The Waseda IAS Up and Coming Researchers group will hold their next monthly meeting on January 9th (Sat) 2016 at the TUFS ILCAA. in Fuchu Tokyo. This event will also feature a symposium on Muslim minorities hosted by the TUFS ILCAA Fieldnet project and co-hosted by the Chinese Muslims research group. The name of the symposium is “Muslim Minorities and the State in China and Russia: Multicultural Symbiosis amid the Changing Politics of the 20th Century”.
The Waseda IAS Up and Coming Researchers group will hold their January 2016 meeting on January 9th (Sat) 2016 at the TUFS ILCAA in Fuchu Tokyo. This event will also feature a symposium on Muslim minorities hosted by the TUFS ILCAA Fieldnet project and co-hosted by the Chinese Muslims research group. The name of the symposium is “Muslim Minorities and the State in China and Russia: Multicultural Symbiosis amid the Changing Politics of the 20th Century”. Details are as follows. This event is open to everyone. No reservation is required. Please join us.
Muslim Minorities and the State in China and Russia: Multicultural Symbiosis amid the Changing Politics of the 20th Century
- Time
January 9th (Sat) 2016, 13:00-19:00 - Place
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 3rd floor multi-media seminar room #306
Map - Language
Japanese (without English interpreting) - Event Organizers
Hideyuki Naganuma (doctoral student, University of Tokyo)
Noriko Unno (doctoral student, University of Tokyo)
Noriyoshi Yakubo (doctoral student, Keio University) - Adviser
Kazuo Morimoto (University of Tokyo) - Note:
A post-event informal reception dinner is planned. No reservation is required for the event, but if you plan to attend the post-event dinner we ask that you notify event organizer Naganuma at your earliest convenience. - CONTACT
Event Organizer Hideyuki Naganuma: [email protected]
PROGRAM
- 13:00-13:10
Opening Remarks & Introductions - 13:10-15:10
Session One: Russia & the Soviet Union
‘Ulamāʼ, Muslim Communists, and Scholars of the Orient in the Early Soviet Volga-Ural Region
Masumi Isogai (Kyoto University of Foreign Affairs)
A Leader of Indigenous Assimilation or an Enlightened Saint?: Ethnic Consciousness and Views on Nikolai Il’minskii’s Missionary Work
Akira Sakurama (JSPS Research Fellow)
Minority Policies and Muslims’ Life Strategies in Post-socialist Bulgaria: Islam, Nationalism, and Transnationalism
Moyuru Matsumae (Morioka University)
Muslims or Nomads?: The Late Qing Empire’s Rule over the Kazakhs of Xinjiang
Jin Noda (Waseda University) - 15:30-17:00
Session Two: The ROC & the PRC
Chinese Muslims and the Umma during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Tatsuya Nakanishi (Kyoto University)
Chinese, Indian, and American Perceptions of Xinjian Kazakh Refugees: Bandits, Intruders, and Potential Spies
Ryosuke Ono (doctoral student, Keio University)
The Muslims who Declare “Love your Country, Love your Religion”: Policies on Religion and the Autonomy of Mosques in the People’s Republic of China
Mitsuo Sawai (Tokyo Metropolitan University) - 17:20-19:00
Session Three: Comments & Discussion Comments
Seiichiro Yoshizawa (University of Tokyo)
Taro Tsurumi (Saitama University)
Q&A and General Discussion
