18.2954, Confs: Language Documentation/Japan

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Date: 09-Oct-2007
From: Tasaku Tsunoda < tsunoda at tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp >
Subject: Linguapax Asia 2007: Language, Religion and Ethnicity

 

	
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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:16:48
From: Tasaku Tsunoda [tsunoda at tooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp]
Subject: Linguapax Asia 2007: Language, Religion and Ethnicity 
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Linguapax Asia 2007: Language, Religion and Ethnicity 

Date: 21-Oct-2007 - 21-Oct-2007 
Location: Tokyo, Japan 
Contact: Frances Fister-Stoga 
Contact Email: info at linguapax-asia.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.linguapax-asia.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

Linguapax Asia will hold 'Working Session 2007: Language, Religion and
Ethnicity' on the 21st October 2007 (Sunday) at Building 18, Komaba Campus,
University of Tokyo. Please see the following site for the details.

http://www.linguapax-asia.org/ 

Program

9:00  	
Welcome
	
9:15   	
Opening of Session
Frances Fister-Stoga, Director, Linguapax Asia

Morning Session Chair: Jelisava Sethna, Gakushuin University

9:30   	
Nordic Mythology, the Runes, and Ethnic Revivalism
Dr. William Gater, University of the Sacred Heart

10:00  	
Religion and Script: The Interface of Turkic and Arabic 
Huseyin Ozkaya, Meiji University

10:30	
Coffee

11:00  	
The Sense of the Sacred in Navajo Language
Prof. Cary Duval, Bunkyo University

11:30  	
An Urban Japanese-Ainu's Identity Dilemma
Dr. Marek Kaminski, Gender Studies Centre, Oxford University

12:00
Luncheon at Lever Son Verre restaurant, University of Tokyo

13:30
Afternoon Session Chair: Frances Fister-Stoga, University of Tokyo

13:30 	
Biblical and Liturgical Japanese
Dr. Charles De Wolf, Keio University

14:00 	
Latin Revivalism and the Tridentine Mass
Father Joseph O'Leary, Sophia University

14:30	
Coffee	

15:00 	
The Relationship Between the Hebrew Bible and the Hebrew Language
Rabbi Henri Noach, Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Japan; Waseda
University, Faculty of Law

15:30 	
The Freising Manuscripts: The Birth Certificate of Slovene Language
Jelisava Sethna, Gakushuin University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

16:00  	
Janacek's Glagolitic Mass
Steven Morgan, Music Director and Principal Conductor of The British Embassy
Choir; Director of Musical Activities, St. Alban's Church Tokyo

16:30
Coffee

16:45	
Discussion and Closing Statement

17:30 	
Prof. Tasaku Tsunoda, University of Tokyo; Honorary President, 
Linguapax Asia

Registration

There are no registration fees for attending the 2007 Working Session. Seating
is limited. Kindly contact the Director about your attendance in order to secure
a place at the Working Session: fisterstoga at f.email.ne.jp 

Access 

Shibuya - Inokashira Line local train to Komaba Todai-mae

Symposium Administration

Honorary President:  Professor Tasaku Tsunoda, University of Tokyo
Director:		 Frances Fister-Stoga University of Tokyo
Program Director: 	 Jelisava Sethna, Gakushuin University
General Affairs: 	 Cary Duval, Bunkyo University
Website: 			 Melvin R. Andrade, Sophia Junior College






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