{"id":862,"date":"2016-01-30T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/?p=862"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:48:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T11:48:37","slug":"nihu-program-for-islamic-area-studies-2015-general-meeting-open-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/news-en\/2016\/01\/30\/862\/","title":{"rendered":"NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies &#8211; 2015 General Meeting &#038; Open Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies will hold their 2015 general meeting on January 30th (Sat) 2016 at Waseda University Bldg. 3. This event is open to the public.<\/h3>\n<p>The NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies will hold their 2015 General Meeting as follows. This event is open to the public and will feature an open symposium titled, \u201cKnowing Regions and Considering History: The Intersections of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East\u201d. As this is the last general meeting of the 10-year Islamic Area Studies program, we have chosen \u201cArea Studies\u201d as our retrospective theme for this event. This event is free and open to all, so feel free to join us! After the event, we hope all IAS members and researchers will join us for an informal reception dinner from 18:00.<\/p>\n<p>Public Symposium Knowing Regions and Considering History: The Intersections of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East (and NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies &#8211; 2015 General Meeting)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Time<\/strong><br \/>\nJanuary 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0(Sat) 2016, 13:00-17:10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Place<\/strong><br \/>\nWaseda University, Bldg. #3, Room #501<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maps<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/access\/waseda-campus\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/access\/waseda-campus<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/10\/waseda-campus-map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/assets\/uploads\/2014\/10\/waseda-campus-map.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nBuilding #3 is on the right side after entering the main gate (see: building #3 on the map above).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About 3 minutes walk from the Nishi-Waseda bus stop on the bus to Waseda from Takadanobaba Station.<\/li>\n<li>About 20 minutes walk from Takadanobaba Station on the Yamanote and Seibu Shinjuku train lines.<\/li>\n<li>About 5 minutes walk from Waseda Station on the Tozai subway line.<\/li>\n<li>About 17 minutes walk from Nishi-Waseda Station on the Fukutoshin subway line.<\/li>\n<li>About 5 minutes walk from Waseda Station on the Toden Arakawa line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong><br \/>\nJapanese (without English interpreting)<\/li>\n<li><strong>PROGRAM<\/strong><br \/>\n12:30 Doors Open)<br \/>\nEvent Moderator: Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA, TUFS))<br \/>\n13:00 Opening Remarks)<br \/>\nYuki Konagaya (Executive Director, NIHU Center for the Promotion of Area Studies))<br \/>\nIntroduction of the Document Center for Islamic Area Studies at the Toyo Bunko Library)<br \/>\n13:20 <b><i>Area Studies &amp; Comparative Studies: The Urban Societies of Islam<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nToru Miura (Ochanomizu University \/ Director, Document Center for Islamic Area Studies at the Toyo Bunko Library))<br \/>\n14:00 <b><i>The Possibilities of Sharia Court Records from Central Asia as Historical Source Materials<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nToru Horikawa (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)<br \/>\n14:40 <b><i>Women &amp; Gender: A Historical Perspective on Ottoman Society<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nJun Akiba (Chiba University))<br \/>\n15:20 <b><i>South Asian Politics and the Historical Foundations of Multiculturalism<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nChiharu Takenaka (Rikkyo University)<br \/>\n16:00 &#8212; Break &#8212;<br \/>\n16:10 General Discussion<br \/>\n17:00 Closing Remarks<br \/>\nKeiko Sakurai (Waseda University \/ General Director, NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NIHU Program for Islamic Area Studies will hold their 2015 general meeting on January 30th (Sat) 2016 at W [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[82,94,113],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","tag-events-en","tag-general-en","tag-nihu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/ias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}