Date: 28 March 2015 Time: 14

Education is
the most powerful
weapon which you
can use to change the
world.
-Nelson Mandela
Date: 28 March 2015
Time: 14:00 -15:30 (Registration from 13:30)
Venue: United Nations University 5th Floor
(2nd floor for registration)
Prof. Gerry Yokota (Osaka University)
Prof. Yokota is the professor of Contemporary
Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at Osaka University,
where she has been teaching since 1989 with a focus on
gender and peace. An activist in the anti-apartheid
movement in the eighties and nineties, she was a member
of the executive committee that welcomed Mandela to
Japan after his release from prison.