Seminar on “How to Use AsiaBarometer,” which is one of the activities of “Frontier of Comparative Studies of Asian Societies” financially supported by the JSPS Asia-Africa Scientific Platform Program, was hel on 11th and 12th of July, 2011.

This is the second round of the seminar, following the patterns of last year’s. All the participants, 2 from South Korea, 4 from China, 3 from Taiwan, attended whole the seminar. They listened to Prof. Sonoda’s lecture on the brief history of AsiaBarometer and its contents of the research as well as Prof. Zong-rong Lee’s speech on his experience of using AsiaBarometer dataset in the last round. After that, they presented their tentative ideas of their research topics and exchanged ideas among them.

It is expected that they will present a paper at the time of next joint workshop hosted by Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, in this coming December.

Commemorative Picture of 2011 at IASA