Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
Part I: Emergence of Pan-Asianism in Japan [3 March, 11 am – 1 pm, Istanbul time, GMT +3]
Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
“Non-Governmental Networks in Prewar Asia: A Precursor of Twenty-First Century Civil Society”
Christopher W.A. Szpilman (Teikyo University)
“The Shock of World War I and the Emergence of Radical Pan-Asianism”
Part II: Pan-Asian Travelers [3 March, 2 pm – 4:30 pm, GMT +3]
Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University)
“Shades of Meiji Japanese Pan-Asianism: Yamada Torajirō’s Toruko Gakan (A Pictorial Look at Turkey) and General Utsunomiya’s Diary”
Erdal K. Yalcin (Boğaziçi University/ Koç University)
“Otani Kozui, an Ex-Shin Buddhist Patriarch and His Ten Volume ‘Kōa Keikaku’ (A Project for the Rise of Asia)”
Miyuki Aoki Girardelli (Istanbul Technical University)
“Orientalism in the East: The Ottoman Experience of Japanese Diplomat Watanabe Hiromoto in 1876”
Part III: New Asianism in International Politics [4 March, 10 am – 12 pm, GMT +3]
Christopher Lamont (Tokyo International University)
“Pan-Asianism after the War: Afterlives of Pan-Asianism in Japan-Middle East Relations”
Seiko Mimaki (Takasaki City University of Economics)
“Beyond Pan-Asianism: The Non-Aligned Movement in the Contemporary World”
Part IV: Empires and Pan-Asian Imageries [4 March, 1 pm – 3:30 pm, GMT +3]
Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (University of Bologna)
“Pan-Asianism, Anti-Westernism and the Birth of National Literatures: A Comparative Perspective”
Esra Gökçe Şahin (Koç University)
“Acharaka Comedy, Sonic Revolution and Japan’s Militarization”
Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (Koç University)
“Japanese Feminist Pan-Asianisms: From Maternalist Pacifism to Moral Rearmament”