Experiences With and Within: Christians in Japan from the 16th Century to the Present Day
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Friday, September 23, 2005
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Saturday, September 24, 2005
9:30 am – 11:30 am Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office
UBC, Institute for Asian Research’s Program in Religion and Public Policy
UBC, Asian Studies with support from President’s Advisory Committee on Lectures and the Faculty of Arts
The basic theme of this event is based on how the world has looked through individual Christian eyes, and how Christians have looked to non-Christians in Japan from the sixteenth century through the present day. Participants have been asked to prepare papers, which will be distributed in advance within the symposium. We expect to have a bound photocopy of the symposium papers available for purchase on September 23. Fifty minutes are assigned to each paper’s introduction by its author and subsequent discussion.
Program
| Friday, September 23 | |
| 8:15 am | Registration and complimentary refreshments |
| 9:00 am | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:15 am | First Panel: The Experiences of Japan’s Earliest Christians Presiding-Prof. Don Baker, Asian Studies, UBC The Confrarias and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan |
| 10:05 am | The Act of Apostasy Jurgis Elisonas, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University |
| 10:55 am | The Experiences of Individual Christians during Christianity’s Underground Years Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia |
| Midday | Exhibit of John Howes’ new book on Uchimura Kanzô, Asian Centre lobby, with refreshments |
| Lunch | Self-provided |
| 2:00 pm | Second Panel: 20th-Century Christians and the Japanese State Presiding-Prof. Julian Dierkes, Institute for Asian Research, UBC |
| 2:05 pm | Nitobe Inazo and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawning of Protestant Christianity in Meiji Japan George M. Oshiro, Obirin University |
| 2:55 pm | From the ‘Spirit of independence’ to National Theology: Rendering Protestant Thought at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University, South Bend |
| 3:45 pm | Kagawa Toyohiko: His Place in 20th-Century Japanese Society and Culture Mark Mullins, Sophia University |
| 4:45 pm | Reception, CK Choi Building, hosted by the Centre for Japanese Research |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner, Asian Centre Auditorium, ticket required |
| 7:30 pm | Uchimura Kanzô Keynote Address by John Howes, Emeritus, UBC |
| Saturday, September 24 | |
| 8:15 am | Complimentary refreshments, Asian Centre Auditorium |
| 9:30 am | Third Panel: Experiences With and Within Presiding-Prof. Peter Nosco, Asian Studies, UBC |
| 9:40 am | Japanese Immigrants and their Christian Communities in North America Ryo Yoshida, Doshisha University |
| 10:45 am | Roundtable discussion of the issues (all panelists), with audience questions and comments |
Please note: The events that begin Friday September 23rd and extend through noon of the 24th are free and open to the public, with the exception of the dinner and keynote address on the 23rd. Tickets for both the dinner and keynote address are available but only through advance purchase, and may be obtained by contacting the Department’s Administrator Maija Scott at maija@interchange.ubc.ca or 604 822-9266.