Event Announcement (For Members within Keio Only): MUFG Endowed Course "Re-creating 'Trust' for a Sustainable Society" Special Dialogue with Akutagawa Prize-winning Author Keiichiro Hirano (November 25, 2022)
Event Date
Event Venue
November 17, 2022
The MUFG Endowed Course (a course established at the Keio University Global Research Institute, KGRI) will hold a special public dialogue, open exclusively to members of Keio University and its affiliated schools.
Date & Time: Friday, November 25, 2022, 18:10–19:40
Venue: Room 121, First School Building, Mita Campus (Also available via Zoom)
Eligibility: Keio University students, students of affiliated schools, and faculty and staff members
Registration: Please register in advance here .
Contact:
Project 2040: Independence and Self-Respect Office
Email: kgri_2040pj[at]info.keio.ac.jp
Please replace [at] with @ when sending an email.
*If you do not receive an email containing the Zoom link by November 23 after registering, please contact the office listed above. For those attending in person, please come directly to the classroom.
Dialogue Overview:
The special guest is novelist Keiichiro Hirano, whose 2021 book "Honshin" (Bungeishunju) depicts the human heart living in virtual reality in 2040s Japan, centering on the avatar of a deceased mother.
Can the various limitations imposed by our physical bodies and health be overcome by expanding network space? In the society that lies ahead, what will our minds trust and rely on?
His dialogue partner will be Professor Masato Yasui (Keio University School of Medicine), a medical scholar aiming to innovate medicine using virtual twins. Moderated by Professor Tatsuhiko Yamamoto (Keio University Law School and Deputy Director of KGRI), who explores freedom and constraint in an AI society from the perspectives of constitutional and information law, they will discuss Japanese society in 2040.