Symposium on "Dispersion of People, Crops, and Language: Hokkaido and Ryukyus"
| Date: | 23-24 February, 2013 |
| Venue: | Seminar Room 3 & 4, RIHN (→ Access) |
| Language: | English |
| Organizers: | Prof. John WHITMAN, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) * This symposium is part of the National Institute for the Humanities Joint Research Project "The Dispersal of Agriculture and Language in East Asia and the Pacific: Exploratory Research on the Farming / LanguageDispersal Hypothesis". |
Program:
Saturday, 23 February
| 13:00-13:10 | Opening —Sato, Yo-Ichiro and Whitman, John |
| 13:10-14:00 | "Farming Tephra: limitations to the spread of agriculture in Japan" —Barnes, Gina (SOAS, University of London) |
| 14:00-14:50 | "The movement of crops in the Old World: The role of nomadic pastoralists" — Sato, Yo-Ichiro (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) |
| 14:50-15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:50 | "In search of Japanese Archipelago people's history based on Ainu-Ryukyu common ancestry hypothesis" —Saitou, Naruya (National Institute of Genetics) |
| 15:50-16:40 | "An archaeological explanation for the diffusion theory of the Japonic and Koreanic Languages" — Miyamoto, Kazuo (Kyushu University) |
| 16:40-17:30 | "Human migration, reasons for it, and the unlikelihood of continental scale language shift as the main factor to explain language families" —Bellwood, Peter (Australian National University) |
Sunday, 24 February
| 10:00-10:50 | "On the Linguistic prehistory of Hokkaido" —Vovin, Alexander (University of Hawaii) |
| 10:50-11:40 | "The origins of fragrant rice and early heading rice in Japan and their dispersal to northern regions, including Hokkaido" —Ishikawa, Ryuji (Hirosaki University) |
| 11:40-11:50 | Coffee Break |
| 11:50-12:40 | "Migration and language shift in ancient northern Tohoku based on archaeological evidence and place names" —Matsumoto, Takehaya (Tokai University) |
| 12:40-13:50 | Lunch |
| 13:50-14:40 | "Language dispersal in the Ryukyu Islands" —Pellard, Thomas (CNRS, France) |
| 14:40-15:30 | "Subsistence, Ecology and Expansion: The Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis in the Japanese Islands" —Hudson, Mark (University of West Kyushu) |
| 15:30-15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40-16:30 | General Discussion |
Contact:
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
10-2 Midoricho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo, 190-8561
Phone : +81-42-540-4300