« Whaat is Asia?
A»
Thuursday & Fridayy Novem
mber 26 & 27, 22015
Internaational WoorkshopO
Organizedby GIS Asie (French Neetwork of AsianAStudiees)

November 26, 2015, 9:000 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (Langguage: Engllish)
Venuue: EHESS, 190 Avenu
ue de Francee 75013 Parris, conferen
nce room 6338-640 – 6thh floor
Novvember 27, 2015, 9:000 a.m.-12:00
0 p.m. (Lannguage: Frennch)
Venue: Sorbonne, Paris 1 Uniiversity, 1 ru
ue Victor Cousin,
C750005 Paris,
gaallery Jean--Baptiste Duumas, roomm Jean-Baptiiste Durosellle

aworkshhop « Whaat is Asia?
? » aims att
The internnational andd pluridisciplinary coonference andbringing toogether Frennch and intternational sscholars of the South Asia,
Aof thee East Asia,, and of theeSoutheast Asia in ordder to revissit the old nnotion of Asia,
Ato queestion its reelevance byy testing itsscoherence.. Our objecttive is to prromote a gloobal approaach toward Asia,
A
to reinnforce the cooperationcn
between diifferent polees of the Asian Studie s, thereforee to develop
p the exchannges betweeen differenttscholars annd experts basedbin Eurrope and beeyond.

he support oof the following organ
nizations forr this event: Fondationn
GIS Asie iis beneficiatting from thMaison dees Sciencess de l’Hommme (FMSHH), the Écoole des hauutes étudess en sciencces socialess(EHESS), Sorbonne ParisP
1 Univversity, Dynnasie.

Coordinattion: Sébasstien Lecheevalier (direector of th
he GIS Asie), Pierre SSingaravéloou (Paris 1University-CHAC), Hugues
HTertrrais (Paris 1 Universityy-CHAC).
Registration highly recommendrded: Marinee Sam (mariine.sam@cnnrs.fr)

PROGRAAMME Day 1, Conferencce - Novemb
ber 26, 20155, 9:00 a.mm.-6:00 p.m.
Venue: EH
HESS (190 AvenueAde FranceF
750113 Paris, conference rooom 638-6400 – 6th floorr)
In English / En anglais.
8:30–8:50 a.m.
8:50–9:10 a.m.

Registration and welcom
RmeO
Openingremmarks by Hugues Teertrais (historian, Unniversité Paaris 1) andd
Sébastien Leechevalier (eeconomist, GIS Asie)K
KEYNOTE
E
9:10-9:55 aa.m.
F
François
GipoulouxG(historian, CNRS): “Networks“in Asia: a historicallpeerspective”
9:55-10:155 a.m.
CCoffeeBreakkS
SESSION 1
10:45-11:000 a.m. EmikoEOchiiai (sociolo gist, Kyotoo Universityy, Japan): “LLogics of GenderGRolee
CChangesin AsianAModeernity: The Formation
Fofo the 'Asiann Women'”
11:00-11:445 a.m. Christophe
C
Z Guilmotto (demogrrapher, IRD
D/CEPED): “Asian dem
mographics:
thhe good, thee bad and thhe ugly”
11:45-1:000 p.m.
LLunchS
SESSION 2
1:00-1:45 pp.m.
Selcuk Esennbel (anthroopologist, BogaziciBUnniversity, Tuurkey): “Paan-Asianism
mm in moderrn Japan”
annd Pan-Islam
1:45-2:30 pp.m.
AAminahMoohammad Arif (polittical anthroopologist, CCEIAS/EHE
ESS-CNRS))“IImagination
ns and Consstructions off South Asiaa: An Enchaanting Abstraction?”
2:30-2:45 pp.m.
CCoffeeBreakkS
SESSION 3
2:45-3:30 pp.m.
N
Naoko
Hosokawa (soociolinguist,, research associate aat Oxford University))“‘‘Japan in Asia’
Aor ‘Jaapan and Asia’?:A
The Dual Idenntification ofo ‘Asia’ innCContemporarry Discoursse in Japan”
3:30-4:15 pp.m.
AAstridNorddin (politicaal scientist, Lancaster University)): “Harmon
nism. A keyy
iddeology of (East)(Asiann thought”
4:15-4:30 pp.m.
CCoffeeBreakk
4:30-5:15 pp.m.
M
Marc
Lautier (econnomist, Paaris 13 University)
U: “Asian Economicc
DDevelopmen
nt in Historiccal Perspecttive”
5:15-5:50 pp.m.
GGeneral
Disccussion
5:50-6:00 pp.m.
C
Concluding
remarksr
 Day 2, Workshop
p - November 27, 20155, 9:00 a.m.-noon
Lieu : Univversité Sorrbonne Paris 1(1 rue V
Victor Cousiin, 75005 Paris,Pgaleriee Jean-Bapttiste Dumass,Salle Jean--Baptiste Duuroselle). Inn French / E
En français.
9:00-9:10 aa.m.
9:10-9:20 aa.m.

AccueilAOOuverture
paar Pierre Siingaravélou
u (historien, Universitéé Paris I) ete Sébastienn
L
Lechevalier(GIS(Asie)

9:20-10:000 a.m.

Conférence deCd Hugues Tertrais (UUniversité Paris I) « Quu’est-ce que l’Asie ? Ennquuoi la questtion se posee-t-elle ? »Pause

10:00-10:115 a.m.
10:15-10:555 a.m.
10:55-11:550 a.m.
11:50-12:000 a.m.

Discussion avecDales jeunnes chercheeurs.
MModérateur: Pierre Sinngaravélouu (Universitéé Paris I)
D
Discussion
généralegaveec la salle
C
Conclusions