Banpaku-Kinen-Koen Sta.

Natural and CulturalGardens park Central Gate

Designated gate to enter the MuseumTicketing gate to enter the Park

Tower of the Sun

Nihon-Teien-Mae Parking Lot

The 1st South Parking Lot

The 2nd South Parking Lot

Central Parking Lot

The East Parking Lot

Chugoku Expressway

Osaka Monorail

Osaka Central Loop

to Route171

to Suita Exit

to Kadoma-shi Sta.to Chugoku-Toyonaka Exit

to Osaka Airport

Bus Stop:Nihon-Teien-Mae

Bus Stop:Shizenbunkaen Nihonteien Chuo

Osaka UniversityHospital Sta.

to Saito Nishi

Koen-Higashi-guchi Sta.

National Museumof Ethnology

East Gate

Nihon-Teien-MaeParking Lot entrance

Nihon-Teien-MaeParking Lot entrance

Walking pathCar route

to JR Ibaraki Sta.

Nihon Teien(Japanese Garden)

2012July 29 9:00-17:30

Description, Documentation and Conservation

● National Museum of Ethnology Auditorium

● With simultaneous interpretation (English, ASL, Japanese, JSL)

P R O G R A M

8:30-9:00　Registration9:00-9:15 　Welcome9:15-10:00 　<Fieldwork Method>

A Field Method Course of Saudi Arabian Sign Language

L. Viola KOZAK & TOMITA Nozomi et al. (Gallaudet University)

10:00-10:15 　Comments: KUBOZONO Haruo (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)

10:15-11:00 　<North America>Exploring the Unexplored: Documenting and Describing Color, Kinship and Num-bers in Inuit Sign Language

Joke SCHUIT (University of Amsterdam)

11:00-11:15 　Comments: MINOURA Nobukatsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Break11:45-12:30 　<Indonesia>

Documenting a Shared Sign Language: The Kata Kolok Corpus

Connie DE VOS (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

12:30-12:45 　Comments: INAGAKI Kazuya (Kyoto University)

Break13:45-14:30 　<South Asia>

Deaf Fieldwork Researchers and Local Communities in the Documentation of Endangered "Village Sign Languages"

Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire)

14:30-14:45 　Comments: KIRYU Kazuyuki (Mimasaka University)

14:45-15:30 　<Australia>With or without Speech: Indigenous Sign Languages from Central AustraliaJennifer GREEN (University of Melbourne)

15:30-15:45 　Comments: Trevor JOHNSTON (Macquarie University)

Break16:15-17:15 　Discussion Chair: Kenneth REHG

(University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)

17:15-17:30 　Closing Remarks

2012July 2813:00-18:00

The MINPAKU International Sign Language and Linguistics Initiative

● National Museum of Ethnology Seminar Room 4 (2nd Floor)

● With simultaneous interpretation (English, ASL, Japanese, JSL)

P R O G R A M

13:00-13:10　Welcome13:10-13:40　Sign Language and Linguistics Initiative:

An Overview(R. KIKUSAWA, National Museum of Ethnology,

Y. OSUGI, Tsukuba University of Technology)

13:40-13:50　Questions and Comments13:50-14:10　Language Documentation and Conservat-

ion Activities at the University of Hawai’ i at Mānoa (K. REHG, University of Hawai‘i)

14:10-14:20　Questions and CommentsBreak

14:50-15:50　Sign Linguistics Programs for Deaf Students(J. WOODWARD, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Documenting and Preserving Jakarta Sign Language(L. LESMANA WIJAYA, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Documenting and Preserving Yogyakarta Sign language(A. KUSUMO BHAROTO, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

15:50-16:05　Questions and CommentsBreak

16:30-16:45　Documenting British Sign Language: The BSL Corpus Project

(A. SCHEMBRI, La Trobe University)

16:45-18:00　Discussion

July 28, July29 GUIDE

● Open to the public (admission free) ● For registration, please send the following information either by

e-mail or regular mail: your name, address, phone or fax number, e-mail address, sign language requirement (if you are a signer) and the date(s) you are interested in participating

● Inquires: SSL@minpaku.ac.jp

2012 May 27June 30Related Activities and DetailsSeminars on JSL and JapaneseInterpretation of LinguisticsDiscussion

● Coordinators: Y. OSUGI, M. SHIRASAWA (Tsukuba University of Technology) with R. KIKUSAWA (National Museum of Eth-nology)

● A project of the Tsukuba University of Technology● Hosted by the National Museum of Ethnology● Supported by the Japanese Association of Sign Language

Interpreters, the CS Institutes for Broadcasting for the Dis-abled, and Congress Corporation

Various signed languages are used around

the world, just as spoken languages are.

This symposium comprises a collection of

reports on the documentation of signed

languages based on fieldwork that has been

conducted in different areas of the world.

July28(SAT) 29(SUN), 2012Coordinators:

KIKUSAWA Ritsuko (National Museum of Ethnology) OSUGI Yutaka (Tsukuba University of Technology)

Hosted by:National Institutes for the Humanit ies, National Museum of Ethnology

with Tsukuba University of Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Supported by:The Linguistic Society of JapanJapanese Association of Sign LinguisticsJapan Institute for Sign Language StudiesJapanese Federation of the Deaf

http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/activity/news/rm/20120728-29

With Live Streaming on Ustream! (Supported by The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

M I N P A K U G U I D E

Access■Via the Banpaku-Kinen-Koen park●From either Banpaku-Kinen-Koen Station or Koen-Higashiguchi Station of the Osaka Monorail, it is about a 15 minute walk through the Natural and Cultural Gardens park to the Museum.●Buses from the Japan Railways (JR) Ibaraki Station, Hankyu Ibaraki-shi Station, and Senri-Chūō Station stop at Nihon-Teien-Mae. From there it is about a 15 minute walk to the Museum.●The closest access to the Museum by taxi is to the ticketing gate of the Nihon-Teien-Mae Parking Lot.●Private cars can be parked at either the Central Parking Lot of the Expo Park, or at the Nihon-Teien-Mae Parking Lot which is close to the Museum. ●From the Nihon-Teien-Mae Parking Lot, please use the gate that is designated for Museum visitors, located adjacent to the ticketing gates for the park.

International Symposium

と関連イベント言言語の

記述・記録・保存

Description, Documentation

and

Conservation

手話言語と音声

言語のシンポ

ジウム（１）

International Symposium on Sign

ed and Spok

en Linguistics (1)

International Workshop on Historical Sign Linguistics (Minpaku, July 28, 2011)