ILCAA Joint Research Project

Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia

About the Project

Project term: April, 2020–March, 2023

We have been witnessing an increasing academic interest in “emotions”. In the background of this interest, there is the common acknowledgement that conventional approaches based on “reason” or “dialogue” are not enough to understand some phenomenon such as populist politics and hate speeches. This joint research project aims at rethinking the social changes /social movements in contemporary South Asia from the perspective of “emotions”, and at the same time explores the historical changes of the “emotion” itself. Partition, populist politics of the Hindu Right, ethnic movements and violence, counter-movements against caste/gender order and so on shall be examined.

Members

Coordinator

• Toshie AWAYA (TUFS)

ILCAA Staff

• Nobuhiro OTA

Joint Researchers

• Hiroshi HAGITA
• Katsuyuki IDA
• Makiko KIMURA
• Sachiyo KOMAKI
• Hisae KOMATSU
• Kazuya NAKAMIZO
• Kyoko NIWA
• Fumiko OSHIKAWA
• SATO
• Maya SUZUKI
• Yoko TAGUCHI
• Yuko YAGI
• Keiko YAMADA

Outputs

Meetings

The 11st meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 15 Oct 2022 13:00–16:00
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• For registration, please visit the link here. Registration deadline is 13rd Oct.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of‘Emotions’” (Principal Investigator:Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number:22H03834), The Center for South Asian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• 1. Kyoko AMANO (Kyoto University)

  “Marriage in Ancient India as Seen through Myths about the Birth of Children”

  2. Yuko YOKOCHI (Kyoto University)

  “Goddess worship and gender, with a special case of Lajjā Gauri”

The 10th meeting

• Date/Time: Wed 21 Sep 2022 14:00–17:00
• Venue: Room 115, Research and Lecture Bldg., TUFS, Online meeting
• Language: English, Bengali
• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• For registration, please visit the link here. Registration deadline is 19th Sep.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “Comprehensive Study of Bengali Language and Literature”(Principal Investigator:Kyoko NIWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number:18K00496), ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of‘Emotions’” (Principal Investigator:Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number:22H03834), The Center for South Asian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• International Workshop: How Emotions Turn Into Poetry?

  1. Srijato Bandyopadhyay (Poet)

  [Title undecided]

  2. Sajjad Sharif (Poet)

  “How Emotion Turns into Poetry: Entraping the Elusive”

  3. Kiyokazu Okita (Sophia University)

  “Comments on the Presentations”

  Chair Person: Kyoko Niwa (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

The 9th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 28 May 2022 14:00–18:00
• Venue: Hongo Satellite 5F, Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of ‘Emotions’” (Project Number: 22H03834, Principal Investigator Toshie AWAYA), The Center for South Asian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• 1. Keiko YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ibaraki University)

  “Some Aspects on Telugu Language”

  2. Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Comments on the Presentation of Prof. YAMADA”

  3. All Members

  “The Interim Self-Assessment and the Arrangement for Further Work” (Project Members Only)

International Workshop “Thinking Emotions in South Asia” /The 8th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 12 Feb 2022 14:00–18:05
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Enlish
• Admission: Free
• Pre-regisutration is required. This meeting will be held online through Zoom.
• Register from here. (in Japanese)Registration deadline is 10 Feb.
• For any inquiries, send an email to FINDAS office: findas_office [at] tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• Toshie AWAYA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  Opening Address

  Moderator: Hisae KOMATSU (Otemon Gakuin University)

  Keynote: Prof. Margrit Pernau (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)

  “Language and Emotions - Emotions beyond Language”

  1. Yoko TAGUCHI (Eikei University of Hiroshima)

  “Emotion and Nonchalance around Domestic Work in Urban India”

  2. Katsuyuki IDA (Chuo University)

  “Emotions Relating to Salvation in the Bhakti Literature of Maharashtra”

  3. Nobuhiro OTA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Emotional Ties between King and Subject in the Princely State of Mysore”

  Fumiko OSHIKAWA

  Comment

  All participants

  General Discussion

  Sachiyo KOMAKI (Takasaki City University of Economics)

  Closing Address

The 7th meeting

• Date/Time: Fri 3 Sep 2021 13:00–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-regisutration is required. This meeting will be held online through Zoom.
• Register from here. (in Japanese)Registration deadline is 1 Sep.
• For any inquiries, send an email to FINDAS office: findas_office [at] tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Fumiko OSHIKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)

  “Between Passion and Dharma: How the Two Values Are Balanced in Hindi Films in 2000s”

  2. Asuka MURAKAMI (National Institutes for the Humanities，Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “What Does “Emotion” Tell: Through the Works of Prof. Margrit Pernau”

The 6th meeting

• Date/Time: Sat 10 Jul 2021 13:00–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Kyoko NIWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “What Rhyme Inspires?”

  2. Hiroshi HAGITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher)

  “Partition Literature and Urdu Historical Novelists: Examining Their Works in Terms of Emotions”

The 5th meeting

• Date/Time: Sun 23 May 2021 13:00–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Seika　SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Teikyo University)

  “The “Earth” That Moves: Contours of Women’s Emotion in Three Nepali Novels”

  2. Sachiyo KOMAKI（ILCAA Joint Researcher, Takasaki City University of Economics）

  “Muslim Women Artists’ Works and Narratives in the UK: An Analysis Focusing on “Affectus””

The 4th meeting

• Date/Time: Thu 18 Feb 2021 13:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Hisae KOMATSU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Otemon Gakuin University)

  “Hindi Contemporary Literature and Emotions: Reading ‘Asthi Phool’ (2019) by Alpana Mishra”

  2. Makiko KIMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsuda University)

  “Anti-CAA Agitation in Assam”

  3. Maya SUZUKI(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Daito Bunka University)

  “Lived “Dalitness” and Moment for Dissent and Movement: Making Sense of “Coming out” of Highly Educated Dalit Youth”

The 3rd meeting

• Date/Time: Mon 15 Feb 2021 14:00–17:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Yuko YOKOCHI (Kyoto University)

  “Rasa Theory: How Are Emotions Transformed into Aesthetic Experience?”

  2. Kiyokazu OKITA (Sophia University)

  “A Brief History of Devotional Aesthetic Sentiment (Bhakti-rasa)”

  Commentator: Asako KURIHARA (Osaka University)

The 2nd meeting ：Report (Japanese)(893KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 8 Nov 2020 13:00–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA)

  “Emotionalization of Kingship and its Provenance in the Princely State of Mysore”

  2. Katsuyuki IDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chuo University)

  “Emotions toward to the salvation in hagiographies of medieval Maharashtra”

The 1st meeting ：Report (Japanese)(863KB)

• Date/Time: Sun 24 May 2020 13:00–16:30
• Venue: Online meeting via Zoom
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia”, The Center for South Asina Studies (FINDAS)

• 1. Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

  “Emotions in South Asian Studies: Preliminary introduction”

  2. Yoko TAGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Prefectural University of Hiroshima)

  “The transaction of affect and the formation of the “body social”: Anthropological conceptions and South Asian movements”

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