| 23-May |
1st Floor of Academic media Center |
Arrival, registration |
9:30-10:00 |
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Tokiwamatsu Hall,
Academic Media Center |
Keynote Lecture
*Pre-registration is not required. |
in the chair: Kikuko Hirafuji |
| 10:00 |
opening remarks: by Kazuo Matsumura |
| 10:05-10:20 |
welcome speech and introduction of our religious education project: by Nobutaka Inoue |
| 10:20-10:50 |
Keynote speech by Atsuhiko Yoshida
"The god Okuninushi and the trifunctional system of the Indo-Europeans" |
| 10:55-11:35 |
Keynote speech by Michael Witzel
"Central Asian and Japanese Mythology" |
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| 11:45-12:25 |
Keynote speech by Yoshihiko Senge
"Basic Mentality seen in Japanese Mythology: with Izumo’s Particularities"
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| Cafe Lounge Wakagi |
Lunch |
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Conference room 06
5th floor of Academic Media Center |
Round Table (1)
*Pre-registration is required.
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in the chair: Kikuko Hirafuji |
| 13:40-14:00 |
Introduction of our Digital Museum Project (How to use EOS): Seiji Hoshino |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Klaus Antoni: Kotodama and the Kojiki - the Japanese word soul' between mythology, spiritual magic and political ideology |
| 14:30-14:50 |
Quiros Ignacio: The performative power of the word in Kojiki’s mythological world |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Ioannis Gaitanidis: Nationalistic interpretations of Japanese mythology used to reassure clients during a session with a Japanese type of professional psychic in present-day Tokyo |
| Round Table (2) |
in the chair: Yuri Berezkin |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Shinko Ogihara: Iron Heroes and Iron-clad Birds
---Iron Culture in the Eurasian Oral Tradition--- |
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| 16:10- 16:40 |
Akira Goto: The movement of the Polynesians and the change of their cosmology (including myths) |
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| Practical room for Shinto rites |
Performance of Shinto Rites |
17:00-18:00 |
Performed by Mitsushige Hoshino and Miwa Ochi |
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Welcome Party |
18:30-20:30 |
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| 24-May |
5th floor of Academic Media Center |
Arrival, registration |
9:30-10:00 |
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Conference room 06
5th floor of Academic Media Center |
Round Table (3) |
in the chair: Kazuo Matsumura |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Akinori Maruyama:Okinawan Myths in Circum-pacific Perspectives |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Masako Mori: Descendant of Gilgamesh: Ancient Mesopotamia and China |
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| 11:10-11:40 |
Yuri Berezkin: Austronesian parallels in Kojiki and Indo-Pacific sources of "folk Christianity" |
| 11:40-12:10 |
Wim van Binsbergen: Giving birth to Fire: Evidence for a widespread cosmology revolving on an elemental
transformative cycle, in Japan, throughout the Old World, and in the New World |
| 1st Floor of Academic media Center |
Lunch |
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| University Museum |
Museum Tour |
13:00-14:00 |
Guided by Naoya Kase |
Conference room 06
5th floor of Academic Media Center |
Round Table (4) |
in the chair: Nobutaka Inoue |
| 14:00-14:30 |
Steve Farmer: The future of religious education: neurobiological, ecological-historical,and
computational approaches to comparative mythology and religion |
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| 14:40-15:10 |
Hiroshi Tsuchiya: How to deal with scriptures in religious education in Japan |
| 15:10-15:40 |
Kikuko Hirafuji: Myth education from new perspective in Japan |
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| 15:50-16:20 |
Akio Tsukimoto |
| 16:20-16:50 |
Thorsten Pattberg: No country for sages ? Religious (oriental) education in Germany (18th - 20th centuries) |
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| 17:00-17:50 |
Concluding Discussion |
| 17:50- 18:00 |
Ending Remarks by Michael Witzel |
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| Arisugawa Hall: 18th floor of Wakagi Tower |
Farewell party |
18:30- 20:30 |
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