International Conference of Science and Humanities

Programme
Postmodernism: The Global Moment

Tuesday, March 9th, 2004
8:30 – 9:30	Registration
9:30 – 10:00	Opening Addresses President Hirofumi Miura of Kogakuin University Dr. Brian Coates of the University of Limerick
10:00 – 11:00	Keynote Address Science and Society in the Postmodern Age Professor Emeritus Yoichiro Murakami of Tokyo University
11:00 - 11:20	Break
11:20 – 12:30	Sociology/History of Science, Panel One A Cosy Consensus on Deviant Discourse: How the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Meta-narrative has Endorsed an Interpretative Crisis in Relation to the Transnational Politics of the World’s Displaced Persons Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick; Amanda Haynes, University of Limerick; and Michael Breen, Mary Immaculate College Health and Sexuality Waheed-u-deen Kasi, South Asian Development Association and Mehdi Ghulam, South Asian Development Association Rethinking Power: An Analysis of Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse in Ireland, the UK, and the USA (Paper to be read in absentia) Michael Breen, Mary Immaculate College
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:20	Sociology/History of Science Panel Two Hegemony Disguised: How Discourse Analysis is Inadequate in the Disclosure of the Real Locus of Social Control Eoin Devereux, University of Limerick; Amanda Haynes, University of Limerick; and Michael Breen, Mary Immaculate College The Violation of the Real Renate Robertson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
2:25– 3:35	Information Sciences The Artifice of the Worldwide Web: What Tomorrow Looked Like Craig Sinclair, University of Massachusetts at Amherst The Body in Flux: Towards a Multifaceted Understanding of a Complex Phenomenon Birgit Pretzsch, University of Koblenz-Landau Postmodern Premonitions Lars-Erik Janlert, Umea University
3:35 – 3:50	Break
3:50 – 4:30	Robotics Omnidirectional Space Observation System Based on Digital Conversion Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tokyo University of Technology; Han Kim, Tokyo University of Technology; Yasuhiro Ohyama, Tokyo University of Technology; Yoshie Sudo, Tokyo University of Technology; and Chiharu Ishii, Kogakuin University. Robust Bilateral Control of Master-Slave Manipulator Systems Chiharu Ishii, Kogakuin University; Ricardo Hernandez Gavino, Instituto Tecnologico de Aguascalientes, Mexico; and Hiroshi Hashimoto, Tokyo University of Technology
4:30– 4:45	Break
4:45 - 6:15	Architecture The Words of Louis I. Kahn: A Legacy to Postmodernism in Architecture Junko Tsuchida, Kogakuin University A Study on the Modernization of the Urban Community in Pusan Young Hawn Cho, Kogakuin University The MODE in Architectural Ideas: The Flow of Ideas of the Mode in the Design Field Fumitaka Takagi, Kogakuin University Post-Modernism and Challenges to Cultural Heritage: A Study of Problems Faced in the Conservation of Historic Settlements in Malaysia in the Era of Post-Modernist Architecture Mariana Mohamed Osman, International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur; Syahriah Backok, International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur; and Norzalina Harun, International Islamic University Kuala Lumpur
8:00	Informal Gathering in the Star Hotel Lounge

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
9:15 – 10:15	Keynote Address Jean-Luc Godard – A Postmodernist Film-maker? - Yes and No Professor Keith Reader of the University of Glasgow
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:40	Film Tragedy Vision: East and West Sinkwan Cheng Ideology, Postmodernism and Film A.F. Mathew, Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahemdabad Two Readings of Time: “Rudali” Rashmi Sawhney, University of Limerick
11:45 – 12:35	Music In RE: Don Giovanni Marc Sebastian-Jones, Sheffield University What Identity to Wear to All Tomorrow's Parties: Michael Kearney, Kogakuin University
12:35 – 1:35	Lunch Break
1:35– 2:45	International Relations/Politics Panel Postmodernism and the new Political Utopias: Anti-globalisation as a Form of Cosmopolitan Citizenship Carmen Kuhling, University of Limerick and Owen Wirth, University of Limerick International Relations Theories After the Post Cold War: A Preliminary Assessment and Interpretation Seifudein Adem, University of Tsukuba The Ecstatic Emptiness of Islam: Baudrillard’s Last Hope Against the New World Order Ian Almonds, Bogazici Universitesi
2:45 – 3:00	Break
3:00 – 4:10	Philosophy/Art Modernity and Postmodernity: A Methodological Analysis R.P. Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Synaesthetic Adjectives Shuichi Kawasaki, Tokai University The Self-Overcoming Nihilism within a Postmodern Context: Observations and Implications in the Social Sciences Jan Tiangco, Fortune Institute of Technology
4:15	Closing Address by Vice-President Kimura
6:30 - 8.30	Buffet Dinner at Keio Plaza Glass Court (2nd Floor)