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SAITO Hiro
 
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Institutes of Innovation for Future Society FUTURE Society Studio Professor
Title
Professor
Profile
Trained as a sociologist, he is generally interested in the intersection of power and knowledge. He specifically studies how interactions between government, experts, and citizens shape policymaking in highly technical issues. As a mindfulness and design thinking practitioner, he has also been pursuing innovations to promote holistic growth and collective well-being. Currently, he focuses his time and energy on advancing the mission of FUTURE Society Studio and creating a new university in Hida, Japan, to champion higher education institutions as the core of a new innovation ecosystem for well-being.
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Research Interests 9

  1. Social Theory

  2. Science and Technology Studies

  3. Pluriverse

  4. Mindfulness

  5. Living Lab

  6. Higher Education

  7. Design Thinking

  8. Cultural Sociology

  9. Co-Innovation

Research Areas 3

  1. Humanities & Social Sciences / Tertiary education

  2. Humanities & Social Sciences / Sociology of science, history of science and technology

  3. Humanities & Social Sciences / Sociology

Research History 9

  1. Nagoya University

    2025.4

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  2. Nagoya University   Professor

    2025.4

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  3. The University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    2023.4 - 2025.3

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  4. コー・イノベーション大学(仮称)   教授候補

    2022.8

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  5. Singapore Management University   School of Social Sciences   Associate Professor of Sociology

    2022.1 - 2022.12

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  6. Singapore Management University   School of Social Sciences   Assistant Professor of Sociology

    2014.7 - 2021.12

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  7. Harvard University   Program on US-Japan Relations   Advanced Research Fellow

    2013.9 - 2014.5

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  8. The University of Tokyo

    2011.8 - 2012.6

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  9. University of Hawaii at Manoa   Department of Sociology   Assistant Professor

    2009.8 - 2014.7

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Education 4

  1. University of Michigan   Department of Sociology (PhD)

    2001.9 - 2009.8

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  2. Haverford College (Guest Student)

    2000.1 - 2000.12

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  3. International Christian University

    1996.4 - 2000.3

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  4. Haverford College (Exchange Student)

    1998.9 - 1999.5

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Professional Memberships 1

  1. International Sociological Association

    2014

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Committee Memberships 1

  1. International Sociological Association, RC16 Sociological Theory   Board Member  

    2018   

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Awards 5

  1. Certificate of Teaching Excellence

    2014   Harvard University, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education  

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  2. Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award

    2009   University of Michigan, Department of Sociology  

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  3. Phi Kappa Phi

    2009   University of Michigan  

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  4. Best Graduate Student Award

    2007   American Sociological Association, Political Sociology Section  

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  5. Suzanne Langer Prize for the Best Student Paper

    2007   American Sociological Association, Culture Section  

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Papers 35

  1. Reimagining Higher Education as an Agent of Collective Awakening Reviewed

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    Humanistic Management Journal     2025.4

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    DOI: 10.1007/s41463-024-00199-3

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  2. Co-Innovationコモンズの生活の豊かさ革命-「共豊潤縁」基軸パラダイムへの転換- Reviewed Open Access

    池田啓実, 齊藤弘久

    イノベーション・マネジメント   Vol. 22   2025.3

  3. Commemorating Hiroshima: Relational-Nondualist Ethics for a Multipolar World

    Hiro Saito

    The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict     2025.2

  4. Sociology and spirituality: Toward an immanent-transcendent critique of modernity Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Dialogues in Sociology     2024.12

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    <jats:p> In this paper, I set up three thought experiments that mobilize nonmodern ontologies and epistemologies to explore the possibility of spiritual sociology. These experiments engage with Pierre Bourdieu as a Buddhist quantum physicist, Emile Durkheim as a New Age transpersonal psychologist, and Michel Foucault as a daemon-inspired revolutionary. The three experiments illustrate that, while many worlds (consisting of objective and subjective structures) exist, they tend to collapse into a few through “echo effects” produced by the powerful; these powerful echo effects are counteracted by the evolution of Spirit or Collective Consciousness growing more enlightened; and the more individuals reconnect with Spirit, the more echo effects are transformed into resonances, pointing to the pluriversal future that permits many worlds to co-flourish. This spiritual–sociological experimentation not only articulates an immanent–transcendent critique of modernity (or any society), but also suggests that contemplative practice be incorporated into undergraduate and graduate education because the quality of sociological research depends fundamentally on that of the researcher's mind. </jats:p>

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  5. Higher Education for Pluriversal Diplomacy: Landing the 4IR on Habitable Earth

    Hiro Saito

    Global Initiatives and Higher Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution     page: 193 - 212   2022.8

  6. The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan's nuclear safety failure Reviewed Open Access

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    Poetics   Vol. 93   2022

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    The imaginary and epistemology of disaster preparedness: The case of Japan?s nuclear safety failure; SAITO, Hiro; 2022; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101594

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  7. The Sacred and Profane of Japan’s Nuclear Safety Myth: On the Cultural Logic of Framing and Overflowing Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Cultural Sociology   Vol. 15 ( 4 ) page: 486 - 508   2021.12

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    The Sacred and Profane of Japan's Nuclear Safety Myth: On the Cultural Logic of Framing and Overflowing; SAITO, Hiro; 2021; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1177/17499755211001046

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  8. The Developmental State and Public Participation: The Case of Energy Policy-making in Post–Fukushima Japan Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Science, Technology, & Human Values   Vol. 46   page: 139 - 165   2021.1

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    The developmental state and public participation: The case of energy policy-making in Post-Fukushima Japan; SAITO, Hiro; 2021; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1177/0162243920905000

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  9. Unpacking Cosmopolitan Memory Open Access

    Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times

        page: 221 - 232   2020

  10. For Cosmopolitan, Public, and Reflexive Sociology: International Symposium for Social World and Pandemic Open Access

    Sociologia, Antropologia

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  11. The transnational frontiers of Japanese education: Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and global isomorphism

    Hiro Saito

    Transnational Education and Curriculum Studies: International Perspectives     page: 55 - 67   2020

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  12. Editorial introduction: Re-envisioning education in a globalizing world

    Hiro Saito

    Youth and Globalization   Vol. 1 ( 2 ) page: 197 - 209   2019

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    Editorial introduction: Re-envisioning education in a globalizing world; SAITO, Hiro; 2019; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1163/25895745-00102001

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  13. The changing culture and politics of commemoration

    Hiro Saito

    The Handbook of Cultural Sociology: Second Edition     page: 648 - 656   2018

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  14. The role of historians in East Asia’s history problem Open Access

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    Exhibiting the Fall of Singapore: Close Readings of a Global Event     page: 166 - 179   2018

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  15. Rearticulating the publicness of higher education in a global world

    Hiro Saito

    The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education: Next Generation Insights into Research, Policy, and Practice     page: 168 - 176   2017

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  16. Education as the weakest institutional link in Japan's nuclear regulation Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Journal of Social Studies Education Research   Vol. 5   page: 33 - 56   2016

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  17. The Realpolitik of Nuclear Risk: When Political Expediency Trumps Technical Democracy Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito, Sang-Hyoun Pahk

    Science, Technology and Society   Vol. 21 ( 1 ) page: 5 - 23   2016

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    The Realpolitik of Nuclear Risk: When Political Expediency Trumps Technical Democracy; SAITO, Hiro; PAHK, Sang-Hyoun; 2016; Journal Article

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  18. The History Problem : The Politics of War Commemoration in East Asia

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    The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus   Vol. 15 ( 4 )   2016

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    DOI: 10.26530/oapen_625901

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  19. The Cultural Pragmatics of Political Apology Reviewed Open Access

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    Cultural Sociology   Vol. 10 ( 4 ) page: 448 - 465   2016

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    The Cultural Pragmatics of Political Apology; SAITO, Hiro; 2016; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1177/1749975515590243

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  20. Cosmopolitics: towards a new articulation of politics, science and critique Reviewed

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    British Journal of Sociology   Vol. 66 ( 3 ) page: 441 - 459   2015

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    Cosmopolitics: towards a new articulation of politics, science and critique; SAITO, Hiro; 2015; Journal Article

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  21. Disciplines, Area Studies, and Publics: Rethinking Sociology in a Global World

    Hiro Saito

    Contemporary Sociology   Vol. 44 ( 1 ) page: 25 - 28   2015

  22. The Possibility of Global Public Sociology Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    eSymposium of International Sociological Association     2015

  23. The A-bomb victims’ plea for cosmopolitan commemoration: Toward reconciliation and world peace

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    Thesis Eleven   Vol. 129 ( 1 ) page: 72 - 88   2015

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    The A-bomb victims' plea for cosmopolitan commemoration: Toward reconciliation and world peace; SAITO, Hiro; 2015; Journal Article

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  24. Historians as rooted cosmopolitans: their potentials and limitations Reviewed Open Access

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    Global Networks   Vol. 15 ( 2 ) page: 161 - 179   2015

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    Historians as rooted cosmopolitans: their potentials and limitations; SAITO, Hiro; 2015; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1111/glob.12067

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  25. East Asia and Cosmopolitan Memory

    Hiro Saito

    Routledge Handbook of Memory and Reconciliation in East Asia     page: 388 - 401   2015

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  26. Competing logics of commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and nationalism in east asia's history problem Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito, Yoko Wang

    Sociological Perspectives   Vol. 57 ( 2 ) page: 167 - 185   2014

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    Competing Logics of Commemoration: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in East Asia's History Problem; SAITO, Hiro; WANG, Yoko; 2014; Journal Article

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  27. Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification Reviewed Open Access

    Hiroki Igarashi, Hiro Saito

    Cultural Sociology   Vol. 8 ( 3 ) page: 222 - 239   2014

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    Cosmopolitanism as Cultural Capital: Exploring the Intersection of Globalization, Education and Stratification; IGARASHI, Hiroki; SAITO, Hiro; 2014; Journal Article

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  28. The Fukushima Disaster and Japan’s Occupy Movement Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Possible Futures: A Project of the Social Science Research Council     2012

  29. An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism Reviewed Open Access

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    Sociological Theory   Vol. 29 ( 2 ) page: 124 - 149   2011

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    An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism; SAITO, Hiro; 2011; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2011.01390.x

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  30. Cosmopolitan nation-building: The institutional contradiction and politics of postwar Japanese education Reviewed Open Access

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    Social Science Japan Journal   Vol. 14 ( 2 ) page: 125 - 144   2011

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    Cosmopolitan Nation-Building: The Institutional Contradiction and Politics of Postwar Japanese Education; SAITO, Hiro; 2011; Journal Article

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  31. Actor‐network theory of cosmopolitan education Reviewed Open Access

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    Journal of Curriculum Studies   Vol. 42 ( 3 ) page: 333 - 351   2010

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  32. From Collective Memory to Commemoration Open Access

    The Handbook of Cultural Sociology

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  33. Global transformations and “Cosmopolitical” Social Science Open Access

    Kennedy, Michael, Camilo Leslie, Allison Nau, Atef Said, Hiro Saito

    The Journal of International Institute   Vol. 14   2007

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  34. Reiterated commemoration: Hiroshima as national trauma Reviewed Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    Sociological Theory   Vol. 24 ( 4 ) page: 353 - 376   2006

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    Reiterated commemoration: Hiroshima as national trauma; SAITO, Hiro; 2006; Journal Article

    DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2006.00295.x

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  35. Culpability and Responsibility in Hiroshima Open Access

    Hiro Saito

    The Journal of the International Institute   Vol. 11 ( 1 )   2003

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Books 2

  1. Youth and Globalization: Special Issue "Re-envisioning Education in a Globalizing World"

    Hiro Saito (Editor)

    Brill  2019 

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  2. The history problem : the politics of war commemoration in East Asia

    Saito, Hiro (Sociologist)

    University of Hawaiʻi Press  2016  ( ISBN:9780824856748

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    Total pages:x, 279 p.   Language:English

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MISC 10

  1. Zygmunt Bauman and the Theory of Culture Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews   Vol. 53 ( 2 ) page: 125 - 126   2024.3

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    DOI: 10.1177/00943061241227106d

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  2. In Conversation with Dr Hiro Saito: Exploring Mindfulness, Sociological Inquiry, and the Future of Education Invited

    Haytham Althubaiti, Amienne Spencer-Blume, Hiro Saito

    New Sociological Perspectives     2024

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  3. A review of Creating a Culture of Mindful Innovation in Higher Education Invited

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    Contemporary Sociology   Vol. 52 ( 5 ) page: 452 - 453   2023

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  4. A review of On the Persistence of the Japanese “History Problem”: Historicism and the International Politics of History Invited

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    The Journal of Japanese Studies   Vol. 46 ( 2 ) page: 520 - 524   2020

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  5. A review of Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era Invited

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    International Sociology   Vol. 35 ( 2 ) page: 167 - 169   2020

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  6. A review of 記憶として の日中戦争―インタビューによる他者理解の可能性 Invited

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    Oral History Forum d’histoire orale   Vol. 37   page: 202 - 205   2017

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  7. A review of Knowledge LTD: Toward a Social Logic of the Derivative Invited

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    Contemporary Sociology   Vol. 45 ( 5 ) page: 633 - 635   2016

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  8. A review of European Cosmopolitanism in Question Invited

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    Contemporary Sociology   Vol. 43 ( 1 ) page: 110 - 112   2014

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  9. A review of Northeast Asia’s difficult past: Essays in collective memory Invited

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    Contemporary Sociology   Vol. 14 ( 1 ) page: 75 - 78   2014

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  10. A review of Reimagining Japanese Education: Borders, Transfers, Circulations, and the Comparative Invited

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    Social Science Japan Journal   Vol. 15 ( 1 ) page: 149 - 152   2012

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Presentations 59

  1. From Mindfulness toTransformative Innovation: Empowering the Next Generation for Collective Wellbeing Invited

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    Center for Teaching, Learning & Pedagogy and Institute for Pedagogical Innovation, Research & Excellence, Nanyang Technological University  2025.2 

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  2. Envisioning Holistic Higher Education Beyond Language and Intelligence Invited

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    The Viability of Using LLMs in Higher Education  2025.5 

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  3. Cosmopolitan Commemoration: Toward Resolving the History Problem Invited

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    Pecha-Kucha Panel. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa  2012.10 

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  4. Cosmopolitan Commemoration: Interaction of National Traumas in a Global World Invited

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    Hagi Seminar, Tohoku University  2009.10 

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  5. Commemoration beyond the Nation: The Role of Rooted Cosmopolitans in the Japan-South Korea History Problem

    Hiro Saito, Yoko Wang

    Political Sociology Section Session: Beyond the Nation-State: Cosmopolitanism as a Real Utopia. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2012.8 

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  6. Co-Innovation University in Hida, Japan: Re-envisioning Higher Education Invited

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    Commonwealth of World Chinatowns Inaugural Events and Forum  2024.7 

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  7. Between Democracy and Technocracy: Revisiting the Problem of Expertise in Post-Fukushima Japan

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    Political Sociology Section Session: Inequality and Representation. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2015.8 

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  8. A Field Theory of Transnational Difficult Pasts

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    Global and Transnational Sociology Section Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2015.8 

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  9. (De)Centering the University in the Pluriversal Pursuit of Collective Well-Being Invited

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    The Global (De)Centre  2023.4 

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  10. グローバル公共社会学の可能性

    齊藤弘久

    第62回東北社会学会大会  2015.7 

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  11. 持続可能性のために行動するマインドフルネス Invited

    齊藤弘久

    「自然と共に生きるための学び―京都から提案するマインドフルネスと持続可能性教育」京都大学  2023.10 

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  12. 民主主義における専門性の問題:福島原発事故自主避難者賠償問題を例にとって Invited

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    科学技術振興機構  2014.11 

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  13. 高等教育国際化の再考:世界大学ランキングを事例として Invited

    齊藤弘久

    日本医療研究開発機構シンガポール  2016.11 

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  14. Cosmopolitan Nationalism: The Dialogic and Nonlinear Development of Cosmopolitan-National Identity in Contemporary Japan

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    Regular Session: Nations and Nationalism. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2007.8 

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  15. Two Visions of Cosmopolitics

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    Research Committee on Sociological Theory: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and Political Space. 18th International Sociological Association World Congress  2014.7 

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  16. Three Years after the 3.11 Disasters: Lessons and Reflections Invited

    Hiro Saito, Andrew Gordon, Miaki Ishii

    Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar, Harvard University  2014.3 

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  17. The University’s Evolving Relationship with the State, the Market, and the Public: A Comparison of Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and Beyond

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    Ideas for Future Research Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2020.8 

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  18. The Role of Historians in East Asia’s History Problem Invited

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    Exhibiting the Fall: Remembering and Representing War and its Aftermath in Asia. National Museum of Singapore  2017.9 

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  19. The Risk of Expertise in Democracy: Navigating Between Technocracy and Populism Invited

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    Graduate School of International Relations, Korea University  2019.11 

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  20. The Narrative of Formation and Independence of Singapore: An Analysis of History Syllabuses and Textbooks Invited

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    International Symposium on the Role of History Studies and Education for East-Asian Co-Prosperity  2015.10 

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  21. The Limits of Transitional Justice

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    TG03 Human Rights and Global Justice: The Subject of Justice in a Globalizing World. 19th International Sociological Association World Congress  2018.7 

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  22. The Institutional Dialectic of Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Japanese Education

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    .” Global and Transnational Contexts of Education. Social Science History Association Annual Meeting  2009.11 

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  23. The Horizon of Democracy: Fukushima and Okinawa as Method

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    School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University  2019.9 

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  24. The Horizon of Democracy: Fukushima and Okinawa as Method Invited

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    Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore  2019.10 

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  25. The End of Habitus or the Beginning of Misadaptation? The Changing Logic of Dispositions, Education, and the State in Contemporary Japan

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    Practicing Pierre Bourdieu: In the Field and Across the Disciplines. University of Michigan  2006.9 

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  26. The Culture and Politics of Expertise: Rethinking Technical Democracy in Post-Fukushima Japan

    Hiro Saito

    Center for Cultural Sociology 20th Anniversary Conference, Yale University  2014.4 

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  27. The Culture and Cognition of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: On the Role of the Developmental State

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    Sociology of Culture Section Session: Resurrecting the Macro in the Sociology of Culture. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2020.8 

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  28. The Cultural Pragmatics of Transnational Apology Invited

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    East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore  2014.11 

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  29. Sociological Imagination, Contemplative Practice, and Social Change Invited

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    Contemplative Studies Program and Department of Sociology, Brown University  2022.10 

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  30. Social Science as a Reflexive Dialogue Between Perpetrators and Victims Invited

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    Practicing History at the Time of Crisis in the Globalization Consensus, Hitotsubashi University, Japan  2017.3 

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  31. Science, Technology, and Democracy: Rethinking the Roles of Experts and Citizens in Policymaking Invited

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    The Japanese Resource Exchange, Cambridge, MA  2013.12 

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  32. Rethinking Energy Governance in Post-Fukushima Japan

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    TC13: Governance in the Pacific Century: Cross-sector Collaboration for Peace, Growth and Well-being. International Studies Association International Conference  2017.6 

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  33. Rethinking Democracy in Post-Fukushima Japan: On the Roles of Expertise, Power and Money in Policymaking Invited

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    Fifth Anniversary Lecture on the Great East Japan Earthquake, Singapore Institute of Management  2016.3 

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  34. Rethinking Democracy in Post-Fukushima Japan: A Case of Nuclear Damage Compensation Invited

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    East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore  2015.6 

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  35. Preliminary Notes on Cosmopolitan Theory of Transitional Justice Invited

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    Ulrich Beck Commemoration Seminar II: Cosmopolitan Morality and War Memory. Institute for Social Development and Policy Research, Seoul National University  2017.6 

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  36. Okinawa as the Crux of Japan’s Postwar Regime

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    The 5th International Conference of the Japanese Studies Association in Southeast Asia  2016.12 

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  37. Nationalization versus Denationalization: The Future of the Japanese State of Education

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    Society for Comparative Research, Harvard University  2008.5 

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  38. Multinaturalism in Vaccine Hesitancy: Envisioning the Cosmopolitics of Health in a Syndemic World

    Hiro Saito

    School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University  2022.11 

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  39. Multinaturalism in Vaccine Hesitancy: Envisioning the Cosmopolitics of Health in a Syndemic World Invited

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    Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University  2023.2 

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  40. Mindfulness Practice, Sociological Imagination, and Social Change: How to Transform Subjective and Objective Structures for Collective Well-Being Invited

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    Cultural Sociology East and West Conference, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University  2023.9 

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  41. Memory, Trauma, Nationalism: The Case of ‘Hiroshima’ in Postwar Japan

    Hiro Saito

    Regular Session: Collective Memory. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2006.8 

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  42. Memories Desired, Memories Denied: History in the Remembering and Retelling − An Interdisciplinary Think-In Invited

    Hiro Saito, Paul Evans, Kirpal Singh

    School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University  2015.9 

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  43. Historical Condition of Cosmopolitan Education

    Hiro Saito

    Symposium: Perspectives on Cosmopolitanism and Education Today. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting  2009.4 

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  44. Historians in the History Problem: Their Potential and Limitations as Rooted Cosmopolitans

    Hiro Saito

    Regular Session: Collective Memory. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2013.8 

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  45. Globalization, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism in Japanese Education

    Hiro Saito

    Comparative/Historical Sociology Section Session: Causes and Consequences of New and Old States as Units. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2008.8 

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  46. Globalization and Collective Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

    Hiro Saito

    Re-imagining Cosmopolitanism in Asia: History, Institutions, and Social Practices, Association for Asian Studies and International Convention of Asia Scholars Joint Conference  2010.4 

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  47. From Technocracy to Technical Democracy: Revisiting the Problem of Expertise in Post-Fukushima Japan Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Workshop on Roles, Responsibility and Social Imaginary in a Risk Society. Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University  2014.7 

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  48. From Neoliberalism to Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Social Studies in a Global World Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Annual International Conference on Social Studies Education  2014.12 

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  49. From Collective Memory to Commemoration

    Hiro Saito

    Regular Session: Collective Memory. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2009.8 

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  50. Experts and Citizens: Rethinking Democracy in Post-Fukushima Japan Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Department of Sociology, Brown University  2014.2 

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  51. Envisioning Cosmopolitan-National Education

    Hiro Saito

    Paper Session: Cosmopolitanism in Curriculum Theorizing. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting  2008.3 

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  52. Embedding Mindfulness in Tertiary Education – Challenges and Opportunity Invited

    Hiro Saito

    LASALLE College of the Arts  2022.10 

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  53. East Asia and Cosmopolitan Memory

    Hiro Saito

    Presentation Session: The Upsurge of Nationalism in the 21st Century East Asia. East Asian Junior Sociologists Forum  2014.7 

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  54. Democratizing Technical Democracy: The Limits and Potentials of Information and Communication Technologies in Politics of Nuclear Risks

    Hiro Saito, Sang-hyoun Pahk

    Science, Knowledge and Technology Section Session: Crisis: Disasters/Epidemics/Traumas/Catastrophes. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2012.8 

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  55. Democracy and War Memory in Japan: Fukushima and Okinawa as Method Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and Sociology Department, Northwestern University  2019.10 

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  56. Cosmopolitics: Envisioning a New Articulation of Science, Politics, and Critique Invited

    Hiro Saito

    Political Ecology Working Group, Harvard University  2013.11 

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  57. Cosmopolitanism as Habitus: Probing the Intersection of Education, Globalization, and Stratification

    Hiro Saito, Hiroki Igarashi

    Junior Theorist Symposium, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2010.8 

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  58. Cosmopolitan-National Identity

    Hiro Saito

    Regular Session: Multiple Cosmopolitanisms. The 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology  2008.6 

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  59. Cosmopolitan Remembrance and Politics of Apology: The Case of the East Asian Memory Problem

    Hiro Saito

    Regular Session: Collective Memory. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting  2011.8 

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Other research activities 1

  1. "Mindfulness, Social Science, and Social Change." TEDxSingaporeManagementUniversity

    2022.5

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Research Project for Joint Research, Competitive Funding, etc. 4

  1. From Suffering to Flourishing: Toward a Synthesis of Mindfulness Practice and Positive Psychology in Tertiary Education

    2022 - 2024

    Tertiary Education Research Fund 

    Jochen Reb, William Tov, Hiro Saito, Samantha Sim, and Eva Peters

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  2. The University in Public Life

    2018 - 2019

    Tier 1 Academic Research Fund 

    Hiro Saito, Alwyn Lim

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  3. From Hiroshima to Fukushima: How Japan Embraced Nuclear Energy

    2016 - 2017

    Tier 1 Academic Research Fund 

    Hiro Saito

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  4. Japan’s Policy Response to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

    2015 - 2016

    Tier 1 Academic Research Fund 

    Hiro Saito

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Teaching Experience (Off-campus) 17

  1. Reimagining Global Education

    2024 University of Tokyo)

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  2. Mindfulness and Well-Being in Higher Education

    2024 University of Tokyo)

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  3. Exploring New Possibilities for Learning

    2023 University of Tokyo)

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  4. Mixed-Methods Research Workshop

    2019 Singapore Management University)

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  5. Understanding Societies

    2018 - 2022 Singapore Management University)

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  6. Sociology of Education

    2018 Singapore Management University)

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  7. Capstone Seminar in Social Sciences

    2016 - 2021 Singapore Management University)

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  8. Senior Thesis

    2016 - 2017 Singapore Management University)

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  9. Nation-Building in Asia

    2015 - 2019 Singapore Management University)

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  10. Global and Transnational Sociology

    2014 - 2017 Singapore Management University)

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  11. Science, Technology, and Democracy

    2013 Harvard University)

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  12. Contemporary Sociological Theory

    2011 - 2013 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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  13. Classical Sociological Theory

    2010 - 2012 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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  14. Directed Reading and Research

    2010 - 2011 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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  15. Global and Transnational Sociology

    2010 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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  16. Introduction to Sociological Theory

    2009 - 2013 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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  17. Sociology of Education

    2009 University of Hawaii at Manoa)

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Academic Activities 12

  1. Dialogues in Sociology, Editorial Board

    2024

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  2. Journal of ExoTechnology and Education, Editorial Board

    2024 - 2025

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  3. RC04 Sociology of Education and RC31 Sociology of Migration: Educational Migration in the Post-Pandemic World: Exploring Continuities and Discontinuities.

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc.

    20th International Sociological Association World Congress  2023.6

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  4. RC16 Sociological Theory and RC02 Economy and Society: Thinking through and Beyond Capitalism after the Great Reset

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    20th International Sociological Association World Congress  2023.6

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  5. RC16 Sociological Theory: Cosmopolitic and Cultural Sociology

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    19th International Sociological Association World Congress  2018.7

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  6. Decolonizing/Deimperializing the University

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    Education University of Hong Kong  2018.3

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  7. Brill Research Perspectives in Global Youth, Editorial Board

    2018

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  8. Youth and Globalization, Editorial Board

    2018

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  9. Poetics, Editorial Board

    2018

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  10. Trans-Japan as Method and Practice

    Role(s):Planning, management, etc., Panel moderator, session chair, etc.

    Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference  2017.6

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  11. Doing Global Studies Book Series (Brill), Editorial Board

    2015 - 2019

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  12. International Social Studies Association, International Executive Board

    2015 - 2019

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