Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Lecture “Screening of ‘Prisoners of the Occupation’ and Lecture: Exploring the Potential of Solidarity with Palestine Through Theatre” will be held by B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” with Public Lecture “Connecting Languages to Society and Culture: Intercultural Communication for Global Engagement” of College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.

The International Workshop “From the Mashhad Archives: Eighteenth Century Documents on Iran and Afghanistan” 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 “Farman, State, and Society in Early Modern Context” will be organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)”.

Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Circuits of Travel in South Asia and Beyond: The Tawa’if and Nautch Girls in Late Colonial India” will be jointly held by C01 “Analyses of Connectivities by Digital Humanities Methods” and A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge.”

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.

Fadi Bardawil (Duke University), a researcher of contemporary Arab thought, will talk on his book Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (2020). We will discuss the intellectual legacy that the Arab Left inherited since the 1960s as well as the role they played or can play, especially in the post-Arab Spring protests and current Palestine issue.

Workshop “Genocide in Palestine” will be organized by A03.

A series of hands-on seminars for acquisition of RDF skills and digitization by the method will be jointly held by Publicly Offered Research “Visual Analyses of Nominal Connectivity among 14th to 16th Century Arab Urban Elites,” C01, and the Islamic Trust Studies Project’s “ITS’ Kitchen” led by the Area Organizer.

Symposium “The history and the present day of Palestine: discussing settlers’ colonialism and 100 years of resistance” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Project B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” and A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” with College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.

The Third International Conference of Islamic Trust Studies “Exploring the Tacit Knowledge of Trust Building and Connectivity amidst Predicaments” will be held from March 1 to 3, 2023, at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo.

The second Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Seminar will be held by A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” and B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” in response to the de facto genocide in Palestine.

C01班は、早稲田大学カタールチェアとの共催で、Digital Humanities Winter Days 2023を開催します。