East Asia Disability Studies Forum 2025

25 and 26 October 2025

【日本語】

last update: 20251212



As of October 21

1. Forum Overview

Theme: Nothing about us without us

Subtitle: Voice, participation and community building

Topics by session
Session 1: Participation in decision-making
Session 2: Relationship between disability rights movements and disability studies
Session 3: Solidarity of people in different positions
Session 4: International cooperation for our future

◦ Date: 25-26 October 2025

◦ Location :
Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (OIC)
Event Hall (ground floor), Ritsumeikan Ibaraki Future Plaza
(2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki,Osaka 567-8570 JAPAN)
 ・Access Map for Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (from JR “Ibaraki Station”)
 ・Access Map for Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus (from Hankyu “Minami-Ibaraki Station”)

◦ Host:
Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University

◦ Co-Host:
Japan Society for Disability Studies


2. Program

Day 1: 10/25 (Sat)

General Moderator: Kasumi ITO (Eminent Associate Professor, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)

10:00 - 10:15
□Opening Remarks: Yoko MATSUBARA (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)

10:15 - 11:15
■Keynote Speech 1:“The Historical Background of Japan's Eugenics Protection Law and the Struggle of Its Victims”

  • Speaker: Keiko TOSHIMITSU (Visiting Researcher, Research Institute for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University / Co-chair of the National Liaison Committee for a Comprehensive Solution to the Eugenic Protection Law Issue)

  • Moderator: Motoyuki GOTO (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, vice-chair, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)

Speech 45min + Q&A 15 min

11:15 - 11:30
□Break

11:30 - 13:00
Session 1: Participation in decision-making

  • Moderator: Emiko TANAKA(Japan Women's University)

  • Presenters:
    • “About Underrepresented Persons with Disabilities” Kim, Kyoungran(Director of Policy Headquaters, Korea Disabled People’s Development Institute)
    • “Silenced in the System: Decision-Making Exclusion and Epistemic Injustice in Legal Remedies for Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization” Huan-Wen, CHEN(Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Policy and Law, Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Taiwan))
    • “Strategies to Support Young People with Developmental Disabilities to Participate in Service Planning.” Yi HUANG(Director, Shenzhen Autism Society, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China)
    • “Participation in Policy-making Processes: An Essential, Old and New Issue” Koji ONOUE(Sub Chairperson, Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI-Japan))

Presentation 18 min × 4 persons = 72min + Q&A 18min

13:00 - 14:00
□Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30
Poster session

14:30 - 16:00
Session 2: Relationship between disability rights movements and disability studies

  • Moderator: Kang, Min Hui(Associate Professor, Honam University)

  • Presenters:
    • “Rethinking the Intersection between the New Left and Disability Activism: From Revolution to Liberation” Kazunori YAMAGUCHI(Ph. D Candidate, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Science, Ritsumeikan University)
    • “Disability Studies and Disability Rights Movement in South Korea: Past Decade” Lee, Hanna(Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs)
    • “Intergenerational Dynamics and Destigmatization in Taiwan’s Disability Discourse: A Literature Analysis of Physical Disability Texts from 2014 to 2025” Hui Hsin, LIANG(Second year student in the Master's program of Social Work Department at National Taiwan University)
    • “A Review on the Disability Rights Studies in the Past Decade in China” Peng DING(Director, Wuhan East-lake Institute for Social Advancement)

Presentation 18 min × 4 persons = 72min + Q&A 18min

16:00 - 17:00
Private Session for Organization of EADSF 2026


Day 2: 10/26 (Sun)

General Moderator: Miki KAWABATA (Eminent Associate Professor, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)
10:00 - 11:00
■Keynote speech 2: Considering the Implementation of Japan's CRPD Concluding Observations from the Perspectives of Disability Studies and Tōjisha Kenkyū”

  • Speaker: Shinichiro KUMAGAYA (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology、the University of Tokyo, Chair, Policy Commission of Disability, Cabinet Office)

  • Moderator: Osamu NAGASE (Senior Researcher, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)

Speech 45min + Q&A 15 min

11:00 - 11:15
□Break

11:15 - 12:45
Session 3: Solidarity of people in different positions

  • Moderator: Hsin-Ping, HUNG(Secretary-General of the League for Persons with Disabilities, R.O.C. (Taiwan))

  • Presenters:
    • “Empowering and Accompanying Children with Disabilities: Observing Their Expressions and Participation in Decision-making through an Experimental Group” Pei Shan, HSIAO(Specialist of the League For Persons with Disabilities, R.O.C. (Taiwan))
    • “Coordinate Accessibility Supports for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Employment” Zhao Jinxi(lecturer, Scholl of Marxism, Wenzhou Medical University)
    • “A Study of the Relationship between People with Disabilities and People without Disabilities: Based on the Disability Rights Movement in the Kansai Region of Japan in the 1970s” Sachiko YAMASHITA(Shukutoku University, Member of Japan Society for Disability Studies)
    • “History of Solidarity and Voice of the Field:Disability and Exercise, Connected Life, Connected Time” Jeong, Yen Ok(Center Director, Gwangju Independent Living Center for the Disabled)

Presentation 18 min × 4 persons = 72min + Q&A 18min

12:45 - 13:45
□Lunch break

13:45 - 14:15
Poster session

14:15 - 15:45
Session 4: International cooperation for our future

  • Moderator: Yi HUANG(Director, Shenzhen Autism Society, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China)

  • Presenters:
    • “Starting from Ourselves: International and Transnational Collaboration in the Field of Women with Disabilities and Its Impact on Community Participation” Linqian (Lillian) PENG(Director, KnowDeaf Social Work Service Centre in Chongqing, China)
    • “The Independent Living Movement in Latin America and its Convergence with Feminist Struggles for Care” Takeshi INOUE(Founder and Coordinator, Red Latinoamericana de Vida Independient (RELAVIN))
    • “International Cooperation for Our Shared Future” Kim, Hyojin(Co-representative of the Disabled Women's Network)
    • “Disability Without Borders: Taiwan’s Praxis and the Emergence of Regional Solidarity in Asian Disability Justice” Yi-Chun, CHOU(Professor in the Department of Sociology at Soochow University/President of Taiwan Society for Disability Studies) and Heng-hao, CHANG(Professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taipei University)

Presentation 18 min × 4 persons = 72min + Q&A 18min

15:45 - 16:00
□Break

16:00 - 17:15
■Keynote speech 3: “Living as Human Beings: A Report on Practices for Living in the Community, Breaking Social Barriers”

  • Speaker: Hiroko KOIZUMI and Mitsutoshi OYABU (Japan Center for Independent Living)

  • Moderator: Izumi OTANI (Professor, Kinugasa Research Organization, Vice-chair, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)

Speech 55min + Q&A 20min

17:15 - 17:25
■Closing remarks: Tatsuya MIMA (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Chair, Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University)



3. Theme sessions(※日本からの参加者のみ掲載)

  • Koji ONOUE (ASub Chairperson, Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples' International (DPI-Japan))
    articipation in Policy-making Processes: An Essential, Old and New Issue” [PDF]
  • Kazunori YAMAGUCHI (Ph. D Candidate, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Science, Ritsumeikan University)
    Rethinking the Intersection between the New Left and Disability Activism: From Revolution to Liberation” [PDF]
  • Sachiko YAMASHITA (Shukutoku University, Member of Japan Society for Disability Studies)
    A Study of the Relationship between People with Disabilities and People without Disabilities: Based on the Disability Rights Movement in the Kansai Region of Japan in the 1970s” [PPT]
  • Takeshi INOUE (Founder and Coordinator, Red Latinoamericana de Vida Independient (RELAVIN))
    The Independent Living Movement in Latin America and its Convergence with Feminist Struggles for Care


4. Poster session(※Only participants from Japan are listed.)



5. Notes

・There is no dedicated car/bicycle parking area. Please use public transportation when visiting.

・Smoking is prohibited on campus. Please also refrain from smoking around the campus.


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