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

Events FY2022

INDOWS International Symposium “Discovering the Indian Ocean World: “Gyres”, Indian Ocean and beyond”
Date January 21st (Sat), 22nd (Sun), 23rd (Mon), 2023
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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