| 2026/02/06 |
| 09:50 - 10:00 | Welcome Address | |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | 【Panel 1】 Japanese–Kurdish Cultural and Political Engagements | Chair:Keiko Sakai(Chiba University) |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Japan’s Diplomacy toward the Kurdistan Region of Iraq | Akiko Yoshioka(JIME Center, IEEJ) |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | An Archive Without Borders: Facilitating Access to Kurdish Materials in Japan | Miki Nose(IDE-JETRO) |
| 11:20 - 12:00 | The “Zero Plan” and Migration Governance in Japan: A Case Study of Kurdish Asylum Seekers | Sohrab Ahmadian(TUFS) |
| 12:00 - 13:20 | Lunch break | |
| 13:20 - 14:40 | 【Panel 2】 Politics and Territory in Early Modern Kurdistan | Chair:Jin Noda(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 13:20 - 14:00 | The Evolution of the Concept of Kurdistan in the Early Modern Period: Preliminary Considerations | Akihiko Yamaguchi(Sophia University) |
| 14:00 - 14:40 | A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Modern History of the Emirs of Chamishgazak | Sacha Alsancakli(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | 【Panel 3】 Repression and Revolts through The Nineteenth-Century Historical Turn | Chair:Sacha Alsancakli(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Between Demonization and Description: Analyzing Abede-i İblis as an Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Account of the Yezidis | Keiko Iwamoto(Kyoto University) |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Reforms and Social Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Bedir Khan Bey’s Uprising | Yuri Yasugi(Sophia University) |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | The Political and Military Practices of two Kurdish Tribes in the Qajar-Ottoman Borderlands: The Cases of the Shekak and Begzadeh (1880s–1920s) | Charles Ganier(Université Paris Cité / CESSMA) |
| 2026/02/07 |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 【Panel 4】 Modern Kurdish Historiography, Authority, and Political Dynamics | Chair: Masato Iizuka(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 13:00 - 13:40 | The Kurdish Intellectual Movement and the Emergence of Modern Kurdish National Historiography in the Early Twentieth Century | Marouf Cabi(London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| 13:40 - 14:20 | Sādāt-e Nehrī and the Intergenerational Reconfiguration of Authority in the Kurdish Tri-Borderlands: From Religious Legitimacy to Political Leadership and Neutral Mediation | Mostafa Khalili(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 14:20 - 15:00 | The Transformation of Pro-Kurdish Parties’ “Türkiyelileşme” Strategy: From Democratic Autonomy to Democratic Integration | Kazuki Hoshima(Waseda University) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20 - 16:40 | 【Panel 5】 Evolving Islamic Currents in Contemporary Kurdistan | Chair:Emi Goto(ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | What to Make of the Relationship between the Sufi Orders and Modern Islamist Currents in Southern and Eastern Kurdistan? | Yasuyuki Matsunaga(TUFS) |
| 16:00 - 16:40 | The Transformations of Kurdish Madrasas in Turkey since the 2000s: Historical, Political, and Social Backgrounds | Tatsuya Abe(Sophia University) |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Final Reflections and Discussion; Epistemic Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Engagements with the Kurds and Kurdistan | |
