An article regarding the international workshop co-organized by Professor Ikuya TOKORO in collaboration with the University of the Philippines' Asian Studies Center was published in the Manila Shimbun on September 14, 2023.
An interview with Associate Professor Wakana SHIINO was published in the Asahi Shimbun Digital on April 3, 2023.
Asahi Shimbun (only available in Japanese text) (for paid members)
A video of online lectures of the 17th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture, where Associate Professor Keita KURABE gave a presentation, was released. This event, organized by the Union of four universities in Tokyo consisting of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitotsubashi University, was held on October 29th, 2022.
The lecture of Prof. KURABE is available via this link here.
An interview with Associate Professor Keita KURABE was published in the Asahi Shimbun Digital on September 22, 2022. An article on the same subject was also published in the morning edition of Asahi Shimbun on September 22, 2022.
Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)(for paid members)You got it! “What is “Waqf”?”, a video of a lecture by Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA is now available on the 'SUGUWAKA Academia' developed by the Council of Joint Usage/Research Centers in National Universities. This programme brings the cutting edge of academia to the public and students, with each of the Joint-usage/ research Institutes located at national universities across Japan.
The lecture of Prof. KUMAKURA is available via this link here.
A video of online lectures of the 16th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture, where Associate Professor Yukako YOSHIDA gave a presentation, was released. This event, organized by the Union of four universities in Tokyo consisting of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitotsubashi University, was held in November 6th, 2021.
The lecture of Prof. YOSHIDA is available via this link here.
A page introducing Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWAʼs research has been published in the section “Letʼs Change the World through Research like This – A Visit to a Laboratory” of “Mirai Book – Gakumon-Daigaku Navi.” “Mirai Book” is a website developed by the Cabinet Office and Kawaijuku as part of a project of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. The site is designed to help the general public, including junior and senior high school students, understand what kind of research is being conducted in each academic field, how it is connected to society, and how it attempts to change society.
An interview with Prof. Izumi HOSHI appeared in the Asahi Shimbun "Gogaku no Tobira (Door to Foreign Languages)" on December 5, 2021. The same article was also published in the morning edition of Asahi Shimbun on December 15, 2021.
Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese) (for paid members)ILCAA has concluded an agreement on cross-appointment with the Slavic Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University. Based on this agreement, Sapporo Television Broadcasting (STV) reported the appointment of Professor Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) to SRC.
Please click the link here to see the report. (Sorry, the news was reported only in Japanese)
Associate Professor Shintaro Arakawa appeared TOKYO MX TV program “Goji ni muchu!” broadcast on October 14, 2021. In the program (the section titled “Tsuiseki! (Research!)”), he talked about Tangut script with some flip boards on which he wrote samples by hand.
Flip used in the program.
It is a translation of “Goji ni muchu! (Title of the program)”.
Professor Izumi Hoshi remotely attended TBS radio program "After 6 Junction” (https://www.tbsradio.jp/a6j/) broadcast on March 2, 2021. In the program, she talked about the present of Tibetan literature, focusing on the book “White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War” (Tsewang Yishey Pemba, Translated in Japanese by Izumi Hoshi, 2020, ILCAA/Shoshikankanbou), published as an outcome of ILCAA Core Research Project Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3).
The past programs can be heard on the application “TBS Radio Cloud”.
The book “White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War” are is introduced through various media. Please check this linked page.
An article on mask cultures of Middle Eastern women associated with our exhibition “Mask Migrations: Untold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (held in September–October 2020) was published with the title of “‘Mustache-shaped’ mask is a sign of being a lady — world of Middle Eastern women covered with veil” as one of feature articles “The world changing with masks” in the February 2021 issue of “GLOBE+” of Asahi Shimbun. The published article includes the photographs of Manami GOTO (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA), who participated in the planning and management of the exhibition.
The feature articles in the February 2021 issue of “GLOBE+” of Asahi Shimbun are reedited and available via the following links:
The Asahi Shimbun Globe+: Mustache-shaped mask means “I’m married, stay away from me” — interview with Middle Eastern women on “covering their faces”A video of the presentation “Thinking about the World in Terms of African History”, made by Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWA at the request of Kawai-juku, is now showing. This presentation, made as one of the activities relating to our past Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” completed in 2015, was made for the event “For Learning about Attractive Features of Advanced Research — Super Presentation by Advanced Researchers” organized by Kawai-juku Mirai-Bu-Plus at Tama Senior High School, Kanagawa, on November 27th, 2018. The video is currently introduced as one of the video series “Make a Trip to the Academic World” , in the special project “Beyond Coronavirus — Emergency Cheering Project for Junior and Senior High School Students” produced by Mirai-Bu-Plus.
The presentation by Associate Prof. Ishikawa is available viathe following link.
Getuken, the featured Sibe Calligrapher in the public exhibition “The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken” held at ILCAA, was interviewed by two newspapers (Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun) and articles on the exhibition were published in both papers. A video clip of his demonstration is also published on the website of the Asahi Shimbun.
Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese)Three interviews in TV news programs, relating to the workshop “Lebanese, Yugoslavian, and Syrian Civil Wars and their Aftermath” sponsored by a project “Syrian Civil War in Comparison with Lebanese and Yugoslavian Civil Wars” (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). The workshop was held on September 12, 2019, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia, with cooperation of the institute.
Recorded: September 11, 2019 (On air: September 12, 2019) TANJUG (Serbian national news agency)
Predrag Markovic (Director of the Institute for Contemporary History), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University), Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA)
Studio Live: September 13, 2019. RTS1(Channel 1, Serbian national TV station)
Recorded program (youtube)
Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University), Ali Kadri (Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore)
Studio Live: September 14, 2019. Novo Jutro (Serbian TV station)
Recorded program (youtube)
Predrag Markovic (Director of the Institute for Contemporary History), Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University)
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