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Past Symposiums
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「占領者のまなざしー占領・風景・身体ー」
〜過去と現在、日本と沖縄、自分史と歴史を結びつける回路を拓くために〜
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Honkan (University Hall) 262 13:00-19:00
Simultaneous Translation
(同時通訳有り)
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「戦後」をノスタルジックに語る言説が巷にあふれている。現在と切り離して戦後を語るその身振りには、今なお軍事占領が続いている沖縄、「米軍再編」の名の下に進められる日米軍事同盟の強化、そしてその結果として横行する暴力に対する想像力が欠けている。
戦後(=占領時代)を他者のまなざしを通して捉え返すこと。言い換えると、占領の時空間を占領者の視点、さらには占領者と被占領者の視線との交錯において考えてみることで、何が見えてくるのだろうか。このシンポジウムでは、〈占領〉をキーワードに、過去と現在、日本と沖縄、自分史と歴史を結びつけて思索するための方途が、発表者それぞれの言葉によって提示される
Ikuko Hanashiro(花城郁子)
13:20-
Artist
白い地域、コザ騒動―抵抗と笑い
Taro Ogo(大胡太郎) 13:50-
University of the Ryukyus
黒人街・照屋―もうひとつの「有色人種抄」
Satoshi Gabe(我部聖) 14:20-
The University of Tokyo
暴力・身体・記憶―池澤聡「ガード」論
James W. Tollefson (ジェイムズ・トレフソン) 14:50-
International Christian University
“Representing” the enemy: How
American war resisters view their opponents
***BREAK*** (20 min.)
Izumi Sato(佐藤泉) 15:40-
Aoyama Gakuin University
第一次米軍再編を振り返る
Asako Masubuchi(増渕あさこ) 16:10-
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
『八月十五夜の茶屋』へ/からのまなざし
Isao Nakazato(仲里効) 16:40-
Editor of magazine "EDGE"
二つの戦後、二つの戦場
***BREAK***
全体討議 (司会:田仲康博 国際基督教大学教員)17:40-
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India is Coming to Mitaka
Japan-India Friendship Year Activities
Saturday June 2, 2007
Deffendorfer Memorial Hall, International Christian
University
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To commemorate the Japan-India Friendship Year, 2007, the fiftieth year
since the governments of Japan and India concluded the cultural treaty,
the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies at ICU will hold two open
lecture series beginning from April 13 and an International Symposium
on Saturday, June 2,“The Significance of Cultural Exchange between
Japan and India: What is Prosperity in the Global Age?”, subsidized by
the Japan Foundation and supported by the Embassy of India and Mitaka
City. Recent political and economic relations between Japan and India
have become much closer than before, but India is still a rather
unknown country to the general Japanese public. We have invited many
outside speakers, including the Ambassador of India, to introduce the
many facets of India in open lectures.
Japan has a long history of learning from India. For
example, India has given deep cultural influences to Japan through
Buddhism. India today has rich diversity and their present day problems
are very complex, still India has for centuries been the bearer of
ancient wisdom. We hope through the Open Lectures, students and
citizens will be invited to learn more from India.
These Open Lecture Series utilize several courses at ICU
during the Spring Term. The Symposium will have researchers present the
thought of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, the two great
thinkers of Modern India. And in order to realize the significance of
their message to the world today we have invited Sunderlal and Vimla
Bahuguna, who are leading Gandhian social activists in India today.
Together with students and local residents we seek to understand the
message of India to Japan today, the meaning shared through people to
people encounters.
The Bahugunas, who will be speaking at the open lecture
and at the symposium, have devoted their lives to social reform
activities to uplift the people who are most downtrodden and poor to
realize their swaraj (search for the meaning), the essence of Mahatma
Gandhi’s thought. In the course of their lives, to stop the serious
destruction of the natural environment in the Himalayan area of India
became their crucial and urgent tasks. We need to listen to their
message from the most down-to-earth movements so that we may see the
serious effects of the globalization process in the world today. We
hope that the symposium will be where the cultural exchange will be
practiced where we learn from each other and think together what is
truly prosperity in the world today. We hope to have active
participation from students and local residents for this project.
For details of the project: I.
Open Lecture Series Theme 1“Japan-India Relationship in the Changing
Asia” Will be held in the General Education Course “Invitation to Asian
Studies (Profs. Yamaguchi, Hongo and Yasuhiro Tanaka), http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/20071/HTML/CP061_0060.html
1.Open Lecture Series
Theme 1
Japan-India Relationship in the Changing Asia
May 2
(Administration Building 206, 11:30 – 12:40)
Opening Speech:
“India and Japan in the 21st Century”
H.E. Mr. Hemant Krishan Singh (Ambassador of India)
(in English, simultaneous interpretation)
May 7 (Honkan 170,
11:30 – 12:40)
“An Invitation to the Japan-India Friendship Year”
Mr. Eijiro Noda (Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Japan Year in India 2007)
May 9 (Honkan 170, 11:30 – 12:40)
“Thinking of Gandhism”
Dr. Ayako Uno (Part-time Lecturer, ICU, IACS Research
Fellow)
May 11 (Honkan 170 11:30 – 12:40)
“Prospects for Japan-India Economic Relationship”
Prof. Masanori Kondo (Senior Associate Professor, Division of
International Studies, ICU)
Theme 2
Diversity and Unity in the Indian Society
Will be held in the following
courses. History of Asia (South Asia) 2 (Dr. Ayako Uno)
(4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/11)
http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/20071/HTML/SSHI132_0224.html
Advanced Studies in Music I (Prof. Tatsuhiko Ito)
(4/27)
http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/20071/HTML/HMU300_0121.html
Gender and Social Structure
(Prof. Kazuko Tanaka)
(5/10)
http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/20071/HTML/IDW261_0712.html
Introduction to International
Politics (Prof. Temario Rivera)
(5/17)
http://w3.icu.ac.jp/class/20071/HTML/IIR100_0714.html
April 13 (Honkan 351,
17:30 - 19:00)
“Past, Present and Future of Japan-India Cultural Exchange”
Prof. Koichi Niitsu (Emeritus Professor, ICU)
April 20
(Honkan 351, 15:10 - 16:50)
“Gandhism and Environmental Movements: Mrs. And Mr. Bahugunas’s Quest
for Swaraj”
Mr. Shinya Ishizaka (IACS Research Associate, Ryukoku University
Afrasia Centre for Peace and Development Studies Research Assistant)
April 27
Part 1: “Introduction to Indian Music”(Honkan 402, 13:50 - 15:00),
Part 2: “Musico-Linguistic Culture of India and Japan”(Honkan 351,
15:10 - 16:50)
Mr. T.M. Hoffman (in English & Japanese)
(Graduate of ICU and Bhatkhande Music Coleage of India, Director of the
Indo-Japanese Music Exchange Association, Performer of Tenjiku
Shakuhachi, Lecturer of Keio University)
May 10 (Honkan
316, 10:45 - 12:30)
“Comparisons of Women’s Issues in India and Japan”
Ms. Kamayani Singh (in English)
(Freelance Journalist, NHK Overseas Broadcasting in charge of India)
May 11 (Honkan
351, 15:10 - 16:50)
“Indian Songs and Culture: Tagore Songs”
Ms. Yuka Okuda (Graduate of Visva-Bharati University, Tagore Song
Specialist)
May 17 (Honkan 260,
13:15 - 15:00)
“Justice Radhabinod Pal and the Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Retrospective
of His Historic Dissent”
Dr. Vivek Pinto (in English)
(IACS Research Fellow, Correspondent of Economic and Political Weekly)
May 31 (Honkan 205, 10:45 - 12:30)
“Environmental Preservation Activities Affected by Globalization: The
Chipko Movement and the Anti-Tehri Dam Construction Movement in the
Himalayan Areas in India” Mr. Sunderlal and Vimla Bahuguna (in English)
(Gandhism Social Activists)
2. Symposium:
The Significance of
Cultural Exchange between Japan and India:
What is Prosperity in the Global Age?
Saturday June 2, 2007
Opening Remarks: Prof. Kenneth R.
Robinson (Director, IACS) Morning Session (9:30 – 12:30): Social
Thought of Gandhi and Tagore Chair: Prof. Minoru Kasai (Emeritus
Professor, ICU) “Gandhi’s View of Tagore” Dr. Ayako Uno (Part-time
Lecturer, ICU, IACS Research Fellow)
“Tagore’s View on
Gandhi: Their Visions of Truth”
Dr. Hikotaro Furuta (Lecturer, Department of Japanese, Visva-Bharati
University)
“Rabindranath
Tagore and Okakura Kakuzo”
Ms. Yoshiko Okamoto (IACS Research Associate)
“Rabindranath Tagore
and Japan: A Poet’s Vision”
Dr. Vivek Pinto (in English) (IACS Research Fellow, Correspondent of
Economic and Political Weekly)
Afternoon
Session (13:30 – 16:30):
“What is Prosperity in the Global Age?” (headsets are limited to 20
participants) Chair: Prof. Koichi Niitsu “An Introduction to Gandhian
Social Movements in India Today” Mr. Shinya Ishizaka (IACS Research
Associate, Ryukoku University Afrasia Centre for Peace and Development
Studies Research Assistant)
“The Chipko Movement
and the Anti-Tehri Dam Construction Movement in the Himalayan areas in
India”
Mr. Sunderlal and Vimla Bahuguna (Gandhism
Social Activists)
“Gandhian
Spirit in Business”
Prof. Yoshikazu Hongo (Associate Professor, Division of International
Studies)
“Swaraj (the Search for the Meaning) as the Converging Point of
Cultures in India and Japan: Mahatma Gandhi, Shozo Tanaka and Michiko Ishimure”
Prof. Minoru Kasai (Emeritus Professor, ICU)
Reception: Alumni
House, 17:00 - 19:00
For more details of the project
please see the HP of ICU Institute of Asian Cultural Studies homepage: http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/iacs/
For related ICU student activities:
http://japanindiaproject2007.web.fc2.com/ and ICU UNESCO Club http://icunesco.web.fc2.com/
For the related Japan-India cultural exchange program in Mitaka, Study
Tour Group of Mitaka Society for International Hospitality (MISHOPSTG):
MISHOPSTG
http://studytour0.exblog.jp/
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Parody in Japanese
Culture
November 12,
2005 (Saturday)
10:00 - 17:30
1F Lounge, ICU Hachiro Yuasa
Memorial Museum |
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Chair: Hirose Masayoshi
Lecture 1: Tzvetana Kristeva 10:00 - 10:40
Lecture 2: Komine Kazuaki 10:45 - 11:25
Lecture 3: Iwasaki Hitoshi 11:30 - 12:10
Discussion 12:15 - 13:00
Lecture 4: Kojima Yasunori 14:00 - 14:40
Lecture 5: John Mertz 14:45 - 15:25
Lecture 6: Koto Tomoko 15:30 - 16:10
General Discussion 16:30 - 17:30
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Militant Islam in Southeast
Asia:
Contested Visions of Justice and Community
Feb 19, 2005
Diffendorfer Memorial Hall, ICU
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This international
symposium seeks to address the roots, transformation and
current practices of militant Islam in Southeast Asia and
its important implications for contested visions of local,
regional and global conceptions of justice, peace and
community. Since the world’s largest Muslim populations are
in Asia with Indonesia as the biggest Muslim state,
developments and changes in Islamic discourses and practices
in this strategic region are bound to have a significant
impact on both the Islamic and non-Islamic world. Whether
armed or unarmed, militant Islam has many faces. In
countries such as the Philippines and Thailand where the
minority Muslim populations have preserved their distinct
cultural identities and continue to suffer from political
and economic neglect,
this militancy has historically found expression in armed
secessionist movements. In countries such as Indonesia and
Malaysia with majority Muslim populations and traditions of
moderate Islamic practices, militancy has oftentimes been
expressed in a tougher assertion of Islamic primacy in
shaping the country’s political and social life and its
various institutions. Since we now live in an increasingly
interconnected world, we need to understand what is arguably
the most compelling development in the Islamic world today,
the rise of Islamic militancy.
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Modernity Made Visual
From the Late 19th Century to the Mid-20th Century
December 6, 2003
Diffendorfer Memorial Hall West Wing, ICU
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Modern Japanese Art in the
Yi Household Art Museum
Visual Images as Ruling Strategy
Lee Sungsi (Professor, Waseda University, Korean History)
Visualizing the Nation
The Far East in the Conciousness of Russians
Yulia Mikhailova (Professor, Hiroshima City University,
Japanese History)
War Art in Modern Japan
Vocabulary, Usage and Context
Kawata Akihisa (Lecturer, Waseda University, Art History)
The Dilimma of Bodily Beauty
Body and Race Visualized among Elites in Meiji and Taisho
Period Japan
Majima Ayu (Ph.D.Candidate, ICU, Japanese History)
Discussion
Chair: Kenneth R. Robinson (Associate Professor, ICU,
Director of IACS, History)
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Asian
Views of the Cosmos
Saturday, December 21, 2002
Diffendorfer Memorial Hall West Wing, ICU
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Universe Generated and Universe
Created: A Comparison of Cosmology in East and West
Murakami Yoichiro(Professor, ICU, History and Philosophy of
Science)
Astronomy and Cosmology of India
Yano Michio (Professor, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kyoto
Sangyo University, Indology and History of Science)
Cosmology of Mandala
Maeda Josaku (Director of Musashino Art University, Art)
Moving Mandala (Japanese Folk Dances): Kurokawa Sansa Odori and
Hayachine Kagura
Kondo Yoko (Lecturer, ICU, Member of IACS, Physical Education)
Discussions
Chairperson: Koto Tomoko (Professor, ICU, Director of IACS,
Chinese Language, Intellectual History of East Asia)
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Shaping Spaces of Interaction in Maritime East Asia
Saturday, February 23, 2002
Diffendorfer Memorial Hall, ICU
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Greeting from the Director,
IACS
Kotoh Tomoko, ICU
A Korean Map of Japan
Kenneth R. Robinson, ICU
'Where the Sun Rises' as Inscribed in Wood: Lumber in Japan-Song
China Interactions
Fujita Akiyoshi, Tenri University
Erhu and Koto Performance and Explanation
Cheng Nonghua, Oda Yasuko
Ryukyu between Japan and Qing China:
The Handling of Castaways' Ships and Cargo in Early Modern
Ryukyu
Watanabe Miki, University of Tokyo/ Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science Special Researcher
'Peace' in Ezo: Japanese in Ainu Society in the Seventeenth
Century
Namikawa Kenji, Tsukuba University
Discussion Discussants:
M. William Steele, ICU, and Kojima Yasunori, ICU
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Feeling "Asian" Modernities
International Workshop on TV Drama Consumption in East/Southeast
Asia
November 23 - 25, 2001
ICU Administration Bld. 206
Organized by Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International
Christian University
Supported by
The Japan Foundation, Asia Center
Japan International Christian University Foundation, New York
International Academic Exchange Endowment
Institute of Asian Cultural Studies of International Christian
University (ICU) is organizing a three-day international
workshop on youth TV drama consumption in East and South East
Asia from 23 to 25 November 2001 in Tokyo. The key concern of
the workshop is to explore how (dis)similar Asian modernities
and identities (such as gender issues, romance, consumerism,
sexuality, urbanization, nationalism, transnationalism etc) are
constituted and inter-Asian transnational cultural
resonance/asymmetry is articulated under globalizing forces. We
are interested in examining how Japanese TV dramas are watched
in Asian countries but we'd also like to deal with other
transnational TV flows (other Asian and/or American, Mexican,
Brazilian dramas) and the consumption of local TV dramas in
Asia, particularly where Japanese dramas are not quite well
received. We aim to publish the collection of papers presented
at the workshop as an edited volume in English but also to
translate into other Asian languages.
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Main questions to
be explored (not exclusive):
*What kinds of images and sense of intimacy and distance is
perceived through the reception of Japanese and other Asian TV
dramas; cultivating some kinds of transnational imagination and
self-reflexive views towards one's own culture and society? How
about the case of American drama viewing?
*The (re)articulation and reproduction of cultural hierarchy,
asymmetry and connection, both nationally and transnationally,
through TV drama flows and consumption. How are gender, class,
and ethnicity associated with this process?
*Cultural significance of TV drama watching for young people in
East and Southeast Asia
*How, under globalizing forces, various issues and themes of
cultural modernities (such as love romance, gender and work,
urbanization, ethnicity and nationalism etc) are articulated in
both similar and dissimilar ways through the reception and
representation of TV drama?
*What kinds of modernities are emerging and formulated in East
and Southeast Asia. Is there anything emerging which we can call
transnational modernity?
(Issues related to Japanese TV dramas)
*How Japanese TV dramas are exported, programmed and consumed in
East and Southeast Asian countries (in comparison with local,
other Asian and American dramas).
*What is the nature of Japanese cultural power and influence in
Asia? How it is similar and different to 'Americanization' and
other Asian cultural sub-centers
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Nov. 23 (Fri)
Textuality of Japanese TV drama
Welcome from Prof. Koto (Director of IACS)
Discussant: Saeko Ishita (Osaka City University)
1. Mamoru Ito (Waseda University)
"The Presentation of the Feminine in Japanese Television Dramas
of the 1990s"
2. Eva Tsai (The University of Iowa)
"Toward Love for Sale: Mapping the Language of Renユai dorama
(Love Story)"
Japanese TV dramas in East Asia
Discussant: Koichi Iwabuchi (International Christian University)
1. Lisa Leung Yuk Ming (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
"Ganbaru and its transcultural audience: Imaginary and Reality
in Japanese TV Dramas"
2. Yu-Fen Ko (National Chengchi University)
"The Desired Form: Japanese Television Melodrama in Taiwan"
3. Cheng Shiowjiuan (University of Tokyo)
"The Formation of Discursive Space in Japanese Dramas in Taiwan"
4. Ming-Tsung Lee (University of Cambridge) (in absentia)
"Traveling with Japanese TV Dramas: Cross-cultural Practice and
Formation/Transformation of Taiwanese Youth Identities"
Japanese Popular Culture in Southeast Asia
Discussant: Chua Beng-Huat (National University of Singapore)
1. Chua Geok Lian (National University of Singapore)
"Watching Japanese Television Dramas: Relevance, Cultural
Proximity and Asian Modernity"
2. Ubonrat Siriyuvasak (Chuklongkorn University, Thailand)
"Popular Culture and Youth Consumption in Thailand"
3. Wang Lay Kim and Zaharom Nain (Science University of
Malaysia)
"Interpreting Asian Values: Malaysian Television, Japanese
Dramas, and Audiences"
Special Speech
Mr. Toru Ota (The Supervising Director of Dream Maker, Fuji TV.
Producer of many popular TV dramas such as Tokyo Love Story, 101
Proposals and All Under One Roof , etc)
"Why Japanese TV Dramas Attracts Young Viewers in Asia"
Nov. 24 (Sat)
East Asian Dis/similarities
Discussant: Lisa Leung (Lingnan University)
1. Dong-Hoo Lee (Incheon University, South Korea)
"The Cultural Formatin of Korean Trendy Drama: Transnational
Program Adaptations and Cultural Identity"
2. Shen Li & Yang Jing (Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group)
"Low Rating, Hot Topic: Japanese and KoreanTV Dramas Consumption
in Shanghai"
3. Sae-Kyung Yoo and Kyung-Sook Lee (Ewha Womanユs University,
South Korea)
"A Comparative Study on the Cultural Similarity of the
Television Dramas in East-Asian Countries: Wish upon a Star of
Korea, Love Talks of Hong Kong, & Love and Sorrow of China"
VCD: Transnational Cultural Technology
Discussant: Eric Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
1. Hsing-chi Hu, (Chang Jung Christian University, Taiwan)
"Japanese VCDs: Chinese Re-makings of Japanese Audio-Visual
Products"
2. Darrell Wm. Davis (University of New SouthWales, Australia)
and Yeh Yueh-yu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
"Flexible Accumulation, Flexible Consumption: VCD and Class
Consciousness in Asia-Pacific"
Transnational and Cross-cultural Mediation
Discussant: Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney)
1. Jung Sun Park (California State University, Dominguez Hills)
"Korean Americans' Consumption of Korean and Japanese TV Dramas
and Its Implications"
2. Ma Luisa T. Reyes and Gary C. Devilles (Ateneo de Manila
University)
"Glocalizing Telenovelas in Manila"
3. Amrih Widodo (Australian National University)
"Mediating Family, Romance, and Violence: Cross-cultural
Performance, Mediatization and Identity Politics in Indonesian
TV Drama"
Japan's Encounters with 'Asia'
Discussant: Shin Mizukoshi (University of Tokyo)
1. Hilaria Goessmann (Trier University, Germany)
"The Relationship of Japanese and Other Asians in Popular
Japanese TV Dramas"
2. Yoshitaka Mori (Kyushu University)
"Who is 'Fighting' with Whom? Reading 'Fighting Girl'"
Nov. 25 (Sun)
Women in Drama, Drama in Women's Lives
Discussant: Kazue Sakamoto (Ochanomizu Women's University)
1. Lisa Drummond (York University, Canada)
"Producing Modern Feminities: Portrayals of Vietnamese Womanhood
in Local Television Dramas"
2. Masako Asahara (University of Oregon)
"Reconsidering Gendered Nationalism: The Single Mother in the
Home Drama of the '90s"
3. Hoonsoon Kim and Dong-Sook Park (Ewha Womanユs University)
"The Disparity of Women's lives between the Real World and the
Symbolic World of TV Drama: Women Viewers' Perception and
Evaluation"
Lunch Time Forum: Toward Collaborative Projects
Kim Hyun Mee (Yonsei University, South Korea)
Lisa Leung (Lingnan University)
Transbordering 'Chineseness'
Discussant: Stephen Ching-Kiu Chan (Lingnan University)
1. Eric Ma (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Transborder Desire: Fantasizing, Learning and Apprehending a
Higher Modernity"
2. Anthony Fung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Border-crossing Televisual Viewing: New Imaginative Categories
of Chinese Immigrants in Hong Kong"
3. Jing Zheng (Institute of Sociology in Chinese Academcy of
Social Sciences)
"Presentation of Nationalism in the Globalizing China"
Concluding Session
Moderator: Koichi Iwabuchi
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Grassroots Activism and the Environment in Asia
Date: November 11 (Sat.), 2000
Place: ICU Administration Bld. 206 |
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At the outset
of the twenty-first century we are forced to recognize that Asia
(as is much of the world) is confronted by war, by poverty, by
social injustice, and by environmental degradation. What went
wrong? What can be done? What is being done? This symposium
seeks to highlight the role grassroots movements in Asia play in
working towards peace, justice, human dignity, and respect for
the natural environment.
The process of modernization and especially the development of modern
industry has caused significant disruption of the natural
environment in Asia; it has also been the cause of much social
and political unrest. In some cases the influence has been
creative; in most cases, however, the disruption has meant the
loss of forms of biological and cultural diversity and the
disappearance of traditional patterns of human life. While
governments and large corporations have often allied themselves
with the forces of destruction, people in local areas, usually
in conjunction with various non-governmental organizations, have
assumed the lead in struggles everywhere in Asia to protect the
environment and attempts to slow down the pace of change. This
symposium examines several examples of grassroots activism in
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Greetings from the Director
M. William Steele
Environmental Problems in the Philippines and NGO
Interventions
Germelino Bautista
Local Responses to Agent Orange in Vietnam
Shaun Malarney
Cambodia and the Problem of Pesticides
Tasaka Koa
Thai Village Industries Using Natural Dyes for Textile
Production
Thanit Boodphetcharat
Japanese ODA and the Environment: Government and Peoples
Response in a Philippine Coal Power Plant??
Temario Rivera
Environmental Destruction and Birds in Japan
Mika Mervio
Minamata Disease and Victims' Movements (in Japanese)
Harada Masazumi
The Long Protest for the Long River:
The Protest Movement Against the Construction of the Estuary Dam
in the Nagara River
Wilhelm Vosse
Returning to a Healthy Environment - Towards a Society
without Dioxins (in Japanese)
Ishizawa Harumi
The Presenters:
Germelino Bautista
Professor of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University; Director,
Institute of Philippine Culture; research fields include
Philippine economic and environmental history.
Shaun Malarney
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, ICU, and member of the
Institute of Asian Cultural Studies. Specialist on contemporary
Vietnamese studies.
Tasaka Koa
Professor of Chemistry, ICU, and member of the Institute of
Asian Cultural Studies. Research interests include environmental
pollution in Asia.
Thanit Boodphetcharat
Head of Research and Evaluation Division, Payap Research and
Development Institute, Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Temario C. Rivera
Visiting Professor of Political Economy of Late Industialization,
ICU, and member of the Institute of Asian Cultural Studies;
?Professor of Political Science, University of the Philippines
Mika Mervio
Professor of Political Science, The University of Shimane.
Active in peace studies research, especially relating to
environmental problems.
Harada Masazumi
Professor of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto Gakuen University and
one of the first scholars to draw attention to the Minamata
Disease. He is active in many NGOs working on behalf of a clean
and healthy natural environment.
Wilhelm Vosse
Assistant Professor of Political Science, ICU, and member of the
Institute of Asian Cultural Studies. Specialist in Peace Studies
and citizen protest movements.
Ishizawa Harumi
Political activist and member of several NGOs such as the Stop
Dioxin Movement and the Water Environment Study Group.
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Medieval Towns and the Power of Religious
Institutions in Europe and Japan
Date: June 10, 2000
Place: ICU
Sponsored by:
Study Group of Comparative Urban History
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Opening Address M.
William Steele (Director of IACS, ICU)
1. Knut Schulz (Freie Universitat Berlin)
"Zisterzienser und Stadt von der zweiten Halfte des 12. bis zum
Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts"
Interpreter: Uozumi Masayoshi
2. Kamijo Toshiko (Hitotsubashi University)
"Women in European Medieval Towns and Religious Institutions"
3. Yoshie Akio (University of Tokyo)
"Towns and the Power of Religious Institutions in Medieval
Japan"
Commentator: Ogura Kinichi (Waseda University)
Discussion
Chair: Uozumi Masayoshi (ICU)
Interpreter: Sakuma Hironobu (Showa Womens University)
Closing Address Ugawa Kaoru (Study Group of Comparative Urban
History)
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Understanding South Asia and Southeast Asia Today
- Radical Ethical Individualism and Grassroots Movement
Date: Nov 6, 1999
Place: ICU |
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Greetings from the
Director ..........M.W.Steele
Introduction to the Symposium ..........Kasai, Minoru
Keynote Address: Beyond the Weary World ..........B.N.Saraswati
India I: Humanity as a Family-- Mahatma Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar
Khan (the Frontier Gandhi)
Uno Tokuda, Ayako
India II: Sarvodaya Movement after the Death of Gandhi-
the Historical Meaning of the "Total Revolution" Movement led by
J.P.Narayan-
Hayashi, Akira
India III: From No-people to People: Glimpses of the Dalit
Movement in India
B. Suneel Bhanu
Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi's Discourse and Behaviour: The Right
Ends and the Right Means
Nemoto, Kei
Sri Lanka: Buddhist Beliefs, Government Schemes and Grassroot
Collaboration in a Sri Lankan Village
Omori, Motoyoshi
Viet Nam: Immoral Present, Moral Future: Morality and Motivation
in 20th Century Vietnamese Political Movements S.K.Malarney
Thailand: The Activation of Grassroots Movements in Thailand:
The Case of Assembly of the Poor
Suthy Prasartset
--- Speakers ---
B.N.Saraswati, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New
Delhi, India, Anthropology
M.W.Steele, ICU, History of Japan
Kasai, Minoru, ICU, Intellectual History of India
Hayashi, Akira, Hirosaki Univ, History of South Asia
B.Suneel Bhanu, ICU GSCC, History
Uno Tokuda, Ayako, ICU IACS, Intellectual History of India
Nemoto, Kei, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, History of
Burma
Omori, Motoyoshi, ICU, Anthropology
S.K.Malarney, ICU, Anthropology
Suthy Prasartset, ICU, International Political Economy
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Asia
in Transition
Date: Oct 24, 1998
Place: ICU
in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Institute of
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Greetings from the
Director
M. William Steele (ICU, History)
"Thailand in Transition"
Pira Sudham (Thailand, novelist)
Comments by Azumi Koya (ICU, Sociology)
"Women in a Changing Asia"
Patricia Licuanan (Philippines, Miriam College)
Comments by Masako Ishii-Kuntz (Universityof California, Tokyo
Study Center, Sociology)
"Religion in the Globalization Era: A Southeast Asian
Perspective"
John Titaley (Indonesia, Satya Wacana Christian University)
Comments by John Maher (ICU, Linguistics)
Special Lecture
"Japan and Asia in Transformation: Creative Dialogue of Plural
Cultural Values"
Cho (Takeda) Kiyoko (Founding Director of IACS, Emeritus
Professor, ICU)
"India-Japan: Reflections on the Ambiguity of Asia"
Brij Tankha (India, University of Delhi)
Comments by Kasai Minoru (ICU, History)
Panel Discussion: Asian Culture in Transition
Chair: M. William Steele
Pira Sudham, Patricia Licuanan, John Titaley, Brij Tankha
Mentality of Popular Rebellion - A Comparison of Europe and East
Asia
"Anabaptists and the German Peasants' War" Werner O. Packull
(Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo, History) "The
German Peasants' War and the Heavenly Kingdom of the Taiping
Rebellion" Kojima Shinji (Tokyo University, History)
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Mentality of Popular
Rebellion - A Comparison of Europe and East Asia
Date: Oct 10, 1998
Place: ICU |
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"Anabaptists and the
German Peasants' War"
Werner O. Packull (Conrad Grebel College, University of
Waterloo, History)
"The German Peasants' War and the Heavenly Kingdom of the
Taiping Rebellion"
Kojima Shinji (Tokyo University, History)
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