{"id":4242,"date":"2018-11-05T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2018-11-05T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T10:17:38","slug":"presentation-at-the-4th-world-social-science-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2018\/11\/05\/4242\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation at the 4th World Social Science Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2018 World Social Science Forum<\/a> was held at the Fukuoka Convention Center on September 25 \u2013 28 under the main theme of \u201cSecurity and Equality of Sustainable Futures.\u201d The event, which was held in the Asian region for the first time, was organized by the International Science Council, the Science Council of Japan, and Kyushu University, and cosponsored by the Japan Science and Technology Agency.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the forum, now in its fourth year, the opening ceremony was held in the presence of His Imperial Highness Prince and Princess, and sessions on the world\u2019s pressing issue of securing a peace of mind, safety, and a standard of living were held. Professors Aiji Tanaka and Yasuyuki Todo, and Associate Professors Satoru Shimokawa and Marisa Kellam, who are members of the Waseda University Top Global University Project\u2019s Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy Unit<\/a>, presented the session \u201cSecurity for a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Positive\/Political Economy\u201d as the Waseda University Consortium. Furthermore, Masaaki Higashiyama of Tohoku University, an up-and-coming Polimetrician who was previously a researcher at the Waseda Institute of Advanced Study, also participated in this session as a guest presenter in line with the session\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the program, details are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t