【The 2nd Announcement】

We received many applications for our conference this year. All the applications were reviewed at the Conference Organization Committee on March. 27, and all the decisions were sent to the applicants. We would like to ask the applicants to confirm it.

Seventeen sessions (community, education, children, development, NGO, SDGs, disaster, environment, society/economy etc.) will be held at the 23rd JASID Spring Conference: three organized sessions, seven roundtables, seven oral presentation sessions, together with a poster session and book talk.

Submission of papers, registration, and the others are as follows.

How to proceed

Oral presenters (oral sessions / organized sessions)

1. Download the form from the Conference website
2. Online registration and submission of your paper via the registration form on the Conference website, Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.), The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available
3. Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.)
4. The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available.
5. Pre-preparation (ZOOM), Participation at the Conference on the day
6. Participation at the Conference on the day

Poster presenters (poster sessions)

1. Download the form from the Conference website, Online registration and submission of your video directly to the Conference Executive Committee
2. Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.)
3. The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available, Pre-preparation (ZOOM), Participation at the Conference on the day
4. The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available.
5. Participation at the Conference on the day

Organizers (organized sessions / roundtables)

1. Download the form from the Conference website
2. Online registration and submission of your paper via the registration form on the Conference website, Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.), The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available
3. Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.)
4. The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available.
5. Rehearsal (an option if you are not a chair), Participation at the Conference on the day
6. Participation at the Conference on the day

Chairs, facilitators, commentators, and the other participants

1. Online registration via the registration form on the Conference website
2. Payment of the participation fee (The link URL is sent after the registration.)
3. The program page, the online exhibition page, and ZOOM URL are available.
4. Pre-preparation (ZOOM)(It is necessary for you to participate in a rehearsal if you are not a chair.)
5. Participation at the Conference on the day

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NOTE

*The following is the same as what has been sent to the presenters.

＊Oral presenters (oral sessions / organized sessions)

Your presentation should be 20 minutes. When utilizing ZOOM, you are required to share your presentation with other participants (e.g. microsoft powerpoint). We do not provide proofreading services, therefore, you need to edit your paper by yourself.

＊Poster presenters (poster sessions)

Please send the following two materials directly to the Spring Conference Executive Committee.

(i) Abstract

One A4 page Please use the template (MS-Word) of Organized Session and Roundtable, which is available on the conference website. (No problem even if the content is the same as one of the applications).

(ii) 10 minutes narrated video

Please turn your PowerPoint presentation to a video.

• Format: MP4 　
• Duration: not more than 10 minutes (about 10 slides)

＊Registration and Payment of the participation fee

The participation fee is JPY 3,000, which can be paid only with a credit card. Paper receipts issued by the Secretariat are not available because the Conference is held online. Please refer to statements or the receipts issued when you make a payment online. Chairs, and commentators have to register and make the payments by 23:59, Mon. May 16th, 2022. Other participants have to register and make the payments by 18:00, Fri. June 17th, 2022. Once you make the payment, the contents of the spring conference website will be available. That is why you cannot get a refund after you make the payment.

＊Program pages of the Conference website

The program pages include the final version of the conference program, proceedings, poster presentations, and ZOOM URL etc. After you register and make a payment of the participation fee, the links and the passwords are sent. Please make sure that the password is kept at hand. The final version of the conference program and the proceedings will be uploaded in mid/late May. ZOOM URL, ID, and password will be uploaded in the middle of early/mid June.

＊Online exhibition pages

The online exhibition pages will be provided. Some publishers open their website, where participants can purchase books at special discount prices. You can confirm order forms, contacts, and books. The online exhibition pages will be available in the middle of June. (Delivery services are available only in Japan.)

＊Video recording of sessions

All sessions will be recorded since there might be some possibilities that the network connection has some problems. After the conference, the movies will be provided on the conference website for a certain period (about two weeks are assumed after the movies are available online).

Those who can turn on their video are chairs, commentators, and presenters. Other participants cannot turn on their video. Please confirm portrait rights, copyrights, personal information protection on the registration form.

＊Time allocation of sessions

All the sessions have one chairperson, two commentators, and two to four presenters in principle. The sessions are limited to 120 minutes. A single presenter has 20 minutes for her presentation, the comment 5 minutes, the presenter 3 minutes, and the remaining time for discussion. Chairpersons / facilitators are expected to formulate Q&A.

＊Plenary session

The special session will be held in the afternoon on June 18th , 2022. The theme of the plenary session is “Do you know, we have already been doing SDGs.” In the plenary session, we invite the resident doers struggling to achieve the rebirth of Tagawa. Discussing together in a blunt and frank way, it would enable us to envisage development and global cooperation for the next generation.

All the sessions are held online.

For details, please see the conference website (https://www.jasidconference.org/). We look forward to your participation.  

• Contact: jasid2022spring [at] gmail.com (replace [at] with @)

The 23rd JASID Spring Conference Executive Committee
Mayuko SANO (Executive Committee Chairperson, Professor, Fukuoka Prefectural University)
Yutaka HAYASHI (Secretariat, Associate Professor, Fukuoka University)

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