Wednesday - 26 October, 2011 |
| Opening Session |
Chair: UYAR, Aysun (RIHN) |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Opening Remarks
TACHIMOTO Narifumi (Director-General, RIHN) |
| 10:40-10:50 |
Objectives of the Symposium
NILES, Daniel (RIHN) |
| 10:50-12:00 |
Keynote Address
VAN DER LEEUW, Sander (Arizona State University, USA)
Abstract |
| 12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 1 |
New ecologies of disease: Observing and theorizing human-pathogen interactions |
| Chair: KAWABATA Zen’ichiro (RIHN) |
| 13:30-14:10 |
Ecosystem Dynamics, Biological Diversity and Their Impacts on Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
GUÉGAN, Jean-François (UMR IRD-CNRS-Universities of Montpellier I and II, France)
Abstract |
| 14:10-14:50 |
Koi Herpesvirus Disease as a Model of Environmental Disease
MINAMOTO Toshifumi (RIHN)
Abstract |
| 14:50-15:10 |
Coffee break |
| 15:10-15:50 |
The Impact of Anthropogenic Environmental Influences on Freshwater Snails and the Implications for Snail-borne Disease Transmission Risks in Kenya
LANGE, Charles N. (National Museums of Kenya, Kenya)
Abstract |
| 15:50-16:30 |
Discussion |
Thursday - 27 October, 2011 |
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| Session 2 |
Beyond collapse: The case of Indus Civilization |
| Chair: ONISHI Masayuki (RIHN) |
| 9:00-9:40 |
Paleoclimate During the Last 20,000 Years in Asia-Pacific Region
YOKOYAMA Yusuke (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Abstract
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| 9:40-10:20 |
Decline of the Indus Civilization and the Role of Agriculture
WEBER, Steven (Washington State University Vancouver, USA)
Abstract
|
| 10:20-11:00 |
Observations about Arrival of the Āryas
GOTŌ Toshifumi (Tohoku University, Japan)
Abstract
|
| 11:00-11:40 |
Collapse or Transformation?: Beyond Environmental Determinism for the Indus Civilization
OSADA Toshiki (RIHN)
Abstract
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| 11:40-12:20 |
Discussion |
| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 3 |
Transformation of human society and environment in Central Eurasia |
| Chair: KUBOTA Jumpei (RIHN) |
| 13:30-14:10 |
‘No One can be Separated from the Other’: The Curse of Relatedness and Ethnopolitics in Contemporary China
BULAG, Uradyn E. (University of Cambridge, UK)
Abstract
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| 14:10-14:50 |
Typology of Agro-Pastoral Complex in Inner-most Eurasia under the Light of Geo-History
OHJI Toshiaki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Abstract
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| 14:50-15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:00-15:40 |
Agricultural Development and Transformation of Nature in Soviet Central Asia: Theoretical Background and Reality
CHIDA Tetsuro (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Abstract
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| 15:40-16:20 |
Socialist Modernization and Transformation of Natural Resource Use in Central Eurasia
WATANABE Mitsuko (RIHN)
Abstract
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| 16:20-17:00 |
Discussion |
Friday - 28 October, 2011 |
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| Session 4 |
Building resilient communities in the semi-arid tropics |
| Chair: LEKPRICHAKUL, Thamana (RIHN) |
| 9:00-9:40 |
Social-Ecological Regime Shifts: Collapse, Traps, and Transformations
PETERSON, Garry (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Abstract |
| 9:40-10:20 |
Ingredients for Social-Ecological Resilience, Poverty Traps, and Adaptive Social Protection in Semi-Arid Africa
TSCHAKERT, Petra (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Abstract |
| 10:20-11:00 |
Trajectories of Adaptation: A Retrospectus for Future Dynamics
NELSON, Donald (University of Georgia, USA)
Abstract |
| 11:00-11:40 |
Dynamics of Social-Ecological Systems: The Case of Farmers’ Food Security in Semi-Arid Tropics
UMETSU Chieko (RIHN)
Abstract |
| 11:40-12:20 |
Discussion |
| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 5 |
Synthesis |
| Chairs: NILES, Daniel (RIHN) & SATO Yo-Ichiro (Deputy Director-General, RIHN) |
| 13:15-13:55 |
Beyond Pandemics and Global Instability: Cultivating Peripheral Vision for Transformation
WALTNER-TOEWS, David (University of Guelph, Canada)
Abstract |
| 13:55-14:00 |
Synthesis of Session 1
KAWABATA Zen’ichiro (RIHN) |
| 14:00-14:15 |
Synthesis of Session 2
OSADA Toshiki (RIHN) |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Synthesis of Session 3
KUBOTA Jumpei (RIHN) |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Synthesis of Session 4
UMETSU Chieko (RIHN) |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Coffee break |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Comments
VAN DER LEEUW, Sander (Arizona State University, USA) |
| 15:15-16:10 |
Roundtable Discussion |
| 16:10-16:20 |
Closing Remarks
WATANABE Tsugihiro (Deputy Director-General, RIHN) |
