Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: Centre for Documentation & Area-Transcultural Studies


	C-DATS founded in 2002, has been granted the Centre of Excellence status by the MEXT, Government of Japan

	* Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) * Japan Society for the Promotion of Science * Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS)

International Conference

Creating an Archive Today: Decisions, Uses, Documentation

Announcement for an International Conference

"Creating an Archive Today:
Decisions, Uses, Documentation"

Date: 18th (Thu.)-19th (Fri.) December 2003
Place: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Room #115
Inquiries: Centre for Documentation & Area-Transcultural Studies
Telephone / FAX: +81 (0)42-330-5540
E-mail: 21archive@tufs.ac.jp

About this Conference (PDF file)

Abstracts (PDF file)

Programme

18th (Thursday)
	9:30	Welcome address:
		FUJII, Takeshi
		Introductory remarks:
		Anil Sethi

		*1st Session: Creating the Archive*
		Chair : FUTAKI, Hiroshi
	10:00-10:30	"Amalgam and anomaly: The case of the India Office Records"
		Graham Shaw
	10:30-11:00	"From destruction of records to recovery of memory: Creating archives in Asia"
		ANDO, Masahito
	11:00-11:30	"Education and memory: School Heritage Galleries in Singapore"
		Uma Devi
	11:30-11:45	Break
	11:45-12:00	Discussant's remarks:
		ITO, Toshikatsu
	12:00-13:00	Discussion
	13:00-13:15	Inauguration of the Centre's Digital Library Network System (Dilins)
	13:15-14:30	Lunch Break

		*2nd Session: Creating Non-Exploitative Networks*
		Chair: MATSUMOTO, Shusaku
	14:30-15:00	*"Shared patrimony: An archival Double Entendre"*
		James Nye
	15:00-15:30	"Scholarly research, library collections, and the rise of digital information : Three decades of troubled history"
		David Magier
	15:30-16:00	"Oral history in Indonesia: The case of the 1965 massacre"
		Asvi Warman Adam
	16:00-16:15	Break
	16:15-16:30	Discussant's remarks:
		MUTA, Shohei
	16:30-17:30	Discussion
	18:00-20:00	Reception

19th (Friday)
		*3rd Session: Creating (New) Histories*
		Chair: KOTANI, Hiroyuki
	10:00-10:30	"Another history, another view: Nineteenth-century Javanese Islamic didactic texts"
		SUGAHARA, Yumi
	10:30-11:00	"History without archives: On the possibility of writing Thai social history before the nineteenth Century"
		Lorraine Gesick
	11:00-11:15	Break
	11:15-11:45	"Courts, ship-rolls and letters: Reflections of the Indian labour diaspora"
		Crispin Bates
	11:45-12:15	"After the record: Reflections of an Indian historian"
		Shahid Amin
	12:15-13:15	Lunch Break
	13:15-13:30	Discussant's remarks:
		NAKANO, Satoshi
	13:30-14:30	Discussion
	14:30-14:45	Break
	14:45-16:45	General Discussion
		Chair: AWAYA, Toshie

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