[Title] The Kurds in Movement: Migrations, Mobilisations, Communications and the Globalization of the Kurdish Questions

[Title] Religion in Kurdistan: Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy, Mysticism and Political Activism.

[Title] The Kurds in Movement: Migrations, Mobilisations, Communications and the Globalizations of the Kurdish Question

Group-C 6th Meeting on the Study of Sufism

[Date] 25 Oct. 1998

[Place] Sophia University

Report on Martin Van Bruinessen's studies on Sufism in Indonesia.

(Y. KOBAYASHI, Aichigakusen Univ.)

Report on Martin Van Bruinessen's studies of Sufism in Kurdistan.

(A. YAMAGUCHI, Tokyo Univ.)

Group-A Development and Social Movements in Maghreb Countries

[Date] 24 Oct. 1998

[Place] Conference room, Fac. of Literature Annex, University of Tokyo

[Title] Development and Social Movements in Maghreb Countries:Algeria

[Lecturer] Tsukasa WATANABE

1st Meeting on Indonesian Democracy

[Date] 22 Oct. 1998

[Place] Sophia University

[Title] Konsep Kejelasan dan Ketidakjelasan

[Lecturer] Endo Suanda

Group-A

[Date] 14 Oct. 1998 Report

[Place] National Museum of Ethnology

[Lecturer] Ahmad Sikainga（Ohio State university, Dept of History）

[Title] Social Networks and Solidarity Among the Sudanese Railway Workers at Atbara

Group-A
Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study Report (Organized by the Islamic Area Studies Project)

[Date] 10-11 Oct. 1998

[Place] The Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo

Joint Meeting on Sufism in Iran (Held by 1-a and 2-c)

[Date] 13 Oct. 1998, 16:00-18:00

[Place]Lecture Room, Division of South and West Asian Area Studies,

Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS)

Kyoto University.

(N.B. Located in the 4th floor of the Eastern Building, Fac. of Letters.)

[Presentater] Dr. Nasrollah Pourjavadi (Tehran University, Professor)

[Title] Sufism in Iran (in English)

For further information, please contact TONAGA Yasushi.

Group-B

[Date] 9 Oct. 1998

[Place] Institute of Developing Economies (Ajia Keizai Kenkyusho)

[Lecturer] Dr. Khalmanov Bahtior

Chief, Department of Foreign Relations,

Uzbek Science Production Center for Agriculture,

Ministry of Agriculture and Water Management, Uzbekistan.

[Title]

Agricultural Development and Environmental Problems in Central Asia

　　

[Date] 11 Oct. 1998

[Place] Tohoku University

[Lecturer] Dr. Khalmanov Bahtior

[Title] Agricultural Security in 21st Century's Central Asia

Group-C: Mystical Visions of God in Three Abrahamic Religions

[Date] 3 Oct. 1998

[Place] Sophia University

[Lecturer] Nasrollah POURJAVADI, Isaya TEJIMA, Yoshio TSURUOKA

Joint Meeting on Research Trends of Sufism in China (held by Unit 6) Report

[Date] 27 Sep. 1998

[Place] Sophia University

We will have a reading circle and a presentation of research paper.

Reading circle: The text is as follows,

F. Aubin, "La Chine," in A.Popovic & G.Veinstein(eds.),

Les voies d'Allah: Les ordres mystiques dans le monde musulman

des origines a aujourd'hui,

Paris: Fayard, 1996.

(J. ANDO, Tokyo Univ.)

Presentation of research paper:

"The transformation of Islam and "Neo-Sufism"

in the Northwest China during 17th-19th Centuries."

(T. KUROIWA, Tokyo Univ./ commentator: M. HAMADA, Kobe Univ.)

Group-A Development and Social Movements in Maghreb Countries Report

[Date] 29 Aug. 1998

[Place] Conference room , Fac. of Literature Annex, University of Tokyo

[Title] The plan of making bibliographies on Maghreb Countries

[Lecturer] Kazuo Miyaji

Joint Symposium with 5-a

[Date] 26 & 27 Aug. 1998

[Place] Daigaku Seminar House (Hachiouji)

[Presentation]

1. Reading circle (Part 2 of Islamic Spirituality & Part 4 of Les voies d'Allah)
2. Meeting for reading papers (K. Isii Tokyogaigo Univ., M.Yamanlarmizuno Toa Univ., S.Komaki Kyoto Univ.)
3. A Book Review (M. Fujii Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies.)

For further information, please contact TONAGA Yasushi

Committee of Symposium:

• M. Akahori (5-a)
• T. Saitou
• Y. Takaoka
• T. Moriyama
• Y. Tonaga (2-c)

Group C Report

[Date] 18 July 1998

[Place] Sophia University

[Lecturer]

Malaysia: Masaki Nakazawa (Kyushu SangyoUniversity)

Thai: Omar Farouk (Hiroshima City University)

[Comment]

Yasushi Kosugi (Kyoto University)

Toru Aoyama (Kagoshima University)

5th Meeting of Reconsidering the Concept of Iran throughout History Report

[Date] 11 July 1998

[Place]Sophia University

[Lecturer] Hisae Nakanishi

[Coordinator of the Group] KOMAKI Shohei

4th meeting on the study of Sufism Report

[Date] 4 July, 1998

[Place] Sophia University

1. Th. Zarcone, " L'Iran," in A. Popovic & G. Veinstein (eds.), Les voiesd'Allah: Les ordres mystiques dans le monde musulman des origines aujourd'hui, Paris: Fayard, 1996.
2. A. Schleifer, "Sufism in Egypt and the Arab East," in S.H.Nasr (ed.), Islamic Spirituality II: Manifestations, New York: Crossroad, 1991.

For further information, please contact TONAGA Yasushi

Research Unit 2

[Date] 30 June 1998

[Time]16:00-18:00

[Place] Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies,

Kyoto University

[Lecturer] Hayder Ibrahim Ali (Director of the Sudanese Studies Center)

[Title]Secularism in the Arab Countries

Sophia International Symposium, 1998 Report

[Organizer]

The Graduate Program in Area Studies, Graduate Division of Foreign Studies

Graduate School of Sophia University.

[Co-organizer]

Project of Islamic Area Studies

[Theme of the Symposium]

Development and Democratization in the Globalization Process

[Date] 10:30-17:00, 27 June, 1998

[Place] The Auditorium, Sophia University

Group B Report

[Date] 20 June 1998

[Place] Tohoku University

"Energy Resources Development in Turkmenistan"

Dr. Najia Badykova

Director, Investment Policy and Foreign Economic Relations Division

National Institute of Statistics and Forecasting Research grant,

Institute of Developing Economics Central Asia Department, Tokyo

"Some Problems of Uzbekistan Agriculture after its Independence"

Dr. Makhmatojon Kasimov

Visiting Professor of Center for Interdisciplinary research

Tohoku University

Professor of Tashkent State Economic University

4th Meeting of Reconsidering the Concept of Iran throughout History Report

[Date] 23 May 1998

[Time] 13:30-

[Place] Sophia University

1. SUZUKI Hitoshi
   Appearance of Post-revolutionary Intellectuals in Iran─Life and Works of M. Makhmalbaf, a famous film-maker
2. KOMAKI Shohei
   Recent Trends of Studies on Afghan

Unit 2 Meeting

[Date] 11 May 1998

[Time] 17:10-19:00

[Place] Sophia University 7-4 meeting room

Group A Seminar

[Title] Trade Unions and Labor in Turkey

[Date] 6 April 1998

[Time] 16:00-17:30

[Place] Room 3A, Institute of Developing Economies

[Lecturer] Prof. Dr. Murat Demirci

Dean, Department of Economics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

For further information, please contact HAZAMA Yasushi

Tel: 03-3353-4231 ex. 201

Fax: 03-3226-8475