Research Activities

2021

• All research centers of the NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East will jointly hold an online symposium entitled "Five Perspectives to Understand the Modern Middle East" on Saturday, Decmber 4, 2021 (in Japanese)
• The Center for Islamic Studies (SIAS) at Sophia University and the Center for Islamic Area Studies (KIAS) at Kyoto University are NOW delivering four (+one) lectures entitled "Sufism Today: Understanding Different Aspects of Mysticism" online as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021 (from Friday, November 12 to Monday, December 20, 2021) (in Japanese)
• Film Screening and Lecture "House in the Fields" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021, November 21, 2021. Please read through this link.
• Online Lecture of the SIAS "State Strategies to Satisfy One's Appetite: Cases of Postwar Japan, India, and Egypt" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2021, November 20, 2021 (in Japanese).
• Online distribution of the ethnographic film, Guli Armug'on, produced by Prof. WAZAKI Seika and others, from Friday, July 30 to Monday, August 16, 2021.
• Open seminar for Socio-Ecomony Research Group and Political Sociology Research Group on Tuesday, August 31, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese) .
• Anthropology and History Research Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Saturday, May 22, 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese) .
• Open access repositories of SIAS Working Paper Series 32, 33, 34, and SIAS Lectures 4, 5, 6 were reliesed on Wednesday, May 19, 2021..
• The article about our Center appears in The Nikkei (in Japanese) on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Please read through this link.
• Comparative Study of Southeast Asian Kitabs (6): Paradise and Hell (SIAS Working Paper Series 34) was published on March 22, 2021..
• Religious Minorities Living in the Middle East: Their Lives and Fistivities (SIAS Lectures 5) and Muslims in Diaspora: Living and Interacting as a Minority (SIAS Lectures 6), were published on March 8, 2021 (in Japanese).
• Islamic Learning of al-Azhar from the End of 19th Century to the Beginning of 20th Century: Annotated Translation of ‘L’enseignement, la doctrine et la vie dans les universités musulmanes d’Égypte’ by Pierre Arminjon (SIAS Working Paper Series 35) was published on March 8, 2021.
• Anthropology and History Research Group held a SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar on 19 February, 2021 as an online meeting.
• Anthropology and History Research Group held a SIAS/KIAS-CNRS Joint Seminar on 5 February, 2021 as an online meeting.
• Open seminar of the SIAS and the IAAMES (Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies) on the Modern History of Pilgrimage to Mecca, inviting Dr. Sylvia Chiffoleau (CNRS） as a lecturer (Fri. 26 Feb., 2021)
• Redelivery of all the online lectures of "Four (+ One) Lectures on Anthropology of Saint Veneration in Islam and Christianity" as part of Sophia Open Research Weeks 2020 (from Mon., 1, Feb. to Sun. 21., Feb., 2021) (in Japanese)
• Anthropology and History Reaearch Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Mon. 18 Jan., 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese) .
• Anthropology and History Reaearch Group held a seminar on Sufism and Saint Veneration on Mon. 11 Jan., 2021 as an online meeting (in Japanese).