Islamic and Chinese Studies and Inter-Asia Research Networks

The Third International Symposium of Inter-Asia Research Networks
Islamic and Chinese Studies and Inter-Asia Research Networks:
Integrated Study of Dynamism in the Supra-Regional Spheres of Islamic and Chinese Regions
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Date:
February 28 - March 1, 2015
Organizer:
HAMASHITA Takeshi
(Research Department Head, Toyo Bunko)
Session Coordinators:
Session 1:
SHIMBO Atsuko
(Professor, Waseda University)
Session 2:
HACHIOSHI Makoto
(Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko; Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Session 3:
HAMASHITA Takeshi

February 28 (sat)
13:30-13:45
HAMASHITA Takeshi
Opening Address
13:45-16:50 (2/28 Sat.)
Session 1: Some Aspects of Chinese Muslim Society: Focusing on Migration, Network, and Gender
13:45-14:25
WANG Jianxin
(Professor, Cultural Anthropology at Ethnology Institute of Lanzhou University; Vice Director at Center for Studies of Ethnic Minorities in Northwest China of Lanzhou University)
“Sermon Poems in Uyghurs and Huis: A Comparison Approach toward the Socio-Religious Representations of Muslim Minorities in China”
14:25-15:05
Maria JASCHOK
(Director, International Gender Studies Centre; Research Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford)
“Soundscape of a Women’s Mosque and Potency of Silence: Evocations of Islamic Faith, Ruptured Memory and Precarious Presence in Kaifeng, China”
15:05-15:45
MATSUMOTO Masumi
(Professor, Muroran Institute of Techology)
“Islamic Education for Women in China: Vocational or Ethical Schooling?”
16:00-16:20
OKA Natsuko
(Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization)
“Comment”
16:20-16:50
Discussion

March 1 (sun)
09:30-13:00 (3/1 Sun.)
Session 2: Parliamentalism and Constitutional Systems in Islamic and Chinese Regional Spheres
9:30-10:10
Mohsen KHALILI
(Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
“Two Dimensions of the Iran’s Constitutionalism: Familiar Notions, Lack of Theory”
10:10-10:50
SASAKI Shin
(Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University)
“After the ‘Second Empire’: New Horizons of the Ottoman Constitutional History”
10:50-11:30
SUZUKI Emi
(Research Fellow, Toyo Bunko; Fellow, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Notable Politics and Parliament in Modern and Contemporary Egypt”
11:40-12:20
AJIOKA Toru
(Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of the Sacred Heart)
“The Constitutional Government and the Local Administration System of Republican China”
12:20-12:35
HACHIOSHI Makoto
“Comment”
12:35-13:00
Discussion
14:00-17:30 (3/1 Sun.)
Session 3: Local and Global Problems around Islamic and Chinese Regional Spheres
14:00-14:40
MA Qiang
(Professor, Institute for Western Frontier Region of China, Shaanxi Normal University)
“Middle Man: The Integrated Function of Hui among Ethnic Groups in Yining City of Xinjiang”
14:40-15:20
KOH Keng We
(Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University)
“Islam and the Chinese in Southeast Asia: A Historical Overview”
15:20-16:00
XIANG Biao
(Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford)
“Economic Globalization, Population Mobility, and Islam in China: The Case of Yiwu”
16:10-16:30
HAMASHITA Takeshi
“Comment”
16:30-17:30 General Discussion
Chairperson:
HAMASHITA Takeshi

Location:
2nd Floor, Lecture Room, Toyo Bunko

For more information:
Toyo Bunko
2-28-21 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo
Fax: 81-(0)3-3942-0120
Add: kouza[a]toyo-bunko.or.jp