This workshop will explore how disaster-resilient culture can be built and sustained through lifelong education as well as interdisciplinary and partnership-based approaches, with particular attention to higher education and community. The specific objectives are to:
- Develop shared interdisciplinary understandings of disaster-resilient culture and its core dimensions
- Clarify the role of higher education in cultivating discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary competencies for disaster culture
- Identify innovative and effective educational strategies that integrate disaster culture with sustainability and resilience agendas
- Examine how communities function as learning spaces for disaster-related knowledge, memory, and practice
- Explore how "learning cities" contribute to societal resilience and sustainability
- Strengthen partnerships among universities, municipalities, communities, and international organizations
Schedule
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 1:05 - 1:15 p.m. | Opening Remarks Dr. Hiroo Yugami, Executive Vice President, Tohoku University |
| 1:15 - 1:40 p.m. | Keynote Speech 1 Dr. Rika Yorozu, UNESCO Bangkok |
| 1:40 - 2:05 p.m. | Keynote Speech 2 Dr. Rina Suryani Oktari, Universitas Syiah Kuala |
| 2:05 - 2:30 p.m. | Keynote Speech 3 Mr. Wanchai CHONGSUTTANAMANEE, Mayor of Chiang Rai Municipality, Thailand Interpreted by Mr. Winai SONY, Urban Development Planning Specialist, Chang Rai Municipality, Thailand |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Photo Session & Break |
| 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. | Project report by Tohoku University Discussant: Dr. Weiyan Xiong, The Education University of Hong Kong |
| 3:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Panel Discussion & Q&A Moderated by Dr. Greg Misiaszek, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University Panelist: Dr. Rika Yorozu, Dr. Rina Suryani Oktari, Expert from Thailand, Dr. Weiyan Xiong, Dr. Masashige Motoe, Dr. Jing Liu |
| 4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks Dr. Hideki Kozima, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University |
Date: March 12, 2026
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue:
Onsite: Tohoku University Kawauchi Campus, Graduate School of Education, Meeting Hall, 11F (map)
Online: Zoom
Language: Japanese and English
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yWSsgtfoRaakiSCRKDMbzw
Online Registration Deadline: March 10, 2026
On-site Registration Deadline: March 6, 2026
Link:
- Poster (JPEG)
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