Events

Time: Wednesday, July 22, 2026, from 1:00 PM to 6:30 PM (JST)
Venue: Science Studio A, 1st floor of Science Commons Bld. (Center for Education in Liberal Arts and Sciences), The University of Osaka Toyonaka Campus
Languages: Presentation will be in English.

Registration: Please register from the URL or QR code on the flyer.
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【Program】                                                                                                                 
13:00-13:15 Opening Remarks
                         Prof. Pierre-Yves Donzé (The University of Osaka / University of Fribourg)
                         Prof. Claude Hauser (University of Fribourg)
13:15-14:00 Dr. Roger Mottini (Tokyo, Independent Researcher)
                        Switzerland and the Emergence of Mountaineering in Japanese Alpine Literature
14:00-14:45 Prof. Tom Jones (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan)
                        Ascending an icon: Mount Fuji’s environmental challenges in a global era
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:45 Sherief Fitz (University of Tübingen, Germany)
                        Sister Cities and the Construction of an “Alpine” Japan in the Postwar Era: Exchanges
                         with Switzerland
15:45-16:30 Prof. Pierre-Yves Donzé (The University of Osaka / University of Fribourg)
                        Mountain Practices in Swiss–Japanese Business Relations
16:30-17:15 Prof. Claude Hauser (University of Fribourg)
                        Heidi between Alpine Switzerland and Japan: Rethinking the History behind a Cultural Icon
17:15-17:30 Closing Session
                        Concluding Remarks
17:30-18:30 Film Screening
                        Sandra and Carina Roth, Where the Mountains Fly (2008)