11:00-12:00
First Plenary Session: Beyond Nationalism? Tagore and Modern India

◇Keynote Presentation:

“Tagore and Critical Nationalism”
Prof. Sudipta KAVIRAJ (Professor, Columbia University)

13:00-15:00
Second Plenary Session: Nationalism in Abe’s Japan

◇Keynote Presentation:

“Japanese Politics at the Crossroad and the Future of East Asia: Coup d’État　against the Constitution, Yasukuni Nationalism, and the Task of Peace-building”
Prof. Shin CHIBA (Director of PRI, ICU)

“History, Politics and Identity in Japan”
Prof. Koichi NAKANO (Professor, Sophia University)

15:15-17:15
Nationalism, Religion and Peacebuilding in North-East Asia

◇Presentations:

“Religious Nationalism with Reciprocal Non-domination: Ahn Changho’s Humanitarian Cosmopolitanism”
Prof. Jun-Hyeok KWAK (Associate Professor, Soongsil University, Republic of Korea)

“Moments of Subversion and Resistance: Unintended Consequences of Nationalist/Imperialist Ideas in the Japanese Empire”
Prof. Atsuko ICHIJO (Associate Professor, Kingston University, UK)

“Buddhism, Reason, and Great East Asian Co-prosperity Area: Multiculturalism and Nationalism in the Pre-war Period Japan”
Prof. Kosuke SHIMIZU (Professor, Ryukoku University)

“Two types of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Authoritarian Dictatorship and Narcissistic Aggressiveness”
Prof. Takeshi DEGUCHI (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)

◇Convener:

Prof. Giorgio Shani (Director of SSRI, ICU)

* Japanese-English simultaneous translation provided.