National Museum of Ethnology International Symposium Interdisciplinary Research and Info-Forum Museum
| Time/Date | Sunday, March 6, 2022 9: 30 – 17: 30 |
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| Location | Online |
| Registration | Pre-registration required / Free of charge ※Consecutive interpretation available (Japanese and English; Japanese, English and Spanish for the first session only) |
Purpose of the Symposium
Atsushi Nobayashi（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka）
Since its founding in 1974, the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) has studied ethnology, anthropology and its surrounding fields. It has also accumulated diverse materials and information on them. At present, we consider it an urgent task to share tangible and intangible materials and related information with people as “human cultural resources” and pass them down to future generations.
Therefore, in collaboration with national and international research institutions, universities, museums, and local communities, we are promoting international joint research on the variety of cultural resources possessed by Minpaku and the collaborating institutions, and constructing ‘Info-Forum Museum’ which opens the results to the world as a multimedia and multilingual digital database.
The projects of the Info-Forum Museum have focused on collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, including the source community and it has been receiving a certain rating. At the same time, we can know that each project has various research themes and fields. It is also the important significance of the Info-Forum Museum project.
In this symposium, among the research themes considered to be important in the humanities including cultural anthropology, We would like to introduce the projects with the research themes of cultural heritage, art, natural history and archives, and consider the significance of the Info-Forum Museum project as a powerful means of research and investigation.
Program
| 9:30 | Registration |
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| 10:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 10:05 | Director’s Remarks Kenji Yoshida（Director-Genaral, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka） |
| 10:20 | Introduction Atsushi Nobayashi（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka） |
The First Session: History and Present State of Popular Art
Moderator: Taku Iida（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka）
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Project for Database Improvement: Ethnographic Information for Building an Info-Forum Database: A Case Study of the Peru Collection in Minpaku History of Peruvian Retablos originated in Ayacucho: Don Joaquín López Antay and Retablos of Ayacucho |
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The Second Session: Natural History and Researchers
Moderator: Rintaro Ono（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka）
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Project for Database Improvement Fragment of a History of Japanese Natural History: Toshio Asaeda’s Exploration of Pacific and his Texts in the 1930s. Toshio Asaeda and the California Academy of Sciences. |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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The Third Session: Utilization of Academic Materials in the Field and New Developments
Moderator: Teiko Mishima（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka）
| 13:30 – 14:30 |
Project for Database Improvement Transformation of Sarangi Music and Gandharba Society: Retrace 1980’s Sarangi Music and Its Research. Comment 1. Comment 2. Socio Cultural Diversity and Pluralism in Nepal: A Glimpse from Pokhara Comment 3. |
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The Forth Session: Memory and Inheritance of Local Culture
Moderator: Ryoji Sasahara（National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka）
| 14:30 – 15:50 |
Project for Database Improvement Establishing an Info-forum Museum to Transmit Folk Performing Arts Communicating the Spirit of Our Ancestors: Inheriting Natsume Odori Amami Heritage Initiatives |
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| 15:50 – 16:00 | Break |
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| 16:00 – 17:25 | General Discussion
General Comments |
| 17:25 | Closing Remarks Kyonosuke Hirai（Deputy Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka） |
Registration
- Pre-registration required / Free of charge
- Registration deadline：Monday, February 28, 2022
※ Deadline extended to Thursday, March 3, 2022.
Contact Us
Secretariat of Info-Forum Museum
E-mail：forum_symposium★minpaku.ac.jp
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