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Over the period from 27 February through 4 March, the FY2009 ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers, cosponsored by JSPS and the European Science Foundation (ESF) and hosted by Kyushu University, was held in Fukuoka, Japan. Its theme was “Contact Zones of Empires in Asia and Europe: Complexity, Contingency, Causality.” Participating in the seminar were a faculty of 18 lecturers (nine from each Japan and Europe) and a “student body” of 26 young researchers from Japan and 30 from Europe.
Leading the list of cutting-edge researchers who gave lectures were Prof. Tadashi Nishitani, emeritus professor, Kyushu University, and Dr. Koji Mizoguchi, associate professor, Kyushu University. Listening attentively to the lectures, the young researchers from Japan and Europe took notes and asked many questions. The young researchers also had a chance to highlight their own work by giving short presentations and exhibiting posters. Taking advantage of the opportunity that the seminar afforded them to meet with frontline researchers from Japan and Europe, the participants engaged the lecturers in sprightly exchanges of views and information. This spirited interchange among the participants spilled over into an excursion to Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu City. In the free discussion held on the last day of the seminar, all indications were that the participants would continue to communicate with each other well into the future. - Research Cooperation Division II  |
