ICIJ2018

Call for Papers

DAY 1- 15###sup/sup### November: Inauguration of Conference

Key Note Adrees : Ambassador Hirabayashi, President, Japan-India Association

Session: Theme I: India and Japonisme I & II (Carpets, Textiles, Arts)

• Dr. Yuzuruha OYAMA, Curator, Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo : The textile exchange between Japan and India in 16th-19th century.
• Prof. Timothy SCREECH, SOAS, University of London Transmission of Namban bunka via India.
• Prof. Takako INOUE, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo. Indian impacts on Japanese performing arts: Indigenization, Extinction, and Reconstruction of Buddhist Music –with emphasis on Gagaku and Shomyo and their changing trends from 16###sup/sup### to 19###sup/sup### centuries.
• Prof. Masumi IGARASHI, Art History, Okayama University, Tokyo. Katsuta Shokin: A Japanese Painter at the Government School of Art, Calcutta, 1906-1907.
• Dr. Aarti KAWLRA, Chennai, Fellow at Minpaku, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Sari-Kimono: Metaphors, Affinities and Aesthetics.
• Prof. Chih-lung LIN, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan: Japanese shipping lines in India, 1891-1918.
• Dr. Naoko FUKAMI, Waseda University, Tokyo : A comparison between the current and 55-year-old conditions of sultanate heritage in Delhi; Digital archive, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo.
• Prof Anuradha CHATURVEDI, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi : Seismological studies in India by Professor Fusakichi Omori, T. Nakamura and T. Koyama and their implications on the development of earthquake resistant architecture in North East India.

DAY 2: Session: Themes II & III: Diaspora Communities, Social interactions & Community knowledge

• Prof. Claude MARKOVITS, Centre of Indian and South Asian Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris : Indian merchants in Kobe.
• Dr Makiko KIMURA, International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College, Tokyo: Remembering a Tangkul-Japan Relationship: Folklores about a Local Female Interpreter in the Tangkul Areas of Manipur, Northeast India.
• Prof. Takayoshi KUSAGO, Kansai University, Osaka : Rediscovering community assets and knowledge through Jimotogaku mapping method: An experimental study with youth groups in Bhutan.
• Mr. Surajit SARKAR, Ambedkar University, New Delhi : Memories, Mapping and local knowledge: Narratives of Urbanisation from the Semi-urban to the Megacity in India. 

·       Prof. Daniel BOTSMAN, Yale University, New Haven : Portugal-Goa-Japan linkages.

Sub-session: Place and Local Knowledge :  Community Mapping as method of engagement

Session: Theme IV: Education, Travelogues &Related areas

·       Dr. Aya IKEGAME, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo : Mysore State and Visvesvaraya:  Engineering and technical Education.

·       Dr. Sushila NARSIMHAN, Professor (retd.), University of Delhi : In search of a non-Western education model: Syed Ross Masood of Hyderabad turns to Japan.

·       Dr. Gita A. KEENI, Nippon Bhavana, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan : ‘Images of Japan in the works of Bengali travelers in early Twentieth century. 

Session: Theme V: Technology Perspectives I & II

Shipping, Railways, Seismology, Architecture

DAY 3: Looking Ahead & Valedictory session

Important Dates

Registration: Early Bird : Before June 16, 2018