| Record of activities in 2013 at KURCPI |
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- Research Seminar No.144, 9 December 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「Communicating Climate Change, Disaster and Crisis in the Pacific」
Evangelia Papoutsaki (Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand)
The Pacific Islands region has been on the focus of the climate change debate in the last few years. Several islands are already experiencing the impact of climate change on their small economies, cultures and fragile natural habitat. This has brought to attention the need to establish stronger communication mechanisms and install a range of media and communication platforms to provide access to early warning systems before a disaster and communication during disaster response. As the complexity of the media and communication environment of this region increases with the arrival of new technologies, questions remain about the appropriateness of ICTs for use during emergencies and disasters. There is also a greater need for understanding the possibilities of integrating ICTs like mobile phones into media and communication plans for disaster response technologies like radio.
This research presentation is based on the PACMAS State of Media and
Communication Report 2013, undertaken across 14 Pacific Island nations
and through a partnership between RMIT University (Australia), the University
of Goroka (Papua New Guinea) and UNITEC (New Zealand). The presentation
focuses on aspects of climate change and emergency and crisis communication
systems through the research’s key components (media policy, systems, capacity
building and content). It gives some key findings that highlight the urgency
of developing and sustaining systems of communication vital for these island
nations.
The research was guided by the principles of Communicative Ecology and
Communication for Development (C4D) that deliberately encompass all forms
and modes of communication, including community radio, information and
communication technology (ICT) initiatives, and processes such as community
dialogue along with the more traditional mass media.
- Research Seminar No.143, 25 November 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「Mesozoic to Cenozoic Vertebrate fossils from Kyushu Island and Southwest
Islands」
ＮＡＫＡＹＡ Ｈｉｄｅｏ (Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University)
The oldest vertebrate fossil from Kyushu Island and Southwest Islands
was carnivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (130 million years ago)
of the Mesozoic.
Kyushu Island and Southwest Islands were a part of the Asian Continent
since the Mesozoic. Mesozoic dinosaurs and Early Cenozoic mammals were
identified similar taxonomic group to continental vertebrates.
The Japanese Islands was separated from the Asian Continents after the
Middle Miocene (15 million years ago) of the Late Cenozoic. Since this
age, vertebrates started characteristic evolution in the Japanese Islands
and immigrated from/to continent during low sea level age, and then extant
vertebrate fauna of Kyushu Island and Southwest Islands were established.
- Research Seminar No.142, 21 October 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「The cultivated and domesticated plants in Prehistoric Japan and the origins
seen from recent paleoethnobotanical studies」
OBATA Hiroki (Faculty of Letters, Kumamoto University)
As well-known Japan is one of “the secondary origins” of cereal cultivation, represented by rice and millets, in Prehistoric East Asia. In general speaking agricultural society in Japan was established with rice cultivation on paddy field introduced from the Korean Peninsula in the earliest Yayoi Period. However some theories represented by “Shoyoujurin-bunka-ron” argued by a geographer, Takaaki Sasaki have been emphasizing that some domesticated plants such as taro and millets were introduced from South Asian continental zone or Southern China and cultivated on slash-and-burn fields before Yayoi Period and the agricultural complex is a significant foundation for forming the modern Japanese culture. Although some plants were cultivated in Jomon Period surely and then the theory is not at all a fiction, some unreliable domesticated plants which have not been demonstrated thorough the recent scientific inspections sufficiently are contained. Since 2000 the paleoethnobotanical studies especially on Jomon Period have been progressing with new effective methods to seek and to determine the domesticated plants such as “impression method” and AMS 14C dating as well as the development of identification methods for seeds and pollen. For example, using these analytical methods it is demonstrated that some indigenous plants, such as barnyard millet, adzuki bean, and soybean were domesticated by Jomon people. Before the discoveries of the bean impressions in the Jomon pottery these beans had been recognized to be introduced from China in Yayoi Period.
In the presentation the cultivated and domesticated plants in Jomon and
the origins will be shown mainly based on the results of studies using
“impression method”.
- Research Seminar No.141, 30 September 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「On the site of the Festival of Pacific Arts」
KOIDE Hikaru (Libraly of Pacific Arts)
It was in 1972 that the 1st Festival of South Pacific Arts was held in
Fiji. 40 years have passed since then, and the 11th Festival was held in
Solomon Islands last year. Koide has been in charge of filming of this
festival since the 4th in 1985 when the festival changed it's name to Festival
of Pacific Arts.
How one is involved in this festival may depend on his or her position. Being an reporter, one will confront issues that would not be normally recorded officislly and will have to deal with them beforehand , or on the spot.
This report surveys the past festivals and their organizational features while refferring to those off-the-record issues. For the purpose of time saving, the respective features will be summarized in the form of a resume. Instead, a video images will be prerared that will convey the actual mood of the festivals more vividly.
- Research Seminar No.140, 17 June 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Celtic Perspective」
CHIYODA Natsuo (Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University)
Many studies on F. Scott Fitzgerald mention the writer’s Irish blood which comes from his mother, but we can hardly find what actually analyzes how it worked in Fitzgerald’s works or his identity itself. Paying attention to that Celtic background, in this presentation, I’d like to especially focus on the imagery of “island” in the works, which is the basic element of Celt as well. As many “islands” in The Great Gatsby are symbolically and effectively used, “island” can be the key to the broader theme “what is Fitzgerald’s own romanticism?”
- Research Seminar No.139, 27 May 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「Cultural Characterize of 'Namdo' in Korea」
LEE, Yoon Sun (Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima University)
Namdo means Southwest region in Korean peninsula. The configuration system
of the south east countries which is called "Northeast Asia Mediterranean".
It explains the different styles in the south seas of Korea which has more
than 3,000 islands. The first point is about tidal flats and many islands.
There are a lot of saltern(salt field). The second point is food. The famous
salted sea foods can expanded in the triangle area in south Asia, south
China and Japan and Korea. Now is Namdo peoples like Kimchi with hot pepper,
but north region(North Korea)people don’t like red pepper it. So it can
be easily defined if the food is from the north or from the south. The
third is ritual and dance of shaman. In Korea, there are two styles of
Shamans which is divided by the Han River, North and South. Northern Shaman's
dancing style is jumping and skipping and uses about 20 colorful clothes
in just one ritual. Southern Shaman's wears only one or two garbs and dominated
by the color white. She only sings songs, plays music and dances. The fourth
is song and music. According to my observation, Okinawa and AmamiOshima
has some similarities on shaman practices. The last is funeral and burial.
There are two different styles of Burial in Namdo. The cultural styles
that we have learned today have currently been combined. I have much interesting
about cultural relevance of the southern Korea and southern Japan cultures.
It is admittedly sea and island culture from South Pacific.
- Research Seminar No.138, 11 May 2013
14:30-, Room #101, Faculty of Law, Economic and Humanities
「Ecosophy of Felix Guattari and Contemporary Philosophy」
Stephanne Nadaud (CME de Montreuil)
Felix Guattari (1930-1992) is the thinker of the late 20th century who was an active psychoanalysis in various fields, social movements, and political thought. After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, an international trend to re-evaluate the ecological thought of Guattari is growing. The thought of Guattari, which has pursued the way of knowledge (Ecosophy) to re-capture as "ecology" the mind, the society and the environmental not to cut them off each other, is an important guideline in considering the way of the modern world. In this presentation, through the decoding of such thought of Guattari, I would like to discuss the direction and role of the contemporary philosophy in the ecological problem.
- Research Seminar No.137, 15 April 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「My 40 Years Fascinated with the Foraminifera」
HATTA Akio (Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University)
It is the beginning of “foraminifera research” that the foraminiferal
fossil came out from the field, when I was student. When I lived in Chiba
Prefecture, I investigated the foraminiferal fossil from Boso Peninsula,
and the foraminiferal fossil in the Late Paleozoic of Thailand. After I
came to Kagoshima University, I investigated the fossil foraminifera from
southern part of the Tanegashima, and recent foraminifera from various
parts of Kagoshima. When I stayed in the University of the Ryukyus as a
researcher about ten months, I studied the foraminifera of the “sekisei-syou-ko”(coral-reef
lagoon), and created the monograph of recent foraminifera of this lagoon.
Since the “Nankaiken” of the past of “Tousyoken”, I have joined the investigation
party to Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and Papua New
Guinea, and have investigated the recent foraminifera. As a person of science
education, I also studied and proposed about the practical use to the science
education of the foraminifera. I introduce and explain the foraminifera
produced from the investigation area in this lecture.
- Research Seminar No.136, 18 February 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「My Ecological Research of a Tropical Forest during the Last 40 Years」
YONEDA Tsuyoshi (Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University)
My ecological research could be started at the Pasoh Forest Reserve in
Peninsular Malaysia in 1972, and be followed at Ulu Gadut, Padang area
in West Sumatra from 1980. Forest area in Sumatra has been reduced by half
during the period from 1985 to 2007. A forest in Ulu Gadut has been also
largely damaged from illegal logging and severe drought weather after the
middle of 90’s. These dynamic changes of stand structure could be observed
during the period through field observation. Big canopy trees have suffered
from high stress under unstable environmental conditions in a fragmented
tropical forest because of their high physiological activities. I now interests
in behavior of these big trees. Regeneration process at a selective logging
site in the tropics is my present research topics in Pasoh. The outline
of these researches would be presented.
- Research Seminar No.135, 28 January 2013
16:30-, The Interdivisional Education and Research Building , 5th Floor
「Island as metaphor in contemporary thought ?Study of the Deleuzian concept of
Island?」
KONDO Kazunori (Faculty of Law, Economic and Humanities, Kagoshima University)
In this presentation, we discuss the concept of Island in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze (1924-1995). In my opinion, the image
of Island is becoming especially important for the contemporary thought of trying
to discuss ecology. I would like to report also on the recent developments
in this area.
The Deleuzian concept of Island (ile) is produced in the "Cause et raison des iles desertes" which
is the oldest of his unpublished texts, and it appears again in "appendices
II- Michel Tournier et le monde sans autrui " in Logic du sens (1969). These texts have a common characteristic of including the critical
consideration to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Moreover, the latter paper mainly treats consideration about Michelle Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du pacifique (1967), which can be referred to as having realized Deleuze’s criticism
romantically. In this presentaition, I also would like to begin consideration
of the Deleuzian concept of Island by comparing these two novels.
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