7/20 Symposium “Satoyama x Satoumi x Literature”
Literary, 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