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5th international workshop CNRS

University of Tokyo

Comparative Approaches in Social Sciences and Humanities

 Paris, EHESS-MSH, 17-18 December 2009

Venue: Room 214, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 54, Bd. Raspail, 75006 Paris

17 December 2009

9h30 Opening

• François Gipouloux (Research Director, CNRS, Centre Chine Corée Japon, EHESS)
• Nitta Michio (Professor, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Sciences): «The LIA renewal : new objectives and agenda»

10h00-12h30
Session 1. Employment and firm productivity in a comparative perspective

• Nitta Michio, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Sciences, Nohara Hiroatsu Researcher, LEST-CNRS, Caroline Lanciano-Morandat, Researcher, LEST-CNRS, Emilie Lanciano, Assistant Professor, Saint-Etienne University : «Restructuring and employment arrangements in the steel industry: How do Japanese and French firms address the financial and economic crisis?"»

Break

• Flora Bellone, Professor, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, GREDEG: «France-Japan Performance Comparisons based on firm-level datasets : A research agenda»

12h30 Lunch

14h-17h30
Session 2. Maritime Asia, 16th-19th century : Economic and cultural trends

• Haneda Masashi, Professor and Director, The Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo : « Eurasia in the modern period : towards a new world history »

• François Gipouloux, Research Director, CNRS : « Commenda, respondencia and nagegane : preliminary reflections on the trajectory of economic institutions in Mediterranean and South China sea, 13th-17th century »

Break

• Oka Mihoko, Assistant professor, Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo: « Credit transactions in the early 17th century China Sea trade : Chinese traders investing in Japan and Manila »

• Wada Ikuko, Lecturer, Kyoto University: « Within or beyond bounds : Dutch slave trade in India in the 17th and 18th centuries »

18 December

9 :30-13 :00

Session 3 Regional revitalization: SMEs, employment and innovation policies

• Hattori Akira, PhD Candidate, Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS Lyon: « Japanese regional innovation policies and the decentralisation reform »
• Yveline Lecler, Yveline Lecler, Researcher, French Institute of Research Abroad, Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo (UMIFRE 19) and University of Lyon, Institute of East Asian Studies (ENS, CNRS): « Regional disparities and new firms creation in France and Japan »
• Kase Kazutoshi, Professor, Institute of Social Sciences, The University of Tokyo: « Employment supporting measures and SMEs in Japanese rural areas»

Break

 General discussion research projects, financial support, publications, website.

 13 :00 : End of the workshop