Domeistic Seminars
January in 2013
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- API Seminar
- Date：January 18, 2013 16:00 - 18:00
- Place：Small Meeting Room I (Room No. 330), Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg,
Kyoto University
- Flyer：PDF
- Presenter １： Benigno C. Balgos Program Head Research, Knowledge and Management, Center
for Disaster Preparedness
- Title：“Philippines as the 7/11 (Convenience Store) of Disasters: Capacity Gaps
and Prospects toward Risk Reduction”
- Abstract：The Philippines is located in the Typhoon Belt. With that, 21 typhoons
are annually passing through and hitting several parts of the country.
In 2012, the Philippines’ Capital Region was inundated to floodwaters due
to the unnamed monsoon. Concurrently, before 2012 ends, tropical storm
Pablo devastated various parts of Southern Philippines. Both events left
thousands of people homeless and hopeless. The lecture showcases moving
images of the two disasters. Also, drawing from research of 19 local government
units all over the Philippines, the lecture highlights the capacity gaps
and prospects for disaster risk reduction in the Philippines.
- Presenter 2：Ekoningtyas Margu Wardani, PhD Researcher, Institute of Cultural Anthropology
and Development Sociology, Leiden University
- Title：“Living in the 'borderland' : the dilemma of social dynamics and food security
for forest-dependent people in Indonesia”
- Abstract： The lecture will sharpen the view of the problems minority groups face
and systematize how the global mega trend of rapid growth development process
in Indonesia might impact these marginalized group. In light of that, I
will endeavor to present the dilemma of the social dynamics of Orang Rimba
(forest-dependent people) in Jambi Province (Indonesia), in which has a
massive influences from the development process. The lecture intends to
examine the extent to which indigenous knowledge has affected and influenced
the wave of modernization and national development to their food security
status.
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