The workshop“Digital Barbed Wire and Social Control: The Politics of Internet Shutdowns in India” will be jointly held by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)“The Historical Origins of Authoritarianism: Comparative Studies of Former British Colonies in South Asia”.

The International Workshop “Narratives, Knowledge Transmission, and Discourses on the Caliphate in Medieval Islam” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy (Principal Investigator:Shinsuke Nagaoka)”.

The International Workshop “Exploring Connectivity around Medieval Islamic Political Thought and Beyond” will be organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)”.

The Middle East and Africa continuously suffer from compound crises such as war and occupation, natural disasters, and food insecurity. Situating their regional contexts within global history, experts will explain complexities behind the situations of each country from various perspectives.