■Conferences/Symposiums The 13/10th Overseas Symposiums

Cairo Conference on Japanese Studies 2006

2006 -11-5 - 2006-11-6 The 13/10th    Overseas Symposiums
Theme: Cairo Conference on Japanese Studies 2006
Co-Host: Cairo University, Egypt
Place: Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (Cairo, Egypt)
 
10:00 Opening Ceremony Moderator   
Timothy D. Kern
,  Nichibunken
10:00
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
Dean,  Faculty of Arts, Cairo University
10:10
Motoko Katakura
Director-General,  Nichibunken
10:20
Ali Abd al-Rahman
President,  Cairo University
10:50 Session 1 Moderator    Japan and the Arab world: Comparative Studies in Civilizations
Mohammed Hamdy Ibrahim
,  Cairo University
10:50 Presentation 1    “Japanese Civilization: Japan’s Linkages with the Modern World System, 16th - 20th Centuries”
Heita Kawakatsu
,  Nichibunken
11:20 Presentation 2    “The Cultural Dimensions of Arab-Japanese Relations with Special Reference to the Japan-Muslim World Dialogue among Civilizations”
Mohammed El-Sayed Selim
,  Kuweit University
12:00 Presentation 3    “Discourses on and Against Civilization in Pre-war Japan”
Kei Ushimura
,  Nichibunken
12:30 Presentation 4    “Comparative Value Systems and the Arab-Japanese Dialogue”
Hassan Hanafi
,  Cairo University
13:00 Comments   
Mansour Abu El-Azm
,  Al-Ahram Newspaper
13:00 Comments   
Satoshi Ikeuch
,  Nichibunken
14:30 Presentation 1    “Modernity Thorough Westernization:The Japan’s Case in Comparative Perspective”
Hidehiro Sonoda
,  Nichibunken
15:00 Presentation 2    “Morality and Secularization in Modern Japan: on “Bushido Spirits”
Ala Ali Zein al-Abidin
,  Cairo University
15:30 Presentation 3    “The Beginning of Philosophy of Science in Japan: Comparative Approach”
Yomna El-Kholy
Nichibunken Visiting Scholar,  Cairo University
16:00 Comments   
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
,  Cairo University
16:00 Comments   
Khalil Darwish
,  Cairo University
16:00 Comments   
Kei Ushimura
,  Nichibunken
17:00 Session 3 Moderator    New Trends in Japanese Studies: Dissemination of Japanese Popular Culture and Representation of Japan in Arab media
Kawakatsu Heita
,  Nichibunken
17:00 Presentation 1    “Anime and Manga in the World
Shoichi Inoue
,  Nichibunken
17:30 Presentation 2    “Advertisement as a Resource for Japanese Studies”
Shoji Yamada
,  Nichibunken
18:00 Presentation 3    “Japanese Women in the Texts of Advertizement”
Chavalin Svetanant
,  Chulalongkorn University
18:30 Presentation 4    “Influence of Japanese Anime in Arab Media”
Shuji Hosaka
,  Kinki University
19:00 Comments   
Ibrahim El-Desouki
,  Al-Ahram Newspaper
19:00 Comments   
Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa
,  Cairo University
9:30 Session 4 Moderator    Studies in Linguistics and Literature
Timothy D. Kern
,  Nichibunken
9:30 Presentation 1    “Paradoxical Discourse on Body and ‘Beauty’ Among Male Intellectuals in Early 20th Century Japan”
Ayu Majima
,  Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Nichibunken
10:00 Presentation 2    “The ‘Post War Phenomena’ and the ‘Defeated Nation Syndrome’ in Japanese Literature: Has It Really Come to an End?”
Ahmed Mohamed Fathi Mostafa
,  Cairo University
10:30 Presentation 3    “Transitive and Intransitive Verbs in Modern Japanese Language”
Maher El-Sherbini
,  Cairo University
11:00 Presentation 4    “Model of language Reform in Japan: Its Significance to Egyptian Language Condition”
Adel Amin Saleh
,  Cairo University
11:30 Presentation 5    “Suicide in Modern Japanese Literature”
Karam Khalil
,  Cairo University
12:00 Comments   
Hidehiro Sonoda
,  Nichibunken
12:00 Comments   
Shoji Yamada
,  Nichibunken
14:00 Moderator   
Ahmad Hassan Ibrahim
,  Cairo University
14:00 Presentation 1    “Observations on the introduction of Catholicism to Egypt and Japan: A Comparative Approach”
Muhammad Afifi
,  Cairo University
14:30 Presentation 2    “Syncretism or Alternativization? Some Thoughts on the Reception of Christianity and Religious Trends in Modern Japan”
Timothy D. Kern
,  Nichibunken
15:00 Presentation 3    “Sufism and Islamic Philosophy in the Work of Izutsu Toshihiko: A Japanese Way of Understanding Islam”
Satoshi Ikeuchi
,  Nichibunken
15:50 Moderator   
Hidehiro Sonoda
,  Nichibunken
15:50 Presentation 4    “The Five Temples (Gozan) and the Ruling Authority during the Muromachi Period: A Comparison with the Court of the Mamâlîk Sultan of Cairo”
Akira Imatani
,  Nichibunken
16:50 Presentation 5    “Islamic Thought and Neo-Confucianism: Mapping Intellectual History: Chu His, Wang Yang-ming, and the Sorai Schools as seen in the Mirror of Isloamic Thought”
Yasunori Kojima
,  International Christian University
17:20 Comments   
Shoichi Inoue
,  Nichibunken
17:20 Comments   
Isam Hamza
,  Cairo University
18:20 Concluding Remarks
Karam Khalil
,  Cairo University
18:20
Hidehiro Sonoda
,  Nichibunken
Dinner Speech   
Ahmed Abdallah Zayed
Dean,  Faculty of Arts Cairo University
Concluding Address   
Motoko Katakura
Direcor-General,  Nichibunken