7/20 Symposium “Satoyama x Satoumi x Literature”

里山シンポチラシ0701_ページ_1Literary, historical, and artistic representations of satoyama can bring the contact and conflict between lived satoyama and imagined satoyama into focus. Omura Ryo’s Monoiwanu nomin [Silent Farmers], which illustrates post-WWII peasants’ life in rural Iwate, suggests such gaps, illustrating for instance how magnolias are perceived by townspeople as a happy symbol of spring, while for those living in villages the plant tells nothing more than the beginning of the seasonally harsh reality of agricultural work. 

 

This Environmental Studies Collection Symposium, hosted by Kanazawa University Libraries and Kanazawa University Satoyama Satoumi Project, will look into the richly complex realm of interactions between lived satoyama and its literary, historical, and visual representations. The symposium will also discuss important differences in shared values between people in satoyama and those of satoumi, facilitating nuanced discussions on the topic of satoyama and satoumi, which are often misleadingly categorized as similar concepts.

 

Special thanks to JSPS Scientific Research B (24320059) and Noto Operating Unit for their support.

 

date: 20 July 2013,  9:30 – 17:30

venue:  Natural Science & Technology Library, Kanazawa University  access

Program:

9:30 – 9:45       Registration

9:45 – 9:55       Opening:  Shibata Masayoshi, Director General, KU Library

9:55-10:00        Introduction : Yuki Masami, symposium coordinator

10:00-11:20      Keynote: Haruo Shirane, Columbia University   “Satoyama: Imagined Landscape and Reality”

11:20-11:30      Break

11:30-12:00      Presentation 1   Ikuta Shogo, Kanazawa University

12:00-12:30      Presentation 2   Kuroda Satoshi, Kanazawa University

12:30-13:30      Lunch

13:30-14:50      Keynote: Yumoto Takakazu, Kyoto University    “Satoyama: Its Historical Transformations and Modern Representations”

14:50-15:00      Break

15:00-15:30      Presentation 3   Noda Ken-ichi, Rikkyo University

15:30-16:00      Presentation 4   Murakami Kiyotoshi, Kanazawa University

16:00-16:30      Presentation 5   Yuki Masami, Kanazawa University

16:30-16:45      Break

16:45-17:30      Discussion   Facilitator: Nakamura Koji, Kanazawa University

17:30                  Closing: Nakamura Koji

 

 

Registration is free and open to the public here

For further information, please contact   insomu@adm.kanazawa-u.ac.jp