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Academic Writing Workshops for Akita High School Students

Presenters:

• Clay H. Williams, Professor, English Language Teaching Practices
• Leigh Bennett, Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program

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Ikebana Therapy for Dementia Patients

Presenters:

• Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
• Yuko Abe, Professor, Head of Japanese Language Program
• Ayako Motegi, Manager, Nagoyaka nursing care home
• Ayuk Eyong, Advisor, Sotoasahikawa hospital

Materials:

• Abstract
• Presentation Movie

Developing a “Place” to Support Student Writing at AIU

Presenters:

• Rebecca Clegg-Sasaki, Select Lecturer, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Ian Hurley, Assistant Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program

Materials:

• Abstract
• Presentation Movie

Creativity & Wellbeing among Akita Students

Presenters:

• Lee Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Naoko Araki, Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Kaeko Chiba, Associate Professor, Global Connectivity Program
• Joel Friederich, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes Program
• Tsuyoshi Cuhullan McGivern, Lecturer, Global Connectivity Program
• Naeko Naganuma, Associate Professor, English for Academic Purposes
• Mary Hoeft, Emeritus Professor of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin
• Hiromi Sone, Professor, Akita University of Art

Materials:

• Abstract
• Presentation Movie

Service-learning for Rural Sustainability

Presenters:

• Shogo Kudo, Associate Professor, Global Studies Program
• Norihito Mizuno, Professor, Director of Global Studies Program
• Luke Dilley, Assistant Professor, Global Studies Program

Materials:

• Abstract
• Presentation Movie

Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naeko NAGANUMA (Associate Professor/Dean of Students)

• Title: Wellbeing through Creativity (President’s Fund Project)
• Abstract
• Presentation

Rebecca CLEGG-SASKI (Select Lecturer)

• Title: Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing – the creation of a writing centre at AIU
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• Presentation

Clinton WATKINS (Professor)

• Title: Arbitrage and Liquidity in Platinum Futures
• Abstract
• Presentation

Hideyuki NAKAGAWA (Associate Professor)

• Title: Understanding Externality of Nursery Facilities
• Abstract
• Presentation

Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

• Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
• Abstract
• Presentation

Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor)

• Title: The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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• Presentation

Noah Keone VIERNES (Associate Professor)

• Title: The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Andy CROFTS (Professor) Sayaka OHIRA (AIU undergraduate student), Mashiho TAKAHASHI (AIU undergraduate student), Kanako TSUCHIYA (AIU undergraduate student)

• Title: Adventures in the Lab: Building Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, Programming, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis
• Abstract
• Presentation

Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor)

• Title: Recomputing all 4-state computational structures
• Abstract
• Presentation

Florent DOMENACH (Professor)

• Title: Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats
• Abstract
• Presentation

Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor)

• Title: Ikebana thrapy
• Abstract
• Presentation

Thaya NGAMPRAVATDEE (Mahidol University International College, Thailand)

• Title: The effect of monetary policy under quantitative easing to the exchange rate in Japan
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• Presentation

Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

• Title: Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank
• Abstract
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Kazuhiko TAKEUCHI (Director of Office of Faculty and Staff Support)

• Title: SpeechCraft Akita: a community-initiated adult education for public speaking in English, introduced in northern Tohoku area of Japan as a way to address opportunity gaps.
• Abstract
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Brunei

Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Dr. Maria Carinnes ALEJANDRIA (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei)

• Title: Humanitarian Response in Urban Settings:
• Exploring the Role of Community Leaders during Complex Disasters in the Philippines
• Abstract
• Presentation

Germany

University of Passau

Dr. Kathrin Eveline PLANK (Academic Coucillor, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: From Digital to Spatial Turn in Holocaust Education? (Re)Locating Remembrance and its Requirements and Opportunities for Media Education
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Dr.  Tamara RACHBAUER(Academic counselor, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Internationalization@home Promoting virtual mobility – an online group experiment
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Andrés David Castro LOTERO (PhD Student Communication Sciences, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Virtual reality and war reporting: uses, potentialities and challenges of 360° video to narrate armed conflicts
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• Link to Presentation

Dr. Benjamin HEURICH (Research Associate, Chair of Education with a focus on Diversity Research and Educational Spaces in Middle Childhood, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: A Social-theoretical Perspective on Educational Equality and Professional Teacher Training in Japan and Germany.
• Link to Abstract
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Ms. Siti MAIMUNAH (PhD Student, University of Passau, Germany)

• Title: Seeing Indonesia from East Kalimantan: An Invitation to Decolonizing Environmental Justice
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Norway

University of Bergen

Dr. Nathan HOPSON (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway)

• Title: The MORALITY POLITICA of SPORKS in 1970s JAPAN
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Portugal

ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon

Dr. Jose CAMPINO (Professor, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal)

• Title: Initial coin offerings (ICOs): Why do they succeed?
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• Presentation Documents
• Related articles

Spain

University of Malaga

Dr. Antonio PELAEZ-VERDET (Assistant professor., Dpt. of Management and Business,　University of Malaga, Spain)

• Title: The Cultural Heritage when Programming Cruise Itineraries
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• Presentation

Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor), Naoko ARAKI (Professor), Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)

From Writing Workshop to Community Action: Storytelling as Immigration Advocacy

　Related Movie: Somali Stories of Family Separation in Barron, WI

Andy CROFTS (Professor), Reona YANAGI (AIU undergraduate student), Ryoka IGUCHI (AIU undergraduate student)

Adventures in the Lab: Building Analytical Thinking and Experimental Design Skills using Computer-Aided Design, 3D Printing, and the Phototrophic Protist Euglena gracilis

Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor), Chrystopher L. NEHANIV（Professor University of Waterloo, Canada)

Computational Holonomy Decomposition of Transformation Semigroups

Irina KUZNETCOVA (Assistant Professor)

English-Medium Instruction in Japanese Universities: Focus on the Teacher

Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

Syntactic Complexity of Oral and Written Outputs through Story-telling/writing in L2 Japanese: A Case of L1 English Learners

Yuto YOKOKURA (Graduate Student)

[Case study] The temporary use of L1 in an advanced classroom

• Lee FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)
  Tomioka Taeko’s Poetry of Refusal
• Joel FRIEDERICH (Associate Professor)
  A Reading of Original Poetry: Merging Research and Creativity

• Andy CROFTS (Professor), Kaori FURUKAWA (AIU undergraduate student), Chiharu MORIYAMA (AIU undergraduate student)
  Using Computer-Aided Design and 3D Printing to Investigate Phototaxis in Euglena
• Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor), Antti TÖRMÄNEN (Nihon Ki-in)
  Using Go AIs for detecting online cheating with Go AIs
• Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor)
  Traditional Arts in Higher Education
• Akiko FRISCHHUT (Assistant Professor)
  What Experience Cannot Tell Us About Time

• Wenti DU (Assistant Professor)
  Modeling contagion in the Eurozone: A Time-Varying Coefficients Approach

• Hinako ISHIKAWA
  Intersectionality in Japanese Queer Community ~We Are Not Just Gay~