00:00 ～00:00
(11/1-11/7) Textile Cartographies, A Storytelling Social Participation[ENG]
Person in charge : Heloísa Seratiuk Flores
Introduction: The Textile Cartographies Mouvement As by June 2026, over 10,000 participants from 22 countries, more than 36 groups, each with coordinators from museums, schools, universities, cultural sites, social and health care organisations, and NPOs, have taken part in Textile Cartographies Mouvement (TCM), which began in 2022 as a gentle, storytelling, arts-based participatory project. It warmly invites communities and individuals to reflect on the environment, climate, and social justice through simple yet meaningful ten-by-ten-centimeters textile squares that are sent as gifts to participating communities. As local groups and communities sew their stories into these squares, they become part of a global network as the squares travel physically from place to place. These textile squares foster connection, resilience, and shared understanding, conveying diverse stories of survival, heritage, and concern for our planet and society, bridging distances and moments in time, and bringing people and issues together in the present. These squares act as boundary objects, creating new narratives and maps wherever they are created, exhibited, or cared for. Textile Cartographies, as an ongoing global arts-based project, aligns with Kyushu University Asia Week 2026 ’s objective to promote culture and research across Asia and internationally, demonstrating how communal craft and participatory methodologies can facilitate horizontal cultural exchange and document contemporary local narratives. This proposed lecture will be contextualised through the perspectives of Social Design through New Feminist Materiality, framing TCM as structured, inclusive participation that renegotiates social power dynamics and fosters grassroots community facilitation. An open walk-in workshop alongside the TCM exhibition, featuring squares from 22 countries, will tell stories first-hand through visual narratives to workshop participants and visitors, as an initial, silent cultural exchange. Framework and Value Through the philosophical lens of Feminist New Materiality, the lecture will feature invited speakers Dr T, Torres de Eça, and Dr A, Saldanha, the originators of the international initiative, who will discuss how TCM has organically and iteratively evolved into the impactful arts-based social movement it is today. The presentation will showcase a broad range of arts-based practices, highlighting how individuals, groups and communities have adapted the methodology to suit their specific social and cultural contexts. At the same time, it will exemplify the crucial role of critical curatorial practices embedded throughout the project, grounded in qualitative enquiries and attentive to the relationships among nature, human-made culture, distributive agency, and privileged relations.
Date 11/01 (Sun) 00:00 ～00:00
Venue Fukuoka Art Museum Main Hall (Ohori Koen)
09:30 ～13:00
SNU[Japanese (with some English)]
Person in charge : Toshinori Tanaka
本セミナーでは、韓国の楊平郡と日本の糸島市を対象とした共同研究プロジェクトの初期研究成果を報告する。都市農村交流に関わる施設・団体へのインタビュー調査を中心に、現地調査の結果を踏まえながら、農村近郊地域の開発特性、および農村の多機能性と都市農村交流を結びつける活動の特徴を把握・比較する。また、システムダイナミクス(SD)を活用した今後の研究方向についても紹介し、韓日共同研究者間での意見交換を行う。
Date 11/03 (Tue) 09:30 ～13:00
Venue Ito Campus Ito Guest House Multipurpose Hall, Conference Room and Japanese-Style Room
15:00 ～15:30
Clear Vision, Brighter Futures: How VisionSpring is Scaling Social Impact and Driving the SDGs across Bangladesh and Beyond. (Tentative)[ENG]
Person in charge : Nuren Abedin
This 60-minute virtual webinar, titled "Clear Vision, Brighter Futures: How VisionSpring is Scaling Social Impact and Driving the SDGs across Bangladesh and Beyond," is organized as part of Kyushu University’s Q-AOS Asia Week 2026 SDGs Webinar Series and will be hosted and moderated by Dr. Nuren Abedin. Featuring guest speaker Ms. Misha Mahjabeen, Country Director for Bangladesh at VisionSpring, the session highlights VisionSpring’s extraordinary global journey from a pioneering social enterprise into a powerhouse that has transformed millions of lives through affordable eyeglasses. A 30-minute keynote lecture by Ms. Mahjabeen will be there to discuss VisionSpring's boots-on-the-ground execution and community empowerment models in Bangladesh and around the globe, showcasing how addressing uncorrected blurry vision directly intersects with poverty alleviation, economic productivity, and global Sustainable Development Goals. For attending students, this lecture provides an invaluable benefit by bridging abstract academic theories of sustainable development with real-world social entrepreneurship, challenging them to think critically about how localized public health initiatives can be scaled systematically to drive global impact.
Date 11/04 (Wed) 15:00 ～15:30
Venue Online Only Zoom
10:00 ～11:00
Global Career Seminar[ENG]
Person in charge : Mami Wakabayashi, Wakako Satomura, Masateru Higo
多様な考えや価値観に触れながら、自らのキャリアを構築することを目的として、特に国際機関等の国際協力分野で活躍することを目指す学生がロールモデルを得る機会にする。本セミナーは特に留学生をターゲットに行うため、英語での開催とする。国籍に寄らないキャリアの道としての国際機関等で国際協力に携わっている方を迎え、様々な国際協力分野への道を紹介する。
Date 11/05 (Thu) 10:00 ～11:00
Venue Ito Campus Ito Guest House Multipurpose Hall, Conference Room and Japanese-Style Room
00:00 ～00:00
Nathalie Lautenbacher: Materiality of Care with Ceramic Tableware[ENG]
Person in charge : Heloísa Seratiuk Flores
Introduction: Nathalie Lautenbacher Affiliated with the Finnish Institute in Tokyo, Nathalie Lautenbacher bridges the conversation on the materiality of care through her ceramic practice by framing the deliberate “slowness” of manufacturing as a qualitative response to contemporary acceleration. Alongside her artistic practice, she has also been a lecturer at Aalto University since 2002, embedding her philosophies of material contemplation into academic pedagogy. She meticulously investigates the texture, shape, and weight of tableware, conceptualising these everyday items not merely as functional tools, but as culturally resonant artefacts that embody a dichotomy of permanence and fragility. By viewing her ceramic vessels conceptually as “shelters” and “idea keepers”, Lautenbacher extends the utility of tableware into the realm of preservation. In her process, the contemplative pace of creation is intended to transfer directly to the user's experience, elevating the ordinary act of gathering into a deliberate practice of care and deliberation. Her critical engagement with tactile materiality and slow craft is highly recognised within the Japanese ceramics community, evidenced by her receipt of the Bronze Award in 2005 and 2014, as well as an Honourable Mention in 2021, at the International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan. Framework and Value Through the lens of Feminist New Materiality, everyday domestic artefacts are elevated from passive objects to active agents. The workshop will explore the dichotomy of permanence and fragility inherent in ceramics, positioning these tableware as culturally resonant vessels. By curating a space for collective meaning-making, the workshop interrogates the relationships between nature, human-made culture, distributive agency, and privileged relations. The curation of this event is intentionally active. The placement of the ceramics will provoke specific social negotiations among the participants, effectively using arts-based methods as a qualitative methodology. By carefully observing and documenting how communities interact with these fragile, permanent objects, the project gathers vital data on horizontal cultural exchanges.
Date 11/06 (Fri) 00:00 ～00:00
Venue Fukuoka Art Museum Main Hall (Ohori Koen)
13:00 ～17:00
Mekong Symposium[JPN/ENG]
Person in charge : Qian Kun
昨年度の開催に引き続き，メコン川地域（中国西南部，ラオス，タイ，カンボジア，ベトナム）などの国や地域で人文社会系各分野のフィールド研究者を招き，研究シンポジウムを開催する。この地域でのフィールド研究を主軸とした外部研究資金申請のチームづくりにもつながる。
Date 11/06 (Fri) 13:00 ～17:00
Venue Online & Face to face Inamori Hall(Hybrid)
13:00 ～15:30
Dog Therapy[JPN/ENG]
Person in charge : Kimiyo Kikuchi
ワンヘルスの視点から、人と動物の健康やウェルビーイングについて考えるイベントです。日本・タイ・フィリピンにおけるドッグセラピーや動物介在活動の取り組みを紹介し、各国からの発表とパネルディスカッションを行います。後半には、セラピードッグとのふれあい体験や参加者同士のグループディスカッションも実施します。
Date 11/06 (Fri) 13:00 ～15:30
Venue Ito Campus Rooms 2209 and 2210, Center Zone 2
13:00 ～15:00
Manila Slum[JPN]
Person in charge : Yu Ajishi
フィリピンをはじめとするグローバルサウスの都市では、貧困層はこれまで、土地の不法占拠や盗電といった公式の制度に組み込まれないインフォーマルな手段によって、生活の基盤を築いてきた。こうした活動は国家によって黙認されることも少なくなかったが、近年では都市開発や治安維持などを理由に、各国で取り締まりが強化されつつある。本セミナーでは、マニラ首都圏のスラム地域で長年フィールドワークを行ってきた宮川慎司氏（東京大学大学院総合文化研究科・特任助教）を招き、法律や制度から外れた形で生活してきた都市貧困層が、こうした取り締まりの強化の中でどのように生活の基盤を築いているのかについてご講演いただく。あわせて企画者（味志・九州大学）より、アフリカ・タンザニア農村における類似の事例（票の売買と汚職）を簡単に紹介し、地域を超えた視点から、ルールの順守と逸脱の間で人々がどう生き抜いているかを参加者とともに考える機会とする。
Date 11/06 (Fri) 13:00 ～15:00
Venue Online & Face to face Common Facilities #1, 213 Common seminar room
13:00 ～14:00
Q-AOS SDGs Webinar Series (Asia Week 2026) Sustainability Measurement and Management: Bridging Environmental Goals with Corporate Accountability[ENG]
Person in charge : Nuren Abedin
This 60-minute Zoom webinar, part of Kyushu University's Q-AOS Asia Week 2026 SDGs Webinar Series , features Dr. Md Tapan Mahmud, with Dr. Nuren Abedin hosting. Dr. Mahmud's 40-minute keynote lecture, "Beyond the Numbers: Impact Accounting, ESG Disclosures, and Sustainability Governance ," explores how accounting functions as a social science to measure and manage environmental indicators. The session covers ESG frameworks, integrated reporting, and theoretical lenses like Legitimacy Theory to address challenges like greenwashing. It concludes with a 5-minute moderator discussion and a 10-minute audience Q&A. # Key Learning Benefits for Attending Students or audinence: • *Interdisciplinary Synthesis:* Understand how corporate accounting directly translates into real-world environmental policy and social metrics. • *Methodological Toolkit:* Learn how qualitative-conceptual research, content analysis of ESG reports, and stakeholder management are applied in modern scientific literature. • *Career Readiness:* Gain insight into the evolving global regulatory landscape (IR, CSR, and ESG compliance) which is becoming a top-tier demand for future environmental and social science professionals.
Date 11/06 (Fri) 13:00 ～14:00
Venue Online Only Zoom
16:30 ～20:00
Intercultural medicine[JPN]
Person in charge : Yuko Tokuyasu
ラオスのように経済基盤が脆弱な国では、国際援助は国家運営において重要な役割を果たしている。とりわけ医療協力は、人々の健康や生命に直接関わるものであり、地域によっては文字どおり人々の命綱となっている。一方、文化人類学・医療人類学では、医療援助と現地社会の文化や価値観との関係が重要な研究テーマとして論じられてきた。現地社会の文脈から医療実践を理解し、文化を相対化する視点は、異文化における医療を考えるうえで欠かせない。 では、異文化のなかで医療を実践するとは、どのようなことなのだろうか。ラオ・フレンズ小児病院でアウトリーチディレクターを務める看護師の赤尾和美氏は、「ラオスの子どもたちを救いたい」という思いから長年小児医療に携わってきた。そのなかで、重篤な状態にある子どもを家族が病院から村へ連れ帰ってしまうという出来事にたびたび直面した。赤尾氏はその経験をもとに大学院修士課程で研究を行い、人々の生命観や価値観の違いが医療行動に大きな影響を与えていることを明らかにした。この研究は、医療現場で生じる葛藤を丹念な調査によって描き出した点で、文化人類学的にも大きな意義をもつ。しかし、その理由を理解した後も、赤尾氏は医療者として日々子どもたちの治療に向き合い続けている。 私たちは、その実践から何を学ぶことができるのだろうか。異文化のなかで医療を実践するとは何か。本講演では、赤尾氏の経験を手がかりに、この問いについて参加者の皆さんとともに考えたい。 当日は、まず赤尾和美氏（特定非営利活動法人フレンズ・ウィズアウト・ア・ボーダーJAPAN代表、Lao Friends Hospital for Children アウトリーチディレクター）にご講演いただく。続いて、ラオ・フレンズ小児病院を訪問した九州大学熱帯医学研究会の学生による報告、および同病院で学生実習を実施している嶋沢恭子氏（大手前大学国際看護学部・大学院国際看護学研究科教授）からコメントをいただく（以上はハイブリッド形式で実施予定）。その後はクローズドセッションとし、学生を中心に、赤尾氏、嶋沢氏を交えた座談会を行う予定である。なお、ラオ・フレンズ小児病院で実習中の大手前大学の学生もオンラインで参加する予定である。
Date 11/06 (Fri) 16:30 ～20:00
Venue Online & Face to face Venue: Centennial Hall (Hybrid Event)
16:30 ～18:00
Vande Nippon[ENG]
Person in charge : Fumihiko Yokota
This event will be sharing Indian dance, music, and culture.
Date 11/07 (Sat) 16:30 ～18:00
Venue Ito Campus Ito Guest House Multipurpose Hall, Conference Room and Japanese-Style Room
17:30 ～20:40
Yuri Kasparyan: Rock Music in the Soviet Union[English/Russian (simultaneous translation), Japanese (automated text translation)]
Person in charge : Heloísa Seratiuk Flores
Main speaker: Yuri Kasparyan, guitarist of the Soviet rock band Kino. Mr. Kasparyan is one of the most widely known musicians from the USSR, playing guitar in the soviet rock band Kino, alongside lead singer Viktor Tsoi, who tragically passed away in 1990. Mr. Kasparyan is still very prominent in Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asian countries, and in Korea, with recent concerts of his band gathering more than 70.000 people. The event will feature a screening of Rachid Nougmanov's short film, Ya-Hha! (1986, the film stars Viktor Tsoi and Mr. Kasparyan, the director of the film is last year's Kyushu University Asia Week invitee), followed by a guided interview with Mr. Kasparyan (1 hour), and an open Q&A (1 hour). Mr. Kasparyan will share his experience being a rock musician during the times of cultural repression in the USSR, how it helped build community, and how it affected their well-being at the time. We will also discuss Mr. Kasparyan's career and the influence of Japanese culture on it. The event will be open to the general public and will be carried out in English and Russian, with an interpreter, with automated text translation to Japanese. This event would also mark the very first time Mr. Kasparyan does an open Q&A and interview in English, providing great value to the academic community and general attendees.
Date 11/27 (Fri) 17:30 ～20:40
Venue Fukuoka Art Museum Main Hall (Ohori Koen)