Let’s Start by Asking Ourselves Why We Communicate
講師：Kazuhiko Yoshida, Ph.D.
吉田　一彦 氏 （宇都宮大学国際学部　教授)

In this session we will rethink our everyday communication, examine linguistic facts and discover things that motivate us to speak to someone else. We will emphasize verbal communication and social skills. The abilities we realize throughout the session are expected to be useful for the entire seminar.

＜プロフィール＞
Kazuhiko YOSHIDA, descendant of Emishi and Yamato from Rikuzen-Takata, is a learner/user and instructor/researcher of foreign languages. He lived in France as a student and in Pakistan and Thailand as a Japanese language teacher. After receiving a Ph.D. in linguistics, he has been teaching linguistics and multilingual communication at Utsunomiya University since 2003. Although he has visited over 30 countries and worked with people of a hundred different nationalities, he is consistently amazed by the diversity of the world.

分科会Ａ：Taking Peace Seriously: Towards the Understanding of UN Peace Operations
講師：Hiroshige Fujii　 藤井　広重 氏
（宇都宮大学国際学部　助教）

The aim of this course is to deepen our understanding of post-conflict situations through UN peace operations. Upon completion of this course students will be able to clarify five types of peace operations. This will help you advance your own career development in the field of peace activities.

＜プロフィール＞
LL.M (International Human Rights Law), Adv.LL.M (International Criminal Law), Ph.D. Candidate and a member of UNU Global Leadership Training Program, Fujii was a visiting fellow at the University of Cape Town in 2016. He has professional experience in the Philippines, Ghana and the Netherlands, as well as being engaged in UN Peacekeeping Operations as a Program Advisor in Japan’s Cabinet Office. The Japanese Government dispatched Fujii to Mali Peacebuilding Center as an expert of International Criminal Justice in July 2015.

分科会Ｂ：Maximizing Individual Choice and Capabilities by Building Transnational Careers
講師：Ana Sueyoshi　スエヨシ　アナ 氏
（宇都宮大学　国際学部　准教授）

The mobility of Japanese born/raised Peruvians between Japan and Peru expands their range of choices as it allows them to take advantage of employment, education and investment opportunities in both countries. Discussion will be focused on capability building and how it leads to the creation of authentic freedom to choose meaningful careers and lives that the Japanese born/raised Peruvians value.

＜プロフィール＞
Prior to taking my current position, I worked as researcher, economic consultant and economic advisor in Peru. After my studies at the Graduate School of International Political Economy (GSIPE), Tsukuba University, Japan, I joined the School of International Studies, Utsunomiya University, where I am in charge of Latin American Studies. My research interests include Latin American economy, the link between higher education and employability in the APEC region, and Nikkei workers in Japan and Nikkei returnee children in their homeland.

分科会Ｃ：International Development and Cooperation Work - Your Future Has No Limitation!-
講師：Sae Osawa 大澤　小枝 氏 （国際開発ソリューションズ　教育コンサルタント）

Participants will discuss different career paths in international development, global issues (with a focus on education), required competencies and motivations. In this workshop, participants will present a simple plan as a start of their career steps.

＜プロフィール＞
Sae OSAWA has a 15-year-career in International Development as Education Specialist. Having two master's degrees: Educational Planning and Mediterranean Studies (mainly Middle Eastern Area Studies) from the University of London. She has worked mainly in the Middle East with different UN organisations such as UNICEF, UNHCR and UNRWA, NGOs and JICA. She is currently working for a project in Lebanon on improving School Based Management in five pilot schools with the Ministry of Education.

分科会Ｄ：Let’s Make Short Speeches for Developing Your Communication Skills.
講師：Kiyoshi Saito　斎藤　潔 氏
（農学部 農業経済学科 教授）

The purpose of this class is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every class member has opportunities to develop communication and leadership skills which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth. The workshop will be based on group work and discussion.

＜プロフィール＞
Kiyoshi SAITO has been a professor of farm management science, department of agricultural economics, Utsunomiya University since 2000. My research field is “Agribusiness in American agriculture”. I was a visiting professor of Iowa State University, USA in 2006/07. At that period, I had met Toast masters club which provides communication and leadership programs. In this seminar class, I will use this program for improving your communication and leadership skills.

分科会Ｅ：Start Your Own Business
講師：David Long　デービット　ロング　氏　
(Dave and Amy English School 英会話スクール経営者、講師、テキストブック執筆者、ゲーム開発者)

How can you use your skills and know how to make a business? I will give you some examples of our successes and failures using our skills in soccer, music, retail, and language schools. Let's discuss how you can apply your skills to make your business grow.

＜プロフィール＞
I came to Japan from Liverpool in 1996 with a small backpack. Now I have a wife, two soccer mad children and we run a number of English schools in Saitama. I believe in searching for a job and life that best suits your skills and makes you happy and fulfilled.

分科会Ｆ：Discover Your Strengths
講師：Jack Kwok　ジャック　クオック 氏 （グーグル合同会社 Google Cloud, 上級クラウド ソリューション マネージャー）

In this session you will have an opportunity to rediscover yourself and to know what your strengths are, which will help to prepare you for your next exciting journey.

＜プロフィール＞
Jack Kwok is a Googler working on helping enterprises to adopt new technologies and innovations to transform their traditional work style to “Work the way you live,” by creating a working environment for empowering employees to become more creative and collaborative in order to gain the full power of their potential. He believes that technologies and innovations are important elements to improve human life and provide opportunities so that everyone can access and gain knowledge that was not so easy to access in the past.