Short Report of Open Seminar (12/9/2016):

Speaker:

Dr. Marcus Mietzner. Associate Professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.

This seminar discussed the changing dynamic of contemporary Indonesian politics. The seminar focused on how Indonesian President Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, turned from a seemingly unassailable into a vulnerable president. Previously, President Jokowi appeared to have consolidated his power in the arenas of elite contestation, public opinion, and a sizeable majority in parliament.  However, hundreds of thousands of Muslim protesters demonstrated against Jokowi's ally in the Jakarta governor election, Basuki Tjahja Purnama in November and December 2016 shook Jokowi's presidency to its core. The outcome of the conflicts emerging from it remains uncertain, and it seems likely means for the 2019 elections.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on December 9, 2016, hosted by College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO) and Institute of International Relations and Area Studies.  Approximately 40 participants attended the seminar.

Open Lecture

Guest Speaker:

Dr. Yusuke　Takagi

Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

In this seminar, the speaker, Dr. Yusuke Takagi presented on how to make a research paper. In his lecture, he introduced his experience of literature review and fieldworks in Philippine. Most of audience is graduate students who will write master thesis. They eagerly listen to the seminar which is useful for their academic achievements.

This Open Lecture was held at Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on November 25, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the seminar.

Open Lecture

Guest Speaker: Tsuneko Ipp. A Certified Tourist Guide, Austria.

The lecture introduced the life of Bertha von Suttner, the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. The presenter explained Suttner’s eventful life with pictures, which includes an episode meeting Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize. Thanks to the detailed explanation and plenty of pictures which trace the life of Suttner, the audience came to a deep understanding how Suttner became a peace activist and why she wrote her famous novel, Lay Down Your Arms (Die Waffen Nieder). In the end, the presenter introduced the hundredth anniversary of the Peace Palace in Hague in 2013 and emphasized that Suttner’s wish has been inherited by peace activists in the world

This Open Lecture was held at Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on November 18, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the training.

Open Lecture

Guest Speaker: Slavica Ninic. Ph.D. Student in Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, Japan.

The lecture figured out the big picture of methodological aspects in conducting a research. In particular, the presenter underlined steps and challenges mainly faced by many researchers from the scratch to the publication process. Based on the experiences in doing the research about Gender Policies in the Japanese Armed Forces, the audiences may learn not only the content of the research but also the lessons from all the steps of the research process. In the end, the participants were expected to grasp the whole picture of the research route in Social Sciences.

This Open Lecture was held at Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on November 11, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the training.

Short Report of Open Seminar (11/4/2016):

Speaker:

Dr. Nino Viartasiwi

This seminar identified notorious communal violence taking form in tribal wars in some areas of West Papua region of Indonesia.

Although the long going communal violence has taken casualties both in the kind of loss of lives and properties, however, the government has been unenthusiastic to tame the violence under the pretext that tribal war is a conflict settlement mechanism inherent in the West Papua's aboriginal culture. This presentation answers questions as follows: in a democratic country what is the border of indigenous rights to exercise the customary practices? What is the obligation of the government toward aboriginal communities? The presentation concludes that the government choice of action to allow tribal wars is equal with state violence by manipulating the native customary to commit violence against the tribal communities.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on November 4, 2016, hosted by College of International Relations Ritsumeikan University and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Approximately 20 participants attended the seminar.

●ダブルディグリー・プログラムとは

修士におけるダブルディグリー・プログラムを共同修士学位プログラム（DMDP: Dual Master's Degree Program）と呼び、立命館大学大学院に所属しながら提携する海外の大学院に1年間留学することにより、最短2年間で2つの大学院の修士号を同時に取得できる制度です。グローバル化する国際社会で活躍する人材を育てる仕組みを持ったプログラムです。

この度、立命館大学大学院　国際関係研究科は、台湾の有力大学の一つである国立政治大学（以下、NCUU）とダブルディグリー・プログラム（DMDP）の推進に関する協定を締結いたしました。

これは、修士課程の学生を対象としたプログラムであり、本学の学生は主に、修士1年生の春セメスター1学期を立命館大学で過ごした後、秋セメスターよりNCUU（新入学学期）に入学し、約１年間かけ留学をおこない、台湾現地で勉学に励みます。その後、本学に戻り、最短のケースでは翌年3月には2年間で両大学において、それぞれの修士論文執筆などの修了要件を充たし、修士学位が授与されることとなっています。

なお、NCUUとの同プログラムでは今回協定に基づき、立命館大学への学費納入のみでNCUUの学位取得が可能であり、NCUUへ別途学費納入*が不要です。

*学費以外の渡航や寮費含む滞在にかかる費用等は留学する大学院生自身の負担となります。

詳しくは、お問い合わせください。

Short Report of Open Seminar (10/21/2016):

Guest Speakers:

Dr. Ryan Manuel, a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University; and Shu Cheng (Will) Zou, currently a Monbukagakusho scholarship research student studying in the Department of Area Studies (China) at the University of Tokyo.

This seminar highlights how the Xi Jinping administration has changed China’s foreign policy rhetoric and focus. The seminar critically examines the idea that Xi’s foreign policy is more “Confucian” than previous administrations, as well as commenting on the geographic direction, ideology, and policy implications of Xi’s foreign policy shift.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University - Kinugasa Campus, on October 21, 2016, hosted by Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, and Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO). Co-Hosts: The China Diplomacy Research Group “Aspects of the Strengthening of China” Research Project, Institute of International Relations and Area Studies, Ritsumeikan University; Asia-Japan Research Institute. University’ and the Australian Centre on China in the World, the Australian National University.

Approximately 45 participants attended the seminar.

【H28年度科研費採択結果発表　4年連続・採択金額私大3位、採択件数私大4位】
　
　昨日、文部科学省から「平成28年度科学研究費補助金の配分」が発表されました。科研費とは、研究の裾野を広く支援することを目的とした競争的資金です。独創的な学術研究や基礎研究などへ配分がされます。
　ノーベル生理学医学賞を受賞された大隈栄誉教授も「私の研究は科研費に支えられてきた」と述べられたように、日本のノーベル賞連続受賞の後押しをしてきたひとつのファクターともいえます。
　本学も約10年前から科研費獲得に向け、さまざまな取り組みをしており今年度は過去最高の527件が採択されています。若手研究者や女性研究者の育成も積極的に行い、新しい発想を持つ研究者が未来の社会に貢献する研究を進めています。

国際関係学部でも、末近浩太先生を代表とする「越境的非国家ネットワーク：国家破綻と紛争」をはじめとして、多くの先生の研究プロジェクトが科学研究費補助金に採択されています。

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Short Report of Open Seminar (10/7/2016):

Moving to a Full-fledge ASEAN Security and Political Community (APSC)

Guest Speaker: Dr. Agus Trihartono, Senior Researcher, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Ritsumeikan University

This seminar attempts to see to what extent the role of ASEAN Way (among others) in influencing the ASEAN Cooperation.It also tries to find out the ASEAN Way compatibility in the current situation and its prospect. In particular, the seminar answers such questions as follows:  How does ASEAN go about achieving that ultimate transformation of the APSC? Do ASEAN previous norms, such as non-interference and sovereignty fit in ASEAN current requirements to a full-fledged political-security community? Is ASEAN Way obsolete? The conclusion is that ASEAN Way may be the strength of ASEAN’s Past, but it seems likely to be the Weakness of ASEAN’s Present.

This seminar was held in Ritsumeikan University Kinugasa Campus, on October 7, 2016, hosted by Ritsumeikan University's Graduate School of International Relations and the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO), Approximately 20 participants attended the seminar.

立命館大学では9月22日、卒業式・学位授与式を開催し、国際関係学部から32名、国際関係研究科から18名が卒業・修了しました。

学位授与式には、修了生・卒業生に加え、多くの家族・友人、教職員が参加し、ともに修了・卒業を祝いました。卒業・修了生は、立命館大学で学んだことを糧に、今後、日本各地・世界各国で新たなキャリアをスタートします。

卒業・修了生の皆様、おめでとうございます。皆さんのご活躍を期待しています！

詳細ニュース：https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=391

9月25日には入学式が実施され、アフリカ、北米、ヨーロッパ、アジア等様々な地域からの留学生を含む、学部32名、研究科39名の入学生を迎えました。

入学生の皆さん　ようこそ立命館へ！

詳細ニュース：https://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=394