Relational Studies Project and ASNET to host a photo exhibition & workshop at UTokyo, Japan

Photo Exhibition & Workshop
Identities of Minority Muslims in the US and Japan

Those who practice Islam in their daily lives are generally called Muslims. In such places as Japan and the United States, where they live as minorities, they are called Americans, Japanese, Arabs, or Pakistanis, and these identities indicate their own─or sometimes their parents’─origins of birth. However, labelling them as Muslims has often simplified their diverse identities and realities into a rather normative image.

This photo exhibition seeks to shed light on these diversities of Muslim minorities through vivid and precious photos taken by two photographers in Japan and the United States. Focusing on these Muslim minorities, the photographs aim to unveil their separate identities, which have been otherwise obscured by unilateral labeling from external societies.

Accompanying this photo exhibition, a workshop and small discussion sessions are to be organized as supplementary events. In this one-week program, we will consider aspects that have helped connect, share, and segment people’s emotions, senses, and thoughts against the current backdrop of global complexities.

We look forward to your participation.

※Free admission, no registration required

Photo Exhibition

【Period】

September 29th to October 6th, 2018.
10:00-6:00 (Closed at 5 p.m. on the last day of exhibition)

【Venue】

Lobby, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/access/index.html（Access）

【Photographs are provided by：】

Rick Rocamora (photographer)
Kenei Sato (photographer)

Workshop

【Date】

September 29th, 2018

【Venue】

Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/access/index.html（Access）

【Program】

13:00～15:00　Identities of Minority Muslims in the US and Japan

(Language: Japanese)

Hirofumi Okai (Waseda University) - Japanese Case
Kei Takahashi (JSPS/ Sophia University) - American Case
Junko Toriyama (Ritsumeikan University) - Comments

15:30～17:30　Muslims and Identities Captured

(Language: English and Japanese)

Photos and talks by Rick Rocamora
　　　　　　　　　　Kenei Sato
Translations by Junko Toriyama
Moderator of the workshop: Emi Goto

Talk Sessions

【Venue】

Lobby, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/access/index.html（Access）

Sep. 30th

2:00-3:00　Rick Rocamora × Kenei Sato × Kei Takahashi
　　　　　　　　　　　　 (Languages: Japanese & English)
3:30-4:30 Junko Toriyama × Emi Goto (Japanese)

Oct. 1st

5:00-6:00　Keiko Sakai, Chiba University (Japanese)

Oc.t 3rd

5:00-6:00 Rick Rocamora × Kei Takahashi (Japanese & English)

Oct. 5th

5:00-6:00 Eiji Nagasawa, UTokyo (Japanese)

Oct. 6th

2:00-3:00 Yassine Essaadi & Miwa Essaadi (Shizuoka Muslim Association)
　　　　　× Kenei Sato (Japanese & English)

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Photo Exhibition & Workshop
Identities of Minority Muslims in the US and Japan

【Organizers】

• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Relational Studies on Global Crises, Establishing a New Paradigm of Social/ Human Sciences based on Relational Studies (Project Leader, Keiko Sakai, Chiba University) Group B01: Norms & Identity
• Network for Education and Study on Asia (ASNET), The University of Tokyo

【Co-organizers】

• Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA) , The University of Tokyo
• Grants-in-aid for Research/Basic Research A: Towards the construction of ‘Islam & Gender Studies’: Building foundations for comprehensive discussion on gender justice and Islam (Project Leader, Eiji Nagasawa, the University of Tokyo)
• Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists: The Traditional Islam Trend and Sufism in the American Muslim Community (Project Leader, Kei Takahashi, Sophia University)

Related　groups : GroupB01