Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
Masato Tanaka (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Economic reform movements in Mount Lebanon from the late Ottoman period to the early French Mandate”
Yuko Ido (Researcher, The Japan Institute of International Affairs) “Depending on imported grains in an era of insecurity: A comparative reflection on Middle East and North Africa and East Asian cases”
Yuki Sawaguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Who are “good quality soldiers”? The intersectional approach of gender and ethnicity in Israeli militarism”
Commentators:
Malek Sharif (Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, The University of Münster)
Nadine Yamout (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
Doğu Durgun (Assistant Professor, Kadir Has University, Istanbul)
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019
Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Main Street, Beirut, Lebanon
Spearkers・Title:
Yuko Tanaka (Ph.D. Candidate, SOAS, University of London) “Role of zandaqah/ zindīq in early Islamic theological writings”
Yoshiaki Tokunaga (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo/ University of Tehran) “Relations between the American Financial Mission and the parliament in the Reza Khan administration: The General Budget Act for 1303/1924-25”
Hideaki Hayakawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Mahdī ‘Āmil and the leftists’ debates on the Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement”
Amane Kobayashi (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Incentives for stalemate: Challenges of political stabilization in post-civil war Libya”
Commentators:
Maher Jarrar (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Christoph U. Werner (Professor, University of Bamberg)
Nadia Bou Ali (Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut)
Youness Abuyoub (Chief, Governance and State-Building, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, UN)
Date: Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1, 2018
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
Manami Goto (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Exeter) “Changing attitude towards face masking: the case of Larak Island in the Persian Gulf”
Yusuke Motani (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Financial Administration in Syria under the Rule of Muhammad Ali”
Hisashi Obuchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Logic and the Conventionalist Ethics of Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī, the Disciple of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī”
Saki Yamamoto (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) “Impact of Women-Owned Small Business on Familial Relations in Contemporary Algeria”
Manami Ueno (Research Fellow of the Urban-Culture Research Center at Osaka City University) “Reintroduction of Religious Education to Turkish Public Schools in the 1940s”
Shinwoo Kim (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “The Social and Economic History of Regional Disparities in Tunisia”
Commentators:
Prof. Livia Celine Wick (American University of Beirut)
Prof. Samir Seikaly (American University of Beirut)
Prof. Paul Ballanfat (Galatasaray University)
Prof. Yusuf Sidani (American University of Beirut)
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
Ryo Mizukami (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Shi‘i Ulama's Writing Strategy on Imams' Faḍā'il in 12-14th Century Iraq”
Madoka Morita (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Whose Peace and Security? Neighborhood and the Politics of Collective Testimony in Istanbul (1730-54)”
Woohyang Sim (Ph.D. Candidate, Waseda University, Tokyo) “What is Higher Education for? : Women and Educational Attainment in the GCC”
Ayaka Kuroda (Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto) “Religious Tradition and Modernity in the Forefront of Political Theory: The Case of Islamist Intellectuals in Contemporary Egypt”
Commentators:
Maher Jarrar (American University of Beirut, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages)
Astrid Meier (Orient Institute-Beirut)
Pierre Mouganie (American University of Beirut, Department of Economics)
Ahmad Moussalli (American University of Beirut, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration)
Date: Friday, November 27, 2015
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Spearkers・Title:
Shoko Watanabe (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization) “State Formation, Religious Education, and Social Aspirations: The Expansion of the Tunisian al-Zaytuna after the Second World War”
Woohyang Sim (Waseda University) “The Educational Aspiration of Saudi Arabian Young Generation: Implication for Creating New Framework to Explain GCC Society”
Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) “Between Hostility and Hospitality: Neighborhoods and Dynamics of Urban Migration in Istanbul (1730-54)”
Kie Inoue (The University of Tokyo) “Rūzbihān Baqlī Shīrāzī’s Conception of Prophets and Saints”
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2014.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
Erina Ota-Tsukada (Keio University, Tokyo) ““Perfect Qualities and Perfection in Each Quality”: The Career and Image of Influential Bureaucrat Zayn al-Dīn ibn Muzhir in the Late Mamlūk Period”
Madoka Morita (The University of Tokyo) ““Community’s Peace” and Public Order: Neighborhoods and Urban Administration in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”
Hiroki Okazaki (University of Paris III) “The Criticism of Despotism through the Fiction in the Arab World: An Outlook of Jurji Zaydān’s Elitist Approach and ‘Abdullāh Nadīm’s Defense of Peasants”
Yoshihide Takeda (Chiba University) “Haifa as the Heart of British Policy towards Palestine: Considering from the Discussions of British Oil Policy during the First World War”
Commentators:
John Meloy (American University of Beirut)
Astrid Meier (Orient Institut-Beirut)
Malek Sharif (ILCAA Joint Researcher)
Carla Eddé (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Saint Joseph University)
Date: Saturday, November 23, 2013.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
Namie Tsujigami (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo) “Saudi Women’s Negotiation of Power and Space through Driving Campaign”
Takuya Murakami (Ph.D. Candidate, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo) “What Kind of Role Does GCC Play for Regional Security?: The Significance of the Peninsula Shield Force Deployment to Bahrain and the Possibility of Cooperative Security”
Yusuke Kawamura (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University/ Durham University) “Structural Adjustment and Social Protection in the MENA Region: Food Subsidies in Jordan”
Yushi Chiba (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/
The University of Tokyo) “Jordanian Broadcasting Strategy in the Changing Regional Media Landscape”
Date: Saturday, December 1, 2012.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
Mari Nukii (Research Associate, Waseda University, Tokyo) “The history of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services: Living as ‘Arab Americans’ in America before and after 9/11”
Nozomi Shiratani (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “Reexamining the Islamists’ triumph in Morocco after the Arab Spring: A study of the 2011 parliamentary elections”
Takumi Sato (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Shin Yasuda (Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) “From ethic to Sharia-compliance: The development of Islamic tourism in the MENA region”
Yuri Ishida (JSPS Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Kyoto) “The Muslim intellectual network in the eighteenth century: Focusing on academic genealogies in Shāh Walī Allāh's autobiography”
Ichiro Ozawa (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) “Production and employment of artillery in Iran and British influences, 1810–1848”
Commentators:
Guita Hourani (Notre Dame University)
François Burgat (Institut Français de Proche-Orient)
Hilal Khashan (American University of Beirut)
Rola Khatib (Lebanese University)
Wajih Kanso (Lebanese University)
Mansur Sefatgol (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Date: Friday, November 25, 2011.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo) “Workings of power to the eyes of Cairene woman in her twenties in the eve of revolution”
Masaki Mizobuchi (Joint Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University, Tokyo) “Arab Spring and the United States: Twilight of the Pax-Americana?”
Masako Shimizu (Ph.D. Candidate, Sophia University, Tokyo) “The Participation of Hamas in the Palestinian Authority: The processes, impacts and implications”
Yoko Fujii (Lecturer, Nihon University, Tokyo) “Lebanon's image in narratives of pilgrimage in the 17th century”
Takayoshi Kuromiya (Ph.D. Candidate, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo) “Economic growth of resource-exporting countries: Taking Egypt and Saudi Arabia as examples”
Shigeto Kondo (Ph.D. Candidate, Keio University, Tokyo) “‘Small states’ diplomacy’ during the First Oil Crisis: The cases of Kuwait, 1970-1973”
Commentators:
Sari Hanafi (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Karim Makdisi (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
Ray Mouawad (Assistant Professor, Lebanese American University)
Jean-Francois Verne (Associate Professor, Kaslik Holy Spirit University)
Habib Malik (Associate Professor, Lebanese American University)
Date: Friday, November 19, 2010.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Speakers・Title:
Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “A Study of the Abbasid Court Musicians Recorded in al-Aghani”
Keiko Ota (Research Fellow, Ochanomizu University) “The Meccan Sharifate and the Red Sea Trade: The Rise of Jidda as an Entrepot Port and the Policy of the Mamluk Dynasty toward Hijaz”
Naofumi Abe (Research Fellow, The University of Tokyo)
“Mother, Wife, and Daughter in Law of Fath ‘Ali Khan Donboli: A Study in Probate Inventories of a Local Notable in Nineteenth-Century Iran”
Hirotake Ishiguro (Ph. D. Candidate, Kobe University) “Inter-Party Competition and Quasi-Institutionalized Party System in the Middle Eastern Monarchies: The Case of Kuwait”
Akihito Kudo (Research Fellow, Osaka University) “French Orientalism and Legal Pluralism: Classification of Landed Property in Nineteenth-Century Algeria”
Satoshi Udo (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) “Reception of Modern Arab Literature in Japan: From Third-Worldism to Multiculturalism”
Commentators:
Stefan Leder (Director, Orient Institut Beirut)
Stefan Knost (Senior Research Fellow, Orient Institut Beirut)
Oussama Arabi (Lecturer, Lebanese American University)
Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
Hilal Khashan (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (Professor, American University of Beirut)
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor,Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Speakers・Title:
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) “Female Teacher as Pseudo-mother: The Role of Female Teacher in the Current Egyptian Educational Market”
Koji Horinuki (Ph.D. Candidate, Kyoto University) “Controversies over labour force naturalisation: 30 years of Emiratisation in the UAE”
Sayaka Nakano (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “The role of panegyrist-poets and praise poetry in the early Abbasid society”
Asuka Tsuji (Research Associate, Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo) “The mass conversion of 1354 reconsidered: The Copts in Mamluk Egypt as depicted in the Life and Miracles of Anba Ruways”
Hiroko Miyokawa (Post Doctoral Researcher, Sophia University) “Nationalisms and national integration of Christians in Egypt and Syria”
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Against fatality: Kateb Yacine and Farjallah Haik”
Commentators:
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla (Professor, United Arab Emirates University)
Dr. Massoud Daher (Professor, Lebanese University)
Dr. Iman Farag (Researcher, Centre d’Etudes et de Documentation Economiques, Juridiques et Sociales, Cairo)
Dr. Katia Haddad (Professor, Saint Joseph University)
Dr. Stefan Leder (Director, Orient-Institut Beirut)
Dr. John Meloy (Associate Professor, American University of Beirut)
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008.
Place: Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies(JaCMES),2nd floor, Azariyeh Building A2-1, Beirut Central District (Downtown Beirut)
Speakers・Title:
Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Palestinians from the ‘Seven Villages’ : Their Legal Status and Social Condition”
Kenichiro Takao (Th.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) “Implication of ‘Salafism’ in Today’s Sufism: The Case of Ahmad Kuftaru”
Yasuhiro Fukushima (Research Fellow, Institute for International Studies, J.F. Oberlin University) “The Current Situation and Problems on the Advancement of Middle East-Based Islamic Financial Institutions into Malaysia”
Hiroko Minesaki (Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) “Gender and Authority in Islamic Discourses: In the Case of Female Preachers in Cairo and Environs Farm Village”
Junko Toriyama (Ph.D. Candidate, Ochanomizu University) “Negotiating Body and Negotiating Selves in Consumer Culture: Make-up Practices of Young Female School Teachers in Contemporary Cairo”
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Cosmology of French Writing in Arabic Countries: Algeria and Lebanon”
Commentators:
Madawi Al-Rasheed (King's College, London)
Salim Chahine (American University of Beirut)
Katia Haddad (Saint Joseph University)
Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
Date: Monday and Tuesday, November 26 and 27, 2007.
Place: Crowne Plaza Beirut, Hamra Street, Beirut(Ile de France Room, 1st Floor)
Speakers・Title:
Aiko Nishikida (Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Palestinians in Diaspora: Their Identity and Nationalism in Jordan”
Akiko Sugase (Research Fellow, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) “The Third Face of Janus: Narratives and Images on the Rev. George Hakim among the Arabs in Galilee”
Satoshi Udo (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “Translating Theatre: Rabih Mroue in Tokyo”
Kenichiro Takao (Ph.D. Candidate, Doshisha University) “Ahmad Kuftaru, A Great 'Ulama' in Modern Syria : About Its Construction of Intellectual Authority”
Akiko Yoshioka (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Iraq and the Neighboring Arab Countries after the War"
Yoko Uno (Research Associate, Tsudajuku University) “Parliamentary Opposition and Diplomacy on the Eve of Republic of Turkey: The Second Group's Attitude to the Lausanne Treaty (1923)”
Yoko Sekiguchi (Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Tokyo) “A Case Study on the Introduction and Attempt of 'Sosyal Demokrasi' in Turkey: Republican People's Party (RPP), 1965-1972”
Commentators:
Pierre Abi-Saab (al-Akhbar)
Massoud Daher (Lebanese University)
Timur Göksel (American University of Beirut)
Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
Toufic Houri (Imam Ouzai College of Islamic Studies)
Date: Monday, November 27, 2006.
Place: :Cultural Center (Albert Long Hall), Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Speakers・Title:
Masako Matsui (Lecturer, Keio University, Tokyo) “Capitulations and Tariff Questions in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Fumiko Sawae (Visiting Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “Islamist Women and Public Sphere in Turkey”
Housam Darwisheh (Ph.D. Candidate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “The Parliamentary Experience of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt”
Taku Osoegawa (Researcher, The Institute of Energy Economics, Tokyo) “The Dynamics Between the Lebanese Government and Hizbullah During the Crisis in Lebanon and Their Theoretical Relevance”
Takayuki Nakamura (Lecturer, Kanagawa Institute of Technology) “Essai sur la communication créole.” (English translation will be provided)
Lecture:
Osamu Nishitani (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Deux notions occidentales de l’Humanité: Anthropos et Humanitas” (English translation will be provided)
Commentators:
Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (American University of Beirut)