Open Symposium:
The Language, History, and Society of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands
August 2-4, 2000, Chiiki Fukushi Center 2nd Floor, Chichijima, Japan
August 2 (Day 1), 19:00-21:00
- Shunsuke NAGASHIMA, "The Ogasawara Islands and the South Pacific Islands: A Comparative Study of the Language, History, and Culture of the Japanese Islands with Chatham, Greenland, and the Azores"
- Hiroyuki TANAKA, "Seclusion and the Bunin (Uninhabited) Islands"
August 3 (Day 2), 17:45-21:00
- Fuyuo NOBUSHIMA, "Chichijima and Hahajima: Who Named the Ogasawara Islands?"
- Sho KASUGA, "Reading the History of the Ogasawaras: How was it Told and to Whom?"
- David ODO, "National Boundaries and Photographic Frontiers: Early Photographs of the Ogasawara Islands"
- Hironobu YAMAGAMI and Motoharu SATO, "On Legal Assistance for Protecting the Social Welfare of the
Ogasawara Islanders"
August 4 (Day 3), 17:45-21:00
- Jonathan Takashi SAVORY, "Nathaniel Savory: Roots and the Bonin Islands"
- Robert D. ELDRIDGE, "The Return of the Ogasawara Islands and U.S.-Japan Relations, 1945-1968"
- Daniel LONG, "Language Contact and Contact Languages on the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands"
- Shin ABE, "A Japanese Dialect of the Chichijima: Its Existence as Local Culture"
Hosted by: The Ogasawara Research Symposium Organizing Committee
Supported by: Ogasawara Village, Tokyo Metropolitan University Ogasawara Research Committee, and The Japan Society of Island Studies
The symposium is free of charge and open to all interested in the Ogasawara Islands. Papers will be delivered in Japanese.
For further information:
Daniel Long: dlong@bcomp.metro-u.ac.jp
http://nihongo.human.metro-u.ac.jp/long/bonins
Jonathan Takashi Savory: nasa@big.or.jp