Overall Plan for Wales/Japan Symposium September 2009
Thursday 10th September
REGENERATING THE COALFIELDS:
HISTORY AND EDUCATION IN SOUTH WALES AND JAPAN:
Symposium day one
Venue: Digital Technium, Room 104, Swansea University
1000: Coffee
1020: Welcome from Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Noel Thompson
(Swansea University)
1030: Address by Leighton Andrews, AM (Deputy Minister for
Regeneration, Welsh Assembly Government)
Chair: Professor Colin Trotman (Swansea University)
1115: Professor Hideo Nakazawa (Chuo University),
'Japan's coalfields in context: the decline of the coal industry,
labour movements and mining municipalities'
Chair: Professor Trevor Boyns (Cardiff University) [??]
1215: Lunch
1315: Professor Chris Williams (Swansea University),
'Comparing coalfields in South Wales and Japan'
Chair: Professor Nina Fishman (Swansea University) [??]
1415: Professor Naoko Shimazaki (Waseda University) and
Professor Kei'ichi Sawaguchi (Taisho University),
'Community regeneration in Joban:
the role of the ex-miners' career archive'
Chair: Jane Elliott (Swansea University)
1530: Tea
1600: Professor Colin Trotman (Swansea University),
'The significant impact of adult education in the South Wales
coalfield'
Chair: Professor Gareth Rees (Cardiff University) [??]
1700: Visit to University Archive to view South Wales Coalfield Archive
[host: Elisabeth Bennett]
Friday 11th September
REGENERATING THE COALFIELDS:
HISTORY AND EDUCATION IN SOUTH WALES AND JAPAN:
Symposium day two
Venue: Digital Technium, Room 104, Swansea University
0930: Hirotaka Yoshioka (Sapporo International University),
'Community regeneration and the role of collective memory
in Sorachi'
Chair: Professor Chris Williams (Swansea University)
1030: Coffee
1100: Panel discussion:
'Archives, libraries and museums: regeneration and education',
featuring:
- Ceri Black and Sharon Ford (National Museum Wales)
- Rheinallt Jones (The People's Collection/Casgliad y Bobl)
- Gary Tuson(Gwent Record Office)
Chairs: Elisabeth Bennett/Sian Williams(Swansea University)
1300: Lunch
1400: Themed session featuring the work of graduate students:
'Mining community, life and memory in northern Kyushu:
stories from two coalfields'
- Maki Nishimuta (Kwansei Gakuin University),
'Miners' housing in the Miike coalfield, Fukuoka' - Shisei Kimura (JSPS Research Fellow),
'The regeneration of memory: a case study of Gunkanjima (Hashima colliery)' - Hiroto Inoue (Waseda University),
'A study of life at Hashima colliery'
Chair: Dr Martin Johnes (Swansea University) [??]
1600: Tea, and Closing reflections (lead: Chris Williams)
1700: Visit to South Wales Miners' Library [hosted by Sian Williams]
1800: Business Meeting at SWML [chair: Chris Williams]
