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HAGAI Saori

Department / Course Ritsumeikan International

Title / Position Professor

Academic background
1.	～2024/04/30	Doctorial Course │ Nagoya University │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program PhD (Education)
2.	2002/04/01～2008/03/31	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) │ Graduate School of Education and Human Development │ Nagoya University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development │ Accomplished credits for doctoral program
3.	2002/03/25 Degree Acquisition	│ Nagoya University Master of Education
4.	2000/04/01～2002/03/25	Doctoral Program (1st Semester) │ Nagoya University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development │ Completed
5.	2000/03/31 Degree Acquisition	│ Ritsumeikan University Bachelor's degree in International Relations
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Business career
1.	2025/04/01 ～	Professor │ Ritsumeikan International │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2013/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Associate Professor (tenured) │ Ritsumeikan International │ Ritsumeikan University
3.	2010/01/01 ～ 2013/03/31	Associate Professor (contract) │ Ritsumeikan International │ Ritsumeikan University
4.	2009/09/01 ～ 2009/12/31	ResearchAssistant │ Center fo Asia Studies │ Toyo University
5.	2008/04/01 ～ 2010/03/31	│ │ Nanzan University

Committee and society
1.	2019/04 ～ 2021/03	Ritsumeikan International, Ritsumeikan University Director of Division of International Affairs
2.	2018/04	International Education Research Forum secretary
3.	2018/04	Southeast Asia Education Research Forum secretary
4.	2018/04	Ritsumeikan University DUDP coordinator
5.	2018/04 ～ 2021/03/31	Ritsumeikan University UBC-AIP coordinator
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Research activities
1.		The Japan Society For International Development
2.		The Society for Research in Asiatic Music (Tôyô Ongaku Gakkai, TOG)
3.		Japan Comparative Education Society
4.		Japanese Society of Dance Research

Subject of research
1.	Dance and Education in Cambodia
2.	Who are the caretakers of tradition in Khmer Classical Dance? : Transgression, Gender and Cambodia’s first gay dance company
3.	ASEAN Integration and Citizenship Education in Cambodia
4.	Reorganization of National History in Post-conflict Cambodia
5.	Ideologies inside Textbooks: Vietnamization and Re-Khmerization of Political Education in Cambodia during 1980s

Research summary
Who are the stewards of tradition in Khmer classical dance? Gender, transgression and Cambodia’s first gay dance company My latest research explores the boundaries of Khmer classical dance in the context of gender consciousness and the growing disposition toward social forms of transgression in Cambodia. Conventionally, classical dance in Cambodia is known as royal court dance and, as such, is often described as a mirror to heaven that reflects society’s noble expressions of beauty, identity and order. Historically, these expressions have been associated with female dancers, grace and femininity. The first of these characteristics has come under scrutiny since at least 2015, when Prumsodun Ok established Cambodia’s first openly gay dance company “Prumsodun Ok & NATYARASA”. Not only does this group’s very existence transgress the boundaries of the dance, but it also raises broader questions about who may serve as legitimate stewards of national art forms, and whether the alternativeness represented by LGBTQ is, in fact, contrary to Khmer tradition or represents an appropriate juncture along the trajectory of gender pluralism.

Present specialized field
Developmental mechanisms and the body works, Area Studies, Art Studies, Anthropology, Gender Studies (Keyword：Cambodia, Area Study, Khmer Classical Dance, Gender and the Cambodia’s first gay classical dance company, Education, Educational Development, Dark Tourism, ASEAN Integration.)

Books
1.	2025/03/31	Chapter 2 Carrying Memory and Tradition: How Displaced Bodies Preserve and Transmit Khmer Cultural HeritagePerforming Arts in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Global Collaborative Research (GCR) Working Paper Series No.3 │ 1 (1),pp.15-45
2.	2023/02/04	Chapter 14 Citizenship Education in Cambodia: National and Regional ASEAN Citizenship Education in Post-Conflict Contexts IN Citizenship Education in the ASEAN Community │ ,pp.67-84
3.	2017/01/01	Chapter 3 Ideologies inside textbooks: Vietnamization and re-khmerization of political education in Cambodia during the 1980s. IN (Re)Constructing Memory : Education, Identity, and Conflict │ ,pp.50-73
4.	2012/06/15	Education in Cambodia │ ,pp.102-103
5.	2009/03/10	Khmer Classical Dance in School System; Role of RUFAC and Teaching "Own Cultre" in Cambodian Education; Approaching from Diversified Aspects. │ ,pp.143-174
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Papers
1.	2023/02/01	Localizing transnational norms in Cambodia: cases of ESD and ASEAN citizenship education │ Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education │ 53 (1)
2.	2021/11/30	Rationalization of Cambodian Court Dance (robam preah reaj trop) under the French colonial École des arts cambodgiens, 1927-1929 │ ,pp.9-21
3.	2021/07/31	Apprenticeship Education in Robam Boran (Cambodian Classical Dance): Comparative study of master-apprentice relations and acquisition of embedded skills in public, private and diaspora dance education │ ,pp.134-155
4.	2021/01/05	Diaspora Influence in the Evolution of Cambodian Classical Dance │ ,pp.315-341
5.	2020/01/31	Exploring the Educational Experiences of Cross-borer Children on the Thai-Cambodian Border │ Bulletin of the Japan Comparative Education Society │ 60,pp.128-147
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/11/23	Cross-Border Learning Opportunities: Pragmatic Decision-Making Thriving in Thai Education from Cambodia
2.	2023/06/18	Diaspora Dance Companies: Guardians of Cambodian Classical Dance, Robam Boran
3.	2022/11/18	The Polished Veneer of Women’s Empowerment in Cambodian Higher Education: Uneven Progress in Overcoming Structural Challenges
4.	2021/09/26	Cambodia-Thailand Cross-Border Education: Poverty, Vulnerability and Childcare Nexus
5.	2021/09/25	The Innovative role of vanguard diaspora in Khmer classical dance
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Other research achievements
1.	2023/05/10 ～ 2023/05/10	Special Seminar “Indigenous Education in Canada: Place and Priorities” Dr. Jan Hare, Dean, Professor Faculty of Education, University of British Colombia, Canada　（Moderator Saori HAGAI (立命館大学衣笠キャンパス)
2.	2019/09/09	Introduction Workshop "Who serves as legitimate stewards of Khmer classical dance?-tradition and Modernity" (targeting both students of Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia and Ritsumeikan University) (Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, Phnom Penh)
3.	2019/07/03 ～ 2019/07/04	Tradition and Social Change in Cambodia-Prumsodun Ok and Khmer classical dance
4.	2019/07/01 ～ 2019/07/01	Special Lecture Forming Cambodia's First Gay Dance Company (Toani Tei, Inamori Foundation Building, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University.)

Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2024/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Consideration on Practices of Contemporary Arts in Southeast Asia: Preliminary Research Focusing on Performing Art Forms │ Research by External Competitive Fund

Achievements of joint.Funded research
1.	2017/04 ～ 2018/03	Lotte Foundation Research Grant Geographic Indicator as an Enhancer Local Agriculture : A Comparative Study in Cambodia and Japan (Lead Researcher Dr.Feuer Hart, Kyoto University)

Teaching achievements

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1.	2015/08 ～ 2015/08	International Network of Universities（INU）, Hiroshima University
2.	2013/08 ～ 2013/08	International Network of Universities（INU）, Hiroshima University
3.	2012/10 ～ 2012/10	The Project on Improvement of Local Administration in Cambodia
4.	2012/08 ～ 2012/08	International Network of Universities（INU）, Hiroshima University

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