東京外国語大学アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所では、来る 2009年12月5日(土) ・ 6日(日) に国際会議 “The Otherness and Beyond：Dynamism between Group Formation and Identity in Modern Muslim Societies” を開催いたします。
イスラーム世界と欧米の関係、宗派・民族紛争など、グローバリゼーションの進む現代社会の抱える諸問題を、「他者性」をキーワードに根源に立ち返って考え直そうとするものです。
なお、この国際会議は文部科学省特別研究教育経費による中東イスラーム研究教育プロジェクト（2005-09年度）の最後を飾るものとなります。
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 |
