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RIHN 5th International Symposium
“The Past and Future of Diversity”

Date: October 13 (Wed) - 15 (Fri)
Venue: RIHN Lecture Hall   access
Organizer: Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
Language: English (simultaneous interpretation provided)
Participation: Contact the address shown in the bottom of the previous page

All Abstracts (PDF 133KB) , Program (PDF 51KB)

[Program]

Wednesday – 13 October, 2010
Opening Session

Chair: UYAR, Aysun (RIHN)

10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks

TACHIMOTO Narifumi (Director-General, RIHN)

10:10-10:20 Objectives of the Symposium

NILES, Daniel (RIHN)

10:20-11:00 Keynote Address

EYZAGUIRRE, Pablo (Bioversity International, CGIAR)
Abstract

11:00-11:40 Keynote Address

KOOHAFKAN, Parviz (FAO)
Abstract

12:00-13:10 Lunch
13:10-13:25 RIHN Tour

NAKANO Takanori (RIHN) & UYAR, Aysun (RIHN)

Session 1: Landscape as a Source of Cultural Diversity
Chairs: UCHIYAMA Junzo (RIHN) & NAKAMURA Oki (RIHN)
13:30-14:10 Towards the East Asian Landscape Convention: Nurturing Diversity Via the Protection of Everyday Life-Worlds

LINDSTRÖM, Kati (University of Tartu, Estonia)
Abstract

14:10-14:50 Torrents of Diversity: the Future of the Past in Riverine Landscapes

KANER, Simon (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UK)
Abstract

14:50-15:30 A Historical Perspective for Mountainous Landscape in Hida, Central Japan

KOYAMA Shuzo (RIHN)
Abstract

15:30-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:20 Making Alternative Landscape with Local Feelings -A Case of Silsangsa Buddhist Temple and People -

CHO, Kyoung-Mann (Mokpo National University, Korea)
Abstract

16:20-16:50 Discussion
Thursday – 14 October, 2010
Session 2: On the Nature and Culture in Agrobiodiversity
Chairs: HOSOYA Leo Aoi (RIHN) & KURATA Takashi (RIHN)
9:00-9:40 Before Monoculture: Archaeogenetics and the Diverse Field

JONES, Martin K. (University of Cambridge, UK)
Abstract

9:40-10:20 Cattle Biodiversity in Past and Present in South to East Asia

MANNEN Hideyuki (Kobe University, Japan)
Abstract

10:20-11:00 Diversity and Breeding of Flowering Cherry in Japan

NAKAMURA Ikuo (Chiba University, Japan)
Abstract

11:00-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-11:50 Genetic Diversity of Rice in Japan: Social, Environmental and Historical Dimensions

SATO Yo-Ichiro (RIHN)
Abstract

11:50-12:30 Discussion

Commentator: HABU Junko
(Visiting Research Fellow, RIHN Universitsy of California, Barkley, USA)

12:40-13:40 Lunch
Session 3: Biodiversity and the Wisdom in Agrarian Landscapes

Chairs: YUMOTO Takakazu (RIHN) & TSUJINO Riyou (RIHN)

13:40-14:20 Is there Satoyama in Europe?

RACKHAM, Oliver (Corpus Christi College, UK)
Abstract

14:20-15:00 The History of Semi-natural Grasslands in the Japanese Archipelago: Changes of Human Activities and Persistence of Grassland Habitats

SUKA Takeshi (Nagano Environmental Conservation Research Institute, Japan)
Abstract

15:00-15:40 Exploitation and Conservation of Forest Resources in a Mountain of Early Modern Japan

SHIROUZU Satoshi (Chuo Gakuin University, Japan)
Abstract

15:40-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-16:30 Sustainability, Collapse and the Role of Management Appeared in the Satoyama's History of Natural Resource Use

OSUMI Katsuhiro (Kansai Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan)
Abstract

16:30-17:00 Discussion
Friday – 15 October, 2010
Session 4: Summary and Round-Table Discussion
Chairs: KUBOTA Jumpei (RIHN) & NILES, Daniel (RIHN)
9:30-9:40 Summary of Session 1

UCHIYAMA Junzo (RIHN)

9:40-9:50 Summary of Session 2

HOSOYA Leo Aoi (RIHN)

10:00-10:10 Summary of Session 3

YUMOTO Takakazu (RIHN)

10:10-10:20 Comments

EYZAGUIRRE, Pablo (Bioversity International, CGIAR)

10:20-10:30 Comments

KOOHAFKAN, Parviz (FAO)

10:30-10:40 Agenda Setting
10:40-11:40 Round-Table Discussion
11:40-11:50 Closing Remarks

AKIMICHI Tomoya (Deputy Director-General, RIHN)

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-17:00 Excursion for Satoyama around RIHN