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Conference Ancient Japan - Origins and Formation (January 23—24, 2009)
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The Chair for Japanese Language and Literature is glad to be in a position to welcome a substantial number of scholars from various parts of the world in Bochum early this January.
Our interdisciplinary conference Ancient Japan - Origins and Formation brings together senior as well as junior scholars from the fields of archaeology, history and linguistics to shed light on much debated questions concerning, for instance, Japanese ethnogenesis or the early and pre-history of Japan and her continental connections. Among the linguistic topics to be dealt with are issues pertaining to the Japanese language in its earliest attested stage (Old Japanese) as well as to adjacent languages (e.g. Ainu) and the genealogical positioning of the Japonic language family, comprising both Japanese proper and Ryūkyūan.
A distinguishing feature of our conference is the active involvement of local students: These will not merely constitute part of the audience and have the chance to experience and meet a number of renowned scholars at their home university. Both advanced students focussing on Japanese history as well as those majoring in Japanese linguistics have been encouraged to give a talk on a topic of their choice, thus providing them with an opportunity to present the results of their own research in front of an expert audience.
The conference site, Hof Beckmann, is in close proximity to the University of Bochum and its botanical garden (click here for a satellite view centered on Hof Beckmann in Google Maps). Directions as to how to reach the hotel booked for external guests, the conference site as well as the venues for the evening programs on Friday and Saturday have been sent to all participants separately.
| time | length | speaker | title |
| 9:00 | 0:30 | Registration & coffee |
| 9:30 | 0:10 | Opening address |
| 9:40 | 1:00 | Prof. Dr. Gina Barnes | The Yamato-Paekche alliance and its effects on continental immigration to Japan |
| 10:40 | 0:20 | Break |
| 11:00 | 0:30 | Prof. Dr. Juha Janhunen | The origin of Japanese — Recapitulating a position |
| 11:30 | 0:30 | Dr. des. Sven Osterkamp | Mokkan, man'yōgana and the age of Sino-Japanese as we know it |
| 12:00 | 0:30 | Michael Mattner, BA | Sword form changes from China to Japan during the Kofun and Nara periods — When do true Japanese swords really appear? |
| 12:30 | 1:20 | Lunch |
| 13:50 | 1:00 | Prof. Dr. Takubo Yukinori 田窪行則 | On the tonal system and its realization rules of Ikema Ryukyuan |
| 14:50 | 0:20 | Break |
| 15:10 | 0:30 | Dr. Barbara Seyock | On mirrors, swords and jewels — Early Japanfs relations to mainland East Asia |
| 15:40 | 0:30 | Heinrich Born, cand. BA | Japanese place names in the context of the development of the Yamato state |
| 16:10 | 0:30 | Prof. Dr. Alexander Vovin | Distribution of the Ainu language in ancient Japan |
| 16:40 | 0:20 | Break |
| 17:00 | 1:00 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Antoni | Kojiki studies and kotodama — On the magic of words and language in ancient Japan |
| 18:00 | Finish |
| time | length | speaker | title |
| 10:00 | 0:15 | Coffee |
| 10:15 | 0:15 | Dean's address |
| 10:30 | 0:30 | Eric Sauer, cand. BA | Poetic usage and etymological background of the makura-kotoba "watatumi" |
| 11:00 | 0:30 | José A. A. de la Fuente, MA | Diachronic typology and the reconstruction of Proto-Ainu |
| 11:30 | 0:30 | Prof. Dr. Tomasz Majtczak | From analytic to synthetic — Structural changes in early Japanese as exemplified by volitive expressions |
| 12:00 | 1:20 | Lunch |
| 13:20 | 0:30 | MdC Dr. Anton Antonov | The role of /+rV/ suffixes in determining the origin of the Japanese language |
| 13:50 | 0:30 | Dr. Kerri Russell | Contraction and Monophthongization in Eastern Old Japanese |
| 14:20 | 0:30 | Dr. Janick Wrona | Some thoughts on the origin of relative clauses in Japanese |
| 14:50 | 0:20 | Break |
| 15:10 | 0:30 | Christopher Griesenhofer, BA | Evidence for loss of prenasalization in Eastern Old Japanese |
| 15:40 | 0:30 | Dr. Elisabeth de Boer | The origin of the split into the nairin, chūrin and gairin tonal types in Japan and the reconstruction of the proto-Japanese tone system |
| 16:10 | 0:30 | Danny Festor, cand. BA | The verb topu ~ twopu in Western Old Japanese |
| 16:40 | 0:20 | Break |
| 17:00 | 1:00 | Dr. Kawasaki Tamotsu 川崎保 | Influence of Northeast Asian culture seen in clay figures (haniwa) at Kofun period in Japan |
| 18:00 | Finish |
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to the organizers.
