14th International Conference

of Historical Geographers

ICHG 2009 Kyoto: First Circular



Invitation
Welcome to the 14th International Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG) at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan. It gives me great pleasure to host the first ICHG held in East Asia, where distinctive traditions of historical geography have developed. I hope that the confluence of multiple genealogies in historical geography will inspire the reorientation of alternative perspectives and studies.

Akihiro Kinda
Director ICHG 2009 Organizing Committee


Preliminary Programme


Conference: 23-27 August 2009

23 Aug (Sun): registration, opening session, icebreaker
24 Aug (Mon): paper sessions
25 Aug (Tue): full-day field trips

Option A  Kobe: History and industry of the modern port city
Option B  The memory of Kyoto, 794-2009: Historical landscapes of the capital
Option C  Nara: The ancient capital toward the 1,300th anniversary in 2010
Option D  Lake Biwa: Transformation of the cultural landscape

26 Aug (Wed): paper sessions, conference dinner
27 Aug (Thu): paper sessions, business meeting

Post-conference Field Trip: 28-30 August 2009
Central mountainous Japan: Traditional village life in World Heritage houses


Conference Themes
Papers are invited on all aspects of historical geography, especially the following:

  • Theory and history of historical geography
  • Digital humanities and Historical GIS
  • Mapping, survey and geographical knowledge
  • Nature and environmental change
  • Population, health and welfare
  • Farms, food and rural landscape
  • Urbanism and built environments
  • Industrialization and capitalism
  • Networking, communication and globalization
  • Tourism, sport and recreation
  • Heritage and landscape conservation
  • Power, imperialism and colonialism
  • Historical geographies of East Asia


Important Dates

Submission of Abstracts: 31 January 2009
Acceptance of Papers: 28 February 2009
Early Registration: 31 March 2009


Registration Fees

Early registration*

35,000 yen

Registration**

40,000 yen

Student participants

15,000 yen

Accompanying person

10,000 yen

One day
participants

Regular

15,000 yen

Student

7,000 yen

* before 31 March 2009, ** from 1 April 2009


The registration fees include welcome drinks at the icebreaker (23 Aug) and tea/coffee during the paper sessions. Additional fees apply for the conference dinner (26 Aug), full-day field trip (25 Aug) and post-conference field trip (28-30 Aug).


Organizing Committee

Director: Akihiro Kinda (National Institutes for the Humanities / Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Treasurer: Shinsuke Minamide (Otemon Gakuin University)
Excursion Organizer: Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi (Nagoya University)
Secretary: Taisaku Komeie (Kyoto University)


Website and Contact Information
The second circular including further information on the submission of abstracts, the registration method, field trips, accommodation and detailed programmes will be on our website by the end of November 2008: http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ichg/


ICHG 2009 Organizing Committee
Email: ichg@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Fax: +81-75-761-0692
c/o Department of Geography, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Japan


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updated on 1 Feb 2008