(1) "Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization"

• 【Date】 February 17, 2017. Fri. 10:00-17:00
• 【Presenters】
• Umut Azak, Assistant Professor, International Relations Department, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Naser Ghobadzadeh, Fellow, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia
• Mohammad Rasekh, Professor, Faculty of Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
• Sadia Saeed, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of San Francisco, U.S.A.
• Yasuyuki Matsunaga, Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• 【Discussant】：
• Andrew March, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University, U.S.A.
• 【Language】 English

This workshop is by invitation only, so please contact below if you would participate.
matsunaga@tufs.ac.jp

(2) "State and Sharia in the Pre-20th Century Middle East"

• 【Date】 February 17, 2017. Fri. 10:00-17:00
• 【Presenters】：
• Linda Darling, Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona
• Guy Burak, Assistant Curator and Librarian, Bobst Library, New York University
• Jun Akiba, Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University
• Nobuaki Kondo, Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• 【Language】 English

For more information, please contact below:
aa_nihu_kyoten@tufs.ac.jp

The two-day workshop is co-organized and co-funded by the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (1801) "Relational Studies on Global Crisis" Unit A01 "States and Institutions" and MEIS-ILCAA Unit, NIHU Area Studies Project for the Modern Middle East.
For information about the above research projects, please see below:
http://www.shd.chiba-u.jp/glblcrss/index_en.html
http://meis.aa-ken.jp/