AIU created Research Week in 2017 to allow AIU faculty and students to present the results of their research to the university’s internal and external community.

Originally held in-person with poster presentations, the event moved online beginning in the 2020 academic year in response to the pandemic. In academic year 2022, taking advantage of the online format, AIU also invited researchers from our international partner universities to participate.

This is an archive of research week presentations since academic year 2020.

Please find a link to the presentations from the following list.

*All presentations are provided in English.

*Titles and affiliations of faculty members and students are current at the time of the initial release of each video.

 

Academic Year 2022 Presentations

AIU - English for Academic Purposes

• 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)
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• Rebecca CLEGG-SASKI (Select Lecturer) 
  • Title:Privileging Dialogue with Academic Writing - the creation of a writing centre at AIU
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AIU - Global Business Program

• Clinton WATKINS (Professor)
  • Title:Arbitrage and Liquidity in Platinum Futures
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• Hideyuki NAKAGAWA (Associate Professor) 
  • Title:Understanding Externality of Nursery Facilities
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• Sungkyu LEE (Assistant Professor) 
  • Title:The Role of Temporal Distance in Customer Responses to Scarcity Appeals
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• Wenti DU (Assistant Professor) 
  • Title:Can Economic Policy Uncertainty Explain Changes in the Yen/Dollar Risk Premium?
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AIU - Global Studies Program

• Noah Keone VIERNES (Associate Professor) 
  • Title:The Political Resonance of Film in the Works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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AIU - Global Connectivity Program

• 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
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• Attila EGRI-NAGY (Professor) 
  • Title:Recomputing all 4-state computational structures
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• Florent DOMENACH (Professor) 
  • Title:Assessing the Challenges and Opportunities of the Various Course Delivery Formats
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• Kaeko CHIBA (Associate Professor) 
  • Title:Ikebana thrapy
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AIU - Exchange Students

• 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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AIU - Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices

• Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)
  • Title:Visualizing the Syntactic Structure of L2 Japanese: The Suginoki Treebank
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AIU - Administrative Office Staff

• 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.
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Partner University Presentations

• 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
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• 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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    • 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.
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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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• 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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Academic Year 2021 - All Presentations by AIU members

English for Academic Purposes

• 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 

Global Connectivity Program

• 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 

Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices

• Hitoshi HORIUCHI (Associate Professor)

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

Graduate School of Global Communication and Language Japanese Language Teaching Practices

• Yuto YOKOKURA (Graduate Student)

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

 

Academic Year 2020 - All Presentations by AIU members

English for Academic Purposes

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

Basic Education

• 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 

Global Business Program

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

Undergraduate Student

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