Date: March 30, 2019
Venue: Room 103/104, Main Building, SOKENDAI (Hayama Campus)
10:30+ arrival and welcome
10:45: Introduction: aims and themes of the workshop and wider project
11:00 Panel 1 3x papers (20 minutes) and discussion
- Ian Rapley; From Zilengo to Platzwechsel: Japanese scientists and foreign languages
- Kikuchi Yoshiyuki; Joji Sakurai’s “The Pleasure of a Rigakusha” (1888) revisited: Was there any difference between a “rigakusha” and “kagakusha“?
- Furukawa Yasu; The Careers of Two Umes (Tsuda Ume and Tange Ume): The Making of the Female Kagakusha in Japan
1:45– Panel 2: 2x papers (20 minutes) and discussion
- Ariga Nobumichi; Education and Learning: The Scientific Life of Ryokichi Yatabe, Botanist, in the Early Meiji Period
- NozomiMizushima; The Birth of the “Shimin Kagakusha”: an Overview of the Recent Global Hype and Arguments on the Definition of the “Citizen Scientist”
2:45– Coffee Break
3:00– Panel 3 3x papers (20 minutes) and discussion
- Kenji Ito; When did Japanese physicists become “scientists”?: The primacy of research and Takeuchi Tokio’s artificial radium scandal in the early 1940s
- Akihito Suzuki; From Humanistic Learning and Fieldwork of Drugs to Scientific Pharmacology: Continuities and Changes in Japanese Pharmaceutical Studies c.1800-c.1950
- Yakup Bektas; The Scientist as Wizard and the Engineer as Savior in the Stories of Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)
4:30–Break
4:45–Comments and Concluding discussion on the major themes of the project.
- Sayaka Oki, comments
- General discussion
