Schedule
Friday September 26, 2014
9:00 - 9:20am Opening Remarks Steven Vogel (CJS chair) Masayuki Izutsu (JSPS San Francisco Director) 9:20 – 10:00am Scopes of the Symposium Junko Habu Session 1: Change and Continuities in Socio-Economic Systems Chair: Junko Habu 10:00-10:25am Food Systems and Climate Change Fritjof Capra 10:25-10:50am Household-scale Economies on the Northwest Coast: A Lower Columbia River Case Study Kenneth Ames 10:50-11:10am Break 11:10-11:35am Left-handedness, the Right Angle, and Societal Verticality: Reflections on Hocart’s Theory of Hierarchy William Balée 11:35am-12:00pm Discussion Session 2: Linking the Archaeology of Small-Scale Societies to Ethnography Chairs: Shingo Hamada and Takanori Oishi 1:30-1:55pm Population Change and Social Change in Northern Japan during the Jomon Period Tatsuhito Sekine 1:55-2:20pm Vulnerability and Resilience on the North Pacific Rim: Climate Oscillation, Political Economy and Pandemic Ben Fitzhugh 2:20-2:55pm The Study of Place-Based, Small Scale Societies in California: A Case Study from Central California Kent Lightfoot, Rob Cuthrell and Peter Nelson 2:55-3:15pm Break 3:15-3:40pm Decentralization, Local Autonomy and Resource Management Practices in Coast Salish Societies of the Northwest Coast: Lessons from the Small Scale Colin Grier 3:40-4:05pm Revitalizing Broad-spectrum Economies: From the Scope of Archaeology and Ethnography Leo Aoi Hosoya 4:05-4:30pm Discussion |
Saturday, September 27
Session 3: Cultivating Trans-disciplinary Knowledge and Practice Chair: Daniel Niles 9:15-9:40am Agroecologically Efficient Agricultural Systems for Rural and Urban Smallholder Farmers: Contributions to Food Sovereignty Miguel Altieri and Clara Nicholls 9:40-10:05am Towards Sustainable Remediation of Arsenic- Contaminated Soils Céline Pallud, Sarick Matzen, and Anders Olson 10:05-10:20am Break 10:20-10:45am No-tillage with Weed Green Mulch: Extension of Fukuoka’s Natural Farming Nobuhiro Kaneko 10:45-11:10am How Can Researchers Contribute to Promote Local Institutional Ecosystem Governance in the Coastal Zone of Asia? Satoshi Ishikawa 11:10-11:40am Discussion Session 4: Small-scale Economies in the Present and Future Chair: Leo Aoi Hosoya 1:00-1:25pm Food Diversity, Interethnic Relationships, and Long- term Sustainability of Forest Use in Central African Tropical Rainforests Takanori Oishi 1:25-1:50pm Farmers’ Markets in a “Dual Economy” of Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture Yuko Sugiyama 1:50-2:05pm Break 2:05- 2:30pm Household-scale Fisheries and Environmental Change in Northern Japan Shingo Hamada 2:30-2:55pm Re-Weaving Hope: Tsunami Survivors, Local Reciprocity Networks, and Futurity Mayumi Fukunaga 2:55-3:20pm Discussion 3:20-4:20pm Concluding Discussion Discussants: Daniel Niles and Steven Weber 4:20-4:30pm Closing Remarks Junko Habu Sunday, September 28 CLOSED SESSION |