Activities｜Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, National Museum of Ethnology

Event

第6回ACSAS国際会議 Connectivity and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
Date November 17th (Fri), 18th (Sat)
Venue Main Conference Room, Inamori Memorial Building, Kyoto University
Program
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November 17th (Fri)
10:30-11:00 Registration
11:00-12:00 Opening Session
  • Opening Remarks: Minoru Mio (National Museum of Ethnology)
  • Keynote Speech: Takenori Horimoto (Gifu Women's University)
    “How do we map South Asia in the Indo-Pacific?”
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Politico-economic Connectivity / Chair: Misu Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
  • Pham Cao Cuong (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
    “Maritime Security Connectivity between India and Southeast Asia”
  • Surat Horachaikul (Chulalongkorn University)
    “A Look at How Thai Media Positively Depicted India in 2023 and What are the Geopolitical Implications of this Coverage?”
  • Dang Thai Binh (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
    “India-ASEAN Economic Cooperation in the Act East Policy”
15:30-17:00 Socio-cultural Connectivity / Chair: Gyanesh Kudaisya (National University of Singapore)
  • Jozon Angeles Lorenzana (Ateneo de Manila University)
    “A Suitable Transport: The Indian Auto-rickshaw on Philippine Roads”
  • Jirayudh Sinthuphan (Chulalongkorn University)
    “Transcultural Indian Arts: Towards A New Form of People-to-People Diplomacy”
  • Dang Thu Thuy (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
    “Enhancing Vietnam - Nepal Tourism Cooperation”
November 18th (Sat)
9:00-10:30 Mobility and Migration / Chair: Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)
  • Mamta Sachan Kumar (National Museum of Ethnology)
    “Can a Diaspora Die? Kobe's “Hima-jin” Sindhi Housewives and the Paradoxical Value of Their Hypersocial Lives”
  • Sidharthan Maunaguru (National University of Singapore)
    “Connected and Disconnected Futures: Multiple Temporalities and Sri Lankan Tamil Migrations across Borders”
  • Gilbert Que (Ateneo de Manila University)
    “Indian Associations in the Philippines: Communicating Diasporic Presence, Fostering Belonging”
11:00-12:30 Historical Connectivity / Chair: Surat Horachaikul (Chulalongkorn University)
  • Makoto Kitada (Osaka University)
    “The Thief of Love. The Earliest Works of Bengali Literature: From Kathmandu to Chittagong”
  • Banuka Iddamalgoda (University of Tokyo)
    “Drug Diffusion and Social Agitation－the Case of Opium in British Ceylon”
  • Gyanesh Kudaisya (National University of Singapore)
    “At the Threshold of Freedom: Ideas and Agendas for India, 1944-1949”
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Social Transformation / Chair: Tran Thi Lan Huong (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
  • Jinwon Han (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
    “Public Sector Corruption in South Asia: Focusing on Institutional Factors with a Two-step fsQCA”
  • Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu (Ateneo de Manila University)
    “Digital Capital and Belonging in Universities: Understanding Inequalities in India and the Philippines”
  • Shin Jinyoung (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
    “Social Innovation of India in Great Transition”
15:00-15:30 Closing Session
  • Concluding Remarks: Minoru Mio (National Museum of Ethnology)
15:30 ACSAS Directors' Meeting
  • at Small Conference Room 1, Inamori Memorial Building
INDOWS International Symposium “Discovering the Indian Ocean World: “Gyres”, Indian Ocean and beyond”
Date January 21st (Sat), 22nd (Sun), 23rd (Mon)
Venue Conference Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology (2nd floor) + Zoom online
[Senri Expo Park 10-1, Suita City, Osaka 565-8511, Japan]
Access https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/en/information/access
Language English (simultaneous interpretation will be provided)
Registration Attend on site at National Museum of Ethnology: Entry form
Attend online via Zoom: Entry form
Registration deadline: January 11th, 2023
  • Zoom URL will be sent before January 20th, 2023, to all who registered.
  • On site attendance is limited up to the first 40 registrant.
Contact Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, National Museum of Ethnology
indowsconference@gmail.com
+81-(0)6-7661-8501
Program
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January 21st(Sat): Symposium Day 1
10:00-11:00 Opening remarks
  • Koji Miyazaki (Executive Director, National Institute for the Humanities)
  • Kenji Yoshida (Director-General, National Museum of Ethnology)
  • Minoru Mio (Convener, NIHU Indian Ocean World Studies Program)
11:00-13:30 Session 1: Materials
  • “Mocha Coffee” in Three Ways: Plant, Brand and Blend
    Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology)
  • From the Edge of the Indian Ocean: Qat and the people who trade and consume it
    Reiko Otsubo (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • A World made from Scrap: Scrap Circulation in and beyond Ahmedabad, India
    Ayako Iwatani (Kyoto University)
  • A blank canvas for fashion: merikani cotton cloth in the 19th century
    Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum)
14:30-17:00 Session 2: Cultural Phenomena
  • Creolising swirls, transoceanic gyres: Creolisation theory and transcultural phenomena in the Indian Ocean world
    Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London)
  • Indians in Swahili Literature: Comparing Vuta N’kuvute and Propaganda Literature
    Fuko Onoda (Osaka University)
  • Spatial Organization of Port Cities in the Indian Ocean World: From the Perspective of the Distribution of Communities
    Shu Yamane (Kwansei Gakuin University)
  • Two Currents in Ramayana: Ramayana Productions from Singapore and its Gyre to the Global Indian World
    Yoshiaki Takemura (National Institutes for the Humanities)
January 22nd (Sun): Symposium Day 2
10:00-12:30 Session3: People
  • Ecological factors behind the circulation of Indian traders in the Indian Ocean
    Claude Markovits (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
  • Intersecting land and maritime trade networks in Southwest Asia: the Afghan arms trade in cooperation with various trade networks at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
    Ichiro Ozawa (Ritsumeikan University)
  • Indian Social Networks and the Role of Intermediaries in Indian Ocean Labour Migration in the Colonial Era.
    Crispin Bates (Sunway University)
  • Different Migration Patterns of the Hadrami sada from a Comparison of the al-‘Aydarus and the al-Habshi families
    Kazuhiro Arai (Keio University)
13:30-16:00 Session 4: Ideas and Faiths
  • The Haddadian paradigm in the Indian Ocean. Tracing movements retold
    Anne Bang (University of Bergen)
  • Introspection of Religious Identity across the Indian Ocean: Reading ?Al? b. Mu?ammad b. ?Al? al-Mundhir?’s Works
    Yohei Kondo (Fukuoka Women’s University)
  • A new aspect of Hinduism in the diaspora and its significance: Tamil ritual worship at a Hindu temple in Jakarta, Indonesia
    Hiroshi Yamashita (Tohoku University)
  • Shirdi Sai Baba’s Oceanic Transmigrations
    Smirti Srinivas (University of California, Davis)
16:30-17:30 Roundup discussion
January 23rd (Mon): Interdisciplinary Conference on the Indian Ocean for Young Scholars
13:00-17:00 Time table: TBA

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