The 11th meeting：ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies”
| Date / Time | 30 November 2013 (Sat.) 10:30-20:00 1 December 2013 (Sun.) 10:20-16:40 |
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| Venue | Room 303, ILCAA |
| Language | English |
| Organized by | ILCAA, JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO（ILCAA)) |
| Admission: Free Note: If you would like to attend the symposium, please contact us by e-mail before 21 November. E-mail: safavid_tokyo2013[at]yahoo.co.jp *Please change [at] to @. |
| 30th November, 2013. | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Registration |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Welcome, keynote address |
| 11:00-12:50 | Panel 1: Center and Periphery |
| Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware) “The Safavid Empire: Relations between the Center and the Periphery” |
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| Akihiko Yamaguchi (University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo) “Safavid Legacy Seen from a Periphery: The Ardalan and Iran’s Shahs” |
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| 12:50-14:20 | Lunch break |
| 14:20-15:40 | Panel 2: Politics and Kingship |
| Sholeh Quinn (University of California, Merced) “Chroniclers and Kings: the Origins of Early Modern Persianate Historiography” |
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| Yukako Goto (Kwansei Gakuin University) “Regional Cities as Nodes in the Network of the Safavid Political System” |
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| 15:40-16:10 | Coffee break |
| 15:10-17:30 | Panel 3: Religion and Authority |
| Rula Jurdi Abisaab (McGill University) “Juristic Thought and Authority: from the mujtahids of Mongol Hilla to the Early Traditionists of Safavid Iran” |
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| Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “State and Religious Authority in Practice: Vaqf Administration under the Safavids and the Qajars” |
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| 18:00- | Reception |
| 1st December 2013. | |
| 10:20-12:00 | Panel 4: The Safavids and the Christians |
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| Tomoko Morikawa (Hokkaido University) “A Shi’ite Armenian in the late Seventeenth Century” |
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| Giorgio Rota (Institut für Iranistik, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) “Aq Qoyunlu and Safavid European Diplomacy: Strategy, Millenarism, Wishful thinking” |
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| 12:00-13:20 | Lunch break |
| 13:20-15:20 | Panel 5: Global Context |
| Katsuhiko Abe (Kanagawa University) “Silk for the Court: Reconsidering Safavid Textile Production” |
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| Sebouh Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Trials and Tribulations of Marcara Avachintz: A Global Microhistory of an Armenian Director of Colbert’s Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666-1688″ |
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| Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) “Merchant houses and elite mansions in Agra, Aleppo and Isfahan: Intercultural conditions and metropolitan ideas in the 17th-century” |
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| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break |
| 15:40-16:40 | Concluding Panel |
