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.
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]
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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