Nichibunken's NIHU Transdisciplinary Projects

9：30

Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Director-General Inoue Shōichi (Nichibunken)

9：35

Thematic Introduction "Borders of Memory – Contesting, Connecting, Overcoming"
Edward Boyle (Nichibunken)

9：45

PLENARY SESSION: Doing Heritage Beyond Borders

9：45

Plenary Lecture David Harvey (Aarhus University)
「History and Heritage Beyond Borders: Reflections on the Processes, Uses and Misuses of
　Heritage-Border Relations」

CHAIR: Edward Boyle (Nichibunken)

11：00

Panel: Insular and Indigenous Heritages

CHAIR: Paul Kreitman, Columbia University

PRESENTERS:

　・Shu-mei Huang, National Taiwan University
　　"Beyond the Postcard Coast: Swimming through Differences and Inter-islands Solidarities
　　in the Pacifics"

　・Ako Tomoko, University of Tokyo
　　"The Multi-layered Structure of Colonialism Revealed through the Reconciliation Process　
　　surrounding the Mudan Incident: Intertwined Historical and Current Positionalities"

　・Roslynn Ang, Lasalle College of Arts, Singapore
　　"Nervous Landscapes:
　　Disrupting Settler-normative spaces through a Trans-Indigenous Dance"

　・Yachita Mio, National Ainu Museum
　　"Performing Indigenous Agency: Yukara-za and the Emergence of a Modern Ainu Theatre"

DISCUSSANTS:
　Yuko Nagasawa (Seoul National University)
　Yayut Yi-Shiuan Chen (National Chengchi University)

12：30

Break

14：00

"Crossing Borders of Memory – Japan, Germany, World"

HeKKSaGOn Session on "Displacement and Detention in History and Historical Memory:
Germany and Japan in Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives"

14：00

Sesson 1: Transnational Histories  

CHAIR: Steven Ivings, Kyoto University

PRESENTERS:

　・Takuma Melber, Heidelberg University
　　"‘Rolling home across the sea’: The ship newspaper ‘Die Heimfahrt’ and the repatriation of
　　German Prisoners of War from Japan in January/February 1920"

　・Marie Grosseschallau, Kyoto University
　　"German Business in Japan during WW1 (1914–1918)"

　・Mahon Murphy, Kyoto University
　　"Extending the Sinews of Empire: Japanese Shipping and the First World War"

　・Fukunaga Koto, The University of Osaka
　　"Addressing the Negative Legacy in the Military Organisations of Post-World War II Germany
　　and Japan: Focusing on Private Sanctions"

DISCUSSANT: Tristan Grunow, Nagoya University

15：30

Break

15：45

Sesson 2: Displaced Memories 

CHAIR: Zhou Yufei, Nichibunken

PRESENTERS:

　・Nishii Marina, Nagoya Institute of Technology
　　"In the Shadow of the A-Bomb: Repatriates in Hiroshima"

　・Ochi Ikuno, Tohoku University
　　"Guides as Memory Mediators: Insights from War Heritage Tourism in Berlin’s
　　Underground Shelters"

　・Daniel Milne, Kyoto University
　　"Absent Enemies: The Divergent Post-War Legacies of German and Japanese Captives of
　　World War Two in Rural Australia"

　・Nakano Haruko, Kyoto University
　　"Multiple Meanings and Memories of the Trabant:
　　Ethnographic Encounters in Contemporary Germany"

　・Jonathan Bull, Hokkaido University
　　"Karafuto repatriates and the transmission of post-memory: an analysis through three films"

DISCUSSANT: Julia Gerster, Tohoku University

17：30

Day 1 Closing
Wrapping and Opening-up: Heritage, History, and Crossing Borders of Memory

17：35

Close for the day

10：00

Sharing what? When? How?

10：00

Keynote Lecture Kono Toshiyuki (Kyushu University)
"Beyond Objects and Sites: Samurai, Serial World Heritage and the Heritage Ecosystem"

CHAIR: Ellen Van Goethem (Kyushu University)

11：10

"Shaped and Snapped: Samurai photography and its legacies"

CHAIR: Chihiro Saka (Nichibunken)

PRESENTERS:

　・Luke Gartlan, St. Andrews University
　　"（TBA）"

　・Chihoko Ando, Nichibunken
　　"Eyes of the Samurai: Photographs Taken by Daimyo and Their Retainers in
　　Nineteenth-Century Japan"

12：00

Break

13：30

Roundtable with authors of Japan Review Special Edition"Global Samurai"

FACILITATORS: Kataoka Mai and Oliver White, Nichibunken

13：30

Introductory Remarks: Director-General Inoue Shōichi

Guest Remarks: (TBA)

13：50

"Historical and Memorialized Samurai"　*in Japanese

CHAIR: Liu Yang, Nichibunken

PANELISTS:
　Oleg Benesch, University of York
　Nam-lin Hur, University of British Columbia
　Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Sophia University
　Isoda Michifumi, Nichibunken

14：40

"Samurai after Samurai"　*in Japanese

CHAIR: Gwon Minhyeok, Nichibunken

PANELISTS:
　Rosina Buckland, British Museum
　Nagahara Hiromu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
　Sven Saaler, Sophia University
　Takii Kazuhiro, Nichibunken

15：25

Break

15：45

"Samurai (as) Culture"　*in English

CHAIR: Nanako Ōta, Nichibunken

PANELISTS:
　Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
　Mark Ravina, University of Texas Austin
　Rosina Buckland, British Museum
　Timon Screech, Nichibunken

16：35

"Transcultural Samurai"　*in English

CHAIR: Zahra Moharramipour, Nichibunken

PANELISTS:
　Clemens Büttner, Heidelberg University
　Ignacio López-Calvo, University of California, Merced
　Oleg Benesch, University of York
　Frederick Cryns, Nichibunken

17：20

Closing Ceremony

17：30

Close for the day

10：00

Japan’s Borders in Globalization

10：00

Keynote Lecture Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)
"Guarding the Exits: Emigration Control and the Making of Japan's Borders, 1583–1981"

CHAIR: Hasan Topaçoğlu, Üsküdar University

11：00

Break

11：15

Border Heritage sessions
　Supported by the Borders in Globalization Research Laboratory

11：15

Session 1

CHAIR: Edward Boyle, Nichibunken

PRESENTERS:

　・Andrea Csendom, The University of Osaka
　　"Comic Print Culture and the Making of Ezo as a Northern Borderland in Late
　　Eighteenth-Century Edo Japan"

　・Edwin Pietersma, University of Wisconsin-Madison
　　"‘If you don’t like it here, just go to the neighbors’: the impact of the modern
　　Japanese nation-state and its sovereignty on Sino-Japanese relations in the Dutch
　　East-Indies, 1899-1929"

　・Ran Wei, Tohoku University
　　"From the Philippines to Osaka: Body, Marginality, and Bordering in Oda
　　Sakunosuke’s “My Town” (Waga machi, 1942)"

DISCUSSANT: Maria Cynthia Barriga, Hitotsubashi University

12：30

Break

13：45

Session２

CHAIR: Tian Yunchen, Kyoto University

PRESENTERS:

　・Mariam Talibi, Waseda University
　　"South of the Empire: Singapore, Seikyōsha and the Limits of Japanese Nationalism in
　　Nihon Oyobi Nihonjin, 1907-1937"

　・Paride Stortini, Ghent University
　　"Crossing the Borders of the Nation and of the Secular: the Role of Buddhism in the
　　Memorialization of Japanese Migrant Sex Workers to Southeast Asia"

　・Chenyang Sun, Freie Universität Berlin
　　"Empires Beyond Land: Imperial Whaling and the Long-run Reshaping of
　　East Asian Fisheries"

DISCUSSANT: Nathaniel Smith, Ritsumeikan University

15：00

Break

15：15

"Borders, Islands, and Global Risk"
Roundtable

CHAIR: Naomi Chi, Hokkaido University

PRESENTERS:

　・Kawakubo Fuminori, Chuo Gakuin University
　　"Territorial States and Japan's Borderlands in the Context of Security and Crisis"

　・Yokoyama Akiko, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
　　"Island Borders and Linguistic Diversity: Rethinking Language Revitalization in the Ryukyus"

　・Iwashita Akihiro, Nagasaki University and Hokkaido University
　　"Geo-politics of 'Island Japan': Borders, Security, and Global Risk"

DISCUSSANT: Alexander Bukh, Waseda University

16：30

"Heritage, flows, and transcending boundaries"
General Discussion

CHAIR: Edward Boyle, Nichibunken

PARTICIPANTS:
　Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, University of Victoria
　Rosina Buckland, British Museum
　Ellen Van Goethem, Kyushu University
　David Harvey, Aarhus University
　Hasan Topaçoğlu, Üsküdar University
　Ayako Kusunoki, Nichibunken

17：30

Closing

10：00

Japan’s Borderlands in the Post-COVID-19 Era:
Toward Rebuilding Relations with Neighboring Countries

Session 1: General Themes

CHAIR: Edward Boyle

PRESENTERS:

　・Furukawa Koji
　　"The Evolution of Borderland Studies in Japan: Expanding to the Northwest Pacific"

　・Takagi Akihiko
　　"Trends in the Number of Inbound Foreign Visitors to Japan:
　　 A Comparative Analysis of the Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Eras"

　・Okuzono Junji
　　"Central–Local Gaps in Attention to Border Issues: An Analysis of the Proceedings of
　　 the National Diet, Prefectural Assemblies, and Municipal Councils"

　・Kagami Yasuhiko
　　"Mapping a Borderless Ocean: Historical Legacies of Cartographic Boundaries
　　 in the Pacific Islands"

Session 2: Specific Issues

CHAIR: Tian Yunchen

PRESENTERS:

　・Kuroiwa Yukiko
　　"Research Report on Wakkanai and Nemuro:
　　 Small Cities in Hokkaido Affected by the Russia-Ukraine War"

　・Hanamatsu Yasunori
　　"Tsushima Borderland after COVID-19:
　　 Re-bordering and the Transformation of a Border Island"

　・Hoshino Eiichi
　　"Human Security in Borderlands: Border Tourism Under the “Southwest Shift” "

　・Fukuhara Yuji
　　"Research Report on Ulleungdo in the Republic of Korea"

13：00

Closing