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ILCAA Joint Research Project ”Adaptation and Reorientation of Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East” The 3rd meeting (Thu 5–Sat 7 Sep 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Application of law in the Mixed Courts of Egypt” (Thu 29 Aug 2024) Experiencing Okinawan Coffee (Wed 28 Aug 2024) Journey to Tibet by Ears and Eyes (Sun 18 Aug 2024) Intensive Language Courses 2024 Tlapanec cultural lecture ② (Wed 4 Sep 2024) LCAA Joint Research Project “Intellectual encounters in Calcutta prior to and after the foundation of the Asiatic Society: From early modern traditions to colonial épistémè” The 2nd meeting / NIHU Global Mediterranean Research Project meeting (Tue 10 Sep 2024) Intensive Language Courses 2024 Tlapanec cultural lecture ① (Thu 22 Aug 2024) Online Workshop Series 2024 “Emergencies and Food” (Sat 20 Jul–Fri 2 Aug 2024) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cultural Heritage Archiving of Historic Cairo and its Practical Use for Research and Education” The 2nd meeting (Wed 24 Jul 2024) Commons Café (Tue 16 Jul 2024) Book Launch: “On Liberation of Arab Women” by Qasim Amin (Fri 26 Jul 2024) DDDLing Forum: The front line of Vietnamese grammar studies / The 5th Vietnamese Language Colloquium (Sat 27 Jul 2024) Parliamentarism and the Despotic regime in Iran (Mon 22 Jul 2024) DDDLing Forum “How can we define the “sentence”?: Focusing on Literary Languages” (the 2nd meeting of the JSPS KAKENHI Project “Descriptive study on the definition of “sentence””) (Thu 18 Jul 2024) Journey to Tibet Via Ogikubo (Sat 29 Jun–Mon 22 Jul 2024) Workshop on “Watershed Society and Island Society in Nation-States” (Thu 1 Aug 2024) Rwanda before and after the genocide – Looking at the changes in the country together (Sat 13 Jul 2024) ILCAA Forum (Mon 24 Jun 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Translation Deviations in Multilingual Primary Source Documents in the Russian Colonial Archives” (Mon 1 Jul 2024) TUFS Student Talks with Sako-san (Wed 26 Jun 2024) TUFS Cinema: Film Screening of “Crossing Voices” (Wed 26 Jun 2024) Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 36th Young Researcher Prize of the Japan Association for African Studies. ILCAA Forum (Thu 6 Jun 2024) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2024-25 (Deadline: Mon 22 Jul 2024) TUFS Cinema: Ethnographic Film Screening of “Azmari” (Fri 24 May 2024) Guidelines for participants : Intensive Language Course 2024 Workshop for Islamic Trust Studies:Islamic Shi‘i Jurisprudence and Western Style Constitutionalism in Iran (Fri 14 Jun 2024) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Mon 8 Jul 2024) Seminar “Feminist Ethics and the Test of Palestine: Beyond ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’?” (Sat 1 Jun 2024) The World of Seiji Mouri: Tattoos make up in Film and TV series (Wed 1 May–Sun 28 Jul 2024) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Adaptation and Reorientation of Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East” The 2nd Meeting (Wed 29 May 2024) Lecture by Zemfira Yerzhan (Wed 8 May 2024) Anthropology Cafe “Where Do We Go (When We Die) - Death and Art” (Sat 1 Jun 2024) ILCAA Forum (Thu 11 Jul 2024) ILCAA Forum (Thu 20 Jun 2024) Global Mediterranean Studies Seminar: Nile Samurai--Ragai Wanis and Egypt’s Global 1960s (Wed 22 May 2024) Global Mediterranean Studies Seminar: Fumio Koizumi and the Cultural Politics of Music in Modern Egypt (Sat 18 May 2024) ILCAA Forum (Thu 23 May 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Symposium“Freedom of speech and academic freedom on the verge of crisis: Reexamining discourses on ‘antisemitism’ and the Israel–Palestine question through an event of Ghassan Hage,” co-sponsored by Prof. Yoshikazu Shiobara’s seminar at Keio University (Mon 13 May 2024) ILCAA Forum “International Seminar Series: Secularization, Islamization and Globalization in South Asia: Beyond bipolar Politics in Bangladesh” (Thu 25 Apr 2024) Guide to ILCAA 2024–2025 has been published. Global Mediterranean Workshop “Prophets, History and Literature in the Islamicate World” (Sat 20 Apr 2024) Roundtable: Persianate Studies in Japan (Wed 17 Apr 2024) Learn fieldwork through video editing (Sat 20 Apr 2024) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “Chancelleries, Correspondence, and Diplomacy in the Iranian Plateau” (Sat 13 Apr 2024) South Asian Studies Center Seminar: Beyond Boundaries (Sat 6 Apr 2024) Call for applications for ILCAA full-time researcher. Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 19th International Institute for the Study of Religions Award from the International Institute for the Study of Religions. Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (19–22 Sep 2024) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 17 Jun 2024) (in Japanese) Reading a Persian Text on Buddhism (Fri 22 Mar 2024) Exhibition “Hunter-Gatherers of the Malaysian Rainforest: Batek, Semaq Beri” (Fri 22 Mar 2024) ILCAA Joint Research Group FY 2023 Annual Report Meeting (Fri 22 Mar 2024) TUFS Cinema: Film Screening of “Chandmani” (Japan/Mongolia) (Sat 27 Apr 2024) ILCAA Forum (Fri 22 Mar 2024) Technical Workshop for Language Documentation (Tue 19 Mar 2024) Commons Café (Mon 18 Mar 2024) Open Seminar: Current Trends for Language Documentation in Ethiopia (Mon 18 Mar 2024) Cultural Politics on Secularism and Islam in Kashmir: Reading Lal Ded and Nund Rishi (Sat 16 Mar 2024) DDDLing workshop for early career researchers: Life events and research career building (Tue 26 Mar 2024) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 16th meeting (Fri 29–Sat 30 Mar 2024) Research Meeting of the Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation in Muslim Society” (Fri 29 Mar 2024) Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Fri 15 Mar 2024) Research activities of Taichi KURONUMA, Assistant Professor at ILCAA, were introduced on the official X account of the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman. Enjoy Tibetan Folktales with your hands, ears and eyes: Focusing on The Tales of the Golden Corpse (Sun 31 Mar 2024) International Workshop “Translation and Textual Transmission across Languages and Cultures in Early Modern South Asia” (Thu 28 Mar 2024) Consortium for Eurasian Language Studies (CSEL) Annual Meeting 2024 (Sun 24 Mar 2024) Workshop “Marginal Social Groups’ Experiences of Modernity” Seminar Series (2nd Session) / Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Managing Transitions within and beyond post-Ottoman Turkey” (Tue 19 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Roundtable: Studies on Iranian History in Japan” (Tue 5 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “Redefining Ottoman Governance: Center-Local Connectivity, Emerging Caliphate Concept, and Contemporary Perspectives” (Sat 16 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop/Tobunken Seminar “Petitions and ‘Individuals’: First-Person Narratives and Historical Agency at Intersections of Diplomatic, Administrative, and Legal History” (Wed 13 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Circuits of Travel in South Asia and Beyond: The Tawa’if and Nautch Girls in Late Colonial India” (Thu 21 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Translation and Connectivity in the Empires during the Modern Period” (Thu 14 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “Firman, State, and Society in Early Modern Context” (Sat 9 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop Exploring the Tacit Knowledge of Trust Building and Connectivity amidst Predicaments” (Fri 1–Sun 3 Mar 2024) Book Launch “The Books Sānk and Pātanğal: A Socio-cultural History of al-Bīrūnī’s Interpretations of Sāṅkhya and Yoga” (Brill, 2024) (Brill, 2024) (Thu 22 Feb 2024) Lecture by Dr. Nicoletta Fazio (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha), “The Most Banal and Exalted: Love and its Discontents in Niẓāmī’s Laylī va Majnūn and the Roman de la Rose” (Tue 19 Mar 2024) Online Workshop “SCRIPTS AND DOCUMENTS OF BAI, MINORITY IN CHINA” (Sat 16 Mar 2024) Presentation on the information resource created by the IRC projects (2nd meeting in 2023) (Wed 13 Mar 2024) Lecture “Digital documentation of the history of Muslim societies” (Fri 15 Mar 2024) Global Mediterranean Workshop/Tobunken Seminar: New Perspectives on Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal Art and Culture (Thu 7 Mar 2024) DDDLing Forum: Trends and Prospects of Vietnamese Language Studies in Japan / The 4th Vietnamese Language Colloquium (Tue 5 Mar 2024) Lecture by Dr. Nicoletta Fazio (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha), “A Tale of Two Cities: Displaying the Qur’ān between Berlin and Doha” (Mon 4 Mar 2024) Exhibition “Hunter-Gatherers of the Malaysian Rainforest: Batek, Semaq Beri” (Tue 20 Feb–Mon 4 Mar 2024) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “Narratives, Knowledge Transmission, and Discourses on the Caliphate in Medieval Islam” (Wed 6 Mar 2024) International Workshop “Exploring Connectivity around Medieval Islamic Political Thought and Beyond” (Wed 28 Feb 2024) Symposium “Mobility, boundaries and languages” / ILCAA Joint Research Project “A sociolinguistic study of heritage languages and ethnic identities of migrants” The 8th meeting / The 33rd Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages (Sun 25–Mon 26 Feb 2024) [Speakers are now being called] Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Deadline: Thu 15 Feb 2024) Research activities of Yui KANDA, Project Assistant Professor at ILCAA, were introduced on the Persian websites in Iran. ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsideration of the tonal typology of Japonic languages” The 10th meeting (Fri 15 Mar 2024) Tibetan Films Special Screening: In Memory of Pema Tseden (Fri 16–Thu 29 Feb 2024) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “The Origin and Evolution of Sociality: Developing new theories of human evolution based on collaboration between anthropology and primatology”: Public Symposium (Sun 17 Mar 2024) TUFiSCo Workshop: Encoding lexical resources using TEI (Tue 13 Feb 2024) The 4th Meeting of the JSPS project (Wed 21 Feb 2024) The ILCAA All Institutional Project “Elucidating Polarization and Coexisting in Transcultural Situations: Building a Platform for “Sharing” and “Dialogue” of Humanities Knowledge Created with People from Asia and Africa” (Thu 25 Jan 2024) ILCAA Forum (Fri 15 Mar 2024) Trajectory and Future of Islam and Gender Studies--Plenary Session/Joint Review of IGS Book Series (Sat 3 Feb 2024) Commons Café (Thu 8 Feb 2024) International Workshop: Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age: On the Variance, Reception and Usage of Aḥsan al-Kibār and Qābūsnāma (Mon 12 Feb 2024) “Tibetan Folktales: Tales of the Golden Corpse” Illustration Exhibition (Fri 26 Jan–Sun 11 Feb 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “RDF hands-on seminar for data-driven research Part. 2” (Sat 20 Jan 2024) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 25 (Sat 3 Feb 2024) Workshop on Contemporary Arab Thought with Fadi Bardawil “How Can the Arab Left Contribute to the Liberation of the Peoples in the Middle East?” (Sun 14 Jan 2024) Let’s travel around the world together! 2023 Chikyu Tankentai, trip 4 “Let’s transform with Balinese masks!” (Sun 25 Feb 2024) The 1st Symposium on “Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment.” (Sun 11 Feb 2024) Online Workshop Series 2023 “Emergencies and Food” (Wed 7–Thu 15 Feb 2024) ILCAA Joint Research Project "Archival study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: A case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2)" The 8th meeting (Sun 21 Jan 2024) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Genocide in Palestine” (Mon 15 Jan 2024) Fieldnet Lounge 2023 “Travelling Care: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of ‘the Social’ across India, Africa, and the United Kingdom” (Sat 17 Feb 2024) Learn fieldwork through video editing (Sun 4 Feb 2024) Field Linguistics Workshop: G rammatical Studies Workshops 24 (Tue 30 Jan 2024) “Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia Today: Thinking with a local Photographer” (Sun 28 Jan 2024) Hunter-gatherers of Malaysian Tropical Rainforest: the Batek and the Semaq Beri (Tue 23–Sun 28 Jan 2024) An interview with Associate Professor Yukako YOSHIDA was featured on NHK World Japan Professor Shintaro ARAKAWA, Mr. Kaito OSAWA and Ms. Xicheng YANG won the award of New York Type Directors Club 69. Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Hiratsuka Raiteu Prize. Futures of Academic Research and Art (Fri 5–Sat 6 Jan 2024) Wikipedia Asian Month ASEAN-JAPAN 50 (Sat 16 Dec 2023) Symposium “The history and the present day of Palestine: discussing settlers’ colonialism and 100 years of resistance” (Thu 21 Dec 2023) Year 2024–2025 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher)【Additional recruitment】 AA Ken Forum/Global Mediterranean Workshop (Thu 21 Dec 2023) The second Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Seminar “Global meaning of the Palestine-Israel Catastrophe (Nakba) in 2023: Gaza, Holocaust, and Apartheid” (Wed 29 Nov 2023) Fieldnet Lounge 2023 “Visualizing Diverse Socio-Environmental Systems: Toward Robustness beyond Resilience” (Sun 3 Dec 2023) Global Mediterranean at ILCAA invites applications for the Project Assistant Professor Position. (Deadline: 19 Jan 2024) Symposium “The Islamic State System and International Law” at the History of Islamic Civilization Panel, Annual meeting of the Historical Society of Kyushu (Sun 10 Dec 2023) Commons Café (Thu 30 Nov 2023) Mini Exhibition “Dance, Music and Theater in Bali: Performing arts in village life as seen in photographs and performing objects” (Mon 13 Nov–Fri 8 Dec 2023) Cultural / Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2023 (Sat 9 Dec 2023) Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop “The Safavids and the East Indian Companies” (Sun 17 Dec 2023) Performce & Mini Lecture “Let’s enjoy Balinese Music and Musical Drama” (Sun 3 Dec 2023) Book Launch and Seminar: Beyond Modernity: Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power (Thu 30 Nov 2023) Rethinking Frantz Fanon and Anti-Colonialism in the Contemporary Middle East (Sat 25 Nov 2023) Civil Dialog “The Background of the Gaza ‘War’ and the World-Historical Meaning of the Palestinian Issues.” (Sat 25 Nov 2023) Dr. Ryo MIZUKAMI (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 45th (2023) Award for Young Researchers from the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Deciphering Ancient Scripts in Asia (2023) (Mon 6–Sun 26 Nov 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Civil Dialog “The Simurgh’s egg: workshops & exhibition” (Thu 21 Dec 2023–Wed 24 Jan 2024) Workshop: Let’s try Balinese Kecak! (Fri 1 Dec 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “RDF hands-on seminar for data-driven research Part. 1” (Sat 2–Sat 23 Dec 2023) Commons cafe and the 85th ASC seminar (Tue 21 Nov 2023) Workshop: Let’s try Balinese Kecak and Gamut (voice gamelan)! (Sat 25 Nov 2023) International Symposium “Global Youth Dynamics and “Reality” Negotiation in East Africa and South Asia: Gender, Diversity, Agency” (Sat 18–Sun 19 Nov 2023) Public Symposium “Cutting-edge and Future Challenges in GPS and Bio-logging Researches in Zoology and Anthropology” (11/4) and Excursion at Tambasasayama (11/5) (Sat 4–Sun 5 Nov 2023) Joy of Folktales: Traditional tales from Buryat, Kachin and Tibet (Thu 23 Nov 2023) Lecture “Russia-Saudi Arabia: A Transactional Relationship Amid Constraining Realities” (Thu 9 Nov 2023) AA Ken Forum/Global Mediterranean Workshop (Thu 16 Nov 2023) Seminar: Disease as a Form of Silent Resistance: Engaging in Disease Markets to Attain Healthcare Services (Sat 28 Oct 2023) Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Special Translation Award from Japan Society of Translators (JST). An ILCAA’s publication has been featured on the website of an academic publisher in Iran. ILCAA Joint Research Project “Archival Study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: The case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2)” The 7th Meeting (Sat 18 Nov 2023) Workshop “Doing fieldwork on everyday life 2” (Sun 10 Dec 2023) Toward Post-Greaber’s Man and Economy A Joint Review of Debt, Credit, and Human Economies/ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt (2): Plurality, Conflict and Creativity around Human Economics” The 5th meeting (Sat 4 Nov 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Islamization Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia” International Symposium “Islamization in Southeast Asia as reflected in literature, archival documents and oral stories” (Thu 2–Sun 5 Nov 2023) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (22-24 Dec 2023) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 17 Nov 2023) (in Japanese) Symposium 2023 of Islamic Trust Studies Project/Japan Consortium for Area Studies “Discussions on ‘hearty food/meal’ and ‘connectivities’ from the viewpoint of area studies” (Sat 18 Nov 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Group “ILCAA Joint Research Group Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” The 3rd meeting (Tue 7 Nov 2023) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, the 22nd meeting (Wed 1 Nov 2023) Researching the cultural properties in the Middle East: Digitally adapted interdisciplinary approach on fieldwork in Oman (Sun 29 Oct 2023) Commons Café (Thu 26 Oct 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Seminar “Discussing the escalation of tensions between Palestine and Israel” (Thu 12 Oct 2023) Public Symposium “Primates in Asian Anthropogenic Environments” (Fri 3 Nov 2023) ILCAA Forum (Thu 19 Oct 2023) International workshop “A new perspective on descriptive linguistics in Africa based on the translingual ecology” (Sat 4 Nov 2023) Toward Description of Body and Anthropology of “Nature”: Through Ethnographic Images of Women by a Female Anthropologist (Sun 5 Nov 2023) Issues 1 to 29 of “FIELD PLUS” have been published in a digital book format. Field-networking Roundtable: Fieldworkers Return to the Fields (Sat 21 Oct 2023) Commons Café /the 81st ASC Seminar (Tue 17 Oct 2023) Ex-Director Setsuho IKEHATA passed away An article about the international workshop organized by Professor Ikuya TOKORO has been published in the Manila Shimbun. International Workshop: Food as a window to the past: Africa, Asia and the Pacific (Mon 25–Tue 26 Sep 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” Public Symposium (The 6th meeting) (Sat 30 Sep 2023) International workshop: New perspectives on Tangut study: language and script (Sat 16–Sun 17 Sep 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 14th meeting (Sat 23–Sun 24 Sep 2023) Lecture by Dr. Christine Kämpfer “Just another Travelogue on Qājār Persia? Exploring the Travel Diaries of the German Botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838–1903) and his observations on society under Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh” (Sat 9 Sep 2023) Intensive Language Courses 2023 Georgian cultural lecture (Tue 5 Sep 2023) Lecture by Dr. Julia Rubanovich “Biblical Narrative Poems in Judeo-Persian in Fourteenth-Century Iran” (Sat 9 Sep 2023) Video Editing Workshop for Extending Anthropological Thinking (Sat 4 Nov 2023) Delegation of China Tibetology Research Center visited Japan (Sep 12 2023) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2023-24 (Deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2023) (in Japanese) Intensive Language Courses 2023 Georgian cultural lecture (Mon 21 Aug 2023) The Director of Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand, visited ILCAA (Aug 3 2023) The 18th Tokyo Four Universities Lectures: Environment, Society and Human (Sat 26 Aug 2023) Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded with the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology. International Workshop “Magic and the Manipulation of ‘Nature’ in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu Narratives” (Tue 5 Sep 2023) International Symposium “Amir Hamza and Beyond: Historical Narratives and Romances across the Muslim World” (Fri 1–Sun 3 Sep 2023) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Fri 1 Sep 2023) Year 2024–2025 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (by Visiting Researchers) Reviewing the world from the perspectives of connectivity and trust: reading the series “Connectivity and Trust Buildings in Islamic Civilization” (Thu 27 Jul 2023) Call for the presenter on Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2023 (Deadline: Sun 1 Oct 2023) For more information, please visit the website of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology. (in Japanese only) ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” The 5th meeting (Tue 8 Aug 2023) Reading session of Śivadharmottara Chapter 7 (Thu 20 Jul 2023) Conference of Heavens and Hells: Life After Death in Religious Traditions from South Asia (Mon 17–Tue 18 Jul 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh” The 8th meeting (Fri 28 Jul 2023) Talk Event: “Exploring African Religions - Islam, Christianity, and Indigenous religions” (Wed 19 Jul 2023) Call for Applications: Intensive Language Course 2023 (Khakas (in Osaka), Bemba (in Tokyo)) Commons Café (Tue 25 Jul 2023) ILCAA Forum (Thu 13 Jul 2023) Let’s travel around the world together! 2023 Chikyu Tankentai “Let’s transform with a Balinese mask!” (Sat 1 Jul 2023) commons café (Thu 22 Jun 2023) Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 18th Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology from the Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology ‘Thinking through the Anthropology × Art’ : Book launch talk of ‘Expanding Images: Boundless Exploration of the Intersection between Anthropology and Art’ (Aki Shobo) (Thu 13 Jul 2023) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 23 “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities (2)” (Wed 26 Jul 2023) Presentation on the information resource created by the IRC projects (1st meeting in 2023) (Wed 12 Jul 2023) ILCAA Forum (Thu 15 Jun 2023) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2023 Learn fieldwork through video editing (Sat 8 Jul 2023) The Global Mediterranean Workshop “Cultural Flow across Africa and Central Eurasia” (Sat 1 Jul 2023) Commons Café (Thu 1 Jun 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 12th meeting (Sat 3 Jun 2023) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2023-24 (Deadline: Mon 24 Jul 2023) (in Japanese) Dr. Yohei KONDO (the former Research Associate at ILCAA/Associate Professor at the Fukuoka Women’s University) won the 9th Encouragement Award of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies. The Global Mediterranean Workshop: The circulation of culture between the Middle East and Japan: On the Japanese Film, Arabu no Arashi (Lecture) (Sat 3 Jun 2023) The Global Mediterranean Workshop: The circulation of culture between the Middle East and Japan: On the Japanese Film, Arabu no Arashi (Fri 2 Jun 2023) Public Symposium “How about exploring new research sites of abroad” (Sat 22 Jul 2023) Overseas Scientific Research Forum 2023 (Sat 24 Jun 2023) Dr. Yuko URABE (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Society for Japanese Linguistics. A Screening for a Certain Spring - Portraying the Disaster from Ishinomaki (Sun 21 May 2023) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Mon 10 Jul 2023) commons café (Thu 27 Apr 2023) DDDLing Forum: Bound pronouns and constituent order in the Minahasan languages: the significance for western Austronesian typology (Tue 25 Apr 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh” The 7th meeting (Sat 20 May 2023) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (21–24 Sep 2023) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 19 Jun 2023) (in Japanese) An interview with Associate Professor Wakana SHIINO was published in the Asahi Shimbun. Iranian Studies Meeting (Sat 25–Sun 26 Mar 2023) Lecture by Dr. Zhanar Jampeissova (Thu 23 Mar 2023) Workshop “Circles of Trust: Marriage, Village Guarantors, and Private Reading Groups in the Ottoman Empire” (Sat 25 Mar 2023) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Thu 30 Mar 2023) Dr. Emiko OGAWA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 16th SUMISEI Encouragement Award for Women Researchers Workshop “Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-6” (Mon 6 Mar 2023) Pacific Rim Ottomanists’ Conference (Wed 22–Thu 23 Mar 2023) International Workshop “Banakati and Khvandamir: Value and Readership of Persian General Histories” (Tue 21 Mar 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Trade Diasporas across the Early Modern Mediterranean” (Mon 20 Mar 2023) Ottoman Documents Seminar (Sat 18–Sun 19 Mar 2023) Workshop Series “Digital Humanities for All” : Malindo Conc (Malay-Indonesian-Concordancer website) -- its development and use (Wed 1 Mar 2023) Fieldnet Lounge 2022 “The Anthropology of Uncertainty: From the Field of Law, Economics, Art, and Religion” (Sat 11 Mar 2023) Lecture by Dr. Philip Bockholt, “The Many Persian and Turkish Versions of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar” (Tue 7 Mar 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Islamization Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia” The 3rd meeting (Wed 29 Mar 2023) ILCAA Forum (Thu 16 Mar 2023) International Workshop: “Kalila and Dimna in Anatolia: Persian and Turkish Traditions” (Sat 11 Mar 2023) Workshop “Layers of law and maritoriality in the Ottoman Mediterranean” (Thu 9 Mar 2023) DDDLing forum/Tokyo African Linguistics Knot, the 21st meeting (Thu 2 Mar 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 11th meeting (Sun 19–Mon 20 Mar 2023) Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Fri 17 Mar 2023) ILCAA Forum: Memorial Lecture by Prof. Hirohide KURIHARA (Thu 16 Mar 2023) Workshop “Trade, Diplomacy and Capitulations in the Early Modern World” (Fri 3 Mar 2023) International symposium/ workshop “The past and present of Bantu languages: Integrating micro-typology, comparative-historical linguistics, and lexicography” (Mon 6 Mar 2023) International Seminar Series: Secularization, Islamization and Globalization in South Asia: Beyond bipolar Politics in Bangladesh: 5th Seminar: Identity and Religious Practices in Bangladesh (Fri 17 Feb 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Morphology and syntax of Narrative” The 3rd meeting (Sun 12 Feb 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Visualization of the History and Historical Space of the Middle East: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age” The 4th meeting (Wed 22 Mar 2023) Changes in Orang Asli Lives in Malaysia: Engaged Visual Ethnography (Thu 23 Feb 2023) DDDLing workshop for early career researchers (Fri 24 Mar 2023) <Jinruigaku Cafe x Fieldplus Cafe> Watching the movie “Still the Lion Continues His Journey: The Journal of Ise-Daikagura by Yamamoto Gendayu Company”+ “Demonstration of Edo Daikaguradayu Company”+ Demonstration of Edo Daikagura (Sat 25 Feb 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Islamization Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia” The 2nd meeting (Sat 4 Feb 2023) Exhibition “Thinking about the co-creation of academic knowledge through the Civil Dialog Caravan of Islamic Trust Studies” (Mon 27 Feb–Fri 10 Mar 2023) African Art event “Being an Artist reflecting Africa and Japan” (Mon 6 Feb 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Symposium 2022 (academic year) “Connectivities in the middle of antagonism and conflicts” (Thu 2 Mar 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Islamic Economy in Comparisons” (Wed 22 Feb 2023) Lecture “Digital catalogues, digital libraries: using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for collections data” (Tue 21 Feb 2023) Workshop “Cross-Cultural Contact and Trust on the Oceanic Space during the Early Modern Period: Cases of Measures against Piracy” (Sun 19 Feb 2023) Spacio-Temporal Database in Asia: Toward Public Use of Research Data (Tue 14 Feb 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 6th meeting (Sat 25–Sun 26 Mar 2023) Let’s travel around the world together! 2023 Chikyu Tankentai (Sun 19 Feb 2023) Lecture “Beyond the interface: TEI as data for Digital Humanities” (Sat 18 Feb 2023) DDDLing Forum: Vietnamese Language as a Heritage Language/The 3rd Vietnamese Language Colloquium (Sat 18 Feb 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 13th meeting (Mon 13 Feb 2023) Online Workshop “Scripts and Documents of Naxi, Minority in China” (Sat 18 Mar 2023) Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Fri 17 Mar 2023) TUFiSCo/ASC seminar (Wed 1 Feb 2023) Commons Café/FSC/ASC Seminar (Tue 31 Jan 2023) A video of the 17th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” The 4th meeting (Mon 6 Feb 2023) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot” The 20th meeting Central and West Asian document studies in Japan: State of the art (Sat 18 Mar 2023) Mamluk Documents Study Lecture “The Gifts to Ottoman Sultan Selim I” (Mon 23 Jan 2023) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 22 “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities (1)” (Mon 20 Mar 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Archival study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: A case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2)” The 5th meeting (Sun 22 Jan 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 12nd meeting (Thu 19 Jan 2023) Workshop “Recent trends in Andalusi literature studies and its impact on Arabic Literature” (Mon 16 Jan 2023) Sexuality in Contemporary Africa: Tradition, Education and Politics (Sat 28–Sun 29 Jan 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “A sociolinguistic study of heritage languages and ethnic identities of migrants” The 5th meeting/ The 30th Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages (Sat 7 Jan 2023) Learn fieldwork through video editing (Sat 4 Feb 2023) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Debates over the Ottoman Caliphate” (Sat 21 Jan 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” The 3rd meeting (Fri 20 Jan 2023) 〈Anthropology Cafe〉Reading the series ”Ecological Anthropology Challenging” (16 volumes, Kyoto University Press) ”What have humans been living with?” (Fri 20 Jan 2023) ILCAA forum: Lecture of Research Fellow (Prof. Zhuangsheng) (Fri 23 Dec 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Visualizing Trust” (Sat 7 Jan 2023) The 7th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions” (Sat 21 Jan 2023) ILCAA Forum (Thu 19 Jan 2023) Lecture “Multicultural coexistence in Niihama: inheriting the legacy of connectivity from Akira Hamanaka” (Sun 18 Dec 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh” The 5th meeting (Fri 23 Dec 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Muslim connectivity viewed from thought and strategy: cases of Southeast Asia and South Asia” (Mon 12 Dec 2022) Lecture by Prof. Arif Naushahi "Manābe‘-e avvalīye dar sharḥ-e ḥāl, sokhanān o maqālāt-e Khwāja ‘Obeydollāh Aḥrār va tajrebāt-e man dar taṣḥīḥ-e jadīd-e Rashaḥāt-e ‘Ayn al-ḥayāt" (Fri 9 Dec 2022) Seminar on the study of Mamluk archival documents (Sat 28–Sun 29 Jan 2023) Public Talk by Prof. Arif Naushahi (Tue 13 Dec 2022) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot” The19th meeting (Fri 9 Dec 2022) The Iraqi Japanese Workshop (13th International Iraqi Japanese Conference “History, Politics, and Society in Japan and Iraq from Comparative Perspectives” (Sun 4–Fri 9 Dec 2022) Fieldnet Lounge 2022 “How do we do fieldwork?:Collective dialogue among primatologist, linguist, historian, and anthropologist” (Mon 9 Jan 2023) Fieldnet Lounge 2022 “Aspects of Emerging Popular Music Culture in South Asia” (Sun 11 Dec 2022) Session No.1 How to Tell “Context”: Methodical Inquiry for Archiving Asia and Africa. (Sat 26 Nov 2022) Public Talk by Issam Kourbaj: “Leave to Remain: Burning” (Wed 30 Nov 2022) TUFS Cinema: Film Screening of “Chaogtu with Sarula” (China, Set in Southern Mongolia) (Mongolia/Germany) (Mon 12 Dec 2022) TUFS Cinema: Film Screening of “Veins of the World” (Mongolia/Germany) (Mon 5 Dec 2022) ILCAA Forum (Thu 17 Nov 2022) Cultural / Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2022 (Sat 26 Nov 2022) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 18th meeting (Wed 23 Nov 2022) Workshop: “The ‘Front Lines’ of Animal Ethics: Response from Israel as a Front Line” (Sat 21 Jan 2023) ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” The 3rd meeting (Tue 6 Dec 2022) Recreation and the creative Muslimah (Wed 23 Nov 2022) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot” The 17th meeting (Mon 14 Nov 2022) Assistant Professor Mayumi ADACHI won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY2022 Islamic Trust Studies Lecture “The Rediscovery of a Phantom Library: Studying the Library of Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar” (Thu 24 Nov 2022) The 2nd International Conference on Islamic Trust Studies “Translation and Transformation in Muslim’s Connectivity” (Sat 26–Sun 27 Nov 2022) <Photo Exhibition> Identities of a Minority: Muslims in America (Fri 18 Nov–Thu 15 Dec 2022) Technical Workshop on ELAN and IIIF for Language Documentation (Wed 19 Oct 2022) Workshop: What is a “good soldier?” : The intersectionality of gender and ethnicity in the IDF (Sun 23 Oct 2022) Field linguistics café (Sun 20 Nov 2022) ILCAA Forum (Thu 20 Oct 2022) <Commemorative Seminar> Identities of a Minority: Muslims in America (Sun 4 Dec 2022) Symposium “Life History: Birth, Growth, and Death of Nonhuman Primtes and Humans” (Sun 30 Oct 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 11st meeting (Sat 15 Oct 2022) Memorial Seminar of Strategic Partnership Accord “Russian Invasion of Ukraine:Did “Post Cold War Era” End? Perspectives from Latin America, the Midde East, and Ex-Soviet Union” (Fri 7 Oct 2022) Additional calling for the presenter on Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2022 (Deadline: Sun 23 Oct 2022) For more information, please visit the website of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (in Japanese only) An interview with Associate Professor Keita KURABE was published in the Asahi Shimbun. The 17th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture (Sat 29 Oct 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Refugees and social crises” (Fri 30 Sep 2022) The symposium “Difficulties and Possibilities of Family Research Due to the Novel Coronavirus” (2022 Japan Society of Comparative Family History 71st Autumn Conference) (Sat 15 Oct 2022) Let’s travel around the world together! 2022 Chikyu Tankentai (Sun 9 Oct 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project "Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh" The 4th meeting (Fri 30 Sep 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project "Transition and Interaction among Modern Muslim Intellectuals" The 6th meeting (Sun 25 Sep 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project "The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges" The 2nd meeting (Sat 15 Oct 2022) Tibetan Contemporary Literature Festival 2022 (Sat 8–Sun 9 Oct 2022) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop “Tips on how to make communicative online presentations” (Thu 29 Sep 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “The Mufti of Mecca and Pontianak, Abdullah al-Zawawi: Networks and Manuscripts in the Arab Peninsula and the Southeast Asian Archipelago” (Thu 8 Sep 2022) The 14th Forum on Linguistic Chronogenesis / DDDLing Forum: How is time expressed in tenseless languages? (Sat 8 Oct 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 10th meeting (Wed 21 Sep 2022) Global Mediteranian Workshop (Tue 20 Sep 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 8th meeting (Sun 18 Sep 2022) International Conference “Middle Eastern, Balkan and Japanese perspectives on the global and regional impacts of the Ukraine War” (Wed 7 Sep 2022) Intensive Language Courses 2022 Azerbaijani cultural lecture (Thu 8 Sep 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop "Imperial Hierarchy and Connectivity" (Thu 22 Sep 2022) International Workshop: Studies of the Tangut from the viewpoints of researches on TB minority languages (Fri 9 Sep 2022) Seminar "Covid-19 in Egypt: Public Health and Government Responses" (Thu 8 Sep 2022) Seminar "Global Social Theory in the Muslim World" (Fri 2 Sep 2022) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Mon 12 Sep 2022) DDDLing Forum: Learning the Buryat (3) Religion (Fri 9 Sep 2022) DDDLing Forum: Learning the Buryat (2) Literature (Fri 2 Sep 2022) DDDLing Forum: Learning the Buryat (1) History (Fri 26 Aug 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh” The 3rd meeting (Sun 21 Aug 2022) Call for the presenter on Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2022 (Deadline: Wed 14 Sep 2022) For more information, please visit the website of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (in Japanese only) A Case of Curious Comparisons: Arabic Travel Writing from Japan (Mon 8 Aug 2022) Year 2022–2023 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (by Visiting Researchers) Mapping Medieval Śaiva Centers with non-Indic Materials (Sat 6–Sun 7 Aug 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Archival study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: A case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2)” The 4th meeting (Wed 3 Aug 2022) “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” The 1st meeting(Fri 5 Aug 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Connectivity and identity of the second generation of immigrants” (Thu 4 Aug 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 5th meeting(Sat 23–Sun 24 Jul 2022) International Seminar Series: Secularization, Islamization and Globalization in South Asia: Beyond bipolar Politics in Bangladesh (Sat 9 Jul 2022) Call for Applications: Intensive Language Course 2022 (Azerbaijani (in Tokyo) ) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop "Power and Connectivity in the Early Modern Period" (Tue 19 Jul 2022) Guide to ILCAA 2022–2023 has been published. Japanese Macaque Research Seminar 2022 (Sat 2–Sun 3 Jul 2022) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2022-23 (Deadline: Fri 29 Jul 2022) (in Japanese) Call for applications for ILCAA full-time researcher. ILCAA forum; DDDLing forum: Lecture of Visiting Scholar (Dr. Kamali) (Fri 10 Jun 2022) Workshop “A Study of Sinoform Scripts” (Sun 12 Jun 2022) The presentation by Prof. Izumi HOSHI and others was selected as one of the best presentations recommended by the chairperson at the 1st Digital Archive Forum of the Japan Society for Digital Archive. Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Mon 1 Aug 2022) Fieldnetʼs Website Has Been Renewed Overseas Scientific Research Forum 2022 (Sat 25 Jun 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 9th meeting (Sat 28 May 2022) Research Seminar with Professor M. Khodarkovsky (Fri 20 May 2022) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (22-24 Dec 2023) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 2 Oct 2023) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (16-18 Dec 2022) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 3 Oct 2022) (in Japanese) ※Please visit the website for the latest information. Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (15–18 Sep 2022) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 20 Jun 2022) (in Japanese) ※Please visit the website for the latest information. Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “The modern systems for the reception of forced migrations” (Fri 29 Apr 2022) Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 31th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies. ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” The 2nd meeting (Wed 11 May 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Group “Early Islamization Reflected in Javanese and Other Texts from Southeast Asia” The 1st meeting (Sat 23–Sun 24 Apr 2022) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2022 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 Online Symposium “Backgrounds of the war in Ukraine and its repercussions : Where are we standing now?” (Fri 25 Mar 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 6th meeting (Mon 28 Mar 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” The 1st meeting (Sun 27 Mar 2022) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Mon 28 Mar 2022) The Japan Association for Central Asian Studies 2021 Annual ConferencePanel session “The New Horizen of Minority Research: For the multiphonic reconstruction of the modern history of Eurasia” (Mon 21 Mar 2022) Presentation Meeting by 2021 ILCAA Joint Research Groups (Thu 17 Feb 2022) ILCAA Forum, Memorial Lecture (Thu 10 Mar 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 5th meeting (Tue 8 Mar 2022) Online Workshop “Reconsidering terminology for the study of Asian scripts” (Sat 5 Mar 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “The Origins of Afghan Tragedy and Transnational Islamism” (Sat 26 Mar 2022) Film Screening: Mohtarama (Afghanistan, 2013) (Fri 4 Mar 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 4th meeting(Sat 19–Sun 20 Mar 2022) Field linguistics workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 21 “Issues in grammaticalisation for language description” (Sat 5 Mar 2022) Field Science Colloquium: “Teaching/Starting Fieldwork under the Covid-19 Pandemic” (Fri 18 Mar 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Muslim connectivity viewed from thought and strategy: cases of Myammar and Indonesia” (Sat 12 Feb 2022) A video of the 16th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 17th meeting (Fri 4 Feb 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transition and Interaction among Modern Muslim Intellectuals” The 5th meeting (Sat 19 Feb 2022) FIELDPLUS Talk Show on line “On the Dynamisme of Debt” (Mon 14 Feb 2022) Online Symposium “Re-thinking Syrian refugees’ crisis today: Trust and Support in Islamic Communities, Turkey Hosting Syrian Refugees Example” (Wed 9 Feb 2022) Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Fri 18 Mar 2022) International Workshop “Thinking Emotions in South Asia” /ILCAA Join Research Projerct “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 8th meeting (Sat 12 Feb 2022) Fieldnet Lounge 2021 “Everyone passed here” - The Rise and Fall of the Himalayan Trade Trail from the Perspective of War, Trade and Pilgrimage (Sat 12 Feb 2022) ILCAA Join Research Projerct “Designing Spacio-Temporal Database in Asia” The 2nd meeting (Fri 11 Feb 2022) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia” The 7th meeting (Tue 8 Feb 2022) Lecture “Modeling the development of premodern Islamic Societies through computational analysis of written sources” (Wed 26 Jan 2022) AA-ken Forum (Thu 17 Feb 2022) Professor Norihiro Naganawa received the 18th Japan Academy Medal. ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Visualization of the History and Historical Space of the Middle East: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age” The 3rd Meeting/ “Cities, People, and Knowledge Connected by Ijāza” (Sat 29 Jan 2022) Research Seminar Series No.1 Jewish Communities in the Middle East (Mon 27 Dec 2021) Workshop on linguistic and cultural diversity in the Northeast India-Myanmar-Southwest China region (Tue 28–Wed 29 Dec 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Visualization and Verification of Ulama Network in Southeast Asia: Ijazah and Silsila as Historical Materials” (Mon 27 Dec 2021) Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) and Professor Norihiro NAGANAWA (ILCAA, Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) were awarded the 18th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize “Mirai Book – Gakumon-Daigaku Navi” has published a page introducing Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWAʼs research An interview with Professor Izumi Hoshi appeared in the Asahi Shimbun Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “‘Long-distance nationalismʼ and positive/ negative impact of the diaspora on trust building” (Thu 6 Jan 2022) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Experiences of migrants and narratives” (Thu 23 Dec 2021) The First Book Lounge of Palestine/ Israel Research Group in 2021 (Sat 11 Dec 2021) COVID Pandemic in Thailand: Sovereign Power over Life and Death (Thu 20 Jan 2022) ILCAA Forum (Sat 11 Dec 2021) ILCAA Forum: Institute-wide Research Program: “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa” (Thu 9 Dec 2021) Field linguistics workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 20 “Issues in language contact (2)” (Fri 18 Feb 2022) Field linguistics workshop: Technical Workshop “Why do we go to the field? Exploring the motivation behind on-site linguistic research” (Fri 28 Jan 2022) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (19) (Tue 21 Dec 2021) New Staff (BALUKH Jermy Imanuel, Research Fellow, 7 Oct 2021) New Staff (AYNUR, Hatice, Research Fellow, 1 Oct 2021) New Staff (BUADAENG, Kwanchewan, Research Fellow, 1 Oct 2021) International Conference on Islamic Trust Studies: Conflict and Harmony between State and Market” (Fri 10–Sun 12 Dec 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Connectivities of refugees in the civil war” (Mon 29 Nov 2021) Symposium “Five Viewpoints for Understanding Contemporary Middle East” (Sat 4 Dec 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project“Transformation of religion reflected in Javanese and other texts from Southeast Asia: the Roles and Strategies of States in the Process of Islamization” The 6th meeting (Sat 27 Nov 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Various Aspects of Ottoman Diplomatic Relations” (Fri 26 Nov 2021) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2021 (Sun 14 Nov 2021) News about the cross-appointment agreement between ILCAA, TUFS and SRC, Hokkaido University was reported on STV Professor Emeritus Junzo KAWADA received the Order of Culture LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (18) (Tue 16 Nov 2021) ILCAA signed an agreement on cross-appointment with Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, and Professor N. NAGANAWA became a stuff of ILCAA Associate Prof. Shintaro ARAKAWA appeared on the TV program by TOKYO MX The 6th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions” (Sat 11 Dec 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Muslim Connectivities found in thought and strategy: cases of Pakistan-Afghanistan relations and Syria” (Mon 25 Oct 2021) Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA won the Herend Prize of the Collegium Mediterranistarum in 2020 The fourth meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2021 (Wed 3 Nov 2021) Dr. Seitaro NAMBA (IDE-JETRO/ex-ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)’s doctoral dissertation was selected for the commendation of the 20th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize) Dr. Susumu SATO (ILCAA Research Associate) won the 2021 Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Urbanology New Staff (NAGANAWA, Norihiro, Professor, 1 Oct 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)” The 6th meeting (Sun 17 Oct 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (17) (Tue 19 Oct 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transition and Interaction among Modern Muslim Intellectuals” The 4th meeting (Sat 2 Oct 2021) The website “ILCAA Online Resources Catalogue” opened International Workshop “Buddhism and Śaivism in premodern trans-Himalayan regions” (Fri 8 Oct 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Revenge of the Vernacular: Muscovyʼs Turkic Engagement with the Persianate World” (Sat 2 Oct 2021) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 14th meeting (Fri 24 Sep 2021) New Staff (SYURYUN, Arzhaana, Research Fellow, 1 Sep 2021) The third meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2021 (Mon 20 Sep 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (16) (Tue 14 Sep 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Connectivity Seen in Port Cities of India during the Early Modern Period” (Thu 30 Sep 2021) Webinar: Is There an ‘Afghanistan Issueʼ? Thinking from Islam and Gender Perspectives (Sun 12 Sep 2021) When knowledge moves with humans: Travel, mobility, and media in Asia (Fri 17 Sep 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Trust undermined concerning acceptance of refugees in Western Europe” (Sat 2 Oct 2021) Field Science Colloquium “Field and fieldworkers under the Post-corona Society” (Mon 13 Sep 2021) “Webinar: 2021 Political Change in Afghanistan and International Society” (Tue 31 Aug 2021) The Body to Express and Look at: Kazuyo MORITA (Prosthetic Leg Dancer) and Hiroko IGETA (Doll Artist) (Sun 26 Sep 2021) New Staff (HONDA, Naomi, Research Associate, 1 Aug 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 7th meeting (Fri 3 Sep 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “The advantages and disadvantages of Talibanʼs resurgence” (Fri 20 Aug 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 3rd meeting(Sat 4–Sun 5 Sep 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 3rd meeting/ The seventh workshop of the Linguistic Change and Variation Research Unit (Sun 5–Mon 6 Sep 2021) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 11th meeting (Thu 26 Aug 2021) Workshop “Fashion and the Norms in Contemporary World” 2021 (Fri 20 Aug 2021) ILCAA Intensive Language Course ONLINE The second meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2021 (Sun 1 Aug 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (15) (Tue 31 Aug 2021) Field linguistics webinar 2021 (Thu 19 Aug 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transition and Interaction among Modern Muslim Intellectuals” The 3rd meeting (Sat 7 Aug 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Islamic Economy in comparisons” (Tue 31 Aug 2021) Workshop “Digital Humanities Summer Days 2021” (Sat 21 Aug–Sat 11 Sep 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Pashtunsʼ Network in Thailand” (Wed 11 Aug 2021) Call for the presenter on Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2021 (Deadline: Tue 31 Aug 2021) For more information, please visit the website of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (in Japanese only) Online Workshop “Small Lives in Palestine Observed in Photographs, Literatures and Films” (Thu 22 Jul 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Mobility in Yemen and the IndianOcean in the Medieval Period” (Fri 6 Aug 2021) Year 2022–2023 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (Deadline: Tue 30 Nov 2021) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 10th meeting (Thu 22 Jul 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking History of Agriculture and Rural Society in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 5th meeting (Sat 10 Jul 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Thinking trust through mistrust: Reading Mistrust: An Ethnographic Theory by Matthew Carrey” (Sat 31 Jul 2021) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “Cultural Politics on Secularism and Islam: The Case of Kashmir” The 3rd meeting (Sat 31 Jul 2021) FIELDPLUS Talk Show on line “Exploring Asian Languages through Linguistic Maps” (Tue 27 Jul 2021) Call for Applications: Intensive Language Course 2021 (Vietnamese language (in Osaka) ) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Development of Islamic Knowledge and Connectivity” (Sun 18 Jul 2021) Revisiting Two Japanese Scholars worked in Bengal: Kimura Nichiki (1882-1965) and Hara Tadahiko (1934-1990) (Sat 10 Jul 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 7th meeting (Sat 10 Jul 2021) Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Trust Negotiated and Abandoned” (Tue 20 Jul 2021) LingDy Forum: The Spread of Vietnamese Linguistics / The 2nd Vietnamese Language Colloquium (Sun 11 Jul 2021) A seminar on current status and issues of financial inclusion in Bangladesh (Tue 20 Jul 2021) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2021-22 (Deadline: Fri 30 Jul 2021) (in Japanese) AA-Ken Forum: New Faculty Lecture (3) in 2021 (Thu 8 Jul 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 5th meeting (Sat 3 Jul 2021) AA-Ken Forum: New Faculty Lecture (2) in 2021 (Thu 17 Jun 2021) “Tokyo African Linguistics Knot”, The 9th meeting (Thu 24 Jun 2021) International workshop: “Hamza around the Java Sea” (Mon 21 Jun 2021) Reading two Persian episodes on the Buddha composed in Ilkhanid Iran (part 2) (Sun 27 Jun 2021) The 8th BLM Seminar “Bringing BLM to the Arts” (Wed 16 Jun 2021) Call for Applications: Intensive Language Course 2021 (Munda (in Tokyo) & Vietnamese language (in Osaka) ) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Fri 30 Jul 2021) New Staff (Ranjan Saha Partha, Visiting associate professor, 1 May 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (13) (Tue 15 Jun 2021) Symposium on Hazards “Resilience from 3.11 through Indigenous Knowledge” (Sat 12 Jun 2021) AA-Ken Forum (Thu 3 Jun 2021) “Workshop Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon” (Tue 25 May 2021) Dr. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) and Professor Emeritus Jun’ichi ODA (ILCAA Research Fellow) won the JSAI Incentive Award of 2020AY. ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia” The 6th meeting (Sun 13 Jun 2021) 【Rescheduled】Workshop “Using Transkribus to explore networks in Islamicate societies: An introductory guide” (Sat 29 May 2021) Dr. Yui KANDA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 27th Grand Prize of the Kajima Foundation for the Arts ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 5th meeting (Sun 23 May 2021) New Staff (OTA, Erina, Project Assistant Professor, 1 Apr 2021) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (17-19 Dec 2021) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 4 Oct 2021) (in Japanese) ※Please visit the website for the latest information Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (16–19 Sep 2021) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 21 Jun 2021) (in Japanese) ※Please visit the website for the latest information Workshop “Using Transkribus to explore networks in Islamicate societies: An introductory guide” (Sat 8 May 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (12) (Tue 18 May 2021) Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies Overseas Scientific Research Forum will be held on June 20, 2021. We have begun accepting registration for participation in the Forum and its poster presenter applications New Staff (SATO, Susumu, Research Associate, 1 Apr 2021) New Staff (FURUMOTO, Makoto, Research Associate, 1 Apr 2021) New Staff (MORITA, Madoka, Research Associate, 1 Apr 2021) New Staff (KATO, Shinsaku, Research Associate, 1 Apr 2021) New Staff (GOTO, Emi, Associate Professor, 1 Apr 2021) New Staff (Sumit KUMAR BARUA, Visiting associate professor, 1 Apr 2021) A video of the 15th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released Thiqa Project Workshop “Capitulation and International Law” (Wed 24 Mar 2021) Prof. Izumi HOSHI appeared on the radio program by TBS Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Tue 30 Mar 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 2nd meeting(Sun 28–Mon 29 Mar 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking History of Agriculture and Rural Society in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 4th meeting (Sun 28 Mar 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 4th meeting (Sun 28 Mar 2021) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop/ Information Resources Center (IRC) Workshop “Digital humanities and linguistics” (Fri 26 Mar 2021) Workshop “How to Describe Social Interactions as Structured Data?: Knowledge Graph for Primary Source Contents” (Mon 22 Mar 2021) Workshop “The actual condition and practice of OCR for Arabic” (Fri 19 Mar 2021) The sixth meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2020 (Tue 2 Mar 2021) Publication of an article associated with our past exhibition “Mask Migrations” held in 2020 Panel Presentation: Revisiting Ethnography: Social Dynamics of Gohira Village in Bangladesh, 6th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BENGAL STUDIES/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 8th meeting (Thu 25 Feb 2021) Migrantsʼ Connectivity and Trust Building (Wed 24 Feb 2021) A video of Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWA introducing his research to high school students was released. Workshop “Comparative studies on the legal plularism in South Asia and Central Asia” (Thu 18 Mar 2021) Thiqa Project Kick-off Symposium (Fri 5 Mar 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (11) (Tue 2 Mar 2021) ILCAA Forum: Memorial Lecture by Prof. Junʼichi ODA (Thu 11 Mar 2021) Reading two Persian episodes on the Buddha composed in Ilkhanid Iran (Sun 7 Mar 2021) The ideas and prospects of “Historical Digital Globe” (GIS) (Mon 15 Feb 2021) JSPS Research Fellow Mami GOTO (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Poster Presentation Awards for young researchers by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions” JSPS Research Fellow Akiko YOKOYAMA (ILCAA) was awarded 2020 Seizen Nakasone Research Encouragement Award Junior Research Fellow Shinya UEDA (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Southeast Asian Historical Studies in 2020 Trade and social contribution by migrants (Thu 4 Mar 2021) Exploring the Potentials of Ontological Ethnographies of Himalayan South Asia/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 9th meeting (Sat 27 Feb 2021) Presentation Meeting by 2020 ILCAA Joint Research Groups (Thu 18 Feb 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (9) (Tue 2 Feb 2021) Buddhists and Other Religious Communities in Pre-modern Southeast Asia: with Special Reference to Monasteries (Sun 7 Mar 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 4th meeting (Thu 18 Feb 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (10) (Tue 16 Feb 2021) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 3rd meeting (Mon 15 Feb 2021) For understanding the Islamicate States-system (Thu 11 Feb 2021) Visualizing “Ulamas” Connectivities: Prospects and Challenges of Computational Analyses (Thu 4 Feb 2021) The 15th NINJAL Forums “Endangered Languages in Japan and Asia: What can we do for the revitalization of endangered language” (Sat 27 Feb 2021) Explanatory Meeting for Publicly Offered Research for “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization (Thiqa Project)” (Fri 29 Jan 2021) Halle-Vihāra Collaborative Lecture Series 2 (Wed 24 Mar 2021) Halle-Vihāra Collaborative Lecture Series 1 (Wed 17 Mar 2021) Fieldnet Lounge 2020 “Different perspectives of Environmental Conservation -Towards collaboration action on the ground-”(Fri 29 Jan 2021) LingDy Interseminar (Wed 24 Mar 2021) The fifth meeting of Palestine / Israel research group in 2020 (Sat 23 Jan 2021) Workshop: Recent Studies of the Khitan Scripts and Documents (2021) (Tue 23 Feb 2021) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 19: Issues in language contact (Sat 6–Sun 7 Mar 2021) FIELDPLUS Talk Show on line “Tibetan Food from Historical and Synchronic Points of View” (Fri 12 Feb 2021) Field Linguistics Workshop “Presentations of Master’s Theses on Field Linguistics” (Fri 19 Mar 2021) Institute-wide Research Program “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa” The 5th meeting (Thu 21 Jan 2021) Online workshop on academic skills 2021 (Thu 11–Fri 12 Feb 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (8) (Tue 19 Jan 2021) The 35th meeting of the Japanese Association for Manchu and Qing Studies (Sat 19 Dec 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Asia” The 5th meeting (Sun 10 Jan 2021) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (7) (Tue 22 Dec 2020) KAKENHI Project “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization, “Planned Research “Conversion of the Islamic knowledge” The 1st meeting” (Mon 28 Dec 2020) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (6) (Tue 8 Dec 2020) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (5) (Tue 24 Nov 2020) International Symposium: “How Are Young People in Africa Thinking and Living?: Education, Unemployment, Aesthetics, Politics, and Singleness” (Sun 22 Nov 2020) The fourth meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2020 (Sun 22 Nov 2020) The 5th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions” (Sat 12 Dec 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking History of Agriculture and Rural Society in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 3rd meeting (Sun 15 Nov 2020) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2020 (Sat 14 Nov 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Emotional Moments of Social Changes/Movements in South Asia” The 2nd meeting (Sun 8 Nov 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 3rd meeting (Sat 14 Nov 2020) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (4) (Tue 10 Nov 2020) Field linguistics webinar (Sat 5–Sun 6 Dec 2020) International Symposium: “Performing the Self and Playing with the Otherness: Clothing and Costuming under Transcultural conditions” (Mon 26 Oct 2020) The third meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2020 (Sun 18 Oct 2020) Assistant Prof. Wakako Kumakura won the Toryusho, one of the 2020AY JCAS Awards Exhibition “The World of Folk Tale in Minority Languages: A Look at Jingpho, Seychellois Creole, and Buryat Folk Tales from Picture Book” (Tue 10–Mon 30 Nov 2020) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: How to design good presentation slides (Fri 30 Oct 2020) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (3) (Tue 20 Oct 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 6th meeting (Sat 10 Oct 2020) LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (2) (Tue 6 Oct 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, The 6th Meeting (Sat 26 Sep 2020) Restoration status of JaCMES caused by 2020 Beirut explosions (in Japanese) Field linguistics workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 18 “Issues in syllable structure” (Sat 17–Sun 18 Oct 2020) Exhibition gallery talks “Mask Migrations: Unfold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (Sat 10 Oct 2020) Exhibition gallery talks “Mask Migrations: Unfold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (Mon 5 Oct 2020) Final Edition: Questionnaire Results on COVID-19 and KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) Exhibition “Mask Migrations: Unfold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (Mon 14 Sep–Fri 30 Oct 2020) New Staff (IWASAKI, Kanae, Research Associate, 1 Aug 2020) The second meeting of Palestine/ Israel research group in 2020 (Sun 6 Sep 2020) The first meeting of Palestine / Israel research group in 2020 (Sun 23 Aug 2020) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (18-20 Dec 2020) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 5 Oct 2020) (in Japanese) Please visit the website for the latest information LingDy Forum: Webinar Series (1) (Tue 8 Sep 2020) 2020 Jointly Sponsored Seminar by FSC and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S) “The Origin and Evolution of Sociality”: See Monkeys in the Same Way to See Humans (Sat 5 Sep 2020) The damage situation of JaCMES caused by 2020 Beirut explosions (in Japanese) Prof. Nobuaki KONDO has been selected as the winner of the foreign section in the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies Minpaku Lecture Series in Modern Middle East Studies (Sat 22 Aug 2020) Lecture on the Persian versions of “Heer u Ranjha” (Fri 21 Aug 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 2nd meeting (rescheduled) (Wed 26 Aug 2020) Call for paper: Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2020 (Deadline: Mon 31 Aug 2020) (in Japanese) Special website “COVID-19 and fieldworkers (in Japanese)” opened Breaking Edition: Questionnaire Results on COVID-19 and KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)” Workshop “Special talk on the fieldworks of KANJI and others” (Wed 29 Jul 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)” Workshop “Special talk on the fieldworks of KANJI and others” (Wed 29 Jul 2020) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2020-21 (Deadline: Mon 24 Aug 2020) (in Japanese) Workshop “Remains and Memories of Buddhists in Islamizing West Asia” (Sun 26 Jul 2020) [Canceled] 2020 Beirut SeminarProf. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for the descriptive study of Parauk Wa, especially for Parauk Wa published from ILCAA International Workshop “The revolt of 1916 in Central Asia and refugees into Xinjiang: Reconsideration from the cross border perspective”/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia” The 4th meeting (Sun 26 Jul 2020) International Workshop “Two popular romances in the Persianate Societies: the Hamza-nama and the Hatam-nama” (Sat 11 Jul 2020) Multipolalization of Muslim Society in South Asia (Sat 13 Jun 2020) Call for applications for ILCAA full-time researcher. (Assistant Professor) (Deadline: Tue 17 Aug 2020) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (17–20 Sep 2020) Call for applications (deadline: 3:00 p.m., 22 Jun 2020) (in Japanese) ※Please visit the website for the latest information Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Facilitation of online seminar (Fri 8 May 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” The First meeting (Sat 23 May 2020) [Postponed] Intensive Language Courses 2020: Munda, Buryat (in Tokyo) & Vietnamese (in Osaka)[Postponed] Symposium on Hazards “Resilience from 3.11 through Indigenous Knowledge” (Sat 9 May 2020)New Staff (Pegah SHAHBAZ, Visiting associate professor, 6 Apr 2020) New Staff (Haruka TANIGUCHI, Research Associate, 1 Apr 2020) New Staff (Mayumi ADACHI, Assistant Professor, 1 Apr 2020) New Staff (Aya KAWAI, Assistant Professor, 1 Apr 2020) Changes to ILCAA Library Service to Prevent Spread of New Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection [Postponed] Multipolalization of Muslim Society in South Asia (Sat 28 Mar 2020)[Event postponed. Please wait until further notice] Exhibition “Mask Migrations: Unfold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (Mon 27 Apr–Tue 1 Sep 2020)[Application alteration] 2019 Jointly Sponsored Seminar by ILCAA, FSC, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S) “The Origin and Evolution of Sociality”: Seeing Humans Race as if they were Apes(Sat 7 Mar 2020)[Postponed] ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study of Tibetan Pastoral Culture in Qinghai and its Change: Based on the Method of Documentary Linguistics” The 9th meeting (Sun 29–Mon 30 Mar 2020)[Canceled] ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 3rd meeting (Sun 15 Mar 2020)[Postponed] ILCAA Joint Research Project“Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives” The 6th meeting (Sat 14 Mar 2020)[Postponed] “Buddhists and Other Religious Communities in Pre-modern Central and Southeast Asia: with Special Reference to Monasteries” (Sun 8 Mar 2020)Presentation Meeting by 2019 ILCAA Joint Research Groups (Thu 20 Feb 2020) [Canceled] ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics” The 8th meeting (Sat 29 Feb 2020)ILCAA Forum: Lectures by Prof. Jun TAKASHIMA & Prof. Hideo FUKAZAWA (Thu 12 Mar 2020) International Symposium: “Performing the Self and Playing with the Otherness: Clothing and Costuming under Transcultural conditions” (Thu 5 Mar 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project“Transformation of religion reflected in Javanese and other texts from Southeast Asia: the Roles and Strategies of States in the Process of Islamization” The 3rd meeting (Sun 23 Feb 2020) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S) “African Potential”and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity/ The Research Team “Gender and Sexuality” the 13th meeting (Sun 16 Feb 2020) Intensive Language Courses 2020: Munda, Buryat (in Tokyo) & Vietnamese (in Osaka). Courses will be held in the summer of 2020 Lecture “Khiva 1873: The Archive that Never Was” (Thu 27 Feb 2020) International Workshop “Between the Imperial Laws and Islamic Law: Cases in Central Eurasia” (Sat 22 Feb 2020) Lecture “Shari`a Archives” (Thu 20 Feb 2020) [Postponed] Field Linguistics Workshop: “Spring Field Linguistics Festa” (Wed 26–Fri 28 Feb 2020)[Postponed] Virtual Reality in Archiving and Reproducing a Field: Its Methods and Possibilities (Sun 23 Feb 2020)Workshop “The cross-regional networking of contemporary Muslim Intellectuals” (Sat 8 Feb 2020) International Workshop “Journée d’étude Charif Majdalani” (Tue 4 Feb 2020) FIELDPLUS Talk Show “Middle Eastern Cities from geographical Information and historical Sources: A Case study of water facilities (canals, public wells and reservoirs) in pre-modern Cairo” (Thu 20 Feb 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Synchrony and Diachrony of Mongolic Languages: Internal and External Factors” The 4th Meeting (Sat 1 Feb 2020) [Postponed] ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 2nd meeting (Sun 29 Mar 2020)Seminar: Can Dalit Speak?: Ethnographic Studies in South Asia/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 5th meeting (Mon 17 Feb 2020) The Crisis in Lebanon and the Middle East Region (Mon 27 Jan 2020) Fieldnet Lounge 2019 “Sacred Objects in Religions”(Sat 8 Feb 2020) Workshop: Environment and Economy in Premodern Egypt and Beyond (Sat 22 Feb 2020) LingDy Forum: Linguistic Description and Documentation in African Contexts (Wed 19 Feb 2020) Kingship and Legitimacy of the Islamicate Dynasties (Sat 1 Feb 2020) A student from Toho Junior High School visited ILCAA (6 Jan 2020) Dr. D.O. Chaoke and Dr. Sodbatur visited ILCAA (23 Dec 2019) Workshop “Revisiting Ardabīl: Ṭarīqa, saint’s mausoleum and city in pre-modern Iran”/ILCAA Joint Research Project “Archival Study on Fiscal administration of Holy Shrines in Muslim Societies: The Case of the Safavid Shrine in Iran” The 6th meeting(Sat 15 Feb 2020) Fieldnet Lounge 2019 “Tibetan Exile Society at a Turning Point: Between the Rise of China and India”(Sun 26 Jan 2020) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop “Data management for field linguistics”(Wed 15 Jan 2020) International Workshop “Human-“Homelands” Relations in the Transnational Era”(Thu 26 Dec 2019) Articles on the Public Exhibition “The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken” was published in Japanese newspapers Getuken, a Sibe Calligrapher, made a courtesy call on the director of ILCAA (13 Nov 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar” The 8th meeting(Sat 1 Feb 2020) Lecture & Workshop “Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan”(Tue 28 Jan 2020) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar” The 7th meeting(Sat 11 Jan 2020) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 17: “Language games and phonology (2)” (Fri 24 Jan 2020) The 12th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives” The 5th meeting(Sat 11–Sun 12 Jan 2020) Colloquium on the Field Science “Encountering sex in the field, finding the field through sex: A way of dealing with Islam and Gender” (Fri 10 Jan 2020) [Venue has changed]ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar” The 6th meeting(Fri 27 Dec 2019) Mobile Museum “Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan”(Tue 14 Jan–Thu 13 Feb 2020) Workshop “Studies on the Mayan Glyph”/ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 1” The 9th meeting(Sat 15 Feb 2020) Lecture “The Muslim Ban and Beyond: The Trump Administrationʼs Immigration Policies” (Mon 23 Dec 2019) All posters introducing our research projects are now on display at the 1st floor of Research and Lecture Building, TUFS (until the middle of December, 2019) Fieldnet Lounge 2019 “Re-Encountering “Drawing” through Multidisciplinary Fieldwork” (Sun 8 Dec 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution (2)” The 2nd Meeting(Sat 14–Sun 15 Dec 2019) Workshop: The “Arab Spring” Again? Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq(Sun 15 Dec 2019) The 3rd International Workshop on Malay Varieties/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Research on Varieties of Malayic Languages”The 7th meeting (Sat 30 Nov–Sun 1 Dec 2019) JaCMES Lecture Meeting “Marine plastic and microplastic pollution: The reality and solution”(Wed 27 Nov 2019) International Workshop: Thinking Resilience and Development from the “Exceptional” Africa (Sat 1 Feb 2020) Institute-wide Research Program “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa” (Thu 12 Dec 2019) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 16: “Writing Better Abstracts for Conference Presentations” (Wed 11 Dec 2019) Dr. Keisuke Iwata (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow/ILCAA) was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Society of Inner Asian Studies An expert on inscriptions from Myanmar visited ILCAA for joint research (6-8 Nov 2019) NGO and Local Society in Bangladesh: Seminar of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Society in South Asia” (Wed 27 Nov 2019) Information Resources Center (IRC) Workshop:“Experience IIIF [trípl-ɑɪ-éf]” (Wed 4 Dec 2019) 2019 Poster Session for the Institute-wide Research Program: Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa (Sat 23–Sun 24 Nov 2019) Minami Ryukyu Miyako go Irabujima Hougen (The Irabu Dialect, a Southern Ryukyuan Language) was awarded the 47th Kindaichi Memorial Prize“Family” as a crisis from the view point of the Okinawa region and Okinawa as a crisis from the view point of “family” (Sat 11 Jan 2020) The 4th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions” (Sat 7 Dec 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of religion reflected in Javanese and other texts from Southeast Asia: the Roles and Strategies of States in the Process of Islamization” The 2nd meeting (Sun 17 Nov 2019) JSPS KAKENHI Project “Cultural Politics on Secularism and Islam: The Case of Kashmir” 1st meeting (Sat 30 Nov 2019) Professor Hidemitsu Kuroki was interviewed by Serbian TV news programs Lecture “After the Refugee Crisis and Syrian conflict: What we can learn from German Experience about acceptance of Refugees” (Sat 2 Nov 2019) Intensive Language Courses 2020: Munda, Buryat (in Tokyo) & Vietnamese (in Osaka). Courses will be held in the summer of 2020 Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2019) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2019 (Sun 17 Nov 2019) The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken (Mon 18–Thu 28 Nov 2019) Kickoff Symposium:“The Origin and Evolution of Sociality: Developing new theories of human evolution based on collaboration between anthropology and primatology” (Sat 23 Nov 2019) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (20-22 Dec 2019) Call for application (Deadline: 15 Nov 2019) (in Japanese) International Workshop “Material evidence for Iranian history” (Mon 4 Nov 2019) International Workshop: Recent Studies of Tangut Documents in IOM, Russia (2019) (Sat 2 Nov 2019) Lecture “Forgeries in Several Illustrated Persian Manuscripts of the Medieval Period” (Wed 30 Oct 2019) International Workshop “The Fate of Rashid al-Din’s Manuscripts” (Sat 26 Oct 2019) Kinship and Family in a Muslim Village in Bengal: Revisiting an Ethnography by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko after 50 Years (Sat 19 Oct 2019) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop “Text editors for editing documents: various uses of find and replace” (Wed 23 Oct 2019) New Staff (Tatsuro KAWAZOE, Research Associate, 1 Oct 2019) New Staff (KATUBI, Visiting Professor, 1 Oct 2019) New Staff (Aya KAWAI, Research Associate, 1 Oct 2019) 【Rescheduled】 Lecture “Mughal Kingship as seen through Sanskrit Archives” (Sun 13 Oct 2019)JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research / Seminar of Contemporary Bengal Studies (Fri 27 Sep 2019) Workshop on documentation of indigenous languages in the NTT Province, Indonesia (Mon 7–Wed 9 Oct 2019) International Workshop “Contested Legal Practices in the Nineteenth-Century Volga-Ural Region and the Kazakh Steppe”/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Asia” The 3rd Meeting (Sat 5 Oct 2019) ILCAA Forum/ A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Dzongkha (Fri 30 Aug 2019) ILCAA Forum/ A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Dzongkha (Fri 23 Aug 2019) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2019-20 (Deadline: Sun 29 Sep 2019) (in Japanese) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 15: “Language games and phonology (1)” (Tue 24 Sep 2019) Year 2020–2021 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (Deadline: Fri 29 Nov 2019) “Reconsidering Family and Relatives in the Middle East” (The 8th Meeting) (Fri 30 Aug 2019) The cross-regional networking of contemporary Muslim Intellectuals (Sat 27 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Research on Varieties of Malayic Languages” The 6th meeting (Sun 28 Jul 2019) Symposium on Impact of Hazard/Natural disaster on Society in Asia: UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture Series (Thu 8 Aug 2019) Ex-Director Hiroyuki UMEDA passed away Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (19-22 Sep 2019) Call for Application (Deadline: Fri 19 Jul 2019) (in Japanese) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Anthropology) (Deadline: Tue 20 Aug 2019) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Linguistics) (Deadline: Tue 20 Aug 2019) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Middle East area studies) (Deadline: Tue 20 Aug 2019) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2019-20 (Deadline: Mon 22 Jul 2019) (in Japanese) “The cross-regional networking of contemporary Muslim Intellectuals” The 4th meeting (Sun 23 Jun 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Formation of the Indic World: From the Perspective of Frontiers” The 1st meeting (Thu 26 Sep 2019) Dr. Hermann Gundert Endowment Award for Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine : Text, thought and movement” The 4th meeting (Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia” The 2nd meeting (Sat 27 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study on “Altaic-type” Languages (2)” The 1st meeting (Sat 13 Jul 2019) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: How to design an effective research poster” (Wed 10 Jul 2019, Wed 17 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics” The 1st meeting (Sun 7 Jul 2019) FIELDPLUS Talk Show “Religious Belief and Practices of Islam in Western Ethiopia” (Fri 19 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking History of Agriculture and Rural Society in Africa (2): From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 1st meeting (Sat 13–Sun 14 Jul 2019) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course (Dzongkha) 2019 (in Japanese) International Workshop “Bantu in Contact with non-Bantu” (Thu 27–Fri 28 Jun 2019) LingDy Forum: A state of the art approach to underdescribed inland Swahili varieties (Thu 18 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “An Inter-disciplinary Approach to the Diversity and Dynamics of Swahili Varieties” The 3rd meeting (Sat 20 Jul 2019) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2019 (Dzongkha & Jinghpaw) Seminar on documentation of indigenous languages in the NTT Province, Indonesia (Tue 25 Jun–Mon 1 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 3rd meeting (Sat 15 Jun 2019) New Staff (Tomoyo OTSUKI, Research Associate, 1 May 2019) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 6 Jul 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Historical Narratives and the Utilization of the Past in Modern Central Eurasia” The 1st meeting (Sat 25 May 2019) Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Field note taking (2): Methods of utilizing digital devices” (Wed 29 May 2019) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (20-22 December, 2019) Call for application (Deadline: Fri 4 October 2019) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (19-22 September, 2019) Call for application (Deadline: Fri 21 June 2019) (in Japanese) New Staff (DASGUPTA, Abhijit, Visiting Senior Researcher, 1 Apr 2019) Presentations on information resources created by the IRC projects 2018 (Thu 25 Apr 2019) The 38th Iranian Studies Meeting (Sat 30–Sun 31 Mar 2019) New Staff (Tomoaki SHINODA, Research Associate, 1 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine : Text, Thought and Movement” The 3rd meeting (Sat 23–Sun 24 Mar 2019) ILCAA Forum (Thu 14 Mar 2019) JSPS KAKENHI project “Environments and linguistic change in the Altaic languages” The 1st meeting / ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics” The 6th meeting (Sat 9 Mar 2019) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Thu 28 Mar 2019) The Second International Symposium on Current Situation of Contemporary Tibetan Literature and Film Making (Fri 15–Sun 17 Mar 2019) Fieldnet Workshop: History based on Geographic Information: Adaptation of GIS for History of Islam (Thu 21 Mar 2019) LingDy Forum: The state of the art in the microvariation study of Bantu morphosyntax (Wed 6 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” the 2nd meeting (Sun 17 Mar 2019) International Workshop “Islam with Adjectives and Islami as Adjectives: Reflecting on the Implications for the Iranian Society of Not Just Diverse But Divergent Readings of Islam in Contemporary Iran” (Tue 19 Feb 2019) UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society of Southeast Asia (Wed 13 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies” the 6th meeting (Fri 1 Mar 2019) Launch Event of “Reference Grammar of Irabu Ryukyuan” (Fri 8 Mar 2019) International Symposium “Immigrant and Host Languages in Asia, Pacific and Europe: Facts behind Tidy Theoretical Constructs” / 20th Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages (Thu 28 Feb–Fri 1 Mar 2019) Lecture Meeting: Post-Civil War Reconciliations and Challenges in Lebanon (Sat 9 Feb 2019) Film meeting: In this land lay graves of mine: Memories and testimonies of the Lebanese Civil War (Fri 8 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Gramma” the 5th meeting (Sun 10 Mar 2019) Special Lectures: The Arms Transfer and its Recycling Mechanisms in Contested Regions: The Case of the Balkans and the Middle East (Wed 6 Feb 2019) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop: “How to Make Your Research Appear Appealing: purpose and tips for scientific communication” (Fri 15 Mar 2019) Temple/Monasteries and Political Power in Medieval India (Thu 7 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” the 9th meeting (Sat 2–Sun 3 Mar 2019) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop: “Software for documentary linguistic” (Fri 15 Feb 2019) Workshop: Persian literature and South Asia (Thu 14 Mar 2019) Launch Event of “Reference Grammar of Irabu Ryukyuan”: For young researchers (Fri 8 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives” the 4th meeting (Wed 27 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts” the 5th meeting (Sat 9–Mon 11 Mar 2019) 【Reschedule】 International Workshop on Social Impacts of Linguistic Research (Sat 2–Sun 3 Feb 2019)JaCMES-AUB Lecture Meeting: Examining Najeeb Saleeby as American Colonial Advocate and Educator” (Tue 19 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization” the 10th meeting (Sat 16 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar”, The 4th Meeting (Sat 9 Feb 2019) LingDy Forum: “What constitutes grammatical knowledge?” (Fri 8 Feb 2019) International Workshop “Syrian Civil War: Comparative Perspectives with Lebanese and Yugoslavian Civil Wars” (Sat 2 Feb 2019) Open lecture for Japanese residences in Jakarta ”Islam in Contemporary Indonesia 2” (Sun 17 Feb 2019) Joint Research Seminar ”Uyghurs in Turkey: migration and skills” (Thu 31 Jan 2019) Tokyo African Linguistics Knot, the 3rd meeting in 2018 (fy) (Tue 29 Jan 2019) FIELDPLUS café “Diversity of “similar languages”: Features of “Altaic-type” Languages” (Fri 25 Jan 2019) Fieldnet Lounge 2018 “Finding Ways of Comparison and Collaboration: Practice of Brazilian Area Studies in Japan” (Sat 16 Feb 2019) Open Workshop “Studies on the Script of Ethnics in Southwest China”/ ILCAA Joint Research Project Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 1 The 6th meeting (Sat 16 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The 3rd Term): Dynamics of Conflict and Co-existence” The 6th meeting (Mon 11 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project Archival Study on Fiscal administration of Holy Shrines in Muslim Societies: The Case of the Safavid Shrine in Iran The 3rd meeting (Sat 9 Feb 2019) International Workshop: Directional Prefix in Tibeto-Burman Languages (Fri 29 Mar 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine : Text, Thought and Movement” The 2nd Meeting (Sun 27 Jan 2019) The 6th Meeting of MINPAKU Linguistics Circle (Tue 29 Jan 2019) Sensing “the Critical”: Two Anthropological Works on Lebanon and Kenya (Sun 13 Jan 2019) LingDy Forum: “Revisiting the output of language documentation” (Wed 19 Dec 2018) The 10th INDAS-South Asia International Conference “Inclusive Development in South Asia” (Sat 15–Sun 16 Dec 2018) The 11th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics/ ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, The 3rd Meeting (Sat 12–Sun 13 Jan 2019) LingDy Forum: “Fieldwork on endangered languages in Iran and Mongolia” (Fri 14 Dec 2018) Fieldnet Lounge 2018 “New Turn on the Studies of Islam in West Africa” (Sat 26 Jan 2019) Information Resources Center Workshop: “Endangered language archives and language documentation” (Wed 20 Feb 2019) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 8th meeting (Sat 15–Sun 16 Dec 2018) Associate Professor Norikazu Kogura wins the 46th Kindaichi Memorial Prize JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) Project “Network Reinforcement toward the Formative Process Elucidation of Endangered Northern Languages”, The 1st meeting (Sat 8–Sun 9 Dec 2018) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 14: Issues in serial verbs (Sat 12 Jan 2019) Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop: “Software for documentary linguistic” (Wed 12 Dec 2018) Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with Nakasone Seizen kenkyu shorei sho (Nakasone Seizen Research Encouragement Award) in the fiscal year 2018 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1)” The 8th meeting (Sat 22 Dec 2018) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics”, The 5th Meeting (Sat 15 Dec 2018) International Conference “Kingship, Ideology, Discourse: Legitimation of Islamicate Dynasties” (Sat 15–Sun 16 Dec 2018) ILCAA Forum: Institute-wide Research Program “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa” (Thu 13 Dec 2018) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar”, The 3rd Meeting (Sun 9 Dec 2018) Information Resources Center DH Workshop: “Creating data that can be used even after 30 years” (Wed 5 Dec 2018) The 3rd Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions”(Sun 25 Nov 2018) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2018 (Sat 17 Nov 2018) The Second Colloquium on the Field Science / Book Review Meeting: Humanitarian Assistance Seen from Area Studies of African Nomadic Pastoralists (Sun 18 Nov 2018) Workshop on documentation of indigenous languages in the NTT Province, Indonesia (Thu 1–Sat 3 Nov 2018) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (21-23 Dec 2018) Call for application (deadline: 16 November) (in Japanese) The 5th meeting, ILCAA Joint Research Project A Research on Varieties of Malayic Languages /The Second International Workshop on Malay Varieties (Sat 13–Sun 14 Oct 2018) New Staff (Laxianjia, Visiting Senior Researcher, 1 Oct 2018) TUFS Cinema Tibetan Film Screening“River” (Fri 26 Oct 2018) Symposium: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Figure of Lives (Sat 20 Oct 2018) Tibetan Literature Project Meeting(Mon 15 Oct 2018) ILCAA Joint Research Project “An Inter-disciplinary approach to the diversity and dynamics of Swahili varieties” The 2nd meeting (Sat 13–Sun 14 Oct 2018) Language Documentation Seminar in Ulaanbaatar (Mon 1–Fri 5 Oct 2018) International Symposium: “Coping with Vertiginous Realities” (Sat 6 Oct 2018) LingDy Forum “Talk by Prof. Justin Watkins” (Sat 29 Sep 2018) New Staff (Suzushi HAYATA, Research Associate, 1 Sep 2018) New Staff (Fumiyo ISHIGURO, Research Associate, 1 Sep 2018) Workshop: Indic Texts and Islamicate Culture from the Ghaznavid to the Sultanate Periods / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts” The 4th meeting (Sat 6–Sun 7 Oct 2018) Workshop: Survival Strategies of Minority Groups (1) / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies”, The 5th Meeting (Thu 6–Fri 7 Sep 2018) International Workshop: Studies of Historical Documents from Central Asia, based on IOM Collection (Fri 31 Aug 2018) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2018-19 (Deadline: Fri 28 Sep 2018) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (13–16 Sep 2018) Call for Application (deadline: Fri 20 Jul 2018) (in Japanese) The First Colloquium on the Field Science ‘Environmental Change and the Indus Civilization’: Project by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Fri 21 Sep 2018) Information Resources Center International Workshop: “Significance of archiving in multicultural society” (Thu 2 Aug 2018) Third International Conference on Documentary Linguistics - Asian Perspectives (DLAP-3) (Mon 23–Wed 25 Jul 2018) FIELDPLUS café “Children of Migration in Asia” (Sat 28 Jul 2018) Prof. MATSUI (former joint researcher of ILCAA) received the 12th SHIRAKAWA Shizuka Commemorating Prize Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1)” The 7th meeting (Sun 22 Jul 2018) Workshop on Affect (Sat 21 Jul 2018) International Symposium / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization” The 9th meeting (Sat 30 Jun–Sun 1 Jul 2018) Central Eurasia Research Seminar (special lecture by Dr. David Brophy) (Wed 18 Jul 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 7th meeting (Sat 30 Jun–Sun 1 Jul 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: The Culture and Identity of Children Raised in a Transnational Household” The 6th meeting (Sat 23 Jun 2018) Middle East and Islamic Studies International Workshop “Mobility of Central Asian Intellectuals: Scholarly and religious networks between Xinjiang and Middle East” (Sat 21 Jul 2018) Symposium: Dynamism of Border Crossing (Sun 8 Jul 2018) Political Changes in the Middle East (Sat 7 Jul 2018) Symposium: Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia: Description, Documentation and Revitalization (Sun 5–Wed 8 Aug 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The 3rd Term): Dynamics of Conflict and Co-existence”, The 4th Meeting (Sun 15 Jul 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and Semantics”, The 4th Meeting (Sat 7 Jul 2018) Political Changes in the Middle East (Sat 30 Jun 2018) Remembering Village after 50 Years: Revisiting an Ethnography by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia” The 1st Meeting (Sun 24 Jun 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Pre’sence Africaine : Text, Thought and Movement” The 1st Meeting (Sun 24 Jun 2018) 公開研究会:共同利用・共同研究課題「マレー語方言の変異の研究」2018年度第1回研究会(Sat 2 Jun 2018開催) 企画展「祈りでつながるイスラーム:エチオピア西部の信仰とその世界」展示解説(Fri 1 Jun 2018開催) International workshop on “The Oct 6 massacre and aftermath- violence and democracy” (Sat 30 Jun 2018) ILCAA Forum: Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “A typology of eclipse expressions in East and Southeast Asia” (Thu 21 Jun 2018) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Fri 6 Jul 2018) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2018-19 (Deadline: Fri 29 Jun 2018) (in Japanese) リンディフォーラム:コミュニティーの中での言語と文法の研究(Thu 24 May 2018開催) ワークショップ「身体的経験をめぐる人類学と現象学からのアプローチ―不完全な身体,人種と身体,妊娠期の身体の事例から」(Sat 19 May 2018開催) AA研フォーラム(Thu 17 May 2018開催) Prof. Kotze, a former visiting professor of ILCAA, will be awarded by the South African Academy Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 16 Jun 2018) (in Japanese) 東京外国語大学アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所情報資源利用研究センター特任研究員を募集します。(応募締切:Thu 17 May 2018) セトラック・マヌーキアーン博士講演会(Sat 28 Apr 2018開催) 2018年度言語研修募集要項を掲載しました。 企画展「祈りでつながるイスラーム:エチオピア西部の信仰とその歴史」(Mon 23 Apr–Fri 25 May 2018開催) 公開シンポジウム「食と農が支えたナイル・エチオピア地域の歴史と文化」(Sat 21 Apr 2018開催) リンディフォーラム:インドネシアの言語と文化に関する講演(Mon 16 Apr 2018開催) 新任スタッフ(アブディラシドフ ザイナビディン シャラビディノヴィッチ 外国人研究員)着任(2018年4月1日着任) 新任スタッフ(倉部 慶太(助教)着任(2018年4月1日着任) 新任スタッフ(熊倉 和歌子(助教)着任(2018年4月1日着任) 負債をめぐるポリティクス――東南アジア、オセアニア、アフリカの事例から(Sat 28 Apr 2018開催) 2017年度言語研修ジャワ語テキストを掲載しました。 Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (21-23 Dec 2018) Call for application (deadline: 5 Oct 2018) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (13–16 Sep 2018) Call for Application (deadline: 22 Jun 2018) (in Japanese) 海外学術調査フェスタ(ポスターセッション)展示企画を募集します。(応募期間:Fri 23 Mar–Mon 14 May 2018) 2017年度言語研修ハンガリー語テキストを掲載しました。 基幹研究「中東・イスラーム圏における分極化とその政治・社会・文化的背景」研究員発表会(Thu 29 Mar 2018開催) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 8th Meeting (Sun 18–Mon 19 Mar 2018) Open lecture for Japanese residences in Jakarta “Islam in Contemporary Indonesia” (Sat 17 Mar 2018) 『チベット牧畜文化辞典』パイロット版公開記念ワークショップ「『チベット牧畜文化辞典』の未来を語る」/公開研究会:共同利用・共同研究課題「青海チベット牧畜民の伝統文化とその変容~ドキュメンタリー言語学の手法に基づいて~」2017年度第3回研究会(Wed 28 Mar 2018開催) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 6th meeting (Sat 24 Mar 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies”, The 4th Meeting (Fri 16–Sat 17 Mar 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution” The 6th meeting (Mon 19–Tue 20 Mar 2018) The Kanto Area Seminar of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology Shock of “Playing Japanese”: Question by Artist, Responses by Anthropologists (Sat 10 Mar 2018) International Symposium “Current Topics in Turkic Linguistics” / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and semantics”, The 3rd meeting (Sat 3–Sun 4 Mar 2018) 『チベット牧畜文化辞典』(パイロット版)リリース記念イベント @タシデレ(Tue 27 Mar 2018開催) Launch Event of Tibetan Nomadic Dictionary (pilot version) (Tue 27 Mar 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts”, The 3rd Meeting (Mon 26 Mar 2018) Role of formulaic expressions in grammar and language use (Sat 24 Feb 2018) Middle East and Islamic Studies International Workshop “Emigrants/Muhacir from Central Asia to Middle East: Xinjiang case during 1940-50s” (Sat 3 Mar 2018) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam (The Second Term)”, The 3rd meeting (Sat 17 Feb 2018) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Field note taking (1): Research purposes and field note Ⅱ (Fri 16 Mar 2018) New Staff Yona TAKAHASHI, Research Associate, 1 Feb 2018) Lectures on migrants from Xinjiang in Turkey (Tue 6 Mar 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts 1”, The 3rd Meeting / Workshop “Studies on the Script of Tibeto-Burman Languages” (Sat 17 Feb 2018) Symposium: Affect and Intelligence (Sun 25 Mar 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar”, The 2nd Meeting (Sun 11 Feb 2018) LingDy Forum: Talk on Turkish Sign Language (Fri 9 Mar 2018) ILCAA Forum (Thu 8 Mar 2018) Lecture: Photo exhibition from Malta “EXODUS ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN” (Fri 9 Mar 2018) Gallery Talk: Photo exhibition from Malta “EXODUS ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN” (Wed 7 Mar 2018) Workshop: Early Photography in Iran (Sun 4 Feb 2018) Workshop: After the “Refugee Crisis” in Europe: The case of Germany (Sat 3 Feb 2018) Photo exhibition from Malta “EXODUS ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN” (Tue 30 Jan–Sun 11 Mar 2018) Workshop “Jews and the Center/Margin of the Contemporary Society” (Tue 30 Jan 2018) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 13: Introduction to Researching Grammar in Conversation (Tue 13–Wed 14 Feb 2018) The 2nd Colloquium on the Field Science: Fieldwork on Fieldwork (Fri 16 Feb 2018) Follow-up meeting on ILC 2011 (Sibe) /The 7th meeting on Sibe language and linguistics (Sun 11 Feb 2018) Information Resources Center (IRC) 20th Anniversary Seminar ‘Digital humanities: The state of arts’ (Thu 15 Feb 2018) UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society of Asia (Mon 5 Feb 2018) The Religiosity and Modernity of the Baul Tradition in Bengal: Changing Faces of Baul in the Era of Globalisation -2 (Sat 27 Jan 2018) Remembering Village after 50 Years: Reconsidering an Ethnography by the late Professor Tadahiko Hara (Fri 26 Jan 2018) New Staff (Suraratdecha Sumittra, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 Jan 2018) Fraternization and boudary: Feast, Drinking, Speech act in East Eurasia (Sat 17 Feb 2018) Open Lecture for Japanese by KKLO (Sat 27 Jan 2018) The 10th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics / Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, The 2nd Meeting (Sat 20–Sun 21 Jan 2018) Field Linguistics Workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 12: Locative verbs (Thu 25 Jan 2018) Fieldnet Lounge Seminar 2017 Open spaces for “food” and “agriculture” created through bottom-up activities by local residents: Methodology to find and analyze the spaces (Sat 20 Jan 2018) International Workshop “Varieties of Malayic Languages” / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Research on Varieties of Malayic Languages”, The 3rd Meeting (Tue 19–Thu 21 Dec 2017) New Staff (Bojun SUN, Visiting Professor, 1 Dec 2017) Lecture Event Meaning of the Hadith Studies in the Contemporary World (Sat 23 Dec 2017) Institute-wide Research Program “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa”, the 2nd Meeting. (Thu 18 Jan 2018) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies in Asian Geolinguistics” The 7th meeting (Sat 16–Sun 17 Dec 2017) Symposium: Buddhism in shaping India-Japan Relations (Sat 23 Dec 2017) Research group for Political Changes in the Middle East (Sat 16 Dec 2017) World of Children’s Books in Africa (Mon 4–Fri 22 Dec 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 5th meeting (Sun 10 Dec 2017) Symposium on Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions (Sat 2 Dec 2017) Follow-up meeting on ILC 2017 (Javanese) (Sat 18–Sun 19 Nov 2017) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2017 (Sun 26 Nov 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Fundamental Study on Ottoman Documents and Archives”, The 1st Meeting (Sat 25 Nov 2017) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Field note taking (1): Research purposes and field note (Wed 6 Dec 2017) New Staff (Michael Carter EWING, Visiting Professor, 1 Nov 2017) New Staff (Zhao LIU, Visiting Professor, 1 Nov 2017) New Staff (Yutaka YOSHIDA, Research Associate, 1 Nov 2017) Information Resources Center 20th Anniversary Symposium “Information resources and archiving in humanities” (Sat 9 Dec 2017) Family Transformation in Rapidly Developing Asia-Africa Societies Faced with Economic Disparity, Urbanization and War. (Sat 4–Sun 5 Nov 2017) The Meeting of International Joint Research by Female Researchers/5th Meeting Gender and Sexuality Research Team ‘African Potential’ and Overcoming the difficulties of modern world: Comprehensive are studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity” (JSPS grant-in-aid project (S)) (Thu 2 Nov 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey”, The 6th Meeting (Sat 28–Sun 29 Oct 2017) Kikisoso Tibet Fes Vol.3 (Fri 13–Sun 15 Oct 2017) Information Resources Center 20th Anniversary Workshop “Competitive performance: Folklore of Reunion Island (region of France in the Indian Ocean) VS Classic Rakugo” (Tue 21 Nov 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution”, The 5th Meeting (Sat 2–Sun 3 Dec 2017) Information Resources Center 20th Anniversary Workshop : “Music and folklore of Reunion Island (region of France in the Indian Ocean)” (Fri 17 Nov 2017) Year 2018–2019 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (Deadline: Thu 30 Nov 2017) LingDy Forum “Lectures on languages of the North” (Tue 24 Oct 2017) The First Colloquium on the Field Science: Risk, Hazard and Resilience (Fri 27 Oct 2017) Information Resources Center 20th Anniversary Workshop “Current situation of archival science -for maintenance and utilization of research materials” (Tue 7 Nov 2017) Information Resources Center 20 Year and Japanese Wikipedia 15 Year Anniversary Workshop ‘Translate the world!’ (Sat 28 Oct 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and semantics”, The 2nd meeting (Sat 7 Oct 2017) Buddhism in shaping India-Japan Relations (Sat 7 Oct 2017) International Workshop: Documenting Languages of Nusa Tenggara Timur (Thu 5–Fri 6 Oct 2017) International Seminar: Language Documentation: What do we need to know? (Wed 4 Oct 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (1): Multiplicity and Distributedness in Grammar”, The 1st Meeting (Sat 7–Sun 8 Oct 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Semantics of Discourse Particles in East and Southeast Asian Languages”, The 6th Meeting (Sat 7 Oct 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts”, The 2nd Meeting (Sat 14 Oct 2017) ILCAA Forum: A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Hungarian (Sat 26 Aug 2017) ILCAA Forum: A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Javanese (Tue 22 Aug 2017) ILCAA Forum: A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Javanese (Fri 4 Aug 2017) Exhibition Présence Africaine: “A Forum, a Movement, a Network” (Thu 17–Thu 31 Aug 2017) Internationl Symposium, Présence Africaine : Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives Identities, memories and resistances between Africa, Europe and the Americas from colonization to post-colony / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 7th meeting (Tue 22–Thu 24 Aug 2017) Joint-Research Workshop on languages spoken in Sabah state, Malaysia (Fri 11–Thu 17 Aug 2017) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2017–18 (Deadline: Fri 29 Sep 2017) (in Japanese) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies”, The 3rd Meeting (Thu 7–Fri 8 Sep 2017) International Symposium: Art and Affect in Africa (Sat 19 Aug 2017) Open meeting: Studies in Asian Geolinguistics” The 6th meeting (Sat 5–Sun 6 Aug 2017) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (14–17 Sep 2017) Call for Application (Fri 21 Jul 2017) (in Japanese) The 50th Year after the Occupation 1967 “Whither the ‘Peace Process’? Towards reconstruction of Palestinian society” (Wed 5 Jul 2017) New Staff (Akimitsu IKEDA, Research Associate, 1 Jul 2017) The 50th Year after the Occupation 1967 “Considering the Past and Present of Palestine/Israel: 100 Years after the Balfour Declaration and 50 Years after the Occupation 1967” (Sun 9 Jul 2017) The 50th Year after the Occupation 1967 “Conversation: Israel’s Occupation of Palestine and its Impact on Israeli Society” (Thu 6 Jul 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Aspects of Agglutination in Turkic Languages: An Integrated Approach of Phonology, Morphosyntax and semantics”, The 1st meeting (Sat 22 Jul 2017) The 50th Year after the Occupation 1967 “The Influence of the Occupation in 1967 to the Present” (Sun 2 Jul 2017) Symposium on Media, Cross-nationality, Idnetity: Culture of the Global Era/ Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture and Identity of Children Raised in Transnational Household”, The 5th meeting (Fri 7 Jul 2017) Exhibition “Yak, Milk and Women -- Life of Tibetan Pastoralists” (Thu 8 Jun–Sun 2 Jul 2017) LingDy Forum: Talks by LingDy3 research associates (Tue 18 Jul 2017) FIELDPLUS Talk Show “A Half-Century Chronicle of Transformations in Hunter-Gatherer Life in the Kalahari Desert” (Sat 15 Jul 2017) Rethinking Frontiers of South Asia (Wed 28 Jun 2017) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Basis of the data annotation software ELAN (Wed 5 Jul 2017) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2017-18 (Deadline: Mon 3 Jul 2017) (in Japanese) Screening and Lecture “An Adventure Surrounding Yak and Milk” (Sat 17–Sun 18 Jun 2017) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Linguistics) (Deadline: Thu 31 Aug 2017) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Area Studies/ History) (Deadline: Thu 31 Aug 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 4th meeting (Sat 22 Jul 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution”, The 4th Meeting (Sat 8–Sun 9 Jul 2017) Photo exhibition: Central Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers in 1960s and 1970s (Thu 6–Fri 28 Jul 2017) International Symposium “Art and Disability: The cases from Africa and Asia” (Sun 25 Jun 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 6th Meeting (Sat 17 Jun 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization”, The 5th meeting (Sat 10 Jun 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture and Identity of Children Raised in Transnational Household”, The 4th meeting (Sat 20 May 2017) ILCAA Forum (Thu 15 Jun 2017) Tibetan Literature Night (Fri 2 Jun 2017) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 1 Jul 2017) (in Japanese) LingDy Forum “Questions under Discussion in Austronesian corpus data” (Sat 27 May 2017) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Thu 6 Jul 2017) Screening and Lectures “An Adventure Surrounding Yak and Milk” (Sat 13–Sun 14 May 2017) Exhibition “Yak, Milk and Women -- Life of Tibetan Pastoralists” (Wed 10–Sun 21 May 2017) Screening of Masterpieces of Tibetan Films commemorating the release of “The River” (Sat 6–Fri 12 May 2017) New Staff Hayato AOI, Research Associate, 1 April 2017) New Staff Miki KOBAYASHI, Research Associate, 1 April 2017) New Staff Satoshi OGURA, Assistant Professor, 1 April 2016) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (15-17 December, 2017) Call for application (deadline: Fri 6 Oct 2017) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (14-17 September, 2017) Call for application (deadline: Fri 23 Jun 2017) (in Japanese) Public lecture of Dr. Joseph A. Kechichian (Tue 4 Apr 2017) TUFS Cinema Screening of Masterpieces of Tibetan Films commemorating the release of The River (15 April 2017, Sat., 22 April 2017, Sat.) Call for participants : Short-term Intensive Language Course 2017 Special program on Readings of Ancient Chinese Administrative Tablet Documents (in Japanese) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2017 (in Japanese) New Staff (ARKA, I Wayan, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 March 2017) Field linguistics workshop: Grammatical Studies Workshops 11: Lecture and Practical session on GRAID: Annotating corpora for research on referentiality across typologically diverse languages (Tue 21–Wed 22 Mar 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 9th meeting (Mon 27 Mar 2017) International workshop for Documenting endangered languages in the Nusa Tenggara Timur Province in Indonesia / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia” The 9th meeting (Fri 24–Thu 30 Mar 2017) Film Workshop “Messages from Paradise” (Thu 30 Mar 2017) 2nd Film Screening Meeting: “Protesters on the Street” (Mon 13 Mar 2017) Screening of a Tibetan Documentary Film “A Day of Tibetan Pastoraists” (Sat 11 Mar 2017) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Wed 29 Mar 2017) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Two-day lecture and workshop on “linguistic fieldwork and language documentation” (Tue 14–Wed 15 Mar 2017) International Symposium on Language Documentation and Corpus Linguistic / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Constructing a research network for documenting minority languages in and around Indonesia” The 8th meeting (Fri 10 Mar 2017) [Speakers are now being called] Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives Identities, memories and resistances between Africa, Europe and the Americas from colonization to post-colony / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 6th meeting (23-24 August 2017) (Deadline: Wed 15 Mar 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The Second Term)”, The 10th Meeting (Fri 31 Mar 2017) ILCAA Forum (Thu 9 Mar 2017) LingDy Forum (Thu 2 Mar 2017) New Staff (RIESTER, Arndt, Visiting Senior Researcher, 1 February 2017) New Staff (LOMO MYAZHIOM, Aggée, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 February 2017) LingDy Forum: Talks by LingDy3 research associates (Tue 28 Mar 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam (The Second Term)”, The 2nd meeting (Sun 19 Mar 2017) LingDy Forum “On grammaticalization processes in Ao: Sources, pathways and functional extensions” (Wed 1 Mar 2017) Screening of a Tibetan Documentary Film “A Day of Tibetan Pastoraists” (Sun 19 Feb 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization”, The 4th meeting (Wed 15 Feb 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 5th Meeting (Sat 25–Sun 26 Mar 2017) New Staff (Yuko OSANAI, Research Associate, 1 February 2017) Exhibition “Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists” (Mon 13 Feb–Sat 11 Mar 2017 *Closed on weekends except 18 Feb., 19 Feb. and 11 Mar.) The third Colloquium on the Field Science (Sun 12 Feb 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution”, The 3rd Meeting (Sat 25–Sun 26 Mar 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture and Identity of Children Raised in Transnational Household” The 3rd meeting (Sat 25 Feb 2017) International symposium “Archiving Tibetan Pastoralists’ Present Time” / ILCAA Joint Research Project “Assessing Micro Level Linkages between Humans, Livestock, and the Environment in Amdo, Tibet” The 8th meeting (Sat 18–Sun 19 Feb 2017) International Workshop on Bantu Micro-variations / Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 3rd meeting (Fri 3 Mar 2017) Internatinal Study Meeting “Focusing on the single: thinking of the Nun in India” (Tue 7 Feb 2017) UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society of Asia and Africa (Thu 9 Mar 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies”, The 2nd Meeting (Fri 3–Sat 4 Mar 2017) A Followup meeting of Old Javanese Intensive Language Course (Sun 5–Mon 6 Feb 2017) Open lecture for Japanese residents in Jakarta “Balinese Performing Arts: Dance, Music, and Pray in daily life” (Sat 4 Feb 2017) International Symposium “Violence, Ritual, and Gender: Case Studies in South Sudan and Northern Uganda” (Sun 5 Feb 2017) International Academic Meeting “Toward the Co-existence of Various ‘Single’ in the Global Societies” (Thu 2–Sat 4 Feb 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History” The 9th meeting (Sun 5 Mar 2017) International Workshop “State and Shari`a in the Pre-20 Century Middle East” (Sat 18 Feb 2017) Research Meeting, Political Changes in the Middle East (Sat 28 Jan 2017) Research Meeting, Making of the Middle Eastern and Muslim Societies through Human Mobility and Cultural Contacts (Sun 22 Jan 2017) Workshop (KAKENHI Project “Aspects of Tibeto-Burman Languages through analysis of the Directional prefixes”): Directional prefix of Tibeto-Burman languages (Sun 22 Jan 2017) International workshop: Studies of Tibet-Burman languages, based on the corpus: Tibetan and Tangut (Sat 21 Jan 2017) FIELDPLUS café “A Nomadic Life in Contemporary Amdo Tibet” Screening with a commentary and lecture (Wed 18 Jan 2017) Book Review Symposium: “Others: The Evolution of Human Sociality” (Sat 4 Feb 2017) Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop: Three-day lecture and workshop on data management and archive (Mon 16–Wed 18 Jan 2017) Fieldnet Lounge “The Biography of Poison: Reconsidering Fieldwork Methods in the Contemporary World through Interdisciplinary Approaches” (Sat 21 Jan 2017) Institute-wide Research Program “Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa”, the 1st Meeting. (Thu 15 Dec 2016) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Thu 9 Feb 2017) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization”, The 3rd meeting / KAKENHI (#16H05662), The 1st meeting (Sat 10 Dec 2016) New Staff (Mayumi ADACHI, Research Associate, 1 December 2016) The 9th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics (Sat 7–Sun 8 Jan 2017) Lecture for the Japan Club of Kota Kinabalu by Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (Sat 7 Jan 2017) Political Changes in the Middle East (Sat 17 Dec 2016) Public Lecture: Jiro Ose (photojournalist) “Places and People, Close to Home and Heart” / Julia Anne Zajkowski (Senior Resettlement Office, UNHCR) “Current Refugee Situation in Central and East Africa” (Tue 27 Dec 2016) Symposium “Disaster Relief and Community Development in Bangladesh” (Sun 11 Dec 2016) Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions” (Fri 9 Dec 2016) Field linguistics workshop: An introduction to language map making with ArcGIS (Wed 7 Dec 2016) Jiro Ose Photo Exibition: Places and Peoples Afar, Close to Home and Heart (Mon 5 Dec 2016–Fri 20 Jan 2017 *Closed on weekends, holidays and 29 Dec. 2016 - 3 Jan. 2017) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution”, The 2nd Meeting (Sat 3–Sun 4 Dec 2016) Fieldnet Lounge: Aging, as “Social Problem” or “Human Experience” (Sun 4 Dec 2016) The fifth LingDy Forum in 2016 (Tue 15 Nov 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 2nd meeting (Sat 17 Dec 2016) International workshop on language documentation of Indoensian languages (Mon 28–Wed 30 Nov 2016) Field Linguistics Café -Languages and Cultures in Asia (Sat 19–Wed 23 Nov 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey”, The 5th Meeting (Sat 19–Sun 20 Nov 2016) Arakawa, Shintaro (Associate Professor) was awarded the 44th Kindaichi Kyosuke Memorial Prize (October 2016) Symposium: On Anthropology of Things: Possibility and Challenge of “Anthropology beyond Human” (Sat 12 Nov 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia: Cross-Linguistic Comparative Studies of Literary and Religious Texts”, The 1st Meeting (Sun 11 Dec 2016) Open meeting : ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Mongolic languages in Hexi corridor based on published material”, The 5th meeting (Sat 12–Sun 13 Nov 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religion as Reflected in Javanese Texts (2): Rethinking the Process of Islamization”, The 2nd meeting (Sun 6 Nov 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History” The 8th meeting (Sat 19 Nov 2016) “Le Petit Prince” in the world’s languages (Sat 19–Wed 23 Nov 2016) 【Call for participants (Deadline:November 9, 2016) 】 The 3rd Language Documentation Training Workshop in Miyako, Okinawa (17-23 February 2017) New Staff (Tun Aung Kyaw, Visiting Professor, 1 September 2016) New Staff (RAHAYU, Yosephin Apriastuti, Visiting Lecturer, 1 October 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 8th meeting (Sat 19 Nov 2016) The fourth LingDy Forum in 2016 (Fri 11 Nov 2016) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar 2016 (Sun 6 Nov 2016) The future of Lebanese and Syrian migration studies (Mon 24 Oct 2016) Year 2017–2018 Call for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (by Visiting Researcher) (Deadline: Wed 30 Nov 2016) The 1st international conference on Sibe language and culture (Wed 26–Sun 30 Oct 2016) Dhaka Gulshan Attack and the Young Generation in Bangladesh (Sun 9 Oct 2016) Professor Tatsuo NAKAMI was elected an Honorary Member of the International Association for Mongol Studies (24 August 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam (The Second Term)”, The 1st meeting (Sat 1 Oct 2016) Field linguistics workshop: Technical Workshop: Praat Workshop for beginners (Wed 5 Oct 2016) Follow-up meeting on ILC 2016 (Ryukyuan) / Meeting on compiling deliverables of the ILC 2016 (Ryukyuan) (Wed 21 Sep 2016) The Daido Life Foundation Encouragement Award for Area Studies, as Anthropological and political study of the Palestinian refugees in Diaspora in the Middle East, to Aiko NISHIKIDA, Associate Professor. (22 July 2016) The Intercultural Understanding Programs of Tibetan Culture 2016 (Sun 2 Oct 2016) Screening of a Tibetan Documentary Film “Bringing Tibet Home” (Tue 13 Sep 2016) ILCAA Forum: A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Hindi (Thu 8–Fri 9 Sep 2016) ILCAA Forum:A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Ryukyuan (Mon 29 Aug 2016) ILCAA Forum:A Cultural lecture in the Intensive Language Course of Ryukyuan (Mon 22 Aug 2016) Public lectures: Fifteen years after September 11 (Sun 11 Sep 2016) International Workshop on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (Sun 28 Aug 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies” The 1st Meeting (Thu 1–Fri 2 Sep 2016) Call for application for Short-term Joint Researchers (due NLT: Mon 29 Aug 2016) (in Japanese only) Symposium “Resilience of Tibetan Civlization” (Sat 17 Sep 2016) The Revitalized World of the Ainu Language from Fifty Years Ago-Professor Suzuko Tamura’s Recordings and Photos of the Meeting for “YUKAR” held by Kaneto Kawamura and the ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Kawamura Kaneto Ainu museum (Sat 6 Aug 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 4th Meeting (Sat 30 Jul 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History” The 7th Meeting (Sat 23 Jul 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa: From the Viewpoint of Indigenous Agricultural Revolution”, The 1st Meeting (Sat 23–Sun 24 Jul 2016) FIELDPLUS café “In search of human-computer relationship : On the interaction between shogi player and software in the modern shogi”(Thu 7 Jul 2016) ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of the Accent and Intonation of Korean Dialects”, The 7th Meeting / Japanese and Korean accent: diachrony, reconstruction, and typology (Sat 2–Sun 3 Jul 2016) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Wed 31 Aug 2016) (in Japanese only) Screenings of Masterpieces of Tibetan films commemorating the release of “The Path of the Soul” – “The Sun Beaten Path” (Thu 14 Jul 2016) Screenings of Masterpieces of Tibetan films commemorating the release of “The Path of the Soul” – “The Silent Holy Stones” (Thu 7 Jul 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The Second Term)”, The 7th Meeting (Sat 16 Jul 2016) Call for participants of Field linguistics workshop: Technical Workshop (6 July 2016) (Deadline: Mon 4 Jul 2016) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2016-17 (Deadline: Mon 4 Jul 2016) (in Japanese) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Area Studies/ History on South Asia) (Deadline: Fri 19 Aug 2016) The third LingDy Forum in 2016 (Tue 5 Jul 2016) ILCAA Forum (Thu 16 Jun 2016) Lecture on the modern history of Central Eurasia by Dr. Jampeissova (Wed 29 Jun 2016) International workshop of Middle East and Islamic Studies (Sat 25 Jun 2016) The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 23) (Fri 10–Sun 12 Jun 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey”, The 4th Meeting (Sat 4–Sun 5 Jun 2016) Public symposium: “Japanese and Korean accent: diachrony, reconstruction, and typology” (Sat 2–Sun 3 Jul 2016) (in English/Japanese) Field Science Colloquium: Fieldwork and Disasters (Fri 17 Jun 2016) Follow-up Meeting on ILC 2011 (Sibe) / The 6th Meeting on Sibe Language and Linguistics (Sun 22 May 2016) ILCAA Forum (Thu 19 May 2016) Anthropological Studies of Regime Change (Fri 20–Sat 21 May 2016) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 9 Jul 2016) (in Japanese) The second LingDy Forum in 2016 (Tue 26 Apr 2016) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (16-18 December, 2016) Call for application (deadline: Fri 7 Oct 2016) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (18-21 September, 2016) Call for application (deadline: Fri 24 Jun 2016) (in Japanese) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Child Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture and Identity of Children Raised in Transnational Household” The 1st meeting (Sat 23 Apr 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (Phase 1) ” The 1st meeting (Sun 17 Apr 2016) New Staff (Yukako YOSHIDA, Assistant Professor, 1 April 2016) New Staff (Kazue HOSODA, Assistant Professor, 1 April 2016) New Staff (Daisuke SHINAGAWA, Associate Professor, 1 April 2016) New Staff (Masahiko TOGAWA, Associate Professor, 1 April 2016) New Staff (Jin NODA, Associate Professor, 1 April 2016) The first LingDy Forum in 2016 (Tue 5 Apr 2016) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2016 (in Japanese) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar”, The 8th Meeting (Tue 22–Wed 23 Mar 2016) International workshop “Authority, Legitimacy, and Historiography in the Ottoman Empire” (Sat 9 Apr 2016) Film Screening meeting, “Lebanon 1949: The Newborn State on Film” (Tue 22 Mar 2016) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Wed 30 Mar 2016) UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society of Asia and Africa (Mon 21 Mar 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam”, The 7th Meeting (Sun 13 Mar 2016) ILCAA Forum (Thu 10 Mar 2016) New Staff (Shu HIRATA, Research Associates, 1 March 2016) ILCAA Forum / ILCAA Joint Research Project “The new boundary-crossing approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents (2): Change and Duration in the Qin and Han as seen through a Comparison of Wooden Tablets from the Qin site of Liye and North-west Border Area of Han” The 28th meeting (Fri 11 Mar 2016) [Speakers are now being called] Field Linguistics Workshop (Special gathering) (Thu 24 Mar 2016) Vulnerability and Resilience: Ecology of Non-Dominant Groups on the Middle East (Thu 10 Mar 2016) Lecture by Dr. Malek Sharif, “Swimming against the currents: On the unpublished memoirs of an Arab-Ottoman officer during WWI” (Fri 19 Feb 2016) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Tue 15 Mar 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts”, The 12th Meeting (Sat 5 Mar 2016) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The Second Term)”, The 6th Meeting (Sun 21 Feb 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 3rd meeting (Sat 5 Mar 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies (the second term)” The 5th meeting (Tue 16–Wed 17 Feb 2016) New Staff (JUKES, Anthony Robert, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1 February 2016) International Workshop: Islam, Kingship, and Legitimacy in South Asia / Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 7th meeting (Fri 18 Mar 2016) Lecture of Dr. Azfar Moin (Tue 15 Mar 2016) A Followup meeting of Intensive Language Course on Cham (Fri 5–Sat 6 Feb 2016) Information Resources Center (IRC) Workshop “Exploring an approach to language as a complex system”International Workshop (Fri 4 Mar 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History”, The 6th Meeting (Sun 27 Mar 2016) ILCAA Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Symposium “Food and Agriculture of Africa in Historical Perspective”/ Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives (2)”, The 10th Meeting (Sun 13 Mar 2016) Workshop: A Crosslinguistic Study of Nominalizer-final Constructions: The “Cogitation Process” Approach / ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Crosslinguistic Study of Nominalizer-final Constructions: The ‘Cogitation Process’ Approach”, The 9th Meeting (Sat 23 Jan 2016) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Wed 3 Feb 2016) Symposium “Current Situation of Contemporary Tibetan Literature and Film Making” (Sat 30–Sun 31 Jan 2016) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “How Globalized Maasai Image is Made? With an Attention to Maasai’s Own Expression” (Thu 28 Jan 2016) [open meeting -> closed meeting]Workshop “Current Situation of Contemporary Tibetan Literature and Film Making” (Wed 27–Thu 28 Jan 2016) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “African Animation: Challenge for The Expression” (Thu 21 Jan 2016) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar” The 7th Meeting (Sun 31 Jan 2016) [Venue change]The Third International Workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages / Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 9th meeting (Thu 18–Sat 20 Feb 2016) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey” (Sat 9–Sun 10 Jan 2016) Field Linguistics Cafe -The Buryat people: Language and Culture (Thu 14 Jan 2016) Fieldnet Lounge “Dress / Society / Body: Comparative Cross-Cultural Research through Fieldwork” (Sun 10 Jan 2016) Lecture for the Japan Club of Kota Kinabalu by Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (Sat 9 Jan 2016) Prof. Sunil Sharma’s Lecture (Fri 8 Jan 2016) Fieldnet Lounge “Muslim Minorities and Nation-States in Russia and China: Multicultural Practices and Challenges in the Twentieth Century as a Period of Political Changes” (Sat 9 Jan 2016) International Workshop: Court, Literature and Power in the Early Modern Persianate World / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 6th meeting (Mon 11 Jan 2016) The 8th Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 6th meeting (Sat 9–Sun 10 Jan 2016) ILCAA Forum (Thu 17 Dec 2015) The 2nd Field Science Colloquium Workshop (Sat 26 Dec 2015) JCAS Next-Generation Workshop “Changing Territories and Area Studies: Rethinking Sudan in the aftermath of its break up” (Fri 18 Dec 2015) International Symposium “Diversity of the Meaning of Being ‘Single’ in the Global Societies : Drastic Changes of the Way of Life, Human Relations, and Kinship” (Sat 12–Sun 13 Dec 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “Logic of symbiosis based on individualism: From the daily life of pastoralists in East Africa” (Fri 18 Dec 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “Reflecting on the impact and threat of technology in Africa” (Tue 15 Dec 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 10 Dec 2015) Screening of a Tibetan film “The Sacred Arrow” (Fri 27 Nov 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts”, The 11th Meeting (Mon 23 Nov 2015) Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sat 9 Jan 2016) Symposium: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: Understanding Other Culture Through Facial- and Body Expression (Sun 13 Dec 2015) The 2nd International workshop 2015: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives (Wed 2 Dec 2015) Fieldlinguistics Café -“Le Petit Prince” in languages around the world (Thu 19–Mon 23 Nov 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 12 Nov 2015) New Staff (Nobuko KOYA, Research Associates, 2 November 2015) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar” The 6th Meeting (Sun 6 Dec 2015) New Staff (CHANROCHANAKIT, Pandit, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1 September 2015) New Staff (BADAGAROV, Zhargal Bayandalaevich, Visiting Lecturer, 1 September 2015) New Staff (New Staff (BOWDEN, Frederick John, Visiting Indonesia Director, 1 September 2015) New Staff (WIERINGA, Edwin Paul, Visiting Professor, 15 October 2015) New Staff (SONG, Huaqiang, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 September 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History”, The 5th Meeting (Sun 15 Nov 2015) 【Venue change】Screening of “Nowhere To Call Home” (Sun 1 Nov 2015) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 8th meeting (Sun 25 Oct 2015) Field linguistics workshop: Video production for linguistic studies (Wed 18 Nov 2015) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (18-20 December, 2015) Call for application (deadline: Fri 13 Nov 2015) (in Japanese) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “Life story on Education and Family in African Village: School Attendance of Daughters and Reinterpretation of Life in Maale Society in Ethiopia” (Wed 4 Nov 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “Problems in Africa should be solved by African ourselves: The case just started in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya” (Mon 2 Nov 2015) Exhibition ”Typewriters for Asian scripts” (Mon 26 Oct–Fri 27 Nov 2015) Public Lecture “Orientalism at the Russian Consulate in Beirut?: Konstantin Petkovich’s Lebanon and the Lebanese (1885)” (Fri 16 Oct 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey” (Sat 10–Sun 11 Oct 2015) Call for participants of DocLing2016 (The application must arrive no later than noon, Mon 30 Nov 2015(Japan Standard Time).) 【Call for participants】The 2nd Language Documentation Training in Miyako, Okinawa (16–22 December 2015, Wed.–Tue.) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Presence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 2nd meeting (Sat 3 Oct 2015) International Workshop: CURRENT ISSUES IN RESEARCH ON LANGUAGES IN BORNEO AND MALAY LANGUAGE (Mon 7 Sep 2015) New Staff (Kazuhiro OKADA, Research Associates, 1 September 2015) Symposium of the Japan Consortium for Area Studies in 2015 “Challenging the borders by area studies” (Sun 1 Nov 2015) ILCAA Forum: Yuka KANEKO (Japan International Volunteer Center) “Life in the Gaza Strip, Free from hostilities” (Mon 10 Aug 2015) ILCAA Forum: Akiko SUGASE (National Museum of Ethnology) “The cultural characteristics of Historical Palestine” (Fri 4 Sep 2015) ILCAA Forum: Takashi KOEZUKA (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University) “Candi Borobudur and Candi Prambanan: Two Towering Monuments in Central Java.” (Fri 28 Aug 2015) ILCAA Forum: Sumio FUKAMI (Momoyama Gakuin University) “Centrality of Java: History and Ecology” (Fri 21 Aug 2015) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2015-16 (Deadline: Mon 28 Sep 2015) (in Japanese) Beirut Seminar “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan: The State of the Art (No.10)” (27 November, 2015) Call for application (deadline: Mon 7 Sep 2015) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Fri 15 Jan 2016) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (21-24 September, 2015) Call for application (deadline: Fri 24 Jul 2015) (in Japanese) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Anthropology) (Deadline: Mon 14 Sep 2015) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Linguistics) (Deadline: Mon 14 Sep 2015) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (KKLO: Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office) (Deadline: Mon 14 Sep 2015) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Islam/Muslims in Modern Asia) (Deadline: Mon 14 Sep 2015) Symposium “Human Rights and Citizenship of Foreigners” (Sat 25 Jul 2015) FIELDPLUS café “Calculating chronograms in Arabic letters” (Thu 16 Jul 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 9 Jul 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 5th meeting (Sun 12 Jul 2015) The 1st Field Science Colloquium Workshop (Fri 10 Jul 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts”, The 9th Meeting (Sat 20 Jun 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “How can we encounter the African deep everyday world:A study on the nature of sensibility, creativity and ‘dividuality’ in African ‘popular art’” (Thu 18 Jun 2015) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (JaCMES) (Deadline: Mon 31 Aug 2015) (in Japanese only) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Mon 31 Aug 2015) (in Japanese only) ILCAA Forum (Thu 2 Jul 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Presence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives” The 1st meeting (Sat 20 Jun 2015) International Workshop on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (Sun 27 Sep 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 25 Jun 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “Urban-rural relationships in contemporary Africa:Changing livelihood and the interaction with local city in a Zambian rural area” (Thu 2 Jul 2015) Field Linguistics Workshop: Linguistic fieldwork training workshop: Miyako Ryukyuan (Tue 14–Fri 17 Jul 2015) Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” : “Taiwan niokeru Minshu Kirisutokyo no Jinruigaku” by Yohei FUJINO (Sat 4 Jul 2015) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (The Second Term)”, The 4th Meeting (Sun 5 Jul 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History”, The 4th Meeting (Sat 20 Jun 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam”, The 6th Meeting (Sun 7 Jun 2015) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2015-16 (Deadline: Mon 22 Jun 2015) (in Japanese) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 27 Jun 2015) Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sun 7 Jun 2015) International Workshop: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Wed 27 May 2015) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 7th meeting (Sun 10 May 2015) Field Linguistics Workshop : Grammatical Studies Workshops 10― Polysemy of nominal plural markers: genuine plural, associative plural, vagueness and illustration (Sun 31 May 2015) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Mon 13 Jul 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “The case-marking systems in Ryukyuan: a typological survey” (Sat 9–Sun 10 May 2015) The Documentary Linguistics Seminar -Introduction to Documentary Linguistics- (Mon 18–Thu 21 May 2015) Lecture on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Fri 1 May 2015) Call for application for Short-term Joint Researchers due NLT: Mon 25 May 2015) (in Japanese only) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (18-20 December, 2015) Call for application (deadline: Fri 2 Oct 2015) (in Japanese) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (21-24 September, 2015) Call for application (deadline: Fri 26 Jun 2015) (in Japanese) ILCAA Forum (Thu 16 Apr 2015) New Staff (Yohei KONDO, Research Associates, 1 April 2015) Call for participants : Intensive Language Course 2015, Old Javanese International workshop: Persian and Chinese Historiography in the Mongol Empire (Wed 8 Apr 2015) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Tue 7 Apr 2015) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Fri 27 Mar 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 19 Mar 2015) Syria-Japan Expert Meeting for Safeguarding Syrian Cultural Heritage (Mon 16 Mar 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 12 Mar 2015) Workshop on Linguistic Studies based on Spoken Discourse (Mon 16 Mar 2015) JaCMES Lecture Series:The Middle East and Japan No.10 “Arab Uprisings Reconsidered from Lebanese and Japanese Points of View” (Thu 19 Mar 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 9th meeting (Sat 28 Mar 2015) Fieldnet Lounge/ feed × field: Considering social relations through feeding behaviors (Sat 28 Feb 2015) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam”, The 5th Meeting (Sun 22 Mar 2015) ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar” The 5th Meeting (Thu 19 Mar 2015) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History”, The 3rd Meeting /Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Thu 26 Feb 2015) International Workshop “Early Modern Iran: The Safavids, Qajars and Waqf” (21 February 2015, Sat.) / Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 4th meeting (Sat 21–Sun 22 Feb 2015) A Screening of Tibetan Documentary “Valley of the Heroes” (Sun 8 Feb 2015) Screenings of Tibetan Documentary Films (Wed 4 Feb 2015) The Second International Workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages / ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 6th meeting (Wed 11–Fri 13 Feb 2015) International Symposium “Transformation of Religions as reflected in Javanese texts” / ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts” The 8th Meeting (Wed 11–Fri 13 Feb 2015) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting, “For Connecting Producers in Rural Africa to Global Distribution Chains: A Form of Handgraft Production Viewed from the Perspective of Brokers in Northern Gahna” (Tue 3 Feb 2015) A Followup meeting of Amdo Tibetan Intensive Language Course (Sun 8 Feb 2015) Lecture of Prof. Christoph Werner (Wed 18 Feb 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar”, The 4th Meeting (Sun 8 Feb 2015) [Venue and Time change] The 2nd Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: “SHOYU TO BUNPAI NO JINRUIGAKU” by Keiichiro MATSUMURA. (Fri 30 Jan 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 15 Jan 2015) International Workshop: Central Asian Documents Preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences / ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Society in Dunhuang based on the studies of multilingual sources newly discovered” The 3rd meeting (Tue 24–Wed 25 Mar 2015) “How humans produce nature: the heterogeneous and the universal―Kyoko Nakamura Japanese painting exhibition (ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Modes of Articulation of Local Societies to Contemporary Science as Ways of Thought and Practice”) (Sat 24 Jan–Sat 7 Feb 2015) Fieldnet Lounge/The Workshop: How Should Researchers Be Involved in Wildlife Conservation? (Sat 10 Jan 2015) ILCAA Forum (Thu 11 Dec 2014) Film Meeting “Lebanon 1949: A New State in a Film Shot by a Migrant Family” (Thu 11 Dec 2014) Field Linguistics Workshop : Grammatical Studies Workshops 9― Copulas and Existential Expressions (3) (Sun 11 Jan 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” The 9th meeting (Sat 31 Jan 2015) Call for participants for DocLing2015(Deadline:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (in Japan Standard Time), Mon 15 Dec 2014) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting (Thu 18 Dec 2014) The 14th Field Science Colloquium (Fri 5 Dec 2014) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 8th meeting (Sun 7 Dec 2014) Professor Ritva LAURY Public lecture (Fri 28 Nov 2014) ILCAA Forum (Thu 20 Nov 2014) International workshop on Tight and Loose Grammar / Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar”, The 3rd Meeting (Sat 29–Sun 30 Nov 2014) Fieldnet Lounge/The Workshop: Tibetan Mobility: Transnationality, Locality and Agency (Mon 24 Nov 2014) New Staff (ADELAAR, K. Alexander, Visiting Professor, 1 September 2014) New Staff (THUFAIL, Fadjar Ibnu, Visiting Professor, 1 October 2014) New Staff (Ochirbat Sambuudorj, Visiting Professor, 1 October 2014) New Staff (ROBSON, Stuart Owen, Visiting Professor, 1 September 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Sources for African History”, The 2nd Meeting /Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Sat 29 Nov 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 2nd meeting (Sun 23 Nov 2014) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project ”A Reflection of Anthropological Studies on Population Movements: Focusing on Women Experiences as an Interface and “Diasporic Space” in Southeast Aisan “Chinese Communities.“ The 2nd meeting (Sat 22 Nov 2014) Practical course in audio data processing: making a basic vocabulary with audio. (Sun 7 Dec 2014) Field Linguistics Workshop:Grammatical Studies Workshops 8― Copulas and Existential Expressions (2) (Sat 6 Dec 2014) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting (Sat 6 Dec 2014) Symposium: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: The Book Review and Discussion of “Seido:Jinruishakai no Shinka (Practices, Conventions and Institutions: The Evolution of Human Sociality)” ed. by Kaori KAWAI (2013). (Sat 6 Dec 2014) The 1st Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: “Gaarokoyre” by Yutaka SAKUMA. (Sun 30 Nov 2014) ILCAA Forum (Thu 9 Oct 2014) Exhibition “The Fifty Years of ILCAA and the Fields seen by its Staff” (Wed 1 Oct–Fri 26 Dec 2014) Multifaceted self and spatial imagination: Working discussion with Rawi HAGE (Fri 17 Oct 2014) Call for participants for DocLing2015(Deadline:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (in Japan Standard Time), Fri 21 Nov 2014) Workshop Dokumentasi Bahasa Daerah Kalimantan (Workshop on documenting languages of Kalimantan) (Tue 19–Thu 21 Aug 2014) Workshop on Language Documentation (Fri 15–Sat 16 Aug 2014) Oda, Jun’ichi (Professor) was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture (8 September 2014). Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 5th meeting (Sat 11 Oct 2014) A meeting for introducing colleagues (Fri 12 Sep 2014) ILCAA Forum: Mamoru HONDA (Toyo University) (Fri 12 Sep 2014) ILCAA Forum: Tadayoshi MURAKAMI (Associate Professor, Osaka University) (Tue 9 Sep 2014) ILCAA Forum: Marasri MIYAMOTO(Professor, Osaka University) (Tue 2 Sep 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” The 8th meeting (Sat 13 Sep 2014) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (deadline: Fri 22 Aug 2014) Open Meeting “Lebanese and Syrian Migrants in Americas” (Sat 26 Jul 2014) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Fri 16 Jan 2015) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts” The 5th meeting (Sat 2 Aug 2014) ILCAA Forum (Wed 16 Jul 2014) Sakuma, Yutaka (Assistant Professor, Dr.) received the Award for the Promotion of Studies on Developing Countries by IDE-JETRO (1 July 2014) ILCAA Forum (Thu 10 Jul 2014) Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sat 12 Jul 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” The 1st meeting (Sun 20 Jul 2014) Symposium:Anthropological Studies on the Intersection of Sense/Emotion/Affect and the Social (Sat 5 Jul 2014) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Fri 29 Aug 2014) (in Japanese only) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting (Mon 7 Jul 2014) Field Linguistics Workshop:Grammatical Studies Workshops 7― Copulas and Existential Expressions (1) (Sun 6 Jul 2014) Field Linguistics Workshop:How to Draw Linguistic Maps -Drawing Maps Using MANDARA (Sat 5 Jul 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 7th meeting (Sat 12 Jul 2014) FIELDPLUScafé “History and culture of the mountain peoples in the South-East Asia” (Thu 26 Jun 2014) Sakuma, Yutaka (Assistant Professor, Dr.) received the 26th African Studies Promotion Awards by the Japan Association for African Studies Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 28 Jun 2014) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2014-15 (Deadline: Mon 16 Jun 2014) (in Japanese) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting (Tue 10 Jun 2014) Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Fri 6 Jun 2014) Call for application for Short-term Joint Researchers (Deadline: Tue 27 May 2014) (in Japanese only) Exhibition “The Holy Land in Tranquility” (Mon 12 May–Fri 20 Jun 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” The 7th meeting (Sat 10 May 2014) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 4th meeting (Sat 19 Apr 2014) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (19-21 December, 2014) Call for application (deadline: Fri 3 Oct 2014) (in Japanese) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (deadline: Fri 11 Jul 2014) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (20-23 September, 2014) Call for application (deadline: Fri 20 Jun 2014) (in Japanese) Sakuma, Yutaka (Assistant Professor, Dr.) received Best Presentation Award at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ecological Anthropology. New Staff (Toshio MEGURO, Research Associates, 1 April 2014) New Staff (Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI, AssociateProfessor, 1 April 2014) New Staff (Norikazu KOGURA, Assistant Professor, 1 April 2014) International Workshop “Multifaceted Self and Spatial Imagination Observed in Lebanese and Syrian Migrant Literature” (Thu 27 Mar 2014) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Fri 28 Mar 2014) JaCMES Lecture Series: The Middle East and Japan No.9 “Calligraphic Beauty in Interaction” (Thu 13 Mar 2014) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Tue 15 Apr 2014) Fieldnet Lounge/The Symposium: Ethnography of Self-help Groups: Making sense of ‘self-help groups’ in comparative perspective (Sat 8 Mar 2014) Open meeting:ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 6th meeting (Sat 29 Mar 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” The 13th meeting (Tue 25 Mar 2014) Grammatical Studies Workshops 6― Plurality (2) (Tue 18 Mar 2014) New Staff (Borjigijin Ulaγan (Wulan), Visiting Professor, 1 February 2014) ILCAA Forum/Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others” The 13th meeting (Thu 20 Mar 2014) LingDy Public Lecture “Endangered languages: emerging issues in documentation, archiving and revitalization” (Wed 19 Feb 2014) Fieldnet Lounge/The Symposium: Local Memories through African wars -Cases of Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Nigeria- (Sat 1 Mar 2014) Fieldnet Lounge/Workshop: New Perspectives on the Relationship with Study Areas based on Modern Mongolian Studies (Sat 22 Feb 2014) The 13th Field Science Colloquium (Fri 7 Feb 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam”, The 3rd Meeting (Sun 9 Mar 2014) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar”, The 2nd Meeting (Sat 8 Mar 2014) Grammatical Studies Workshops 5― Plurality (1) (Sat 1 Feb 2014) ILCAA Forum (Thu 13 Feb 2014) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies”: Women, Race, and Colonialism: National Council of African Women in mid-20th Century South Africa. (Sat 1 Feb 2014) The 20th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Thu 23 Jan 2014) New Staff (Katsuhiko SHIOTA, Research Associates, 1 November 2013) International Workshop on Endangered Scripts of Island Southeast Asia (Thu 27 Feb–Sat 1 Mar 2014) New Staff (Shiho EBIHARA, Research Associates, 1 November 2013) New Staff (Yutaka SAKUMA, Research Associates, 1 November 2013) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” :The Change of African Peasant Livelihood: The Creativity and Difficulty in a rural village along a Conflict Country. (Thu 30 Jan 2014) The peer review process for FY2013 Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research was recognized to Masato IIZUKA, Professor (31 October 2013) Literature and Filmmaking in Modern Tibet / Pema Tseden Film Festival (Thu 5–Wed 11 Dec 2013) New Staff (PANGILINAN, Michael Raymon Manaloto, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 October 2013) New Staff (Shi Xiejie, Visiting Professor, 1 September 2013) New Staff (THUFAIL, Fadjar Ibnu, Visiting Professor, 1 November 2013) ILCAA Forum (Thu 12 Dec 2013) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Wed 22 Jan 2014) International workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages/ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 3rd meeting (Fri 13–Sun 15 Dec 2013) New Staff (Yohei FUJINO, Research Associates, 1 October 2013) International Symposium “Mapping Safavid Iran”/Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” The 11th meeting (Sat 30 Nov–Sun 1 Dec 2013) Meeting by the Core Project, Middle East and Islamic Studies (Wed 27 Nov 2013) International Workshop “The Dutch East India Company and Asian Raw Silk” (Sat 23 Nov 2013) Field-Worker and the World of the Children in Africa (Tue 19 Nov–Sun 8 Dec 2013) The 4th Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: “Ukairyoshi to Gendai Chugoku” by Shuhei UDA. (Sat 23 Nov 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 5th meeting (Sat 16 Nov 2013) The 3rd Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: Temporal Face and Temporal Body: Balinese Masked Dance Drama as an Assemblage of Humans and Material Things’, “BUNKAJINRUIGAKU”, 76(1), pp.11-32,2011 (Sat 9 Nov 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam” The 2nd Meeting (Sat 30 Nov 2013) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (13-15 December, 2013) Call for Application (deadline: Fri 15 Nov 2013) (in Japanese) Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2013-14 (Deadline: Thu 31 Oct 2013) (in Japanese) ILCAA Forum/Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “What It Means to Write on Wood: A New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents” The 51st meeting (Fri 18 Oct 2013) Intensive Language Courses 2013(Eastern Armenian Language) was introduced in an online newspaper of the Republic of Armenia Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” (Sat 26 Oct 2013) ILCAA Forum (Thu 10 Oct 2013) Call for participants for DocLing2014(Deadline:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (Japan Standard Time), Mon 25 Nov 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” The 10th meeting (Sat 12 Oct 2013) Field Linguistics Café (Thu 17 Oct 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa” The 9th meeting (Sat 12 Oct 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” The 2nd meeting (Sun 6 Oct 2013) New Staff (Yuko ABE, Research Associates, 1 August 2013) New Staff (Hiroyuki UMETANI, Research Associates, 1 August 2013) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher2014-2015 (Deadline: Fri 17 Jan 2014) The Daido Life Award for Area Studies, as the Correlation and integration study for Gender, life-graphy and socio-graphy in Kenya Luo, awarded to Wakana SHIINO, Associate Professor. (12 July 2013) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar (14 December 2013) Call for Application (Deadline: Fri 1 Nov 2013) in Japanese only Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (13-15 December 2013) Call for Application (deadline: Fri 4 Oct 2013) (in Japanese) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Anthropology) (Deadline: Tue 24 Sep 2013) Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Call for Applications (Linguistics) (Deadline: Tue 24 Sep 2013) Core Project, Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies :Peasant Organizations in Senegal : Thoughts of Mamadou Dia andthe Development of FONGS (Sat 14 Sep 2013) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher2013-2014 (Deadline: Thu 12 Sep 2013) ILCAA Forum: Seiichi KITAGAWA (Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University) (Tue 3 Sep 2013)?> Call for Applications for Fieldnet Lounge 2013-14 (Deadline: Sat 31 Aug 2013) (in Japanese) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Fri 30 Aug 2013) (in Japanese only) Prof. Emeritus Mahmoud Tarchouna at Manouba University(Tunisia) visited the Institute (14 June 2013). New Staff (PAROLIN, Gianluca Paolo, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 May 2013) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (20-23 September 2013) Call for Application (deadline: Fri 26 Jul 2013) (in Japanese) IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) granted the International Standards Development Award to Professor Shibano in recognition of his contribution as a project editor to the publication of ISO/IEC TS13249-7 Information technology -- Database languages -- SQL multimedia and application packages -- Part 7: History. (22 April 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Citizenship for Migrants and Refugees: Comparative Study of Institution and Practices about Inclusion and Exclusion from Nation-States” The 8th meeting (Sun 21 Jul 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” The 9th meeting (Sun 21 Jul 2013) Core Project, Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies: Two Politicians Concerned in the Recruitment of the “Tirailleurs Senegalais” for the WWI (Sun 21 Jul 2013) Field Linguistics Workshop: Collecting Basic Vocabulary through Fieldwork (Fri 19 Jul 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives (2)” The 1st meeting (Sat 13 Jul 2013) FIELD+café (Sat 13 Jul 2013) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Fri 12 Jul 2013) ILCAA Forum (Thu 11 Jul 2013) The 2nd Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: Shinsai no Koukyou Jinruigaku by Shuhei KIMURA (Sun 7 Jul 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project“Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa”/ “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” joint meeting (Sat 6–Sun 7 Jul 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods” The 9th meeting (6 July 2013, Sat.) New Staff (Nobuyoshi FUJINAMI, Research Associates, 1 April 2013) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 29 Jun 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” The 4th meeting (Sat 22 Jun 2013) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (20-23 September 2013) Call for Application (deadline: Fri 21 Jun 2013) (in Japanese) ILCAA Forum (Thu 13 Jun 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological studies of information structures and linguistic forms in Africa” The 7th meeting (Sat 8 Jun 2013) Masao Yamaguchi Memorial Symposium: into the Anthropological Field (Fri 7 Jun 2013) The 1st Book Review Meeting: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”: Bouryoku to Kantai no Minzokushi by Toru SAGAWA (Sat 1 Jun 2013)' The 12th Field Science Colloquium (Fri 31 May 2013) Open meeting: Conflicts spreading beyond the borders: Observations from ILCAA research offices in Malaysia and Lebanon (Sat 25–Sun 26 May 2013)(ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on Islam and Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia”, The 5th Meeting) Core Project, Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies: The History of Books, Libraries and Reading in West Africa (Fri 24 May 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods” (Fri 24 May 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” (Sat 18 May 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts” (Sat 18 May 2013) ILCAA Forum (Thu 9 May 2013) Tibetan Lecture Series (Tue 7 May 2013) Tibetan Lecture Series (Sat 4 May 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar” (Sat 27 Apr 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Structure of the Austronesian Languages” (Sat 20 Apr 2013) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Fri 19 Apr 2013) New Staff (BERGE, Anna Mary Sophia, Visiting Professor, 14 January 2013) New Staff (ANYANWU, Rose-Juliet, Visiting Professor, 4 January 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa” (Sat 30 Mar 2013) FIELD+cafe (Fri 29 Mar 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods” (Thu 28 Mar 2013) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Wed 27 Mar 2013) Exhibition “Exploring the Lands of the Middle East by Overlaying Old Maps on Google Maps” (Mon 25 Mar–Fri 31 May 2013) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Mon 25 Mar 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” (Sun 24 Mar 2013) ILCAA Forum: Farewell Talk: Yoko NAGAHARA (ILCAA) (Thu 14 Mar 2013) ILCAA Forum: Farewell Talk: Masayuki TOYOSHIMA (ILCAA) (Thu 14 Mar 2013) The 11th Field Science Colloquium (Sat 9 Mar 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities” (Tue 5 Mar 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sat 2 Mar 2013) JaCMES Lecture Series “Lebanon and the World No.1” (Mon 25 Feb 2013) Bhutan Lecture Series: Dzongkha; present and future (Sat 23 Feb 2013) Linguistic Dynamics Science Forum (Mon 18 Feb 2013) International Workshop on ‘special genres’ in and around Indonesia (Sun 17–Tue 19 Feb 2013) International Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society in Southeast Asia (Wed 13 Feb 2013) International Symposium “The Crisis of Stability in the Middle East” (Mon 11–Tue 12 Feb 2013) DocLing 2013 Public Lecture (Mon 11 Feb 2013) Mobility, Hibridity and the Way to Co-existence: Re-structuring of Daily Life in Rural and Urban African Societies (Fri 8–Sat 9 Feb 2013) International Workshop on Cultural Diversity in Southeast Asia (3) (Sun 3 Feb 2013) JCAS Workshop by Scholars of Next Generation “Animals, Things, and Man: Anthropology of KYOKAI” (Sat 2 Feb 2013) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop: Contrastive study of Dravidian langueges focusing on Malayalee grammar and lexicon (Wed 30 Jan 2013) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Thu 24 Jan 2013) Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World” (MEIS2) International Workshop (Wed 23 Jan 2013) Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World” (MEIS2) International Workshop (Wed 16 Jan 2013) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies”:Introduction to African Studies (Tue 15 Jan 2013) Workshop “What are regugees?: Marginalized people in Asian and African countries” (Sat 12 Jan 2013) The Kira Award of JASTE (The Japan Society of Tropical Ecology), Title: African farmers as creaters: The Livelihood strategy in a rural village of boarder area.”, was awarded to Rumiko Murao, Research Associates. (15 June 2013) The Incentive Award of JAAS (Japan Association for African Studies), Title: African farmers as creaters: The Livelihood strategy in a rural village of boarder area.”, was awarded to Rumiko Murao, Research Associates. (Tue 1 Jan 2013) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “‘Single’ and Family: The Anthropological Study of ‘Enishi (karmic/relation/connection)’” (Fri 21–Sat 22 Dec 2012) New Staff (OMAN FATHURAHMAN, Visiting Professor, 21 Semptember 2012) Symposium “Borders in Africa” (Sat 15–Sun 16 Dec 2012) (ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study of Nationhood in Contemporary Africa: New Media, Globalization, and Democracy”, The 3rd Meeting) International Conference on “Dynamics of Marriage/Divorce-related Migration in Asia” (15 December 2012, Sat.) JCAS Workshop by Scholars of Next Generation The Logic of Area: Through the Activities of People in ‘Sudan’ (8 December 2012, Sat.) ILCAA Forum (6 December 2012, Thu.) International Workshop “Linguistic Documentation and Description of the North” (1-2 December 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia” (1 December 2012, Sat.) New Staff (SEFATGOL, Mansur, Visiting Professor, 1 Semptember 2012) Call for participants for DocLing2013 (Deadline: The application must arrive no later than 12 noon (in Japan Standard Time), 26 November, 2012) International Conference “Culture, Creation, Identity and Representation : Plural Perspectives in Anthropology.” (21-22 November 2012) Becoming Zimbabwean: Identity, Nationalism and State Building in the Historical Context of Southern Africa (20 November 2012, Tue.) Linguistic Dynamics Science Forum (17 November 2012, Sat.) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development Studies” (Sat 10 Nov 2012) FIELD+cafe Forefront of Qidan Scripts Studies (10 November 2012, Sat.) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (14-16 December, 2012) Call for Application (dead line:Fri 9 Nov 2012) (in Japanese) ILCAA Forum (Thu 8 Nov 2012) Cultural/Social Anthropology Research Seminar(8 December, 2012) Call for Application (dead line: Wed 31 Oct 2012) in Japanese only Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sat 27 Oct 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Citizenship for Migrants and Refugees: Comparative Study of Institution and Practices about Inclusion and Exclusion from Nation-States” (Sat 27 Oct 2012) Symposium “Dynamics of Insubordination” (Thu 25–Sun 28 Oct 2012) Bhutan Lecture Series : Buddhist King and War - The Fourth King of Bhutan’s 2003 military assault against the Assamese guerrillas - (Wed 17 Oct 2012) ILCAA Forum (Thu 11 Oct 2012) International Workshop on Clause Combining in/ around Indonesian Languages (Sun 7–Mon 8 Oct 2012) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Students of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Level (14-16 December, 2012) Call for Application (dead line: Fri 5 Oct 2012) (in Japanese) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Fri 28 Sep 2012) (in Japanese only) Field Linguistics Caf? (Fri 21 Sep 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Studies on Event Integration Patterns in African Languages” (Sat 15 Sep 2012) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (Fri 14–Mon 17 Sep 2012) Call for application for ILCAA full-time researcher. (Associate Professor or Assistant Professor) (Deadline: Wed 12 Sep 2012) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Fri 31 Aug 2012) (in Japanese only) ILCAA Forum: Tomokazu OKADA (Special Researcher, Osaka University) “Ha Noi in the 1930th and 40th” (Fri 31 Aug 2012) ILCAA Forum: Yasushi HIGUCHI (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “How Japanese studied Taiwanese in the Japanese colonial period?” (Wed 29 Aug 2012) ILCAA Forum: Kei NEMOTO (Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University) “The political situation of contemporary Burma: From a historical point of view” (Fri 24 Aug 2012) ILCAA Forum: Satoshi ENDO (Part-time Lecturer, Osaka University) “Ho Chi Minh in the history of Vietnam” (Mon 13 Aug 2012) ILCAA Forum: Junichi TERAI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “The way of enjoying Buddhist art of Pagan” (Fri 10 Aug 2012) ILCAA Forum: Masahiro WAKABAYASHI (Waseda University) “The structural shift of Taiwanese politics in the postwar period” (Wed 8 Aug 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development Studies” (Sat 4 Aug 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sun 22 Jul 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “‘Single’ and Family: The Anthropological Study of ‘Enishi (karmic/relation/connection)’” (Sat 21 Jul 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 21 Jul 2012) Grammatical Studies Workshop: Is there really a “zero”? (2) (Sat 21 Jul 2012) The 17th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Thu 19 Jul 2012) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (14-17 September, 2012) Call for Application (deadline: Sun 15 Jul 2012) (in Japanese) The 10th Field Science Colloquium (Sun 15 Jul 2012)' Field Linguistics Workshop: Video data in field linguistics: why and how to utilize them? (Sat 14 Jul 2012) Call for application for Beirut Seminar (Deadline: Fri 13 Jul 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cross-Linguistic Studies on Clause Combining” (Sat 7 Jul 2012) Open meeting: Racism: Durban and Beyond (Thu 5 Jul 2012) Open Lecture: Poverty: The Next Human Rights Challenge (Wed 4 Jul 2012) The 15th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Wed 4 Jul 2012) New Staff (Kota KARIYA, Assistant Professor, 2 April 2012) New Staff (Hajime OSHIMA, Research Associates, 2 April 2012) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 30 Jun 2012) Film Meeting “Beirut - Buenos Aires - Beirut” (Thu 28 Jun 2012) The 14th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Thu 28 Jun 2012) Seminar on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for Postgraduate Students (14-17 September, 2012) Call for Application (dead line: Fri 22 Jun 2012) (in Japanese) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Tue 19 Jun 2012) ILCAA Forum: Kota KARIYA (ILCAA) “The Network of West African Muslim Intellectuals: A Study of the Arabic Writings of Ahmad Bamba and Their Sources.” (Thu 14 Jun 2012) Call for application for Short-term Joint Researchers (Deadline: Thu 31 May 2012) (in Japanese only) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods” and Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Tue 29 May 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities” (Sat 19 May 2012) New Staff (DIALLO, Abdourahmane, Visiting Associate Professor, 1 February 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa” (Sat 28 Apr 2012) Open Seminar: Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Tue 24 Apr 2012) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 31 Mar 2012) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Fri 30 Mar 2012) Open meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Indonesian Manuscript Project” (Thu 29 Mar 2012) ILCAA Forum/The 12th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Thu 29 Mar 2012) Grammatical Studies Workshop: Is there really a “zero”? (Tue 27 Mar 2012) The 12th meeting of Society for Liao, Jin, and Xi-xia Studies (Sat 24–Sun 25 Mar 2012) International Workshop “Xixia and Qidan Documents -Cataloguing and Task-” (Fri 23 Mar 2012) ILCAA Forum: Farewell Talks: Koji TSUDA (ILCAA), Hideaki NAKATANI (ILCAA) (Thu 8 Mar 2012) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities” (Fri 2 Mar 2012) Public Lecture on Tibetan Literature by Prof. Jiaobadongzhu (Thu 1 Mar 2012) International Workshop “Cultural Diversity and its Social/Political Implication in Southeast Asia” (Sat 25 Feb 2012) JaCMES Lecture Series “The Middle East and Japan No.8” (Fri 24 Feb 2012) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities” (Fri 17–Sat 18 Feb 2012) Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society in Southeast Asia (Thu 16 Feb 2012) Call for application for TUFS Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Wed 15 Feb 2012) Public Lecture “Future of Syria, Part 2” (Tue 14 Feb 2012) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development Studies” (Sun 12 Feb 2012) ILCAA Forum: Diallo ADOURAHMANE (ILCAA, Goethe-University of Frankfurt) “Fula on the context of Guinean languages” (Thu 9 Feb 2012) Fieldnet Lounge: Exploring the future of GIS: an interdisciplinary collaboration of fieldworkers (Sun 5 Feb 2012) FIELD+cafe Capturing living voices for the future (Thu 2 Feb 2012) ILCAA Forum: WU Yingzhe (Visiting Associate Professor, ILCAA/ Associate Researcher, Inner Mongolia University) “Verbal Suffixes in the Khitan Language” (Thu 19 Jan 2012) Field-Worker and the World of the Children in Africa and Asia (Mon 14 Nov 2011–Fri 2 Mar 2012) Prof. Tatsuo NAKAMI was awarded with the title of Honorable Doctor by the Institute of History, Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Sun 11 Mar 2012 Masao YAMAGUCHI, Professor Emeritus and former Director of ILCAA, was chosen as Persons of Cultural Merit. (25 October 2011) Lecture on Middle East and Islamic Studies (22 December 2011, Thu.) International Conference “Reading African Cities: Nairobi, Gondar, & Cape Town” (Sat 17–Sun 18 Dec 2011) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Typological Studies of Information Structures and Linguistic Forms in Africa” (Sat 17 Dec 2011) International symposium on the history of normative glyphs and their variants (Fri 16–Sun 18 Dec 2011) The 9th Field Science Colloquium (Fri 16 Dec 2011) Call for participants for DocLing2012(Deadline:Fri 16 Dec 2011) ILCAA Forum (Thu 15 Dec 2011) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sat 10–Sun 11 Dec 2011) ILCAA Forum: Wu Xiao An (Visiting professor, ILCAA/ Professor, Department of History, Peking University and Director, Center of Overseas Chinese Studies, Peking University) “Chineseness Discourse: A Review” (Thu 8 Dec 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 3 Dec 2011) Open meeting: Joint Research Project “Comparative Study on the Languages of the North from Typological Perspective” (Fri 2–Sun 4 Dec 2011) Open Seminar: “Diseases, Health and Community: Struggles of Medical Doctors and Social Scientists in East Africa.” (Wed 30 Nov 2011) Public Lecture “Wedding of the Fifth Druk Gyalpo and the future of Bhutan” (Mon 28 Nov 2011) The 10th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (2Sat 26 Nov 2011) International Workshop “Anthropology and Public Health Towards Multi-disciplinary Field Methods” (Wed 23–Thu 24 Nov 2011) Fieldnet Workshop “The Essence of Photography in Fields” (Sat 19 Nov 2011) Study Meeting organized by MEIS2 “Potential of Multilayered Basemap System for Middle Eastern Cities” (Thu 17 Nov 2011) ILCAA Forum: Ketut ARTAWA (ILCAA visiting professor, Udayana University) “Some topics on Balinese Language” (Thu 17 Nov 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Cross-Linguistic Studies on Clause Combining” (11-13 November 2011) Open Meeting: Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Tue 8 Nov 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Indonesian Manuscript Project” (Sun 30 Oct 2011) Grammatical Studies Workshop: Some issues on “adjectives” (2) (Sat 29 Oct 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; Their Variety and Similarities” (Sat 22 Oct 2011) Public Lecture “Russian Presence in Modern Palestine” (Fri 21 Oct 2011) Meeting: The Sheikh Ubeidullah Rebellion of 1880 (Fri 14 Oct 2011) ILCAA Forum: Willem van der Molen (Visiting professor, ILCAA) “The textual tradition of the Ramayana in Java. Tracing an unknown line of transmission” (Thu 13 Oct 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sun 9–Mon 10 Oct 2011) The 9th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sat 8 Oct 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “New Trends in the Studies on Qidan Scripts” (Sat 1 Oct 2011) New Staff (Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Research Associate, 1 July 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture; Ethnicity and Identity within cross-marriage/cross-divorce network” Sat 24 Sep 2011) Field linguistics cafe (Sat 24 Sep 2011) Middle East and Islamic Education Seminar (Sat 17–Tue 20 Sep 2011)' International Symposium: The 17th Himalayan Languages Symposium (Tue 6–Fri 9 Sep 2011) International Symposium:Approaches and Methodologies of Field Research in Africa Joint Symposium :JSPS NAIROBI +ILCAA AFRICA Project (Thu 1–Fri 2 Sep 2011) Call for application for ILCAA Joint Research Projects (Deadline: Fri 26 Aug 2011) (in Japanese only) Fieldnet Workshop “The Essence of Still-object Photography” (Mon 1 Aug 2011) New Staff (Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA, Research Associate, 1 May 2011) Field Linguistics Workshop: Praat Workshop for beginners (Sat 23 Jul 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 23 Jul 2011) International Workshop on Deixis and Spatial Expressions in Indonesian Languages (Fri 22–Sat 23 Jul 2011) FIELD+cafe African Women’s Real life (Fri 22 Jul 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “How to Write African History ― New Perspectives and Methods” (Tue 19 Jul 2011) Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Seminar for Graduate Students (17-20 September, 2011) Call for Application (dead line: Sun 17 Jul 2011) Japanese only Beirut Seminar “Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Japan: The State of the Art” (25 November 2011) Call for Application (dead line: Fri 15 Jul 2011) Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” (Wed 13 Jul 2011) Public Lecture “Future of Syria” (Sun 3 Jul 2011) New Staff (Kousei OTSUKA, Research Associate, 1 April 2011) New Staff (Rumiko MURAO, Research Associate, 1 April 2011) New Staff (Kuninori MATSUDA, Research Associate, 1 April 2011) Open Meeting: Migration Regimes and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Southern Africa (Tue 28 Jun 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “A Study of Variability in Deictic Expressions” (Sun 26 Jun 2011) Overseas Scientific Research Forum (Sat 25 Jun 2011) Open Meeting: Introduction to African Studies “Tourism business in East Africa; Capitalizing on the image of Africa” (Tue 21 Jun 2011) Globalization and Possibility of Anthropology (2) (Sat 18 Jun 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies” (Sat 18 Jun 2011) Lecture “The Middle East and Japan” cosponsored by JaCMES & CAMES (AUB) (Wed 1 Jun 2011) Call for application for Short-term Joint Researchers (Deadline: Tue 31 May 2011) (in Japanese only) Grammatical Studies Workshops 1― Some issues on “adjectives” (Sat 28 May 2011) ILCAA Forum: Peri BHASKARARAO (ILCAA) “Interaction of Phonetics and Speech Technology-- Some Questions and Challenges” (Thu 26 May 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture; Ethnicity and Identity within cross-marriage/cross-divorce network” (Sat 21 May 2011) Field Linguistics Workshop Follow-up Session 3 (Fri 13 May 2011) Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Thu 28 Apr 2011) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; their variety and similarity” (Sat 23 Apr 2011) The 7th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Thu 21 Apr 2011) Conference on Valency Classes in the World’s Languages (Thu 14–Sun 17 Apr 2011) New Staff (Čimeddorǰi, ǰaqadai, Visiting professor, 6 January 2011) Postponed: ILCAA Joint Research Project “‘Single’ and Family : The anthropological study of “Enishi (karmic/relation/connection)”” (Wed 30 Mar 2011) Postponed: Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Tue 29 Mar 2011) Postponed: Grammatical Studies Workshops 1― Some issues on “adjectives” (Mon 28 Mar 2011) Canceled: ISEA Final Symposium (Mon 28 Mar 2011) Canceled: Open Meeting ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 26 Mar 2011) Canceled: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Shared Research Resources for Korean Historical Linguistics” (Sat 26 Mar 2011) Postponed: Field Linguistics Workshop Follow-up Session 3 (Fri 25 Mar 2011) Seminar on Middle East and Islamic Studies (Mon 21 Mar 2011) Canceled: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Indonesian Manuscript Project” (Fri 18 Mar 2011) Seminar on Middle East and Islamic Studies Thu 17 Mar 2011) ILCAA Forum: Riwanto TIRTOSUDARMO (ILCAA) “On the Politics of Migration: Indonesia and Beyond” (Thu 10 Mar 2011) Special Lecture on Nu-shu (女書) (Fri 4 Mar 2011) Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” International Workshop (Thu 24 Feb 2011) Information Resources Center (IRC) International Workshop (Wed 23 Feb 2011) International workshop: Workshop on TAM and Evidentiality in Indonesian Languages (Thu 17–Fri 18 Feb 2011) Call for application for Year 2011-2012 ILCAA Foreign Researcher (Deadline: Tue 15 Feb 2011) Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Areas Relating to Islam” On Pluralism of Lebanon (Mon 14 Feb 2011) The 6th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sat 12 Feb 2011) ILCAA Forum: “Sino-Soviet Disputes and Vietnam(DRV)” (Sat 12 Feb 2011) Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Areas Relating to Islam” A Study on Waqf Property of Aleppo, Damascus and Jerusalem (18th c.) (Fri 11 Feb 2011) Fieldnet Lounge: Let’s Cemetery Together! (Sat 5 Feb 2011) JCAS - Young Researchers Workshop / Regular Workshop for Palestine Studies How Should We Capture the “Peace in the Middle East” Today? The Structure and Unfolding of the Problem of Palestine/Israel (Sat 22–Sun 23 Jan 2011) The 5th Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Fri 21 Jan 2011) International Workshop “Bridging the Middle East and East Asia: Borders and Coexistence in the Globalised World” (Sat 8 Jan 2011) Shintaro ARAKAWA, Associate Professor of ILCAA, has won the second prize of “The 11th Quality Award for Social Sciences in Ningxia” for a publication he coedited (Sat 1 Jan 2011) New Staff (Yasuhiro KOJIMA, Research Associate, 1 December 2010) The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Rays was awarded to Junzo KAWADA, Professor Emeritus (3 November 2010) New Staff (Taku OSOEGAWA, Research Associate, 1 November 2010) “Development of Total Knowledge on Israel/Palestine: Accumulation and Transmission of Knowledge by Researchers of the Next Generation” (Thu 23 Dec 2010) The 3rd Seminar in Ottoman paleography and diplomatics (Wed 22–Thu 23 Dec 2010) The Plunder and the Return of Artifacts and Human Remains: After Colonialism (Sun 12 Dec 2010) Film Screening of “The Return of Sara Baartman” (Tue 7 Dec 2010) The 7th Fieldnet Workshop: Let’s Make your GPS maps!:The course for GPS beginner Part 3 (Tue 7 Dec 2010) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives” (Sat 4 Dec 2010) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture; Ethnicity and Identity within cross-marriage/cross-divorce network” (Sat 27 Nov 2010) ILCAA Forum: Anne REBOUL (Visiting Professor) “Linguistic variability: the case of colors” (Thu 25 Nov 2010) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “Towards a Multi-disciplinary Approach for Developing and Harmonizing Field Methods in Anthropology and Development Studies” (Tue 23 Nov 2010) Field Linguistics Workshop: Perl Workshop for beginners (Sun 21 Nov 2010) Exhibition “Studio Photography as a Dream Machine: Studio Photographers in Kenya 1912-2001” (Fri 19–Tue 23 Nov 2010) ILCAA Forum: Lecture and Discussion on Understanding the Other in Fieldscience” (Fri 19 Nov 2010) ILCAA Forum: Jian CHEN (Visiting Professor) “On Interpretation and Evidence in Chinese PaleographyーThe case of the bamboo texts from the Warring State Period” (Thu 18 Nov 2010) “Lecture of Prof. Ralph Kauz” (Sun 14 Nov 2010) 6th open seminar on Islam in Southeast Asia(ISEA) (Sat 13 Nov 2010) International Symposium “Models for Capacity Development in Language Documentation and Conservation” (Fri 12–Sat 13 Nov 2010) International Workshop on Cross-Linguistic Studies on Clause Combining (Fri 29–Sun 31 Oct 2010) Open Meeting: ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Study of Variability in Deictic Expressions” (Sat 23 Oct 2010) The 6th Fieldnet Workshop: Let’s try the genealogy and kinship database software! (Sat 16 Oct 2010) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Descriptive Studies of Indonesian Languages; their variety and similarity” (Sun 10 Oct 2010) Field Linguistics Workshop Follow-up Session 2 (Thu 7 Oct 2010) “Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society in Southeast Asia” (Wed 29 Sep 2010) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “Anthropology of Trans-area Migration in East/Southeast Asia: Culture; Ethnicity and Identity within cross-marriage/cross-divorce network” (Sat 25 Sep 2010) Open seminar on Islam in Southeast Asia(ISEA) (5 September 2010, Sun.) ILCAA Forum: Tashi KUNGA “Tibetan Music” (Fri 3 Sep 2010) ILCAA Forum: Shin’ichiro MIYAKE “TERAMOTO Enga: Three Years in Amdo Kunbum” (Fri 27 Aug 2010) ILCAA Joint Research Projects International Workshop on the Emergence and Dynamic of Various Islamic Variants in Indonesia. (Bilateral Program: Joint Research Project, JSPS-LIPI) (Fri 30–Sat 31 Jul 2010) Field Linguistics Workshop Follow-up Session 1 (Fri 30 Jul 2010) FIELD+cafe Islam in Southeast Asia (Fri 30 Jul 2010) Open Meeting: Joint Research Project “A Study of Variability in Deictic Expressions” (Sun 25 Jul 2010) Open Seminar: Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives” (Sat 24 Jul 2010) Exhibition “Studio Photography as a Dream Machine: Studio Photographers in Kenya 1912-2001” (Tue 22 Jun–Sat 31 Jul 2010)