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Academic Year 2018 4th KR Seminar was held

Date: 16:00-18:00 on 11th December, 2018

Speaker and Title: Shahzad BASHIR (Brown University, USA) “Journeys among the Living Dead of Tabriz: A Sufi Shrine Guide from the Sixteenth Century”

Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Lecture Room (AA401)

Language: English

This seminar is held under the auspices of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties” (JSPS, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)；Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）; Middle East and Islamic Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (MEIS)；Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University （SIAS）； Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University); and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University) .

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Academic Year 2018 3rd KR Seminar was held

Date: 15:00-17:00 on 6th December, 2018

Speaker: Nile GREEN (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)

Title: “From Sufi Establishment to Salafi Reform: Reflections on Writing a History of Sufism”

Venue: Research Building No. 2, 4th Floor, Lecture Room (AA401)

Language: English

This seminar was held under the auspices of Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University（KR）; Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS)； Center for Islamic Studies at Sophia University （SIAS）；Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Structural Comprehension of Islamic Mysticism: Investigation into Sufism, Tariqa, Saint Cults Complex” (JSPS, Kyoto University); and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropological Studies on Veneration of Saints and Holy Relics in the Mediterranean World” (JSPS, Sophia University).

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December 1-2, 2018 the International Workshop on Chinese Muslims entitled “Redrawing and Straddling Borders: Chinese Muslims in Trans-national Fields and Multi-linguistic Literatures.” was held

Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University cohosted the International Workshop on Chinese Muslims entitled “Redrawing and Straddling Borders: Chinese Muslims in Trans-national Fields and Multi-linguistic Literatures.”

This workshop was held under the joint auspices of Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, and Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University, and scheduled as follows.

【Date and Venue】

Date: 1-2 December 2018

Venue: Institute for Research in Humanities Main Building (4F Conference Room), Research Bldg. No. 4, Kyoto University

【Language】 English

【Coordinators】 WANG-KANDA Liulan, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University NAKANISHI Tatsuya, Institute for Resarch in Humanities, Kyoto University

【Program】

<December 1st> Redrawing Boundaries between “Us” and “Others” Responding to Historical Backgrounds

10:30 -11:00 Registration and Coffee

11:00-11:30 Opening NAKANISHI Tatsuya (Kyoto University) and WANG-KANDA Liulan (Doshisha University) Self-Introduction of Participants [Chinese Muslims’ Identity-Shift Responding to Historical Backgrounds]

11:30-12:30 NAKANISHI Tatsuya (Kyoto University) Family, Umma, and Nation: Multilayered and Dynamic Identities of Chinese Muslims

Lunch12:30-14:00

14:00-15:00 ZHAO Yuanhao 趙元昊 (Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Boundaries of Hui: About Wartime Ethnic “Identity” [Religious Boundaries for Chinese Muslims]

15:10-16:10 Aaron GLASSERMAN (Columbia University) Way of Heaven, Way of Man: Boundaries of the Shari’a in Qing and Republican China

16:20-17:20 Suchart SETTHAMALINEE (Payap University) Different Religious Practices and “Others” in Northern Thailand

18:30- Welcome Dinner

<December 2nd>

Straddling Spatial, Cultural, or Ethnic Boundaries

8:30-9:00 Registration and Coffee

[Chinese Muslims’ Bridging a gap between Chinese and Other Cultures]

9:00-10:00 Dror WEIL (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Transcending Linguistic Boundaries in Late Imperial China – The Case of Mirṣād al-‘ibād

10:10-11:10 Diana WONG (Universiti Sains Malaysia) Overseas Hui Entrepreneurs and the Globalisation of Qingzhen Ethnic Food: A Case Study of Malaysia

[Chinese Muslims and Other Chinese Minorities]

11:20-12:20 Marie-Paule HILLE (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Legacy, Sociability, Moving Borders: an Ethnography of Trade Relationship between Chinese Muslims and Tibetans in Amdo

12:20-13:50 Lunch

13:50-14:50 WANG Jianxin 王建新 (Lanzhou University) Similarities and Differences between the Hui and the Uyghur: An Approach toward the Multiculturalism of Muslim Minorities in China

[Chinese Muslim Diaspora]

15:00-16:00 WANG-KANDA Liulan (Doshisha University) Border-crossing, Belonging and Family networks among Chinese Muslim Diaspora in Northern Thailand

16:10-17:10 MA Hailong 馬海龍 (Qinghai Nationalities University) At Home in Diaspora: the Chinese Hui Migrants in Malaysia

17:20-17:50 Concluding Discussion

*This workshop was  financially supported by The Kyoto University Foundation 公益財団法人 京都大学教育研究振興財団 Hashimoto Jun Memorial Foundation 一般財団法人 橋本循記念会 Joint Usage/Research Program of Center for Information Resources of Area Studies (CIRAS), Kyoto University 京都大学東南アジア地域研究研究所30年度共同利用・共同研究拠点プロジェクト Joint Usage/Research Program of Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 京都大学人文科学研究所平成30年度共同利用・共同研究拠点プロジェクト and officially supported by Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University 京都大学ケナン・リファーイー・スーフィズム研究センター Center for Islamic Area Studies, Kyoto University (KIAS) 京都大学イスラーム地域研究センター