R IH N 1 3t h I nt ernat i onal Symp osium
第13回地球研国際シンポジウム

Humanities onthe Ground:

Confronting theAnthropocene in Asia
アジアから人類世を問い直す :現実に寄り添う人文学を目指して
Lecture Hall,Res ear c h Insti tute fo r
Human ity and N at u r e
Kyoto, Japan

総合地球環境学研究所 講演室〒603-8047 京都市北区上賀茂本山 457 番地 4

December

13 -14, 2018

Language

English日本語同時通訳あり

Session 1

Knowledge, science, andthe experience of nature

自然を表現する ― 知識、科学、自然体験
Session 2

Facing the ever-present
agency of environment

Keynote Address

Risk and Responsibility
in the Anthropocene
Sheila Jasanoff

主体としての環境と向かいあう
Session 3

Professor, John F. Kennedy School ofGovernment, Harvard University, USA

Management systems ofthe Anthropocene

人類世が作り出す社会・生態システム
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R IHN 1 3 th Inte rnat i on al S ym p osi u m
第 1 3 回 地球研国際シンポジ ウ ム

Humanities on the Ground:

Confronting the Anthropocene in Asia
アジアから人類世を問い直す : 現実に寄り添う人文学を目指して

Initially formulated to indicate humankindʼs total
impact on the global environment, the concept of theThursday ‒ December

Anthropocene draws all humanity into Earth history.
Especially in the modern period of dramatichuman-environmental change, it distinguishes thetechno-scientific management of the ʻEarth Systemʼ .
At the same time, the ʻenvironmental crisisʼ has also
been called a crisis of culture, and thus ofimagination. In this sense, it begs the attention of thehumanities, which have always been concerned withthe human experience, even as it challenges theirunderlying assumptions and practices.
This symposium engages the tripartite challenge facing
humanities scholarship today: the need to expand
beyond Western narrative/disciplinary
super-structures―in which human separation fromnature is a fundamental component―and tosimultaneously address ʻalternativeʼ subjects andsocietal experience and the role of environment andnature itself as constituent element in this experience.
In this sense the Anthropocene concept―useful now as
it encapsulates in a single word the grand theoreticaltradition that has so defined Western understandingsof modernity and nature itself―must be taken down to
the ground, to the lived experience that composes thelong cultural-ecological histories of Asia.
The Anthropocene therefore presents anepistemological problem that, if taken seriously, isalso ultimately an ontological opportunity. The
question of the knowledge that is consideredlegitimate and relevant now as human societies face
rapid social-ecological change is linked so closely toparticular cultural understandings of the agencies
that constitute the known world. How to see suchknowledge, cultures and ecologies in themselves asagents that indeed have also created the Earth?
This symposium asks humanities and interdisciplinary
scholars how to re-conceptualize the significance ofexperience has formed part of an always dynamic, yetchangeable nature.

Risk and Responsibility in the Anthropocene

Keynote Address

Sheila JASANOFF (Harvard University, USA)

Session 1 Chair: Daniel NILES and Masahiro TERADA (RIHN)

Knowledge, science, andthe experience of nature
自然を表現する ― 知識、科学、自然体験

Matthias SCHEMMEL (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany)
Eiko HONDA (University of Oxford, UK)
Chaya VADDHANAPHUTI (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Julia Adeney THOMAS (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Daniel NILES (RIHN, Japan)

Friday ‒ December

主体としての環境と向かいあう

Augustin BERQUE (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France)
Maya KÓVSKAYA (AMOR MUNDI Guerilla Think Tank for Ecological

Justice, Anthoropocene Research and Curatorial Platform, Thailand/USA)

Emily SEKINE (The New School for Social Research, USA)
Julia Mariko JACOBY (Max Planck Institute for the Historyof Science, Germany)

Chair: Steven MCGREEVY and Christoph RUPPRECHT (RIHN)

Session 3

Management systems ofthe Anthropocene
人類世が作り出す社会・生態システム

Atsuro MORITA (Osaka University, Japan)
Stéphane GRUMBACH (INRIA & ENS Lyon, France)
Stephanie PINCETL (Institute of the Environment and Sustainability,

University of California Los Angeles, USA)

Discussion across all sessionsaway
Rail ineanEiz rama LKu

Rakuhoku
HospitalNikenchaya

Sanjo
Sanjokeihan
KarasumaKamo River

Shijo

Kyoto station

To Osaka
JR Tokaido line

Seven-Eleven

Demachiyanagi

Keihan Railway

HankyuRailway
Kyoto line

uranCity Subway
Karasuma line

From Kyoto International Conference Hall, take Route 40 to Nikenchaya.

KokusaikaikanKarasumaoike
City
SubwayTozai line

Kyoto-Seikadai-maestation
Eizan Railway
Kurama Line

RIHN

By City Subway and Kyoto Bus

From Kyoto Station, take the Karasuma Line to Kokusaikaikan Station (the laststation), and transfer to Kyoto Bus.From Kokusaikaikan Station, take bus No. 40, 50
or 52 to Chikyuken-mae. RIHN is at the base of the hill on your left.

To K

Nikenchaya

http://www.chikyu.ac.jp/

By Car, Taxi

Chair: Hein MALLEE (RIHN)

Final Session

457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047, Japan
Tel. 81-75-707-2152 Fax. 81-75-707-2106

From Demachiyanagi Station in Kyoto City, take the Kurama Line.
Get off at Kyoto-Seikadai-mae Station. RIHN is a 10-minute walk from the station.

9:20-17:40

Facing the ever-present
agency of environment

Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature

By Eizan Railway

14, 2018

Session 2 Chair: Kaoru SUGIHARA (RIHN)

the humanities now, in light of the history and modern
day contexts of Asia, in which humankindʼs inevitable

10:00-17:15

Chair: Hein MALLEE (RIHN)

Plenary Session

Earth as a grand collective project and problematic,
so appearing to justify and legitimize a new round of13, 2018

RIHN
Kyoto Bus

Chikyuken-mae
bus stop

To Tokyo

Kitamura
ClinicKyousyakuji
TempleKyoto-Seikadai-mae
stationToDemachiyanagi