The Inauguration Conference The Asian Sphere: Trans-Cultural Flows An Inter-University Graduate Program The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of

THE MAKING OF THE ASIAN SPHERE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE The Tuesday-Thursday, 5-7 April 2016 Asia in the Gangnido World Map: Hankōji version, c. 1470. Tokiwa Museum, Shimada, (source: Wikipedia)

Tuesday, 5 April 2016 Wednesday, 6 April 2016 Thursday, 7 April 2016 OPENING (16:30-17:00) SESSION II (10:00-12:00) SESSION V (10:00-12:00) Reuven Snir, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Chair: Yuri Pines (Hebrew University of Chair: Larisa Fialkova (University of Haifa, University of Haifa Jerusalem, ) Israel) Gideon Shelach, Head of the Asian Sphere Gideon Shelach (Hebrew University of Andreas Renner (Ludwig Maximilian University Program, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) of Munich, Germany) The First Age of Globalization? Asia during the Russian Concepts of Asia since the Eighteenth Rotem Kowner, The Asian Sphere Program, First Millennium BC Century University of Haifa Ronnie Ellenblum (Hebrew University of Mark Gamsa (Tel Aviv University, Israel) Asia as a Self-Deprecatory Image in the Early SESSION I (17:00-19:00) Jerusalem, Israel) Climate Change and Collapse in an Asian Twentieth Century: Russian, Chinese and Chair: Simone Shamay-Tsoory (University of Perspective Japanese Perspectives Haifa, Israel) Shinobu Kitayama (University of Michigan, USA) SESSION III (13:30-15:30) SESSION VI (13:30-15:30) Chair: Guy Podoler (University of Haifa, Israel) Culture, Neuroscience and the Distinct Aspects Chair: Michal Daliot-Bul (University of Haifa, of Asian Personality and Emotions Israel) Christopher W.A. Szpilman (Sophia University, Japan) Jenny Kurman (University of Haifa, Israel) Michal Biran (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Japanese Pan-Asianism and Asia in the Is there an Asian Mode of Behavior? Creativity, Israel) Twentieth Century Self-Enhancement and Control Strategies in Asia The Chinggisid Space in Mongol Eurasia Itzchak Weismann (University of Haifa, Israel) Francois Gipouloux (CNRS, France) South and West Asia in Modern Islamic ~ Reception ~ China's Inter-regional Trading Networks and Networking Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries SESSION VII (16:00-18:00) Chair: Gideon Shelach (Hebrew University of SESSION IV (16:00-18:00) Jerusalem, Israel) The conference will be held at the Chair: Nimrod Baranovitch (University of Haifa, Yitzhak Shichor (University of Haifa, Israel) Ofer Observatory, Eshkol Tower, 30th Fl. Israel) Asia Resurrected: The Future Is What It (Once) Michael Keevak (National Taiwan University, Used to Be (More or Less) Taiwan) Rotem Kowner (University of Haifa, Israel) The confernce is open to the public The Rise of the Concept of Race and the Making The Making of a “Continent”: Some Observations of Asia and General Discussion Ross G. Forman (University of Warwick, UK) For further details: Designing Asia through Display: Imperialism, [email protected] International Exhibitions, and Spheres of Tel. 04-8588501