The 16th International Seminar on Sea Names

Friday, August 20 to Sunday, August 22, 2010, Oranje/Park Room, Crowne Plaza Den Haag-Promenade, Van Stolkweg 1, 2585 JL Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands
Co-organized by The Society for East Sea and Northeast Asian History Foundation

PROGRAM

Friday, August 20

         09:00 - 09:10 Opening Ceremony

o    Moderator: Choo Sungjae (Professor, Kyunghee University, Korea)

o    Opening Addresses by

  PARK Nohyoung (President, The Society for East Sea)

o    Welcoming Remarks by

  LEE Hoon   (Director, Dokdo Research Institute, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

  KIM Young-won   (Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of the Netherlands)

         09:10 - 09:30 Keynote Speech

  KIM Jin-Hyun (Chairman, World Peace Forum; Advisor, The Society for East Sea)

  "Historical and Global Aspects of Geographical Names: The Case of the East Sea""

         09:30 - 10:00 Coffee/Tea Break and Photograph

         10:00 - 12:00 SESSION I: Conceptual Reconsideration on Naming Seas

o    Moderator: John Rennie SHORT (Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, U.S.A.)

o    Papers

  Names as witnesses of our cultural heritage on the national and the international level

Isolde HAUSNER  (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

  Place names dilemmas and international relations

Milan Orozen ADAMIC and Drago KLADNIK  (Professor, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

  Is 'exonym' an appropriate term for names of features beyond any sovereignty?

Peter  JORDAN (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

  Practice and policies of the use of binominals, endonyms and exonyms in the naming of sea bodies

Rainer  DORMELS (Professor, University of Vienna, Austria)

         12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

         13:30 - 15:30 SESSION II: Naming Seas in the International Framework

o    Moderator: Peter JORDAN (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

o    Papers

  Maritime feature names: The role of UNGEGN during its first decade

Paul WOODMAN (Former Secretary, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, U.K.)

  Interpreting United Nations resolutions on geographical names

Peter RAPER (Former Chairman, UNGEGN; Research Associate, Unit for Language Management, University of the Free State, South Africa)

  International norms on the naming features common to two or more states"

PARK Nohyoung (Professor, Korea University, Korea)

  The naming of maritime features viewed from an international law perspective"

Erik FRANCKX (Research Professor, Department of International and European Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

         15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break

         15:30 - 17:00 SESSION III: Some Cases of Naming Seas

o    Moderator : POKOLY Bela (Senior Advisor, Committee on Geographical Names, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary)

o    Papers

  Changing Indonesian sea names

Ferjan ORMELING (Professor, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)

  A Mediterranean example of problematic treatment of geographical names: Piranski zaliv (Bay of Piran) or Savudrijska vala (Bay of Savudrija)?

Drago KLADNIK, Milan Orozen ADAMIC and Primoz PIPAN (Professor, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

  Naming the European seas

Tjeerd TICHELAAR (Editor in Chief, Noordhoff Ultgevers Atlas Productions, The Netherlands)

         19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Dinner

o    hosted by the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Saturday, August 21                                

         09:00 - 10:30 SESSION IV: A Historical Focus on Naming Seas

o    Moderator : Rainer DORMELS (Professor, University of Vienna, Austria)

o    Papers

  Yuan Wei (1794-1857), his research and maps about East Sea

CHENG Long (Professor, Beijing Language and Culture University, China)

  Sea of Chosun appeared in old Japanese maps

LEE Sang-Tae (Professor, Korea International Culture University of Graduate, Korea)

  10 Models of Mare Orientale (16C - 17C)

KIM Shin (Chairman, The Korean Academy of Business Historians: Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea)

         10:30 - 11:00 Coffee / Tea Break

         11:00 - 12:30 SESSION V: Some issues of Naming Seas

o    Moderator: Peter RAPER (Former Chairman, UNGEGN; Research Associate, Unit for Language Management, University of the Free State, South Africa)

o    Papers

  Colonial/postcolonial namings and the East Sea/Sea of Japan

John Rennie SHORT (Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, U.S.A.)

  A cartographical analysis of Korean geographical names used in the Bulgarian language publications: a specific focus on East Sea and Dokdo

Marin MARINOV (Geographer, Ed. Holzel Geselschaft m.b.H.Nfg KG, Bulgaria)

  In the name of identity: the East Sea, not the Sea of Japan

KIM Yonghwan (Senior Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

         12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

         14:00 - 15:30 SESSION VI: The Issue of the Name East Sea/ Sea of Japan

o    Moderator: LEE Ki-Suk (Honorary President, The Society for East Sea, Korea)

o    Papers

  Current status of the naming issue East Sea/ Sea of Japan

CHOO Sungjae (Professor, Kyung Hee University, Korea)

  Study on the geographical name "Japan Sea"

WATANABE Kohei (Professor, Teikyo University, Japan) and YAJI Masataka (Professor Emeritus, Yokohama National University, Japan)

  The dual naming of English Channel/La Manche and Sea of Japan/East Sea: differences and similarities

POKOLY Bela (Senior Advisor, Committee on Geographical Names, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary)

         15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / Tea Break

         16:00 - 17:50 SESSION VII : PANEL DISCUSSION

o    Moderator: LEE Ki-Suk (Honorary President, The Society for East Sea, Korea)

o    Panel Discussants

  Milan Orozen ADAMIC (Professor, Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia)

  Isolde HAUSNER (Professor, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)

  MOON Myung-Ho (Co-President, Civil Coalition for Fairness in Media, Korea)

  Ferjan ORMELING (Professor, University of Utrecht, Netherlands)

  PARK Nohyoung (Professor, Korea University, Korea)

  Paul WOODMAN (Former Secretary, Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, U.K.)

         19:00 - 21:00 Dinner

o    hosted by the Northeast Asian History Foundation

Sunday, August 22                               

         Field Trip