REGENERATING THE COALFIELDS:
HISTORY AND EDUCATION IN SOUTH WALES AND JAPAN
Digital Technium 104, Swansea University
10-11 September 2009
Thursday 10th September
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)
1115: Professor Hideo Nakazawa (Chuo University), 'Japan's coalfields in context: the decline of the coal industry, labour movements and mining municipalities'
1215: Lunch
1315: Professor Chris Williams (Swansea University), 'Comparing coalfields in South Wales and Japan'
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'
1530: Tea
1600: Professor Colin Trotman (Swansea University), 'The significant impact of adult education in the South Wales coalfield'
1700: Visit to University Archives to view South Wales Coalfield Archive [host: Elisabeth Bennett, University Archivist, Swansea University]
Friday 11th September
0930: Hirotaka Yoshioka (Sapporo International University), 'Community regeneration and the role of collective memory in Sorachi'
1030: Coffee
1100: Panel discussion: 'Archives, libraries and museums: regeneration and education', featuring:
* Ceri Black and Sharon Ford (National Museum Wales)
* Rheinallt Jones (People's Collection / Casgliad y Bobl)
* Gary Tuson (Gwent Record Office)
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'
1600: Tea, and Closing reflections (lead: Chris Williams)
1700: Visit to South Wales Miners' Library [hosted by Siān Williams, Librarian, South Wales Miners' Library]
This symposium is being sponsored by: The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, The British Academy, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and by Swansea University. To book your place please contact: Professor Chris Williams ([log in to unmask]) / 01792 602318 / 07814 234403
Elisabeth Bennett
Archivist
Library & Information Services
Swansea University
Singleton Park
Swansea
SA2 8PP
Tel: 01792 295021
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