Workshop on the Connections in Water History: France-Japan, Early Modern-Modern, Engineering-History

Le Centre de recherches sur le Japon co-organise avec M. Shinichiro NAKAMURA ( Professeur à l'Université de Nagoya, chercheur invité du CRJ en 2023-2024) un workshop international qui se tiendra en mode hybride, les 13 et 14 mars 2024.

Workshop en mode hybride - en anglais, français et japonais avec interprète

EHESS, 54 boulevard Raspail 75006 Paris

• 13 mars 10h à 18h30, salle AS1_08
• 14 mars 9h30 à 12h30, salle BS1_28
• 14 mars 13h30 à 18h30, salle AS1_08

Inscription en présentiel : shinichiro@civil.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Assister au workshop en ligne : lien Zoom 

Day 1

“Continuity between the Early Modern and Modern Periods in Japan” (in Japanese) [Moderator] Guillaume CARRÉ (EHESS) & Mathieu FAURE (EHESS)

• 10:00-10:10 [Opening/Welcome Speech] Aleksandra KOBILJSKI, EHESS, CRJ
• 10:10-10:50 Takaki NISHIYAMA, Nihon University, “Irrigation Water and Engineers in Early Modern Japan -The figure of Saizo Ōhata of the Kishū Clan in the mid-Edo period” (Japanese, on-line)
• 10:50-11:30 Hideyuki ICHIKAWA, University of Shiga Prefecture, “Traditional Levees in the Early Modern Japan” (Japanese, on-line)
• 11:30-12:10 Jun TERAMURA, Dai-ichi Institute of Technology, “Classification and Modern Significance of Traditional Levees in Japan” (Japanese, on-line)
• 12:10-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-14:10 Kazumasa IWAMOTO, Kyoto Institute of Technology, “Dutch Engineer's Perspectives on the Developments of Port Cities in Modern Japan” (Japanese, on-line)
• 14:10-14:50 Julia Mariko JACOBY, University of Duisburg-Essen, “Water control in Modern Japan as 'pidgin knowledge” (Japanese, in person)
• 14:50-15:30 Discussion
• 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00-18:00 [Keynote] Sabine BARLES, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, “Socio-ecological history of Paris, its rivers et and its watershed, 18th-20th centuries” (French, in person, translated by VINCENT FUJII Yumi)
• 18:30 Welcome party

Day 2

“History of Human-Urban Water Interaction in Japan-France” (in English, French and Japanese with interpreter) [Moderator] Aleksandra KOBILJSKI (EHESS) & Cyrian PITTELOUD (Lille University)

• 09:30-10:30 Koichi WATANABE, National Institute of Japanese Literature, “Edo’s water system and flooding” (Japanese, in person, translated by Cyrian PITTELOUD)
• 10:30-11:30 Reiji IWABUCHI, Gakushuin Women's College, “Edo's Urban Environment: Environmental Problems in an Early Modern City” (Japanese, in person, translated by Aleksandra KOBILJSKI)
• 11:30-12:30 Michiko HAYASHI, Kansai University, “The Kamogawa River Landscape in the Kyoto’s Early Modern and the Modern Era” (Japanese, in person, translated by VINCENT FUJII Yumi)
• 12:30-13:30 Lunch
• 13:30-14:30 Frédéric GRABER, EHESS, CRH, “Needs and growth : rhetorical tools in parisian watersupply projects (18th-19th Centuries)” (French, in person, translated by VINCENT FUJII Yumi)
• 14:30-15:30 Shinichiro NAKAMURA, Nagoya University, “Lost rivers in Modern Tokyo” (English and Japanese, in person)
• 15:30-15:45 Coffee Break
• 15:45-16:45 Junko SANADA, Tokyo Institute of Technology “Circular Greenbelt and Rivers in Tokyo before World War II” (Japanese, in person, translated by VINCENT FUJII Yumi)
• 16:45-17:45 Laurence LESTEL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, “How the Seine River was transformed since the 19th century to fulfill Paris expectations” (English, in person, translated by Shinichiro NAKAMURA)
• 17:45-18:25 Discussion
• 18:25-18:30 [Closing]