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Egyptian-Japanese International Symposium
2011 - Commemorating the Dead in a Time of Global Crisis


【Date】September 23, 2011 (Fri) 10:30-18:30
【Venue】The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus, Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Lecture Hall 1
【Languages】 Japanese and English
Simultaneous interpretation is provided.
(Due to their limited number, simultaneous interpreting systems are available on a first-come-first-served basis only).
* Open to the public. Free admittance.

Organized by the Global COE Program: Development and Systematization of Death and Life Studies.
With support from the Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peacebuilding and Capacity Development (HiPeC-II) and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina          

【Program】
Session I:
Keynote Lectures 10:30-12:45
Chair:
Hiroyuki YANAGIHASHI (The University of Tokyo)

Opening Addresses:
Susumu SHIMAZONO (The University of Tokyo)

His Excellency the Ambassador of Egypt to Japan

1st Keynote Lecture:
“Remembering, Recognizing and Recovering: Helping Arabs Out of Victimhood”
Ezzedine Choukri Fishere (Former Secretary-General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture, Author)

2nd Keynote Lecture:
“The Death and Rebirth of Society - The Consequences of the Black Death and the Lisbon Earthquake”
Koichi KABAYAMA (Director of the Printing Museum Tokyo, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo)

Commentator:
Tetsuya OHTOSHI (The University of Tokyo)


Session II:
Records and Memory 14:00-15:10
Chair:
Izumi SUZUKI (The University of Tokyo)

1st Lecture:
“Disaster Remembered, Disaster Forgotten - The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Imperial Family”
Takeshi HARA (Meiji Gakuin University)

2nd Lecture:
“Memory of Modern Egypt and the Revolution Documentation”
Khaled Azab (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Commentator:
Kenji SATO (The University of Tokyo)
Session III:
Commemoralization and Memory 15:30-16:40
Chair:
Akira AKIYAMA (The University of Tokyo)

3rd Lecture:
“Dealing with the Dead - The Reemergence of Earth Burials after the Great Tohoku Earthquake”
Iwayumi SUZUKI (Tohoku University)

4th Lecture:
“The Relationship with the Dead Saints, or Revolution as an Option: the Traditional Egyptian Means of Defeating Evil”
Louay Mahmoud (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

Commentator:
Magdi Guirguis (Kafrelsheikh University)
Session IV:
Plenary Discussion 17:10-18:30
Chairs:
Tetsuya OHTOSHI and Khaled Azab

General Comments I:
Masahiko TOGAWA (Hiroshima University)

General Comments II:
Masaru IKEZAWA (The University of Tokyo)

Closing Address: Tetsuya OHTOSHI
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