The International symposium on the 2nd Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI) was held

Date : 9:00-18:25, on 23 Decemeber 2018

Venue : Inamori Foundation Memorial Hall, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Campus, Kyoto University

Language: English

Program :

10:00-12:00  SESSION 1 “HISTORY AND PROSPECTUS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STUDIES”

TAKAYAMA Hiroshi (Tokyo University) “Mediterranean Studies in Japan and My Research Focus”

 

CHOI Choon-Sik (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Discourses on Mediterranean Studies in Korea”

Elena AVRAMIDOU (Peking University) “From the Mediterranean to Asia: Cultural Interaction and Buddhist Iconography”

Gen “Toby” LIANG (The Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica) “Migrations and Transmissions: Mediterranean Studies and East Asia”

 

12:00-12:30 “CORE TIME OF THE POSTER SESSION”

TONAGA Yasushi (Kyoto University) “The Choice of Languages in the Ottoman Sufism”

FUJII Chiaki (Kyoto University) “Positive Aspects of the Existence of Spirits: Case Studies on the East African Coast”

MATSUDA Kazunori (Kyoto University) “Comparison of the Sources of Urdu Fatwa Collections from the First Half of the 20th Century”

ISHIKAWA Kido (Kyoto University) “Persian Literature and ʿAṭṭār”

YAMAZAKI Satoru “An Esoteric Sect or the Twelvers?: A Question of Identity of Contemporary ‘Alawīs”

MADONO Kotoko (Kyoto University) “The Expanded Circle of Modern Sufis in Turkey”

SUENO Takanori (Kyoto University) “The Meaning of Studying Akbarian Tradition in North and West Africa”

MIZUNO Yuji (Kyoto University) “The Making of “Conservative Turn” in Contemporary Muslim Indonesia: An Institutional Perspective”

TANAHASHI Yukari (Kyoto University) “Muḥammad Sulaymān al-Jazūlī and his Works”

 

14:00-16:00 SIMULTANEOUS SESSION 2 “DEEP INSIGHT AND SOCIAL WELFARE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD”

OTSUKI Yasuhiro (Hitotsubashi University) “Civil Donations and Christian Philanthropy in the Later Roman Empire: Some Analysis of Justinian Edicts on Donations to the Ecclesiastical Institutions”

KOJIMA Yoshie (Waseda University) “Representations of Sin and Penance in the Romanesque Cathedrals of Italy”

MOZAFARI Mohammad Hassan (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Exchange of Mystical Thoughts between Persian and Andalusian Scholars”

14:00-16:00 SIMULTANEOUS SESSION 3 “FRICTION AND PEACE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD”

Byoung Joo HAH (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Conceptualizing Arab Identity in Area Studies Frame”

Mona Farouk Mohamed AHMED (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Concepts of Conquest and Occupation: Different Views on Muslim Rule in the Iberian Peninsula”

TOBA Misuzu (Kwansei Gakuin University) “The War of Memories and Pieds-Noirs Diversity: French Cartoonist Jacques Ferrandez

and His Pluralist Vision”

AOYAGI Etsuko (Tsukuba University) “The Coexistence of Islam with Western Europe”

 

16:15-18:15 SESSION 4 “AREA INFORMATICS AND AREA STUDIES”

YAKOU Hisashi (Hokkaido University) “Mediterranean Landscape Reconsidered”

KISHI Toshihiko (Kyoto University) “East Asian Visual Studies in Creating a Digital Database”

YANAGISAWA Masayuki (Kyoto University) “Text Analysis and Visualization of Field Notes Data”

Sang Ho MOON (Busan University of Foreign Studies) “Research Trend Analysis of Area Studies based on Keywords”

 

* This conference was financially supported by The Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research in Kyoto University (C-PIER), and organized under the auspices of the following institutions:

・Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI)

・Center for Islamic Area Studies in Kyoto University (KIAS)

・National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East

・Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies (Kyoto University)