7^th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG)

“The Right to Inhabit; the Asian Challenges”

Conference: Osaka, Japan, 23-25 July 2014

Retreat: Tohoku Area, 26-28 July 2014

Co-organized with Association for Urban Creativity (AUC)

1^st Call for Paper	2^nd Call for Paper
22 March 2014	9 May, 2014
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Updated at 17th July, 2014
EARCAG homepage Urban Research Plaza, OCU

Introduction

Please click here (1^st Call for Paper)

Themes

The Right to Inhabit; the Asian Challenges

Program

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Titles & Participants

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Abstracts

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Date & Venues

Conference (Osaka): Osaka City Map (Location of two venues’ are indicated)

http://www.osaka-info.jp/en/area/map/city_all.pdf

23^rd; Osaka International House

24^th – 25^th; Medical Science Information Center, Osaka City University Medical School

Retreat (Fieldtrip) in Sendai, Ishinomaki and Fukushima: 26-28 July 2014.

The conference is hosted by the Osaka City University, Urban Research Plaza and Department of Geography.

Registration

Those wishing to attend the conference must register by 15 -> 31 May 2014. The registration form can be downloaded from http://econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp/earcag/index.html

To earcag2014@gmail.com

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The fee includes: drink reception on the 23^rd, lunch & dinner on the 24^th and 25^th. EARCAG2014 will bear the participation costs (proceedings etc.) of all participants.

1) Participants from the OECD member countries, Taiwan, Singapore and HKSAR

US$120 (faculty) US$60 (student)

2) Participants from rest of the world

US$60 (faculty) US$30 (student)

Please pay the registration fee in cash (Japanese Yen, 1US$ = 100Yen) during registration at the first day of the conference.

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Conference: Hotel reservations can be made at "Hotel Chuo Oasis" (40 single rooms available at the cost of ~~JPY 3,100~~ -> 3.200 at week days, Twin room use -> JPY 2,900). <- NEW

EARCAG2014 will take care of all the reservations of those who chose to stay in this hotel. Those who chosen to stay in a hotel of own preference have to take care of the reservation themselves.

Retreat:

25^th chartered night bus (no charge)

26^th accommodation; Toyoko Inn Sendai Chuo JPY 6,804 with breakfast

27^th accommodation; Furutakiya (Spa Inn) JPY 10,950 with dinner and breakfast

28^th Chartered night bus (no charge)

Field Trip Map

In light of the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, a field trip will be organized to visit the disaster-affected sites. Accommodation will be provided on-site. The schedule is as follows:

(26^th) Visit to Sendai. From 3:00pm onward, Mr. Sugano will walk us around the areas where his NGO is providing rehabilitation assistance. Afterwards, we will visit temporary housing areas and employment assistance centers by chartered bus.

(27^th) Excursion in Ishinomaki, where the whole town has been wiped out by the tsunami. A local NGO will provide explanation on the current state of affairs.

(28^th) Visit to Fukushima by bus. Details will be provided later. After the visit, ~~the bus will take us to Tokyo, where those who travel from Narita or Haneda International Airport can continue their way.~~ A night bus will take those who travel from Kansai International Airport to Osaka (scheduled arrival: 29^th, 8:00am).

Transport:

1) By Night Bus: Leave Fri 25: 8 pm, arrive in hotel @Sendai, Sat. 26: 9 am. (price: free)

2) By Shinkansen: Leave at latest by Sat.:.9 am, arrive in Sendai Station by Sat.:2.pm, go by taxi to hotel (price 20,000 - 22,000 yen)

3) By Airplane: 70 minutes Flight, nineteen flights per day, (price 10,000 – 30,000 yen) "

* EARCAG2014 will bear the bus fee, lunch and dinner costs during the Tohoku retreat.

Organization Committee (Steering Committee of EARCAG)

Byung-Doo Choi (Deagu University, South Korea)

Chu-joe Hsia (National Taiwan University, Taiwan/Nanjing University, China)

Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Fujio Mizuoka (Hitotshbashi University, Japan)

Jinn-yuh Hsu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Toshio Mizuuchi (Osaka City University, Japan)

Wing-Shing Tang (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Bae-Gyoon Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Amriah Buang (National University of Malaysia, Malaysia)