Global COE Program - Kyoto University - In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa

Date: January 21, 2012            10：30～17：45

Venue: Tonantei, CSEAS, Kyoto University
 

This seminar is a colloaborative seminar of International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS(IPCR-CSEAS)and G-COE initiative 1.

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Date: December 26, 2011(Mon.) 13:30～18:00

Venue: Room No. 330, Inamori Memorial Foundation Bulding, CSEAS, Kyoto University
 

This seminar is a colloaborative seminar of Initiative 1 and International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS [IPCR-CSEAS].

Date: June 25, 2010 10：00～17：00

Venue: Tonantei, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Title: Trading Networks and the Role of the Entrepot in Southeast Asian History
 

This seminar is a colloaborative seminar of International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS(IPCR-CSEAS)and G-COE initiative 1.

Date: March 7,8, 2011

Venue: Tonantei, CSEAS, Kyoto University
 

This seminar is a colloaborative seminar of Initiative 1 and Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) titled an Investigation into the Linkages between the Emergence of a "Fossil-fuel-based World Economy" and the Trends in Deforestation and Environmental Degradation: A Comparative Historical Study .

Program:
March 7

13:00　Haruka Yanagisawa (The University of Tokyo)
Comment:  Koichi Fujita (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

14:15　Sayako Kanada (Keio University)
Comment: Akio Tanabe(ASAFAS, Kyoto University)

Break

15:45　Tadayoshi Taniguchi (Niigata Seiryo University)
Comment: Shuichi Kawai (RISH, Kyoto University)　

17:00　Breif Meeting
 

March 8 

9:30　Tomoki Shimanishi (Kasawa University)
Comment: Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)

10:45　Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)
Comment: Mario Ohshima（Osaka City University）

12:00　Lunch

13:00　Panel Discussion
Comment: Takeo Kikkawa（Hitotsubashi University), Naoto Kagotani (Kyoto University)　　　　
Reply: Satoru Kobori（Nagoya University）

Contact: sugihara[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

You are cordially invited to the international workshop“Science, Institutions and Identity in the Middle East and Muslim Societies.”

This Workshop is held under the auspices of Humanosphere: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa(G-COE), Center for Islamic Area Studiesat Kyoto University(KIAS) and Needs-based　
Programme for Area Studies, sponsored by Ministry of Education,　Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan (coordinator: Keiko　SAKAI)) scheduled as follows.

Date:12-13 Feb., 2011
Venue:Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Fuchu Campus, Main Building
4th floor, Room (401-3)
Access Map: http://www.tufs.ac.jp/info/map-and-contact-e.html

[Language]
English

For further details, please find the program attached below.

If you can join us, please send us an e-mail
inq-kias(at)asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

THE JOINT WORKSHOP February, 12~13, 2011
Science, Institutions and Identity in the Middle East and Muslim Societies

February 12
11:00 Opening Remarks: Prof Sakai (TUFS)

11:10-12:40 Keynote Lecture
Prof. Nabil al-Tikriti (University of Mary Washington)
"The State of Middle East Studies in the American Academy"
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Nabil Al-Tikriti, Associate Professor of History, earned a Ph.D.
(2004) in Ottoman history from the University of Chicago, an MIA
(1990) from Columbia University.
From 1992 to 2003, Dr. Al-Tikriti was a context and liaison officer
for Mdecins Sans Frontires (Doctors Without Borders). He worked in
Jordan, Turkey, Albania, Iran, and Somalia, and his duties included
jointly conducting an exploratory mission determining potential
Mdecins Sans Frontires activity in Iraq; negotiating with community
and clan leaders concerning team security and staff contracts, and
controlling personnel issues for more than 200 local staff in a war
zone.
He also has served as a consultant to the Joint NGO Emergency
Preparedness Initiative in Jordan and a polling station supervisor and
monitor in Bosnia, Kosovo, Ukraine, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan for the
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has written
web reports relevant to Iraqi cultural patrimony, higher education,
and forced migration.
Major works:
“Stuff Happens: A Brief Overview of the 2003 Destruction of Iraqi
Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Libraries”, Library Trends -
Volume 55, Number 3, Winter 2007
“From showcase to basket case: Education in Iraq”, ISIM Review, 2005
“Was there an Iraq before there was an Iraq?”, International Journal
of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, Vol.3, No.2, 2009
“Ottoman Iraq”, Journal of the Historical Studies, Jun 2007
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Lunch

14:10-15:00
INOUE Takatomo (Kyoto University)
“Practical Activities for Islamization of Science: Cases of IIIT and Institute of Islam Hadhari”
15:00-15:50
KAWAMURA Ai (Kyoto University)
“Civil Disputes in Islamic Finance: A Study on Double Legal Constraints
between the Islamic and the Western”

Coffee break

16:10-17:00
Patrick Mason (TUFS)
“Webs of Contention: A network-based analysis of the insurgency in Afghanistan"
17:00-17:50
HAGIHARA Jun (Kyoto University)
“Development of Saudi political institutions and governmental structure”

18:30- Dinner

February 13

10:00-10:50
IMAI Shizuka (Kyoto University)
"Jordanian Iraqi Trade in the 1980s: Reflection on Internal and
External Factors"
10:50-11:40
Muhammad Duhoki (TUFS)
"The Kurdish ethno-nationalism and Identity in Turkey"
11:40-12:30
MASHINO, Ito (Keio University, Graduate School of Letters)
“Nation-Building and the Development of Iraqi Identity under Monarchy”

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:50
KAWABATA Aruma (Kyoto University)
"Islamic Law and Modern Methods of Slaughtering: A study of Halal Meat"
14:50-15:40
Muhammad HAKIMI (Kyoto University)
"Farmers' Life in Malaysia and their Land Use Problems: Can Be an
Islamic Solution?"

Coffee break

16:00-16:50
Ladislav Lesnikovski (TUFS)
"The politics of Muslim identities in the Balkans"
16:50-17:40
Nicolas Ballesteros (TUFS)
"The Roma minority:Analysis of the exclusion in the post-conflict
Kosovo (1999 - 2009)"

17:40-18:00 Closing Remarks (Prof. Yasushi Kosugi, Kyoto University)

Date: January 6, 2011

Venue: Hanoi Paradise Hotel (Hanoi City, Vietnam)

 

Program:
9:30-10:10　Koichi Fujita (Kyoto University), “Rural Social Structure in Asia in Comparative Perspective”
 

10:10-10:40　Discussions
 

10:40-11:40 Yoshihiro Sakane (Hiroshima University), “Family and Kinship System in Vietnam”
 

11:40-12:10 Discussions
 

12:10-13:30 Lunch
 

13:30-14:30　Takashi Okae (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan), “Discussing Vietnamese Village Based on Yumio Sakurai’s Book ‘The Formation of Vietnamese Village' and others”
 

14:30-15:30 Discussions
 

15:30-16:00 Business Meeting
 

Other participants:
Masato Hiwatari (Hokkaido University)
Kei Kajisa (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), Satoru Kobayashi (Kyoto University)
Akihiko Ohno (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Sumiaki Iwamoto (Tokyo Agricultural University)
Tamae Sugihara (Tokyo Agricultural University)
Huu Khanh and other participants from Hanoi Agricultural University.
 

※Field surveys will be conducted in rural areas in Red River Delta during January 7, 8, and 9, 2011 after finishing the seminar.
 

Contact: Koichi Fujita (075-753-7321)

Date: December 23, 2010

Venue: Room Number 330, Inamori Foundation Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Title:
Diversified Institutions on Agriculture and Forest Management in Asia: Focusing on Their Impact on Development Paths in East, Southeast and South Asia  

Program:
13:30～14:10　Kunio Ohkama （Professor, Tohoku University）
Title:
Autonomous Village and Rural Development in Japan: Historical Experiences
　　

14:10～14:50　Koichi Fujita（Professor, CSEAS, Kyoto University）
Title: Interrelations between Diversified Agricultural/Rural Development Paths in Asia and Rural Institutions
 

14:50～15:00　Break
 

15:00～15:40　Noriaki Iwamoto（Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture)
Title: Autonomous Village and Forest Management in Japan: A Comparative Perspective with the other World
 

15:40～15:20 Fujikazu Ubukata（Okayama University）
Title: Emergence and Transformation of Forest Use and Its Management Institutions in Asia: Comparative Perspective
　

15:20～15:30　Break
 

15:30～16:30　General Discussion

Date: December 19, 2010 11：00～17：30

Venue: Tonantei, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Title: Trading Networks and the Role of the Entrepot in Southeast Asian History
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/IPCR/joint_research/H22/kawamura-jointr_en.html
 

Project Leader: KAWAMURA, Tomotaka, Faculty of Humanities, University of Toyama
 

This seminar is a colloaborative seminar of International Program of Collaborative Research, CSEAS(IPCR-CSEAS)and G-COE initiative 1.

Date: December 18, 2010

Venue:

 

Date:December 14, Tue. 2010
Venue:Room No. 332, Inamori Foundation Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Co-organizers:
G-COE Initiative1 and Initiative 4, Contemporary India Area Studies (KINDAS)

Title: "Changing Position of India in World Politics and Security"
 

＜Programme＞
15:00-15:40 Keynote Speech by Swaran Singh (Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
 

15:40-16:15 Discussion

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-18:00 Session: Security Issues of India

16:30-16:45 Hiroki Nakanishi (Ph.D. Candidate, ASAFAS)
“Rethinking U.S.-India Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement: Trade-off between India’s Right of Nuclear Test and Nuclear Cooperation”

16:45-17:00 Shiro Sato (Researcher, CSEAS)
“On the Possibility of Treaty of Non-First Use of Nuclear Weapons between India and China”

17:00-17:15 Tomoko Kiyota (Ph.D. Candidate, Takushoku University )
“India’s Arms Procurement Policy: Equilibrium between Requirement of Indigenous Production and Acquisition” 

17:15-18:00 Discussion
 

Contact:
Shiro Sato
shiro［at］cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
 

【Activity Report】
The purpose of this international symposium was to re-examine India’s changing position in world politics and security. Professor Swaran Singh of Jawaharlal Nehru University gave the keynote speech titled “Locating India in the Twenty-first Century: Political and Security Architecture.” He examined the relationship between India as an emerging power and both the United States and China. The next session focused on the security issues of contemporary India. First, Hiroki Nakanishi (a PhD candidate at ASAFAS) re-considered the U.S.–India Civilian Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Second, Shiro Sato (a researcher at CSEAS) critically examined the possibility of concluding a treaty on the ‘non-first-use’ of nuclear weapons between India and China. Third, Tomoko Kiyota (a PhD candidate at Takushoku University) discussed India’s arms procurement policy in order to understand India’s related intentions and capabilities. During the discussion, the contributors were asked numerous questions from the floor and these three young researchers responded with fruitful and constructive comments.
(Shiro Sato）

【Activity Report】

G-COE Initiative 1　International Seminar

Politics of ‘Non-Western’ International Relations from Asian Perspective

Date: 29 November 2010, 13:00-16:00

Venue: Small-size Seminar Room II (Room 331), Inamori Foundation Building 3rd floor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

13:00 Opening

13:00-13:15 International Relations as a Academic Hegemony for Asian Studies

Shiro Sato (Researcher, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)

13:15-13:45 The Post-Western Turn in International Theory and the English School

Josuke Ikeda (Post-doctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University)

13:45-14:15 Dangerous Liaisons? The English School and the Construction of a “Japanese” IR

Chen Ching Chang (Assistant Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

14:15-14:45 A Critique of South Korean Methods of Constructing a Korean School in IR

Cho Young Chul (Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yonsei University)

14:45-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:00 Discussion

*This seminar is supported by “Junior Researchers Support Program” (FY 2010), Global COE Program “In Search for Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa”, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

【Activity Report】
The purpose of this international seminar was to examine the politics of ‘Non-Western’ International Relations (IR) theory from an Asian perspective. This seminar is supported by the “Junior Researchers Support Program” (FY 2010) from the Global COE Program “In Search for Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa” of Kyoto University.
 

First, Dr. Sato clarified why we attempted to consider ‘Non-Western’ IR, and explained why considering ‘Non-Western’ IR itself is political from the viewpoint of Asian Studies. Second, Dr. Ikeda argued that the ‘English School’ of IR is Western-centric, but he contended that the ‘English School’ could be employed to overcome the hegemony of ‘Western’ IR. Third, Dr. Chen argued that uncritical engagement with the ‘English School’ would run the risk of reinforcing the Westphalia narrative. This was not to say, however, that we should not seek ‘Non-Western’ IR. Last, Dr. Cho used the example of ‘Korean’ IR to argue that ‘Non-Western’ IR is hegemony in that it would strengthen the hegemony of ‘Western’ IR.
 

We concluded that in-depth research needs to be conducted on the ‘Paradox of Non-Western IR’ and the ‘Dilemma of Non-Western IR’ in order to examine the politics of ‘Non-Western’ IR. We plan to present on this research outcome at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) at Leiden University on 23 February 2011.
 

(Shiro Sato)

Date: November 27, 2010

Venue:

 

Date: October 30, 2010

Venue:

 

Date: October 23, 2010

Venue: Chuka Kaikan, Kobe

 

【Activity Report】

Date: September 27 2010(Mon.), 17：00～19:00
Venue: Meeting Room 332, Inamori Memorial Foundation, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Program:PDF»

Presentation:
Prof.Scarlett Cornelissen (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Title:
Urban Space, Collective Memory and Identities in Post-apartheid South Africa: Reflections from Cape Town
 

Abstract:
Cities have historically played a distinctive role in South Africa’s modern political economy. They acted as central collection points for the capital that was amassed predominantly through mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; they were instrumental in providing the means to coordinate the rationalist planning and industrialisation characteristic of the apartheid era; and they were fundamentally shaped by the policies of racial division of that era. The governing of cities in apartheid South Africa was designed to service the infrastructural, and in particular the ideological and spatial, requirements of the apartheid state. Urban authority reflected the spatio-administrative ordering of apartheid, consisting of local councils governing each of the four statutorily defined racial groups (i.e., white, coloured, Indian,and black). Finally, since a key rationale of apartheid planning was the control of the flow of blacks into cities—the intention of apartheid policy being to contain African settlement in designated rural “homelands” or bantustans—urban policy centred on managing and monitoring Africans’ (and other populations’) movements.
 

In the postapartheid era, urban areas continue to play an important role, although their primary function in the political economy has shifted. In a spatial sense, too, cities are now considered important geographical and economic sites for the enactment of transformation and integration. The postapartheid city, however, has been subject to many other unintended changes, which range from gentrification, informalisation, and deindustrialisation in some instances, to the rise of private securitised spaces and pronounced class polarities. Urban identities have changed concomitantly. In this presentation, I reflect on changes in the spatial, social, and economic geography of the city of Cape Town and their effects on urban identities in the city. The focus is on the broad way that emerging (and older) identities inter-relate with constructions of place in postapartheid South Africa.

Organizer: Yoichi Mine (Professor, CSEAS, Kyoto University)

【Activity Report】
Dr. Scarlett Cornelissen attempted to examine “changes” in urban space, collective memory, and identities in postapartheid South Africa. She focused on Cape Town as “hometown” and “tourist destination.” The former offers stability, familial ties, and continuation of personal identities; the latter offers a place for the fleeting identity of the tourist.
 

According to Dr. Cornelissen, the city of Cape Town faces two conflicting forces in the postapartheid era: integration (led by the state) and class polarization (led by the market). “Sense of place” is one of the key words in her presentation. This involves “attachment to, affiliation to, and memory of a particular place.” Using the example of “private securitised spaces,” Dr. Cornelissen pointed out that the construction of the “sense of place” is not neutral rather, it is an ideological process.

  A number of questions and comments arose in response to her presentation. One graduate student asked what the meaning of “sense of place” was in the context of national and local identity. Professor Sugihara (Center for Southeast Asian Studies) asked how different races competed for employment in Cape Town. The seminar offered a good opportunity to consider the importance of constructions of place and urban identity in postapartheid South Africa.
 

(Shiro Sato)

Date: July 24, 2010 14:00~

Venue: Room 102, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

 

Presentation:
Naoto Kagotani (Kyoto University)
Takeshi Nishimura (Matsuyama University)

Date: July 17, 2010 14:00~

Venue:Tonantei, CSEAS, Kyoto University 
 

Subject:
"In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere: A New Paradigm for Humanity, Biosphere and Geosphere"

Presentation:
Kohei Wakimura (Osaka City University)
Akihisa Setoguchi (Osaka City University)

Activity Record>>

Date: July 8, 2010              14:00～16:00

Venue: AA401, Research Bldg. No. 2, Yoshida Campus Kyoto University
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf
 

Presentation:
Kazuhiro Shimizu (Associate Professor, Kyushu University)  

【Activity Record】
  This presentation, titled “Another perspective of History of Abbasid Dynasty,” was focused on non-Muslims and non-Arabs in this period.
  As the introduction, the presenter showed through a poem by Abu Nuwas, that the society in Abbasid Dynasty had various form of culture, mixing with non-Muslim community.
  And then, he reviewed the forming process of Abbasid Dynasty. Abbasid Dynasty is said to have been established by anti-Umayyad movement by the descendants of Ali, on which other anti-governmental group such as descendants of Abbas. After that, descendants of Abbas excluded the descendents of Ali at the establishment of the dynasty, which brought the insufficiency of legitimacy in the dynasty.
  This situation forced, he also pointed out, Abbasid Dynasty to maintain the legitimacy of the dynasty by protection of Islam, not by the linkage of Arab. On the one hand, in Umayyad Dynasty the minority, Arab-Muslims ruled the majority, non-Arabs and non-Muslims. On the other hand, in Abbasid Dynasty the appearance of the Mawali, who is non-Arab Muslim who has the relationship with a Arab-Muslim as a patron, changed the social situation.
  In the dynasty, Mawali, who have private connection with ruling stratum were promoted by the government. In this presentation, eunuchs and boys, who are permitted to join the private space of Caliphs, are mentioned. This shows the contribution of slaves for the government in Abbasid Dynasty.
  The engagement of Mawali in the society contributed to the development of various type of culture. This promoted the mixture of Islamic culture and cultures of ruled people. As a result, he pointed out there happened translation movement of Greco-Roman documents and development of literature and clerk.
  By the way, he proposed new interpretation about the translation movement. It have been said that Greco-Roman culture was imported into Muslim world in this era. However he said it is better to regard it as that Mawali’s culture had been Islamized.
 

(Takatomo Inoue)

Date: July 3, 2010

Venue:Institute for Research in Humanities,Kyoto University

 

Date: June 19, 2010

Venue:Kwansei Gakuin University

 

Date: June 12, 2010

Venue:Osaka University of Economics

 

【Activity Report】

Date: June 4 2010, 16：00～18:00

Venue: AA401, Research Bldg. No. 2, Yoshida Campus Kyoto University
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/contents/tariqa_ws/access_map.pdf

 

Presentation:
Kayoko Hayashi (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies）

【Activity Report】
  Based on the presentation with the contents outlined above, two major questions were asked by the participants. The first concerned the transition from the rule by soldiers to the rule by the Ottoman bureaucracy, and the second with the use of the wealth gained through the tax collection system and asset management at the time. Below is an outline of the discussion that developed on each of these questions.
  The era of military rule was characterized by the war against the Safavids and the conquest of Arab territories, and during that time, the sipahis (cavalrymen) constituted a powerful force toward the centralized regime led by the bureaucracy. They maintained their power by incorporating themselves into the timar system, under which they were able to levy taxes in compensation for their military service, but in the following era of Ottoman rule, they lost this power. As the bureaucratic institutions of the era of military rule continued to be maintained and develop, the bureaucrats composed of military officers, secretaries, and ulamas started to play an important role. On this point, some participants pointed out that since the transition to the Ottoman bureaucracy coincided with the spread of paper, it could be argued that the development of paper promoted the rise of the bureaucratic institutions. However, the presenter pointed out that it is believed as the empire, whose growth had stopped, went through a process of growth of its ruling institutions, and that the bureaucracy developed as a result of the weeding out of unnecessary institutions and the maintenance of the necessary ones. Because of this, it can be said that rather than paper encouraging the changes, there was also a process through which paper was utilized by the newly developed bureaucratic institutions.
  In the period of bureaucratic rule, the timar system was replaced by the muqata’ah (tax farming) system and later the malikane (lifelong tax farm system). This led to an increase in the power of the influential local figures who actually collected the taxes, and became a factor behind the devolution of power within the Empire. The participants showed an interest in how the wealth accumulated by the tax collectors was used, and there was discussion regarding the sale of tax collection rights and the situation regarding investment at the time.

(Shizuka Imai)

Date: February 22 2010, (Mon.), 16：00～18:00

Venue: Tonan Tei (Room 201), Inamori Foundation Meromial Hall, Kyoto University

 

Presentation:
Kakizaki, Ichiro (Yokohama City University )
 

Date: 6 and 7 Feb, 2010
Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Fuchu Campus, Main Building
4th floor, Room (401-3)

Access Map:
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[Language] English

For further details, please find the program attached below.
If you can join us, please send us an e-mail
inq-kias[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp 

Date: Janurary 30-31 2010, 16：00～18:00

Venue: E107, East Building, CSEAS, Kyoto University

 

Presentation:
Matsumoto, Takenori（Professor, The University of Tokyo）
 

Kobayashi, Satoru (Assistant Professor, CSEAS)  

Date: Janurary 29 2010, (Mon.), 16：00～18:00

Venue: Room 331, 3F, Inamori Foundation Meromial Hall, Kyoto University
 

Presentation:
Paul Kratoska（National University of Singpore）
 

Comment:
Anthony Reid (CSEAS, Kyoto Unversity)
 

Title：
Rice in Southeast Asia - From Empires to Nations (1920s-1950s)
 

The Pacific War is often seen as a watershed moment in Southeast Asia, marking the end of colonial rule and the inauguration of policies created by and for sovereign nation-states. For the Southeast Asian rice economy, this periodization is extremely misleading. The critical events shaping food policy took place in the 1920s and 1930s, when crop failures, depression and the threat of war led colonial administrations to abandon regional and imperial economic models. The presentation will discuss how the physical characteristics of rice and the way rice was grown and distributed shaped the regional rice economy, and how that economy changed during the period between the 1920s and 1950s.
 

Contact：Noboru Ishikawa （CSEAS, Kyoto University）

Date: November 1 2009, (Sun.)

Venue: 8b, Raj Mansion, 31-33, Soi 20, Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand


 

Date: October 24 2009, (Sat.), 14:00～

Venue: Room 102, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

 

Presentation:
SAKAMOTO, Yuichiro (Assistant Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
 

Date: September 26 2009, (Sat.), 10:30～18:00

Venue: Conference Room (AA447), the 4th floor of Research Bldg. No. 2
(Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4), Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University
 

*Access Map for Yoshida Main Campus 　
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/
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*Access Map for Research Bldg. No. 2　
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Dear all,

 If you have any inquries, please contact to inq-kias@asafas.kyoto- u.ac.jp.

【Presentation】
1. Shuji Hosaka “Japan and the Gulf Area”
 

2. Motohiro Ohno “Reconsideration of modern meaning of the tribal ties in the United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi Emirate in early '90s”
 

3. Koji HORINUKI “The Controversy over the Naturalization of Labour Force: 30 years on Emiratization in the UAE”
 

4. Masaki Matsuo “Ethnocratic regimes in the Arab gulf states”
 

5. Aiko Hiramatsu “The Parliamentarism and the Islamic Movement in Kuwait: With a Special Focusing on the Political Participation of Women”　
 

6. Jun Hagihara　“Modernization and Traditional Values in Saudi Arabia”
 

  【Record of Activity】

This workshop is the first large-scale exchange program in Japan to have focused on research about the Gulf countries. While previously this region had been recognized as an important source of natural resources such as oil, it had not drawn any significant attention from academia. This has changed with the arrival of young researchers in recent years, however, resulting in a great deal of excitement across all areas of research.
 

For details of each individual presentation, please see the summary of presentations; here we will focus on the general debate that was held at the end of the workshops. Professor Eiji Nagasawa (Tokyo University) was invited to the workshop as a discussant, and six participants reported on their work. In the first half, participants situated their own role as one of “situating research on Gulf countries within research on Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic regions,” with presentations broadly split between the themes of “tribes and politics” and “labor market and national unity.” Discussions on the first theme emphasized issues such as: the continuing importance of tribes as a subject in research on Gulf countries, the need for research that goes back as far as colonial rule and nation building, and the transformation of tribal social ties accompanying a changing living environment. The second theme touched on topics such as the curious lack of an anti-foreigner sentiment in Gulf countries, and the possibility of a split emerging between social classes which are able, and those which are unable, to adapt to globalization.
 

In the general debate in the second half of the workshop, members of the audience shared their responses to the presentations and also cited examples from their own experiences in the field. Critics differ in how they treat relationships among globalization, tribal values, and the nation-state. Nonetheless, there is a common sense of both the robustness of the Gulf countries, still together 40 years after they were founded, and of their undeniable importance as a subject of research, reaffirming the significance of this workshop as an exemplification of the total body of research on Gulf countries.
 

(Hiroshi Yoshikawa)

Date: July 30 2009, (Thr.), 10：00-18:45　
July 31日(Fri.)10:00-17:30　

Venue: Conference Room (AA447), the 4th floor of Research Bldg. No. 2
(Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4), Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University
 

*Access Map for Yoshida Main Campus 　
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/campus/yoshida_all.htm

*Access Map for Research Bldg. No. 2　
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Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the international workshop on ``Globalization and Socio-political Transformation: Asian and the Middle Eastern Dimension.'' This Workshop is held under the auspices of Humanosphere: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa(G-COE), Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University(KIAS) and Conflict, Collapsed State, and Social Movements in the Contemporary Middle East and Asia（Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A), JSPS: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and scheduled as follows.

[Language]
English
For further details, please find the program attached below.
If you can join us, please send us an e-mail
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Date:July 23(Thu.)　-　24(Fri)，2009

Venue:AA447, the 4th floor of Research Bldg. No. 2, Kyoto University

Co-hosting Organizers
・Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS)
・Kyoto University Global COE Program: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa
・Durham Islamic Finance Programme, Durham University, UK

Title:

Evaluating the Current Practice of Islamic Finance and New Horizon in Islamic Economic Studies

Date & Time:
DAY1: 13:00-17:45, 23 July
DAY2: 9:00-18:00, 24 July
 

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Date: June 28 2009, (Sun.), 13：00～18:00　
Venue: Room 332, Inamori Foundation Memorial Buidling, CSEAS, Kyoto University
http://www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about/access_ja.html

Title:
Sugihara Kaken, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research(B)
An Investigation into the Linkages between the Emergence of a "Fossil-fuel-based World Economy" and the Trends in Deforestation and Environmental Degradation: A Comparative Historical Study
 

Program

Kaoru Sugihara（Kyoto University） (15 min.) 
Osamu Saito（Hitotsubashi University） (40 min.) 
Haruka Yanagisawa（Chiba Univsersity） (30 min.) 
 
Discussion (1h）

Break（30 min.）

Shoko Mizuno（Kyushu Sangyo University）(40 min.)
Takeshi Nishimura（Matsuyama University）(20 min.)

Discussion（1H）
 
After the seminar, we are planning to have a reception. 

Contant：sugihara@cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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Date: June 27 2009, (Sat.), 14：00～　　
Venue: Room 102, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Presentation：
1. Naoto Kagotani （RISH, Kyoto University)
 

【Record of Activity】

Whereas in Malaysian and Sumatran rubber production, “regular employment” results from the fact that there is no seasonal variation in the demand for labor, in Java’s sugar cane production there are large seasonal differences in labor demand. In areas that produce sugar cane, people can get by in villages even if they become unemployed, but in rubber producing regions people who become unemployed lose their entire livelihood and must leave for the city, where there are no shared systems or traditions. The fact moreover that even when rubber is piling up and rice is running out, it is nonetheless difficult to exchange rubber for rice (Dainanpo keizai ron [Great Southern Regional Economy] 94), is an indication of the degree to which Japan had secured the market for surplus rubber. Inter-regional co-ordination between products of the clearly-defined “sugar cane climate” of dry and rainy seasons, and those of the not so clearly-defined “rubber climate,” was a significant issue in the establishment of the Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere.
 

(Naoto Kagotani)
 

Date: June 14 2009, (Sun.), 13：00～18:00　　
Venue: Room 330, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, CSEAS, Kyoto University

Presentation：
1. Yutaka Arimoto （Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo)

2. Keiko Sato（ASAFAS）and Koichi Fujita（CSEAS）

3. Masato Hiwatari（Graduate School of Economics and Business Administraion, Hokkaido University

Date: May 23 2009, (Sat.), 14：00～　　
Venue: Room 201, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Title：

Presentation：Naoto Kagotani

Date: May 11 (Mon), 2009        16：00～18:00　
Venue: Tonantei, 2F, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building

Title：

Presentation：
Nakaoka Tetsuro（Professor Emeritus, Osaka City University)

Date: April 25 (Sat.), 2009        14：00～　　
Venue: Room 102, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Title：

Presentation：
1. Naoto Kagotani
2. Sayako Kanda

References：
C. A. Bayly, Rulers, townsmen and bazaars: North Indian society in the age of British expansion 1770-1870 (Cambridge: CUP, 1983).
C. A. Bayly, Indian society and the making of the British Empire, Cambridge hisotry of India, II-1 (Cambridge: CUP, 1988).

Date:  2009 February 18 (Wed) 9:50-18:45
Venue: Conference Room (AA447), the 4th floor of Research Bldg. No. 2
(Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4), Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University
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Special Guest: Dr. Muhammad Umer Chapra (Islamic Research and Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank)

Organizers:
Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS);
Kyoto University Global COE Program: In Search of Sustainable
Humanosphere in Asia and Africa;
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

【Program】
13:00-13:10, Opening Remarks

Session 1: Islamic Economic System and Economic Development (13:10-14:30)

13:10-13:40,
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Umer Chapra (Islamic Research and Training
Institute, Islamic Development Bank), "The Concept of Economic
Development in Islamic Economics"
13:40-14:30, Discussion
Comment 1: Prof. Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University), from the framework
of sustainable humanosphere
Comment 2: Prof. Nabil Maghrebi (Wakayama University) from economics or
development economics

(Tea Break)

Workshop Speech (14:45-16:00)

14:45-15:15,
Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Umer Chapra, "The Prevailed Financial Crisis and
Islamic Finance"
15:15-16:00, Round Table: On the Current Financial Crisis
Discussant 1: Prof. Yasushi Kosugi (Kyoto University)
Discussant 2: Mr. Etsuaki Yoshida (Japan Bank for International Cooperation)

(Tea Break)

Session 2: Entanglement of Islamic Economic System and Modern Capitalism
(16:15-18:00)

16:15-16:45,
Speaker 1: Mr. So Saito (Attorney, Nishimura & Asahi), "Islamic Finance
and Japanese Legal and Economic System"
16:45-17:15,
Speaker 2: Mr. Shinsuke Nagaoka (Kyoto University), "Towards Analytical
Framework of Entanglement of Islamic Economic System and Modern Capitalism"
17:15-18:00, Discussion
Comment 1: Prof. Koji Muto (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University), from
the experience of UK
Comment 2: Prof. Takio Mizushima (Tokushima University), from
comparative economic thought

18:00-18:10, Concluding Remarks

Inquiries:
All inquiries concerning the symposium should be addressed to
KIAS Office

The relentless efforts made by some Muslim countries toward the restructuring of the economic system according to Islamic principles started in the middle of the 20th century. The fruits of such endeavors materialized with the launching of the Islamic financial system and banking sectors in the 1970s. The ultimate objective of this was to implement an alternative form of economic and financial system that is different from the modern capitalist standard. These efforts resulted in the development of the independent academic discipline called “Islamic Economics”. The pursuit of academic research in this discipline reflects the desire to explore the merits and limits of alternative paths toward economic development.

The present workshop aimed at examining the essence and tenets of “Islamic Economics” and its perspectives on economic development (Dr. Chapra’s presentation), and discussed its perspective from the viewpoint of the concept of a sustainable humanosphere, which was also the subject of parallel research within the Global COE Program (www.humanosphere.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en). The focus was also centered on the merits of Islamic finance relative to conventional financial practice as far as economic development is concerned. Particular attention, in the discussant’s comment, was also given to the characteristic properties of the Japanese and East Asian paths toward economic development in the context of the diversity of the path toward economic development.

(2) “Entanglement” of Islamic Economic System and Modern Capitalism

Recently, the practice of Islamic finance is growing rapidly whilst utilizing the recent innovations in the field of conventional finance, and is now expanding to the non-Islamic countries such as Europe and those in the US. Many bankers are interested in the consistencies between the Islamic financial system and modern legal and economic system in the relevant countries.

On the basis of such an interest mentioned above, this workshop also aimed at arguing some issues under discussion in the case that Islamic financial operations will launch in the Japanese legal and economic system (Mr. Saito’s presentation). Furthermore, we discussed the research framework in order to analyze the revelation of the “entanglement” of the Islamic economic system (Islamic finance) and modern capitalism.

(Shinsuke Nagaoka)

Record of Activity＞＞

Date:February 17 (Tue.), 2009  13:00 - 16:30
Venue:Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, Room number 201


Speakers and Topics:

Dr Pierre Van der Eng (Australian National University)
Government Promotion of Labour-Intensive Industrialisation in Indonesia, 1930-1975

Dr David Clayton (University of York, U.K.)
The Political Economy of Broadcast Technologies in the British Empire, c.1945-1960


 

【Abstract】

Van der Eng
Growth of industrial output for domestic consumption during 1930-75 was significant, but not continuous; growth (1932-41) was followed by decline (1942-46), recovery (1947-57), stagnation (1958-65) and acceleration (1966-75). Protective trade policies triggered growth in the 1930s, when industry policy favoured a balanced development of capital-intensive large and medium-sized ventures and labour-intensive small firms and firms in light industries. The gist of this policy continued during the late-1940s and 1950s, but industry policies increasingly favoured large, capital-intensive state-owned enterprises. By 1960, policies no longer targeted small ventures and labour-intensive industrialisation. After 1966, economic stabilisation and deregulation rekindled the momentum of industrialisation. Although policy interest in the development of small industrial ventures revived in 1975, large-scale labour-intensive industrialisation did start until the mid-1980s.
Key words: Manufacturing industry, Indonesia, industry policy, technological change
JEL-codes: L50, L60, N65
Version 30 September 2008

Clayton
This paper investigates how in 1948 the British Government decided to fund the development of broadcasting in its colonies. It argues the motivations were primarily strategic and social reasons; economic considerations (improving the balance of payments) were secondary. The achievement of these aims was constrained by the Treasury. It refused to grant new money to implement policy; instead the Colonial Office used the existing aid budget to fund the transfer of capital and technologies overseas. This parsimony caused the supply-side shift initiated by 1948 to be slower to take effect, and to be unevenly felt across the British Empire. The distribution of aid finance, and the pattern of government expenditure on radio broadcasting, was skewed: ‘strategic’ areas got more capital.
The policy was a qualified success. Access to wireless radio broadcast technologies improved (the number of listeners rose) and there was now greater control: the main medium of transmission became wireless; Governments and public corporations owned and ran a greater number of radio stations; and there was more broadcasting per week. Core social and strategic aims had been achieved. This success, however, was far from universal. The level of access varied from low to middling to high. Economic aims were only partially achieved: we find that the British balance of payments mainly benefited in terms of capital rather than consumer goods.

Date: February 16 (Mon.), 2009  13：00～15：00
Venue: Tokyo Station Conferece Room, 5F, SapiaTower, 1-7-12 Marunouchi, Chiyota-ku, Tokyo

http://www.jebl.co.jp/outline/sapiatower/index.html#access

Speaker 1: Koji Muto (Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)

Speaker 2: Dr. Muhammad Umer Chapra（Senior advisor to Islamic Reseach and Training Institute, Islamic Developmnt Bank）

In his lecture, Dr. Chapra first clearly articulated the fundamental causes for the weakness and instability of the conventional financial system, by looking at the characteristics and pathology of sub-prime loans, which were one of the sources of the current financial crisis. He pointed out that many financial products developed as part of conventional financial services, as symbolized by sub-prime loans, either lacked mechanisms for risk-sharing among the parties involved, or employed schemes that tended to promote excessive lending. For this reason, according to Dr. Chapra, they had a structure that tended to induce high leverage, speculative behavior and soaring asset prices. In the next breath, Dr. Chapra introduced features of the Islamic financial system to the participants, and indicated that the Islamic system, which features credit accommodations based on the primary principle of risk sharing and on the actual trade of goods, can provide several suggestions for transforming the management of the conventional financial system.

Many Japanese lawyers and experts in financial practices (who are interested in Islamic finance) participated, and in the question and answer session, discussions between the lecturer and participants went straight to the point. This may indicate that, in Japan, as in other countries, there is considerable concern for how the financial system based on Islam could contribute to improving the conventional finance system.

In advance of the lecture by Dr. Chapra, Professor Koji Muto (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) gave a lecture titled, “How Customers See Islamic Banks – Findings from a Questionnaire Survey.” He reported the results of a valuable empirical study from the standpoint of customers who make use of Islamic finance.

(Shinsuke Nagaoka)

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
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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

Date: January 28, 2009 (Wed.) 13:30 - 15:00PM
Venue: Room No. 331, Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

Presentation：
１）Hakimi Shafia
"Profit Sharing Contract in Felcra from Islamic Perspectives"

２）Mohammad Najmul Islam
"Socio-economic Impacts of Bank Erosion of the River Padma at Zanjira, Bangladesh"

 ３）Haris Gunawan
"A Study of the Role of Peat Swamp Forest Remnants to Maintain the Native Tree Diversity in A Timber Estate on Tropical Peatlands"

Date: December 20-21,2008
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall

 

Date: December 15, 2008 (Mon.)    10:00 - 12:00
Venue: Meeting Room, the 3rd floor, Inamori Memorial Hall

Presetator：
Kaoru Sugihara (Professor, CSEAS)
Title: Multiple Paths of Economic Development in Global History

Takahiro Sato (G-COE Researcher)and Taizo Wada (G-COE Researcher)

Date: December 13, 2008 (Sat.)    14:00PM -
Venue: Meeting Room (102), Institute for Research in Humanities

Presetator：
Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)
Takeshi Nishimura (Associate Professor, Matsuyama University)

【Record of Activity】

Date:December 3, 2008 (Thu.) 18：00～20：00
Venue: AA447, Research Building No.2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
 

Presentation:
・Kaoru Sugihara (Professor, CSEAS)
・Yasushi Kosugi (Professor, ASAFAS)
・Akio Tanabe (Assosiate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities )
・Yasushi Tonaga (Assistant Professor, ASAFAS)

Moderator:
Tatsuro Fujikura (Associate Professor, ASAFAS)

【Record of Activity】

Professor Kaoru Sugihara, representing the Department of Sustainable Humanosphere, began the seminar with his presentation. He argued that with the advance of globalization, and with growth in Asian and African regions making remarkable advances recently, the traditional paradigm centered on the temperate region was no longer capable of representing the entire world. It is thus necessary, he argued, to shift the basis of the paradigm from one that is centered on the temperate region to one that is centered on the tropical region, and to shift from the “earth’s surface,” as seen in land ownership and national borders, to the “sustainable humanosphere,” which includes as subject of research all space that affects human lives.
 

The next presentation was given by Professor Yasushi Kosugi, representing the Department of Islamic World Studies. Looking back on his decade-long experience of graduate school education at ASAFAS, Prof. Kosugi reflected on the fact that the discipline called “area studies,” which discusses the characteristics and uniqueness of geographic areas, has gradually made a space for itself within the academic community. He further pointed out that activities at ASAFAS and KIAS (Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University) have contributed to the gradual development of a foundational structure for promoting world-leading research and for facilitating studies by junior researchers. In concluding his presentation, Prof. Kosugi noted that the Division of Global Area Studies, to be initiated in the next academic year, would mark a further contribution to the field of area studies.
 

Associate Professor Akio Tanabe, representing the Department of South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, followed with his presentation. Associate Prof. Tanabe first introduced the situation faced in contemporary South Asia, focusing on India through the use of a diverse set of statistical data on politics, economy and society. He went on to explain that South Asia has become very dynamic due to the interactions of politics, economics, society, and thought, noting that in the future the region will play an important role in the world. Associate Prof. Tanabe then pointed out that, in the field of research as well, South Asia has produced various studies which have contributed to the benefit of the entire world. He concluded his presentation with a mention of specific cases that provide an indication of the promising future potential of South Asia studies.
 

Finally, Assistant Professor Yasushi Tonaga gave a presentation from the view of literature study. Specialized in the study of thought, Assistant Professor Tonaga looked back over his ten years of experience providing guidance at graduate school and listed a number of possibilities for bridging literature study and field work in area studies. He noted that for future researchers of area studies, specialization in field work alone will be insufficient, as will specialization in literature study alone. Through a presentation of specific cases and concrete evidence, Assistant Prof. Tonaga argued that the ideal researcher of area studies will be the one who “straddles” these two worlds.
 

Following each presentation, questions were addressed to presenters, and comments were raised regarding different regions and viewpoints concerning the vision for area studies outlined in each presentation. These questions, comments and discussions expressed great anticipation about the future of area studies to come.
 

(Shin Yasuda)

Date: November 29, 2008 (Sat.)    14:00PM -
Venue: Meeting Room (102), Institute for Research in Humanities

Presetator：
Kenji Taniguchi (Graduate School of Eonomics, Osaka City University)

References：
Revenue and reform : the Indian problem in British politics, 1757-1773/ H.V. Bowen. --(BA13306481)Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

The business of empire : the East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833 / H.V. Bowen. -- (BA75470043) Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006

Elites, enterprise and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775 / H.V. Bowen. -- (BA28436298) London : Macmillan New York : St. Martin's, 1996

The worlds of the East India Company / edited by H.V. Bowen, Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby. -- (BA58100784)Woodboridge : Boydell Press, 2002

'British India, 1765-1813. / H.V. Bowen.', The eighteenth century / P.J. Marshall, Oxford University Press, 1998

Sinews of trade and empire: the supply of commodity exports to the East India Company during the late eighteenth century/ Economic History Review, LV, 3, 2002.

Date: November 20, 2008 (Tur.) 16：00～18：00
Venue: AA447, Research Building No.2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University

Presetation：
・Yasushi Kosugi (Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
・Shinsuke Nagaoka (Ph.D.candidate, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)

Under Initiative 1, activities are being conducted on three sub-groups on individual research themes in addition to the overall group activities. This seminar featured reports on research conducted by the Middle East and Islam subgroup, with the discussion focusing on Islamic economics. The first presentation, by Professor Yasushi Kosugi, included a brief presentation of the research activities conducted by the subgroup, followed by explanations of the historical development of Islamic economics and the basic structure of Islamic law that creates these unique characteristics. He analyzed historical changes in the interpretation of Islamic law concerning economic activities and discussed how Islamic economics has been positioned within arguments for the integration of religion and economics and the structure of the Islamic revival. The second presenter, Shinsuke Nagaoka, addressed Sharia-compliant assets, which has demonstrated vigorous growth in recent years within economic activities in the Islamic world. He concretely described the financial system used in Sharia-compliant assets, and while clearly explaining how interpretations of riba (interest) have been made by actors during the evolutionary process of financial commodities, discussed the historical significance of Sharia-compliant assets.

Sharia-compliant asset, which is one example of the Islamic revival movement, can be grasped as an example of a sustainable humanosphere formed by a fusion of the Holy Quran, the basis for living in the Islamic world, and the existing capitalist financial system. In the future, there is a need to explore the relation between such Islamic systems and the natural environment of the Islamic world, as typified by the oasis, and to carry out further discussions on how to formulate new paradigms in all spheres, including the geosphere, biosphere, and humanosphere, that give consideration to sustainability.

Another issue that emerged during the discussion was why riba is forbidden in the Islamic world, and what significance this has for contemporary capitalism. The pursuit of profits is the fundamental principle of contemporary capitalism, and it is commonly understood that profits can be divided into interest and the manager’s compensation. In order to explore the potential of Islamic principles to go beyond contemporary capitalism, these issues need to be clarified.

(Takahiro Sato and Koichi Fujita)

Date: November 1, 2008 (Sat.) 15：00～17：30
Venue: AA401, Research Building No.2, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University

Presetation：Toru Miura (Ochanomizu University)

Title: The Mamluk Dynasty

Date: October 25, 2008 (Sat.)    14:00PM -
Venue: Meeting Room (102), Institute for Research in Humanities

Presetator：
Nobuyuki Yabushita (Professor,Kinki University)

References：
・K.N.Chaudhuri　Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean, Cambridge UP 1985,
・A. Reed Southeast Asia in the age of commerce 1450-1680, Yale UP 1988
・K.N.Chaudhuri　Asia before Europe, Cambridge UP 1990

Date: September 20, 2008    14:00PM -
Venue: Meeting Room (102), Institute for Research in Humanities

Presetator：
Mario Oshima

References：
・Kazuo Sugiyama
(Political Change and Industrial Development in Japan: Government Enterprise, 1868-1880, Stanford University Press, 1955)

・Hisao Otsuka
（The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, 1959）

・Mario Oshima
(Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920, University California Press, 1988)

[Language]
English

G-COE International Workshop on Islam and the Middle East: Dynamics of Social and Political Transformation

Humanosphere: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere in Asia and Africa(G-COE)
Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University(KIAS)
Comparative Studies on Transnational Socio-Political Movements in Contemporary Asia and Africa（Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A), JSPS: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies）

Keynote Speaker:
Raymond HINNEBUSCH(University of St. Andrews)
Guest Speaker: MIYAGI Yukiko(University of Durham)
General Commentators: Raymond HINNEBUSCH, MIYAGI Yukiko and SAKAI Keiko(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Organizers:
KOSUGI Yasushi(Kyoto University) and SAKAI Keiko

August 2 (Sat.)
9:00-9:10 Opening

9:10-12:10 Session 1
Chair: SUECHIKA Kota(Ritsumeikan University)
Speaker 1: MARUYAMA Daisuke(Kyoto University)
"Sufism and Tariqa in Sudan: Historical Analysis"
Speaker 2: KINOSHITA Hiroko(Kyoto University)
"Studying Islam and Living Life in Middle East: The Case of Modern Indonesia"
Speaker 3: Fahlesa MUNABARI(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia: The Quest for the Caliphate and Shariah"

12:10-13:10 Lunch

13:10-15:10 Session 2
Chair: SUECHIKA Kota
Speaker 1: KOKAKI Aya(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"An Islamic Intellectual's Views on Laiklik in Contemporary Turkey"
Speaker 2: FUJII Chiaki(Kyoto University)
"Modern Aspects of the Exorcism by Prophetic Medicine; The Case of East African Coast"

15:10-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-18:30 Session 3
Chair: SUECHIKA Kota
Speaker 1: YASUDA Shin(Kyoto University)
"Formation of Ziyara to the Shi'ite Mausoleums in Syria: `Karbala Paradigm' and the Re-interpretation of `Tragedy of Karbala' from 1970s to 1980s"
Speaker 2: KATSUHATA Fuyumi(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Muhammad `Abduh and John William Draper"
Speaker 3: Mehboob UL-HASSAN(Kyoto University)
"Some Shortcomings in the Contemporary Practices of Islamic Banks of Pakistan"

18:30-20:00 Guest Speech
MIYAGI Yukiko
"Japan's Middle East Security Policy: International Relations Theory and Japanese Foreign Policy-Making"

August 3(Sun.)
9:00-10:30 Keynote Speech
Raymond HINNEBUSCH
"Conceptual Approaches to Understanding the International Relations of the Middle East"

10:30-12:30 Session 4
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi
Speaker 1: HIRAMATSU Aiko(Kyoto University)
"Democracy and Islam in Contemporary Kuwait: Political Participation of Women"
Speaker 2: HORINUKI Koji(Kyoto Univeristy)
"How did the Micro-States Develop in the Arid Area?: Comparative Study on the Small Gulf Emirates"

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-16:30 Session 5
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi
Speaker 1: YAMAO Dai(Kyoto University)
"Struggle for Power in Democratization Process in the post-War Iraq: Contending Relation between ex-Exile Parties in Power and Later-formed Parties"
Speaker 2: Housam DARWISHEH(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Egyptian Opposition Activism in Comparative Perspective"
Speaker 3: Al-Farttoosi INTISSAR(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) "An Overview on Forced Displacing in Iraq"

16:30-16:45 Coffee break

16:45-19:45 Session 6
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi
Speaker 1: KURODA Kenji(Kyoto University)
"Rethinking of Post-revolutionary Iran: Interference of Shi'ite Academia in the Iranian Politics"
Speaker 2: HIRANO Junichi(Kyoto University)
"Arabism or Islamism?* `Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi and his Concept of Islamic Congress"
Speaker 3: Shirine ELJURDI(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"The Role and Challenges of Druze Women in Lebanon"

19:45-20:00 Closing

Date:June 28, 2008 (Sat.) 14:00-PM
Venue: Room 102, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Presentation:
Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)

Preferences:

・R.Bin Wong
"China transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience",
Cornell University Press,1997

・Kenneth Pomeranz
"The Dreat Divergence: Europe,China and the Making of the Modern World Economy", Princeton,2000

Date:June 23, 2008 (Mon.) 16:00-18:00PM
Venue: E207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1.Takahiro Sato (G-COE Researcher)
2.Taizo Wada (G-COE Researcher)

Commentator:
Mamoru Kanzaki (Associate　Professor, Faculty Gruduate School of Agriculture)
Akio Tanabe (Associate　Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)

The Geosphere was defined as the part of the earth’s crustal construction made up of rocks and regolith, and the Biosphere as the surface part of the earth, produced through the interaction of biological lifeforms and their surrounding environment. A proposal was made to use the primary energy supplies and primary biomass supplies (Net Primary Production; NPP) of each country as evaluation indices. As an evaluation index for a narrowly-defined Humanosphere, while introducing Disability-adjusted life expectancy (DALE), two models were investigated; one using the GDP index and Education index from a Human Development Index (HDI) and the other excluding the GDP index. Based on the points presented above, the three patterns mentioned below, which combine indices for these three spheres, were established, and a regional sustainability index for each country was indicated in the form of a thematic map. At the same time, questions regarding the validity of techniques in which a human-related index and an environmental-related index are summed together and averaged, and regarding the issue of how in the future to incorporate qualitative research results, were also raised, and a plan to analyze trends over the past 20-30 years was announced.

Regional Sustainability Index 3

(Takahiro Sato and Taizo Wada)

Date:June 12, 2008 (Thu.) 17:00-19:30PM
Venue: No.1 Lecture Room, Department of South and West Asian Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Research Building No.2, 4th floor, Kyoto University

Presentation:
Speaker1: Dr. Devin Joshi (Assistant Professor, University of Denver)
Title: Comparing Human Development in India & China

Abstract: This presentation examines the relative contributions of government performance and economic growth to advancing human development (HD) in India and China over the period from 1950 to 2005. Within human development I focus on maternal and child health (MCH) and compulsory elementary education (CEE) achievements as crucial indicators of poverty reduction and future development in these two nations. To empirically assess the impact of good governance as distinct from economic growth I examine government effectiveness for HD at the macro and micro levels through public finance and policy implementation. Contrary to neo-liberalism and other growth-centered development explanations, I find that government performance and social equality explain as much or even more than economic growth regarding HD performance.

Abstract: This presentation will seek to examine the effects of neo-liberal globalization and the war on terror upon human security in South Asia. It will be argued that economic liberalization in South Asia in general and its most populous country, India, in particular has resulted in unbalanced growth which has disproportionately benefited, and politically empowered, members of the dominant classes, religious communities and castes at the expense of the rural and urban poor. This has had profound consequences for members of South Asia's religious minorities and subaltern castes and classes who find themselves increasingly marginalized by national discourses derived from the majority religious tradition. These trends have been reinforced by the post 9/11 political climate and the introduction of anti-terrorism legislation which has contributed to a greater securitization of society in general and the targeting of ethno-religious minorities.

Discussants: Prof. Patricio N. Abinales, Prof. Koichi Fujita, Dr. Akio Tanabe
Moderator: Tatsuro Fujikura

  The two presentations dealt with similar subjects in contrasting ways. To handle the issues concerning Human Development, Prof. Joshi concentrated his focus on child health (MCH) and compulsory elementary education (CEE), and presented the concept of effective governance. Then he showed various statistical datum related to human development (MCH and CEE), effective governance and economic growth in China and India, to compare the situations in those two countries. National and provincial datum were compared in order to examine complex relationships between those indicators. Based on his assessment, he found that government performance and social equality explained as much as, or even more than economic growth regarding HD performance, and highlighted the importance of the state in prioritizing human development.

 Dr. Shani started his presentation with the examination of the general concept of human security. With regard to human security, he distinguished two existing approaches: narrow and broad. He criticized them on the ground that they are prone to fall into “democratic imperialism” and/or “securitization of development”. He also noted how the post 9/11 political and economic situations of South Asian countries have created “war on terror” situations which have intensified ethno-religious and caste conflicts (and hence human insecurity) in the area, and he further expressed concerns about the impact of neo-liberal globalization and the “securitization” led by the states.

 According to Dr. Shani, a critical approach to human security is necessary to address issues such as poverty and gender inequality.

 The discussion started with the comments from the three discussants. First, Prof. Fujita (CSEAS) commented mostly on Dr. Joshi’s presentation. He pointed out that the correlation between the indices of human development and effective governance might be somewhat tautological, in the sense that they included the same components. In addition, he maintained that the presenter should take into account the importance of social, cultural and historical backgrounds and the internal disparities of the two countries. Second, Prof. Abinales (CSEAS) enhanced the discussion. Referring to the Philippino-Muslim case as an example, he highlighted that the relationship between democracy and state power is indeed very complicated.

 Third, Prof. Tanabe (Institute for Research in Humanities) summed up the similarities and differences of the two presentations, and raised questions regarding the role of the state and the ways to progress people’s welfare. Mentioning the concept of “Humanosphere-sustainable development”, he stressed that we should adopt a broader perspective which took into account not only the social but the ecological environment as well as something that supports human well-being. Finally, the attendants reached a consensus on the significance of the concept of “Humanosphere-sustainable development” and a number of constructive exchanges of views among attendees was developed.

(Fumikazu Ubukata and Shuhei Kimura)

Date:May 31, 2008 (Sun.) 14:00PM -
Venue: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

Presentation:
Tomoko Shiroyama (Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University)

Prefereces:

• Mark Elvin, The Patten of the Chinese Past (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973)
• Mark Elvin, Another History: Essays on CHina from a European Perspective (Sydney: Wild Peony, 1996)

Date:May 12, 2008 (Mon.) 16:00-18:00PM
Venue: E207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1.Junko Koizumi (Associate Professor,　CSEAS)
2.Fumikazu Ubukata(G-COE Assistanct Professor)

Commentator:
Naoto Kazotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)
Shinya Takeda (Associate　Professor, ASAFAS)

Presentation 1:
The presentation provides a general view regarding the process of negotiations over the issue of the resumption of tribute payments, which occurred over the period between the 1860s and the mid-1880s, and negotiations over the conclusion of treaties between the mid 1880s and the first decade of the 20th century. In the presentation, an explanation was given of how Siam, with its large population of domestic Chinese residents, was in a situation in which it could neither offer a clear rejection nor acceptance of tribute payments and treaties, by citing that the proposal for tributes came from Tianjin, and that they were premature. The possibility was also indicated that the China problem may at times have felt more serious than the threat of the West, and the need to place Western nations on an axis of relations with China and other Asian countries was also highlighted.

One commentator (Kagotani Naoto) introduced an argument raised in recent years in the study of Chinese history as a critique of the tribute system theory, the idea that goshi (trade) was taken as the basis of foreign diplomacy in the Qing Dynasty. Based on this, he suggested that the true picture of commerce, alongside the problem of the relation between the Tianjin route and trade as well as the connection with tribute payment, may have been something somewhat less rigid. In addition, he pointed out the necessity to consider the differences in attitude to taxation system and networks with mainland China among the newcomers and old-comers from China to Thailand. A question was further raised regarding the level of investment in the financial sector by overseas Chinese in Thailand, as described in the book Kakyokeizairon (Overseas Chinese Economy) by Fukuda Shozo, and the historical significance of this investment. In addition, there was a comment from the floor on the need to focus attention on the changing of the concept itself of “treaty” in Europe, from the standpoint of the history of the Western world.

For the presenter, the above points were fruitful opportunities that offered clues as to how to situate Siamese-Chinese relations from many angles beyond those of Thai history. The issue of how to approach the problematic of the humanosphere, however, was left as a future task. While keeping in mind the long-term dynamism of tribute relations between Thailand and China stretching back to the 13th century, we hope in the future to commence a search for a historical vantage point that situates problems of the latter half of the 19th century.

Presentation 2:
In his presentation, Dr. Ubukata Fumikazu discussed the question of how resource management systems are demanded and supplied, based on the transformation process of the commons (resource shared by a community and resource management system) that occurred in North-East Thailand. He concluded that factors introduced through contact with the outside world applied pressure toward changes in the management system of a scale that was greater than those incurred through conditions of resource distribution within the community. Based on results of a research, three areas were classified as deserving attention in considering relations between resource scarcity and institutional change. It was noted that these areas reflect the significance of resource scarcity in modern “connected communities.”

Comments and arguments:
・Do regional natural conditions and historic context not heavily influence the process of institutional change?
・Is there any influence of the apparent change in the meaning of resource in Thailand, which has resulted from recent societal change?
・Common property resources in Thailand, unlike those under the former Japanese iriai system (system of access right to community resources), are not absolutely indispensable for survival. Is this not something that is reflected in these sorts of results?

(Junko Koizumi and Fumikazu Ubukata)

Date: March 29th (Sun), 2008 14:00-
Venue:Faculty of Engineering Bldg No.5, ASAFAS

Presentation:
Kitani Natuko (Prof. Nagoya City University)　

References：　

• B. R. Tomlinson, The political economy of the Raj, 1914-1947: the economics of decolonization in India (Macmillan Press, 1979)
• B. R. Tomlinson, The Economy of Modern India, 1860-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
• B. R. Tomlinson, The Indian National Congress and the Raj, 1929-1942: the penultimate phase (Macmillan, 1976)
• P. J. Cain & A. G. Hopkins, British Imperialism 1688-2000, Second Edition (Pearson Education Limited, 2002), Chapter 23

Date: March 1(Sat.) ―　2(Sun.), 2008
Venue: Room 207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Provisional Programme: See an attached file
Organezers:  JSPS-NRCT Core University Program: Project 9 / Global COE
Program: Initiative 1

Day 1
10.30 am – 12 am: Overview and Comments

• Kaoru Sugihara (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
  Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia: A Preliminary Comparative Perspective
• Pasuk Phongpaichit (Chulalongkorn University.)
  Some Thoughts on Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Southeast Asia
  

Lunch

1 pm – 3.30 pm: Round Table: Back to the State?

• Takashi Shiraishi (GRIPS)
  On State Formation
• Chris Baker
  On the Post-developmental State
• Thee Kian Wie (LIPI, Indonesia)
  On Policy-makers, Senior Officials and Businessmen
  

4:00 pm – 6.00 pm: Indonesia

• Thee Kian Wie
  Indonesia's Industrialisation during and after the Soeharto Era: Aspects of Labour-intensive Industrialisation
• Kosuke Mizuno (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
  A Path to Prosperous Rural Industry in Indonesia: Case of Roof-tile Industry
  

Discussant: Fumiharu Mieno (Kobe University)

7 pm-: Dinner and Informal Discussion at a room at Fujitei (nearby restaurant)

Day 2
10 am – 12 am: Southeast Asia

• Porphant Ouyyanont (Suhhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand)
  Cheap Labor and the Industrialization of Bangkok after 1945: Some Revision
• Tatsufumi Yamagata (IDE-JETRO)
  Two Dynamic LDCs: Cambodia and Bangladesh as Garment Exporters
  

Discussant: Koichi Fujita (CSEAS, Kyoto University)

Lunch

1:pm. – 2.30 pm: Japan

• Masayuki Tanimoto (University of Tokyo)
  From Peasant Economy to Urban Agglomeration: The Transformation of ‘Labour-intensive Industrialization’ in Modern Japan
• Haruo Wakimura
  The Decline of Japanese Cotton-weaving Districts in Postwar Japan
  

Discussion: Akihiko Ohno (Aoyama Gakuin Universiity)

3 pm – 4.30 pm: India and Comparative

• Takashi Oishi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
  Aspects of Labour Intensive Economy around Bicycles in Modern India with Special Focus on the Import from Japan
  

General discussion

Other participants:
Nobuko Nagasaki (Ryukoku University)
Takeshi Onimaru (GRIPS)
Takahiro Sato (G-COE, CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Naomi Hosoda (CSEAS, Kyoto University)
Shinya Ishizaka (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
Shinsuke Nagaoka (ASFAS, Kyoto University)
Nao Sato (ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
Kyoko Oga (Osaka Univeristy)
Shiro Sato (Ryukoku Univeristy)

Date: February 29, 2008 (Fri.) 14:30-18:00PM
Venue: Room 207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Title:

Presentation:
1. Akihiko Ohno (Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University)
2. Koichi Fujita (Professor, CSEAS)
3. Kenjiro Yagura (Professor, Hannan University)

Commentators:
Fumiharu Mieno (Associate Professor, Kobe University)
Kunio Ohkama(Professor, Tohoku University)
Akihiko Sakashita (Professor, Hokkaido University)

Date: February 12, 2008(Tue.) 15:00 - 18:00PM
Venue: Room 207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Satoshi Kobori (Professor, School of Economics, Nagoya University)
2. Fumikazu Ubukata(G-COE Assistant Professor, CSEAS)
3. Tamaki Endo(G-COE Researcher, CSEAS)

Commentators:
Kaoru Sugihara (Professor, CSEAS)
Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)
Shinya Takeda (Professor, ASAFAS)

Date:February 1-2 ，2008
Venue:Lecture Room I (AA401), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4, 4th Floor, Yoshida Campus, Kyoto Univerity(February 1);
Meeting Room(AA447), Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No. 4, 4th Floor, Kyoto University(February 2)
(Main Campus)  (Faculty of Engineering Bldg. No.4 in the north area)

[Language] English

Keynote Speaker: Mohammed El-Sayed SELIM(Cairo University)
General Commentators: Mohammed El-Sayed SELIM and SAKAI Keiko(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Organizers: KOSUGI Yasushi(Kyoto University) and SAKAI Keiko

 

【Program】

February 1 (Fri.)

15:00-15:10  Opening

15:10-16:40  Session 1
Chair: TONAGA Yasushi(Kyoto University)

(Speakers)
Idiris DANISMAZ(Kyoto University)
''Applied Ethical Perspective in Turkish Sufi Exegesis: Ismail Haqqi
Bursawi's(d.1725) Ruh al-Bayan''

MARUYAMA Daisuke(Kyoto University)
''What Is Wali? : In the Tradition of Islamic Theology''

KINOSHITA Hiroko(Kyoto University)
''Transformation of the Islamic Network between Middle East and
Malay-Indonesian World:Historical Observation''

16:40-16:55  Coffee break

16:55-18:25  Session 2
Chair: TONAGA Yasushi(Kyoto University)

(Speakers)
Waheeb AL-ERYANI(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''State Legitimacy and Secession Calls in the South of Yemen"

YASUDA Shin(Kyoto University)
''The Pilgrimage to the Shi'ite Mausoleums in Contemporary Syria''

HIRAMATSU Aiko(kyoto University)
''Islam and Democratization in Kuwait''


February 2 (Sat.)

11:00-12:30  Keynote Speech
Mohammed El-Sayed SELIM
''Models of Dialogue among Civilizations, the Pre-requisites of an
Effective Model''

12:30-13:30  Lunch

13:30-15:00  Session 3
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi

(Speakers)
YAMAO Dai(Kyoto University)
''Cooperation and Rivalry among the Iraqi Islamic Parties: An Analysis
of Ideological and Political Orientations in the 1980s''

HORINUKI Koji(Kyoto University)
''Islam, Arabness and State Formation: A Debate on the Demographic
Imbalance in the UAE''

Housam DARWISHEH(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Political Activism under Mubarak's Authoritarian Electoral Engineering
in the 1980s''

15:00-15:15  Coffee break

15:15-16:45  Session 4
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi

(Speakers)
TOBINA Hiromi(Kyoto University)
''To Maintain Jerusalemite ``Rights'': Palestinian Lives under the
Threat of House Demolition''

KURODA Kenji(Kyoto University)
''The Institution of Marji` al-Taqlid after the Islamic Revolution in
Iran''

HIRANO Junichi(Kyoto University)
''Beyond the Sunni-Shiite Dichotomy: Rethinking al-Afghani and His
Pan-Islamism''

16:45-17:45  Session 5
Chair: KOSUGI Yasushi

(Speakers)
Esen URMANOV(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
''Islam in Central Asia"

INTISAR(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Forced Migration/ Displacement Crisis in the Middle East with more focus
on the case of Iraq

17:45-17:50  Closing

Date: Janurary 25, 2008 (Fri.) 14:00 - 17:30PM
Venue: Seminar Room, Acedemic Extension Center, Osaka City University

Presentation:
Kohei Wakimura (Osaka University)

Date: Janurary 7，2008(Mon.) 15:00 - 18:00PM
Venue: Room 207, 2nd floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Yasushi Kosugi (Professor, ASAFAS)
2. Takeshi Onimaru (Research Assistant, GRPIS)
3. Makoto Nishi (G-COE Researcher, CSEAS)

Commentators:
Kaoru Sugihara (Professor, CSEAS)
Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)
Akio Tanabe (Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)

Date: December 7, 2007 (Fri.) 14:00PM -
Venue: Room 401, Institute for Research in Humanities

Title:

Presentation:
Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)

Date: December 3, 2007 (Mon.) 15:00 - 18:00PM
Venue: Room 107, 1st floor of East Building, CSEAS

Presentation:
1. Norobu Ishikawa (Associate Professor, CSEAS)
2. Koichi Fujita (Professor, CSEAS)
3. Naoto Kagotani (Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities)

Commentators:
Yasuyuki Kono (Professor, CSEAS)
Kenichi Tomobe (Professor, Osaka University)