with issues of global significance. However, as a glance at the sub-themes makes clear, these global issues come to be filtered through the prism of the nation-state, and its ability to respond to the problems seen as afflicting every part of the globe. Even when adopting a transborder perspective, it is common for the humanities and social sciences to adopt an area studies approach, as is seen in Kyushu University’s focus on Asia. The aim here, however, is to seek to offer a more global perspective, both through the background of the participant and the scope of their discussion. A unique feature of border studies is its multidisciplinarity and ability to go beyond regionalism, and it is hoped that such strengths will be reflected in this roundtable, which will emphasize the central contribution to be made to resolving global issues through the study of borders, edges, and liminal spaces.

Speakers:

• Martin van der Velde, Radboud University, Netherlands / President of Association for Borderlands Studies: 2014-2015, John Connell, University of Sydney, Australia
  - European Borders Studies in the past decades
• Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, George Mason University, USA / President of Association for Borderlands Studies: 2017-2018
  - Borders in the Americas in the Era of Trump: Walls and Closed Borders
• Serghei Golunov, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia / Professor of Kyushu University: 2015-2018
  - Theory-Practice Gap in Contemporary Border Studies
• Akihiro Iwashita, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan / President of Association for Borderlands Studies: 2015-2016
  - Back to the Future: A world of “fortresses”?

Moderators: Edward Boyle, Kyushu University & Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Indian Institute of Technology

• Edward Kieran Boyle, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan
  -Envisioning Island Spaces: Integral territory and national fragments

• Tetsuro Chida, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, Japan
  -Desertification, climate change and border: The Aral Sea borderlands before/after the collapse of USSR