Diversity & Inclusion
Research
Survey on Diversity and Inclusion
In March 2022, we conducted a nationwide monitoring survey of 1,000 people on "People's Views on Diversity & Inclusion".
In the future, we will analyze correlations between items to determine what relationships can be found between various prejudices. In this report, we will only share an overview of the survey and report on the implementation of the survey.
*Please refrain from using or publishing the data and figures in this report without permission.
Summary Report
Diversity and Human Behavior Research Group
1st meeting on July 7 2020 @ Online
Kiriko Sakata (HU) on inclusiveness
Shiho Imashiro (Senior Researcher, Organizational Behavior Laboratory,
Recruit Management Solutions Co., Ltd.) on psychological safety
Survey on Research Environment at HU
From March 18 to 31, 2019, ReCDI conducted a survey on the research environment at HU as part of CAPWR (see Gender page). 1572 faculty members were surveyed, and the response rate was 40.59%. The results of the survey were given back to the faculty through the university's information system.
Seminars and Events
Speaker at Symposium on Discrimination at Universities
HU Symposium "Toward a Discrimination-Free Campus"
May 14, 2022 @ Gakushikaikanl & Zoom Hosted by HU
Overview
In the summer of 2022, HU received a report that SNS postings and classes by one of the faculty members "may promote discrimination and prejudice against certain foreign nationals" and established a Review Committee on Inappropriate Twitter Postings, etc. with members including experts from outside the university to examine the issue from multiple perspectives. Based on the results of the Committee works, this symposium was organized to discuss what is needed to realize a campus and society free of discrimination and prejudice, and what awareness we should have as university members.
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Speaker in a Seminar on Peace
The 1st Hiroshima Peace Research Initiative "Joint Seminar of Four Research Centers for Humanities and Social Sciences, HU: Our Works in Peace Research and Activities" March 27, 2021, 13:00-16:01 @ Zoom
Overview
The "Peace Research Initiative" is an activity to promote research related to peace in the broadest sense, based in the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, HU. In the first session of the Initiative, the four research centers involved in the School at HU will introduce their recent initiatives and discuss how they will work together to promote peace research and activities at HU in the future.
Speakers
Noriyuki Kawano, Director, Peace Center
Machiko Oike, Director, ReCDI
Kazuhiro Kusahara, Director, Center for Educational Vision Research
Hiroshi Goto, Director, Research Center for Applied Ethics Project
Commentators
Ryo Oshiba, Director, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University
Body Mapping Project
ReCDI conducts Hiroshima Body Mapping Project, using body mapping as a tool for diversity and inclusion, with people with special needs, A-bomb survivors, and others.
What is Body Mapping
Body mapping is an art practice in which one draws the life-sized outline of one's body on a sheet about 1 meter×2 meters, and maps one’s life events, experiences, and thoughts in images and words on the sheet. The purpose is to reorient one’s life journey by representing one’s life and sharing one’s life story with others.
The first recorded body mapping project was initiated by 13 women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa in 2002. Currently, body mapping is being practiced around the world by people with special needs, immigrants, sexual minorities, and others. Ours is one of the first programs implemented in Japan.
Foreign Trainees or Immigrant Workers
March 9 & 16, 2024, 10:00-15:00 at TECS Training Center
We held a workshop for foreign trainees or immigrant workers for nursing care facilities.
Some of the participants had never used a paintbrush before, but they enjoyed expressing the beautiful scenery of their hometowns, life at the training center, painful memories, and their dreams for the future. They presented their maps at their respective workplaces.
Work Colleagues
February 6, 2024, 10:00-15:00 at the Higashi Senda Campus
We held a workshop for staff members of TECS, a supervising organization for foreign trainees or immigrant workers. After each of the four participants completed their map, they shared their life experiences and thoughts using the map.
Children with Special Needs
HAP is an after-school day service for children with special needs.
In 2020, we held a workshop for the HAP clients, whose maps were exhibited at the 2020 Sekohei Art Exhibition.
In 2021, in cooperation with HAP, we held a workshop at the "Waku Waku Art Class" (July 17 and October 31) at the Hiroshima City Welfare Center for the People with Physical and Mental Challenges. Children with special needs, their siblings, and their parents worked together to create one map as a family.
The maps were exhibited at the 2021 Sekohei Art Exhibition and the 2021 Cultural Festival held at the above Center (December 4-5, sponsored by the above Center, Hiroshima City, and Hiroshima City Social Welfare Organization).
A-bomb Survivors and Youth
We held workshops in which A-bomb survivors work with youth to create their body maps and transfer their memories concerning the A-bomb to the next generation.
In other body mapping, the owner of the life story creates their own map, but in our project, high school students listened to the survivor's stories and collaboratively mapped the survivor's life. The entire life story of the survivor was mapped out in a life-sized picture.
The project was organized by a civil organization, the Sekohei (world’s children and peace) Committee, in cooperation with Kokosei Heiwa Zeminar (the High-School Student Group for Peace), and the Center for Peace, HU. The maps were on display at the annual Sekohei Art Exhibitions.
The Sekohei Museum of Art is an art exhibition on the theme of peace and children, held every August since 2002 by the Sekohei Commitiee.
2023Eight A-bomb survivors and youth formed eight teams, and each team collaborated to create a body map of the survivor.
High school students of the Student Group for Peace created two maps in the Sekohei workshop, while junior high school students in Ishiuchi Area created six maps in a workshop organized by the Community Center, Ishiuchi.
The maps were exhibited at Sekohei Art Exhibiton 2023 (Aug 11-16 at Hiroshima Prefectural Cultural Center).
Six A-bomb survivors and members of the Student Group for Peace (Kokosei Heiwa Zeminar) formed six teams, and each team collaborated to create a body map of the survivor.
The maps were exhibited at Sekohei Art Museum 2022 (July 26-31 at Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Kenmin Gallery).
The project was covered by newspapers and other media.
"Hiroshima for Global Peace" by Hiroshima PrefectureSekohei
The maps were also displayed at school festivals, a talk event (September 26), and another art exhibition on peace, "Vanishing Towns: Tracing Memories, The World of Shigeo Moritomi's Pencil Drawings" (September 17-30, 2022).
High school students created individual body maps as well as group maps. The maps were exhibited at the Sekohei Art Museum 2021 (August 17-22 at the former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch Building).
Watch You Tube video for Sekohei Art Museum 2021 (Body Mapping from around 2:19)
High school students created their body maps. The maps were exhibited at the Sekohei Art Museum 2020 (August 8-16 at the former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch Building).
Watch You Tube video for Sekohei Art Museum 2020 (Body Mapping starts around 1:20)
Art Exhibition for Diversity
ReCDI participated in "Mix Up Hiroshima: Freedom of Expression" (exhibition of paintings, videos, and photographs)
March 24- 29, 2020 @ Gallery G
Organized by the MIX UP Hiroshima Executive Committee
ReCDI exhibited its collection of manga and picture books on the theme of diversity in gender and sexuality as the "LGBT Manga Book Café"
Other artists: Kyunchome, Bion-Iseijin Xenon, Shota Fujitaka, Mayu Mizunoue (Otagawa Gakuen), Momiji Workshop
Seminar on Diversity and Behavioral Economics
Diversity Seminar "An Examination of Competitive Reward and Punishment Systems: Perspectives on Purpose, Heterogeneity, and Growth Potential"
September 26, 2017 @Fac. of Integrated Arts and Sciences, HU
Organized by ReCDI
Yoshio Kamijo (Professor, Kochi Univ of Technology)
Outline: Why is social order maintained by a punitive system? Why not a system that praises and rewards law-abiding citizens? In the sminar, Dr. Kamijo used the contest-theoretic framework developed in economics to provide a different answer to the above questions than the classic "because of resource constraints". By comparing a punitive system with its counterpart, a reward system, he theoretically showed that desirable systems can vary according to the objectives of the system designers and the heterogeneity among the members. The theoretical considerations outlined in the seminar are based on a paper published in 2016 in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization entitled "Rewards versus punishments in additive, weakest-link, and best-shot contests." In the second half of the seminar, he provided an overview of an ongoing experimental study aimed at testing the hypotheses derived from the theory.
Co-hosting a seminar on Trust
The 367th IDEC Seminar "Who can you trust? Different forms of trust in society and their effects"
Thursday, May 25, 2017, 18:10-19:40 @ IDEC (Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation), HU
Lecturer: Prof. Frens Kroeger (Coventry University)
Hosted by IDEC, Cohosted by ReCDI
Summery: Trust is the "glue" that holds together societies and communities. But not all trust is the same – different forms have different effects. This public lecture will explore trust in society, and consider which forms of trust have contributed to the ongoing "trust crisis" which has affected particularly (but not only) Western.
Co-hosting a Symposium on Diversity Across Disciplines
"Thinking Diversity: Possibilities for Research and Practice" at The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology
Meeting of the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology
March 27, 2017 10:00-12:00 @ JMS Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan
Organized by the Committee for the 29th Annual Convention of the Japanese Society of Developmental Psychology
Co-hosted by ReCDI
Prof. Kiriko Sakata, (then) Director of ReCDI, lectured on diversity in organizations and groups; Prof. Kazuya Kawaguchi, Hiroshima Shudo U, on sexual minorities and diversity; Prof. Satoshi Takamatsu, Kyushu U, on cultural diversity in universities; and Prof. Yoko Kitakaji, ReCDI, on two forms of perspective taking.
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