Date: 2009 February 7 (Sat) 9:50-18:45
2009 February 8 (Sun) 10:00-19:00
Venue: Room(401-3), Main Building 4th Floor, Fuchu Campus, Tokyo Unversity of Foreign Studies
http://www.tufs.ac.jp/info/
Language: English
Program:
G-COE/KIAS/TUFS Joint International Workshop on Islam and the Middle East
''Middle East & Asia Studies Workshop: New Approaches in Central-South Asia and Middle Eastern Scholarship''
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Kamil MAHDI (University of Exeter UK)
Commentators and Speakers:
Prof. Yasushi KOSUGI (Kyoto University) &
Prof. Keiko SAKAI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Organizers: Prof. Yasushi KOSUGI (Kyoto University) & Prof. Keiko SAKAI
(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Time Table:
(Saturday) February 7 (9:50-18:45)
9:50-10:00 Welcome and Introduction: Keiko SAKAI (Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies)
10:00-12:00 Keynote Speech: Prof. Kamil MAHDI (University of Exeter UK)
''The US Occupation of Iraq in Perspective''
12:10-14:00 Session 1
Speaker 1: Dai YAMAO (Kyoto University)
''The Hidden Surge of the Shi'ite Religious Establishment in 1990s: A
Social Movement of the Second al-Sadr in Iraq''
Speaker 2: Intissar AL-FARTTOOSI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Why the number of IDP did increase after 2006 in comparison with
post-2003?''
14:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:30 Session 2
Speaker 1: Mohamed Omer ABDIN (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Peacemaking as a tool for survival: why did authoritarian regimes
manage to reach a negotiated settlement in Sudan?''
Speaker 2: Aiko HIRAMATSU: (Kyoto University)
''Democracy and Islam in Kuwait''
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-18:45 Session 3
Speaker 1: Emiko SUNAGA (Kyoto University)
''Creation of Pakistan as a "Muslim Nation-State''
Speaker 2: Sayed MUZAFARY (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Ethnicity, Lack of national integration and Prospect for Further
Democratization in Afghanistan''
(Sunday) February 8 (10:00-19:00)
10:00-11:20 Keynote Speech: Prof. Yasushi Kosugi (Kyoto University)
''Islamic Revival Revisited: the State of the Study and our Prospective
Tasks in Japan''
11:30-13:30 Session 1
Speaker 1: Yuko TOCHIBORI (Kyoto University)
''Al-Amir `Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri: What shaped his Figure''
Speaker 2: Shin YASUDA (Kyoto University)
''Formation of Religious Tourism in Contemporary Syria: Transformation
of Ziyara in Shi'ite Islam''
13:30-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-16:30 Session 2
Speaker 1: Maja VODOPIVEC (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Film Narratives after Breakup of Former Yugoslavia and How They
Supplement with the Historical Reality''
Speaker 2: Reiko IIDA (Kyoto University)
''Transformation of Tam??? in State of Maharashtra, India: From Folk
Arts to Public Culture''
16:30-16:45 Lunch break
16:45-18:45 Session 3
Speaker 1: Esen URMANOV (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Transformation of Clan Politics into Party Politics in Kyrgyzstan
(2005-2008)''
Speaker 2: Hiroko KINOSHITA (Kyoto University)
''Islamic Higher Education in Contemporary Indonesia: Through the
Islamic Intellectuals of al-Azharite Alumni''
18:45-19:00 Closing