【主催シンポジウム】TINDOWS International Symposium "The Development Century in the Indian Ocean World"

日時/Date: 2025年12月13日(土)ー14日(日)/December 13 (Sat) – 14 (Sun), 2025

場所/Venue: 東京大学駒場キャンパス18号館ホール/Auditorium, Building 18, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo  

参加形式/Attendance: 対面参加のみ/ In-person Only  

*参加方法/ Symposium Registration: 参加ご希望の方は下記フォームより12月4日(木)までにご登録ください。

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シンポジウムの概要/Outline of the symposium

Recent scholarship has shown that the Indian Ocean has long been an interconnected world—a space where people, goods, and ideas have circulated for centuries. Yet the waves of European colonial expansion, with their violent reordering of power relations, transformed these networks and redefined the relations between human societies and their environments. From the nineteenth century onward, large-scale imperial interventions came to be justified in the name of “development,” establishing the moral and institutional foundations for what Macekura and Manela have called the development century—a global order structured by the promise of progress and the politics of inequality.

Although South Asia and Africa have often been studied separately, examining them through the lens of imperial science and its genealogical continuities in medicine, resource management, and postwar development aid reveals new and unexpected patterns of connection. European empires such as Britain and Germany, and later Japan, built infrastructures and institutions that linked distant regions through projects of extraction, welfare, and expertise. Japan’s trajectory—from an imperial power to a postwar donor and partner in international development—offers a distinctive window onto how knowledge, technology, and moral claims circulated across the Indian Ocean and beyond.

Revisiting the development century from this broader perspective, the symposium explores how ideas and practices of development emerged from, and reconfigured, longer histories of empire and science. By bringing together case studies from South and Southeast Asia and Africa—ranging from forestry and environmental management to pharmaceuticals, governance, and cooperation—it seeks to illuminate both the continuities and ruptures of empire, and the shifting images of “region” that take shape through Japan’s and others’ engagements in the Indian Ocean world.

主催/Organizer: 人間文化研究機構　環インド洋地域研究プロジェクト/ NIHU Indian Ocean World Studies Project 

共催/Co-hosted by: 東京大学グローバル地域研究機構、 東京大学「人間の安全保障」プログラム、The UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher Fund/

IAGS (Institute for Advanced Global Studies, UTokyo), HSP (Graduate Program on Human Security, UTokyo), and The UTokyo Excellent Young Researcher Fund.

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Program

Day 1 — Saturday, December 13

14:00 – 14:10

Opening Remarks

Prof. Yuichi Sekiya (The University of Tokyo)

Session I: Environment — The “Legacy” of Imperial Japan’s Forestry

14:10 – 14:35

Prof. Taisaku Komeie (Kyoto University)

The Ambivalent “Legacy” of Japanese Imperial Forestry in Korea

14:40 – 15:05

Prof. Koji Nakashima (Kanazawa University)

Development of Tropical Forestry: A (Post)colonial History of Japanese Empire Forestry

15:10 – 15:35

Prof. Kuang-Chi Hung (National Taiwan University)

The Legacy of Japan’s Colonial Forestry in Taiwan and Its Transformation during the Cold War

15:35 – 16:00

Comments and Replies

Commentator: Prof. Shoko Mizuno (Komazawa University)

16:00 – 16:15 Tea Break

16:15 – 17:00 Open Discussion  (the end of Session I)

Day 2 — Sunday, December 14

Session II: Medicine — Pharmaceutical Substances and Changing Forms of Governance

09:00 – 09:25

Prof. Ashok Malhotra (Queen’s University Belfast)

Establishing a Nutritional Research Institute in British India, 1925–27

09:30 – 09:55

Prof. Hiroyuki Isobe (Chuo University)

Colonial Revisionism of a Medical Nature?: Production and Distribution of the Drug “Germanin” against the African Trypanosoma, and Its Politicization in “Post-colonial” Germany during the Interwar Period

10:00 – 10:25

Prof. Ayami Umemura (Nagoya University)

Blood as Therapeutic and Political Substance: Ethnicity and Blood Donation in Sri Lanka

10:30 – 10:55

Prof. Akinori Hamada (The University of Tokyo)

Free, Promise, and Practicality: Distributing Pharmaceuticals with/out Care in Southern Ghana

10:55 – 11:30

Comments and Replies

Commentator: Prof. Takuro Furusawa (Kyoto University)

11:30 – 11:45 Tea Break

11:45 – 12:30 Open Discussion (the end of Session II)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

Session III: Development — Historicizing Japanese International Cooperation

13:30 – 13:55

Ms. Lulu Namvua Tessua (University of Nairobi)

The Dreams of Development: Three Years of a Successful Tenure and a Lifetime of Uncertainty in the Ndungu Agricultural Development Project

14:00 – 14:25

Prof. Louisa Lombard (Yale University)

Access or Culture in the Problem of Development: The Case of Kaizen

14:30 – 14:55

Ms. Naomi Hatsukano (Institute of Developing Economies)

Unrealized Development Assistance Plans in Cambodia from the Mid-1950s to Early 1960s: The Origins of Japan’s Development Assistance

15:00 – 15:25

Prof. Kaori Hatsumi (Seinan Gakuin University)

“Mannar Island for Sale”: The War, the COVID-19 Crisis, and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)

15:25 – 16:00

Comments and Replies

Commentator: Prof. Tatsuro Fujikura (Kyoto University)

16:00 – 16:10 Tea Break

16:10 – 16:55 Open Discussion (the end of Session III)

17:00 – 17:50   Concluding Roundtable — Reflections Across Sessions I–III

17:50 Closing Remarks