I am delighted to announce that our new volume, Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan, edited by Paola Cavaliere (University of Milan) and Junko Otani (University of Osaka), is now available from Routledge: www.routledge.com/Handbook-of-...

A wonderful day in snowy Bologna, visiting the excellent Graphic Japan exhibition. Truly wonderful—great work, Rossella!

I’m flying out to Rabat tomorrow for the International Sociological Association Forum. I’ll be presenting a paper and chair a session. Very much looking forward to it! Please join us!

On Friday May 9th 2pm-4pm I will be at the 4th National Emergency Congress (www.congressoemergenza.it ) in Rimini to present the result of our WHO EviMaPS,discussing data from Japan, Australia and Italy (mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/centres-inst...). Looking forward to it!

Thank you to my colleagues and attendees who joined our session today at #AAS2025 . I enjoyed the discussion and the friendly but academically rigorous conversation. See you in Toronto’s next year!

Excited to be here today at #AAS2025 in Columbus! I am chairing the session Community Welfare Roles of Religious Organizations in East Asia and Beyond. Join us at 11am in Room A113 Convention Center😉

First day in Ise, just arrived at Kogakkan University on a beautiful sunny day🌞

And yes, I’m back. Not as green as I wished, but nice all the same. The old Expo 70 is always worth a walk. What will the new Expo 2025 look like?

They had a good time yesterday at the Religion and Politics workshop I organised @Handai. I missed it 😕, my plane was delayed, but I could meet Levi and Ioannis for a quick chat afterwards. Thank you all!

Azuchi Screens” Documentary shooting Day 2 @BAV in the wonderful Salone Sistino. The Italian chapter ends here, next is the Japanese one in Azuchi. TBC😉

I have organized a Workshop on “Religion and Politics in Japan” with Prof Levi McLaughlin and Prof Ioannis Gaitanidis. Please join us on Feb 12, 2025 at Osaka University 9:30-12:30

“Azuchi Screens” Documentary shooting Day 1 @ARSI: meeting old manuscripts and old friends

JSPS Alumni event on Dec 11, 14:30-17:00 at the University of Milano-Bicocca. I’ll share my JSPS-sponsored research output. Open to all, please join!

In Milan today at the historical House of Culture to discuss Ahimsa and non violence with some excellent colleagues. Very interesting insights

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In Oct 22 we presented our findings from the EHO EviMaps project on disaster emergency psychosocial support (mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/centres-inst...) at the Social Sciences Conference of the Civil Protection in Rome. A recording is available here www.facebook.com/share/v/HYST... (in Italian)