National Museum of Ethnology, Japan:Academic Lecture & Symposia

International Symposium:

“The Future of Anthropology and Ethnological Museum”

First Day: “The Future of Anthropology”
December 7^th 2009, 10:30-17:00 at Siran Kaikan of Kyoto University

Chairperson:
Suehara Tatsuro, Professor, Kyoto University

Program:

10:30-11:30 Key Note Speech:: Maurice Godelier, Professeur, EHESS, France
”In Today’s World Anthropology is More Important than Ever”
13:00-15:00 Presentations:: Sekine Yasumasa, Professor, Japan Women’s University
“Toward an Anthropology of the Street: Street Phenomena in the Era of Reflexive Modernization”; Kasuga Naoki, Professor, Osaka University
“Toward the Science of Human-Nature”; Takezawa Shoichiro, Professor, National Museum of Ethnology
“Anthropology, Museum and Seeing: Reconsidering the Representation”
15:30-17:00 Discussion
1800-20:00 Party

Second Day: “The Future of the Ethnological Museum”
December 8^th 2009, 13:00-17:30 at National Museum of Ethnology

Program:

13:00-15:30 Presentations:: Maurice Godelier, Professor, EHESS, France
“My Experience at the Quai-Branly Museum”; Boris Wastiau, Director, Musée d’Ethnographie of Geneva
“Museographic Multivocality: Diversity and Complementarity in Exhibition Programming at the New Museum of Ethnography in Geneva".; Paul Faber, Senior Curator, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
“Exhibiting Africa: Perspectives of the Tropenmuseum”; Yoshida Kenj, Professor, National Museum of ethnology
“Ethnographic Exhibitions Today 2009”
15:45-17:00 Discussion