A Comparative Study of “Indigenous Knowledge” and “Modern Science”

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 25244043

THE 4TH IK & MS PROJECT MEETING 1130-1201, 2013

<The 4th IK & MS Project Meeting 1130-1201, 2013>
A Comparative Study of “Indigenous Knowledge” and “Modern Science”

PDFVer.→Kagoshima IK & MS Meeting Program 1130-1201 2013

Date: November 30, 2013 10:00 a.m.-18:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 101 of Faculty of Low, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University  →Access

<presenter>
Keiichi Omura (Osaka University)
Atsuro Morita (Osaka University)
Henry Stewart (Shunwa Honda)(The Open University of Japan)
Kazunori Kondo(Kagoshima University)

<Program>
10:00  Welcome Address & Introduction Keiichi Omura
10:15  Mundi Machina (Worlds-generating Machines): Dynamics of Interactions and Realities
Keiichi Omura
11:15  Break
11:30  A Cyborg Delta: Making infrastructures and Intermediary Spaces in the Lower Chao Phraya River Basin in Thailand
Atsuro Morita
12:30  Lunch
13:40  Local knowledge, climate change, subsistence (mal) adaptations
Henry Stewart (Shunwa Honda)
14:40  Break
14:55  Study of comparability of indigenous knowledge and modern science
Kazunori Kondo
15:55  Break
16:15  Comments
Casper Jensen, Shiho Satsuka
17:30  General Discussion
18:00  Banquet

<Excursion to JAXA Space Port of Tanegashima(*申込者のみ)>

Date: December 1, 2013

Assembly time: 07:20am
Place of assembly: Port of Kagoshima(種子・屋久高速旅客ターミナル:高速船トッピー&ロケット乗り場)

07:40am  departure from Port of Kagoshima (Toppii 111)
09:05am  arrival at Port of Tanegashima
09:20am-10:50am  transfer by rental-cars from Port of Tanegashima to JAXA Space Port
11:00am-12:15pm  a tour through JAXA Space Port