第16回イラク・日本合同学術会議：「日本とイラクの歴史学、地域研究、考古学、教育学における学術交流：イラクでの日本研究と日本語教育の現状を中心に」
第16回イラク・日本合同学術会議
「日本とイラクの歴史学、地域研究、考古学、教育学における学術交流：イラクでの日本研究と日本語教育の現状を中心に」
1．開催趣旨
バグダード大学のマフムード・カイスィー教授が2005年に初来日して以降、酒井との間でイラクの日本研究を支援する活動を行ってきた。バグダード大学を中心としたイラク有数の大学における研究者と、日本の中東研究およびイラク側からの協力ニーズの高い歴史学、地域研究、考古学、教育学などの研究者を交えて、これまで日本・イラク学術合同会議を2007年以来15回、イラクあるいは日本国内で実施してきた。特に2015年以降は、在イラク日本大使館の協力を得て、イラク国内(バスラ、ナジャフ、カルバラ、バグダード)での開催を成功させてきた。
本年は、国際交流基金と早稲田大学の協力を得て、「イラクにおける日本研究の現状」をテーマとし、日本とイラクの研究協力の推進を目的として、以下の通り日本・イラク合同学術研究ワークショップを開催する。
2．日時
2025年12月6日(13:00-17:30)、7日(10:00-18:00)
3．会場
早稲田大学 第3号館10階 会議室1
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4．言語
英語
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5．主催
・国際交流基金日本研究プロジェクト助成プログラム（2025年度）“the current situation of Japanese language and studies in Iraq”
・科学研究費補助金基盤A「政治的危機下の拡大中東からの移民難民におけるネイション意識と知の生産メカニズム」（2024-2028年度、代表 酒井啓子）
6．協力
早稲田大学 国際和解学研究所
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ーーーーーProgramーーーーー
Day 1 (6 December, 2025 )
13:00-13:50 Opening
Welcome speech:
Mr. Hirofumi Miyake, (Deputy Director-General/ Deputy Assistant Minister, MOFA)
Mr. Ahmad Al Azzawi (Counsellor and Cultural Officer Embassy of Iraq in Japan,)
Prof. Baha Bahaa Ibraheem Ansaf (President, University of Baghdad)
Prof. Toyomi Asano (Professor, Waseda University, Director of Institute of International Reconciliation Studies)
Prof. Mahmoud al-Qaysi (Professor, College of Arts, University of Baghdad)
13:50-14:10 Coffee Break
14:10-17:30 Panel 1: War Memory and Reconciliation of Post-war Japan and Iraq
14:10-14:40 Keynote speech:
Eiji Oguma (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University)
“Hearing the Unheard Voices: Japan’s War and Postwar Experiences and Memories”
14:40-16:30 Presentations:
Mahmoud al-Qaysi (University of Baghdad)
“Speicher Massacre:, a New Genocide in Postwar Iraq : How we use the Oral History Method to Understand what happened”
Alaa al-Ameri (Professor, College of Arts, Mustansiriya University)
“Oral History A Methodological and Practical Guide for Academic Research and University Training.”
Toyomi Asano (Professor, Director of Institute of International Reconciliation Studies, Waseda University)
“How to Approach an Emotional History Issues?; Through Analyzing a Legal Structure of Japan’s Protection over Korean Kingdom after the Russo-Japanese War, 1905-1910”
Naoyuki Umemori (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
“Modernization and Colonization in Japan: Thinking through Islam”
Keiko Sakai (Professor, Center for Relational Studies on Global Crises, Chiba University)
““IR of the Vanquished” as a Potential Alternative IR: Reflecting the case of Japan”
16:30-17:30 Discussion
18:30-20:30 １日目議論のフォローアップ、２日目のパネル打合せ（トルコ料理店「トルコアズ」池袋）
Day 2 (7 December)
10:00-13:00 Panel 2: Development of Studies on Japan and Japanese language in Iraq
10:00-10:30 Keynote Speech
Baha Bahaa Ibraheem Ansaf (President, University of Baghdad)
“Japanese Language as interdisciplinary paradigm for the College of Arts and College of Excellence”.
10:30-12:30 Presentations:
Mr. Shotaro Ono (Director, Middle East Division 2, Middle East and Europe Department, JICA) “Japan’s assistance for the reconstruction in Iraq through Japanese ODA and beyond”
Mahmoud Al-Qaysi (University of Baghdad)
“The current situation of Japanese Historical Studies Program -JHSP in College of Arts- University of Baghdad”.
Ali Abdulameer Sachit (Dean, College of Arts, University of Baghdad)
”Why We Delay Opening of the Department of Japanese Language in College of Arts to 2025? A Comparison with Cairo University Experience”
Alaa Al- Ameri (Mustansiriya University)
“The Qiyam School Experience of Japanese language program”
Nour Al-Karawi (Lecturer, College of Arts, Iraqiya University)
”Translating of the Holy Quran in Japan”
12:30-13:00 Discussion:
Yuichi Tsuchida (Professor, Faculty of Education, Keiai University)
Emi Goto (Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Panel 3: Archeological Research in Iraq; Past and Present
Presentations:
Laith Majeed Hussein (Director of the Center of the Scientific Arab Revival, University of Baghdad)
“Destruction of the Iraqi Heritage in postwar Iraq”.
Kazumi Oguchi (Director, The Institute for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq in the School of Asia 21, Kokushikan University)
“Past Japanese Archaeological Expeditions and the Resumption of Research at Kish”
Naohiko Kawakami (Associate Professor, The Faculty of Human Sociology Department of International Tourism, Nagasaki International University)
“Japan’s Most Recent Contributions to the Field of Mesopotamian Archaeology in Iraq: The Japan-Iraq Joint Survey at Tell Sinker”
Discussion
16:00-18:00 Panel 4: Kurdish Studies in Japan and Situation in the Northern Iraq
Mostafa Khalili (Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Unsettled Reconciliations: Cycles of Remembering, Forgetting, and the Struggle for Belonging in Iraqi Kurdistan”
Ghaidaq Abdulmuna’m Mohemmed (Lecturer, College of Arts, University of Baghdad)
“Yazidies of Sinjar and 2014 Genocide: “The problem of Exodus and Integration”
Sohrab Ahmadian (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Negotiating Difference and Belonging: Social Dynamics of Kurdish-Japanese Interaction in a Changing Society”
Discussant: Keiko Sakai
Sponsors: Japan Foundation Support Program for Development of Infrastructure for Japanese Studies, “the current situation of Japanese language and studies in Iraq” (2025; Project Director: Mahmoud al-Qaysi)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), “Sense of Nation and Knowledge Production among the migrant communities from the Middle East”, (2024-2028: Leader: Keiko SAKAI)
Supported by: Institute of International Reconciliation Studies, Waseda University
