Date: 6 June 2005 - 8 June 2005
Place: Palulu
Plaza Kyoto (in front, right, of JR Kyoto Station, map)
Higasinotohin Nanajoh Sagaru, Kyoto 600-8216, Japan
Phone:+81-75-352-7444
FAX:+81-75-352-7390
http://www.pac.ne.jp/5bubble/english/access_e.htm
PROGRAM
June 6
13:00 Welcome speech by
T. Hidaka (Director-General, RIHN)
The Indus Civilization (Convener: J. Kharakwal, JRN Rajasthan U.)
13:30-14:00 J. M. Kenoyer (U. of Wisconsin)
The Origin, Context and Function
of the Indus Script: Recent Insights from Harappa
14:00-14:30 S. Farmer (Palo Alto; and S.
A. Weber, T. Barela, R. Sproat, M. Witzel)
Temporal and Regional Variations
in the Use of Indus Symbols: New Methods for Studying Harappan Civilization
14:30-15:00 R. Mughal (Boston U.)
The Hakra Cultural Horizon in the
Greater Indus Valley
15:00-15:15 Tea Break
15:15-15:45 Ihsan Ali (Peshawar U.)
(Gandhara and Chitral archaeology)
15:45-16:15 P. Joglekar (Deccan College):
Faunal Studies in India: Methodological
Issue and Prospects
16:15-16:45 A. Parpola (Helsinki U.) & Victor
I. Sarianidi
A new Indus seal excavated at Gonur
(Turkmenistan) in November 2004
16:45-18:00 Discussion
June 7
The Origin of Agriculture (Convener: Y.I. Sato, RIHN)
9:00 - 9.30 P. Bellwood (Australian
National University)
Early Farmers: Issues of Spread
and Migration
9:30 -10:00 Y.I. Sato (RHIN) TBA
10:00-10:15 Tea Break
10:15-10:45 Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy
for Social Science)
New Data for the study on the origin
of agriculture in China
10:45-11:15 P. Matthews (National
Museum of Ethnology, Senri)
The domestication of nutrient cycles:
a useful unifying principle for thinking about the origins of agriculture?
11:15-12:30 Discussion
Lunch
Agricultural vocabulary (Convener: T. Osada, RIHN)
13:30-14:00 M. Witzel (TUFS)
South Asian Agricultural Terms
in Indo-Aryan
14:00-14:30 F. Southworth (U. of Pennsylvania)
Proto-Dravidian Agriculture : Lexical
Reconstructions and Archaeology
14:30-14:45 Tea break
14:45-15:15 T. Osada (RIHN)
How many Proto-Munda words in Sanskrit?
-with special reference to agricultural vocabulary-
15:15-15:45 D. Fuller (Univ. College, London)
Silence before sedentism and the
advent of cash-crops: A status report on early agriculture in South Asia
from plant domestication to the development of political economies
16:00-17:30 Discussion
June 8
Anthropology (Convener: K. Shinoda, National Science Museum, Tokyo)
9:00-9:30 P. Underhill (Stanford U.)
Interpreting Y chromosome diversity:
pitfalls and promise. An example from SW Asia
9:30-10:00 N. Saitou (National Institute
of Genetics)
Relationship between genetic
and linguistic differentiation of people in Eurasia
10:00-10: 30 Mark Hudson (Tsukuba University)
Long-Range Comparisons and the
Study of Japanese Ethnogenesis
10:30-10:45 Tea break
10:45-11:15 Jin Feng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Factitiousness Selection? — concerning
about formation of majority Han Chinese
11:15-1200 R. Villems (Tartu U. / Pres., Estonian Academy
of Sciences)
(The Earth Diver Myth and Genetics)
12:00-12:30 Discussion
Lunch
Comparative mythology (Convener: M. Witzel, Harvard U.)
13.30-14.00 A. Yoshida (Gakushuin U.)
Dumézil and Comparative
Studies of Eurasian Myth
14:00-14:30 N. Allen (Oxford U.)
Indo-European Epics and Comparative
Method: Pentadic Structures in Homer and the Mahabharata
14.30-15:00 T. Goto (Tohoku U.)
Asvin and Nasatya in the Rgveda
and their prehistoric background
15:00-15:15 Tea Break
15:15- 15:45 M. Witzel (Harvard U.)
Creation Myths in Eurasia and beyond
15:45-16.15 W. van Binsbergen (Leiden U.)
A preliminary attempt to situate
sub-Saharan African ‘creation’ myths within a long-range intercontinental
comparative perspective
16:15-17:30 Discussion
sgd. Y.I. Sato (RHIN), T. Osada (RHIN), M. Witzel (Harvard U.)
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Hotel information:
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New Miyako
- Hokke
Club map
- Daini
Tower
Conf. Location: Map of Kyoto JR area
How
to reach Kyoto [disregard 12th
IEEE info] and much more useful
information on Japan
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Y.I Sato, sato@chikyu.ac.jp,
T. Osada, osada@chikyu.ac.jp,
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
335 Takashima-cho, Marutamachi-dori Kawaramachi nishi-iru,
Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0878
Phone : 075-229-6111
Fax : 075-229-6150
Michael Witzel, witzel@fas.harvard.edu
Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
1 Bow Street , Cambridge MA 02138
1-617-495 3295
Fax: 496 8571
direct line: 496
2990
http://witzel@fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm
