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아시아언어문명학부, 아시아연구소 공동 주최 특강 : Muhammad, Mesopotamia, and the Making of a Pan-Asian Civilization in Imperial Japan
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아시아언어문명학부
작성일
2025-11-18
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35
아시아언어문명학부는 아시아연구소와 함께 11월 26일, 오후 4시 ~ 5:30에 7동 308호 (국제회의실)에서 미키야 코야기 교수님을 모시고 '무함마드, 메소포타미아, 그리고 일본 제국에서의 범아시아 문명론 구축'이란 주제로 특강을 진행합니다.
강연 제목: Muhammad, Mesopotamia, and the Making of a Pan-Asian Civilization in Imperial Japan
강연자: Mikiya Koyagi (텍사스 대학교 중동학 조교수)
개요: Until the second half of the nineteenth century, nobody considered themselves “Asian.” By the turn of the twentieth century, however, this situation had changed drastically, as nationalists from Japan, China, India, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire called for solidarity among Asian peoples. Through the case of Japan, this talk traces how Asia, an external label imposed by Europeans, was reappropriated as a self-referential term among Asians. In particular, I will examine a geographical imaginary that conceptualized Asia as a contiguous civilizational space that stretched from Japan to the Middle East. In their attempt to identify Asia’s civilizational essence, Japanese proponents of this imaginary mobilized globally circulating ideas of race, religion, and civilization. These ideas shaped how they imagined Prophet Muhammad and ancient Mesopotamian civilization as key pieces of evidence that demonstrated Japan’s spiritual and racial sameness with the Middle East.
강연 제목: Muhammad, Mesopotamia, and the Making of a Pan-Asian Civilization in Imperial Japan
강연자: Mikiya Koyagi (텍사스 대학교 중동학 조교수)
개요: Until the second half of the nineteenth century, nobody considered themselves “Asian.” By the turn of the twentieth century, however, this situation had changed drastically, as nationalists from Japan, China, India, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire called for solidarity among Asian peoples. Through the case of Japan, this talk traces how Asia, an external label imposed by Europeans, was reappropriated as a self-referential term among Asians. In particular, I will examine a geographical imaginary that conceptualized Asia as a contiguous civilizational space that stretched from Japan to the Middle East. In their attempt to identify Asia’s civilizational essence, Japanese proponents of this imaginary mobilized globally circulating ideas of race, religion, and civilization. These ideas shaped how they imagined Prophet Muhammad and ancient Mesopotamian civilization as key pieces of evidence that demonstrated Japan’s spiritual and racial sameness with the Middle East.
