Unit 3 Nations, Regions, and Islam

6.27.1998

Symposium: "Considering Secularization and Secularism"

OTSUKA Kazuo "Defining the Issues"; NAKATA Kou "Separation of State and Church: Rethinking the Issues"; ARAI Masami "Theories of Secularization in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic: Focusing on Questions of Causality, Non-causality, and Reaction"; SHIMAZONO Susumu "The Clash of Secularists and Anti-secularists: Suggestions for a Comparative Approach"

7.10.1998

KOMATSU Hisao "Some Notes on National Delimitation in Central Asia"; John S. SCHOEBERLEIN-ENGEL "National Delimitation as a Historical Moment and a Conceptual Trajectory of Central Asian Identity"

7.12.1998

Mohammad Reza Sarkar ARANI "Reform in the Policy for Secondary Education in Iran"; SAKURAI Keiko "Education in Iran"; KASUYA Gen "Education in Turkey"; SHIOKA Karima El-Samuni "Education in Egypt"

9.14.1998

Hasan Mat NOR "Orang Asli and Development in Malaysia"

10.14.1998

Ahmad SIKAINGA "Social Networks and Solidarity Among the Sudanese Railway Workers at Atbara, 1924-1948"

10.14.1998

"Area Studies of the Middle East and Africa"

MIYAJI Kazuo "Middle East Studies in Japan"; Discussants: Carl PETRY, Matthew GORDON, Nasser RABBAT, Ahmad SIKAINGA, Fatima HARRAK, Sean STILWELL, John PHILIPS

11.2-4.1998

International Symposium "Development and Culture in Asia"

Opening Session

Opening of Conference: KATO Hiroshi

First panel: Development, Culture and Grassroots Responses in South

Asia

TANIGUCHI Shinichi "Bengal Agrarian Society Restudied"; Sirajul ISLAM "Perspectives on Floods in Bangladesh: Grassroot Responses"; Mark PETERSEN "Culture of Development in India"; Henry BERNSTEIN "Dilemmas of Development: States and Governance."

Second panel: Reform and Change in the Japanese Socio-Economy

TAJIKA Eiji "The Japanese Tax System: Why Does It Need Fundamental Reform?"; CHUMA Hiroyuki "The Japanese Labor Market System: Is the Japanese Employment System Changing?"

Third panel: Asian Crisis/ Global Involvement

ASANUMA Shinji "The Asian CrisisﾑAn Asian Perspective"; "Asian Crisis/Global Crisis"; Nigel HARRIS "The Asian Tigers"

Fourth Panel: Rural China, North and South: Development, Culture and Social Change

ZHANG Letian "Social Disintegration in Rural Communities: Based on an Investigation Conducted in the Rural Part of Northern Shejiang Province"; SATO Hiroshi "Development and Culture in South China: Out-Migration, Factory Work and Social Network"

Fifth panel: Land Reform in China and Egypt

ENATSU Yoshiki "Establishment of the Modern Land System in Manchuria after the 1911 Revolution in China"; Nicholas HOPKINS "The Land Issue in Egypt"

Sixth Panel: Society, Politics and Law in Rural EgyptﾑPast and Present

KATO Hiroshi "Blood Linkage and Social Order in Egyptian Village Society"; Reem SAAD "Agrarian Politics in Contemporary Egypt: The 1997 Tenancy Crisis"

11.3.1998

Martin van BRUINESSEN "The Kurds in Movement: Migrations, Mobilisations, Communications, and the Globalization of the Kurdish Question"

11.7.1998

Symposium: "Cross-Cultural Travellers: Between Islam and Europe"

Part 1: European Views of the Middle East

KUDO Yoko "Pierre Loti's Ajde and Istanbul"; SAITO Fumiko "Don Quixote and Cervantes' Algerian Experience"; YASUOKA Haruko "The Turkmenistan Travelogues of Platonov"; HANEDA Masashi "Chardin's Persian Travelogue"

Part 2: Middle Eastern Views of Europe

YAMAUCHI Masayuki "Togan's Viennese Experience";

KOMATSU Hisao "Travel Accounts of Mｵrzｱ Sirｱj al-Dｵn Bukhｱrｵﾓ; HACHIOSHI Makoto "Accounts of Travel in Europe by Contemporary Iranians"; SUGITA Hideaki "The Parisian Travelogues of Taftawi, An Egyptian"

Part 3: Jews as an Intersection Between Two Worlds

USUKI Akira "Samuel Yabnelli's Travels to Yemen: A Socialist Zionist's Encounter with Yemeni Judaism"

12.10.1998

Erick FUGELAND "Social Change in Rural Iran After the Iranian Revolution"

12.12.1998

"The Two Paths of Islamization: Conversion and Revival of Faith"

NOBUTA Toshihiro "Policies on Islamic Conversion in Malaysia, and Olan Asri's Resistance"; TAKADA Mineo "From 'Being Muslim' to 'Becoming Muslim': Modern Bangladesh in History"

1.9.1999

Lenore MARTIN "Turkey and the Middle East at the End of the Twentieth Century"

1.9.1999

KOJIMA Hiroshi "Population and the Family in the Islamic World"

1.22.1999

Mohammad Yussof ISMAIL "Theravada Buddhism and Perceptions of Ethnic Identity in Malaysia: The Thais of Kelantan"

1.26.1999

Abdelkader ZGHAL "Democratization and Social Movements in the Middle East: Focusing on Islamic Movements in the Maghreb"

1.28.1999

"Social and Islamic Movements in Contemporary Egypt"

Ahmad ABDALLAH "On Social Movements"; Hassan BAKUL "The Islamic Movement in Egypt"

2.1.1999

Ahmad ABDALLAH "The Youth in Contemporary Egypt: Socio-Economic and Political Problems, and the Future of the Country"; Hassan BAKUL "The Rapid Expansion of the Islamic Movement in Egypt"

2.14.1999

Hamid AL-HAJ "The Palestinians in Israel in Light of the Peace Process"

2.20.1999

Muhammed Syukri SALLEH "Islamic Revival in Malaysia"

2.22.1999

Sheripjan Marupovich NADIROV "Research in Kazakhstan on Xinjiang, China, and Central Asia"