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南アジア研究センター(Center for South Asian Studies, CSAS)は、人間文化研究機構プロジェクト「南アジア地域研究」の東京大学拠点(TINDAS)の設置機関として、2017年4 月にグローバル地域研究機構内に設置されました。2022年3月までは同プロジェクトのもとで、「南アジアの経済発展と歴史変動」をテーマとして掲げ、インドを中心とする南アジア諸国における現在の経済発展を長期の歴史的変動の中に位置づけ、南アジア的な発展の在り方を総合的に明らかにすることを目的に研究活動を展開してきました。2022年3月にTINDASが終了したのちは、学内の南アジア研究者を中心に、南アジア関連の研究会の組織や南アジアに関する情報発信、これまで作成・整備したGIS関連情報の紹介などを行っています。

The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) was founded in April 2017 as one of the research centers for the NIHU project ‘Integrated Area Studies on South Asia‘. The center has been part of the Institute for Advanced Global Studies (IAGS) from its inception. It organizes seminars and workshops on a wide range of topics related to South Asia and provides information on this region through its website.

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[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)
http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/about/access

https://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/abouttufs/contactus/campusmap.html (Building No.6 on this map)

* If you would like to attend the seminar online, please register from the following site by 3 April 2024.
Registration site: https://forms.gle/Qz7xANAzRHV3zBw1A

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)

お問い合わせ (Contact us):

東京大学大学院総合文化研究科グローバル地域研究機構南アジア研究センター
〒153-8902東京都目黒区駒場3-8-1, 14号館
Center for South Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Building 14, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.