Participants
Fourth South-South Forum
Participants
China
Dai Jinhua is professor of the Institute of Comparative Literature and Culture, and director of the Centre for Film and Cultural Studies, Peijing University. She focuses on mass media, film and gender studies. She is an author of 15 scholarly monographs and her work has been translated into dozens of languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
Lu Aiguo, Senior Fellow (retired), Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
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Pan Jie , assistant professor of the National Institute of Social Development, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China.
Tian Song holds a Ph.D. in the History of Science, and a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Science. Now he is professor in the School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University. His academic interests include history of science, philosophy of science, anthropology of science, environmental philosophy and multiple interdisciplinary studies.
Wen Tiejun is professor of Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability, Renmin University of China. He is also Executive Dean of Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University, and Executive Dean of Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. He is one of the most renowned experts in China on socio-economic sustainable development and rural policies.
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India
Arindam Banerjee is associate professor, School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD). He is currently teaching economics. His interest areas include agrarian relations, hunger and poverty, colonialism and development of capitalism.
Indonesia
Eka Swadiansa is Founding Partner and Principal Architect of Office of Strategic Architecture (OSA), and co-founder of Alliance for Sustainable Initiative in Architecture in Indonesia. He made prestigious proposals on Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki, Tokyo New Japan National Stadium, and Museum of Science fiction in Washington DC.
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JAPAN
Mushakoji Kinhide is professor by Special Appoimtment, Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership, Osaka University of Economics and Law. He is Vice-Chairperson of IMADR (International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism), RED Network (Radical Ecological Democracy), and Central Japan ESD (Education for Sustainable Development)-RCE (Regional Centre of Expertise).
Muto Ichiyo is one of the founding members of Asian Peace Alliance, APA. He has been involved in peace movements and movements of anti-militarisation in the Asia-Pacific region. He was also a promoter of People’s Plan for the 21st Century (PP21) and an advisor for both ACFOD and FOCUS. He has written prolifically in Japanese and English on social movements and the question of the Japanese statehood.
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Owada Sayaka was brought up in the organic farmers' movement. Involved with movement for alternative education, anti-war movement, anti-nuclear movement, women's movement etc. She used to work for PARC and PPSG.
Watanabe Mina is the secretary general of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM) based in Tokyo. She has been an activist for women’s rights from the mid 1990’s and has worked in NGOs and parliamentarians’ offices. She was actively involved in the Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery held in Tokyo in 2000, and has been making actions with the survivors and supporters of Japan’s military sexual slavery for redress.
Korea
Lee Bu-young, Chairperson of Korea Steering Committee of Conference for Peace in East Asia.He graduated from Department of Political Science, Seoul National University. He was reporter of Dong-A Newspaper. He was deeply involved in democratization movement. In 2015, he retired from political parties and returned to civil society.
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Lee Seung-hwan was born in 1958 in Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. He completed PhD course work at Graduate School of Political Science and Diplomacy of Kyungnam University . Since the late 1980s, he worked in North-South relations and unification peace campaigns. He is currently the co-representative of the Civil Peace Forum. He also serves various positions including the co-chairman of the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation, co-representative and head of policies of the Executive Committee of South Korea for the 6.15 Joint Declaration.
Lee Jung-ok is professor of Sociology, Dean of Social Sciences and Director of Center for Multicultural Studies in Catholic University of Daegu in South Korea. She has served as a board member of DMZ Life and Peace Valley, Ecopeace Asia, Transparency Korea, and Women Peace and Security Forum.
Samuel Lee is president of Korean Christian Cooperation for Social Development, representative of Forum for Democracy and Peace in Korea. He studied philosophy and social science at Seoul National University and Goettingen University in Germany. He taught social, political philosophy at Soongsil University. He served as Secretary-General of Korean National Commission for UNESCO and as Director of Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO. He was involved in various activities of civil society organizations like PSPD, Ekopeace Asia, History NGO Forum, Unification Committee of KNCC.
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Son Dug-soo is corepresentative of Peace Mothers Association. She studied social education at Ewha Women University and Goettingen University and feministic sociology at Dortmund University. She taught at Department of Social Welfare and Women Study of Hyosung Catholic Women University in Daegu. She researched on the status of poor women in Ha Wolgok Dong, Seoul and operated the "Sandol" study room for the children of poor family. She organized the Women's Hotline for the battered women and was the Chair of the Board and joined various feministic movements. She exhibited drawings of Digital Art on the women's life and peace.
Malaysia
Francis Loh Kok Wah is president of Aliran, a multiethnic human rights and alternative development NGO, and ARENA Fellow; professor of Politics at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang (1979-2012).
Philippines
Ananeza Aban is engaged in urban and rural community development practice in the Philippines. She has lived and worked with peasants and indigenous communities in Mindanao and has experience in participatory development planning, community facilitation, participatory action research. In 2015, she was involved in the Post-Haiyan recovery program in the Visayas, as a communications specialist of an international aid organization.
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Clarisse Culla is currently a student of M Philippine Studies under the Asian Center at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. She is also working with the civil society group, Freedom from Debt Coalition, as a part-time staff under its ASEAN Project. She received her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from the College of Arts and Letters in the University of the Philippines.
Eduardo Tadem is professor lecturer of Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, editor-in-chief of Asian Studies (Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia), president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC), Co-convenor, ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum (ACSC/ APF) Philippine National Organizing Committee; Member, International Committee, NGO Forum on the ADB.
Joel F. Ariate Jr. is a university researcher at the Third World Studies Center, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Phiippines Diliman with responsibilities for research and publications. He is the managing editor of the journal Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies.
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Maria Dulce Natividad, a medical anthropologist, is Assistant Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines where she teaches courses in Philippine and Asian studies - socio-cultural program. Prior to teaching in UP, she taught in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, US. Dr. Natividad has been actively involved in the women's movement in the Philippines and was immersed in grassroots advocacy, community education and policy work on women's health, and sexual and reproductive rights.
Maria Ela L. Atienza, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman. She is the current Chair of the Department of Political Science and Editor of the Philippine Political Science Journal, the internationally refereed journal of the Philippine Political Science Association co-published with Routledge. She is former Director of the UP Third World Studies Center (2010- 2013). She also served as President of the Philippine Political Science Association (2007-2009).
Melissa Loja is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. Beginning this September, she will be working as a researcher at the Center for International Law, National University of Singapore.
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Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem is professor of Political Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her research interests and publications have been on the Philippine social movements, the anti-globalization movements in Southeast Asia, global civil society movements, Philippine technocracy and middle class politics, among others.
Tina S. Clemente, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines-Diliman. She specializes in China Studies and Development Studies. In particular, her research and teaching interrogate themes on the economics-security nexus in Philippines-China relations, the intellectual history of China Studies, and institutional issues in development.
Portugal
Ana Maria Saldanha is Invited Assistant Professor at Macao Polytechnic Institute. She has PhD from the University of Grenoble (France) and from the New University of Lisbon (UNL - Portugal) in Literary Comparative Studies. She also holds Post- Doctoral degree in Literary and Agrarian Sociology from the Faculty of Sciences and Literature (FCLAR) - São Paulo State University (UNESP) (Brazil).
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Singapore
Kho Tung-Yi is PhD Candidate of Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of London. He interested broadly in the possibilities of and conditions for convivial human existence, and having been trained in Economics, Political Economy, Sociology, Cultural Studies and, now, Social Anthropology.
Thailand
Viriya Sawangchot teaches popular culture at the Research Institute of Languages and Cultures for Asia, Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, Nakonpatom, Thailand. He is interested in questions of Asian youth cultures and popular music, creative industries and creative class in Thailand.
usa
Tani Barlow is Professor of Department of History, Rice University. She is T. T. and W. F. Chao Professor of Asian Studies; Inaugural Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies, 2008-13; Senior Editor, positions: asia critique; Curator, My Voice Would Reach You, Spring 2014.
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Hong Kong
Alice Chan holds a Master in Business Administration, York University, and a Master in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She was a Canadian Chartered Accountant. She worked in various capacities in the insurance industry in Canada and Hong Kong until retirement. After her retirement, she has participated in voluntary work with particular interest in ecological issues.
Amy Yeung is Executive Secretary of The Association for the Advancement of Feminism (AAF), the first feminist group in Hong Kong established by local Chinese in 1984 which focuses its work on policy advocacy, gender mainstreaming, and promoting feminism. She is responsible for the organisation’s daily operation, finance, fundraising, and working hand in hand with the Executive Committee and various working groups on AAF’s organisational development.
Au Yeung Lai Seung graduated with BA in Business Studies and Master of Cultural Studies in Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is the coordinator of WikiPeaceWomen Project. She is a fellow of Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives and a member of the China Social Services and Development Research Centre, and helps coordinate a research project on Seven Emerging Countries and South South Forum for Sustainability. She has practiced Tai Chi Fist and Martial Art for ten years, and is currently a Tai Chi coach.
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Chan Shun Hing is Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She had done research on Modern Chinese literature, gender and narratives, gender and everyday life, women, peace and sustainable living.
Erebus Wong is researcher, KFCRD, Lingnan University.
Hui Po Keung is Associate Professor of the Cultural Studies Department, Programme Director of MCS, and Programme Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Liberal Studies Programme (2005-2009) at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His main research interests are education and cultural studies, cultural economy, history of capitalism and markets, and alternative development.
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Hui Shiu Lun is part time lecturer teaching MCS programme in Lingnan University. ARENA Fellow.
IP Iam Chong is assistant professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. His research interests cover Urban Studies and Contemporary China Studies. His publications include 媒 體識讀 = Media Literacy, Direct Action and Nostalgia for the Present: Past life and Current Life of Cultural Preservation.
Jin Peiyun is research assistant of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. She is also one of the coordinators of the project Lingnan Gardeners. From 2008 to 2010, she got involved in the work of rebuilding disaster areas of Sichuan Earthquake. After 2011, she mainly focuses on rural work and practice of ecological agriculture.
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Kelven Cheung, 2010 MCS graduate of Lingnan University, with interests in photography, fine arts, martial arts, theatre and hiking.
Lau Kin Ching is a member of ARENA, and a founding member of Global University for Sustainability. He is volunteer in designing and website programming of three websites: Global University for Sustainability, WikiPeaceWomen, and ARENA.
Lau Kin Chi is Associate Professor teaching Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She is member of the International Board of PeaceWomen Across the Globe, Co-chair of Executive Committee of Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives, Vice-president of World Forum for Alternatives, and one of the Founding Members of Global University for Sustainability.
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Margaret Jade Sit Tsui holds a doctorate in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, and a post-doctorate in the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Renmin University of China. Currently she is associate professor of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University. She is board member of ARENA-HK, and Chairperson of China Social Services and Development Research Centre.
Stephen Chan Ching Kiu is Professor of Cultural Studies Department, Lingnan University.
Tso Hiu Tung, Jessica, works as gender justice and eco- concern project officer in Hong Kong Christian Council. She attained BA (Hons)in Cultural Studies of Lingnan University and Master of Arts in Christian Studies of Divinity School of Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She believes in the power of stories and wishes to empower the marginalised by their narrative.
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Yan Xiaohui is PhD candidate of Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. He is Executive Director of Green Ground Eco-Tech Centre, Beijing. He is co-founder of Little Donkey Farm, and manager from 2009 to 2015. He had been involved in the building of James Yen Institute of Rural Reconstruction since 2004. He is also one of the key co-founders of Ecological Agriculture Studio and Rural Architecture Studio.
Administrative Team and Volunteers
Amber Chau is programme assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University.
Cheung Yuk Lin is volunteer of Services Learning Centre and Lingnan Gardeners, at Lingnan University.
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Dheen Kho. graduated in Architecture and Interior Design from the University of New South Wales. Her interest is in sustainable and affordable architecture and interior design for public housing and community facilities. Ela loves going to school, reading, writing stories & poems, doing art & crafts, playing piano and tennis. She also likes to attend dad's meetings to learn new things. Ona loves homeschool, drawing, painting, singing, dancing, playing piano and tennis. She is fond of baking sweets with Ela and mom and playing with the pets.
George Lee Kiu Chi works as research assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies of Lingnan University in Hong Kong. In addition to the English-language website of Global University for Sustainability, he also coordinates the English- language website of WikiPeaceWomen.
Jason Auyeung is a summer volunteer and mainly responsible for video editing and administrative work.
Josephine Tsui, Senior Administrative Officer at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University.
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Marco Auyeung is a volunteer of South South Forum IV, Wikipeacewomen and Global University for Sustainability.
Pan Tingting graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing. Her major is print-making. She is interested in painting. She is a crazy cat lover.
Shirley Ho is administrative assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University.
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Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University http://www.ln.edu.hk/cultural/
Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives (ARENA) http://arena-council.org
Global University for Sustainability http://our-global-u.org
Address: LBY112, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong Tel: +85 2616 7671 / 26167672