Events

2023 Event Guide

The Fukuoka Prize 2023 Award ceremony

Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2023 | 18:15-19:45 (JST)
Venue: Fukuoka International Congress Center

The Fukuoka Prize honors the contributions to Asian cultures. We celebrates its 33rd anniversary this year and the archived video of the ceremony will be available after the event. We hope this will be a valuable opportunity to experience diverse cultures of Asia. The archived video will also be distributed after the event. (No booking required.)

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Public Lecture by Thongchai WINICHAKUL

写真１：An Ivory Tower in the Street: my journey into history for the better future

Title: An Ivory Tower in the Street: my journey into history for the better future
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023 | 18:30-20:30 (JST)
Venue: International Conference Hall, Acros Fukuoka
Application Period: 2023.7.18 ～ 2023.9.16
Interlocutor: KOIZUMI Junko（Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University）
Coordinator: SHIMIZU Hiromu（Specially Appointed Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Kansai University）

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The ivory tower is often said to be the place of ideas and impractical knowledge aloof from most people's lives. But in fact, it engages even with people’s political and social action in the street. Professor Thongchai says he never leaves the streets of Thailand where democracy and social justice are fought over while spending his time as a scholar in the ivory tower in the US. In the style of lecture and conversation, Professor Thongchai will talk about how the desirable future starts with the understandings of the past in a new way.

Archive recording of the event will be available. (An advance booking required.)
Distribution period: from Monday October 2 to Tuesday October 31
Advance Booking period: from Tuesday July 18 to Saturday September 16

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Public Lecture by Khatharya UM

写真１：The Power of One and the Strength of Many: My Journey as a Refugee and a Scholar

Title: The Power of One and the Strength of Many: My Journey as a Refugee and a Scholar
Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 18:30-20:30 (JST)
Venue: International Conference Hall, Acros Fukuoka
Application Period: 2023.7.18 ～ 2023.9.16
Interlocutor: TAMURA Keiko（Professor Emerita, Special Research Fellow, The University of Kitakyushu | Director, Japan Center for Borderlands Studies）
Coordinator: TAKENAKA Chiharu（Former Professor, College of Law and Politics, Department of Politics, Rikkyo University）

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Professor Um has been devoting herself to the studies of the history of Cambodia, immigrants and refugees while being at the mercy of the time of change and being a refugee from war-torn Cambodia to U.S.A. with her parents. Through her life story she will reflect on some of the pressing challenges of our time, and on the roles of individuals, communities, schools, and other institutions in bringing about a more just, inclusive, and peaceful world that showed her the way for the future all through her life.

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Public Lecture by ZHANG Lu

写真１：Zhang Lu – from / to Fukuoka – The Fate of the Artist and the Place

Title: Zhang Lu – from / to Fukuoka – The Fate of the Artist and the Place
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 18:30-21:30 (JST)
Venue: Fukuoka Nakasu Taiyo Theater
Application Period: 2023.7.18 ～ 2023.9.16
Coordinator: ISHIZAKA Kenji（Professor, the Japan Institute of the Moving Image | Senior Programmer, Tokyo International Film Festival）

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Part 1: Screening of ‘ Fukuoka’　　Part 2 : Discussion

The director Zhang Lu’s recent films "Ode to the Goose" "Fukuoka", and "Yanagawa" have been highly acclaimed and known as the "Fukuoka Trilogy". How has a place called Fukuoka inspired Zhang’s creativity? And Director Zhang, who has set his films in suburb cities in China, Korea, and Japan, will talk about what it means to have a "connection with the city.”

Archive recording of the event will be available. (An advance booking required.)
Distribution period: from Monday October 2 to Tuesday October 31
Note: Only the 2nd part of the event (Discussion) will be distributed in the archived recording.
Advance Booking period: from Tuesday July 18 to Saturday September 16

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Academic Exchange Program by Past Laureates

Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023 | 13:00-15:00 (JST)
Venue: JR Hakata City
Sponsor: Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka City International Foundation

Pursuing Journalism for the Sake of the People

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