This is an announcement on the International Conference “the Otherness and Beyond：Dynamism between Group Formation and Identity in Modern Muslim Societies”, which will be held on 5th and 6th December 2009 at Research Institute for Lang usages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
International Symposium
The Otherness and Beyond
Dynamism between Group Formation and Identity
in Modern Muslim Societies
December 5th – 6th, 2009
The Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
| Day one | |
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| 13:00-13:15 | Opening Addresses |
| 13:15-15:30 | Session one: <Sectarianism in Lebanon and Syria: From its Creation and Exacerbation toward Resolution> |
| Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA) “Too Many Others: Emergence of a Millet for the Greek Catholics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” |
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| Ussama Makdisi (Rice University) “Demystifying Sectarianism: A Historical view” |
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| Aida Kanafani-Zahar (CNRS) “Two‘Reconciliations’in Mirror: About Conflict Management Procedures, Lebanon” |
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| Chair : Takayuki Yoshimura (ILCAA) | |
| Session two: <Otherness, Ethnicity, and Identity: The Cases of Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan> |
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| Touraj Atabaki (Leiden University) “When a Crow Turned into a Nightingale: The Magic of Appropriating the Other” |
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| Martin Van Bruinessen (Utrecht University) “Turkey’s AKP Government and its Engagement with the Alevis and the Kurds” |
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| So Yamane (Osaka University) “The Rise of New Madrasas and the Transformation of Tribal Leadership in FATA,Pakistan” |
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| Chair : Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA) | |
| 18:30-20:30 | Reception |
| Day Two | |
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| 10:00-12:30 | Session Three: <Emerging Public Sphere and the Otherness> |
| Hsain Ilahiane (University of Kentucky) “Land Ownership and the Seeds of Socio-political Transformations in South-central Morocco” |
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| Keiko Takaki (J.F. Oberlin University) “Al-Alawi Sufi Tariqa and Public Spheres in Algeria and in Europe: The Otherness and Beyond in the Tariqa Activities” |
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| Katsumi Okuno (Kyoto Bunkyo University) “To Whom ‘Nubia’ Belongs : Ethnicity and Personal Identity” |
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| Takashi Kawabata (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan) “Branding Malaysia as the Global Halal Hub: Reflections on Islamism, Ethno-nationalism and Nation-building” |
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| Chair: Masayuki Akahori (Sophia University, Japan) | |
| 14:00-16:30 | Session Four: <Islam and Modern Western Civilization> |
| Masato Iizuka (ILCAA) “In Quest of ‘True’ Islam: How Modern Arab Thinkers Redefine Islamic Identity in Relation to ‘Western’ Civilization” |
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| Nathan J. Brown (George Washington University) “Consensus and Cacophony: Emerging Debates about Constitutionalism and Shari’a in Sunni Islam” |
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| Yasuyuki Matsunaga (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Human Rights and the New Jurisprudence in Mohsen Kadivar’s Advocacy of New-Thinker Islam” |
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| Mehrzad Boroujerdi (Syracuse University) “Javad Tabatabai’s Philosophical Account of Iranian Historical Decadence:A Critical Assessment” |
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| Chair : Keiko Sakai (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) | |
| 17:00-18:00 | General Discussion |
