Speakers

Tadashi NISHIHIRA

Dr. Tadashi NISHIHIRA is Professor and Vice Director in the Institute of Grief Care at Sophia University, and Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University. Research interests have focused upon studies of Human Transformation, Care and Spirituality. Recent interests are in the Japanese traditional insights of those topics. Main publications (in Japanese) include: Philosophy and Psychology of E.H. Erikson (University of Tokyo Press, 1993); Spiritual life-cycle in the work of Jung, Wilber, and Steiner (University of Tokyo Press, 1997); Philosophical investigation into Zeami’s teaching of Exercise and Expertise (University of Tokyo Press, 2009); Dynamism of Mu-shin :No-mind-ness, (Iwanami shoten, 2014); Mysteries of Death and Birth in Childhood, (Misuzu-shobo, 2015); Life-cycle Philosophy: De-familiarizing perspective, (University of Tokyo Press, 2019); Philosophy of Keiko: Exercise and Expertise in Japanese Tradition, (Syun-juu-sha, 2019), Philosophy of Shuyo: Self-cultivation in Japan, (Syun-juu-sha, 2020), Philosophy of Yojo: Health-care and Self-cultivation in Japan, (Syun-juu-sha, 2021). (in English) include: No-Mind’ and ‘No-Body’:Consciousness and the Body from a Japanese Philosophical Perspective, in: Alexandre Legendre & Haruka Okui (eds.), Expériences du corps vivant, (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2021, pp. 11-31), Self-cultivation in Japanese Traditions: Shugyo, Keiko, Yojo, and Shuyo in Dialogue、in: Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation, (ed) Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley and Huajun Zhang, (Springer、2021、pp. 61-78).

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Asa ITO

Professor Asa Ito is Director of the Future of Humanity Research Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Institute of Innovative Research, specializing in aesthetics. After initially intending to become a biologist, she turned her academic focus to the arts while in her third year at university. She obtained her PhD in Literature in 2010, having studied aesthetics, fine arts, and culture at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology. As author, Dr. Ito’s major works include Me no mienai hito wa sekai wo do miteiru no ka (How Do People Without Sight See the World?, Kobunsha), Domoru karada (The Stuttering Body, Igaku-Shoin), Kioku suru karada (The Remembering Body, Shunjusha), and Te no Rinri（Ethics of hands, Kodan-sha). Her work was recognized with the 42nd Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 2020 and 19th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize in FY2022. She is also a Visiting Scholar at MIT (2019).

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Scott Churchill

Scott D. Churchill earned his PhD in clinical phenomenological psychology at Duquesne University in 1984. He is currently professor of psychology at the University of Dallas, having served earlier as department chair and founding director of its master’s programs psychology. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Churchill was elected twice to the APA Council of Representatives and has served as president of two of its Divisions (24 & 32), with 30 years of continuous service on governance committees. He was recently re-appointed as editor of The Humanistic Psychologist, and currently serves on several journal editorial boards and international scientific advisory committees. He is a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP), the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP), and long-standing member of the International Human Science Research Conference (since 1983). Dr. Churchill has presented papers, workshops, and invited addresses at professional conferences around the world (Australia, India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Canada, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and Italy). He has authored numerous articles and book chapters in the fields of phenomenological research methodology, empathy studies, human-bonobo communication, and second-person perspectivity. His most recent publications include “Essentials of Existential Phenomenological Research” (APA books, 2022).

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Vanessa Heaslip

Professor Vanessa Heaslip is a Professor of Nursing and Healthcare Equity at Salford University. Her research interests are in communities who experience health inequity and social exclusion and whose voices are not traditionally heard in the academic and professional discourse.
Professor Heaslip has numerous publications including book contributions, journal articles (professional and peer reviewed), editorials and discussion papers. She has received numerous awards and prizes including; Burdett Trust Hero (2022), International Council of Nursing Global Nurse Leadership Scholar (2021), UK Woman of the Year (2019), Florence Nightingale Travel Scholar (2016) and the BU Postgraduate Research Prize (2015).
You can follow her on Twitter at @HeaslipVanessa

NOTICE:
For personal reasons, our Keynote Speaker, Mr. Jonathan Parker, will not be attending as scheduled. We apologize for this inconvenience. Ms. Vanessa Heaslip will be presenting in his place.