9:45- 10:00

Opening Remarks (8-116)

Intercultural Awareness and Addressing Global Issues: The Role of the Media in Conflict

10:00-10:55

Plenary (10 min QnA) Takaaki Mizuno

Kanda University of International Studies

Journalism as a Deterrent to War: How to Convey Messages from “People in Distant Lands” (「遠い世界の人々」からのメッセージをどう伝えるのか)

This former war-diplomatic correspondent will reflect on his experiences as a journalist and how it informs his practice as a teacher. He will also offer suggestions to teachers who want to bring such topics into the classroom.

Takaaki MIZUNO (水野孝昭) is a former correspondent of the daily Asahi Shimbun, currently professor of Kanda University of International Studies, board member of the Global Peace Building Association of Japan. As one of the founding members of refugee assistance NGO, Japan Volunteer Center (JVC) in Bangkok, he worked as a coordinator for displaced persons along the Thai-Cambodian border in 1980. As a Hanoi correspondent of the daily, he covered the Gulf War and its aftermath, the civil war in Afghanistan, and the Cambodia peace process in early 1990s. Later from Washington DC and New York, he covered the Sino-US relationship and the US foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific region. MIZUNO graduated from Tokyo University, holds an M.A. from the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Former visiting scholar at the East-West Center in Honolulu and the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations(CICIR) in Beijing.

Room 1  (8-106)

Room 2 (8-107)

Room 3 (8-108)

11:00-11:25

A cross-cultural language course with different degrees of media virtuality

Masahito Watanabe 

Yokohama National University

Media Literacy for Cross-cultural Understanding

Sachiko Nakagome

Komazawa University

Higher education curriculum design for sustainable development: towards a transformative approach

Philip Cardiff, Malgorzata Polczynska, & Tina Brown 

Kanda University of International Studies

11:35- 12.00

Media makes history real

Kazuya Asakawa

Global Campaign for Peace Education Japan

Teaching vocabulary and conflict resolution through songs in Hindi and Urdu

Dr. Nivedita Kumari & Dr. Shweta Chandra

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Amity University Patna

Between the SDGs: What are we teaching?

Kate deVeas

Kwansei Gakuin University

12:00-12:45

Lunch

12:50-13:15

Native-Speakerism in Students at an English-Medium University in Japan: Contradictory Beliefs and Emerging Counter-Native-Speakerism Discours

Ying Zhou

Akita International University

How Media Literacy Can Help Bridge Political Differences

Suprateek Chatterjee Hitotsubashi University

Fostering self-determination in virtual international exchange

Olaf Fors & Emily Marzin

Kanda University of International Studies

13:25- 13:50

Understanding the Contact Hypothesis through Film

Elizabeth Dow

Tsuda University

Using Social Justice Advertising to Foster Debate in a College Composition Course

Chris Carl Hale

Akita International University

& Chrystabel Butler Queensland University

Measuring Intercultural Awareness in Language Classes

Yuko Uesugi & George Higginbotham

Eikei University

14:00- 14:55

Workshop: Panel   (8-116)

“Developing Intercultural Competence and raising awareness about Global issues in Classrooms.”

Moderator: Gabriela Schmidt & Michael Savage

Panelists: Prateek Sharma, Roxana Sandu, Kazuya Asakawa, Jennie Roloff Rothman (All are ICLE & GILE Officers and members)

14:55- 15:20

Coffee Break

15:20- 15:45

Teaching Students How to Identify Bias in Media

Sharon Sakuda

Asia University

Unraveling Northern Ireland’s sectarian bonfires

John-Guy Perrem

Muroran IT

15:55- 16:20

Connecting Students to the World through Podcasts

Ashton Dawes

Kanda University of International Studies

Teaching Intercultural Communication to L2 Students from the Hard Sciences

Javier Salazar

University of Tsukuba

16:20- 16:45

Closing remarks and announcements