Home
|
|
 Linguapax
Asia
2006
3rd International
Symposium
|
University
of Tokyo
Saturday, October 7, 2006
Theme
for Discussion: "Who Owns Language?"
8:30 a.m. Registration,
building 18, Komaba Campus (see map)
9:00 Opening Words:
Frances Fister-Stoga (Tokyo University,
Director of Linguapax Asia)
9:05 Framing Remarks by Leo Yoffe (Waseda
University)
Distinguished Canadian diplomat and currently professor at Waseda
will address the crucial
importance of this
Conference's theme of language
ownership.
Morning
Session Chair: Prof. Jelisava Sethna
(Gakushuin University)
9:15-9:45 Keynote Speaker:
Charles De Wolf (Keio
University)
Translator,
writer, former columnist of the Asahi Evening News, professor
at Keio, an expert
on East
Asian and Oceanic languages, will set the agenda by discussing
"Multilingualism and
Multiculturalism".
9:45-10:05 Coffee
10:05-10:30
David Burleigh (Ferris
University)
Author of a
recently published book on the Irish writer Helen Waddell, literary
reviewer for
the Japan Times,
and associate professor at Ferris, will illuminate the much
neglected
Scots-Irish
dialect of Ulster and its larger significance.
10:30-10:55
Nicholas Williams (Saitama Institute of
Technology)
Currently
editor of two essay-collections on the Edwardian theatre and George
Bernard
Shaw, professor at
S.I.T., will look at Shaw's famous "language play" Pygmalion from a
radically different
standpoint.
10:55-11:15 Coffee
11:15-11:35
Poetry and Identity: a reading by Mong-Lan, Vietnamese-American poet and
recipient of numerous
awards will read selections from her works dealing with language
and
ethnicity.
11:35-12:00 Saran Shiroza
(Tokyo
University)
Doctoral
candidate at Tokyo University and winner of the prestigious
Ichiko-sho award,
Ms.
Shiroza will present an account of the attempt to reconstruct
Japanese English as
a
separate linguistic entity.
12:00-13:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session Chair: Prof. Nicholas Williams (Saitama Institute of
Technology)
13:30-13:50 The Honorary President of Linguapax
Asia, Tasaku Tsunoda (Tokyo
University)
and Mie Tsunoda (Rissho and Seijo Universities)
will give a progress report on
their work in revitalizing
the Australian Aboriginal language Warrongo.
14:00-14:30
Keynote Speaker: Arudo Debito (Hokkaido
Information University)
Professor Arudo has established his name as a human rights
campaigner in his home area
of Hokkaido and beyond and has authored several works dealing with
human rights issues.
He
will discuss the question of language and
nationality.
14:30-15:00 Fernand De
Varennes (visiting professor at Gakushuin University)
Dr. De Varennes has had
a distinguished career as lawyer, editor, and teacher. Among
his many achievements, he
is a former Director of the Asian-Pacific Center for Human
Rights and Editor-in-Chief
of the Asian-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the
Law.
Dr. De Varennes will
speak on "Ethnic Conflict and Language in
Asia."
Chaired by: Dr. John Maher (International Christian
University)
15:00-16:00 Film "In Languages We Live: Voices
of the World", presented by Dr. Felix
Marti
(Linguapax
Institute)
16:00-16:15 Coffee
16:00-16:25 William Gater (Sacred Heart
University)
Formerly of
Tokyo University, now teaching at the Sacred Heart,
specialist
in dialectology,
currently engaged in researching the problems of nationalism and
language, will speak on the
present position of the Baltic language Latvian.
16:25-16:50
Dr. Olenka Bilash (University of Alberta)
on What Happens When No One Takes Ownership of Language?
Dr. Bilash is Professor
of Second Language Education at the University of Alberta and
has taught professional
development workshops on five continents.
16:50-17:20 Coffee
17:20-17:50 Round Table Discussion
17:50-18:05
Conference closes with final remarks by Dr.
Felix Marti, Honorary
President
of the Linguapax
Institute.
Registration:
There is no prior registration for
the symposium. Registration will take place on site October 7
between 8:30 am and 9:00 am. The registration fee is 1,000 yen per
participant for either morning and/or afternoon session. Early
registration on site (building 18: see map) is encouraged.
Lunch will be served at the Tokyo University Komaba faculty
restaurant (Lever Son Verre) at 1,500 yen. Reservations are on a
first come, first served basis and may be made when registering on
site.
Symposium Administration:
Frances
Fister-Stoga, Director (Tokyo University)
Dr. Tasaku Tsunoda,
Honorary President (Tokyo University)
Nicholas Williams, Program
Director (Saitama Institute of Technology)
General Affairs: Cary
Duval, Jelisava Sethna, Susan
Miyake-Bergman
|
info@linguapax-asia.org
Copyright
2003-2006. Linguapax Asia. All rights reserved
Updated June 17,
2006
Home Top Registration |