COMPARING COALFIELDS IN BRITAIN AND JAPAN SYMPOSIUM
WEDNESDAY 9TH MARCH 2011
1030 Coffee and Welcome: Professor Chris Williams (Swansea University)
1100-1300: Session One – Japan in Comparative Context
[Chair: Chris Williams]
- Professor Hideo Nakazawa (Chuo University) – Japan’s Coalfields in Comparative Context
- Dr Quentin Outram (University of Leeds): The Industrialization of Japan in Comparative Context
1300 Lunch
1400-1530:Session Two — Postgraduate Papers[Chair: Sian Williams]
- Daryl Leeworthy (Swansea University) – Workers’ Fields: Miners’ Welfare, Public Recreation and Social Democracy in the Inter-War South Wales Coalfield
- Hiroto Inoue (Waseda University) — Fifteen Years ofAkabira After the Closure: Stories Uncovered, Memories Rebuilt
1600 Tea
1630-1830: Session Three – Contrasting Welsh Coalfields
[Chair: Elisabeth Bennett]
- Dr Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton) – The North Wales Coalfield: A Miner Example?
- Dr Steve Thompson (Aberystwyth University) – Striking Chords: Miners’ Strikes and Jazz Bands in the 1920s
1900 Dinner
2000: Session Four — Dr Leighton James (Swansea University)
– Comparing Coalfields: Methods and Approaches
[Chair: Quentin Outram]
THURSDAY 10TH MARCH 2011
0900-1100: Session Five – Investigating Regeneration
[Chair: Hideo Nakazawa]
- Dr Heike Doring (Cardiff University) – From the Margins to the Centre and Back: Trajectories of Regeneration in Two Coalfields
- Professor Naoko Shimazaki (Waseda University) – Regeneration in the Joban Coalfield: the Role of Local Government
1030 Coffee
1100 – 1300: Session Six — Postgraduate Papers [Chair: Leighton James]
- Ritchie Wood (Swansea University) – Digging for Victory? South Wales miners at War
- Aled Eirug (Swansea University) – Anti-War movements in the South Wales coalfield
- Alun Burge (South Wales Co-Operative History Project) – Co-Operation in the Coalfields: A Distinctive Cultural Phenomenon?
1300 Lunch
1400 – 1600: Session Seven — Coal as a Global Industry [Chair: Jane Elliott]
- Mr Kei’ichi Sawaguchi (Taisho University) – Employment Practices and Trade Unions in the Japanese Coalfields: Towards an International Comparative Study
- Dr Brian McCook (Leeds Metropolitan University) – Migration, Technology Transfer and the Global Coal Industry
1600 Tea and Close