Symposium 2023

“Discussions on ‘hearty food/meal’ and ‘connectivities’
from the viewpoint of area studies”




Symposium 2023 “Discussions on ‘hearty food/meal’ and ‘connectivities’ from the viewpoint of area studies”
will be held by Islamic Trust Studies Project
with Japan Consortium for Area Studies
at the Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).

Program

13:00-13:05　Opening Address
Nobuaki Kondo（Director, ILCAA）
13:05-13:15　Introduction
Hidemitsu Kuroki（ILCAA / SRC, Hokkaido Univ.）
13:15-13:45　Keynote Speech
“Things connected and grown by food of the Muslims in South Asia”
So Yamane（Osaka Univ.）

13:45-14:05　1st Presentation
“Foodstuffs which crossed the ocean: Yemen and mobility in the western Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages”
Tamon Baba（Ritsumeikan Univ.）
14:05-14:25　2nd Presentation
“Eating together: ‘our’ commensality in the mosques in South Fujian, China”
Yukari Sai（Chiba Institute of Technology）

Break (10 min.)

14:35-14:55　3rd Presentation
“Food and cooking in migrant families from the perspectives of gender, connectivities and identities”
Masako Kudo (J.F. Oberlin University)
14:55-15:15　4th Presentation
“Food and wartime economy: revisiting connectivity, dependence and autonomy”
Yuko Ido（ILCAA）

Break & Networking Time　(20 min)

15:35-16:05　Comments
Yoshimi Osawa（Aoyama Gakuin Univ.）
Naoto Minami（Ritsumeikan Univ.）

16:05-16:55　General Discussion
16:55-17:00      Closing Address
Motoki Nomachi（President, Japan Consortium for Area Studies / Director of SRC, Hokkaido Univ.）

17:30-19:30　Academic Information Exchange Meeting
（Dining Hall, 1F, the University Hall of Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies）

Conditions: Open to the public／Japanese／Admission free／In-person meeting／Pre-registration is required／With babysitting service

Pre-registration:
Deadline：November 15, 2023（Wed）
*Request of babysitting service will be accepted by October 31, and the participation of Academic Information Exchange Meeting will be accepted by November 9.

Registration Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ypvIz8nQ0HriQZvt7cdoER1pxRiOLtJPRHdnjyNM9aU/

Co-organizer:
-Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC Hokkaido University); 20H05823)
-Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
-The Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)

Contact: connectivity_jimukyoku@tufs.ac.jp (Islamic Trust Studies Project Office / イスラーム信頼学事務局)