International symposium to be hosted by the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University “Glocal Changes in Provincial Cities: Comparing South Korea and Japan”
event date:2018.10.13
The Center for Glocal Studies is hosting the following symposium. No registration is required and admission is free.
This event forms part of Seijo University’s MEXT-supported Research Branding Program for Private Universities.
International symposium to be hosted by the Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
“Glocal Changes in Provincial Cities: Comparing South Korea and Japan”
＜Dates & Venue＞
Date : Saturday, October 13, 2018 14:00–17:00
Venue : Large conference room, Floor 3, Building 3, Seijo University.
Directions can be found here
(The venue is a four-minute walk from Seijogakuen-mae Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line)
Hosted by : Center for Glocal Studies, Seijo University
Language : Korean (with interpreter), Japanese
＜For further information＞
Center for Glocal Studies (CGS), Seijo University
Seijo 6-1-20, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8511, Japan
Phone: 03-3482-1497 Fax: 03-3482-9740
Email: glocalstudies[at]seijo.ac.jp
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＜Speakers and themes＞
Presentation 1 :
Young-Geun Kim (Korea University)
“Olympic Development and Local Community Creation: The Gap Between Theory and Reality”
Presentation 2 :
Hee-Yong Lee (Seoul Theological University)
“Recent Trends and Issues Regarding Tomikawa Studies”
Presentation 3 :
Hyun-Cheol Choi (Chung-ang University)
“A Theoretical Examination of the Development of Local Studies”
Moderator/coordinator
Atsuhisa Yamamoto (Seijo University)
Commentators
Yukie Hirata (Japan Woman’s University)
Masahiko Aoyama (Seijo University)
Interpreter and Korean coordinator
Hyun-Suk Oh (Seoul Theological University)
＜Summary/objective＞
On March 22–23, 2018, Atsuhisa Yamamoto (Seijo University) and Takeshi Arimoto (International Christian University) met at the Global Humanities Institute at Seoul Theological University to organize a symposium, with a view to promoting joint research with Seijo University’s Center for Glocal Studies. It was decided to hold a symposium in South Korea, under the theme “How Does Globalization Transform Local Cities?” Then, on Friday, May 18, a conference was held in Seoul Theological University’s Global Humanities Institute, under the title “2018 Korea-Japan Academic Conference: Local Studies, Development, and the International Case Reports” (hosted by the Global Humanities Institute, Seoul Theological University).
At the event, Takeshi Arimoto delivered a presentation titled “Urban Symbols and Problems: Focusing on Mojiko Retro in Kitakyushu.” The presentation concerned “Mojiko Retro,” a tourist attraction around Moji Port. Moji is a port town that once saw flourishing trade, primarily with the Korean Peninsula. Arimoto described how Mojiko, having ended its life as an international port, underwent a renaissance as a tourist attraction that played upon the port’s history—a unique local narrative that has distinguished the port amid the homogenizing tide of global consumerism.
Atsuhisa Yamamoto then delivered a presentation titled “Provincial Cities After the Olympics: Focusing on Nagano.” Nagano is a provincial city that held the Nagano Olympics in 1998. Twenty years after that global sporting event, Nagano still shoulders vast debts and has huge sporting facilities. Yamamoto discussed how the city has coped with this negative legacy, and how it has conversely rebuilt itself by leveraging the global impact of the Nagano Olympics.
The symposium to be held in Seijo University on October 13 will build on these two presentations. It will feature presentations on provincial cities or local spaces in South Korea and on how such spaces are shaped by globalization. The presentations on both South Korean and Japanese cases will prompt a comparative analysis of the global impacts upon local cities in the two countries. How exactly do global phenomena metamorphose in local contexts, how do they interact with local phenomena, and how do they generate unique forms? Focusing on provincial cities in South Korea and Japan, the symposium will explore the processes and power relations in glocal phenomena—where the global and local intersect, interplay, and metamorphose.
