As of October 21
- 1. Forum Overview
- 2. Schedule Day 1: 10/25 (Sat)
- 3. Theme sessions (under preparation)
- 4. Poster sessions
- 5. Notes
Day 2: 10/26 (Sun)
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)
11:15 - 11:30
□Break11:30 - 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))
13:00 - 14:00
□Lunch break14:00 - 14:30
■Poster session14:30 - 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)
16:00 - 17:00
■Private Session for Organization of EADSF 2026Day 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)
11:00 - 11:15
□Break11:15 - 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)
12:45 - 13:45
□Lunch break13:45 - 14:15
■Poster session14:15 - 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)
15:45 - 16:00
□Break16:00 - 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)
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.)
- Shintaro AOKI, Masayuki YASUDA 2025/10/25-26 "The Extent of Disabled People's Participation: A Case Study on the Japanese System for Guaranteeing Outings of People with Visual Impairments" [PPT]
- Ryo ARIMATSU 2025/10/25-26 "Reform of the Disability System and stakeholder participation: Consideration for making multiple discrimination against women with disabilities a policy issue"
- Hitomi IKAWA 2025/10/25-26 "Between Illness and Victimhood: Ambiguity and Identity in SMON Victims’ Narratives" [PDF]
- Maki ISHIKAWA 2025/10/25-26 "The Social Impact of World ME/CFS Awareness Day in Japan"
- Hisayo KATSUI 2025/10/25-26 "Disability Studies in Nordic Countries" [PDF]
- Yasuki KUBOSAKI, SHIEH Benny, CHIANG Yiwen 2025/10/25-26 "A Comparison of CART Captioning Systems for Hearing-impaired Students in Higher Education in Japan and Taiwan" [PDF]
- Akiko MATSUEDA 2025/10/25-26 "Japan's Thalidomide Lawsuits: Compensation Needs in the 2020s" [PDF]
- Izumi OTANI 2025/10/25-26 "Current State of Research on Ich klage an (I Accuse) in Japan " [PDF]
- OUYANG Shanshan, LEE Po-Han 2025/10/25-26 "Dis/Enabled Queerness:Cripping 'Coming Out' and Resisting Heteronormative Ableism in Taiwan" [PDF]
- SHIN Juhyung, KAWABATA Miki 2025/10/25-26 "Toward Inclusive Game Environments: Theories and Practices of Accessibility"
- Setsuko SAKAE, Kumiko SEKI 2025/10/25-26 "Empowerment of “Books” in the Human Library: Challenges for Ongoing Support and Engagement" [PDF]
- An TAKAOKA, Kotaro TANEMURA, Keita MIYAMOTO, Kazunori YAMAGUCHI 2025/10/25-26 "Graduate School Challenges for Persons with Severe Disabilities in Community Transition "
- Fumiko TAKEMURA 2025/10/25-26 "High School Education for Students with Severe Intellectual Disabilities in Japan: Toward Inclusion"
- Takeshi ITO 2025/10/25-26 "The Philosophical Foundations for Applying Hannah Arendt’s Thought to Disability Studies" [PDF]
- Yuko CHIBA 2025/10/25-26 "Interpreting Athletes' Paralympic Experiences: Stories from Taiwan"
- Risa NARA, Ayano IKEDA, Yusuke MASUDA, and Daisuke AIBA 2025/10/25-26 "A Nationwide Survey on the Provision of Assistive Technology for Persons with Deafblindness: Focusing on Challenges Faced by Local Governments" [PDF]
- Yasushi MIYAZAKI, Katsuhisa MATSUOKA,and Junko HARA 2025/10/25-26 "The Origins, Development, Transitions, and Future of the "Cultural Model" of Disability" [PDF]
- Jiahui ZENG 2025/10/25-26 "The Workplace Personal Assistance System for Persons with Severe Disabilities in Japan and Its Limitations: An Analysis of the Policy-Making Process" [PDF]
- Emiko TANAKA 2025/10/25-26 "What have facilities for persons with disabilities been doing?: From the Research Report on the Role of Facilities for Persons with Disabilities taking into account Community Support for Persons with Disabilities"
- Kyoko IWATA and Miki KAWABATA "Movement to Guarantee Transportation Accessibility in the Perspective of an Independent Living of a Woman with Disability"
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.
*作成/更新:中井 良平