COMPARING COALFIELDS IN BRITAIN AND JAPAN SYMPOSIUM

WEDNESDAY 9TH MARCH 2011

1030 Coffee and Welcome: Professor Chris Williams (Swansea University)
1100-1300: Session One - Japan in Comparative Context
         [Chair: Chris Williams]

  • Professor Hideo Nakazawa (Chuo University) - Japan's Coalfields in Comparative Context
  • Dr Quentin Outram (University of Leeds): The Industrialization of Japan in Comparative Context

1300 Lunch
1400-1530:Session Two -- Postgraduate Papers[Chair: Sian Williams]

  • Daryl Leeworthy (Swansea University) - Workers' Fields: Miners' Welfare, Public Recreation and Social Democracy in the Inter-War South Wales Coalfield
  • Hiroto Inoue (Waseda University) -- Fifteen Years ofAkabira After the Closure: Stories Uncovered, Memories Rebuilt

1600 Tea
1630-1830: Session Three - Contrasting Welsh Coalfields
        [Chair: Elisabeth Bennett]

  • Dr Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton) - The North Wales Coalfield: A Miner Example?
  • Dr Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth University) - Striking Chords: Miners' Strikes and Jazz Bands in the 1920s

1900 Dinner
2000: Session Four -- Dr Leighton James (Swansea University)
        - Comparing Coalfields: Methods and Approaches
        [Chair: Quentin Outram]

THURSDAY 10TH MARCH 2011

0900-1100: Session Five - Investigating Regeneration
        [Chair: Hideo Nakazawa]

  • Dr Heike Doring (Cardiff University) - From the Margins to the Centre and Back: Trajectories of Regeneration in Two Coalfields
  • Professor Naoko Shimazaki (Waseda University) - Regeneration in the Joban Coalfield: the Role of Local Government

1030 Coffee
1100 - 1300: Session Six -- Postgraduate Papers [Chair: Leighton James]

  • Ritchie Wood (Swansea University) - Digging for Victory? South Wales miners at War
  • Aled Eirug (Swansea University) - Anti-War movements in the South Wales coalfield
  • Alun Burge (South Wales Co-Operative History Project) - Co-Operation in the Coalfields: A Distinctive Cultural Phenomenon?

1300 Lunch
1400 - 1600: Session Seven -- Coal as a Global Industry [Chair: Jane Elliott]

  • Mr Kei'ichi Sawaguchi (Taisho University) - Employment Practices and Trade Unions in the Japanese Coalfields: Towards an International Comparative Study
  • Dr Brian McCook (Leeds Metropolitan University) - Migration, Technology Transfer and the Global Coal Industry

1600 Tea and Close