The Caucasus and its Inhabitants between Russia and Middle East:
Reactions and Reflections for the Sake of Religion and State
Co-organized by NIHU Program Islamic Area Studies (TIAS)

Date: 2008/01/26(Sat.)

Place: (University of Tokyo) http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_02_09_e.html
*Update January 22
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WARNING: All of papers is Not for Quotation
9:50~11:00
Opening Session (Chair: MAEDA Hirotake, SRC)

Foreword:
MATSUZATO Kimitaka (SRC), KOMATSU Hisao (University of Tokyo)
Introduction:
MAEDA Hirotake (SRC)
Opening Lecture:
Ronald Grigor Suny (The University of Michigan)


Caucasia as a Civilization
Remarks:
SHIOKAWA Nobuaki (University of Tokyo)

11:10-12:30
Session A: Russian Advancement to the Caucasian Space (Chair: MATSUZATO Kimitaka)


Sean Pollock (Columbia University)


Friend and Foe: Religion and Subjecthood in the Caucasus in the Reign of Catherine II

MAEDA Hirotake


Mamluk Became a Translator and a Translator Became a Mamluk: Mamluk System and its Legacy in the 19th century
Discussant:
KITAGAWA Seiichi (Tohoku University)


13:30-15:30
Session B: Caucasian Islam and the Legacy of the Imperial Authority (Chair: KOMATSU Hisao)


Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow)


MAKING ORTHODOX MUSLIM CLERGY IN IMPERIAL BORDERLANDS: A Comparative Study of North Caucasus and Transcaucasia in the Late Tsarist and Soviet Periods (a tentative version)
[outline and conclusion]

Michael Kemper (University of Amsterdam)


Sufism and Islamic Learning in the Late Imperial and Early Soviet Periods: Some Research Questions on Continuity and Change, or: The Alimjan Syndrome (revised version, January 22)

MIYAZAWA Eiji (Sophia University)


Transformation of Local Knowledge among Circassians in Turkey: Some Effects of Revitalised Contacts with Homeland
Discussant:
Anke Von Kügelgen (Univeristy of Bern)


15:40-17:40
Session C: The Making of a Caucasian Space: Imagined “National State” (Chair: AKIBA Jun, Chiba University)


YOSHIMURA Takayuki (University of Tokyo)


The Making of a "Fatherland" --- the modern Armenian nationhood after WWI

Michael Reynolds (Princeton University)


Buffers or Brethren: Young Turk Military Policy in World War One and the Myth of Panturanism (The title was changed.)

Thornike Gordadze (French Institute for Anatolian Studies)


Georgian Nationalism under Soviet Rule: Actors, New Trends, Hegemonic Transactions
Discussant:
IKEDA Yoshiro (Niigata University of International and Information Studies)
FUJINAMI Nobuyoshi (University of Tokyo)

Closing Remarks:
IEDA Osamu (SRC, COE program’s director)

18:00 Reception: Sanjo Kaikan


The working language of this symposium is English.
Everyone wishes to attend is kindly requested to contact following address and previously be registered.

Contact:
ses-coe@slav.hokudai.ac.jp
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