Program
Imagined Okinawa: Challenges from Time and Space
simultaneous interpretation (Jap./Eng., Eng./Jap.) available for every session
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Sept.14th |
Aula Magna Ca' Dolfin | |
| 9.00-9.30 |
Opening ceremony |
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| 9.30-10.30 |
Opening Lecture |
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| Josef KREINER (Hōsei University) The southwestern Islands in the theory-building of Japanese Ethnology |
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SUMIYA Kazuhiko (Rikkyō University) |
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| 10.30-10.50 | Coffee break | |
| 10.50-12.30 | Panel 1. History and Reality in Okinawa Time and Space | |
| HATERUMA Eikichi (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts) Comparative Expressions in Folk Songs of the Ryūkyū Islands |
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| IYORI Tsutomu (Kyōto University) Reality and Illusion in Ritual Performance in Ryūkyū |
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| ŌSHIRO Manabu (National Theatre Okinawa Management Foundation) Foreign Performing Arts as Seen by Early-Modern Ryukyuans |
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| OGAWA Naoyuki (Kokugakuin University) Visitiations of "Marebito" in Okinawa and Japan |
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| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.20 | Panel 2. Nantō in the Constructions of Japanese identity | |
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HIGA Masao (University of Okinawa)
Questioning the Name "Nantō" |
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WATANABE Yoshio (Tōkyō Metropolitan University)
Rethinking Japanese Ideology as Expressed in the term "Nantō" |
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NAMIHIRA Hachirō (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)
Okinawa as Described in Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki |
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| 15.20-17.00 | Panel 3. Language as a Marker of Okinawan Identity | |
| Hugh CLARKE (The University of Sydney) Language, ritual and identity: the case of Kohamajima |
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| Patrick HEINRICH (Duisburg University) Language endangerment and language attitudes in the Ryūkyū Islands |
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| Alfred F. MAJEWICZ (Adam Mikiewicz University) Ryukyuan – linguistic status, prestige, endangerment, and data availability |
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| Konstantin SARKISOV (Yamanashi Gakuin University) Okinawa and Russia: The Russian Nikolai Nevski's Contribution to Okinawan Studies |
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| 17.00-17.20 | Coffee break | |
| 17.20-19.00 | Panel 4. Okinawan Culture and Society as seen from a Gender Perspective | |
| AKAMINE Masanobu (University of the Ryukyus) Okinawan Religion as Seen from a Gendered Perspective |
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| MATSUI Takeshi (The University of Tōkyō) Environmental Problems and Womenfolk in Okinawa |
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| Davinder BHOWMIK (University of Washington) The Siren song: Destruction in the Island Stories of Sakiyama Tami |
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| Gabriele VOGT (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tōkyō) A Woman's World? Social Movements in Okinawa |
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| Sept. 15th | Aula Magna Ca' Dolfin | |
| 9.00-10.40 | Panel 5. Ryūkyū in Chinese and Japanese Time and Space | |
| Gregory SMITS (The Pennsylvania State University) Discussant |
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| NISHIZATO Kikō (University of the Ryukyus) The Problem of Royal Investiture During the Ming-Qing Transition Period |
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| WATANABE Miki (The University of Tōkyō) The outward appearance of Early-Modern Ryukyuans : Changes Between China and Japan |
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| Marco TINELLO (Hōsei University) Edo Nobori and Envoys from Korea in the Context of Taikun Diplomacy |
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| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.40 | Panel 6. Ryūkyū in the Imagination of Seafarers | |
| TOMIYAMA Kazuyuki (University of the Ryukyus) The Travels of Seafarers in the Vicinity of the Ryūkyū Islands |
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| MAEHIRA Fusaaki (Kobe College) Maritime Perfume Trade: The Case of Ambergris in the Vicinity of the Ryūkyū Islands |
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| FUKASE Koichirō (Waseda University) Ryūkyū as Documented in Painting |
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| MINORI Mihoko (Kansai University) Ryūkyū as a Boundary in Early-Modern Diaries |
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| 12.40-14.10 | Lunch | |
| 14.10-15.50 | Panel 7. Imagined Okinawan Consciousness in Modern Japan: The Various Facets of Assimilation | |
| GABE Masao (Yamanashi Gakuin University) Chairman |
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| Rosa CAROLI (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Between Resistance and Assimilation – The last Ryukyuan King Shō Tai |
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| KATSUKATA-INAFUKU Keiko (Waseda University) Acceptance of "Modernity" Among Okinawa Women: The case of Kushi Fumiko's "Assimilation" |
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| ŌSATO Tomoko (Jiyūgakuen) The social reformist movement and "Gijin Jahana Noboru den" |
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| Alan CHRISTY (University of California, Santa Cruz) Tales of the Islands: Rendering Okinawan Particularity and Japanese Universalism in Japanese Folklore Studies |
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| 15.50-16.10 | Coffee break | |
| 16.10-18.10 | Panel 8. Okinawa through Trade and Material Culture | |
| Patrick BEILLEVAIRE (Ecole des hautes études en sciences socials) Shimazu Nariakira's plans to open trade with foreign countries in Ryūkyū |
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| Donatella FAILLA (Museo d'arte orientale "Edoardo Chiossone") Ryūkyū lacquerware in the Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art, Genoa |
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| Amanda Mayer STINCHECUM Bashōfu: Japan's Mingei Movement and the Construction of a New Okinawa |
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| Nicole ALTMEIER (Tübingen University) From Time to Space: Reconstructions of Shuri Castle in the 1930's and 1990's |
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| YAMAGUCHI Eitetsu (English Institute of Japanese Studies) On Torigoe-Omoro |
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| 18.10-18.40 | Discussion on the further strengthening of international Ryukyuan-Okinawan studies | |
| Sept. 16th | Aula Magna Ca' Dolfin | |
| 9.00-10.40 | Panel 9. War and Peace in Okinawan Space and Time | |
| Michael MOLASKY (University of Minnesota) Discussant |
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| NAKAHODO Masanori (University of the Ryukyus) On "The girl with the white flag" |
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| ISHIHARA Masaie (Okinawa International University) The Imperial Army's Operations Disclosed in WWII in Okinawa |
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| TAIRA Kōji (University of Illinois) Remembering the Past, Fearing the Future |
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| 10.40-11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00-12.40 | Panel 10. Marketing Exotic Okinawa | |
| Gerald FIGAL (Vanderbilt University) Bases as Tourist Sites |
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| Linda Isako ANGST (Lewis & Clark College) Longevity, Leisure, and Longing: Wellness Tourism and Okinawan Identity |
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| KUMADA Susumu (Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts) Exoticism in Modern Okinawan Music |
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| TADA Osamu (Hitotsubashi University) Okinawa Images: Their Generation and Development |
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| 12.40-14.10 | Lunch | |
| 14.10-16.30 | Panel 11. Rethinking Okinawa in the Face of Globalization (round table) |
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| GABE Masaaki (University of the Ryukyus) Discussant |
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| KIYONARI Tadao (Hōsei University) Regional Models of Oceanic Networks and Okinawa |
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| Gavan McCORMACK (Australian National University) Okinawa and the US-Japan Alliance System |
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| SATŌ Manabu (Okinawa International University) Okinawa's autonomy and its future in East Asia: Beyond the nation state |
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| TAKARA Tetsumi (University of the Ryukyus) Globalization and the Problem of Human Rights in Okinawa |
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| 16.30-17.30 | Closing ceremony |
