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International Workshop on Building a Disaster-Resilient Culture

This workshop will explore how disaster-resilient culture can be built and sustained through lifelong education as well as interdisciplinary and partnership-based approaches, with particular attention to higher education and community. The specific objectives are to:

  • Develop shared interdisciplinary understandings of disaster-resilient culture and its core dimensions
  • Clarify the role of higher education in cultivating discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary competencies for disaster culture
  • Identify innovative and effective educational strategies that integrate disaster culture with sustainability and resilience agendas
  • Examine how communities function as learning spaces for disaster-related knowledge, memory, and practice
  • Explore how "learning cities" contribute to societal resilience and sustainability
  • Strengthen partnerships among universities, municipalities, communities, and international organizations

Schedule

Time Session
1:05 - 1:15 p.m. Opening Remarks
Dr. Hiroo Yugami, Executive Vice President, Tohoku University
1:15 - 1:40 p.m. Keynote Speech 1
Dr. Rika Yorozu, UNESCO Bangkok
1:40 - 2:05 p.m. Keynote Speech 2
Dr. Rina Suryani Oktari, Universitas Syiah Kuala
2:05 - 2:30 p.m. Keynote Speech 3
Mr. Wanchai CHONGSUTTANAMANEE, Mayor of Chiang Rai Municipality, Thailand
Interpreted by Mr. Winai SONY, Urban Development Planning Specialist, Chang Rai Municipality, Thailand
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Photo Session & Break
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Project report by Tohoku University
Discussant: Dr. Weiyan Xiong, The Education University of Hong Kong
3:30 - 4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion & Q&A
Moderated by Dr. Greg Misiaszek, Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University
Panelist: Dr. Rika Yorozu, Dr. Rina Suryani Oktari, Expert from Thailand, Dr. Weiyan Xiong, Dr. Masashige Motoe, Dr. Jing Liu
4:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
Dr. Hideki Kozima, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Tohoku University

Date: March 12, 2026
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Venue:
Onsite: Tohoku University Kawauchi Campus, Graduate School of Education, Meeting Hall, 11F (map)
Online: Zoom
Language: Japanese and English
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yWSsgtfoRaakiSCRKDMbzw
Online Registration Deadline: March 10, 2026
On-site Registration Deadline: March 6, 2026

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