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International Workshop：Multi-disciplinary and Inter-regional Perspectives on Environmental History
Towards Comparative Study between Europe and Japan
| Date | Thursday, 7 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:05 Friday, 8 March 2024, 9:00 - 17:00 |
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| Venue | Lecture Hall, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature /Online (Zoom) |
| Registration | Pre-registration is required. Please apply from Registration Form |
| Co-organized by | ●Research Institute for Humanity and Nature ●Completed Project: Societal Adaptation to Climate Change: Integrating Palaeoclimatological Data with Historical and Archaeological Evidences ●Quantification of the climate-productivity-populatio n history in Japanese archipelago by refinement of oxygen isotope dendrochronology |
| Objective | The workshop will bring together experts from both the humanities and natures who have studied environmental history in various periods and regions separately either in Japan or Europe to discuss the concept of a multi-disciplinary and inter-regional comparative environmental history. The aim is to construct a more integrated study of environmental history that will contribute to solving contemporary global environmental problems by comparing the relationship between climate/environmental change and social change beyond times and areas between Japan and Europe, which have completely different climates and cultures. |
| Program | 7 March (Thu) 9:00-9:15 Opening Remark - Purpose of workshop Takeshi Nakatsuka 9:15-9:30 Introduction of RIHN Makoto Taniguchi 9:30-10:05 Historical climate adaptations in Japan: Multi- decadal variability as a key factor activating societal regime shifts Takeshi Nakatsuka 10:05-10:40 Regions as social-ecological systems: integrated approach to crisis and growth in late medieval and early modern Macedonia (Greece) Adam Izdebski 10:55-11:30 Integrating tree-ring data with historical documents related to rice yields during the early modern period in Japan Masaki Sano 11:30-12:05 A tree-ring perspective on climate and history Ulf Büntgen 13:30-14:05 The relationship of the environmental analysis and the studies on protohistoric social changes in the Japanese archipelago; on the topics of the beginning of pady rice agriculture, the development of social complexity and the state formation process Kunihiko Wakabayashi 14:05-14:40 Reconstructing the East African Monsoon during the Roman Era (30 BCE to 300 CE): Assessing Governmental and Social Reactions to Shifting Nile Flood Patterns in Egypt and the Empire Sabine Huebner 14:55-15:30 Demographic and social transformation in ancient Japan Katsunori Imadu 15:30-16:05 A Time of Troubles? Environment and Disaster in the 6th century eastern Mediterranean Lee Mordechai 16:05-16:40 Social Responses to Climate Change and Enviromental Problems in Medieval Japan Toshikazu Itou 16:55-17:30 Infrastructure and institutions of food-security in the context of short-term climate impacts in 13th/14th c. Italy. Martin Bauch 17:30-18:05 A quasi-continuously age determined and decadally resolved pollen record from Lake Suigetsu, Japan for 8-35ka (100% complete) and 35-48ka (60% complete): implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology. Takeshi Nakagawa (Video participation) 8 March (Fri) 9:00-9:35 Early Modern Japan as an Arena for Examining the Socioeconomic Impacts of Climate Change Yasuo Takatsuki 9:35-10:10 Climate and the 17th Century Crises in Swedish Kingdom Heli Huhtamaa 10:25-11:00 Population Data and Research in Premodern Japanese Society: Fruit from Historical Demography Miyuki Takahashi 11:00-11:35 Colonisation in eastern Europe as an ecological revolution: historical and environmental perspectives Piotr Guzowski 13:00-13:35 The Climate of Japan in All Seasons Reconstructed from Daily Weather Descriptions in Historical Documents Since the 17th Century Mika Ichino 13:35-14:10 A creative crisis? The 1770s anomaly as a catalyst of change in Europe Dominik Collet 14:10-14:45 The rhetoric of “ohayashi” , a forest possessed by “daimyo” as feudal lord, in 19c Japan; Introduction of a former RIHN project on human-nature relationships in Japanese archipelago Hirotaka Terashima 15:00-16:45 General Discussion 16:45-17:00 Closing remark – Summary of workshop Adam Izdebski |
| Contact | E-mail: nakatsuka.takeshi.m0[at]f.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp *Please change [at] to @ |
