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【EVENT】International Seminar “Islam and Multiculturalism: History, Challenges and Prospects”(Dec. 3rd and 4th)

Waseda University Organization for Islamic Area Studies was adopted as JSPS Core-to-Core Program, B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 2014. This project comprises developmental research towards coexistence with Islam, building cooperative relationship with Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya and New York University-Abu Dhabi.

In the final year of the program, we will hold an international seminar “Islam and Multiculturalism: History, Challenges and Prospects” on December 3rd and 4th at Waseda University. We are looking forward to many people taking this opportunity to attend.

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Date: Saturday, December 3rd and Sunday, December 4th, 2016.

Venue: Room 703, BLDG. 11, Waseda University

Language: English

Fee and Registration: NOT required

Contact: [email protected]

<Program>

DAY 1 : Saturday, 3 December 2016

12.00-13.00 : Registration

13.00-13.10 : Opening remarks (Keiko Sakurai)

13.10-13.35 : Keynote speech (Omar Farouk):

Islam and Multiculturalism: Challenges and Prospects

 

13.40-15.10 : Session 1 : Media, Language and Identity

Chair: Wakako Kumakura (Waseda University)

Speaker1: Yushi Chiba (Waseda University):

                  From “Asset” to “Too-Heavy Legacy”? Al-Jazeera and Its Transformation after 2011

Speaker2: Azirah Hashim (AEI): Language contact: Arabic in the media in Malaysia      

Speaker3: Marzia Balzani (NYU AD): 

Sameness and Difference: Ahmadiyya Islam in Colonial, Post-Colonial and Global Contexts

 

15.10-15.30 : Tea Break

 

15.30-17.00 : Session 2 : Multicultural trend in Islamic Sciences

Chair: Ryuichi Sugiyama (Waseda University)

Speaker1: Sidoli Nathan Camillo (Waseda University)

Translations of Greco-Roman mathematical sciences in the Abbasid Period

           Speaker2: Taro Mimura (Hiroshima University)

The importance of Indian Astronomy in the Formation of Islamic Astronomy

           Speaker3: Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College)

An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1500

           Special comment: Justin Stearns (NYU AD)(read by Martin Klimke)

 

 

DAY 2 : Sunday, 4 December 2016

10.30-11.30 : Session 3 : Student Movement : Past and Present

Chair: Yushi Chiba (Waseda University)

Speaker1: Martin Klimke (NYU AD):

The Global Sixties and the Middle East

           Speaker2: Keiko Sakurai (Waseda University):

Transformation of Student Movements in Post-Revolutionary Iran

11.30-13.30 : Lunch

 

13.30-15.30 : Session 4 : Politics of State building  

Chair: Kiyohiko Hasebe (Waseda University)

Speaker1: Sadashi Fukuda (IDE-JETRO/ Waseda University)

Tribes and State formation in Countries of Arabian Peninsula

    Speaker2: Mikiya Koyagi (NYU NY):

The Construction of the Trans-Iranian Railway (1927-38) and Nation-building

           Speaker3: Matthew Gray (Waseda University)

Branding and State-Building in the Arab Gulf States:The Cases of Qatar and Dubai

           Speaker4: Patrick Ziegenhain (AEI)

Islam and Nation-building in Malaysia and Indonesia

 

15.30-16.00 : Tea Break

 

16.00-17.30 : Session 5 :Transnational Islam

Chair: Mikiya Koyagi (NYU NY):

Speaker1: Hirofumi Tanada, (Waseda University)

Islamic Policy and Perceptions of Islam in Wartime Japan

           Speaker2: Md Nasrudin Md Akhir, (University of Malaya, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

Halal Industry in Malaysia: Challenges and Future Direction

           Speaker3: Schuyler Marquez (NYU NY):
Harmonizing Halal : Forms of Evidence and Verification Strategies on Zabihah.com

Dates
  • 1203

    SAT
    2016

    1204

    SUN
    2016

Place

早稲田大学 早稲田キャンパス11号館703室

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