Roundtable on the new book Connecting Africa and Asia. Afrasia As a
Benign Community (Routledge, 2022) with the author Yoichi Mine (Doshisha
University, Kyoto)
That event
is organized by the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ) and the Center for Africa-Asia
Contemporary Culture Studies (CAACCS) of Kyoto Seika University, in the
framework of the research group "Seeing the world in ‘triangulation".
Monday 7
November 2022
10:30 to
12:30 (FR) / 18:30 to 20:30 (JP)
Participations of the public will be only onsite, on the Campus
Condorcet - Centre
de colloques - Place
du Front populaire 93300 Aubervilliers.
In English
By the 22nd
century, according to current demographic projections, African and Asian
societies will constitute more than 80% of the world's population, in roughly
equal proportion. Yoichi Mine, Professor of Global Studies at Kyoto Doshisha
University, discusses these projections and puts them in historical perspective
in order to conceive the conditions of existence of a semi-global entity,
designated as Afrasia. If the history bears witness to numerous forms of
exchange of commodities and ideas between these two regions of the world,
notably through the values and norms of Islam, it remains to conceive the
conditions for the continuation of multilateral, inter-religious and
inter-linguistic dialogues that will allow for the continuation of an
"inoffensive community", in its internal evolutions and in its
relation with the rest of the world
After an introduction by the
author, the discussion will be conducted in English. The analyses and
proposals of the book will be commented by Kae Amo (Kyoto Seika University, CAACCS)
(TBC), Mohamed Belhadj (EHESS, CCJ-CéSor), Eloi Ficquet (EHESS, CéSor), Sakiko
Nakao (Kyoto Seika University, CAACCS), Yana Pak (EHESS, CETOBAC), and Mayuko
Yamamoto (EHESS, CESPRA). The CAACCS team will be participating by
videoconference.
This book is available in open
access:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003229261/connecting-africa-asia-yoichi-mine
