[南アジア研究センター共催] 東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター・ブックトーク Dr. Farha Noor (RPTU)
日時：2025年1月15日（水）18:15-20:00
場所：オンライン
報告者：Dr. Farha Noor (RPTU)
対象となる書籍: Leisurely Feelings: Emotions and Concepts of Otium in South Asia
ディスカッサント：Dr. Ananya Jahanara Kabir (King’s College London)
モデレーター： Dr. Tariq Sheikh(TUFS)
イベントの詳細については以下のサイトをご覧ください。
https://www.tufs.ac.jp/ts/society/findas/new/20250115/shousai.pdf
[南アジア研究センター共催] 東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター・ブックトーク Dr. Divya Cherian (Princeton University)
日時：2025年1月11日（土）11:00-12:30
場所：オンライン
報告者：Dr. Divya Cherian (Princeton University)
対象となる書籍: Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia
モデレーター： Dr. Tariq Sheikh(TUFS)
イベントの詳細については以下のサイトをご覧ください。
https://www.tufs.ac.jp/ts/society/findas/new/20250111/shousai.pdf
南アジア研究センター・セミナー: Women’s Agency in India: Past and Present
日時: 2024年10月21日（月曜日）18:00-20:00/ 21 October 2024 (Monday) 18:00-20:00
場所: 東京大学駒場Iキャンパス14号館4階407号室（ハイフレックス）
報告者:
Madhura Chakraborty, ‘The Inner and Outer Struggles of Bengali Women Educators: Through Autobiographical Lenses’
Oeendrila L. Gerold, ‘Silence as Sound: Indian Muslim Women and the Tactic of Self-censorship in the Digital Risk Society’
要旨：
Madhura Chakraborty (Diamond Harbour Women’s University), ‘The Inner and Outer Struggles of Bengali Women Educators: Through Autobiographical Lenses’
It is often said that the position of women in a civilized society is an indicator of its progress as well as shortcomings. In case of the state of Bengal in India, women have come a long way from being confined inside the threshold of the ‘inner quarters’ of their homes to working as successful professionals in various fields. This process of stepping out into the outside world was a consequence of the spread of formal education among females. Although Bengali women of respectable families often received elementary education at home, they started attending schools only from the middle of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, a small section of these educated Bengali women began to veer towards the professional sector. Indeed, teaching was one of the earliest professions that became open to these women giving them the first taste of freedom and greater control over their own lives. At the same time, these women had to overcome a number of social hurdles for entering as well as succeeding in this profession. This paper aims to study the autobiographical accounts of two nineteenth century women educators — Jyotirmoyee Gangopadhyay and Shyammohini Devi. Its object is to study the lived experiences and challenges faced by these teachers as well as their contribution to the field of women’s education. More importantly, it seeks to identify the broader historical forces that shaped their lives and thereby gain insight into the interplay between individual agency and historical context that advanced the cause of women’s education.
Dr. Oeendrila L. Gerold, ‘Silence as Sound: Indian Muslim Women and the Tactic of Self-censorship in the Digital Risk Society’
This paper explores self-censorship practices of Indian Muslim women in response to digital misogyny and Islamophobia, exemplified by the “e-auctions” of Muslim women in 2021-2022. The study challenges conventional views of self-censorship as passive or defeatist, reframing it as a deliberate, tactical withdrawal of consent in the digital risk society. Silence is reframed as a means of resisting surveillance, harassment, and community-endangering exposure and not merely a postponement of political work. Here self-censorship serves multiple purposes: protecting family and community, critiquing the digital as a tool of liberal activism, and enabling women to reclaim control over their digital footprints. Through ethnographic research, the paper demonstrates how invisibility, care, and perseverance shape online practices, offering new dimensions to the understanding of feminist risk-taking and agency in the digital public square.
共催：東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター、科研・基盤研究（B）「『感情』の視角から南アジア研究を再考する」（ 代表：粟屋利江）、環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト・東京大学拠点
[南アジア研究センター共催] Looking Forward, Looking Back: Yields and (New) Seeds of the Shaping Asia Network Initiative（Shaping Asia project 主催の国際ワークショップ）
南アジア研究センター・セミナー: Dr. Sangita Gopal (University of Oregon), ‛Genre and Eco-cinema in 1980s India’
場所：東京大学駒場Iキャンパス14号館7階706
報告：Dr. Sangita Gopal (University of Oregon), ‛Genre and Eco-cinema in 1980s India’
要旨：Environmental crises in Indian cinema have typically been explored in documentary film, and yet this genre may not be the most effective one for capturing the Anthropocene and the complicity of human actors. Turning to three genre films made by women filmmakers in India in the 1980s, this essay argues that genres such as horror, romantic comedy, and domestic melodrama are aesthetically equipped to express the vast temporal and spatial scales as well as the complex and distributed processes of the Anthropocene. Further, made during a period when ecofeminist movements had gathered momentum to highlight the catastrophic ecological effects of a development agenda driven by the state and capital, these genre films – Geherayee, Yugant, and Papee
[南アジア研究センター共催] Professor Tirthankar Roy,‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’
日時：2024年6月25日（火）13:00-14:30
場所：慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス 北館1階会議室2
報告：Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE/Kansai),‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’
要旨：From the early twentieth century, a big part of our world – the arid/semiarid tropics – began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. The idea was not a new one in this geography. It was an intrinsic part of ancient culture, statecraft, and technology. Most ancient projects, however, were local and small in scale. The capability of water extraction on a scale large enough to transform whole regions, societies, and countries and create new cities improved in the early twentieth century, giving rise to a sharp break in the long-term pattern of population and economic growth from the mid-twentieth century. Ironically, the geography of the arid tropics made transforming landscapes in this way expensive, damaging for the environment, and disputatious. The talk is about that troubled history of economic emergence.
言語：英語
主催：慶應義塾経済学会
共催：科学研究費補助金 基盤研究A「中印比較史の創生 データベースに基づく総合的研究」/東京大学南アジア研究センター
南アジア研究センター・セミナー: Dr. Jon Keune (Michigan State University), ‘Work, Activism, and Religion in Ambedkarite Buddhist Diasporas’
日時：2024年6月10日（月）18:00-19:30
場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス14号館4階407号室
報告：Dr. Jon Keune (Michigan State University), ‘Work, Activism, and Religion in Ambedkarite Buddhist Diasporas’
要旨：Since 1956, following the conversion of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and a half million of his followers to protest social inequities and caste-based oppression, a newly formed Indian Buddhist community has sought better lives through higher education, political assertion, and transnational migration for work. Rather than join a preexisting Asian Buddhist tradition (such as the Theravada sangha in Sri Lanka), Ambedkarites have articulated their own distinctly modern vision of Buddhism that advocates for social equality while reckoning with limited resources and the systemic effects of caste prejudice. Consequently, Buddhism for Ambedkarites usually has a very strong social and political dimension that does not conform to the stereotype of Buddhism as a primarily “spiritual” or “contemplative” religion. In the past thirty years, highly educated Ambedkarites have increasingly found professional opportunities in Japan, the Middle East, UK, USA, and elsewhere. As they migrate and resettle, and as their children grow up outside India, they dwell around other forms of Buddhism and other expectations of how religion ought to function in different geopolitical contexts. Drawing on field work in Asia, Europe, and North America, this talk explores how Ambedkarites in their everyday lives are navigating diaspora circumstances, diverse forms of Buddhism, and commitments to social upliftment and home communities, all while pursuing their own professional and economic advancement.
司会：小川道大（東京大学）
共催：東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター
[南アジア研究センター共催] 東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター・ブックトーク Dr. Priyanka Basu (King’s College London)
日時：2024年4月18日（木）18:00-19:30
場所：オンライン
報告者：Dr. Priyanka Basu (King’s College London)
対象となる書籍: The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia （Routledge, 2023)
https://www.routledge.com/The-Poets-Song-Folk-and-its-Cultural-Politics-in-South-Asia/Basu/p/book/9780367903138
ディスカッサント：Dr. Kyoko Niwa
モデレーター： Dr. Tariq Sheikh
イベントの詳細については以下のサイトをご覧ください。
https://www.tufs.ac.jp/ts/society/findas/new/20240418/shousai.pdf
[南アジア研究センター共催] 東京外国語大学南アジア研究センター・セミナー：Beyond Boundaries
Date: 6 April 2024 (Sat), 13:00-15:45
Venue: Room 304 (Multimedia Conference Room), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (Ajia Afurika Gengo Bunka Kenkyujo), Fuchu campus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / online (hybrid)
Speakers:
Dr. Simon Leese (University of Amsterdam) ‘Bombay Cinema in the Egyptian Press: reimagining Indian Ocean cross-cultural connections in the age of Non-Alignment’
Dr. Alaka Chudal (University of Vienna) ‘What shall we speak about?: Indian prisoners of the First World War in Germany’
Discussants:
Dr. Fuko Onoda (Osaka University)
Dr. Taeko Uesugi (Meiji Gakuin University)
Chair: Dr. Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)
Abstracts:
Dr. Simon Leese (University of Amsterdam) ‘Bombay Cinema in the Egyptian Press: reimagining Indian Ocean cross-cultural connections in the age of Non-Alignment’
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning scholarly interest in historical processes of migration, trade, and cultural exchange across the Indian Ocean. Within this larger arena, connections between South Asia and the Middle East have constituted one important channel of transfer. This talk will explore cultural relations between India and Egypt during the early period of the Cold War when they took on a renewed and urgent significance. It focuses on Egyptian literary and cultural journals in the 1950s and 1960s, which provided a forum for a range of writers to reinterpret cultural connections in a radically new context. Although writers in previous centuries had long reflected on the connected history of the two regions, trajectories of colonialism, struggles for independence, and postcolonial politics in the twentieth century inevitably cast cultural relations in new terms.
The talk will draw on a variety of voices represented in these journals, including the Egyptian film critic and later documentary filmmaker Salah El-Tohamy, the political geographer Gamal Hamdan, and Indian scholars living in Egypt such as Mohiaddin Alwaye. These writers wrote on topics ranging from shared histories of anti-colonial struggle to how Bombay Cinema might provide inspiration for Egyptian national cinema. Alongside this, some writers drew on older Arabic-Islamic geographic knowledge to frame contemporary non-alignment solidarity and cooperation. By considering these diverse perspectives together, this talk will show how geographic imaginings of third-worldism and non-alignment not only appealed to shared colonial histories but actively and imaginatively reinterpreted pre-colonial histories of cultural exchange.
Dr. Alaka Chudal (University of Vienna) ‘What shall we speak about?: Indian prisoners of the First World War in Germany’
A large number of soldiers from South Asia —India (before partition) and Nepal—who fought for the British on the battlefields of Europe during the First World War in 1914 and 1915, were captured and imprisoned in Germany in early 1915. In the same year, the Royal Prussian Phonetic Commission was set up in Berlin to create a sound archive of all the languages in the world by recording the voices of those prisoners of war. This talk tunes in to the selected voices of those imprisoned South Asian soldiers to uncover their agency, their self and the purpose of their fighting, if they were aware of it, in the songs, poems and stories they sang, recited, and told for the Phonetic Commission. These archival documents from the first half of the 19the century serve as valuable primary sources for the study of various features of South Asian culture at the time.
Hosted by: Center for South Asian Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Co-hosted by:
Center for South Asian Studies, University of Tokyo
Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, Osaka University (HINDOWS)