Thursday, August 18, 2022

09:00–09:30 Introductory Remarks, Ulrich Brandenburg

09:30–11:30 Panel 1

Hee-Soo Lee (Hanyang University): “Islamic Politicization in Korea: The Background and Current Situation”

Sinan Levent (Ankara University): “Post-war Asianism in Japan: Focusing on Nakatani Takeyo and Japan-Middle East Relations”

13:00–16:30 Panel 2

Raja Adal (University of Pittsburgh): “Conceptualizing a Space beyond the Political: Islam in the Context of Japanese History”

Noriko Kanahara (Waseda University): “Defining 'Religious Organization' in the Midst of Global Religious and Ideological War: The Japanese Imperial Diet Discussions on the Inclusion of Islam in the Religious Organization Law of 1939”

Aaron Glasserman (Harvard University): “Minority Elite Networks, Majoritarian Chauvinism, and State Incapacity: The Politicization of Hui Identity in Central China”

17:00–18:30 Keynote 1
Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina): “Politicization of Islam in the Contested Asian Civilizational Narratives of the Global Order”

Friday, August 19, 2022

09:30–11:30 Panel 3

Ali Merthan Dündar (Ankara University): “An Ottoman Officer in Japan: Some Notes on Ahmet Tevfik El Sherif”

Samee Siddiqui (University of North Carolina): “‘World Religioning’ and the ‘Problem of Origins’ in Pan-Asianist Discourse, 1880–1914”

13:00–16:30 Panel 4

Janice Jeong (University of Göttingen): “Coalescence of Sino-Islamic Routes in Inter-War Shanghai and their Wartime Politicization”

Ryosuke Ono (Waseda University): “From Afghanistan with Love: Anti-Soviet Activities of Turkestani Émigrés and Japanese Agents in the Late 1930s”

Masumi Matsumoto (Muroran Institute of Technology): “Occupation and Solidarity: The Recognition of the Middle Eastern Situation in the Muslim Magazine Huijiao Zhoubao (Islam Weekly), published in the Japanese Occupied Territory”

17:00–18:30 Keynote 2
David Motadel (London School of Economics): “Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire”

Saturday, August 20, 2022

09:30–11:30 Panel 5

Larisa Usmanova (Russian State University for the Humanities): “Islamic Religious Life and Activities of Turk-Tatar Emigrant Communities in East Asia: Institutional Structure, Features, Actors”

James Harry Morris (Waseda University): “Discovering the Religious Other: Christian and Muslim Interactions in Meiji Period Japan”

13:00–15:00 Panel 6

Tariq Sheikh (English and Foreign Languages University): “Medium of Instruction as Identity: Osmania University, the Princely State of Hyderabad, and the Japanese Model”

Mikiya Koyagi (University of Texas at Austin): “An Eastern Hero: Biographies of Muhammad in Imperial Japan”

15:30–16:30 Final Discussion