The latter half of this year’s BRIT Conference shifted to Grenoble. A special feature of BRIT conferences is that they occur in two cities that straddle a national border, and this year’s move to Grenoble allowed an opportunity to study the Alps and hear the histories of border regions from the assembled experts.
In the final day’s session, organized by the IGA (Institut de Géographie Alpine) of université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, presentations were given by Hirayama Akihiro (GCOE, Hokkaido University), Miyazaki Chikashi (JSPS scholar) and Mari Miyamoto (National Museum of Ethnology). Additionally, the “Mobile Borders of the Korean Peninsula in regional perspective” panel, put together by the Slavic Research Center’s GCOE program, saw talks by Kimura Takashi (Kyushu University), Hye-in Han (Konkuk University, Korea) and Ihk-pyo Hong (Korean Institute of Economic Policy).
With the head of the GCOE program, Professor Iwashita, calling in his closing speech for the hosting of the next BRIT Conference to occur in Fukuoka and Pusan, the 11th BRIT Conference came to a satisfactory conclusion.