Que Anh Dang will present at CIES Conference in Vancouver 8 March 2016

UNIKE PhD fellow Que Anh Dang, University of Bristol and UNIKE Associate Partner, Professor Takao Kamibeppu, Fukuyama City University, Japan will be presenting their research papers on 8 March 2016 at the CIES Conference in Vancouver.

UNIKE PhD fellow Que Anh Dang, University of Bristol and UNIKE Associate Partner, Professor Takao Kamibeppu, Fukuyama City University, Japan will be presenting their research papers on 8 March 2016 at the CIES Conference in Vancouver. The panel entitled "Global influences and regional/national/local responses in higher education: The cases of ASEM, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan" consists of four presentations.

In her paper "Shaping an ASEM Higher Education Area: Hybrid Sectoral Regionalism from Within", Que Anh draws on the concepts of ‘emergence’ and ‘emergent properties’ from critical realism to theorise the construction of regions. She argues that a region itself is an emergent entity whose existence depends on its constituent parts and the relations between them, but obtains their own power and properties. She explores the relationships between ‘regionalism’ and the ‘higher education sector’, in turn offering a new conceptual understanding of the ‘hybrid regional sectoral space’ between Asia and Europe. Takao's paper discusses three sources of influence (Europe, ASEAN, and the United States) which impacted the internationalisation of higher education in Japan, and demonstrates how and why Japan adopted, translated, modified, and ignored such foreign influences in order to maintain the essence of national local traditions.