Timetable of the papers at the 4th International Conference on Okinawan Studies, Bonn venue

Time

Room 5

Room 6

Room 7

Room 8

Room 9

March, 26.

 

 

 

 

 

14:00-14:30

 

Linguistics

Archaeology

Literature

Arts & Crafts

Zendô Uwano:
Tonogenesis in the Amami dialects of Japanese

Toshio Kamimura:
Southern Islands (Amami and Okinawa Islands) in the Equivalent for the Kofun Period

Eikichi Hateruma:
Okinawa as seen from Voyage, Festivals and Literature

Noriko Kugai:
Studies on Okinawan Textiles and
Kamakura nooto

14:30-15:00

 

Takao Sugimura:
Morphology of the Yaeyama Hateruma dialect

Hyo-Jai Im:
Prehistoric cultural exchange between Korea and Kyûshû-Okinawa

Mikolay Melanowicz:
Winds over Ryûkyû by Chin Shun-shin – between literature and history

Amanda Mayer Stinchecum:
An Ikat sash as symbol of identity in Yaeyama: Tradition, Transmission, Transformation

15:00-15:30

 

Kumiko Arakaki:
Descriptive research on application of Okinawa prefectures’s Yaeyama dialect

Naomi Doi:
Population history of the Ryûkyûans as viewed from skeletal morphology

Kimiyuki Inukai:
Multinational character of KumiodoriKumiodori as literature

Ethnology, Folklore, Anthropology

Matt Allen:
Rallying the District: dialect and identity on Kumejima

break

 

 

 

 

 

16:00-16:30

 

Hiromitsu Machi:
Sentence-Final Particles in Ryûkyû dialect

Shizuka Uehara:
Ming-style Ryûkyûan Roofing Tiles from a Chinese Perspective

Davinder L. Bhowmik:
Literature as Public Memory: The Works of Medoruma Shun

Katsusada Mukaiyama:
Masked Events of the Southwest Islands

16:30-17:00

 

Makoto Kuno:
Pronunciation in Yonaguni dialect

Naoko Kinoshita:
The Takaragai (monetaria moneta anndulus) of the Ryûkyû archipelago as seen from ancient China

Kazuyuki Koyama:
A Study of the authoritative courtesy of The Ryûkyû dynasty

Maki Mishima:
Season’s Festival in Okinawa:Shibasashi and Toshiami

17:00-17:30

 

Mariko Kuno:
Accent system of Ryûkyûan dialects

 

Kazutada Ôta:
Torahiko Tamiya and Okinawa: Some thoughts on Okinawa no shuki and Himeyuri

Michiko Nagamine:
History of clothes with a reference on the history of clothings in Okinawa

17:30-18:00

 

Wayne Lawrence:
The genealogical position of the Tarama dialect

 

Ikuko Saitô:
The early research on Ryukyuan literature Tajima-bon Omorosôshi

Patrick Beillevaire:
On the links between the legend of Busa and the Onarigami belief

 

 

 

 

 

 

March, 27.

 

 

 

 

 

10:00-10:30

History

Satoshi Nishioka:
The Ryûkyûan Writing System andA Ryûkyûan-Japanese Chinese Character Dictionary

Natural Sciences

Social Sciences

Josef Kreiner:
Religious Life on Kakeroma, Amami in the early 1960ies

Miki Watanabe:
Tomari-mura as the Center for Foreign Drifters in the Early-Modern Ryûkyû

Makoto Tsuchiya:
Mechanism promoting the co-existence of multiple species and environmental heterogeneity in coral reefs

Axel Klein:
Amami Gunto and its Importance for Political Reform

10:30-11:00

Michael Lewis:
Found But Lost: Exploring the Meaning of Kurobo Gama

Shinichirô Tawata:
A Close Examination of Okinawan Language in Hangul Documents

Joachim Scholz and Michael Türkay:
Delimitations of subtropical and tropical marine habitats of Japan

Kiyoshi Nakachi:
The Significance of Okinawa’s Experience in the History of International Politics:the Perspective of the Peace and Anti-Base Movements

Emigration

Hans-Dieter Ölschleger:
Okinawan Emigration to the Americas: A Short Overview of History and Social Characteristics

11:00-11:30

Johannes H. Wilhelm:
On the ceremony at the Hakuai-kinenhi, Miyako in 1936

Sang-Cheol Jeung:
Japanese Language Education and Japanese Literature Studies in South Korea

Joachim Haupt:
Zoogeography of the Ryûkyû-Islands

 

Miki Kawabata:
Maintaining a Circle of Friends: The Moai Rotating Savings and Credit Associations among Returnees from Peru to Okinawa

11:30-12:00

Gregory Smits:
The Politics of Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Okinawa

Wolfram Schaffar:
Kakari Musubi in Ryûkyû, Hachijôjima and Classical Japanese. Morphological reconstruction of a grammatical phenomenon

Johann Hohenegger:
Larger foraminifera as important Calcium-carbonate producers in coral reef environments and constituting the main components of carbonate beach sands; examples from the Ryûkyû archipelago

Kozy Amemiya:
Using emigration for occupation policy: American involvment in Okinawan emigration to Bolivia in the 1950s

12:00-12:30

Kazuma Maetakenishi :
An Okinawan Prisoner’s Letters. The Tôkyô Tower Hostage Incident of 1970

Midori Ôsumi:
Language and Identity in present-day Okinawa

 

Naokazu Hashio:
Linguistic and Cultural Awareness among Japanese Americans of Okinawan Descent in Hawaii

12:30-13:00

 

 

 

Edith M. Kaneshiro:
”Historical Perspectives on Okinawan Migration in the Pacific World, 1899-1945”

Lunch

 

 

 

 

 

14:00-14:30

 

 

 

 

外間 守善
(法政大学名誉教授):
琉球王国の成立と初期王権

14:30-15:00

 

 

 

 

Alfred F. Majewicz
(
ポーランド・ポズナン大学教授):
琉球語は危機に直面しているか?

15:00-15:30

 

 

 

 

Rosa Caroli
(Venice
大学助教授):
Re-inventing Okinawa: from Ryûkyûness to Japaneseness