• Talk Event by Photographer Hidefumi Koike and Cultural Anthropologist Masahiko Togawa on Photography Exhibition of “THE DELTA - Sea of Ganges, Sacred Island”
• The photo exhibition “THE DELTA - Sea of Ganges, Sacred Island” will be held from September 12 (Thu) to 23 (Mon).
• Contact: fakir[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• 13:00–13:10. Welcome Address: Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA)
• 13:10–13:50. Wakako KUMAKURA (Keio University) ,Agriculture: How did humans adapt & improve upon the environmental conditions and dynamics for survival?
• 13:50–14:30. Felix ARNOLD (German Archaeological Institute) Palace Architecture in East and West
• 14:30–14:40. Coffee Break
• 14:40–15:20. Tomoaki SHINODA A Dominican Redeemer’s travel to the Saʿdid Marrakech
• 15:20–16:00. Abderrahim BENHADDA (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) Title undecided
• 16:00–16:40. Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) An Unrealized Plan of Maltese Migration to Palestine, 1919
• 16:40–16:50. Closing remark: Tomoaki SHINODA

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• Kengo HARIMOTO (ILCAA, University of Naples) “Toward Hinduism: What it means to be a Vedavādin”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required for online participants.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• 8:00–9:50. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 24”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 25”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:05. Opening Remarks/ Introduction (Prof. Ikuya TOKORO: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 13:05–13:35. Presentation 1: “Highly skilled Thai migrants in Japan” (Prof. Kayoko ISHII, Rikkyo University)
• 13:35–14:05. Presentation 2: “Ambulance Chasing in Southeast Asia: The Case of Filipino Seafarers” (Prof. Joefe B. Santarita, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman)
• 14:05–14:25. Open Forum
• 14:25–14:35. Break
• 14:35–15:05. Presentation 3: “Mobility change and “family” form: A case of foraging people in Peninsular Malaysia” (tentative title) (Associate Prof. Aya KWAI: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 15:05–15:35. Presentation 4: Lumad Displacement from their Land and Homes: The case of indigenous communities in Bukidnon (Assoc. Prof. Ma. Cecilia A. Medina, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman)
• 15:35–15:55. Open Forum
• 15:55–16:05. Closing Remarks (Assoc. Prof. Jocelyn O. Celero, Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman)

• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (KKLO), ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology)

• Speaker: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) Title: “Fieldwork on Bantu languages: from personal experience in Kilimanjaro”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program
• 15.00 Welcoming Address & Introduction
• Eric Achermann (Dean of the Faculty of Philology, University of Münster)
• Philip Bockholt (Münster) & Yui Kanda (Tokyo)
• 15.30 / Chair: Ines Weinrich
• Panel 1: Knowledge Transfer from the Islamic West to the East
• Philip Bockholt (Münster): Ibn Khallikān’s Wafayāt al-Aʿyān in Persian: On Translation Processes in Late 15th-Century Gujarat
• Kaori Otsuya (Tokyo): Histories of Medina Transcending Regions, Time Periods, and Languages: A Preliminary Study on Jadhb al-Qulūb ilā Diyār al-Maḥbūb by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlavī (d. 1052/1642)
• 16.45 / Chair: Jens Fischer
• Panel 2: Translations from Sanskrit and Arabic into Persian
• Eva Orthmann (Göttingen): The Persian Śalihotra: The Transformation and Adaptation of a Sanskrit Text in Persian Treatises on Horses
• Nobuaki Kondo (Tokyo): Comparing Manuscripts of a Popular Romance: The Persian Classic Version of the Ḥamzanāma
• 18.00 Reception
• 10.00 / Chair: Paula Manstetten
• Panel 3: Transmission of Religious Texts
• Isabel Toral (Berlin): The Muslim and Christian Arabic Versions of the Buddha Legend and its Trans-Religious Reception History
• Ines Weinrich (Münster): Stability and Change in the Transmission of Arabic Mawlid Texts: The Case of Mawlid al-ʿArūs
• Ryo Mizukami (Tokyo): From Aḥsan al-Kibār to Lavāmiʿ al-Anvār: Reworking a Faḍāʾil Work on the Twelve Imams for Shāh Ṭahmāsp
• 11.30 Coffee break
• 12.00 / Chair: Sacha Alsancakli
• Panel 4: Changes in Historiography
• Takao Ito (Kobe): Was there Another Version of Ibn Kathīr’s History?
• Osamu Otsuka (Tokyo): The Dedication of a Universal History to Various Patrons: A Case Study of the Ilkhanid Historian Shabānkāraʾī
• Akihiko Yamaguchi (Tokyo): Evolving Iranian Identity in the Periphery: A Study of Ardalān Historiography
• 13.30 Lunch
• 14.30 / Chair: Alfred El Khoury
• Panel 5: Evolution of Literary Texts
• Kumiko Yamamoto (Tokyo): A Few Questions on the “Older Preface” to the Shāhnāma of Firdawsī (In Memory of the Late Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila)
• Christine Kämpfer (Bamberg): Disseminating Adab and Mystical Thought Through Epic Imitation: Niẓāmī’s Makhzan al-Asrār and its Naẓīras
• Syrinx von Hees (Münster): Transmission of a Literary Contest in Different Textual Contexts: Questions of Reception
• 16.00 Coffee break
• 16.30 / Chair: Ahmet Aytep
• Panel 6: Development of Scientific and Legal Works
• Sacha Alsancakli (Münster): Questions of Authorship and Readership in a Seventeenth-Century Indo-Persian Scientific Majmūʿa
• Ken’ichi Isogai (Kyoto): Making Tax-Exempted Land Out of Kharājī Land: Central Asian Ḥanafīs to Legitimize Rulers’ Policies in Persian Legal Works
• 19.00 Dinner
• 09.00 / Chair: Natalie Kraneiß
• Panel 7 : Afterlife of Genealogical and Hadith Texts
• Kazuo Morimoto (Tokyo): An Eventful Life of a Sayyid/Sharīf Genealogy: From al-Aṣīlī to Ghāyat al-Ikhtiṣār
• Stefanie Brinkmann (Leipzig): The Circulation and Reception of al-Baghawī’s Hadith Collection Maṣābīḥ al-Sunna and its Commentary Tradition
• 10.00 Coffee break
• 10.30 / Chair: Stephan Tölke
• Panel 8: Biographies Without End
• Paula Manstetten (Bonn): The Reception and Abridgement of Ibn ʿAsākir’s (d. 1176) History of Damascus in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Period
• Maxim Romanow (Hamburg): A Book of 30,000 Biographies: Computational Analysis of Sources of The History of Islam of al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348)
• 11.30 / Chair: Tobias Sick
• Panel 9: Adaptation of Texts at Courts in Anatolia
• Yui Kanda (Tokyo): “May the World Be Slave to King Kaykāʾūs”: Reception History of Qāniʿī Ṭūsī’s Kalīla and Dimna
• Nobutaka Nakamachi (Kobe): Reception of Mamluk Manuscripts in the Ottoman Period: The Scattered Selimiye Collection of ʿIqd al-Jumān
• Contact: kanda@aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Cooperated by ILCAA

• Speaker: Mitsuya SASAKI Title: “Painting readings, reading paintings: A Nahuatl guide to Mexican toponymy”
• Contact: kenkyu-zenkoku[at]tufs.ac.jp. (please change [at] to @).

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 29th August.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Speaker: Aubrey Khosa (Music Lecturer) Title: “An overview of Xitsonga Indigenous and Traditional Music”

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Application of law in the Mixed Courts of Egypt” will be jointly held by A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” and “The Kitchen of Trust Studies,” organized by “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization.”
• Details:
• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Application of law in the Mixed Courts of Egypt”
• Presentation: Eri Degawa (Graduate School, Chiba University) “Application of law in the Mixed Courts of Egypt: Some case studies concerning land litigations in the late nineteenth century”
• Commentator: Jin NODA (ILCAA/SRC, Hokkaido University)
• Contact: connectivity_jimukyoku[at]tufs.ac.jp (Islamic Trust Studies Project Office) ＊Please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free ＊Open to Public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 28th Aug.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05825), Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization”(Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC Hokkaido University) Project Number: 20H05823)

• 15:00. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA) “Introduction of the Project”
• 15:10. Tadaaki MIYAGI (Burikena Coffee Farm) “The World’s Smallest Specialty Coffee Farm in Okinawa”
• 15:40. Discussion
• 16:00. Coffee Cupping & Discussion
• 17:00. Closing

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Key Coffee Yutaka Shibata Memorial Foundation Research Grant “The Appeal of Okinawan Coffee: Through Dialogue with Producers and Roasters” (Research Representative: Reiko Otsubo), TUFS Field Science Commons, ILCAA Fieldscience Interdisciplinary Studies

• Purpose of the Meeting
• In this Academic Meeting, researchers from both Japan and Indonesia will discuss the issues relating to coexistence with various others (including religious and ethnic minorities and people with disabilities). For this purpose, relationship between majority and minority groups in the context of social and cultural diversity in Indonesia, Japan, and other regions would be discussed from anthropological- and/or multi-disciplinary perspectives. In addition, we would also explore the role of physical(bodily)practices and/or embodiment, such as performing arts, etc. in the process.
• Program:
• 14:00–14:05. Opening Remarks/Introduction (by Ikuya TOKORO)
• 14:05–14:35. Najib Bruhani(BRIN) Talk/Presentation on “religious- and/or ethnic diversity in Indonesia, including coexistence between majorities and minorities” (tentative).
• 14:35–15:05. RannyRastati(BRIN) “Modesty Meets Fantasy: The Rise of Hijab Cosplay in Indonesia”..
• (Coffee Break)
• 15:20–15:50 . Ako MASHINO（Tokyo University of the Arts） “Performing arts as an encounter with others: Muslim Balinese music and dance” (tentative).
• 15:50–16:20. Asa Ito (Tokyo Institute of Technology). Talk/Presentation on Arts of Living with persons with disabilities (tentative)
• 16:20–17:30. Discussions
• 17:30–17:35. Closing Remarks
• 18:00–20:00. Reception Dinner　(by catering or dine at nearby restaurant?)
• 11:00–16:00. Workshop on the Arts of Living with/Becoming Others in Bali. (by all participants.)

• Language: Japanese, English
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research) “Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment”, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, KKLO, Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional

• 1. Speaker: Morris Thembhani Babane (University of Venda) Title: “Mourning practices in the Tsonga culture: Rite of passage”
• 2. Speaker: Mkhacani T. Chauke (University of Venda) Title: “The role of idioms, proverbs, proverbial, and idiomatic expressions in enhancing the preservation and development of Xitsonga.”

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• Speaker: Keisuke GOZAWA Title: “Understanding Mesoamerica and Using Maya”
• Contact: kenkyu-zenkoku[at]tufs.ac.jp. (please change [at] to @).

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.Registration deadline is 18th Aug.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 2. Luchu Phakpajap (Animator), Izumi HOSHI “The Joy of Kamishibai”
• 3. Luchu Phakpajap, Shiho EBIHARA, Zhouxing Cairang, Izumi HOSHI “Short Animation Screening and Talk”
• 4. All “Let’s Play with Tibetan Riddles and Proverbs” (Moderator: Izumi HOSHI)
• 5. Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “A Taste of the Tibetan Poetry: Recitation and Talk”
• 6. Zhouxing Carirang (Vocalist, Dramnyan player) “Enjoy Tibetan Songs”
• Contact: hoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, Tibetan
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
• Cooperated by atataca Co.,Ltd., Nora-shoten Publishers Inc., Tibetan Literature Association Japan

• 1. Makoto Furumoto (ILCAA) Introduction
• 2. Rasmus Bernander (University of Gothenburg) “Grammatical reconstruction as a tool for field work and language description of Bantu languages”
• 3. Lutz Marten (SOAS), Hannah Gibson (Essex), and Rozenn Rozenn Guérois (CNRS-LLACAN) “Approaching morphosyntactic variation through (surface) parameters”
• 4. Daisuke Shinagawa (ILCAA), Nobuko Yoneda (Osaka), and Yuko Abe (Lanzhou) “Five years from the ILCAA Bantu-MV project: a critical review and a future perspective”
• 5. All participants Disucussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)“The Parameter-driven approach to cross-Bantu typology: Exploring the variation and universals in Bantu languages” (Principal Investigator: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) Project number: 23H00622), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator:Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA) Project number: 24K16047)

• 1. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 2. Etsuko NOZAKA (Translator, Writer, The International Kamishibai Association of Japan) “Welcome to the World of Kamishibai”
• 3. All “Reworking the Kamishibai Script, Using the Granny and the Frog as an Example”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA), Kengo HARIMOTO (ILCAA, University of Naples) “L'Orientale” “Introduction”
• Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA) “The Ā'īn-i Akbarī and Western Indology: with Special Reference to the Category of the Six Systems of Philosophy”
• All members “Self-introductions and discussions about how to forward the project”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• This workshop will discuss the watershed to maritime societies of Asia and Oceania from the perspective of nation-states.
• The workshop is held in Surabaya during the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS13) in Surabaya，Indonesia.
• Facilitator: Aya Kawai (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foregin Studies)
• 14:00. Yuka Oishi (Kobe University) Opening Remarks
• ＜Part1: Watershed Society＞
• 14:05. Malcolm Wong Keng Yi (Singapore University) “Degrees of Disruption: Orang Asli River-oriented Accommodations during the Japanese Period”
• 14:20. Tuck-Po Lye (University Science Malaysia) Comment
• Q&A
• 14:35. Wolfs Benjamin (Kobe University) “Local (Re)discoveries and Their Diffusion: a Case Study of Yokoyama Jun’s Medicine Bottles in Tatsuno City, Japan”
• 14:50. Vivienne Wee (Ethnographica Private Limited) Comment
• Q&A
• 15:05. Break
• ＜Part2: Island Society＞
• 15:20. Ayane Kimura (Kobe University) “A shift in the perception of the place: comparison of memories of schools in colonial times to the present-day narratives of Torres Strait islanders on Thursday Island”
• 15:35. Geoffrey Benjamin (Nanyang Technological University) Comment
• Q&A
• 15:50. Sakine Nakajima (Kyoto University) “Saints Across the Bay of Bengal: The Past and Present of the South Indian Islamic Saints’ Shrines in Penang”
• 16:05. Lye Tuck-Po (University Science Malaysia), Geoffrey Benjamin (Nanyang Technological University) Comment
• Q&A
• 16:20. Break
• 16:40. Saki Maeta (Kobe University) “Marginal Intellectuals as Intermediaries of Divinatory Knowledge: Primbon Publishers in 20th Century Java”
• 16:55. Vivienne Wee (Ethnographica Private Limited) Comment
• Q&A
• 17:10. Discussion
• 17:25. Yuka OISHI (Kobe University) Closing Remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 21th Jul.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Research Grant of Foundation of Kinoshita Memorial Enterprise “Regional comparative study on the interaction between river environments and people” (Principal Investigator: Yuka OISHI (Kobe University)), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Territorial Governance and Intangible Spaces: Anthropological Approaches toward Nation-States in Asia and Africa” (Principal Investigator: Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University) Project number: 23K25434)

• Day 1: Saturday 20 July 2024 13:30–15:00
• Day 2: Thursday 25 July 2024 17:00–18:30
• Day 3: Friday 2 August 2024 15:00–16:30
• Online Workshop Series 2024 “Emergencies and Food” (July 20 July 25 and August 2 2024)
• The following online workshop series will be held by Grants-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA); 20H05823) and Publicly Offered Research of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) Food in Emergencies: Connectivity and Trust Building Being Challenged in the Middle East and North Africa" (Principal Investigator: Yuko Ido: 23H03929).
• ＜Poster①＞
• The Middle East and Africa continuously suffer from complex crises such as war，occupation，natural disasters，and food insecurity. Situating their regional contexts within global history，experts will explain the complexities behind the situations of each country from various perspectives.
• 【Details】
• The workshop series will be held via Zoom on the following schedule.
• 【Program and Abstract】
• ＜Poster②＞
• Workshop Series 2024 Day 1:
• Date: Saturday July 20 2024 13:30–15:00
• Opening Address: Hidemitsu Kuroki (Area Organizer/ Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Speaker: Manabu Shimizu (Representative Eurasia Consultant Ltd.)
• Title: “The foreign policy and agricultural technology of Israel: its growing high-tech and deployment of transnational capitalism”
• Discussant: Ryoji Tateyama (Professor Emeritus National Defense Academy of Japan)
• Registration deadline: July 19 2024 18:00
• Abstract:
• One of the undercurrents of the Israel-Palestine conflict is the agricultural issues related to the distribution of water resources. However，water and food security has become increasingly important as a global issue. Israel has strategically emphasized the development of science and technology in their Zionism movements since the Mandate，and has sought their own agricultural technical system such as drip watering，bio，agro-industrial complex to overcome the limits of agricultural production in the arid land. Those outcomes fulfilled a function of diplomatic leverage with the Middle East，Asia，Africa，Latin America etc. In the mid-1980s，the Israeli economy carried out a drastic structural reform from Zionist socialism to neo-liberalism and internationalization，which led to dynamic privatizations，global mergers and acquisitions，and monetary internationalization. Following the wave of digitization in the mid-1990s，through new developments such as growing high-tech and startup companies，the advanced ‘smartification’ of agricultural technology has been developed. This presentation will discuss the diplomatic role of Israeli technology including agriculture from global perspectives.
• ＜Poster③＞
• Workshop Series 2024 Day 2:
• Date: Thursday July 25 2024 17:00-18:30
• Speaker: Rawia Altaweel (Visiting professor ILCAA/ Former officer UNICEF)
• Title: “Yemen’s Current Situation and the Houthis Intervention in the Red Sea”
• Discussant: Hiroshi Sato (President Tokyo Institute for Development Sociology)
• Registration deadline: July 24 2024 18:00
• Abstract:
• Presenting Yemen’s current internal context as the country has been struggling with political instability and socioeconomic deterioration since the Arab Spring popular uprising and the following takeover of the capital Sanaa in 2014 by the Houthis that triggered the Saudi-led coalition military campaign on Yemen from 2015 to date. Following that，exploring the Houthis intervention in the Red Sea as a reaction to the Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023; such interventions have significantly impacted international trade via Bab Al-Mandab，the Red Sea，and the Indian Ocean.
• ＜Poster④＞
• Workshop Series 2024 Day 3:
• Date: Friday August 2 2024 15:00–16:30
• Speaker: Akihiro Seita (Director of Health UNRWA)
• Discussant: Aiko Nishikida (Professor Keio University)
• Title: “Protracted Gaza War and Humanitarian Crisis: Report from the Field”
• Registration deadline: August 1 2024 18:00
• Abstract:
• Though more than eight months have passed since October 7，2023，a cease-fire agreement has not been reached in the Gaza war. The bombing and attacks continue across a wide area including hospitals and schools causing immense damage and casualties including civilians，medical workers，and journalists. On July 9，Israeli Defense Forces attacked the Headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the northern part of Gaza and Israeli military attacks and political pressure continues against UNRWA，which have provided lifelines to inhabitants in Gaza who have been forced to evacuate. In this workshop，the current situation in Gaza will be reported by Akihiro Seita，who has dealt with the medical and humanitarian aid in the local area as Director of Health of UNRWA for many years.
• Contact:
• Yuko Ido (Principal Investigator)
• e-mail: menafoodemergency[at]gmail.com (Please change [at] to @)

• *Admission Free，open to the public
• Language: Japanese
• **Pre-registration is required. For registration，please see here. (Zoom link will be sent after registering)
• For details，please see here. (in Japanese)
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05823)，Publicly Offered Research of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Food in Emergencies: Connectivity and Trust Building Being Challenged in the Middle East and North Africa” (Principal Investigator: Yuko Ido(ILCAA) Project Number: 23H03929)

• 13:30–13:45. Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 13:45–14:45. All members “Self-introduction and introduction of research”
• 14:45–15:00. Break
• 15:00–15:40. Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) “Long-term cultural interrelation and transformation around the Gulf of Oman –Seen from Southeast Arabia before the arrival of Islam”
• 15:40–16:20. Yasuhisa KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)) “Geography and archaeology of the Musandam Peninsula”
• 16:20–17:30. All members “Discussions and meetings”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:30–11:00. Thi Kim Cuong DINH (Graduate School, University of Tsukuba) “About the function of non-restrictive noun modifier in Vietnamese”
• 11:00–11:30. akuya WASHIZAWA (Kanda University of International Studies) “Analysis on usages of sự and bị in the process of grammaticalization in the early 20th Century Vietnamese and feeling of modern native speakers towards them”
• Facilitator: Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA)
• General Inquiries: Mayumi Adachi (adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp; Please replace [at] with @)
• Zoom meeting invitation will be sent in the afternoon on 25 July (Thu.). If you don’t receive it on 25 July, please contact Mayumi Adachi (adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp) by 26 February (Fri.) (Please change [at] to @).

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 24th Jul. (Application may be closed early)
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Two books of Qasim Amin (1863-1908), “The Emancipation of Women” (1899) and “The New Woman” (1900), are well-known classics of feminism in the Arab and Islamic world. More than 120 years later, we are pleased to announce the publication of a Japanese translation of the books from Hosei University Press.
• At this launch, the translators will explain the significance of the books from their perspectives. Specialists in gender and labor in the Muslim world and British gender history are invited as commentators to discuss the books from different angles. The format of the seminar will be online (ZOOM). Japanese will be the language. It is hoped that the widest audience, including the general public and graduate and undergraduate students, will participate in a free and open discussion.
• 18:00. Opening Remarks, Moderator: Keiko SAKAI (Chiba University)
• 18:10. Translator: Emi GOTO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Qasim Amin and Egyptian Feminism”
• 18:25. Translator: Hiroki OKAZAKI (Asia University) “Qasim Amin’s Theory of Women’s Liberation in Arab Modern Thought”
• 18:40. Commentator: Erina IWASAKI (Sophia University)
• 18:50. Commentator: Chihiro UMEGAKI (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• 19:00. Discussion
• Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 26th Jul.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)“Sense of Nation and Knowledge Production among the migrant communities from the Middle East” (Principal Investigator: Keiko SAKAI (Chiba University) Project number: 24H00136) , Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) “A Study of the Challenges and Solutions for Muslim Communities in the Context of Contemporary Pluralism and Diversity” (Principal Investigator:Emi GOTO (ILCAA) Project number: 24K03160), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “The Concept of “Coexistence” and Its Practice in Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought and Literature” (Principal investigator: Hiroki Okazaki (Asia University) Project number:22K12988)

• 11:00–11:05. About the seminar (Emi Goto, ILCAA)
• 11:05–12:20. Basics of English-Japanese Subtitling (Tetsuji Sakurai, Japan Visual Translation Academy/JVTA)
• 12:20–12:30. Q&A

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA))

• Yasser Elshayeb, who specialises in geological analysis using GIS and has a background in archaeological research, will talk about the possibilities of using GIS in urban analysis.
• 14:00–15:00. Presentation by Yasser Elshayeb
• 15:00–15:30. Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration: if you wish to attend, please contact kuma[at]keio.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: English
• For a profile of Yasser Elshayeb, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 16:00. Pre-Meeting
• 17:00. Speaker 1: Hidemitsu KUROKI “Majority and Minority: What are the Problems?”
• 17:40. Speaker 2: Kaoru MURAKAMI “'Periphery' Feminism”
• 18:20. Break
• 18:30. Speaker 3: Chikako MORI “Egohistory and Ecohistory: A Study on Qualitative Research Methodology”
• 19:10. Discussion
• 19:30. Closing

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Yoshiaki TOKUNAGA (JSPS/ Nihon University) “Parliamentarism and Dictatorship: Potentials and Challenges of Parliamentary Studies in 1920s Iran”
• Comment: Yasuyuki MATSUNAGA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Joint Research Project: Fraud in a Free Election: the 6th Iranian National Election in Qom, 1926

• Opening hours of the venue: Monday, Thursday, Friday 16:00–22:00 / Saturday, Sunday, Holidays 13:00–21:00 (Last entry is one hour before closing time.)
• Tibetan Folktales: Tales of the Golden Corpse Illustration Exhibition
• This is an exhibition of illustrations drawn by Kuranishi for the book “Tibetan Folktales: Tales of the Golden Corpse”. The “Tale of the Golden Corpse” was brought to Tibet with the arrival of Buddhism from India, and has been passed down and loved for many years in connection with folktales passed down throughout Tibet, strongly reflecting the life and religious culture of the Tibetan people. We hope the visitors will become familiar with Tibetan storytelling culture through the beautiful illustrations.
• チベット人なら誰もが知る，幸いをもたらすおしゃべりなしかばね。そのしかばねが語る物語の世界を，蔵西さんの美しい絵で味わっていただく絵画展です。「しかばねの物語」はインドから仏教伝来とともにもたらされ，チベット各地に伝わる昔話と結びついて，長い間語り継がれていくうちに，チベットの人びとの暮らしと宗教文化が色濃く映し出されたお話になりました。『チベットのむかしばなし　しかばねの物語』のために描き下ろされた蔵西さんのイラストレーションを通じて，チベットの文化に親しんでいただければ幸いです。実際に本も手にとってお読みいただけます。
• Three events will be held during the exhibition.
• Jul. 14 (Sun.) 13:00–15:30 Reading Workshop “Flowers and Dreams”
• Jul. 21 (Sun.) 10:30–12:30 Storytime “Tibetan Folktales: Tales of the Golden Corpse”
• Jul. 21 (Sun.) 13:30–15:30 Screening of “A Day in the Life of Tibetan Pastoralists” with commentary
• Please contact: hoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Via Ogikubo, TUFiSCo, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) Research Project Number: 20H04480)
• Cooperated by Nora-shoten Publishers Inc., Shunjusha Publishing Company

• Seiji Mouri, now 94 years old and a resident of Kyoto, has been working as an actor and tattoo artist at Toei's Kyoto Studio for over 40 years.
• He has worked on many Toei and NET films, including “Showa Zankyo Den” (from the fourth film onward), “Hibotan Bakuto,” “Jinginaki Tatakai（Battles Without Honor and Humanity）,” and the “Kin-san of Toyama” series.
• By means of a technique and special paints that Mr. Mouri has developed independently, He has painted tattoos on more than 150 stars, including Ken Takakura, Kouji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Hideki Takahashi, Hiroki Matsukata, Ken Matsudaira, Reiko Takashima, and more than 2000 actors in total.
• This exhibition will be divided into two phases, displaying Mr. Mouri's tattoo drafts, as well as photographs, scripts, posters, and pamphlets from the collections of Toei Company, TOEI Kyoto Studio Park and Film Library, Yoshimi Yamamoto, and others, along with film and TV drama footage.

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Executive Committee of “The World of Seiji Mouri: Tattoos make up in Film and TV series”

• 14:00–15:50. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Ritsumeikan University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 03 (first part)”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Ritsumeikan University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 03 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 2. Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA) “Aspects of sentences in Persian chronicles”
• 3. Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA) “What does the punctuation mark /pouʔ jiᵸ / “large punctuation” in Burmese script mark? : From pre-17c inscription data”
• 4. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) “How can we define the “sentence”? : A case study on “The Secret History of the Mongols””
• 5. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Descriptive study on the definition of “sentence”” (Principal Investigator: Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) Project Number: 22H00656), Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 16:00. Introduction of the project (Yasuyuki Matsunaga) “Critical Introduction to Analytical Approaches to Boundary Dynamics”
• 16:30. Presentation (Mostafa Khalili) “Contentious Borderwork in Kurdistan: Dynamics of Cross-Border Kurdish Identity in the Tri-Border Region of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey”
• 17:00. Discussion
• 17:30. Closing

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• 15:00–16:00. “Design and Anthropology: Practices for Activating Collaboration Between Two Close Yet Distant Disciplines” by Takahito Kamihira (Design Researcher / Senshu University and AA Research Fellow)
• While there is ongoing debate about how cultural anthropology can respond to society, design studies frequently refer to anthropological insights to reflect on more fundamental practices. What could be the first steps toward overcoming the barriers between these two closely related yet distant academic fields to foster collaboration? From an anthropological perspective, how might learning and incorporating the basic practices and attitudes of design expand the potential for connecting the interests of anthropology with society? The speaker will share examples from his recent efforts on these topics.
• Moderator: Ran MURATSU (ILCAA)
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 16th Jul.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• 30 years ago, Rwanda experienced a genocide caused by ethnic conflict. Since the end of the genocide, Rwanda has made great progress, and the event is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Now that the generation born after the genocide accounts for two-thirds of the population, it is necessary to look back on the event, learn from the past, and look to the future.
• In this lecture, we will invite Mr. and Mrs. Rudasingwa of Mulindi Japan One Love Project, who have been making prosthetic limbs and promoting support for people with disabilities in Rwanda, Africa, since 1997, to look back on the background and past of the genocide from the perspective of a genocide survivor who has seen the changes, and a Japanese person who has also seen the changes, and consider what can be done to achieve peace.
• Currently, conflicts are occurring all over the world, but by re-learning the genocide not as something that happened in a faraway country, but as something that could happen close to us, we would like to approach the issue of overcoming social divisions and realizing diversity through physicality.
• Program:
• 14:30–14:40. Shojiro Kotegawa (Kokugakuin University) Opening remarks
• 14:40–15:40. Mr. and Mrs. Rudasingwa Lecture
• 15:40–15:50. Miwako Tanaka(East Japan International University) Comment
• 15:50–16:30. Q&A
• Moderator: Ran Muratsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 11th Jul.
• Jointly sponsored by Topic-Setting Program“Overcoming Social Division and Achieving Diversity through Embodiment”, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

• 11:00–12:00. Business meeting (1)
• 13:00–17:00. Main meeting
• 13:00–13:30. Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Project Orientation
• 13:40–15:00. Yuto HISHIYAMA (JSPS, Niigata University) “TBA”
• 15:10–16:30. Noriko OHSAKI (Kyoto University) “Kyrgyz auTBAxiliary verb ele and particle ele: Is it possible to subordinate independent sentences within larger discourse”
• 16:30–17:00. All participants General discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Project number: 24K00061)

• Shirabe OGATA (ILCAA) “Nigeria, Arts, Anthropology, and then ……”
• Chair: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA)

• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Tentative Program
• 13:00–14:30. Masayoshi SOMEYA (Hokkaido University) “The cognitive capacity of non-neural organisms: some lessons learned from the controversies surrounding their mind and embodiment”
• 14:40–16:10. Yuko IWASE (Tokyo Metropolitan University) “The cognitive capacity of non-neural organisms: some lessons learned from the controversies surrounding their mind and embodiment”
• 16:20–17:50. Morie KANEKO (Kyoto University) “Tools and techniques of body for community road constructions in Southwestern Ethiopia (tentative)”
• 18:00–20:00. Reception meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 8:00–9:50. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 23 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 23 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Fumiko OSIKAWA (Kyoto University) “Between Self-realization and Success: Youngsters in the Hindi films from the 2000s”
• 2. Keiko YAMADA (Ibaraki University) “On the Representation of Desire and Violence in Telugu Cinema in the VFX Era”
• 3. On the terms of emotions (All participants)
• 4. Disucussions and Arrangements for the project (All participants)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of‘Emotions’” (Principal Investigator: Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number: 22H03834)

• 1. Chairparson “Opening greet”
• 2. Miki NAMBA (Kagoshima University) “Irredeemable or Dischargeable Debts? Thinking through Development Aid by Japan”
• 3. Matori YAMAMOTO (Hosei University) “Hierarchy and Redistribution”
• 4. Yohei KAKINUMA (Waseda University) “Origin of Money in China?”
• 5. Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Meiji University) “The Human Economy in the Post-Human Era: Concepts and Prospects”
• 6. All members “Discussion”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “The Human Economy in the Post-Human Era” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 24H00128)

• 6th Jul 14:00－18:00, 302, Online meeting
• 14:30. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:35. Kyoko SAKUMA (Tohoku Gakuin University) “The connection between “hunters” and “farmers” for forest resources: what is exchanged with whom and how interact they are?From Fishing to Tourism?”
• 15:15. Yosuke SANO (Waseda University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion
• 16:00. Break
• 16:10. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) “Between National Policy and Everyday Life: Resources, Land, and Ethinicity in Peninsular Malaysia”
• 16:55. Yosuke SANO (Waseda University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion
• 17:40. Closing
• 7th Jul 10:00－13:10, Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room, Online meeting
• 10:00. Daisuke TERAUCI (Tsukuba University) “National Parks and Subsistence of Swiddenners”
• 10:45. Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion
• 11:30. Break
• 11:35. Kazuki KUSUNOKI (Tokyo University) “Transformation of Livelihood and Intergroup Relations in the ASALs in East Africa”
• 12:15. Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion
• 13:00. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) Summary

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Translation Deviations in Multilingual Primary Source Documents in the Russian Colonial Archives” will be held by A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge.”
• Program
• 17:30–19:00. Talant Mawkanuli (University of Washington) “Translation Deviations in Multilingual Primary Source Documents in the Russian Colonial Archives”
• Contact: ryosuke_ono[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 6th Sep.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05825)

• 13:00–13:20. Hiroki Fukagawa (ILCAA Co-researcher, Kobe University) Explanation of the purpose
• 13:20–14:20. Hiroki Fukagawa (ILCAA Co-researcher, Kobe University) “The Method of Hope, the Romanticization of Hope, the Embodied Hope, and the Limits of Hope -A Preface to Anthropology of Hope”
• 14:20–14:50. all members Q&A
• 15:00–16:45. 7 members Research Introduction and Future Prospects
• 16:45–17:30. General discussion
• 17:30–18:00. Future Policy

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Anthropology of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices” (Principal Investigator: Hiroki Fukagawa (Kobe University) Project number: 24K00183)

• 1. Screening of “Crossing Voices”
• 2. Film commentary and talk by Dr. Oussouby SACKO (Former President of Kyoto Seika University, Professor of Human Environment Design Program, Director of the Center for Africa-Asia Contemporary Studies)
• Chair: Ran MURATSU (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• For details, please see here.
• Language: Japanese
• Website
• Poster
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Cinema, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
• Cooperated by African Studies Center, TUFS, Center for Intercultural Studies (TUFS), Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

• Seven students from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies will host a talk event with Dr. Oussouby SACKO, the former first African-born president of Kyoto Seika University. The students will engage with Prof. Sako, who is originally from the Republic of Mali, on a wide range of topics including learning and freedom, perspectives on Japan from foreigners, immigration issues, African architecture, and currency matters.
• Guest Speaker: Dr. Oussouby SACKO
• Former President of Kyoto Seika University, Professor of Human Environment Design Program, Director of the Center for Africa-Asia Contemporary Studies Born in the Republic of Mali. Completed Doctorate in Architecture at Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering, Ph.D. in Engineering. Specializes in spatial anthropology, studying the relationship between society and architecture from various angles, such as “Kyoto Machiya Restoration” and “Community Revitalization”. Notable works include “Messages for You to Live in the Future World” (Daiwashobo) and “President Sako from Africa Talks about Japan” (Asahi Shimbun Publishing).
• Student Speakers from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies:
• Takahito Yamamoto, Yuki Muto, Mana Komori, Ayari Hirayama, Kyoya Hanada, Mao Shishido, Nonoka Murayama

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, African Studies Center, TUFS, ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology)

• Tomohiko UYAMA (Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) “How Empires and Nationalism Should Be Studied in the New Age of Imperialism? A Perspective from the History of Russian–Central Asian Relations”
• Chair: Jin NODA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Core Project Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society
• Cooperated by Slavic-Eurasian Research Center

• 1. Tomoyuki TAJIMA (Osaka University) Rethinking the Forms of Food Sharing in Primates, Including Humans
• 2. Taro YAMAUCHI (Hokkaido University) Sanitation as “Regeneration”: From Disposal of “Bads” to Sharing of “Lives”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Naoki UETA (ILCAA) “Research on the Phonetics and Phonology of Mongolian: Phonetic Experiments and Theoretical Analyses”
• Chair: Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00. Masaaki SHIMIZU (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University) Substitution of similar-form elements found in Nôm characters
• 11:00. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA, TUFS) On the shapes of Tangut scripts that appear infrequently in the documents
• 13:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 8:00–9:50. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 22”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Ritsumeikan University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 02”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

15 Jun

• 13:30–15:15. Research Presentation 1: Hiroyuki INAI (Waseda University) “Fish-eating Culture in Semi-arid Cameroon”

• 15:30–17:15. Research Presentation 2: Hideaki SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “Dried Shark Meat from the Swahili Coast: In Relation to the Western Indian Ocean”

16 Jun

• 10:00–11:45. Research Presentation 3: Hitomi NAKAO (Kyoto University) “A Regional Comparison of Staple Foods in Northwestern Tanzania: Focusing on the Use of Maize and Cassava”

• 11:45–12:00. Research Liason: Takeshi FUJIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Toyama) “Status Report on Publication Project and Future Plans”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Japan African Food Culture Study Group

• 17:30–17:40. Introduction: Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 17:40–18:20. Mateo Farzaneh (Northeastern Illinois University)
• Islamic Shi‘i Jurisprudence and Western Style Constitutionalism in Iran
• 18:30–19:00. Discussion
• Discussant: Yasuyuki Matsunaga (TUFS)
• Abstract:
• In this talk, Professor Farzaneh will discuss how the chief Shii cleric in Najaf, Iraq, Mulla Mohammad Kazem Khorasani, directly influenced the outcome of the constitutionalism movement in Iran at the turn of the twentieth century. In a way he “Islamicized” the western concept of constitutionalism and supported the secular and religious constitutionalists in their struggle to modernize Iranian politics that aimed to curb monarchical absolutism and create a more just and fair civil society.
• Contact: mmorita[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Madoka Morita) ＊Please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Islamic Trust Studies B01

• Program:
• 14:00–16:00. Hisashi OGAWA (Asia University) “The Dynamics of Dawa in Islamic Basic Education Institutions: A Case Study from Southern Thailand”
• 16:00–18:00. Shinya IMAIZUMI (Institute of Developing Economies) “Application of Islamic Law in Thai Courts and New Codification”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by KKLO

• Rawia Altaweel (ILCAA Foreign Visiting Scholar) “Gaza War Impact on the Neighboring Countries: Focus on Lebanon Refugee Crisis”
• Chair: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For online participants, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Islamic Trust Studies A03

• Seminar for drafts

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Rethinking Anthropology of Death”

• 8:00–9:50. Masayoshi SUGIURA (Gakushuin University) “On silk cocoon taxation in the Wooden Tablets from the Qin site in Liye(First Part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Masayoshi SUGIURA (Gakushuin University) “On silk cocoon taxation in the Wooden Tablets from the Qin site in Liye(Second Part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30–14:40. Yasushi TONAGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Watching the Malay World from the Viewpoint of Self Emanation in Wahda al-Wujud Theory”
• 14:40–15:50. Ayako NINOMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University) “Islam, Islamization and Sufism in South Asia”
• 16:00–17:10. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) “The Idea of the Persianate Societies”
• 17:10–18:00. Meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: Religion, Kingship, and Cosmology” (Principal Investigator: Yumi SUGAHARA (Osaka University) Project number: 21H00575), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Fundamental research for the construction of a historical picture of Islamic reception and social relations in continental Southeast Asia” (Principal Investigator: Kazuto IKEDA (Osaka University) Project number: 20H01325), HINDOWS (Indian Ocean World Studies project, Osaka University) So Yamane.

• 13:00–13:05. Introduction
• 13:05–15:00. Yukinori KIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Hyogo) Failures and regrets in the study of Filipino hunter-gatherer languages: reflections on everything from site selection to career development'
• 15:10–17:20. Syuntarô TIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) Field linguistics and prescriptive linguistics' (tentative)
• 17:20–17:30. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 14:00. Opening Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 14:05–15:30. Screening and Talk
• “Distant Duet” (currently on view at the exhibition “Distant Present: Universal/Remote” (The National Art Center, Tokyo) from March 6, 2024 (Wed) to June 3, 2024 (Mon))
• “Where Do We Go When We Die?”
• “Soramimi”
• 15:45–17:00. Comments and general discussion
• Maiko JISHU (Artist) + Seppyul KIM (Institute for Integrated Global Environmental Studies)
• Moderator: Tomoko NIWA (International Fashion Institute)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 31st May.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Reconsideration of Anthropology of Dearh:An Anthropological Approach to Reality" through Affect Theory” (Principal Investigator: Ryoko NISHII(ILCAA) Project Number: 21H00642)

• This seminar considers the current genocide in Gaza from the perspective of feminist foreign policy (FFP). In theory, this approach foregrounds feminist ethics and human security in its emphasis on “rights, representation, and resources” for gender equality. However, critical explorations are necessary to unpack how Feminist Foreign Policy (FFP) operates in practice, and where it falls short of declared commitments. The seminar raises questions about ‘activating’ normative paradigms in international politics. What horizons exist for activism when state and global governance institutions fail to stop genocide and war? How can (feminist) researchers navigate theory and practice when it comes to struggles for liberation and social justice?
• Program:
• 14:00–14:10. Introduction (Emi Goto, ILCAA, TUFS)
• 14:10–15:10. Lecture by Dr. Layla Saleh “Feminist Ethics and the Test of Palestine”
• 15:10–15:50. Q&A, Discussion
• 15:50–16:00. Closing
• Lecturer:
• Dr. Layla Saleh is a political scientist specializing in politics and International Relations (IR) of the Arab region. Her focus is on ‘politics from below’ as it relates to protest, revolution, civic activism, democratization, and gender politics. She is Director of Research at Demos-Tunisia Democratic Sustainability Forum, and Associate Editor of the Brill journal Protest. In 2024, she is a Research Fellow at Chiba University. Her books include Revolution and Democracy in Tunisia (Oxford UP, 2024, co-authored with Larbi Sadiki) and US Hard Power in the Arab World: Resistance, the Syrian Uprising, and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2017).
• Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English, Japanese (Consecutive interpretation available)
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 31st May.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) “A Study of the Challenges and Solutions for Muslim Communities in the Context of Contemporary Pluralism and Diversity” (Principal Investigator:Emi GOTO (ILCAA) Project number: 24K03160)

• Members' Meeting on Forum and edited volume.

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Research Group on Palestine/Israel

• 15:30–15:45. Dr. Yui KANDA (ILCAA) Introduction
• 15:45–16:15. Dr. Kaori OTSUYA (NIHU/ILCAA) “Jadhb al-Qulūb ilā Diyār al-Maḥbūb by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642): A Persian Work Based on Al-Samhūdī’s (d. 911/1506) History of Medina?”
• 16:15–17:00. Discussion
• Abstract:
• Dr. Kaori OTSUYA (NIHU/ILCAA) “Jadhb al-Qulūb ilā Diyār al-Maḥbūb by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642): A Persian Work Based on Al-Samhūdī’s (d. 911/1506) Histories of Medina?”
• In recent years, there has been a significant increase in secondary literature on trans-regional cultural exchanges between South Asia and the Red Sea region, particularly from the fifteenth century onwards. Nevertheless, the reception of late medieval Arabic histories of the Hijaz in early modern South Asia remains relatively unexplored, partly due to the limited engagement of so-called “Arabists” in the discussion as well as the conventional division between the medieval and the early modern periods.
• This paper seeks to address this gap through a preliminary analysis of Jadhb al-Qulūb ilā Diyār al-Maḥbūb, a history of Medina written by the well-known South Asian hadith scholar and historian ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Muḥaddith al-Dihlawī (d. 1052/1642). While researchers working on the history of South Asia have briefly but often mentioned that ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq wrote Jadhb al-Qulūb based on the histories of Medina by the late medieval Egyptian scholar al-Samhūdī (d. 911/1506), the relationship between Jadhb al-Qulūb and al-Samhūdī’s histories of Medina has largely escaped the attention of modern researchers in the field of the late medieval Arabic historiography.
• After introducing al-Samhūdī and ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq, this paper presents the wide distribution of the manuscripts of their works as well as the findings of a tentative comparison between Jadhb al-Qulūb and al-Samhūdī’s histories of Medina. In doing so, it hopes to shed light on transregional interactions between South Asia and the Red Sea region from the Hijazi perspective.
• Contact: kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00 (JST), 27th May.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00–10:10. Opening
• [Keynote lecture]
• 10:10–10:50. Kicengge (Otemon Gakuin University) “On the survey of languages in the Kangxi period”
• 11:00–11:30. YE Sheng (Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University) “The Investigation of the Eight Banner Garrisons General Buyantu”
• 11:30–12:00. WEN Jing'er (Graduate School of Tokyo Univerisity of Foreign Studies) “A preliminary report on the language and custom of the Sibe people in Gongliu county”
• 12:00–12:30. KOGURA Norikazu (ILCAA) “A preliminary report on the construction of Corpus of Sibe Dialects (CSD)”
• 12:40–13:00. General Discussion
• Commentator: KUBO Tomoyuki (ILCAA Research Fellow)

• Language: Japanese, Sibe
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator:Norikazu KOGURA(ILCAA) Project number:24K00061)

• 1. Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA, Juniour Fellow) “Introduction to the project background and prospects”
• 2. Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA, Fellow) “Some features of Congo Swahili in reference to the micro-variation way of survey”
• 3. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• 1. Screening of “Azmari”
• 2. Itsushi KAWASE (Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Kazuhiro SODA (Documentary filmmaker): Commentary and talk sessin
• Chair: Shu FUJITA (Research Associate, TUFS Field Science Commons)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Cinema, TUFS Field Science Commons, Anthro-film Laboratory
• Cooperated by Core Project (Anthropology) Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts, Center for Intercultural Studies

• 13:00–13:30. Seunghun LEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) & Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Overview of the PhonTyp, phase 2”
• 13:45–14:45. Julián VILLEGAS (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Aizu) & Seunghun LEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “An initial review of the acoustic and articulatory analyses of liquids”
• 15:00–16:00. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) & Seunghun LEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “Preliminary observations about the phonetics of lateral fricatives in Southern Bantu”

• Language: English
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• Yui KANDA (ILCAA) “From Mitaka to Mashhad: Exploring the Material Culture of Safavid Iran”
• Chair: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• This seminar explores Egypt's cultural connections with Japan in the 1960s. It discusses exchanges between these two ends of Asia through a case study of the late Egyptian artist Ragai Wanis (1938-2023), who studied and worked in Japan for five years in the mid-1960s. Drawing on a range of sources-Wanis's published memoirs, his paintings, and his photographs-a vibrant period of transregional entanglements will be revealed. Ultimately, by examining individual stories like Wanis's, the talk offers an alternative narrative for the Arab 1960s, shifting the focus away from political dimensions and pan-Arab solidarities to highlight how Egypt explored different ways of relating to the world during this period.
• 17:30–17:40. Introduction (Emi Goto, ILCAA, TUFS)
• 17:40–18:25. “Nile Samurai: Ragai Wanis and Egypt’s Global 1960s” (Nicholas Mangialardi, Williams College)
• 18:25–18:40. Comment (Yui Kanda, ILCAA, TUFS)
• 18:40–19:30. Discussion
• This talk investigates Egypt’s cultural connections with Japan during the 1960s. It discusses exchanges between these far ends of Asia through a case study of the late Egyptian artist Ragai Wanis (1938–2023), who studied and worked in Japan for five years in the mid-sixties. I draw on a range of sources—Wanis’ published memoirs, his paintings, and photographs—to uncover a vibrant period of transregional entanglements. Ultimately, by examining individual stories like that of Wanis, this talk offers an alternative narrative for the Arab 1960s, shifting focus away from political dimensions and pan-Arab solidarities to highlight how Egypt was exploring other way of relating globally during this period.
• Speakers:
• Dr. Nicholas Mangialardi is a scholar of Arabic literature and music whose research focuses on modern Egypt. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College (USA). His publications have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. His recent work explores cultural exchanges between modern Egypt and Japan through the lens of literature and popular culture.
• Dr. Yui KANDA is an Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Her expertise lies in the study of history of Islamic works of art, particularly ceramics, metalwork, and manuscripts from the late medieval to the early modern period in the Middle East and South Asia. Her latest publication, “Iranian Blue-and-White Ceramic Vessels and Tombstones Inscribed with Persian Verses, C. 1450–1725,” appears in The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art, edited by Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras (New York: Routledge).
• Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 21st May.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• Discussing the potential of ethnographic films and exploring new methods of fieldwork through watching anthropological films.

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by TUFiSCo

• 14:00　. Opening address
• 14:10–14:30. Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) “Objectives of the joint research”
• 14:30–15:00. Masahiro HIRATA “Agro-pastoral complex fermentation culture in Sikkim on the southern slope of the Tibetan- Himalayan region”
• 15:00–15:15. Break
• 15:15–16:15. Satoshi YOKOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University) “Comparative Study on Natto Production and Utilization in Mainland Southeast Asia and the Eastern Himalayas”
• 16:15–17:00. Yusuke BESSHO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Komazawa University) “Entangled Social Connections on the Sustainable Development Issue in the Northern Sikkim Region”
• 17:00–18:00. “Exchange of ideas on the vocabulary questionnaire”
• 18:00. Closing

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• In January 1964, the Japanese ethnomusicologist Fumio Koizumi arrived in Cairo, Egypt. He had been invited by the local government to serve as an organizer and judge for Egypt’s first International Folk Arts Festival. But Koizumi also remained for another three months to conduct research on Egyptian music, traveling up and down the Nile to record folk songs, children’s games, Coptic hymns, Sufi ceremonies, new orchestral works, and much more. The extensive project resulted in the six-disc set entitled Songs along the Nile (Nairu no Uta, 1966). This talk explores Koizumi’s visit to examine an overlooked era of collaborations between Egypt and Japan in the 1960s. Drawing on his recordings, travel notes, and other archival documents, I show how Koizumi became enmeshed in Egypt’s state-sponsored cultural activities. My analysis frames this figure within a broader series of mid-century global flows that help us understand the ways in which Egypt displayed itself to others and through others.
• Abstract:
• 14:00–14:10. Introduction (Emi Goto, ILCAA, TUFS)
• 14:10–15:00. Fumio Koizumi and the Cultural Politics of Music in Modern Egypt (Nicholas Mangialardi, Williams College)
• 15:00–16:00. Discussion
• Speaker:<
• Dr. Nicholas Mangialardi is a scholar of Arabic literature and music whose research focuses on modern Egypt. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College (USA). His publications have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, the Arab Studies Journal, and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. His recent work explores cultural exchanges between modern Egypt and Japan through the lens of literature and popular culture.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 16th May.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa),TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• This project examines the circulation of culture in the twentieth century through the lens of literature and the arts, broadly defined. Particular attention will be paid to aspects of 'projection of the self' and 'creation of the self', highlighting the ways in which peoples travelling through Euroasia viewed each other. Ultimately, we aim to relate our findings to the goal of Global Area Studies, which is to elucidate the mechanisms of construction and transformation of the contemporary global order.
• Program (Closed seminar, Global Mediterranean Studies members only)
• Chair: Nicholas Mangialardi, Williams College
• 10:00–10:20. On the Project (Emi Goto, TUFS)
• 10:20–11:20. Members’ introductions
• 11:20–12:00. Discussion

• Language: English
• Organized by Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)

• 8:00–9:50. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Ritsumeikan University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 01 (First Part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Ritsumeikan University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 01 (Second Part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• “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 will be held by X00 Organizer of “Islamic Trust Studies” Project.
• Program:
• 1. Yoshikazu Shiobara (Sociology, Faculty of Law, Keio University) “The crisis of critical discourses and the solidarity: Unfolding ‘The statement in support of Professor Ghassan Hage from concerned scholars and citizens in Japan’”
• 2. Mayuko Maekawa (Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Kyoto Sangyo University) “A brief introduction to the works of Ghassan Hage”
• 3. Kenichiro Komori (History of European thought, Faculty of Humanities, Musashi University) “Nationalism as anti-antisemitism: A case of Germany”
• 4. Hidemitsu Kuroki (Area Studies of the Arab East, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Cognitive warfare on terrorism and civilization: Why are we easily beaten?”
• Moderator: Jin Noda (Central Asia Studies, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Purpose of the symposium:
• Prof. Ghassan Hage is a world-renowned anthropologist for various stimulating works including the following Japanese translations: White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society, and Alter-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination. After leaving Australia, Prof. Hage started his new research activities at the Max Planck Society in 2023, but he was dismissed from his post for his statement criticizing the Israeli ethnic cleansing/genocide in Gaza, Palestine.
• It was a shocking news as this kind of appalling measure was taken in Germany against the researcher, who has raised, through his works, very important questions on how multicultural/multiethnic human societies should be.
• Moreover, this news revealed that the Western societies, which were expected to respect the freedom of thought and speech, significantly harm the potential of academic contributions to human society and shed light on the long-hidden aspects of the Israel–Palestine question (similar cases were found against Judith Butler in France, Masha Gessen and Nancy Fraser in Germany, and three university presidents in the United States: Harvard, MIT, and Pennsylvania). Prof. Hage’s case evoked a worldwide response but does not seem to be broadly known to the Japanese population, apart from concerning researchers.
• At this symposium, through discussions by a sociologist and an anthropologist who have played a leading role in introducing Prof. Hage’s works and other researchers of the history of European thought and the Arab East, a sense of crisis will be shared: we are standing at an extremely critical crossroad in the general sphere of scholarship/research, as well as in the realities of international politics.
• Capacity: 150 participants (in person, in order of registration) & Online via Webinar
• Contact: Islamic Trust Studies Project Office (connectivity_jimukyoku[at]tufs.ac.jp) (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. (Online participants will be informed of the Webinar information on May 12, the day before the symposium)
• Jointly sponsored by X00 Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05823), Seminar of Dr. Shiobara, at the Graduate School of Law/the Graduate School of Sociology, Keio University.

• Zemfira Yerzhan (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) “Formation of National Identity in the Context of Westernization: the case of Kazakhs and Japanese” (in English)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 17:00 (JST), 7th May.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, Central Eurasian Studies Association

• 8:00-9:50. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 21(First Part)”
• 9:50-10:10. Break
• 10:10-12:00. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 21(Second Part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)
• 2. All members

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Screening of “Chandmani”
• 2. Takeshi KAMEI (Director), Maiko ITO (Mongolian folk singer), Akira KAMIMURA (TUFS): Talk sessin
• Chair: Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, Mongolian
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Cinema

• Speaker: Huyamyun Kabir, Visiting Researcher, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Assistant Teaching Professor (Anthropology) Department of Environment, Culture & Society Thompson Rivers University British Columbia, Canada Title: “The Deobandi Tradition in Bangladesh: Qaumi Madrasa Education and the Political Rise of their Custodians”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0024), and CICE, Hiroshima University

• 13:00–13:10. Yui Kanda (ILCAA) Introduction to the Annual Schedule (AY 2024)
• 13:10–13:40. All Members Meeting and Introduction Session
• 13:40–14:00. Q&A and Discussion

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 13:30–13:40. Introduction
• 13:40–14:30. Osamu Otsuka (The University of Tokyo) The Development of ‘History of the Prophets’ in Islamic Universal History Works
• 14:40–15:30. Colin Mitchell (Dalhousie University) Problematizing the Prophet-King David and His Reception in Medieval Persianate Culture
• 15:40–16:30. Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) The Hamza-nama, the Safavids and the Pre-Islamic Past
• 16:30–17:00. General Discussions
• Chair: Nobuaki Kondo

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, TUFS

• Shu FUJITA (Research Associate, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)) Learn fieldwork through video editing
• Guest lecturer: Yanggu Kang (National Museum of Ethnology)
• Fieldwork consists of experiencing things in the field and considering about what you feel and think there to express them in written or visual form. In this workshop, you will learn about the process of thinking about and expressing field experiences by editing the video footage that Yanggu Kang took during her anthropological fieldwork in Raglai, Vietnam. By editing the footage based on the fieldwork, you will be able to “think like” you are thinking from the fieldwork. Even if you have never edited a video or done fieldwork before, please come and join us.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 8:00–9:50. Masayoshi SUGIURA (Gakushuin University) “An introduction to the Western Han Bamboo Slips and Wooden Tablets from the Zoumalou-site”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian 20”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 15:00. Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA) Introduction
• 15:10. Ryo Mizukami (JSPS/ ILCAA) Spread of Imamophilia and Various Confessional Boundaries: A Study of Sunni and Shiʿi Fadāʾil Works in the Premodern Islamic Lands
• 15:30. Kaori Otsuya (NIHU/ILCAA) Circulation, Translation, and Reception of Arabic Manuscripts on the History of Mecca and Medina in the Early Modern Persianate World
• 15:50. Haruya Shishido (MA, Meiji University) Power Map of Qizilbāsh during the Reign of Shāh Ismā‘īl II (1576—77)
• 16:10. Q&A
• 16:40. Yui Kanda (ILCAA) Legacy of Shāh ʿAbbās’s Book Endowments: A Preliminary Study of Kufic Qurʾāns with Alleged Twelver Imām Signatures Endowed to Mashhad
• 17:00. Norifumi Daito (The Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo) The Dutch East India Company and Local Intermediaries in Post-Safavid Iran
• 17:20. Naofumi Abe (Ochanomizu University) The Safavid Shrine after the Safavids: How We Delineate the Agency of a Muslim Shrine in the Age of Decline?
• 17:40. Q&A
• Discussant: Colin Mitchell (Dalhousie University)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Islamic Trust StudiesB01, The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• 14:00–14:40. Ran MURATSU（ILCAA） “Introduction (Opening Remarks)”
• 14:40–17:30. All members Introduction of each research and work
• 17:30-18:00. All members Discussion for the orientation of the joint research

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• The International Workshop “Chancelleries, Correspondence, and Diplomacy in the Iranian Plateau” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Group B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy (Principal Investigator: Shinsuke Nagaoka)”.
• Programme
• 14:00–14:10. Introduction Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10–15:10. Colin Mitchell (Dalhousie University) “Belletristic Presentations of Princely Governance during the 1469-70 Timurid Succession Crisis”
• 15:20–16:20. Peter Good (JSPS Fellow/ ILCAA) “Stability by Contract?: The East India Company in Persia 1600-1747”
• 16:30–17:00. Discussions
• Abstracts
• “Belletristic Presentations of Princely Governance during the 1469-70 Timurid Succession Crisis”
• Colin Mitchell Largely stepping into the vacuum left by Timur and his descendants in Azarbaijan and central Iran, the Aq Qoyunlu developed a semblance of a Perso-Islamic court culture while at the same time maintaining structures, institutions, titles, and rankings associated with Turkish tribal politics (pace J. Woods). The chancellery is very much emblematic of this hybridism, and this paper seeks to examine the Aq Qoyunlu production of letters in the tradition of insha (epistolography) to better understand how this particular state understood the appointment and mandate of royal family members (i.e. princes) for positions of governance. Nowhere is this better seen than during the aftermath of Uzun Hasan’s defeat of the Timurid ruler, Abu Said at the Battle of Qarabagh in 1469. Curiously, Uzun Hasan made a conscious decision to not appoint one of his sons as the governor of the newly conquered city of Herat, but rather nominated Yadgar Muhammad Mirza. Yadgar Muhammad Mirza was one of many competing descendants of Timur who were making claims to the Timurid throne, and Uzun Hasan openly used him as a proxy. Uzun Hasan sent supplies, men, and guidance to this young Timurid prince in his civil conflict with his cousin, Sultan Husain Baiqara. These events of 1469-70 – Yadgar’s invasion of Khurasan, the displacement of Sultan-Husain Baiqara from Herat, the successful counterattack by the Timurids - are detailed and discussed in a number of letters produced by the chancellery of Uzun Hasan. While the style, tone, and rhetoric are consistent with medieval Perso-Islamic conceptions of monarchical theory and sovereignty, there is no disputing the Turkic predilection for tanistry and succession politics. This paper will examine and analyze these letters in the hopes of better understanding how such literary-administrative texts can shed light on how contemporaries articulated these tensions which exist in the Perso and Turco-Islamic worlds regarding succession practices among competing princes.
• “Stability by Contract?: The East India Company in Persia 1600-1747”
• Peter Good The English East India Company’s presence in Persia represents one of the longest non-colonial or imperial relationships of a European state with an Indian Ocean Empire. The Company’s ability to maintain its position as both a trading and diplomatic presence in the Safavid Empire was due to mutually recognised benefits. These included joint military campaigns against the Portuguese (1622), Gulf Piracy, or Arab and Afghan rebels along the littoral of the Persian Gulf. This paper will explore the different and changing methods used and deployed by both parties in order to maintain this valuable cooperation. The Company and the Safavid State enshrined their relationship in an evolving written document, the farmān. However, the farmān alone was rarely sufficient to fully answer all eventualities faced by either party, renegotiations were therefore required to better reflect changing circumstances. These negotiations were often carried out by non-European intermediaries, involving exchanges of gifts, invitations to social events and promises of mutual assistance. This paper will explore how the Anglo-Persian relationship was maintained outside of the formal confines of the written farmān. It will focus on the role of informal contacts, non-European intermediaries and the deployment of formal endorsements by court and local officials. By exploring these often-bilateral exchanges, it is possible to better understand how the Company’s business was interwoven with the local and state policies of the Safavid Empire and its successors. Understanding the balance of power and management of the Anglo-Persian relations has an important impact upon the way we understand the agency of non-European states and peoples in their commercial and diplomatic exchanges. This helps us to understand the multi-valent nature of these interactions, rather than relying solely on Eurocentric views.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Mobility and Universality of Islamic Economy” (Principal Investigator: Shinsuke Nagaoka (Kyoto University) Project number:20H05824)

• 15:00. Opening
• 15:20. Speaker 1: Eiji Nagasawa “Looking Back on Eight Years of Islam and Gender Studies: Reflections”
• 16:30–16:40. Break
• 16:40. Speaker 2: Junko Toriyama “Thinking Coloniality with Islam and Gender Studies: A Critical Reflection on Intersectionalism and a Rethinking of Third World Feminism”
• 17:50–18:00. Break
• 18:00. Open discussion
• 19:00. Closing

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)“A Study of the Challenges and Solutions for Muslim Communities in the Context of Contemporary Pluralism and Diversity”

• Speakers:
• Simon Leese (University of Amsterdam) ‘Bombay Cinema in the Egyptian Press: reimagining Indian Ocean cross-cultural connections in the age of Non-Alignment’
• Alaka Chudal (University of Vienna) ‘What shall we speak about?: Indian prisoners of the First World War in Germany’
• Discussants:
• Fuko Onoda (Osaka University)
• Taeko Uesugi (Meiji Gakuin University)
• Chair: Riho Isaka (University of Tokyo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Center for South Asian Studies, University of Tokyo; Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa; Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, Osaka University (HINDOWS)

• 8:00–9:50. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian19 (First part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian19 (Second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00–12:00. Workshop “Let's make a Shikabane Anime”
• Moderator: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA)
• Lecturer：Luchu Phakpajap (Animator)
• 12:00–13:00. Lunch break
• 13:00–14:00. Animation screenings
• 14:30–17:00. Talk event “Let's read the story of Golden Corpse”
• Moderators: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) Yukiko SATO (Nora-shoten Publishers Inc.)
• Guests：Kuranishi (Illustrator, Manga artist), Luchu Phakpajap (Animator), Zhouxing Carirang (Musician), Miyuki MATSUO (Filmmaker, Subtitle translator)
• Contact: hoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, Tibetan
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here (In Japanese).
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• Thirteen members of the project will give their presentations in 35 minutes followed by 15 minutes of Q&amp;A sessions or talk at a symposium in the first or second day, and Professor Narrog Heiko (Professor of Tohoku University) will give an invited lecture in the first day.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For the program, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”

• Shinsaku KATO (ILCAA) “Conflicts over Maritime Navigation along the West Coast of India, c. 1700 - 1770: The Marathas, the Dutch, and the English East India Compagnies”
• Erina OTA (TSUKADA) (ILCAA) “Selecting what to write and what not to write: The “notoriety” of 15th-century Islamic intellectuals in the biographical dictionaries”
• Contact: meis[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 28th Mar.
• Organized by Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”

• In early modern South Asia, a wide range of ideas, knowledge, literary conventions and stories were
• actively transmitted across linguistic, religio-cultural and regional divides, and numerous texts were
• translated in this process. The translation of Sanskrit texts into Persian around the Mughal emperors is well known, but there was also active transmission of texts and the knowledge they contained across linguistic boundaries in the provinces of the Mughal Empire and in the centres of various other regimes outside the Empire. This workshop aims to highlight the multifaceted nature of early modern South Asian culture by focusing on the various forms of translation and the transmission of knowledge through examples from some regions within early modern South Asia.
• Program
• 14:00–14:05. Opening Remarks
• Nobuhiro Ota (ILCAA, TUFS)
• 14:05–14:40. Presentation I
• Simon Leese (University of Amsterdam) The Qur’ān as proof text and translational referent in North Indian multilingual poetics (‘Abd al-Wāḥid Bilgrāmī and Ghulām ‘Ali Āzād Bilgrāmī)
• 14:40–15:15. Presentation II
• Kazuyo Sakaki (Independent Scholar) Texts and images: Intercultural transmission of the text related to astral sciences in Deccan.
• 15:15–15:50. Presentation III
• Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA, TUFS) Some general characteristics analyzed in the three Persian translations of the Laghuyogavāsiṣṭha.
• 15:50–16:00. Tea Break
• 16:00–16:35. Presentation IV
• Kiyokazu Okita (Sophia University) When cowherd women speak in Bengali: Transmission, transformation, and distortion in Guṇarāj Khān’s Śrīkṛṣṇavijay.
• 16:35–17:10. Presentation V
• Nobuhro Ota (ILCAA, TUFS) Translation of the Mahabharata into Kannada prose in the Mysore Kingdom of Early Modern South India
• 17:10–17:20. Tea Break
• 17:20–17:35. Comment
• Fabrizio Speziale (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
• 17:35–18:05. Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is at noon 26th Mar.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro Ota (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0013), Joint Research Group (ILCAA) “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• 1．13:00–13:10. Introduction
• 2．13:10–13:50. Talks by the presenters-1
• (13:50–14:00 break)
• 3．14:00-15:00. Talks by the presenters-2
• (15:00–15:10 break)
• 4．15:10–16:00. Roundtable
• (16:00–16:20 break)
• 5．16:20–17:00. General discussions
• Presenters: Hayato AOI (TUFS), Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA), Tomoyo OTSUKI (Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University), Sayaka KUTSUKAKE (Tohoku Gakuin University), Miki KOBAYASHI (National Ainu Musium)
• Facilitator: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
• Contact: ds[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)。）

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 24th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Networking and Dialogue (TReND), TUFS; Multi- and Inter-cultural Research and Innovation Fellowship (MIRAI fellowhip), TUFS

• 13:30–14:30. Kazuhiro IMANISHI “Frequency Analysis of Voice in Amis Discourse: Results and Issues”
• 14:30–15:30. Naomi TSUKIDA “TBA”
• 15:30–16:30. Asako SHIOHARA “Word final glottal stops in Sumbawa”
• 16:30-17:00. Izumi OCHIAI “Historically reduplicated forms in Siraya”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons

• 10:25–10:30. Opening (Shirai, Satoko (The University of Tokyo))
• Session 1
• 10:30–10:45. Namdag, Lkhagvajav (Graduate School of TUFS) “Conjunctions in Mongolian - Focusing on those derived from converbs -”
• 10:45–11:00. Basbayar, Munkhdaram (Graduate School of TUFS) “On Mongolian place words of the nominative type For gadna and gadaa”
• 11:00–11:15. Yamada, Yohei (TUFS) “An attempt at the classification of adjectives in Mongolian - with a special focus on “human propensity” -”
• 11:15–11:30. Yamakoshi, Yasuhiro (ILCAA, TUFS) “A Sentence-Final Verb Form Found in the Acquisition Process of Sinekhen Buryat (A Preliminary Study)”
• 11:30–11:45. Baigala (Graduate School of TUFS) “The verbal suffix -xisi in Solon”
• 11:45–12:00. Kakudo, Masayoshi “The History of Verbal Negation of Mongolic Languages” *
• 12:00–12:15. Kubo, Tomoyuki (ILCAA) “Double and multiple possessive construction in Sibe and Shibatani’s Nominalization Theory”
• 12:15–12:45. Break (30mins)
• Session 2
• 12:45–13:00. Suzuki, Hiroyuki (Kyoto University) “r-sound around a vowel in Tibeto-Burman languages” *
• 13:00–13:15. Masuda, Masahiko (Kyushu University) “Tone-related Phenomena in Wu Chinese” *
• 13:15–13:30. Matsuoka, Yuta (Kansai University) “Semantic changes of kin nouns in young speakers of Yanbian Korean”
• 13:30–13:45. Hayata, Suzushi (ILCAA, TUFS) “Exit Strategies for Information Resources” *
• 13:45–14:00. Akmatalieva, Jakshylyk (JSPS / Niigata University) “Vocabulary comparison of Altai, Shor and Kyrgyz languages”
• 14:00–14:15. Hidaka, Shinsuke (JSPS / Niigata University) “A preliminary study of geminates in Uzbek and Kazakh”
• 14:15–14:30. Hishiyama, Yuto (JSPS / Niigata University) “Toward a comprehensive description of expressions of desire in Chuvash: Person and case marking of the agent in -As=čĕ clause”
• 14:30–14:45. Break (15mins)
• Session 3
• 14:45–15:00. Suganuma, Kentaro (Kanazawa University) “A report on a survey of subordinate clauses in Karachay-Balkar”
• 15:00–15:15. Ohsaki, Noriko (Kyoto University) “The auxiliary verb ele and conditionals in Kyrgyz”
• 15:15–15:30. Kuribayashi, Yuu (Okayama University) “Definiteness in Turkish revisited”
• 15:30–15:45. Hayasi, Tooru (The Open University of Japan) “Non-standard word-order in German conversations between a lecturer and students in an “Integrationskurs””
• 15:45–16:00. Sugahara, Mutsumi (TUFS) “The way you don't do it. On negative converbs in Turkic”
• 16:00–16:15. Kishida, Yasuhiro (Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Osaka University) “Morphology and Syntax of Evidentialilty”
• 16:15–16:30. Yoshida, Hiromi (Kobe City University of foreign studies) “On the reflexive pronouns and emphatic pronouns of Urola Kosta Basque”
• 16:30–16:45. Break (15mins)
• Session 4
• 16:45–17:00. Fujishiro, Setsu (Kobe City College of Nursing) “Russian Loanwords in Dolgan Now and Then”
• 17:00–17:15. Prokopeva, Mariia (ILCAA, TUFS) “An Analysis of Discourse Markers in Spoken Sakha” *
• 17:15–17:30. Kazama, Shinjiro (TUFS) “Tungusic-Mongolian Elements in Sakha Language”
• 17:30–17:45. Matsumoto, Ryo (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) “Existence and Location Senteces in Uralic Languages”
• 17:45–18:00. Yoshimura, Taiki (ILCAA, TUFS / Nagasaki University) “On the so-called “question markers” in Azerbaijani”
• 18:00–18:15. Shirai, Satoko (The University of Tokyo) “Findings from the nDrapa dialect atlas”
• 18:15–18:30. Kogura, Norikazu (ILCAA, TUFS) “On the discourse marker da in Sibe and neighboring Languages”
• 18:30–18:45. Ebata, Fuyuki (Niigata University) “Explicit focus construction with the verb buol 'to become' in Sakha (Yakut)”
• 18:45–19:00. Closing (Ebata, Fuyuki (Niigata University))
• 19:30–21:30. Reception
• *: Online Presentation via Zoom
• Due to space limitations, participation will be accepted online only.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 17:00, 22th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by Eurasian Language Research Consortium (CSEL); ILCAA Core Project Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)"

23 Mar

• 13:30–15:15. Research Presentation 1: Hana SHIMOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Research Fellow) “Cultivation and utilization of yams: A report on a preliminary survey in Savannah State, Central Ghana, where cassava cultivation is widespread”

• 15:30–17:15. Research Presentation 2: Tomoki IKEBE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Research Fellow) “Transformation of Food and Agriculture in Colonial Senegal”

23 Mar

• 9:30–11:15. Research Presentation 3: Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) ““Injera” in Ethiopia in the mid-19th century” 「19世紀半ばのエチオピアにおける「インジェラ」」

• 11:30–12:00. Research Liaison: Takeshi FUJIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Toyama)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Japan African Food Culture Study Group

• 19:00–19:00. Opening address/Introduction
• 19:10–20:10. Reading session (1)
• 20:10–20:30. Break
• 20:30–21:30. Reading session (2)
• 21:30–22:00. Q&A session/Discussion
• 22:00–. Closing address
• Chair: Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Monasteries and Secularity in Indian Buddhism from the Gupta Period Onwardv (Principal Investigator: Taiken Kyuma (Mie University) Project number: 22H00002), ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• This is a photo exhibition of two indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia(Orang Asli), the Batek and the Sumaq Beri. The exhibition focuses on the present-day hunter-gatherers living in the tropical forest under the social/environmental changes through the photographs by Malaysian photographer Dome. You can access the web-based materials by using the QR codes next to the photos at the gallery.

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• YIDEMUCAO Dawa (ILCAA Visiting Professor) “On launching a website about traditional culture of Oirat Mongolian”
• Chair: Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Circuits of Travel in South Asia and Beyond: The Tawa'if and Nautch Girls in Late Colonial India” will be jointly held by C01 “Analyses of Connectivities by Digital Humanities Methods” and A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge.”
• Lecturer: Shweta Sachdeva Jha (Delhi University)
• Discusssant: Ayako Ninomiya (Aoyama Gakuin University)
• Moderator: Yuri Ishida (Okayama University)
• This workshop will discuss the movement of people, focusing on the activities of tawa'if and nautch girls, including those in the Mughal court in and after the late eighteenth century, as well as those from India to the West in and after the nineteenth century.
• Contact: soichi.nagano[at]keio.jp (Soichi NAGANO) (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako Kumakura (Keio University) Project number:20H05830), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A）“Conversion of the Islamic knowledge” (Principal　Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project number:20H05825)

• The Workshop “Managing Transitions within and beyond post-Ottoman Turkey” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “近世巨大都市・三都の複合的社会構造とその世界史的位置” (Principal Investigator: TSUKADA Takashi).
• Orçun Can Okan (University of Oxford) “Managing Transitions within and beyond post-Ottoman Turkey: The Delegation of the Ankara Government to Istanbul (1922-1928)”
• Discussions
• Abstract
• Managing Transitions within and beyond post-Ottoman Turkey: The Delegation of the Ankara Government to Istanbul (1922-1928)
• Orçun Can Okan Milestone events that radically change political landscapes are often followed by efforts to manage these events’ consequences in diplomatic, administrative, and legal terms. In (what became) former Ottoman domains in the 1920s, an institution that undertook efforts of this kind was the Delegation of the Ankara government to Istanbul (Dersaadet Murahhaslığı). This institution represented the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in its relations with foreign diplomatic missions in Istanbul and later facilitated the implementation of stipulations in the peace treaty Turkey signed at the end of World War I in July 1923—the Treaty of Lausanne. Mainly through textual and visual materials incorporated from this institution’s documents housed at “the Ottoman Archives,” this talk discusses its role in the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the construction of new regimes in Turkey and the Arab Middle East. Focusing on this institution facilitates interpreting the diplomatic, administrative, and legal issues that had to be addressed amidst political transitions with large scope. By way of illustrating practices of managing state succession through specific examples, the talk advocates new ways to transcend national and regional divides in historical inquiries on the making of the postwar Middle East.

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “近世巨大都市・三都の複合的社会構造とその世界史的位置―〈史料と社会〉の視点から―” (Principal Investigator: TSUKADA Takashi (Osaka Metropolitan University) Project number: 20H00030)

• Chair: Dr. Yui Kanda (ILCAA)
• 15:30–15:35. Introduction
• 15:35–16:25. 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”
• 16:25–17:00. Q&A, Discussion
• Abstract:
• Based on the title of my forthcoming publication, this lecture aims to be a presentation about one of the most shared, dare I say universal, experience in human life: heartbreak. Love has been for centuries a theme much exploited by poets and artists. However, a great deal of words has been spent to celebrate love when it breaks, and pain emerges. The story of romantic lovesickness, a form of madness induced by love delusion, is long and dates to millennia. Still, certain topoi and images consolidated around specific times and places, centuries before the widespread popularity that the Romantic Movement enjoyed in the last decades of the 18th century CE.
• My work investigates the enduring success of lovesickness by looking at its historical and intellectual articulations and diverse cultural interpretations in pre-modern societies. I have picked two distinctive poetic works that have brought lovesickness to the next level and set the pace for whatever else that followed: the masnavi (romantic epos) Laylī va Majnūn by the Persian poet Niẓāmī Ganjavī (ca1188-92 CE), and the allegorical dream poem Roman de la Rose composed, respectively, by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (between 1230 and 1275-80 CE). The impact that these poems had on the history of their respective literary traditions cannot be stressed enough, as they emerged in a period when the discourse of and on love progressively took space in the literary arena.
• Starting from the 12th century CE lyrical production (in Persian and French literary contexts) started making a sensible and progressive shift towards the erotic at the expenses of the heroic, so feeling over action, or what has been dubbed as “the heroism of sentiments”. This while merging erotic and spiritual vocabularies to give new articulations to the sentiment of love and its pangs. Niẓāmī’s Laylī va Majnūn and the Rose became iconic works of literature for their portrayal of excessive love, desire, obsession, madness, and yearning as the driving forces of the narrative.
• Both poems have survived in numerous manuscript copies, a testimony to their major popularity. Several of these manuscripts have been illustrated leaving a blueprint in their respective literary and artistic traditions while showing the importance of vision and visuality in the construction of the discourse of love and lovesickness. By comparing these two historically disconnected yet thematically related literary discourses and artistic, pictorial traditions, in my work do not aim at establishing homologies. Rather, I look at divergent paths that lead to dissonances, to recognise historical emergences and socio-cultural peculiarities.
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com ＊please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00 (JST), 17th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, Grant in Aid for Scientific Research (C)“An Empirical Research of the Representation of ‘Secularity’ in the Iconography of Islamic Art” (Principal Investigator: Norihito HAYASHI (Ryukoku University) Project number: 21K00180)

• This workshop will discuss the recent academic trends in Language Documentation on Digital Humanities, with examples from linguistic research in Ethiopia.
• 13:30–13:40. “Introduction” Prof. Hideyuki INUI (Yamaguchi University)
• 13:40–14:40. “Current Trends in Language Documentation” Dr. Tesfaye Negash (Kotebe University of Education)
• 14:50–15:50. “ELAN and IIIF for Language Documentation” Dr. Yona TAKAHASHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 16:00–17:00. Discussion
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English, Japanese
• For registration,please see here. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Description and documentation of Ethiopian languages: Towards a social innovation” (Principal Investigator: Hideyuki INUI (Yamaguchi University) Project Number: 18KK0009)

• This seminar will feature reports from researchers who have conducted descriptive surveys of Ethiopian minority languages.
• 16:10–17:00. “Nominal Number Marking in Nyangatom: an Eastern Nilotic Language” (Dr. Moges Yigezu, Addis Ababa University)
• 17:10–18:00. “Adjectives in Arbore” (Dr. Firew Girma Worku, James Cook University / Dr. Binyam Sisay, The Africa Institute)
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Description and documentation of Ethiopian languages: Towards a social innovation” (Principal Investigator: Hideyuki INUI (Yamaguchi University) Project Number: 18KK0009)

• 15:00–16:00. 「Description and documentation of Ethiopian languages: Current challenges」
• Dr. Moges Yigezu (Addis Ababa University)
• Dr. Tesfaye Negash (Kotebe University of Education)
• Dr. Firew Girma Worku (James Cook University)
• Ethiopia is said to have more than 90 languages. In this session, three researchers who study Ethiopian languages will present the current linguistic situation in Ethiopia and their academic efforts.
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English, Japanese
• For registration,please see here. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, ILCAA, TUFiSCo, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) Description and documentation of Ethiopian languages: Towards a social innovation" (Principal Investigator: Hideyuki INUI (Yamaguchi University) Project Number: 18KK0009)

• Presentations:
• 1. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “Opening remarks and introduction”
• 2. Keiichi OMURA (The Open University of Japan) “Ontology of sociality: Exploring the origin and evolution of human sociality through commensality of Inuit”
• 3. Toru SOGA (Hirosaki University) “Sociality of pastoralists”
• 4. Yuko SUGIYAMA (Hirosaki University) “The power of gazes from/to others and the generation of collective technology: Sociality supporting Chitemene cultivation”
• 5. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) “Economic changes and family/kinship relationships: A case study of the Batek people, hunter-gatherers living in Peninsular Malaysia”
• 6. Yuji TAKENOSHITA (Chubu Gakuin University) “Publicness and consideration in group living primates”
• 7. Naofumi NAKAGAWA (Kyoto University) “Sociality in male patas monkeys”
• 8. Kaoru ADACHI (Kyoto Sangyo University) “Is ethnography of primatology possible?”
• 9. Yoshiki MORIMITSU (University of Hyogo) “Seasonality and habitat utilization of Japanese macaque populations tracked by GPS transmitters: Inter-female distances”
• 10. Kazuhide HASHIYA (Kyushu University) “'Early' and 'Late' components: Bimodality in the emergence of behavioral characteristics in the development of human sociality”
• 11. Yuriko IGARASHI (Nihon University) “Population structures in the Jomon and Yayoi periods”
• Comments:
• 12. Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
• 13. David SPRAGUE (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 14th Mar.
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI(ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• 8:00-9:50. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian17”
• 9:50-10:10. Break
• 10:10-12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian18”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 12:00–12:15. Introduction (Toru Tak, Osaka University): From the History of Kashmiriyat to the Archaeology of the Idea of Secularism, and Beyond
• Panel 1
• Reconsidering the Historical Discourses on Lal Ded and Nund Rishi/Sheikh Nuruddin
• 12:15–12:45. Satoshi Ogura (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) ‘Past as a Curse, Future as the Dark: the Islamisation of Nund Rishi in Persian historiography of Kashmir in the Late Eighteenth Century (the Gawhar-i 'Ālam Tuḥfatan li-al-Shāh 'Ālam of Muḥammad Aslam Mun'imī)’
• 12:45–13:15. Dean Accardi (Connecticut College) ‘Reordering the Body to Saintliness, to Reorder Society and Politics: Discourses on Lal Ded and Nund Rishi in the 16th Century’
• 13:15–13:45. Toru Tak (Osaka University) ‘Abdul Ahad Azad’s View on Rishis and the Establishment of Islamic Orthodoxy in Kashmir during the 1930s’
• 13:45–14:15. Hafsa Kanjwal (Lafayette College) ‘What is Kashmiri Culture? Secularism and the Jammu and Kashmir State in the 1950s and 1960s’
• (14:15–14:30 Break).
• Panel 2
• Multiple Readings of the Texts of Lal Ded and Nund Rishi/Sheikh Nuruddin
• 14:30–15:00. Abir Bazaz (Ashoka University) ‘TBA’
• 15:00–15:30. Sonam Kachru (Yale University) ‘Fire and Water: The Fluid, Glowing Edges of Lalla's Lives and Words’
• 15:30–16:00. Shafi Shauq (Kashmir University) ‘Nund Rishi: Texts, Shrines, and Precepts’
• 16:00–17:00. Discussion & Concluding Remarks
• 問い合わせ先：ogura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp（※[at]を@に変えて送信してください。）

• Admission: Free
• Language: English
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “Cultural Politics on Secularism and Islam: The Case of Kashmir” (Principal Investigator: Toru TAK (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) Project Number: 19K00079)

• The International Workshop “Redefining Ottoman Governance: Center-Local Connectivity, Emerging Caliphate Concept, and Contemporary Perspectives” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoups B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and B02 “Trust Building Through Thought and Strategy (Principal Investigator: YAMANE So)”.
• Programme
• 13:30. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 13:45. Orçun Can Okan (Oxford University) “A Twenty-first-century Turk Studying the Ottoman Empire’s ‘Arab Provinces’ and the Post-Ottoman Arab East: Endeavors in ‘Foreign Studies’?”
• 14:30. Yusuke Motani (Osaka University) “Connecting with Syrians: Muhammad Ali's Rule over Syria in the 1830s”
• 15:15. Nobuyoshi Fujinami（Tsuda University） “A Constitutional Caliphate? An Islamic Monarch in Ottoman Public Law”
• 16:10. Discussions
• Abstracts
• A Twenty-first-century Turk Studying the Ottoman Empire’s “Arab Provinces” and the Post-Ottoman Arab East: Endeavors in “Foreign Studies”?
• Orçun Can Okan In the last two decades, the circumstances of producing and sharing historical knowledge on “the Middle East” underwent profound and rapid changes in Turkey. While some of these require analysis in light of wider changes taking place around the world, some require attention within contexts particular to Turkey at particular points in time. This talk reflects on these changes and evolving contexts as experienced by a young(er) Turkish historian who chose to study post-Ottoman Turkey and “the Arab East” in Istanbul in the 2000s. What made this path particularly appealing among other alternatives at the time, in what broader landscapes of intellectual curiosity and academic career options? How did the relevant “field(s)” evolve since then? In addition to sharing tentative assessments on these questions, the talk invites comparison and contrast between different modes of circulation for simplistic generalizations about the Middle East and its peoples. It aims to stimulate conversation on the difficulties of identifying “the foreign(er)” in contexts of entangled imperial pasts, and the likely challenges ahead in efforts to formulate more “inclusive” historical perspectives on those pasts.
• Connecting with Syrians: Muhammad Ali's Rule over Syria in the 1830s
• Yusuke Motani This presentation delves into the Egyptian rule of Syria (bilād al-Shām) during the 1830s, exploring how Muhammad Ali Pasha's government sought to forge new ties with local Syrian notables to effectively govern the province. Following military conflict with the Ottoman government from 1831, Muhammad Ali and his government faced the pressing task of establishing amicable relations with Syrian notables and integrating them into governance structures in the newly acquired territory. This period can be viewed as a pivotal phase marked by the emergence of “connectivity” between central political authority and local elites, as the government endeavored to connect to Syrian notables.
• In examining this era in depth, the presentation will particularly focus on the interactions between the Egyptian administration in Syria and two key groups: the deputy governors (mutasallim) in Syrian towns and the members of the newly established regional councils (majlis al-shūrā) in major Syrian cities. These officials, appointed primarily from local notables, were endowed with discretionary powers by the government, making them play pivotal role in regional administration. By referring to a wealth of archival documents from the Egyptian National Archives (Dār al-Wathā’iq al-Qawmiyya al-Miṣriyya), the presentation aims to elucidate the roles and authorities bestowed upon these actors by the government, in order to assess the level of trust vested in them for governing Syria.
• A Constitutional Caliphate? An Islamic Monarch in Ottoman Public Law
• Nobuyoshi Fujinami By the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, a novel conception of Caliphate had taken root in the Ottoman Empire. Liberated from the “Islamic” despotism of Sultan Abdülhamit II, Ottoman intellectuals declared the Caliph to be a constitutional monarch. Legally, the Caliph was an organ of the state, representing the sovereign will of the nation. There was nothing specifically Islamic about his status as monarch. The Ottoman elites, familiar with Western jurisprudence, effectively excluded the Caliph from the public law of the state. In 1911, when the otherwise secular Unionists proposed giving the Caliph greater powers, few took them seriously. Even ulamas criticized the Unionists’ provocation. As their cynical use of the Caliphate demonstrated, Ottoman politicians rarely hesitated to exploit its authority. Beyond the secularist/Islamist dichotomy, the Ottoman Caliphate was de-sacralised in the last years of the empire, and the Ottomans’ attitude towards the Caliph was more opportunistic than Islamic.

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust Building Through Thought and Strategy” (Principal Investigator: YAMANE So (Osaka University) Project number: 20H05828)

• 1.Shintaro ARAKAWA (Professor, ILCAA) On the ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (3)”
• 2.Kenji TATEISHI (Professor, Tokai Univ.) “Script and Documents of BAI, Minority in China”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (3)”, Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Year-end annual meeting
• (1)Reports on research activities at 2023.
• (2)Reports on field research at 2023.

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• The third meeting of the Joint Research Project, “The Mediterranean Sea as a Connected Sea”, will be held at ILCAA in Tokyo on 16 March.
• The presenters are as follows:
• Felix Arnold (ILCAA Joint Researcher, German Archaeological Institute)
• Naoko Fukami (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Cairo Research Station)
• Takashi Oshio (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seinan Gakuin University)
• Peter Kitlas (American University of Beirut)
• Naoko Aiiso (Keio University)
• Chair: Tomoaki Shinoda

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• We will hold a joint master's thesis presentation session online for master's thesis submitters considering pursuing a career as a researcher, aiming to provide exchange, networking, and research support among researchers across university boundaries.
• 13:00–13:05. Opening remarks
• 13:05–13:20. Mai HAYASHI (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) “Linker Complex Predicate Constructions in Pangasinan Ilokano: Description and Typology”
• 13:25–13:40. Rena MIZOGUCHI (Graduate School, Kobe Shoin Women's University) “Formal and Semantic Characteristics of /-yor-/ , /-tor-/ in the Himeji Dialect”
• 13:45–14:00. Nargiz BAGHIRLI (Graduate School, Kyoto University) “Disentrainment: A Case Study on Azerbaijani and Russian Bilinguals”
• 14:05–14:20. Max MONSON (Graduate School, Kyushu University) “The Verbal Morphology of the Tsugaru Dialect of Japanese”
• 14:30–14:45. Kai LI (Graduate School, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “A Phonological Analysis on the Yong'an Dialect of Chinese”
• 14:50–15:05. Shuya MATSUOKA (Graduate School, Osaka University) “A Descriptive Study of Zongo Hausa in Ghana: From a Typology of Language Contact”
• 15:10–15:25. Timothy KAWANAMI-HANPETER (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) “A Diachronic Study on Hittite Adnominal Possessive Constructions”
• 15:30–15:45. Sana ISHII (Graduate School, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “A Study of the Aspect in Korean Movement Verbs: Focusing on ‘ka-ta’ and ‘o-ta’”
• 15:45–16:00. Discussion&Closing remarks
• Contact: yamakoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• 1. Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 2. R. Michael FEENER (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University) “Digital documentation of the history of Muslim societies”
• 3. Discussions
• Contact: taichi.kuronuma [at] aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 14th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05823), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 1. Hayato AOI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS) “Why can't we find the descending kernel?”
• 2. Kunihiko KUROKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Shoin Women's University) “Tonal domains in Japanese dialects: Whether they match stems or words”
• 3. Tatsuya HIRAKO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University) “Tonal changes in Japanese dialects as tone languages”
• 4. General discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Alexis Sanderson (ILCAA Research fellow/Professor emeritus, Oxford University) “From the Kushans to the Alkhan Huns: The Creation of Hindu Kashmir”
• Chair: Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Translation and Connectivity in the Empires during the Modern Period” will be held by A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” with C01 “Analyses of Connectivities by Digital Humanities Methods” and Public Offered Research “Formation of an Intellectual Stratum for Inheriting Knowledge of Islamic Law in Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries.”
• Program
• Yoich TAKAMATSU (ILCAA/A02) “Non-Turkish Official Versions of the Ottoman Constitution: Translators, Publication and Responses”
• Masumi ISOGAI (Chiba University) “A Muslim Community as Imagined through a Biographical Dictionary: Rida' al-Din b. Fakhr al-Din's Athar”
• Contact: shin_kato[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 13th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A）Planned Research “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” (Principal　Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05825), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako Kumakura (Keio University) Project number: 20H05830), Publicly Offered Research “Formation of an Intellectual Stratum for Inheriting Knowledge of Islamic Law in Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries” (Principal Investigator: Masumi Isogai (Chiba University) Project Number: 21H05371)

• 14:00–14:10. Honoré WATANABE (IRC Director) “Introduction to the IRC projects”
• 14:10–14:40. Osami OKUDA (Sapporo Gakuin University) “Online text of Ainu collected by Suzuko Tamura”
• 14:40–15:10. Hiroshi TACHIBANA (Kinjo Gakuin University) “Creating an online version of a dictionary of the Tuvaluan language and culture”
• 15:10–15:30. Discussion
• Chair: Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)
• Contact: ilcadj1[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (IRC) (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by Information Resources Center, ILCAA, TUFS

• The Islamic Trust Studies International Workshop / Tobunken Seminar “Petitions and ‘Individuals’: First-Person Narratives and Historical Agency at Intersections of Diplomatic, Administrative, and Legal History” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki) and the Working Group "Methodological Issues in the Study of Ottoman Primary Sources" at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia(Principal Investigator: AKIBA Jun).
• Orçun Can Okan (University of Oxford) “Petitions and ‘Individuals’: First-Person Narratives and Historical Agency at Intersections of Diplomatic

• The International Workshop “From the Mashhad Archives: Eighteenth Century Documents on Iran and Afghanistan” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy (Principal Investigator:Shinsuke Nagaoka)”.
• Program:
• 14:00–14:10. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10–15:10. Ryuichi Sugiyama (Kyoto Tachibana University) “Organization and Administration of the Emam Reza Mausoleum during the Afsharid Period”
• 15:10. Andras Barati (Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna) “Illuminating Eighteenth-Century Persian Historical Documents: Royal Decrees of Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī (1747–1772) at the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī”
• 16:30–17:00. Discussions
• Abstracts:
• Organization and administration of the Emam Reza mausoleum during the Afsharid period
• Ryuichi Sugiyama The mausoleum of Emam Reza (‘Alī ibn Mūsā al-Riḍā, d. 818) in Mashhad, a city located in the north-eastern part of Islamic Republic of Iran, was mainly developed since the Safavid dynasty, which promoted shiization policies in the Iranian region. Many scholars agree that vaqf endowments have played a great role in the expansion and development of this mausoleum and these vaqf endowments changed it into a religious complex that included mosques and charitable institutions for the pilgrims and the poor in the pre-modern period. Although recent studies about this mausoleum have produced steady results in focusing on each of the vaqf endowments, royal edicts for appointments of administration staff, and documents on revenue and expenditure written in the siyāq script, scholars have never tried to grasp a complete view of this mausoleum as a management unit; therefore, its organization and administration as a religious complex expanded by many vaqf endowments still remains unclear.
• The aim of this presentation is to elucidate the organization and administration of this mausoleum during the Afsharid period, primarily using a historical material entitled “Ṭūmār-e ‘Alīshāhī.” This material was compiled in 1747 during the reign of the second Afsharid ruler ‘Ādel Shāh in order to learn how to manage the mausoleum as a religious complex before the confiscation of vaqf properties by Nāder Shāh. It is one of the most valuable sources related to the management of this mausoleum due to its recording of detailed data of vaqf properties and other income sources, and provides a complete overview of its administration staff as well as the charitable services offered to pilgrims and the poor during that period. My presentation will reveal the realities of Shiite sacred mausoleum management in pre-modern Iran and examine its characteristics.
• Illuminating eighteenth-century Persian historical documents: royal decrees of Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī (1747–1772) at the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī
• Andras Barati Given the scarcity of historical sources from eighteenth-century Iran in comparison to earlier and later periods, the use of new and hitherto unknown sources is of great importance. Archival documents represent a group of primary sources that are more difficult to access and have been seldom utilised in the study of this era. The Central Library of the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī has preserved five royal decrees promulgated by the first Durrānī ruler, Aḥmad Shāh. In my presentation, I will examine these documents from both a content and diplomatics perspective.
• Two interlinked areas of Aḥmad Shāh’s policies concerning western Khurāsān become apparent from the decrees: Mashhad and the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī. Hence, I will identify the extent of Aḥmad Shāh’s rule over the region and analyse the measures he undertook in relation to the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī, with the aim of placing the foundation under his direct oversight.
• Furthermore, these documents allow us to observe the degree to which earlier Safavid diplomatic elements or Nādir’s innovations were incorporated into Aḥmad Shāh’s edicts. As a result, the decrees not only offer new insights into the historical events from a local and regional standpoint, but also serve as unparalleled sources for the study of chancery practices during that time period and enhance our understanding of the administrative history as seen through diplomatics.

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Mobility and Universality of Islamic Economy” (Principal Investigator: Shinsuke NAGAOKA (Kyoto University) Project Number: 20H05824)

• The International Workshop “From the Mashhad Archives: Eighteenth Century Documents on Iran and Afghanistan” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy (Principal Investigator:Shinsuke Nagaoka)”.
• Program:
• 14:00–14:10. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10–15:10. Ryuichi Sugiyama (Kyoto Tachibana University) “The Safavid Shrine in Society: The Shrine’s Negotiation with Ruling Powers and Local People in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
• 15:20–16:20. Andras Barati (Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna) “Chessboard Ṭughrās on Safavid and Mughal Royal Decrees: A Study in Comparative Diplomatics”
• 16:30–17:00. Discussions
• Abstracts:
• The Safavid shrine in society: the shrine’s negotiation with ruling powers and local people in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• Naofumi Abe Following the collapse of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, the shrine of its eponym Sheykh Safi al-Din encountered various difficulties due to the waning patronage of the ruling dynasties. This study traces the shrine’s agency for survival on the basis of the analysis of the mixture of documents including the royal firmans, legal documents, and others.
• Royal firmans and governors’ orders were in many cases issued in response to petitions. That is also the case for the shrine of Sheykh Safi; the shrine petitioned to the subsequent ruling powers and local governors on necessity after the fall of the Safavids likewise. Furthermore, Sheykh Safi shrine “itself” created deeds particularly on legal transactions. These documents have come down to us, as we know very well, under the name of the Ardabil Documents or Asnad-e boqʿe-ye Sheykh Safi. Investigating these documents sheds some light on the shrine’s administrative structure and a variety of measures to ensure the survival of the shrine particularly in the turbulent period from the 18th to the early 19th centuries.
• Safi Shrine’s strategy for survival is not limited to the preservation of the waqf properties. The shrine’s officials sought endorsement from the ruling powers for maintaining order in its administration sometimes for their own sake. We will see the negotiations and entanglement of the variety of actors surrounding the survival of the Safavid shrine.
• Chessboard ṭughrās on Safavid and Mughal royal decrees: a study in comparative diplomatics
• Andras Barati One of the most characteristic and enduring elements found on state documents promulgated by the chanceries of Islamic empires is the ṭughrā, the calligraphic emblem of royals and high-ranking bureaucrats. Throughout their extensive history, the design and content of the ṭughrās underwent multiple linguistic and formal changes. However, they were always meant to serve as authentication tools for issued documents. Moreover, due to its inclusion of the name and title of the ruler, it served a similar purpose to the intitulatio in occidental diplomatics.
• Following the Safavid dynasty’s rise to power, administrative reforms brought the royal decrees with ṭughrās to the brink of extinction. During this period, a fascinating development emerged in the form of a newly designed ṭughrā on the decrees of several Safavid rulers. These ṭughrās resembled a chessboard and went beyond simply displaying the ruler’s name and titles. It also included the names of the Twelve Imams, enhancing the symbol’s authority and prestige and broadening its role as a device conveying self-image. As Bert G. Fragner noted, there is an unmistakable resemblance between these and the ṭughrās of the Mughal rulers in India. In my presentation, I aim to elucidate the gradual formation of these understudied diplomatic components in the Safavid and Mughal decrees and provide a comparison of their content and structure. Furthermore, I wish to determine whether their development merely occurred simultaneously or if one of the respective chanceries drew inspiration from the chessboard design.

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A),The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems" (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number:20H05827)

• 1. Yuji IWATA (Ashinaga Foundation) “Inquiry about asymmetricity of sharing”
• 2. Kazumi NATSUHARA (Toho University) ““Caring” and “Sharing” (tentative)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30–13:40. Introduction
• 13:40–14:25. Dr. Nicoletta Fazio (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha)：The Movement of the Line: Early Timurid Painting in the Collection of MIA, Doha
• 14:25–15:00. Dr. Yui Kanda (ILCAA)：Doha Candlestick: Pilgrimage and Endowment to the Mausoleum of Imām Mūsa al-Kāẓim, Kazimayn (c. 1600)
• 15:00–15:15. Coffee Break
• 15:15–15:50. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt (University of Münster/ILCAA)：Cultural Patronage and Intellectual Legacy of Safavid Iran: Shah ʿAbbās’ Book Endowments to Ardabil (c. 1600)
• 15:50–16:25. Prof. Tomoko Masuya (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)：An Overview of Illustrated Persian Manuscripts Moved Between Cities in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
• 16:25–16:55. Q&A, Discussion
• 16:55–17:00. Closing Remarks
• Abstracts:
• Nicoletta Fazio (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha) The Movement of the Line: Early Timurid Painting in the Collection of MIA, Doha
• About 60% of the collection in the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha is constituted by objects from the Persianate World, mostly Iran and, to a lesser extent, Central Asia. Among the many diverse artworks forming this part of the collection, paintings and bound manuscripts figure prominently, some being true treasures of Persian painting, especially from the Safavid era. Yet, one small but quite interesting corpus of paintings and illustrated manuscripts dates to the late Jalayirid and early Timurid period, a crucial moment for the history of Persian painting. This group of artworks are still rather understudied, and it has been only recently, thanks to the work done for the MIA 2022 Relaunch, that proper research has begun.
• Because of its heterogeneous nature, from large naturalistic paintings of birds to qalam-siyāhi sketches, to bound illustrated manuscripts and lose folios of epic and romantic poetry, the early Timurid material preserved at MIA allows us to follow the major steps that led to the establishment of what modern scholars have called the Classical Persian Painting. This paper aims to present such artworks and place them in their historical and artistic context to better understand their genesis and stimulate further research and discussion.
• Yui Kanda (ILCAA) Doha Candlestick: Pilgrimage and Endowment to the Mausoleum of Imām Mūsa al-Kāẓim, Kazimayn (c. 1600)
• This study introduces a hitherto less-known brass candlestick at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar (inv. no. MW.152.1999) inscribed with an endowment inscription that indicates that it was donated to the mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim in Kazimayn, Iraq. The candlestick is analysed in depth because its inscriptions – not only the endowment one but also the poetical ones – have the potential to shed some light on the cultural and religious settings in which poetically inscribed brass candlesticks were produced and meant to be used. The study focuses on the surface decorations and the poetical inscriptions on the candlestick and those on some related pieces which were gifted to Shiʿi shrines in Kazimayn, Samarra, and Mashhad. It also examines contemporary primary sources such as biographical anthologies of Persian poetry and dynastic chronicles. Based on these investigations, it is suggested that the Doha candlestick was endowed most likely by a pilgrim from Iran to the mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim in Kazimayn around 1600 or later, the period in which the town was mostly under the control of the Ottomans; it is also argued that the object in question was produced in Iran, circa 1600, most probably in Kashan, the long-established centre of the Twelver Shiʿite population and the city where poets had a close relationship with craftsmen.
• Philip Bockholt (University of Münster/ILCAA) Cultural Patronage and Intellectual Legacy of Safavid Iran: Shah ʿAbbās’ Book Endowments to Ardabil (c. 1600)
• The paper investigates the book collections endowed by Shah ʿAbbās (r. 1588–1629) to shrines in Safavid Iran around 1600. Previous analyses, notably by Robert McChesney, have examined narrative accounts and documentary sources like endowment deeds. However, significant gaps persist regarding the specifics of book endowments to key shrines in Ardabil, Mashhad, Qum, and Ray. This study utilises methodologies from Arabic and Islamic studies to scrutinise book inventories, catalogue entries, and manuscript notes. These contain invaluable information regarding manuscripts once contributed to the shrine of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn in Ardabil, now archived in Tehran, Saint Petersburg, and Istanbul. The primary objective is to enrich discussions concerning both the quantity and substantive content of these donated manuscripts. Furthermore, this investigation seeks to elucidate the provenance of these books, probing whether they originated from a royal library, the Shah’s personal collection, or were previously owned by Safavid dignitaries before becoming part of the Ardabil shrine library. Through an examination of the thematic breadth represented in the former royal library via these endowments, this study aims to unveil key aspects of Safavid material culture and the prevailing intellectual milieu within the Safavid court circa 1600. Additionally, the inquiry extends to examining book endowments directed to shrine libraries as a potential tool employed to legitimise Safavid authority within Iran.<
• Tomoko Masuya (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo) An Overview of Illustrated Persian Manuscripts Moved Between Cities in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries In my recent study of a particular copy of Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh preserved at the Raza Library in Rampur, India (F. 1820), I found that this illustrated Ilkhanid manuscript moved first from Tabriz to Shiraz before the early fifteenth century, then to Herat around 1415, and finally to India by the end of the sixteenth century. Other Ilkhanid copies of this title by Rashīd al-Dīn also traveled significant distances; some even found their way to Istanbul from Tabriz via Herat.
• Why were these illustrated Persian manuscripts moved? The reason was that manuscripts containing quality paintings were considered to be treasures by pre-modern Persianate rulers. Royal bibliophiles wishing to improve their library holdings would obtain illustrated manuscripts in the form of booty, confiscations, gifts, or purchases, and thus the manuscripts often changed hands. Sometimes they accompanied their owners to a new post in a new city.
• I will give an overview of how illustrated Persian manuscripts moved from city to city during the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries and suggest the circumstances and the people responsible for these movements. This will shed light on how highly valued and universally revered these manuscripts were in the pre-modern Persianate world.
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com ＊please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00 (JST), 5th March.
• Jointly sponsored by The Global Mediterranean Project at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, “Various Aspects of Islamic Art” Working Group at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo

• 10:00. Meeting for publication of Japanese results
• 13:30. Presentation1 Karusigarira Ian (GRIPS/ Joint researcher) “University Students’ Activism in Uganda: Culture, the State, and Prospects”
• Presentation2 Soichiro Shiraishi (Hirosaki University, Joint researcher) “Route to Makerere Hill: University Access from a Rural Area in Contemporary Uganda”

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• The International Workshop “Exploring Connectivity around Medieval
• Islamic Political Thought and Beyond” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)” and A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy (Principal Investigator:Shinsuke Nagaoka)”.
• Programme
• 14:00. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10. Han Hsien Liew (Arizona State University) ““The Caliphate Will Last for Thirty Years”: Medieval Islamic Political Discourses on a Prophetic Hadith”
• 15:10. Yuta Arai (Kyoto University) “Historicizing the Caliphate: Ibn Khaldūn’s Interpretation and Description of the age of al-Khulafāʼ al-Rāshidūn”
• 16:20. Discussions
• Discussant: Retsu Hashizume (Kansai University)
• Abstracts
• “The Caliphate Will Last for Thirty Years”: Medieval Islamic Political Discourses on a Prophetic Hadith
• Han Hsien Liew The hadith, “The caliphate will last for thirty years, followed by kingship,” forms the crux of Muslim debates over the distinction between a legitimate caliphate and worldly kingship. While scholars such as Muhammad Qasim Zaman and I-Wen Su have examined the hadith’s provenance and transmission during the first two centuries of Islam, this paper is more concerned with mapping the political discourses and debates that emerged from it after the crystallization of Sunnism in the ninth and tenth centuries. For instance, some Sunni scholars used it for polemical purposes in defending the collective reign of the four Rightly Guided Caliphs against Shiʿi claims that ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib was the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad. Other scholars, such as al-Nasafī (d. 1142), al-Āmidī (d. 1233), and al-Taftāzānī (d. 1390), grappled with the hadith’s literal meaning but refused to draw a clear demarcating line between the Rightly Guided Caliphs and the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs who came after them, insisting that a legitimate caliphate still existed after the Rightly Guided Caliphs. Drawing on chronicles, theological writings, and hadith commentaries, this paper argues that these political and historical discussions often revolved around three political ideals: consensus, justice, and piety. They also show that Sunni thinkers continued to hold diverse opinions about the nature of the caliphate during a time when the caliphal office was losing its political significance in the Islamic world.
• Historicizing the Caliphate: Ibn Khaldūn’s Interpretation and Description of the age of al-Khulafāʼ al-Rāshidūn
• Yuta Arai With the decline of the Abbasid caliphate, the major focus of concern in Sunni Islamic political thought shifted from the caliphate itself to the enforcement of sharīʻa. The theory of al-siyāsa al-sharʻīya, proposed by some Sunni jurists like Ibn Taymīya after the fall of the Abbasid dynasty, positioned rulers and ulamāʼ as bearers of sharīʻa, rather than caliphs.
• However, a 14th-century Arab historian, Ibn Khaldūn, famous as the author of al-Muqaddima, faced the necessity to reinterpret the caliphate from his standpoint as a historian, rather than a jurist. Ibn Khaldūn propounded the necessity of mulk, or (coercive) sovereignty, in human society and described universal history from the pre-Islamic age to the 14th century as the transfer process of sovereignty among nations in Kitāb al-ʻibar. Therefore, Ibn Khaldūn had to place the age of al-khulafāʼ al-rāshidūn, which had been idealized by his predecessors based on the Sunni historical perspective, in his universal history, while adapting his theory of sovereignty. Ibn Khaldūn reinterpreted the character of the caliphate based on the conception of ʻaṣabīya, or solidarity, which he himself defined as the origin of sovereignty, and viewed the age of al-khulafāʼ al-rāshidūn as a transitory phase from tribal leadership to sovereignty in the history of the Arabs.

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Mobility and Universality of Islamic Economy” (Principal Investigator: Shinsuke Nagaoka (Kyoto University) Project number: 20H05824)

• Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” will organize a roundtable discussion with Dr. Andras Barati from the Institute of Iranian Studies in Vienna. We eagerly anticipate your participation.
• 13:30–13:40. Introduction: Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 13:40–14:10. Ryoko Watabe (The University of Tokyo)
• 14:10–14:40. Haruya Shishido (Meiji University, Tokyo)
• 14:40–15:10. Peter Good（JSPS/ILCAA）
• 15:30–16:00. Norifumi Daito (The Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo)
• 16:00–16:30. Nobuaki Kondo
• 16:30–17:00. Discussions: Andras Barati (Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827)

• 10:30–11:15. Sho YAMAOKA (JSPS/Osaka University) ““See” syllables: the case of Vietnamese”
• 11:15–12:00. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) “Utterance punctuation in Vietnamese”
• Chair: Masaaki SHIMIZU (Osaka University)
• General Inquiries: adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Zoom meeting invitation will be sent in the afternoon on 1 March (Fri). If you don’t receive it on 1 March, please contact adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp by 4 February (Mon.) (Please change [at] to @).
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 11:00–11:10. Introduction
• 11:10–12:20. Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA) “The shame of field trips not scraped off”
• 13:20–14:30. Atsuhiko KATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University) “Failures in my research on Karen”
• 14:40–15:50. Kazuya INAGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University) “Not to regret: Linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia”
• 16:00–17:10. Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA) “How we hear only what we want to hear -- from my research on Sliammon”
• 17:20–18:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 15:30–15:35. Opening Remarks (Moderator: Yui Kanda (ILCAA))
• 15:35–16:20. Lecture by Nicoletta Fazio (Museum of Islamic Art, Doha) “A Tale of Two Cities: Displaying the Qur’ān between Berlin and Doha”
• 16:20–17:00. Q&A and Discussion
• Abstract:
• This is a tale of two countries, two cities, two museums, two collections, and one curator: this is my story and how I have navigated so far the many challenges around and behind the displaying the Qur’ān in public cultural institutions that function as secular entities and yet bear the much misleading label of “Museum of Islamic Art”. This lecture has its roots in the discussions and preparatory work for the exhibition Worte lesen – Worte fühlen, held at the Museum für Islamische Kunst in 2016, and the refurbishment of the permanent galleries at the Museum of Islamic Art, which includes a gallery fully dedicated to the Qur’ān and reopened to the public in 2022.
• The question of sacredness and its presentation in modern-day museums has run through the field of museology for a good two decades and has become more and more cogent as museums have started redefining their missions and place within society. However, it has only been in very recent years that museums presenting artefacts produced by Islamic cultures have joined such discussion. While studies have analysed and dissected exhibition strategies, institutional politics, curatorial practices, and architectural planning as public space through a transnational perspective, less attention has been given to the actual objects involved in major museum displays and, in particular, to a category of artefacts that, by their very nature, are invested with deep holiness: Qur’ān manuscripts.
• Repositories of both historical information and vectors for affective memories, Qur’āns can be tricky objects to showcase. Displays rarely give justice to its ontological complexity and historical significance, which are indeed key elements to publicly present considering today’s ramping climate of cultural misconceptions and social prejudices. In my own curatorial practice, I have tried to step away from a beautification of the object, a flattening process inherent to the becoming part of an art collection. Instead, I have often focused on the materiality of each exhibit in conversation with the rest of the display. The presentation illustrates some of the issues encountered and the solutions proposed while working within two different contexts and spaces, to meet expectations of very diverse audiences, each with their agency. This would, I hope, open the floor space to an engaging discussion to a more than ever urgent theme.
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com ＊please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00 (JST), 2nd Mar.
• Organized by The Global Mediterranean Project at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• Moderator: Masahiko TOGAWA/Ai SUGIE
• 13:00–14:10. Tatsushi YAMAGATA (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University) “Economies Emerging from Underdevelopment: East Asian Industrial Development in South Asia”
• 14:20–15:30. Mayumi MURAYAMA (Institute of Developing Economies) “Changes in International Relations”
• 15:40–16:50. Masaaki OHASHI (University of the Sacred Heart) “Changes and Challenges in Bangladeshi NGOs' Poverty Alleviation Strategies: Was it Service Delivery vs. Empowerment?”
• 17:00–18:10. Naonori KUSAKABE (Rikkyo University) “Social Transformation from the Perspective of Development Policy: Social and Human Development”
• 18:10–18:40. Plenary Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh”(Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number:18KK0024)

• This is a photo exhibition of two indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia(Orang Asli), the Batek and the Sumaq Beri. The exhibition focuses on the present-day hunter-gatherers living in the tropical forest under the social/environmental changes through the photographs by Malaysian photographer Dome. You can access the web-based materials by using the QR codes next to the photos at the gallery.
• (This is the same exhibition held at Pictorico Gallery at Ryogoku from January 23 to 28, 2024)

• Language: Japanese
• poster
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 8:00–9:50. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Observations on Burial rituals in the light of stone reliefs and visiting cards (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Observations on Burial rituals in the light of stone reliefs and visiting cards (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• The 3rd Islamic Trust Studies International Conference “Exploring the Tacit Knowledge of Trust Building and Connectivity amidst Predicaments”will be jointly organized by A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” and B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas”
• Program
• Day 1: Friday 1 March 2024, 15:00–20:00
• Day 2: Saturday 2 March 2024, 10:00–19:30
• Day 3: Sunday 3 March 2024, 09:30–12:30
• Contact: connectivity_jimukyoku[at]tufs.ac.jp (Islamic Trust Studies: Project Office) (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 15:00, 22th Feb.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA), Project Number: 20H05826), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” (Principal Investigator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University) Project Number: 20H05829)
• Supported by The University of Tokyo Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (UTCMES)

• Part 1（10:00-11:00, Hybrid）
• Seunghun Lee (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “Overview of Phontyp Phase 1（section 1）”
• Part 2（13:00-17:00）
• Hiroto Uchihara (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS) “Syntax-Prosody mismatches in Teotitlán Zapotec”
• Jeremy Perkins (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Aizu) “A Production Study on the Tonal System of Du'an Zhuang”
• Seunghun Lee (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “Overview of Phontyp Phase 1（section 2）”
• General Discussion

• Language: English
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• The International Workshop “Exploring Connectivity around Medieval Islamic Political Thought and Beyond” will be organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems (Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)”.
• Programme
• 14:00. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10. Han Hsien Liew（Arizona State University） ““I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You”: Piety and Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzī’s Political Thought”
• 15:10. Ryo Mizukami (JSPS/ILCAA) “Quoting Ibn al-Jawzī for Justification of Imamophilia: Cases of Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzī and ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-Irbilī”
• 16:20. Discussions
• Abstracts
• “I Put My Fear for You above My Fear of You”: Piety and Emotions in Ibn al-Jawzī’s Political Thought
• Han Hsien Liew Studies on medieval Islamic political thought have often focused on the writings of jurists and theologians, hence prioritizing dialectical reasoning as the main mode of political thinking. In this paper, I explore new avenues in the history of Islamic political thought by examining the role of preachers and emotions in effecting political reform. I take as my case study the political writings of the twelfth-century hortatory preacher (wāʿiẓ) Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 1201) that aim at the moral reform of rulers. Compared with the scholastic and disputative discourses of Muslim jurists and theologians, Ibn al-Jawzī deems the hortatory preacher’s homiletic tools to be more effective in appealing to the ruler’s moral and emotional sensitivities. Such tools include the mixing of admonition with praise, the use of biographies of past rulers as models of ideal rulership, and an emphasis on eschatological themes to induce the pious fear of God. Moreover, the chapter arrangement of Ibn al-Jawzī’s mirror for princes dedicated to the reigning Abbasid caliph exhibits at a similar “emotional movement” as his hortatory sermons delivered to the laypeople of medieval Baghdad. Ibn al-Jawzī’s approach to reforming rulers ultimately sheds light on the relationship between politics, rhetoric, and emotions in late Abbasid Baghdad.
• Quoting Ibn al-Jawzī for Justification of Imamophilia: Cases of Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzī and ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-Irbilī
• Ryo Mizukami Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 1201), the leading Baghdadi Sunni scholar, has been mentioned as a prominent supporter of the Shiʿi Imams in the spread of interconfessional reverence for the Twelve Shiʿi Imams (imamophilia). Although he never praised the Twelve Imams in his works as one special group of honorable figures, later Shiʿis and imamophilic Sunnis utilized his words to justify imamophilia.
• By focusing on both Sunni and Shiʿi faḍāʾil (virtues) works on the Twelve Imams, this study clarifies how Ibn al-Jawzī’s image, as an authority of imamophilia, was established. After discussing his general attitudes toward the Shiʿi Imams in his works, I examine the methodology of quotations by two faḍāʾil authors who valued Ibn al-Jawzī: Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 1256), the famous Sunni historian and Ibn al-Jawzī’s grandson, and ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-Irbilī (d. 1293 or 94), the Shiʿi scholar of Ilkhanid Baghdad.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants,please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827)

• 10:00–10:05. Chairparson “Opening greet”
• 10:05–11:35. Satsuki TAKAHASHI (Hosei University) “Storage and Discharge: Circulating Debts and Credits with Fukushima's Wastewater”
• 12:35–14:05. Manami HAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher / JSPS) “Marriage and Bridewealth in 'Modernized' Maasai Society in Kenya.”
• 14:05–15:35. Miki YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Kyoto University) “The Charismatic Monk and the Ghost's Spirit of the Gift in Northern Thailand: It's Not Our Temple”
• 15:45–17:15. All members “Discussion”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 19H01388)

25 Feb

• Facilitator: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)

• 10:00–10:10. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) Opening remarks
• 10:15–10:55. Sachi YOSHIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atomi University), Kazuko MATSUMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “Code-switching among Japanese, Korean and Russian in multilingual Sakhalin: A first sketch”
• 11:00–11:40. Akiko OKUMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanda University of International Studies), Kazuko MATSUMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “On the possibility of “Multicultural Japanese” in the Greater Tokyo Area: A case of South American immigrants”
• 11:45–13:25. Lunch break
• 13:30–14:10. Moe KITAMURA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo/JSPS) “Changes in Acts of Identity among Jerusalem Domari Speakers”
• 14:15–14:55. Joy TANIGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology) “Rapid Language Shift in Language Islands and Its Factors”
• 15:00–15:15. Break
• 15:20–16:00. Takaya HAYASHI (Mukogawa Women's University) “Methodological Challenges in Narrative Approach in Heritage Language Research: A Case Study of Vietnamese Immigrants in Japan”
• 16:00–17:00. Q&A

26 Feb

• Facilitator: Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA)

• 10:00–10:40. Mizuki SAKURAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chuo Gakuin University) “Civil War and Transformation: A Case Study of Ethnic Ties and Mother Tongue Inheritance in Tatar Communities in Tajikistan”
• 10:45–11:25. Yasuhiro ARAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Bunkyo Gakuin University) “Mobility and Language among Koreans in Shanghai, China”
• 11:30–12:10. Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University), Shuto YAMADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University) “Linguistic Landscape and Migrant Communities in Japan: A Case Study of Indian-Nepalese restaurants”
• 12:15–13:25. Lunch break
• 13:30–14:10. Shoei NAKAIE (Ochanomizu University) “Heritage language awareness and the processes of heritage language learning among second-generation newcomers born and raised in Japan: Narratives of those who grew up as 'foreign-linked children in public housing in Kanagawa prefecture”
• 14:15–14:55. Yiqiong WANG (Ochanomizu University) “What should Mother Tongue Education Aim For: Insights from Graduates who Received Mother Tongue Education in Japanese Public High School”
• 15:00–15:15. Break
• 15:20–16:20. Mitsuyo SAKAMOTO (Sophia University) “Caught between “monolingualism” and “bilingualism”: The conflicts faced by heritage language speakers”
• 16:20–16:50. Q&A
• 16:50–17:00. Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Closing remarks
• General Inquiries: adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please replace [at] with @)

• Admission: Free
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 22th Feb. (Application may be closed early)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)
• Supported by Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages

• Tibetan Films Special Screening: In Memory of Pema Tseden

• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TOKYO FILMeX, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
• Cooperated by TOKYO THEATRES COMPANY., INCORPORATED, Athénée Français

• What kind of island is Bali? Listen to the tales of gods and create festivals wearing masks of animals, mythical creatures, and villagers!
• Chikyu Tankentai is a series of workshops which tickle children's curiosity to know more about the world. This event is co-organized by anthropologists and actors. Under the theme of “Let's transform with Balinese masks!”, participants will take part in Balinese masked theater “topeng”, and explore Balinese cosmology and view of humanity.
• Organizers and Actors: Yukako YOSHIDA (TUFS), Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University/ Representative of MANALABO), Yushi YANOHARA (National Museum of Ethnology/ MANALABO), Mana YUMII (actor (BEBERICA Theatre Company)), Mihoko WATANABE (actor), Sakiko MATSUOKA (actor (Dokidoki Boys))
• Please contact: manalabomail[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠)

• Organizers and Actors: Yukako YOSHIDA (TUFS), Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University/ Representative of MANALABO), Yushi YANOHARA (National Museum of Ethnology/ MANALABO), Mana YUMII (actor (BEBERICA Theatre Company)), Mihoko WATANABE (actor), Sakiko MATSUOKA (actor (Dokidoki Boys))
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by MANALABO, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Principal Investigator: Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University) Project number:21K01057), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator:Koji SONODA (Niigata University) Project number:22K13263), TUFiSCo, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”
• Supported by Kyoto City Board of Education, Partner for Peace and Environment NPO, CSEAS, ASC, JCAS

• 13:30–15:30. Maho ISONO (ILCAA,Joint Researcher,Fellow) “When Meaning Disappears from Words – One Essay on Living with the Dead”
• 15:45–18:30. Tomoko NIWA (ILCAA , Joint Researcher,Professional Institute of International Fashion) “Forms of Expression that Evoke Dialogue with the Dead: Anthropology of Death from the cases of contemporary art, documentary film and exhibition production that depict the experience of 3.11.”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30–14:50. Hiroko KUSHIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sophia University) “The conversion story in Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa in the context of Malay Islamic thought”
• 15:00–16:20. Miho YAMASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher) “Gods in Ancient Java; Analysis of Old Javanese Inscriptions and Deśawarṇana” (tentative)
• 16:30–17:00. Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “God as an invisible being and spirits, heroes, and kings as intervening beings” (tentative)
• 17:00–18:00. Meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: Religion, Kingship, and Cosmology” (Principal Investigator: Yumi SUGAHARA (Osaka University) Project number: 21H00575), HINDOWS (Indian Ocean World Studies project, Osaka University) So Yamane, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Fundamental research for the construction of a historical picture of Islamic reception and social relations in continental Southeast Asia” (Principal Investigator: Kazuto IKEDA (Osaka University) Project number: 20H01325)

• Book Launch “The Books Sānk and Pātanğal: A Socio-cultural History of al-Bīrūnī’s Interpretations of Sāṅkhya and Yoga” (Brill, 2024) by Noémie Verdon (University of Lausanne)
• With:
• Kengo HARIMOTO (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale,” ILCAA)
• Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)
• Yuko YOKOCHI (Kyoto University)
• Chair: Kengo HARIMOTO

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For online participants,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “A study in the Mughal Persian translations of the Laghu-Yogavasishtha” (Principal Investigator: Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA) Project number: 18K12519), ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Department of Indology, Graduate School of Latters, Kyoto University

• 15:00–15:05. Minoru Mio (Indian Ocean World Studies at National Museum of Ethnology, Project reader) Opening Remarks
• 15:05–15:10. Kenji Kuroda (National Museum of Ethnology) Introduction
• 15:10–16:00. Zahra Moharramipour (National Museum of Ethnology/JSPS) “Between the 'West' and the 'East': Two-sided nature of the understanding of Persian art in Japan in the early 20th century,”
• 16:00–16:10. Coffee Break
• 16:10–17:00. Aki Toyoyama (Kinki University, Faculty of International Studies) “India's Representation of Self/Other and its View of Asia at Colonial Exhibitions,”
• 17:10–17:20. Coffee Break
• 17:20–18:00. Comments and Discussion
• Commentator: Shigemi Inaga (Kyoto Seika University)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, The Global Mediterranean at National Museum of Ethnology, and Indian Ocean World Studies at National Museum of Ethnology

• 1. Seika SATO (Teikyo University) “Writing Emotional / Sensory Others: R. Desjarlais’ Ethnographies on a Tibetan Buddhist Community”
• 2. Maya SUZUKI (Daito Bunka University) “Book review on sanitation labour and affective theory of caste in North India: From the ethnographical study of Joel Lee.”
• (The following section is for members only)
• 3. Conference on future research activities (all members)
• Chair: Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA joint researcher, TUFS)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participation, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 20th Feb.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of‘Emotions’” (Principal Investigator: Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number: 22H03834)

• 8:00–09:50. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian16 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian16 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• 13:00–13:05. Greetings from Fieldnet
• 13:05–13:20. Opening Remarks: Mariko HAMAYA (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
• 13:20–13:50. Presentation 1 Yukie NAKAO (Japan Society of the Promotion for Science／National Museum of Ethnology) Social Welfare and Khoja in Tanganyika, Tanzania Mainland: How Have the People Been Divided?
• 13:50–14:20. Presentation 2 Gaku MORIGUCHI (Asian Cultures Research Institute, Toyo University) Does Sugar Care?: “Sweetness and Power” of South Asian Citizens and Their Social Disconnection in Uganda
• 14:20–14:30. Q&A
• 14:30–14:45. Break
• 14:45–15:15. Presentation 3: Mariko HAMAYA From Service to Volunteering: Indian Diasporas’ Practices of Sevā in Leicester, the United Kingdom
• 15:15–15:45. Presentation 4 Kyoko AIZAKI (Research Center for Child Mental Development, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine) The Present Situation of Social Welfare Policies in the United Kingdom and the Expansion/Diversification of the Peer Community
• 15:45–15:55. Q&A
• 15:55–16:10. Break
• 16:10–16:40. Comments Makoto NISHI (Hiroshima University), Masako AZUMA (Kindai University)
• 16:40–17:30. Discussions
• 17:30–17:55. Information Exchange Meeting
• 17:55–18:00. Closing Remarks: Mariko HAMAYA

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 16th Feb.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Indian Ocean World Studies project, Kyoto University, Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Economy of virtue within religious traditions in Asia” (Principal Investigator: Mariko Hamaya (Kyoto University) Project Number: 21H00645)

• There are various methods for processing lexical data, depending on its purpose. In this workshop, we will conduct a practical exercise using the TEI method that enables multi-purpose utilization. Those who wish to participate in the practice session, please bring your laptop.
• Program
• 14:20–14:30. Introduction to TEI
• Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFS Field Science Commons)
• 14:30–14:50. Developing an online Kerabit language dictionary using TEI
• Yasuyoshi FUKAYA (Hiroshima University)
• 14:50–15:50. Hands-on session on encoding lexical data using TEI

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• Limit of 12 attendees. For registration,please see here. Enrollment will be closed as soon as the limit is reached.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Wed 7 Feb 2024, Sat 10 Feb 2024, Thu 15 Feb 2024
• The Middle East and Africa continuously suffer from compound crises such as war and occupation, natural disasters, and food insecurity. Situating their regional contexts within global history, experts will explain complexities behind the situations of each country from various perspectives.
• Program:
• Day 1: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 17:00–18:30
• Speaker: Haruka USUKI (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) “Food insecurity in Jordan: between inclusiveness and exclusiveness”
• Discussant: Manabu Shimizu (Representative, Eurasia Consultant Ltd.)
• Day 2: Saturday, February 10, 2024 17:00–18:30
• Speaker: Tatsuya YAMANAKA (Komazawa Univ.) “Food security in Tunisia: its history and current situation”
• Discussant: Erina IWASAKI (Sophia Univ.)
• Day 3: Thursday, February 15, 2024 17:00–18:30
• Speaker: Hiroshi SATO (Pesident, Tokyo Institute for Development Sociology) “War and Food: Yemen in a trap of wheat shift”
• Discussant: Tamon Baba (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
• Please contact: menafoodemergency[at]gmail.com (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20A104), Publicly Offered Research of Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Food in Emergencies: Connectivity and Trust Building Being Challenged in the Middle East and North Africa” (Principal Investigator: Yuko Ido(ILCAA) Project Number: 23H03929)

• 14:30–14:40. Introduction
• 14:40–15:20. Dr. Ryo Mizukami（JSPS/ILCAA） “A 14th-Century Faḍāʾil Work Rediscovered by the Safavids: An Analysis of Aḥsan al-Kibār and Its Oldest Manuscripts”
• 15:20–16:00”. Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt（University of Münster/ILCAA） “The Qābūsnāma as a Transregional Mirror for Princes between the Caspian Sea, Anatolia and Syria
• 16:00–16:10. Coffee break
• 16:10–17:00. Discussion
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com ＊please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00, 10th Feb.
• Organized by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• 9:30. Takamasa OSAWA (Kanazawa University) “Indigensous people, Chinese and Muslims: The dynamism of ethnicity among the Suku Asli living on the eastern coast of Sumatra”.
• 10:15. Shinsuke NAKAI (Saga University) Q&A, Comment, Discussion
• 10:50. Break
• 11:00. Hisashi SHIMOJO (Kobe University) “Intangible Spaces “Straddling Territorial States”: The River Basin Societies and their Hybridity between Vietnam and Cambodia”
• 11:45. Shinsuke NAKAI (Saga University) Q&A, Comment, Discussion
• 12:20. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) Summary

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• 14:30. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:40. Yuki SUZUKI (Kokushikan University) “From Fishing to Tourism?: The Transition of Ethnic Relations in the Livelihood of the Moken Sea People”
• 15:25. Yumi KATO (Fukui Prefectural University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion
• 16:00. Break
• 16:10. Mabiki NAKANO (Toyo University) “Livelihood, trade, and economy of marine products in Bannai Islands”
• 16:55. Yumi KATO (Fukui Prefectural University) Comment, Q&A, Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• 1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kochi University) “On the so-called 'stative forms' in Akan”
• 2. Shuichiro NAKAO (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University) “Can Arabic Creole be a counterexample of the monogenetic theory of pidgins”
• 3. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) “A tentative questionnaire for the investigation of the morphosyntactic variation of Swahili Inland varieties”
• 4. All participants “General discussions: towards the project publication in 2024”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• Program (tentative)
• 14:00–14:20. Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 14:20–14:50. Kojiro HIROSE (National Museum of Ethnology) “The Meaning of “Universal Museum”:Exploring the Significance of Art Appreciation through Tactile Culture.”
• 14:50–15:00. Break
• 15:00–15:30. Kosuke TAKAHASHI (Ritumeikan University) “Revisiting the Concept of Face and Body from a Psychological Perspective.”
• 15:30–16:00. Caitlin COKER (Hokkaido University) 「“Dance Village” -- what pulls us apart brings us together.
• 16:00–16:15. Break
• 16:15–16:25. Shojiro KOTEGAWA (Kokugakuin Univ.) “Comments 1”
• 16:25–16:35. Takanori OHISHI (TUFS) “Comments 2”
• 16:35–18:00. Discussion
• 18:30–20:30. Reception Meeting
• Please contact: kao2020aa[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Topic-Setting Program“Overcoming Social Division and Achieving Diversity through Embodiment”, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

11 Feb

• 13:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

12 Feb

• 10:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)

• 13:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (3)
• Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 14:00–16:00. Hitonaru NISHIE (Kyoto University) “Embodied environment, environmentalized body: Metamorphoses of the body following animals”
• 16:10–18:10. Masayoshi SOMEYA (Hokkaido University) “The cognitive capacity of non-neural organisms: some lessons learned from the controversies surrounding their mind and embodiment”
• 18:30–20:30. Meeting for Academic Exchange (all members)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• 15:00–16:00. Akiko YOKOYAMA (NINJAL) “Approach to collaborative research with the community: In the field of language revitalization”
• In this presentation, the presenter, as a linguist, will introduce the “humanities knowledge communication” (bidirectional communication between science and society) that the presenter has been working on in the endangered language community (Okinoerabu Island, Northern Ryukyu). The presenter will show not only the achievements but also the troubles experienced in regional cooperation and its reflections on them to reveal both the appeals and difficulties of social co-creation.
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• Moderator: Ai SUGIE/ Naonori KUSAKABE
• 9:00–10:10. Keiko IKEDA (Shizuoka University) “Gender-Based Violence in the Context of Socioeconomic Change”
• 10:20–11:30. Ami SUZUKI (Kobe University) “Women's Labor and Gender Norms”
• 11:40–12:50. Akiko KUDO (International Budo University) “Border Crossing of Bangladesh Muslim Migrant Wives in Japan: Future Challenges for Multicultural Social Workers”
• 14:00–15:10. Tetsuya NAKATANI (Nara Prefectural University) “Consumerization and Pilgrimage Tourism”
• 15:10–16:00. Plenary Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh”(Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number:18KK0024)

• SERNYA Meeting: Let's think about modern Tibetan literature and filmmaking
• Program: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Reading JINPA, a film by Pema Tseden”
• Film screeningI, as a part of a Tibetan class of TUFS, will follow after a small talk by Prof. HOSHI.
• Please contact: hoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Japan Tibetan Literature Association

• This is an exhibition of illustrations drawn by Kuranishi for the book “Tibetan Folktales: Tales of the Golden Corpse”. The “Tale of the Golden Corpse” was brought to Tibet with the arrival of Buddhism from India, and has been passed down and loved for many years in connection with folktales passed down throughout Tibet, strongly reflecting the life and religious culture of the Tibetan people. We hope the visitors will become familiar with Tibetan storytelling culture through the beautiful illustrations.
• On February 10, a talk event on the “Tales of the Golden Corpse” will be held by Tibetan restaurant and Cafe Tashi Delek.
• Please contact: hoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
• Supported by Tibetan Restaurant & Cafe Tashi Delek, Nora-shoten Publishers Inc.

• Shu FUJITA (Research Associate, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)) Learn fieldwork through video editing
• Guest lecturer: Irina Grigore (Hirosaki University)
• Fieldwork consists of experiencing things in the field and considering about what you feel and think there to express them in written or visual form. In this workshop, you will learn about the process of thinking about and expressing field experiences by editing the video footage that Shu Fujita took during his anthropological fieldwork in Lima, Peru. By editing the footage based on the fieldwork, you will be able to “think like” you are thinking from the fieldwork. Even if you have never edited a video or done fieldwork before, please come and join us.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• For more information on the event, please visit the link here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 8:00–9:50. Tatsuya MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian14”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian15”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• The second phase of the Islamic Gender Studies Project will end this year. At this meeting, which will serve as a summary of the eight-year period, we will hold a joint review of volumes 5 and 6 of the Islam and Gender Studies Series. Furthermore, we will introduce volumes 7 and 8, which will be published in March 2024, and volumes 9 and 10, which will be published from next year onward. We would like to discuss with participants the achievements and challenges of the Islam and Gender Studies, as well as future directions and possibilities. We sincerely look forward to your participation.
• Program:
• Chair: Junko Toriyama
• 13:00. Kaoru Murakami Opening Remarks
• 13:05. Reviewing Memories and Records: A Hundred Years of Women’s Experiences
• Moderator: Emi Goto
• Introduction: Mari Oka
• 13:10. Book Review
• Naoko Yuge (Waseda University)
• Toru Miura (Ochanomizu University)
• 14:00. Response & Panel Discussion
• Mari Oka, Yuko Fujimoto, Eiji Nagasawa, Chika Obiya, Masumi Matsumoto, Emi Goto
• 15:00–15:20. Break
• 15:20. Reviewing Families in Transition
• Moderator, and Introduction by Kazuaki Takemura
• 15:25. Masashi Nara (National Museum of Ethnology)
• Masumi Isogai (Chiba University)
• 15:55. Response & Panel Discussion
• Mayuko Okawa, Masaki Okado, Kazuaki Takemura, Junko Toriyama, Kaoru Murakami
• 16:55. Introduction of future volumes
• 17:15. General Discussion
• 17:30. Closing remarks by Eiji Nagasawa

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 1st Feb.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa, Project number:20H00085)

• 1. Yuko URABE (ILCAA/ JSPS research fellow) “Interlinear glossing and its practical issues”
• 2. Self-introduction by all participants
• 3. Ligthening talks by
• Yasuka FUKAYA (Hiroshima University)
• Kanji KATO (TUFS/ ROIS-DS-CODH)
• Sakura ISHIKAWA (TUFS)
• 4. Group work
• 5. General discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 31st Jan.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Networking and Dialogue (TReND), TUFS; Multi- and Inter-cultural Research and Innovation Fellowship (MIRAI fellowhip), TUFS

• 12:50. Doors Open
• 13:00–13:20. Keigo UJIIE (National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics) Introduction
• 13:20–13:50. Rihito SHIRATA (Hiroshima University) “How can we argue for diachronic changes on the basis of synchronic evidence?: The case of sentence final grammatical forms in Kikai Ryukyuan”
• 13:50–14:20. Kenshiro ASAOKA (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “On roles and limitations of naive intuition in semantic description: With special reference to Czech possessive constructions”
• 14:20–14:30. Break
• 14:30–15:00. Masayuki ISHIZUKA (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology) “Argumentation and link-forming activity in descriptive linguistics: A case study on descriptions of Basque grammar”
• 15:00–15:30. Kohei NAKAZAWA (Shinshu University) “Is introspection about prosody reliable?”
• 15:30–15:40. Break
• 15:40–16:10. Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA Junior Fellow) “Review of the importance of comprehensive understanding of Kimakunduchi for argumentation in its description”
• 16:10–17:00. All participants
• Discussion
• Coordinators: Keigo UJIIE and Makoto FURUMOTO
• Contact: ds[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 29th Jan.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 1. KAWAI, Aya (ILCAA) “Hunter-gatheres in Malaysia Today”
• 2. Dome / Suzairi Zakaria (Photographer) “My encounter with Batek and Sumaq Buri and their lives”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons

• 1. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) “Short Report on the Exhibition ”Deciphering Ancient Scripts in Asia (2023)”
• 2. Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA) “Attempting to Build a Collaborative Research System of Three Fields Relying on JSPS KAKENHI: Focusing on Tibetan Muslims in the Western Himalayas”
• 3. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) “A Report on the Hunter-gatherers of Malaysian Tropical Rainforest Exhibition Project: An Experiment to Connect with 'the Society'”
• 4. General discussions

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by IlCAA

• Moderator: Ai SUGIE/ Naonori KUSAKABE
• 9:00–10:10. Koichi FUJITA (Aoyama Gakuin University) “Economic Development and Labor Market Changes in Bangladesh: Focusing on Rural Women's Employment”
• 10:20–11:30. Takami ISHIZAKA (Kanto Gakuin University) “Changes in Women's Social Relations as Seen through Small-Scale Finance”
• 11:40–12:50. Toshihiko SUDA (Daito Bunka University) “Overseas Migration and Rural Economy in Bangladesh: Expectation for Mainstreaming Women Overseas Migrants”
• 14:00–15:10. Mineo TAKADA (Hiroshima Shudo University) “Bangladesh Society from the Perspective of Migration: From Research Experience and Literature Survey”
• 15:10–16:00. Plenary Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh”(Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number:18KK0024)

• This photo exhibition introduces two indigenous groups, the Batek and Semai Batek, who live in Peninsular Malaysia. Through the photographs taken by Malaysian photographer Dome, who grew up near them, the exhibition explores the lives of people living amidst the changes in tropical forests, society, and the environment. On the final day of the exhibition, January 28, there will be a small talk featuring photographer Dome and an anthropologist who conducted research, discussing the unexpected connections between their lives and Japanese lifestyles, as well as changes in those hunter-gatherers' lives.

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons

• Program
• 10:00–12:00. 1. Discussion on the utilization of the SCOPIC corpus
• 13:00–14:00. 2. Natsuko NAKAGAWA (NINJAL, ILCAA Joint-researcher) “Typology of case marking in Japonic Languages: Affects of topic and focus marking”
• 14:00–15:00. 3. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Basic story structure: Summary of Cpt2 of Toolan 1988”
• 15:00–16:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 14:00–15:50. Takeshi KONO (Toyo Eiwa University) “Islam and Democracy ? a case of Indonesia leading up to the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections”
• 16:00–18:00. Ako MASUNO (Hitotsubashi University) “Performing arts as a process of socio-cultural networking：a case study of Muslim Balinese as a religious minority”
• 18:00–20:00. Information Exchange Meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by AA研，AA研コタキナバル・リエゾンオフィス（KKLO）

• Details:
• 14:00–14:10. Ryoko WATABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo) Introduction
• 14:10–15:10. Takao ITO (Kobe University) Arabic Paleography and Diplomatics in Mamluk Studies :The State of the Art
• 15:10–15:30. Yoichi YAJIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the Nara Women’s University)
• 15:30–16:30. General Discussion
• 16:30–16:40. Break
• 16:40–17:10. Ryoko WATABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo) Revisiting the Real Estate Inventory (Ṣarīḥ al-Milk) and Documents of the Shrine of Ṣafī al-Dīn Ardabīlī: Possibilities of Archival Studies on Fiscal Administration of Holy Shrines in Muslim Societies.
• 17:10–18:00. General Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 19th Jan.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Masatomo KAWAMOTO (Nara University) Project number: 21H00580)

• 8:00–9:50. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian13 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian13 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• A series of hands-on seminars for acquisition of RDF skills and dezitization by the method will be jointly held by Publicly Offered Research “Visual Analyses of Nominal Connectivity among 14th to 16th Century Arab Urban Elites,” C01, and the Islamic Trust Studies Project's “ITS' Kitchen” led by the Area Organizer. The Part 2 of this series will offer a hands-on learning oppotunity to convert the research data of the participants, based on RDF, into a machine-readable format.
• Sample
• Presenter: Eri DEGAWA (Doctoral Course, Graduate School of Humanities and Studies on Public Affairs, Chiba Univ.)
• Material: Jurisprudence of the Mixed Courts of Egypt in the late nineteenth century
• Lecturer : Jun OGAWA (Center for Open Data in the Humanities)
• Moderator and Discussant: Erina OTA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 17th Jan.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Visual Analyses of Nominal Connectivity among 14th to 16th Century Arab Urban Elites” (Principal Investigator: Erina Ota-Tsukada (ILCAA) Project number:23H03928), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako Kumakura (Keio University) Project number:20H05830), Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC Hokkaido University) Project number:20H05823)

• Workshop “Genocide in Palestine” will be organized by A03.
• Speaker:Sari Hanafi (Professor, American University of Beirut; President, International Sociological Association; Advisor, Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
• Title: “From spacio-cide to geno-cide: About the war on Gaza”

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC) Project Number: 20H05826)

• Fadi Bardawil (Duke University), a researcher of contemporary Arab thought, will talk on his book Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (2020). We will discuss the intellectual legacy that the Arab Left inherited since the 1960s as well as the role they played or can play, especially in the post-Arab Spring protests and current Palestine issue.
• 【Program】
• 16:00–16:10. Introduction (Kaoru Yamamoto, Keio University &amp; Hidemitsu Kuroki, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/Hokkaido University)
• 16:10–16:40. Keynote Speech (Fadi Bardawil, Duke University)
• 16:40–16:55. Comments (Hideaki Hayakawa, Tokyo University of Science)
• 16:55–17:10. Comments (Hiroki Okazaki, Asia University)
• 17:10–17:50. Q&A discussions

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “The Concept of “Coexistence” and Its Practice in Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought and Literature” (Principal investigator: Hiroki Okazaki (Asia University) Project number:22K12988), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Protest on the Street, and Reconsider the Nation: from the View Points of Space, Violence and Resonance” (Principal investigator: Keiko Sakai (Chiba University) Project number:21H04387), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal investigator: Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA/SRC) Project number:20H05826)

• 8:00–9:50. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian12 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian12 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• ■Day 1 (Jan. 5th Fri. 2024) 14:00–17:30　*ONSITE ONLY
• Venue: Commons Café (Room 203), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Workshop “Multimodal Anthropologies across the Pacific”
• Driven by recent technological changes, including the widespread use of the Internet, advancements and miniaturization of recording equipment, and the simplification of expression using digital tools, as well as theoretical backgrounds emphasizing people's lived experiences in anthropology, visual anthropology/multimodal anthropology has been expanding its scope. Against this backdrop, this event aims to showcase and discuss various practices and initiatives carried out on different continents.
• Scholars of multimodal anthropology from the US, Singapore, and Japan will present their endeavors within their respective fields and areas of practice, such as filmmaking, performance, drone shooting, and art-based workshops. Through these showcases and discussions, we aim to foster new creations and critical thinking.
• Titles for Presentation
• 1. Pero Fukuda (PhD Candidate, Ritsumeikan University) “Violencing, Musicking, Emotioning”
• 2. Jacob Nussbaum (Interdisciplinary Artist, Musician and PhD candidate, University of Pennsylvania) “Performance Interventions: Multimodality as Embodied Method”
• 3. Ran Muratsu (Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Capturing the Uncanny: Anthropological Research and Creative Collaboration”
• 4. Alissa Jordan (Associate Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania) “Seeing Our Bodies Healed: Collaborative Vision States in Film and Sound in a Haitian courtyard”
• 5. Shu Fujita (Research Associate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Letting Images Connect: A Multimodal Method for Anthropological Thinking”
• 6. Leniqueca Welcome (Assistant Professor, George Washington University) “Collage as a Practice of World-Building: Archive, Relation, Speculation”
• 7. Midori Miyamori (MA Student, Tokyo University of the Arts) “About Instant Acting”
• 8. Alexandra Sastrawati (PhD Candidate, Princeton University / Young NUS Fellow, National University of Singapore) “Ethics of Proximity: A Visual-Lyric Autoethnography”
• 9. Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) “Multimodal Cartographies: Excavating the Mexican Landscape through Emerging Visual Media”
• 10. Maki Kitagawa (Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “Vision in Multimodality : Thinking through Drone, Snowmobile and Hunter’s Sensibility in Japanese Mountain”
• Commentator: Deborah Thomas (R. Jean Brownlee Professor, Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania)
• ■Day2 (Jan. 6th Sat. 2024) 13:00–18:00　*HYBRID (Onsite＋Online)
• Venue: Room 303, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Symposium “Futures of Academic Research and Art”
• The realm of academic inquiry not limited by the confines of traditional academic texts as pioneered by visual anthropology/multimodal anthropology, art-based research, and similar approaches, has played a pivotal role in broadening scholarly horizons and rethinking the nature of knowledge. In recent years, these methods have expanded beyond visual media, encompassing works utilizing contemporary art techniques, interactive website creation, VR exhibitions, and various other approaches, thus opening up novel dimensions of thought. Nevertheless, challenges persist in these emerging fields, such as insufficient platforms for exchanging methodologies and ideas, as well as limited space for critique within academia.
• Against this backdrop, this symposium aims to facilitate discussions on the experiences of those who have spearheaded collaboration between academia and the arts within the academic sphere. Through such exchanges, we aim to explore both the challenges and possibilities for the future, envisioning the development of advanced organizations and platforms that embody a new holistic form of knowledge.
• Program:
• 13:00. Opening
• 13:10. Introduction
• 13:20. Presentation 1
• Itsushi Kawase (Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology) “TRAJECTORIA – Expanding the Range Limitations of Scholarship in Audiovisual Practice”
• 13:50. Presentation 2
• Yoshitaka Mōri (Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts) “Art, Research and ‘Investigative Aesthetics’: Arts-Based Research in the Digital Media Age”
• 14:20. Presentation 3
• Deborah Thomas (R. Jean Brownlee Professor, Director, Center for Experimental Ethnography, University of Pennsylvania) “Multi-Modal Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania – Merging Creative Arts and Scholarship”
• 14:50. Break (15 min.)
• 15:05. Presentation 4
• Sayaka Ogawa (Professor, Ritsumeikan University) “Multimodal Anthropology Using Serious Games: Toward a Collaboration of Business, Education, and Anthropology”
• 15:35. Presentation 5
• Masayuki Okahara (Emeritus Professor, Keio University) “Art-based research Activities in Japan”
• 16:05. Presentation 6
• Chihiro Minato (Director, Institute for Anthropology of Art and Design, Tama Art University) “A Large-scale Arts Festival in Taiwan: Experiences and Endeavors”
• 16:35. Break (15 min.)
• 16:50. General Discussion
• 17:50. Closing
• Chair: Ran Muratsu (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Discussion Moderator: Pero Fukuda (Ritsumeikan University)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration,please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)，ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Anthro-film Laboratory, Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Science, Topic-Setting Program “Overcoming Social Division and Achieving Diversity through Embodiment”

• 10:00–12:00. Review of Tsuchida Materials
• 13:00–13:45. Izumi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) ““Person” in Atayalic languages”
• 13:50–14:50. Kazuhiro IMANISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, S.I. Co.Ltd.) “Relative clauses in Amis”
• 15:00–16:00. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Motifs of Formosan folktales”
• 16:00–16:15. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Report on the Donation of Professor Shigeru Tsuchida's Linguistic Materials to Taiwan”
• 16:15–17:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons

• 1. Koji KITAMURA (Professor Emeritus at Okayama University) “Contrasting understandings of interactions including gift in the societies where the reciprocity of gift is normative or not.”
• 2. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “What is 'sharing' and are hostile interactions over livestock among East African pastoralists 'sharing'?”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• As part of our Civil Dialog activities, the Organizer of the Islamic Trust Studies Project will hold workshops and exhibition on the Persian national epic. During these sessions, we will collaborate with kindergarteners to create artworks, which will be displayed in the gallery of Tully's Coffee Shimokitazawa.
• Our Civil Dialog activities are designed to share our research outcomes with society through interactive events that go beyond one-way knowledge dissemination. A Civil Dialog event will be held with a nursery school in Setagaya and ILCAA for the third consecutive year. In cooperation with Tully's Coffee Shimokitazawa and Directions Co Ltd., the event will feature workshops where nursery school children will create works inspired by “Shahnameh,” the Persian national epic, contemplating Iran's natural world and legends. These works will be exhibited in the gallery of Tully's Coffee Shimokitazawa.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05823), ILCAA, Jinji Nursery School
• Supported by Tully's Coffee Shimokitazawa, Directions Co Ltd.

• Symposium “The history and the present day of Palestine: discussing settlers' colonialism and 100 years of resistance” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Project B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” and A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” with College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.
• Interest in the history of Palestine and Israel is developing in the tensest situation of Gaza we have ever seen. What caused the issues of Palestine and drove them to the current situation? This symposium discuss the perspectives on the history and the current situation of the issues of Palestine referring to “The Hundred Years' War in Paletine” of Rachid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and an Palestinian-American Opinion Leader.
• Program:
• 15:20. Opening Address　Masako ISHII (Professor, Rikkyo Univ.)
• 15:30. Presentation ①　“Situation in Gaza and the history of Palestine” Hiroyuki SUZUKI (Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Univ. of Tokyo)
• 15:50. Presentation②　“The Khalidi family and the history of Palestine” Kensuke YAMAMOTO (Senior Assistant Professor, University of Shizuoka)
• 16:10. Presentation③　“Perspectives on the issues of Palestine” Miyuki KINJO (Visiting Researcher, Ritsumeika Univ.)
• 16:30. Break Time
• 16:45. Comment by Hidemitsu KUROKI (Professor, ILCAA)
• 17:00. Comment by Naonori KUSAKABE (Professor, Rikkyo Univ.)
• 17:15. Q&A
• 17:45. Closing Address
• (some speaker will participate online)
• ＜Profile＞
• Hiroyuki SUZUKI Project Associate Professor of Sultan Qaboos Chair in Middle Eastern Studies,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo. After working as a JSPS post-doctoral Research Fellow (Japan Women’s University) and as a JSPS Overseas Research Fellow (Harry S.Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), he assumed his current position in September 2019. His works include “The Mass Uprisings “Intifada”: Occupied Palestine 1967-1993” (University of Tokyo Press, 2020) , and his joint works include “60 chapters to Know Palestine” (Akashi Shoten, 2016)
• Kensuke YAMAMOTO Senior Assistant Professor of Faculty of International Relations, University of Shizuoka. Completed the Doctoral Program in Area Studies at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. After working as a JSPS post-doctoral Research Fellow (Kyushu Univ.), he assumed his current position in April 2021. His main work is “Conflicts Over Sacred Spaces and The City of Jerusalem: Palestinian and Israeli Occupation/Annexation Politics” (Koyoshobo, 2020).
• Miyuki KINJO Visiting Researcher of Institute of Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University. Lecturer of Aichi Gakuin University. Completed the Doctoral Program at Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Science (Ph. D.), Ritsumeikan University. After working as a JSPS Restart Postdoctoral (RPD) Research Fellow (The Univ. of Tokyo), she assumed her current position. Her main publications are “In Search of Intersection with Palestine: Intersectional Feminism and Review of Solidarity,” in Korean YMCA in Japan ed. Palestine at the Intersection: Towards Renewal of Solidarity (Chapter 1), “Reexamining the Synchronicity of Debates on the Historical Perceptions: Israel and Japan,” Gendai-shiso (May 2018).
• Conditions: In-person meeting (some speaker will participate online)
• Contact: Saki YAMAMOTO (yamamoto_saki[at]rikkyo.ac.jp)
• ＊Inquiry about this event will be accepted by 18:00 on December 20, 2023.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05826), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” (Principal Investigator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University) Project number: 20H05829), College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University

• Ogura Satoshi (ILCAA) 1. On the year of Mirza haydar's death
• Duisenali Abdilashim (ILCAA/L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University) 2. Documentary heritage of the Kazakh Khanate: on the conditions of the diplomatic documents sent to the Qing Dynasty
• Duisenali Abdilashim (ILCAA/L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University) 3. Distribution of the Tale of Amir Hamza into the Kazakh Steppe: On the Dawut Otarbai manuscript
• Contact: nodajin[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (ILCAA) (please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration,please see here. Registration deadline is 20th Dec.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, ILCAA, Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• A series of hands-on seminars for skill acquisition of RDF and digitization by the method will be held jointly by Publicly Offered Research “Visual Analyses of Nominal Connectivity among 14th to 16th Century Arab Urban Elites,” C01, and Area Organizer's “ITS' Kitchen” of the Islamic Trust Studies Project.
• Details:
• Day 1: “Introduction to RDF”
• Saturday, December 2, 2023 10:00–12:00
• Lecturer : Jun OGAWA (Center for Open Data in the Humanities)
• Day 2: “Describing the connectivity in the fifteenth century biographical works adopting the Semantic Web”
• Saturday, December 23, 2023 10:00–12:00
• Presentation: Erina OTA (ILCAA)
• Comment: Jun OGAWA

• Conditions: Open to the public, Admission Free, Online
• Pre-registration is required.Deadlime：Wednesday, November 29 (After the deadline, please contact to the organizer) Zoom Link will be sent on Friday, November 30
• Language: Japanese
• For online participation, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Visual Analyses of Nominal Connectivity among 14th to 16th Century Arab Urban Elites” (Principal Investigator: Erina Ota-Tsukada (ILCAA) Project number: 23H03928), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako Kumakura (Keio University) Project number: 20H05830), Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC Hokkaido University) Project number: 20H05823)

• The International Workshop “The Safavids, the Post-Safavids and the East Indian Companies” will be jointly organized by Islamic Trust Studies Gruoup B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki)”, Group A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge”, and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), “Toward a Global History of Inter-State Relations: A Comparative Study on Governmental Controls on Commercial Exchanges and Traffics in Eurasia, 1400-1900” (Principal Investigator: MATSUKATA Fuyuko).
• 14:00. Introduction by Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA)
• 14:10. Peter Good (JSPS Fellow/ILCAA) “Stability by Contract?: The East India Company in Persia 1600-1747”
• The English East India Company’s presence in Persia represents one of the longest non-colonial or imperial relationships of a European state with an Indian Ocean Empire. The Company’s ability to maintain its position as both a trading and diplomatic presence in the Safavid Empire was due to mutually recognised benefits. These included joint military campaigns against the Portuguese (1622), Gulf Piracy, or Arab and Afghan rebels along the littoral of the Persian Gulf. This paper will explore the different and changing methods used and deployed by both parties in order to maintain this valuable cooperation. The Company and the Safavid State enshrined their relationship in an evolving written document, the Farman. However, the Farman alone was rarely sufficient to fully answer all eventualities faced by either party, renegotiations were therefore required to better reflect changing circumstances. This paper will explore how the Anglo-Persian relationship was maintained outside of the formal confines of the written Farman. By exploring these bilateral exchanges, it is possible to better understand how the Company’s business was interwoven with the local and state policies of the Safavid Empire and its successors. Understanding the balance of power and management of the Anglo-Persian relations has an important impact upon the way we understand the agency of non-European states and peoples in their commercial and diplomatic exchanges. This helps us to understand the multi-valent nature of these interactions, rather than relying solely on Eurocentric views.
• 15:10. Norifumi Daito (Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo) “Pursue of Agreement: The Dutch East India Company”
• After the brutal overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) faced a serious setback in Iran. In face of incessant war their once-thriving trade in Bandar Abbas fell substantially. After desperate efforts in the rising markets of Basra, Bushire and Kharg Island, the VOC finally withdrew from the Persian Gulf in 1766. Historians think the Dutch failures signified Iran’s imperial and economic crisis, but the underlined overall catastrophe raises the question: how could the VOC nevertheless last so long?
• This paper argues that the crucial driving force behind the “longevity” of the VOC was a maintained vitality of local intermediaries, particularly Hindu and Armenian merchants. While endorsing the ailing Company trade as brokers or interpreters, they also served as important fixers between the VOC and rising regional powers. Here I elaborate on that understanding through an investigation of trade agreements the Company made with ruling elites in the Gulf and neighboring countries after the Safavids. By culling evidence from changing socioeconomic conditions that formed them, the paper shows a remarkable mobility of the local intermediaries that helped the VOC to struggle with the political vicissitudes in the post-Safavid period.
• 16:20. Discussions
• Discussant: Shinsaku Kato (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For online participation, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA, TUFS) Project Number: 20H05825), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Toward a Global History of Inter-State Relations: A Comparative Study on Governmental Controls on Commercial Exchanges and Traffics in Eurasia, 1400-1900” (Principal Investigator: MATSUKATA Fuyuko (Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo) Project number: 21H04355)

• Wikipedia Asian Month ASEAN-JAPAN 50 is an outreach event designed for newcomers to Wikipedia. This initiative features workshops where beginners are introduced to the fundamental editing techniques of Wikipedia and engage in hands-on article editing under guidance. Participants will have the opportunity to learn directly from seasoned Wikipedia editors and also foster connections with Wikipedians from Malaysia and other ASEAN countries. The event aims to enhance the quality and quantity of content related to the relations between Japan and ASEAN nations, contributing to the sharing of knowledge across Asia.
• * Bring your device, such as a laptop or tablet.

• Admission: Free
• Contact information: nomoto [at] tufs.ac.jp
• Language: Japanese, English
• No pre-registration is needed. See this link for further details such as the timetable
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons, International Islamic University Malaysia
• Cooperated by WIKIMEDIA MALAYSIA, Waseda WIKIPEDIAN Circle, WIKIMEDIA Japan-Malaysia

• 8:00–9:50. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian11 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian11(second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• The Symposium “The Islamic State System and International Law” will be organized by B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki Kondo) at the History of Islamic Civilization Panel, Annual meeting of the Historical Society of Kyushu.
• 14:40. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:45. Yutaka HORII (Doshisha University) The Early Modern Ottoman Ahdnames and the State System
• 15:20. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) The Islamic State System in the Safavid Eyes
• 15:55. Yutaro OKI (Kyushu University) Sources of Law in the Arabic Works Related to International Law in the Late Nineteenth Century
• 16:30. Break
• 16:35. Omi HATASHIN (Osaka Jogakuin University) Comments from the Perspective of International law and comparative history of legal institutions
• 17:10. General Discussion (–17:30)
• Moderator: Madoka MORITA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• Please access the registration form and pay 1,500 yen for participation through the online Pass Market by 23:00, December 5.
• Jointly sponsored by The Historical Society of Kyushu; Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827)

• 10:00–10:10. Osami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University) Opening Remarks
• 10:10–11:00. Ryo SAKAGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Makubetsu Board of Education) (tentative title:) “Geographical differences between dialects within Sakhalin: from the materials of Suzuko Tamura”
• 11:10–12:00. Miki KOBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Ainu Museum) (tentative title:) “For the documentation of Ainu Language materials in ILCAA: materials of the Saru dialect (7)”
• 12:00–13:00. Lunch Break
• 13:00–13:50. Yoshimi YOSHIKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido Museum) “For the publication of the Saru dialect materials from the fieldnotes of Ainu in ILCAA: Rethinking methods of publication”
• 14:00–14:50. Osami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University), Yohsie ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher) (tentative title:) “Present situation of the archiving and publication of descriptive research of the Saru Dialect of Ainu and Research of the Saru Dialect of Ainu”
• 15:00–15:50. Kyoko Kojima (ILCAA Joint Researcher) “Contributions of the dictionary of the Saru dialect of Ainu: from the viewpoint of Ainu place names”
• 16:00–. Osami Okuda (moderator) General discussion / progress, achievement and prospects of the archiving project and the joint research of Suzuko Tamura materials

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• [Main(A) room (room 303)]
• Chair: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA)
• Opening Remarks: Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)
• Presentation 1: Yumi BABA (Tohoku University) “Ainu Bear Festival and 《Harmonious Coexistence》：An analysis through Oral Folklore Narratives”
• Comment 1: Hiroshi KONDO (Kanagawa University), Masakazu TANAKA (Professional Institute of International Fashion)
• Presentation 2: Zheng DU (Ryukoku University) “A Study on the Aspects of Sexuality in the Early Edo Period: Yukaku with 'Shikidō Okagami' as a Key” (tentative)
• Comment 2: Yoko KUMADA (Professional Institute of International Fashion), Masakazu TANAKA (Professional Institute of International Fashion)
• Presentation 3: Yu TAMURA (Niigata University) “In-Between Love and Indifference: Rethinking the Relationship between Matriliny and Divorce from Lomwe, Mozambique”
• Comment 3: Yuko SUGIYAMA (Hirosaki University), Erika TAKAHASHI (Chiba University)
• Critique A: Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)
• Critique B: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA)
• From the Editorial board of Cultural Anthropology: Shinya KONAKA (University of Shizuoka)
• Closing Remarks: Sachiko TANUMA (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
• [B Room (room 304)]
• Chair: Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)
• Presentation 1: Shijun ZHANG (Peking University) *Online Participation “The Birth of the Astronomical Price: An Anthropological Account of Value and Price in the Beijing Art Auction”
• Comment 1: Sayaka OGAWA (Ritsumeikan University), Osamu NAKAGAWA (National Museum of Ethnology)
• Presentation 2: Takumi FUKAYA (Kyoto University) “Reconsideration of Terroir through the Anthropology of the Senses: Exploring Wine Production and Taste in Tuscany, Italy”
• Comment 2: Taeko UDAGAWA (National Museum of Ethnology), Shingo HAMADA (Osaka Shoin Women’s University)
• If you have any questions about the seminar: infoseminar[at]gmail.com (Please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.
• Language: Japanese, English
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

• Language: Japanese, English
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, Musashino gakuen elementary school, Waldorf Woodlands School
• Supported by FENICS

• ■Workshop “Doing fieldwork on everyday life 1”
• Sun 19 Nov
• ■Workshop “Doing fieldwork on everyday life 2”
• Sun 10 Dec
• [Overview]
• Anthropology has long considered the fieldwork, thinking through experiences in different cultures and places as essential. In this workshop, while rooted in such fieldwork methodologies, participants will conduct fieldwork on their own everyday lives through exercises. The aim is to gain new perspectives on everyday life and the world. On the first session, November 19th, after an introduction to anthropology and fieldwork, we will engage in several exercises to estrange familiar sensations and bodies in everyday life. Between the first and second session, participants will work on creating works on specific themes as extracurricular exercises. On the second session, December 10th, we will present and discuss our respective works and insights. Participants who have not previously experienced anthropology, fieldwork, or art are welcome to join.
• ※This event is an experimental project aimed at the creation of new field science methods. The content of the event will be utilized in the research of the organizers, and individual works are planned to be publicly showcased as collective art on a website
• Eligibility: Those interested in fieldwork, anthropology, and art (undergraduate students and above). Participants must be able to attend in-person on both days.
• Capacity: 12 participants (first-come, first-served in case of a high number of applications).
• Contact: tufisco-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (TUFiSCo Office, please replace [at] with @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo) , ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Topic-Setting Program“Overcoming Social Division and Achieving Diversity through Embodiment”

• In Bali, Indonesia, performing arts are performed at various religious ceremonies and community events. This project introduces the performing arts as they exist in village life by exhibiting photographs taken during fieldwork and performing objects (masks, shadow puppets, etc.) collected by Yukako Yoshida (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), who specializes in the anthropology of the performing arts.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library

• [Opening]
• 13:30–13:35. Greetings from Fieldnet
• 13:35–13:40. Opening Remarks
• Organizer, Marie Sato (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
• [Session I: Visualization of Flows in Society and Environment]
• Chair: Doha Zeadeh (Faculty of Agriculture, Jordan University of Science and Technology)
• Co-chair: Tomoki Izumi (Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University)
• 13:40–14:00. Presentation 1
• Weimin Guo (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University) Stable isotopes to visualize the fate of nitrogen
• 14:00–14:20. Presentation 2
• Tomoki Nakamura (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba) Visualizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Its influence on the behavior of Palestinian farmers
• 14:20–14:40. Presentation 3
• Shuntaro Togo (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University) Porous media equations to visualize subsurface water flows
• 14:40–14:55. QandA
• 14:55–15:10. Break
• [Session II: Visualization of Robustness in Socio-Environmental Systems]
• Chair: Mahnaz Lashkri (Strategic Projects & Partnership Manager, University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, Iraq)
• Co-chair: Koichi Unami (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
• 15:10–15:30. Presentation 4
• Marie Sato (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
• Tomoki Izumi (Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University) Visualizing soil moisture content and historical transformation of livelihood: A case of Irbid, Jordan
• 15:30–15:50. Presentation 5
• Eileen Joan Magero (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
• 15:50–16:10. Presentation 6
• Snur Hamid (Freelance Business Consultant and Startup Coach in Silêmanî, Iraq) Untangling livelihood issues and entrepreneurship challenges in Kurdistan region
• 16:10–16:25. QandA
• 16:25–16:40. Break
• [General Comments and Discussions]
• 16:40–16:55. Comment I
• Hitoshi Shinjo (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
• 16:55–17:10. Comment II
• Kenichi Kashiwagi (Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba)
• 17:10–17:50. General Discussions
• [Closing]
• 17:50–18:00. Closing Remarks
• Koichi Unami (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
• Contact: Marie Sato (organizer) sato.marie.gu[at]u.tsukuba.ac.jp *Please change [at] to @.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Bilateral Joint Research Projects “Designing feasible portfolios of water and agriculture aimed at building a pluralistic society in Northern Iraq” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Koichi Unami (Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture) Project Number:120229922), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists,“An Empirical Study on the Development and Resilience of Refugee-led Organizations in the Contemporary Middle East” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Marie Sato (University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Project Number: 23K17093), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research, Fostering Joint International Research (B) “Rainwater harvesting to overcome vulnerability of the Fertile Crescent” (Principal Investigator: Dr. Koichi Unami (Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture) Project Number: 19KK0617)

• After enduring the pandemic, we are excited to bring you the fresh development of traditional Balinese music, ‘Voice Gamelan.’ It has gained prominence in Bali. This event is part of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies’ 150th-anniversary commemorative collaboration.
• << Sing, Dance, and Laugh Together! >>
• We are delighted to welcome the Balinese entertainer, Mr. Ciaaattt, who will introduce his innovative performance art, 'Voice Gamelan(Gamut),' which reimagines the traditional Gamelan ensemble using a single voice. This form of entertainment, which found its roots in Ciaaattt's home during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bali, has attracted widespread attention. During this event, you will witness explanations and demonstrations of Voice Gamelan, as well as performances of Balinese music and musical dramas by the Japanese group Mametangan, in collaboration with Ciaaattt. It's a fusion of traditional art, entertainment, and contemporary culture - a delightful mix to savor!

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. (First-come, first-served basis in case of high demand)
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research) “Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment”(Principal Investigator: Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) ), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the “Time of Corona” -Response to the crisis, negotiation on physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643), ILCAA Joint Research Project An Interdisciplinary Study on Performing Arts in the Time of COVID-19 (jrp000274)" (Coordinator: Yukako YOSHIDA)
• Supported by ILCAA Joint Research Project “An Interdisciplinary Study on Performing Arts in the Time of COVID-19” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) )

• 8:00–9:50. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian10 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian10(second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30–15:30. Satbyul KIM (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature ) “Toward Life Through Death: In the Footsteps of Sanyo and the Mourning Hut.”
• 15:45–18:00. Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA) Discussions in preparation for the draft of “the Anthropology of Death”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology)

• We are pleased to welcome Balinese musician Mr. Ciaaattt to teach us Kecak. Cak Cak Cak ♪ Let's make some noise, move our bodies, and have fun together!

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research) “Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the “Time of Corona” -Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)
• Supported by ILCAA Joint Research Project “An Interdisciplinary Study on Performing Arts in the Time of COVID-19” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) )

• 15:00–16:30. Seminar
• “Archiving and Utilization of Field Video: Focusing on the Archival Experience of the HUMAN Series of the Open University of Japan”
• 1. Shunsuke YAMASHITA (Hokkaido University) “Archiving Fieldwork Materials: Reconsidering Methodology and Significance”
• 2. Takanori OISHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “‘Sharing’ and Utilization of Photographic and Video Materials: Experiences from a Long-term Continuing Research Project in Africa”
• 3. Q&A (30 minutes)
• ＊A reception will follow.
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• Beyond Modernity: Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power was published from Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in November 2023. In this seminar, the editors will discuss the initial impetus behind the edited volume. One key objective was the questioning of Eurocentric approaches that reproduce the binary of modernity and Islam. The editors will also emphasize the proposal of post-Eurocentric alternative approaches in the volume chapters with a particular focus on the existence of a variety of contexts overlapping with common frames of reference within Muslim societies.
• Speakers:
• Mohammed Moussa (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University)
• Emi Goto (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Book information:
• Edited by Mohammed Moussa and Emi Goto
• Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Pages: 220

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 29th Nov.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji NAGASAWA (ILCAA Research Fellows) Project number: 20H00085), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “Research on 'exclusion' and intellectuals in modern and contemporary Islam” (Principal Investigator: Emi Goto (ILCAA) Project number:18K18292)

• The second Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Seminar will be held by A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” and B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” in response to the de facto genocide in Palestine.
• Program
• 17:00–17:10. Opening Address
• Hidemitsu KUROKI (Area Organizer, ILCAA/SRC, Hokkaido Univ.)
• 17:10–18:30. Presentation
• Akira USUKI (Japan Women's College) “Perspective on the Gaza issues”
• Kenichiro KOMORI (Musashi University) “A proposal on Anti-Semitism, Judeophobia”
• Kumiko MAKINO (IDE-JETRO) “How does South Africa see the Palestine-Israel issues?”
• 18:30–18:40. Break time
• 18:40–18:55. Comments by Tetsuya SAHARA (Meiji Univ.)
• 18:55–19:30. Discussion and Q&A
• Contact: connectivity_jimukyoku[at]tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 23:59 , 27th Nov.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number:20H05826), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” (Principal Investigator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University) Project Number: 20H05829)

• 10:30–12:00. Yujie PENG (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shizuoka University) “Spicy food in Cameroon: A preliminary research report”
• 13:00–14:30. Reita FURUSAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chubu University) “Maize food culture in Accra, a city of colonial origin”
• 14:45–16:15. Haruna YATSUKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsuda College) “Re-evaluating plant-based local food: Diversity and locality of murenda in Tanzania”
• 16:30–17:00. Takeshi FUJIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Toyama) Liaison

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Japan African Food Culture Study Group

• Abstract:
• Frantz Fanon is often considered the ‘father’ of the theory of anti-colonial violence. However, such a reductionist view ignores the Antillean thinker’s complex analysis of colonialism and anti-colonial revolution in Africa and the Middle East. This seminar will highlight some of Fanon’s ideas on the nature of anti-colonialism with reference to the role of the peasantry in this struggle and urban politics. It will also draw out the implications of these ideas in light of current examples in the contemporary Middle East.
• Speaker:
• Mohammed Moussa is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Mohammed completed his doctorate at the University of Exeter. His publications include a monograph on the political thought of Shaykh Muhammad al-Ghazali (2015) and articles in Journal of North African Studies, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research and Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji NAGASAWA (ILCAA Research Fellows) Project number: 20H00085), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists “Research on 'exclusion' and intellectuals in modern and contemporary Islam” (Principal Investigator: Emi Goto (ILCAA) Project number:18K18292)

• The organizer of the Islamic Trust Studies Project will hold a Civil Dialog event titled “The Background of the Gaza 'War' and the World-Historical Meaning of the Palestinian Issues.”
• Title: “The Background of the Gaza 'War' and the World-Historical Meaning of the Palestinian Issues.”
• Speaker: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies/SRC, Hokkaido Univ.)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• No pre-registration is needed.
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Imizu-demo Executive Committee, Civic Action Imizu, Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05823)

• We are pleased to welcome Balinese musician Mr. Ciaaattt to teach us Kecak and Voice Gamelan (※). Let's join together, use our voices, and move our bodies to experience the music culture of Bali!
• ※ What is Voice Gamelan?
• It's a vocal music where the sounds of Gamelan, a percussion ensemble, are expressed by layering human voices. It involves playing the various parts by either multi-track recording on your own or sharing the different roles among multiple people while weaving the song together.
• Please wear comfortable attire as you will be seated on the floor.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFS Field Science Commons, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research) “Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the “Time of Corona” -Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)
• Supported by ILCAA Joint Research Project “An Interdisciplinary Study on Performing Arts in the Time of COVID-19” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) )

• Program:
• Morning session: Picture-story show of Asian folktales 11:00−12:30
• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) “A Buryat folktale: What is the ‘Leaks’ ?”
• Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Kachin folktales: The Kaempferia flower, etc.”
• Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Tibetan folktales: The Tales of the Corpse”
• Afternoon session: Conveying the joy of folktales 14:00−15:30
• 1. Behind the scenes of content creation
• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) “Creating picture books and a picture-story show from a Buryat old woman’s narratives”
• Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Creating picture story videos with the Kachin people”
• Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Creating a children's book from popular folktales in Tibet”
• 2. Roundtable: Various ways of telling folktales
• Guests: Fumiyo ISHIGURO (Art education, Artist, Odawara Junior College), Yukiko SATO (Children’s book editor, Nora Shoten Publishing), Kuranishi (Illustrator, Manga artist)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• Title: Doing research in transboundary conflict contexts: Reflections from the field in Uganda
• Presenter: Dr. Constance Mudondo (Makerere University)
• Although research in conflict-context has been presented to be critical in peace making process, the field experiences of researchers are seldom highlighted. This article illustrates experiences of doing research in transboundary conflict contexts. Using the conflict in Namatala transboundary wetland in Eastern Uganda, the article draws on the reflections from the field and highlights the researchers’ practical experiences of doing research in transboundary conflict contexts. The study which adopted a mixed approach employed a number of methods to collect data, that is household surveys, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. This article illustrates that researchers in transboundary conflict contexts have numerous experiences that include; how their identity shapes penetration to the field, navigating power relations among and between participants, ensuring safety of participants during data collection, how political and social events shape the research process, dealing with their emotions and how to navigate community gender dynamics during data collection. The article demonstrates that the conflict fields shape how participants perceive the researchers, how data is generated and how the researchers navigate research fields. This article demonstrates that researchers in conflict contexts ought to be very flexible and take note of the undertones of the changing conflict context.
• Kew words: Conflict, Research experiences, Transboundary areas, Wetlands

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), African Studies Center-TUFS

• This exhibition introduces various materials written in Asian ancient scripts and the books that contributed to the deciphering of the script, preserved in the Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
• Free admission
• Event 1: Gallery Talk, November 23, 13:00–14:00
• →To the exhibition room on the first floor of the AA-ken. No pre-registration. However, if the venue is crowded, admission may be restricted.
• Event 2*: “Let’s carve bone script!”, November 23, 14:00–15:00
• →To the room 304 on the third floor of the AA-ken. The application has already closed.
• *Advance application only for Event 2, limited number (children under elementary school age are accompanied by parent)
• *200 yen for insurance only

• Free admission
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 【Theme】This symposium focuses on youth ethnographically and seeks to examine, with an intersectional lens, how young people, in Eastern Africa and South Asia, understand their social world through their multiple identities -gender, caste, region, language, and nation - as well as their individual aspirations, desires, and choices. It also seeks to compare the structural factors that act as barriers to their mobility as well as identify the strategies and pathways that individuals develop for change. Through such an approach that focuses on both structure and agency, we aim to arrive at a broader understanding of the issues at hand in vastly different terrains and social communities.
• The symposium seeks to address some pertinent questions: How do patriarchy, kinship, lack of (higher) education, unemployment, insecurity, and social and cultural inequalities common to these regions confront young people? How do they cope with the complexities and challenges they may encounter in their diverse social and cultural contexts? What forces compel them to make difficult choices for change? What new forms does their agency take?
• We are especially interested in contributions that focus on gender, religion, and diversity with particular attention to agency. The diverse geographical sites and socio-political contexts will enrich our understanding of the themes through multiple social and regional perspectives. We hope this symposium will further enable us to arrive at a nuanced understanding of youth in diverse settings and provide a comparative background to anthropological youth studies.
• 【Program】※ Each Presentation 30mins + Questions and Answers for 10mins.
• DAY 1 (Saturday, Nov. 18th)
• 11:00–12:30. Casual Lunch Meeting (mainly for Young Scholars including Graduate Students)
• 12:30–13:00. Registration
• 13:00–13:10. Opening Remarks & Introduction (Wakana Shiino & Kazuyo Minamide)
• 13:10–13:50. Prof. Marie Lall: The Effects of Hindu Nationalism on Indian Universities; Students in the Eye of the Storm
• 13:50–14:30. Dr. Jane Dyson: The Contradictions of Prefigurative Politics: Rajput Young Women’s Everyday Activism in Himalayan India
• 14:30–14:40. Tea Break
• 14:40–15:20. Dr. Nirmala Ranasinghe: Can Tourism be a Powerful Life Strategy?: Through the Narratives of Young Men in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka
• 15:20–16:00. Mr. Takuya Hagiwara: Is Competitive Sport a Career-building Force for Kenyan Youth?: Structured Athletic Environment and Dynamics of Embodied Agency for Social Mobility
• 16:00–16:40. Dr. Kinyua Laban Kithinji: Contesting the State? Digital Media Platforms as Spaces of Refuge, Safety Nets, and Justice-Seeking in Kenya
• 16:40–16:50. Tea Break
• 16:50–17:10. Comments by Discussants
• (South Asia) Prof. Fumiko Oshikawa, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
• (Africa)　Dr. Eri Hashimoto, Associate Professor, Rikkyo University
• 18:00–. Dinner
• DAY 2 (Sunday, Nov. 19th)
• 9:40–10:00. (Venue Open)
• 10:00–10:40. Dr. Piotr Cichocki: The Reality Negotiations in the Collaborative Process of Local Music Making. The Case of Youth from Mzuzu, Malawi
• 10:40–11:20. Dr. Constance Mudondo: Navigating Market Terrain as Novices: Empowering Female Young Graduates of a Tailoring Course in Uganda
• 11:20–11:30. Coffee Break
• 11:30–12:10. Dr. Tomoyuki Chaya: Urban Slum Youth and the Significance of Secondary Education in Contemporary India: Cultivation of Perception of Self-image
• 12:10–13:30. LUNCH
• 13:30–14:10. Dr. Wakana Shiino: Female 'Youth' ‘s Choice for Their Survival: Being a Housegirl in Kenya or the Middle East
• 14:10–14:50. Dr. Kazuyo Minamide: “Probashir Bou (Migrant's Wives)” in a Rural Bangladesh Village: Waiting and Recreating New Family Lives
• 14:50–15:00. Coffee Break
• 15:00–15:20. Comments by Discussants
• (Africa) Dr. Soichiro Shiraishi, Associate Professor, Hirosaki University
• (South Asia) Prof. Tatsuya Yamamoto, Professor, Shizuoka University
• 15:20–16:00. General Discussion for two days
• 16:00–16:10. Closing Remarks
• 【Presenters】
• South Asia
• Prof. Marie Lall: Professor and Chair of Education and South Asian Studies at the UCL Institute of Education
• Dr. Jane Dyson: Associate Professor in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne
• Dr. Nirmala Ranasinghe: Associate Professor, Faculty of Regional Creation, Nara Prefectural University
• Dr. Tomoyuki Chaya: Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, Hyogo University of Teacher Education
• Dr. Kazuyo Minamide: Associate Professor, Department of English, Kobe College
• Africa
• Mr. Takuya Hagiwara: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, Toyo University
• Dr. Kinyua Laban Kithinji: Researcher, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University
• Dr. Piotr Cichocki: Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw
• Dr. Constance Mudondo: Lecturer, Makerere University
• Dr. Wakana Shiino: Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 10th Nov.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Youth Strategies and Social Transformation under Uncertainty in South Asia” (Project number: 21H03715), TUFiSCo
• Supported by African Studies Center - TUFS

• 14:00–15:00. Haruya SHISHIDO (Meiji University) Ismail II, the “Tyrant” of the Safavid Empire in the 16th century: What were the realities of his policies?
• 15:00–15:30. Yukako GOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University) Comment
• 15:30–16:20. General discussion
• 16:20–16:30. Break
• 16:30–17:30. Naofumi ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ochanomizu University) An Introductory Study of the Inventory of the Movable Property of the Shaykh Safi Shrine.
• 17:30–18:00. General discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Symposium 2023 “Discussions on 'hearty food/meal' and 'connectivities' from the viewpoint of area studies” will be held by Islamic Trust Studies Project with Japan Consortium for Area Studies at the Research Institute of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA).
• 13:00–13:05. Nobuaki Kondo (Director, ILCAA) Opening Address
• 13:05–13:15. Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA／SRC, Hokkaido Univ.) Introduction
• 13:15–13:45. So Yamane (Osaka Univ.) Keynote Speech
• “Things connected and grown by food of the Muslims in South Asia”
• 13:45–14:05. Tamon Baba (Ritsumeikan Univ.) 1st Presentation
• “Foodstuffs which crossed the ocean: Yemen and mobility in the western Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages”
• 14:05–14:25. Yukari Sai (Chiba Institute of Technology) 2nd Presentation
• “Eating together: commensality in 'our' mosque in South Fujian, China”
• Break (10 min.)
• 14:35–14:55. Masako Kudo (J.F. Oberlin Univ.) 3rd Presentation
• “Food and cooking in migrant families from the perspectives of gender, connectivities and identities”
• 14:55–15:15. Yuko Ido (ILCAA) 4th Presentation
• “Food and wartime economy: revisiting connectivity, dependence and autonomy”
• Break & Networking Time (20 min)
• 15:35–16:05. Yoshimi Osawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) Comments
• Naoto Minami (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
• 16:05–17:00. General Discussion
• 17:00–17:10. Motoki Nomachi (Director, SRC, Hokkaido Univ.)） Summary
• 17:30–19:30. Academic Information Exchange Meeting
• (Dining Hall, 1F, the University Hall of Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)
• Conditions: Open to the public／Japanese／Admission free／In-person meeting／Pre-registration is required／With babysitting service

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• Deadline: November 15, 2023 (Wed) ※Request of babysitting service will be accepted by October 31, and the participation of Academic Information Exchange Meeting will be accepted by November 9.If you request babysitting (12:00-17:30, free of charge), please inform us of the number of children with their age.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Japan Consortium for Area Studies, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Principal　Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA), Project Number: 20H05823)

• Ben Arps (Visiting Professor, ILCAA/ Professor, Leiden University) “‘Their Journey Shall Not Be Described’: Places and Travel in the Javanese Amir Hamza Epic.”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00, 15th Nov.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Globar Mediterranean at ILCAA

• The lecture “Russia-Saudi Arabia: A Transactional Relationship Amid Constraining Realities” will be jointly held by Islamic Trust Studies A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” group, ILCAA Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society” and Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.
• Speaker: Ildus Gubaidullovich Ilishev (Independent Scholar, former Deputy Permanent Representative, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation)
• Title: “Russia-Saudi Arabia: A Transactional Relationship Amid Constraining Realities”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 8th Nov.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, Platform for Explorations in Survival Strategies at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC) Project Number: 20H05826)

• Maximilian Mehner (Philipps-Universität Marburg) “Sāhibrām’s Vīraratnaśekharaśikhā, his method and techniques of adapting the Aḫlāq-i Muḥsinī in 19th century Kashmir”
• Chair: Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Group “ILCAA Joint Research Group Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0013)

• Screening of ethnographic films “Light, Wind, Water and Soil“ and “Hanako and Kamisama“ and talk by directors Irina Grigore and Itsushi Kawase
• Chair: Shu FUJITA (ILCAA Research Associate)
• Please contact: kikanjinruigaku[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to @)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 3th Nov.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology), TUFiSCo

4 Nov

• 13:00–13:30. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “Opening remarks”
• Yoshiki MORIMITSU (University of Hyogo) “Introduction”
• SESSION 1: GPS and bio-logging researches on large-sized wild animals
• 13:30–14:10. Kohji YAMAZAKI (Tokyo University of Agriculture) “Using bio-logging to Asiatic black bears”
• 14:10–14:50. Akiko TAKII (Shinshu University) “Study on sika deers using GPS”
• SESSION 2: GPS and bio-logging Researches on non-human primates and humans
• 15:00–15:40. Yoshiki MORIMITSU (University of Hyogo) “Studies on Japanese macaques using GPS and collar-mounted web cameras and future directions”
• 15:40–16:20. Taro YAMAUCHI (Hokkaido University) “Measuring human behavior: From space-time utilization to nutritional adaptation”
• 16:20–17:00. General Discussion

5 Nov

• 13:00. JR Sasayamaguchi Station

• 13:30-14:20. Observation of Japanese macaques inhabiting Tanbasasayama City, Hyogo
• 14:20-15:10. Introduction to countermeasures against crop-raiding by Japanese macaques
• 15:10-16:30. Discussion with local residents about countermeasures against for crop-raiding by monkeys
• 17:00. JR Sasayamaguchi Station
• Chair: Yoshiki MORIMITSU (University of Hyogo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese ＊Japanese-English interpretation is available on zoom
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 17:00, 1st Nov.
• Jointly sponsored by 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” (Principal Researcher: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591), Association for Conservation and Management of Nonhuman Primates
• Supported by Primate Society of Japan, The Mammal Society of Japan

• 15:00–15:05. Opening Speech by Moderator Arihiro MINOO (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Waseda University)
• 15:05–15:20. Introduction Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher/Meiji University)
• 15:20–15:40. Comment 1 Ichiro MAJIMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 15:40–16:00. Comment 2 Sonoe OMODA (Meiji University)
• 16:00–16:15. Intermission
• 16:15–16:45. Reply from Authers
• Yutaka SAKUMA, Arihiro MINOO, Sayaka OGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Ritsumeikan University), Tooru SAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Keio University), Keiichiro MATSUMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Okayama University), Takashi SAKAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Osaka Metropolitan University), Yoko TAGUCHI (Eikei University), Manami HAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ JSPS)
• 16:45–17:30. Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline 22:00, 2nd Nov.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 19H01388)

• Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) “Introduction: Linguistic description in translingual ecology in Africa”
• 1. Andries COETZEE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Michigan) “Patagonian Afrikaans: Identity and History in a Bilingual Speech Community”
• 2. Nico NASSENSTEIN (ILCAA Joint Researcher/ Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) “The role of Lingala in Eastern Congo’s Swahili ecologies and young speakers’ repertoires (Goma/Lubumbashi)”
• 3. Sayaka KUTSUKAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher/Tohoku Gakuin University) “Review of recent studies on multilingual practices in Africa and future perspectives”
• 4. Janika KUNZMANN (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) “What is Mbum and what is not? Addressing multi- and translingualism in the creation of a reference grammar”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), ILCAA Joint Research Project “A new perspective on descriptive linguistics in Africa based on the translingual ecology”, ILCAA Joint Research Project “Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives”

• With the recent proliferation of smartphones and digital cameras, many anthropologists take images of casual daily life and minor events in the fieldwork. However, most of these images are probably not of dramatic events, but rather fragments that have no meaning beyond that of a record and thus are simply stored as dead data. On the other hand, images such as Robert Gardner's Forest of Bliss, for example, which capture only mundane things but appeal to the viewer in more ways than mere documentary footage, tend to be thought of as requiring advanced production techniques. On the other hands, even if the significance of conveying the sensory experience of the field is recognized, it seems that video has been given only a supplementary position to the written word.
• Against this backdrop, the goal of this workshop is for anthropologists unfamiliar with video editing to create ethnographic images from video materials that do not show anything special, and to discover in this process the seeds of an argument that can be connected to the anthropology that has been conducted through the written word. Unlike many documentary films, the videos are not edited in chronological order or in the order of events, but rather are categorized and connected according to the sensations, impressions, and themes they bring to the viewer, thereby provoking thought that can be connected to written expression. The workshop will be led by Shu Fujita(TUFS Field Science Commons) and Hiroto Tsuda, a guest lecturer (Akita University of Art), who has been examining and practicing anthropological thinking at the intersection of art and the visual arts.
• Chair: Shu FUJITA (ILCAA Research Associate)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.Please contact: tufisco-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (TUFiSCo)(please change [at] to @)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 8:00–9:50. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian08 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian08 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 12:30–12:35. Kaoru Adachi(Kyoto Sangyo University) 「Opening remarks」
• 12:35–13:15. Erin Riley（San Diego State University） 「Human-Primate Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future」
• 13:15–13:45. Tatsuro Kawazoe(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) 「Variety of human-macaque interfaces in Japan and population dynamics in natural population of Japanese macaques」
• 13:45–14:00. Break
• 14:00–14:30. Hsiu-hui Su（National Pingtung University of Science and Technology） 「Human-macaque conflict and responses of Taiwanese macaques to changing habitats in Taiwan」
• 14:30–15:00. Aru Toyoda (National Primate Research Center of Thailand) 「Current situation of wild Stump-tailed macaque’s research in Thailand, as the Buddhist country, and issues related to their interaction with humans」
• 15:00–15:30. Paula Pebsworth（National Institute of Advanced Studies） 「Coexistence: A Holistic Approach」
• 15:30–15:45. Break
• 15:45–16:15. Paolo Martelli（Ocean Park Conservation Foundation） 「TENTATIVE: Reports from Hong Kong」
• 16:15–16:45. John Sha（National Parks Board Singapore） 「Challenges of the expanding human-wildlife Interface in Singapore, with a focus on the long-tailed macaque」
• 16:45–17:30. General Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori Kawai (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) “An Ethnoprimatological Study on Wild Macaques in Hong Kong for Trial of Local Environmental History” (Principal Investigator: Kaoru ADACHI (Kyoto Sangyo University) Project Number: 22K12530), Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists “Relationship between biodiversity and intensity of connected mind in Southern Kyushu” (Principal Investigator: Tatsuro KAWAZOE (ILCAA) Project Number: 22K18077)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.Please contact: islamization.in.southeast.asia11[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠).
• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: Religion, Kingship, and Cosmology” (Principal Investigator: Yumi SUGAHARA (Osaka University) Project number: 21H00575), HINDOWS (Indian Ocean World Studies project, Osaka University) So Yamane, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Fundamental research for the construction of a historical picture of Islamic reception and social relations in continental Southeast Asia” (Principal Investigator: Kazuto IKEDA (Osaka University) Project number: 20H01325)

• Nobuko YONEDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “Microvariation of noun-modifying constructions in Bantu languages”
• Chair: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Tokyo African Linguistics Knot, Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing), TUFS Institute of language research, Japan Association for African Studies

• 13:30–13:40. Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) Opening address
• 13:40–14:20. Yasuhisa KONDO (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies) “Application of the digital humanistic methods and potential of the Open Science for the archaeological and historical properties in Oman”
• 14:20–15:00. Kengo HAYASHI (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo) “Reconstructive research of the traditional architectures and settlements in Oman and utilisation of digital methods”
• 15:00–15:15. Intermission
• 15:15–15:55. Taichi KURONUMA, Yasuhisa KONDO, and Kengo HAYASHI “Discussion”
• 15:55–16:00. Taichi KURONUMA Closing address
• Chair: Taichi KURONUMA

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 27th Oct. Contact: taichi.kuronuma [at] aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Millennial-scale social sustainability in a piedmont canyon of Southeast Arabia: An interdisciplinary inquiry based on historical ecology” (Principal Investigator: Yasuhisa Kondo (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) Project Number: 21H00605), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Restoration and inheritance of living heritage under a vulnerable social environment of a port city in southern Oman” (Principal Investigator: Yasuhisa Kondo (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) Project Number: 20KK0020)

• Program:
• 15:00. Emi GOTO (ILCAA, TUFS) Introduction
• 15:10. Mustafa Abdalla (The Free University, Berlin) “Disease as a Form of Silent Resistance: Engaging in Disease Markets to Attain Healthcare Services”
• 16:10. Discussion
• Moderator: Junko TORIYAMA (Ritsumeikan University)
• Abstract:
• Egypt's healthcare system is grounded in the principle of universal access to healthcare services, promising equitable treatment for all citizens. However, the ground realities often reveal a stark contrast. Drawing inspiration from the perspectives of James C. Scott on everyday forms of resistance, this paper explores a unique phenomenon that has emerged within the Egyptian context, where disease has paradoxically become a tool of silent resistance employed by a particular group of individuals, which I call “Professional Patients.” By presenting a detailed examination of this strategy, this paper uncovers the strategies employed by these individuals to navigate the barriers of the healthcare system, including adopting a disease identity, and offering disease services in a growing disease market in order to gain access to medical services.
• Speaker:
• Mustafa Abdalla is a medical anthropologist who holds a master’s degree in anthropology from the American University in Cairo and a doctoral degree in anthropology from the Free University in Berlin. He conducted research both in Egypt and Mali focusing on health issues, gender, sexuality, health, disease, medical education, mobility and religion. Mustafa Abdalla is affiliated to the Medical Anthropology Unit of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, The Free University, Berlin and he currently works on his research project “Productive Pathologies: Professional Patients and the Commodification of Disease in Egypt”.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Protest on the Street, and Reconsider the Nation: from the view points of space, violence and resonance” (Principal Investigator: Keiko SAKAI (Chiba University) Project Number: 21H04387), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa, Project number:20H00085)

• 15:00–16:00. Taichi KURONUMA (Assistant Professor, ILCAA) “Mapping through fieldworks: Utilising web consumer applications”
• Web consumer mapping applications have been widely utilised in various scenes in recent years, and we can easily access the whereabouts of the information we are looking for. This popularisation of web mapping applications can contribute to creating one's maps during fieldwork and easily sharing the on-map outcomes with the public. This Commons Cafe discusses the usefulness of web mapping applications in field science through the case of archaeological practices in Southeast Arabia in the Middle East.
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. ＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date. ＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “Connectivities of Islam analyzed by the result of attitude surveys on Syrian, Turkey, and Lebanese people” is jointly held by B02 “Trust Building Through Thought and Strategy” and A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building”.
• As the presentation is based on the contents of the series that will be published in the near future, this workshop is limited to the members of Islamic Trust Studies.
• Preserntation: Hiroyuki AOYAMA (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)
• Program:
• 10:00–10:40. Hiroyuki AOYAMA “Connectivities of Islam analyzed by the result of attitude surveys on Syrian, Turkey, and Lebanese people”
• 10:45–11:30. Q&A, Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 8:00–9:50. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian08 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian08 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30. Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Opening remarks
• 13:35. Tarô ADATI (Tokyo University of Agriculture) “Field studies for better lives: Africa, entomology and agronomy”
• 13:50. Yasuhisa KONDO (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) “Archaeologistics and the pandemic in Oman”
• 14:05. Yuichi S HAYAKAWA (Hokkaido University) “Fieldwork and remotework connected in the future?”
• 14:20. Mamoru FUJITA (Keio University) “Continuing Research on Andean Indigenous Languages during and after COVID-19 Pandemic”
• 14:35. Mari MIYAMOTO (Keio University) “Covid-19 and Bhutan: Where is she headed?”
• 14:50. Break
• 15:00. General discussion
• 16:00. Closing remarks
• Chair: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 23:59, 20th Oct.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFS Field Science Commons

• Dawa YIDEMUCAO (ILCAA Visiting professor) “Digital Archive of Oirat Mongolian Literary and Oral Materials”
• Chair: Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Title: ‘Care and Reunification in a Cape Verdean Family: Changing Articulations of Family and Legal Ties’
• The presenter: Heike Drotbohm (University of Mainz, Germany)
• Chair: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 15th Oct.
• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), African Studies Center-TUFS, Kanto branch of Japan Association for African Studies

• 10:00–10:30. Introduction/Self-introduction
• 10:40–11:40. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) Introduction: Failures and regrets in my fieldwork
• 12:40–13:40. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) Failures encountered during my linguistic fieldwork in Indonesia
• 14:00–15:00. Kunihiko KUROKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Shoin Women’s University) Don't be like me!! -The teacher who made a mistake in data management
• 15:10–16:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Islamic Trust Studies Emergency Seminar “Discussing the escalation of tensions between Palestine and Israel” will be jointly held by Islamic Trust Studies Project A03 “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building”and B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas.” on the escalation of tensions in Palestine.
• Program:
• 17:00–17:10. Hidemitsu KUROKI (Area Organizer, ILCAA/SRC, Hokkaido Univ.) Opening Address
• 17:10–18:00. Hiroyuki SUZUKI (B03 Co-investigator, UTCMES, The University of Tokyo) ,Masayuki TESHIMA (CCP Japan Jerusalem Office) Presentation
• 18:00–18:30. Discussion, Q&A

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. ＊Meeting capacity: 300 participants
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Community Formation among Migrants and Refugees” (Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05826),Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas”(Principal investigator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University), Project Number: 20H05829)

• Presentation on the content of the results book by authors, and discussion
• Commentator: Kaoru ADACHI (Kyoto Sangyo University), Keiichi OMURA (The Open University of Japan)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• 8:00–9:50. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian07 (first part)”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian07 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

30 Sep

• 13:00. Atsushi OCHIAI (ILCAA Joint researcher, Ritsumeikan University) Clan emblems in ancient China

• 15:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)

1 Oct

• 10:00. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA, TUFS) On the classification and terms for the strokes of Tangut script

• 13:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)
• Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• 30 Years after the Oslo Accords: Final Status and New Challenges
• 10:00–10:10. Opening Remarks, Hiroyuki SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Tokyo)
• 10:10–12:00. First Panel: What was the Oslo Accords?
• Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University)
• Chie EZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Defense Academy)
• Taro TSURUMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo)
• Shingo HAMANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ryukoku University)
• Commentator: Ryoji TATEYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher), Moderator: Akiko SUGASE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)
• 13:00–14:50. Second Panel: Rethinking from the Palestinian Question
• Taizo IMANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chukyo University)
• Aoe TANAMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hiroshima City University)
• Saul J.TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka Jogakuin University)
• Miyuki KINJO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)
• Commentator: Eisuke NARAMOTO (Hosei University), Moderator: Makiko NANBU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 15:10–16:30. Panel 3: Forgotten Realities
• Emi KODAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Kazue HOSODA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA)
• Yoshihiro YAKUSHIGE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Doshisha University)
• Kensuke YAMAMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, the University of Shizuoka)
• Commentator: Akira USUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Women's University), Moderator: Emi GOTO (ILCAA)
• 17:10–17:50. General Discussion
• 17:50–18:00. Emi Goto (ILCAA) Closing Remarks
• 18:30–. Meeting of Research Members (Administrative matters, etc.)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• Note: the number of seats is limited. If the following form is closed, please consider online participation.For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Research Group on Palestine/Israel

• Food is much more than a way for human beings to physically survive: it is an integral part of every culture in the world. Because it requires elements of the natural world (plants, animals...), as well as human-made tools, and because it involves rituals as well as techniques (from hunting, gathering, growing plants and tending domestic animals, to preparing and preserving food), it is at the crossroads between material and immaterial heritage. In this workshop, we propose to explore the way food, as the topic of transdisciplinary research, can help us learn more about past societies, their places of origin, their contacts, their networks and their migrations, as well as their evolution, and current development. The initiators of the workshop are linguists Amina Mettouchi (EPHE/LLACAN, Paris) and Nicholas Evans (ANU, Canberra). Each of them has been exploring the deep history of food as traced through language – Mettouchi in North Africa, on documentation of food preparation (discourse, techniques, utensils and rituals), and lexical variation and reconstruction (in relation to archeological and DNA evidence), especially of cereal-based foods (bazin, couscous), and milk products, and Evans through work documenting the language of food preparation in northern Australia and New Guinea.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 22th Sep. Please contact: asako[at]tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠) . ＊For those participating online, only the audio, video, and shared slides of each presentation will be shared.
• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons, The Australian National University, CNRS-LLACAN

• Nine members in this project (with two co-authors) and an invited speaker (Akinobu Yamada; Osaka University) are going to make their own presentations. The speakers among members will talk within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 20 minutes. The invited speaker will talk within 60 minutes, followed by a Q&A session for 30 minutes.This meeting will be held in collaboration with the 11th workshop of the Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For details, please see here.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University

• Language: English
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 13:30. Opening remarks
• 13:30–14:10. JIAYANG (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Exploring New Livestock Practices in the Qinghai-Tibet Region in the Post-Pastoral Society: A Focus on Hokkaido Charo Sheep Farm and the Collaborative GsurTang Black Tibetan Sheep Cooperative”
• 14:10–14:50. PENGMAO XIACUO (Nihon Fukushi University) “The Perception of Gender in the Tibetan Region and the Diverse Social Transformations Due to Modernization as Depicted in the Novel Phyur ba”
• 14:50–15:00. Coffee Break
• 15:00–15:20. Yusuke BESSHO (Komazawa University) “Report on Preliminary Field Survey in Sikkim”
• 15:20–15:40. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Report on Preliminary Field Survey in Baltistan”
• 15:40–15:50. Coffee Break
• 15:50–16:30. Masahiro HIRATA (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) “Discussion on the Next Joint Research Project”
• 16:30. Closing remarks

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Tibetan Cultural Lexis Database Project” (Principal Investigator: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H04880)

• 8:00–9:50. Shunsuke AOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seisen University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian05”
• 9:50–10:10. Break
• 10:10–12:00. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian06”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

16 Sep

• Part 1: Linguistics

• Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA, TUFS)
• Speaker:
• Pei-chi CHANG (National Chengchi University): Evidentiality in the Tangut Language<
• Shuya ZHANG (Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin) [Zoom]: A note on the Tangut directional prefix jij1-
• Yunfan LAI (Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin) [Zoom]: Lenition discrepancies between Tangut and Modern West Gyalrongic languages

17 Sep

• Part 2: Script study and philology

• Chair: Takumi IKEDA (Zinbunken, Kyoto Univ.)
• Speaker:
• Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA, TUFS): Some topics on the study of the shapes of Tangut script
• Shaohua LIU (Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao School of Ethnology, China) [Zoom]: Study on the Chinese source of the Tangut version of Dengyao

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. (1st day)
• For registration, please see here. (2nd day)
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “A Study on the historical Development of the Sino-Tibetan Languages and their Typological Geography” (Principal Investigator: Takumi IKEDA (Kyoto University) Project Number: 18H05219)

• An International Symposium “MUDDYING THE WATERS: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE CASPIAN SEA” will be held in Vienna by Islamic Trust Studies A02 and B01 with Australian Academy of Sciences.

• Language: English
• For more information, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Commission for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05825), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827)

• Program:
• 10:00–10:15. Opening remarks
• 10:15–11:00. Xiangmin LIAN (Deputy Director of CTRC) Introduction to Research at the China Tibetology Research Center
• 11:00–11:30. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA), Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA), Keisuke IWATA (Tsukuba University) Introduction to Joint Research Project of the Tibetan Studies and the Dictionary of Tibetan Pastoralism
• 11:30–12:00. Discussions
• 12:00. Closing Remarks
• Chair: Izumi HOSHI

• Language: Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC)，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) “Tibetan Cultural Lexis Database Project” (Principal Investigator: HOSHI Izumi (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H04880)

• Speaker: Takashi OOSAWA (Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University) Title: “Ancient Culture and Research of Sites in Republic of Khakassia 2”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• ■ Program
• 16:00–16:05. Introduction
• 16:05–16:45. Dr. Christine Kämpfer (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) “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”
• 16:45–17:15. Discussion
• ■ Title and Abstract
• 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
• Nāṣir al-Dīn Shāh’s (1831-1896) era saw an enormous increase in foreigners coming to Persia as diplomats, missionaries, and European company representatives. Among these travelers was the German botanist Carl Haussknecht (1838–1903), whose aim was to collect plants and information on the local botany. Haussknecht undertook two botanical expeditions to the so-called Orient: the first in 1865 to the Ottoman Empire, the second in 1866-1869 to the Ottoman Empire and Persia. He recorded his observations in 15 booklets, totaling about 1000 pages, during both journeys. His diaries were never published, thus his travels are mostly unknown beyond the field of botany. The travel diaries of Haussknecht provide insights into the society, politics, and economy of Persia during the 19th century. However, since the diaries were never edited during his own lifetime, they reveal not only the genesis of a travelogue but they also provide a meta level access to Qājār society. This especially is visible in Haussknecht’s treatment of reading material, details which would probably have been deleted during an editing process.
• This paper presents Haussknecht’s travel diaries as a source for studying Qājār Persia. Additionally, it shows how their meta level can provide a new way of studying the sociocultural landscape of the Nāṣirī period.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠).
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00, 7th Sep.
• Organized by The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• ■ Program
• 14:30–14:35. Introduction
• 14:35–15:15. Dr. Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Biblical Narrative Poems in Judeo-Persian in Fourteenth-Century Iran”
• 15:15–15:45. Discussion
• ■ Title and Abstract
• Biblical Narrative Poems in Judeo-Persian in Fourteenth-Century Iran
• Shāhīn (fl. in the first part of the 14th century) holds the distinction of being the first known poet to versify portions of the Hebrew Bible in the Judeo-Persian language in the form of long narrative poems (mathnavī). He is credited with four works, the most extensive of which is the Bereshit-nāma (Book of Genesis), composed in 1358/59. Shāhīn was active during the late Ilkhanid and early post-Mongol periods, a time when new forms of patronage over literary and artistic production emerged seeking to blend different cultural worlds. The poet indeed crafted unique amalgams of Jewish and Perso-Islamic traditions, both in form and content.
• In this talk, I will delve into several episodes from the Bereshit-nāma to explore Shāhīn’s retelling of biblical narratives from a comparative angle, considering both Jewish and Muslim exegetical sources. My aim is to reveal the pool of traditions that Shāhīn might have drawn upon for his version and to elucidate the working techniques and interpretative strategies he employed. Through this analysis, I hope to demonstrate that despite writing in Judeo-Persian, the poet was firmly entrenched in a Persianate cultural domain.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠).
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22:00, 7th Sep.
• Organized by The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• Speaker: Yuko SUGIYAMA (Faculty of Humanities Cultural Properties, Hirosaki University) Title: “The Bemba: Changing Village Life and Traditional Chiefdom”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00–10:10. Introduction
• 10:10–11:00. Ryoko WATABE (the University of Tokyo) Records of waqf properties in the real esate inventory of Shaykh Ṣafī al-Dīn Ardabīlī’s shrine: A preparatory study focusing on their relationship with the documentary sources and marginal notes in manuscripts.
• 11:00–12:00. General discussion
• 12:00–12:30. Discussion about the joint research pla

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Speaker: Takehide HARADA (Organizer of Geogian film festival, Artist) Title: “Georgia and cinema”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 10:00–10:30. Opening remarks Yuriko Yamanaka (National Museum of Ethnology) “Where Lie the Boundaries of ‘Nature’?”
• 10:30–11:00. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (University of Edinburgh) “Witchcraft and the Supernatural in Iranian National History”
• 11:00–11:30. Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “The Narrative World of the Persian Dastan Vis-à-vis the Binary of Reality and Fantasy”
• 11:30–12:00. Christine Kämpfer (University of Bamberg) “The Role of Magic and Otherworlds in Khvaju's Humay-u Humayun”
• 2:00–13:00. Lunch break
• 13:00–15:00. Museum visit
• 15:00–15:30. Ulrich Marzolph (University of Göttingen) “Magic in the Thousand and One Nights”
• 15:30–16:00. Pasha M. Khan (McGill University) “Epistemologies of the Qissah Genre and the Challenge of Western Disenchantment”
• 16:00–16:30. Break
• 16:30–18:00. Discussion

• Admission: Free (260 yen will be charged if one does not register from in advance from the link below)
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. *Please sign up by 12:00 [GMT+9], 21 August 2023 [Mon]:
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program “Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology” and “Global Mediterranean at ILCAA”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A) “The Natural and the Supernatural in Comparative Perspective” (Principal Investigator: Yuriko YAMANAKA (National Museum of Ethnology) Project number:18H03573)

• Speaker: Takashi OOSAWA (Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University) Title: “Ancient Culture and Research of Sites in Republic of Khakassia 1 ”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:10. Opening remarks by prof Ikuya TOKORO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, ILCAA)
• 13:10–13:40. Presentation 1: Prof. Itaru NAGASAKA (Hiroshima University) “Divergence, Ambivalence and Temporality: Filipino migrant workers’ experiences of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Japan and beyond”
• 13:40–14:10. Presentation 2: Dr. Michelle Palumbarit (University of the Philippines) “Filipino Migration to Korea: History, Trends, and Possible Directions(1950-2021)”
• 14:10–15:30. Break Time
• 15:30–16:00. Presentation 3: Prof.CHEN Tien Shi (Waseda University) “Where We belong?　Stateless, Multiple Nationalities, and Transnational Migrants in Asia”
• 16:00–16:30. Presentation 4: Dr. Noel Christian Moratilla “Othering the Visible, Visibilizing the Other: Stories of Indonesian Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong”
• 16:30–17:00. General Discussion
• 17:00–17:10. Concluding remarks by prof Jocelyn Celer (UP Asian Center)
• Chair: Ikuya TOKORO

• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, UP-Asian Center, Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (KKLO)

• 14:00–15:50. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University), Takahito YAMADA (Ritsumeikan University) “Examples of Utilization of TEI-Encoding in Research on Excavated Materials (first half)”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University), Takahito YAMADA (Ritsumeikan University) “Examples of Utilization of TEI-Encoding in Research on Excavated Materials (second half)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint researcher, Kochi University) “Syntactic alternation of possessive and existential sentences in Akan”
• 2. Shigeki KAJI (ILCAA Joint researcher/ Kyoto Sangyo University) “Texts in nonliterate languages, in particular focus on taboo expressions of the Nyoro of West Uganda”
• 3. All participants “General discussions on the planned international WS and publication”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

1 Sep

• 15:00. Opening Remarks

• 15:15–15:55. Ulrich Marzolph (Göttingen University) Illustrating the Persian Epics in Lithographed Editions of the Qajar Period
• 15:55–16:35. Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA) How did the Hamza Romance Develop over Time? An Analysis of the Zubdat al-Rumuz
• 16:35–17:00. Discussions
• 17:30–19:30. Dinner

2 Sep

• 10:30–11:20. Ben Arps (Leiden University/ILCAA) ‘And God Knows Best What Is Correct’: The Marvels of the Real in and around the Javanese Amir Hamza

• 11:20–12:00. Yumi Sugahara (Osaka University) The Story of Amir Hamzah as a Muslim Side Epic in Java
• 12:00–12:30. Discussions
• 14:00–14:40. Kumiko Yamamoto (ILCAA) Performing the Story of Amir Hamza in Iranian Style: Fakhr al-Zamani and the Oral Performance Model
• 14:40–15:20. Pasha M. Khan (McGill University) The Ways of Storytellers in Mughal South Asia: From Darbar Khan to Baqir ‘Ali
• 15:20–16:00. Julia Rubanovich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Verse Insertions in the Hamza-nama
• 16:00–17:00. Discussions

3 Sep

• 10:30–11:20. Osamu Otsuka (The University of Tokyo) Nihayat al-Arab Reconsidered: Reconstructing Pre-Islamic Persian History in the Arabic Historiography:

• 11:20–12:00. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila (The University of Edinburgh) Pagan Heroes in an Islamic Society: Literary Responses to the Shahname and its Heroes
• 12:00–12:30. Discussions
• 14:00–14:40. Christine Kämpfer (Bamberg University) The Odd Courtly Romance: The Influence of Popular Romances on Khvaju Kirmani’s Humay-u Humayun
• 14:40–15:20. Yuriko Yamanaka (National Museum of Ethnology) The Demotic Alexander: The Safavid Iskandar-nama and its Possible Impact on Historical Narratives in Southeast Asia
• 15:20–16:30. Discussions
• 16:30. Closing Remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. (deadline: 31 August, for the conference dinner 21 August)
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B) “A Multidisciplinary Study on Formation, Transmission, and Reception of Persian Historical Romances” (Principal Investigator: NobuaKi KONDO (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H01250), Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• Speaker: Shigeki KAJI (Center for Language Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University) Title: “Kinship terminology of African languages”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Speaker: Kae HISAOKA (National Museum of Ethnology) Title: “Musical Culture of Georgia”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:20. Opening Remarks
• 13:20–14:00. Introduction to Campus Life in Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• 14:00–14:30. Yuta KOCHI (Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
• 14:35–15:05. Yutaka MAJIMA (Laboratory for Materials and Structures, Institute for Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• 15:05–15:15. Break
• Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA)
• 15:50–16:20. Kazuhiro KUMO (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
• 16:25–16:30. Closing Remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please access the Lectures' web site for participation on site or online by August 21, 2023. The maximum audience is 250 people on site and 500 people online so we will not accept more participants when the audience reached the maximum number.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Union of Four Universities in Tokyo, Research Institutes affiliated to the Tokyo Four Universities
• Cooperated by Ochanomizukai, United For TUFS, Tokyo Tech Alumni Association, Josuikai

• Speaker: Midori DAIMON（Hokkaido University Institute for International Collaboration Study Abroad Coordinator/Lecturer） Title: “Karaoke culture created by Youth in Kampala, Uganda”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 14:00–14:10. Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) Openning address
• 14:10–14:40. Dr.Aji Sofanuddin (Research Center for Religion and Belief,BRIN), Mr. M Nur Prabowo Setyabudi(the Research Center for Society and Culture, BRIN) “Religious Governance in Indonesia: From Politics of Harmony to Politics of Moderation”
• 14:40–15:10. Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan（BorIIS） “Ritual Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sabah, Malaysia: Comparisons and Contrasts between the Kimaragang Dusun of Kota Marudu and the Bajau Kubang of Semporna”
• 15:10–15:30. Break
• 15:30–16:00. Prof.Dr. Aiko NISHIKIDA (Keio University) “Islamic Globalism and Localism: Its Interaction in Palestine”
• 16:00–16:10. Comments by Prof. Dr. Omar FAROUK (Hiroshima City University)
• 16:10–17:20. Discussion
• 17:20–17:30. Prof.Dr. Hisao TOMIZAWA (University of Shizuoka) Closing address
• Reception Dinner at LE MERIDIEN HOTEL KOTA KINABALU

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (KKLO), ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology)　“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

• Speaker: Teimuraz Lezhava (Ambassador of Georgia to Japan), David Goginashvili (Analyst for the Embassy of Georgia to Japan)
• Title: “Promoting Georgian Culture in Japan”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by AA研

• 1. Hayato AOI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS) “A review of Clark(1986), Japanese as a tone language”
• 2. All members Discussion about a workshop

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• Theme: Blurring Boundaries
• 15:00–15:50. Miyuki KINJO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University) “The Process of Sharing Memory and the Right of Return of the Palestinian Refugees: Focusing on the Lifta Villagers living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.,”
• 16:00–16:50. Yoshihiro YAKUSHIGE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Doshisha University) “On Israeli Archaeological Research in the Occupied West Bank and Jerusalem,”
• 17:00–17:40. Discussion
• 18:00–. Member meeting

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.Note: the number of seats is limited. If the following form is closed, please consider online participation.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Research Group on Palestine/Israel

• 15:00. Introduction
• 15:10. Naoko FUKAMI (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Cairo Research Station) “Street hierarchy and residential areas in the Historic Cairo: from an analysis of Napoleon's and 1938 maps”
• 16:10. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Four members of the project made their presentations on topics related to phonology or syntax and semantics and the participants made discussion on the topics. The following languages and themes were at issue: Borrowing of medical terminology from the Arabic to Coptic languages, sociolinguistic factors on phonological reduction in Japanese and English, emergence of a new definition of Chinese tones, and wh-interrogative and focalization in Sinhalese.
• A more specific program was as follows:
• １）13:00–14:00. So MIYAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, NINJAL) Sawy MONA (Assiut University): Loanword Phonology and Vowel Reconstruction in the History of the Egyptian Language
• ２）14:05–15:05. Satoshi NAMBU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Monash University) Variation theory and Japanese: A corpus-based study on the variants ‘teiru’ and ‘teru’
• ３）15:15–16:15. Yasunori TAKAHASHI(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University) The new definition of Chinese tones
• ４）16:15–17:30. Hideki KISHIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University) Focusing and movement constraints in Sinhala questions

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University

• 1. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 2. All members “Self-introductions”
• 3. Tomoyuki TAJIMA (Osaka University) “Concept of “sharing” in Primatology”
• 4. Jun BABA (Wako University) “Concept of “sharing” in Anthropology”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:30. Keiko IKEDA (Shizuoka University) “Intersectionality and Mainstreaming of Gender Perspectives: A view from Bangladesh Studies”
• 13:35–14:00. Nobuko UESAWA (Mejiro University) “Complexity and Intersectionality of Discrimination against Women in the Christian Community of the Garo Ethnic Minority”
• 14:05–14:30. Mami KANAZAWA (Sophia University) “Women, Disabled People and Disabled Women: Difficulties Experienced by Disabled Women as a Single Person”
• 14:40–15:05. Takami ISHIZAKA (Kanto Gakuin University) “From the Working Patterns of Women in Muslim and Ethnic Minority Villages in Rajshahi District”
• 15:10–15:35. Ami SUZUKI (Kobe University) “Parda Practices and Plurality of Public Space from the Perspective of A Handicraft Workshop”
• 15:45–16:00. Discassant: Ai SUGIE (Kyoto University)
• 16:00–16:15. Discassant: Minako KURAMITSU (Ochanomizu University)
• 16:15–17:15. Discussion
• Chair: Mayumi MURAYAMA (Institute of Developing Economies)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Gender and Space/Place, The Association of Japanese Geographers, ILCAA. Core Project (Anthropology), TUFiSCo, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia”(Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554)

• The series “Connectivity and Trust Buildings in Islamic Civilization” started to be issued this spring by the University of Tokyo Press. The series explains that various issues of the modern world are interactively connected and that the present is adjoined to the connectivity of the past. It will also actively explores the hints for building social coexistence among varied cases mentioned in the series.
• This series consists of eight volumes written by several authors, and its first volume “An Invitation to Islamic Trust Studies” was published in March 2023. In this event, authors of the vol.1 who are also the editors of the series will talk about the innovation of values which the series will make.
• Speaker:
• Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA, Hokkaido Univ. Sravic Eurasian Research Center)
• Jin NODA (ILCAA)
• Wakako KUMAKURA (Keio University)
• Moderator: Emi GOTO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required in the case of having a seat.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. (Capacity: 20PAX)(The sign-up to Peatix is required)
• Jointly sponsored by Kinokuniya Book store, X00 Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05823)

• 10:30–10:35. Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Introduction”
• 10:35–11:35. Chihiro TAGUCHI (Graduate School, University of Notre Dame) “Bridging Natural Language Processing and Descriptive Linguistics with Universal Dependencies”
• 11:35–12:00. All participants Discussion
• Moderator: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing) , TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo) , Information Resources Center (IRC)

• 12:00–13:00. Rodney Obien（Keene State College, Head of Special Collections and Archives） Building a Community: The Orang Asli Archive
• Chair: Aya KAWAI (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: English and Japanese with consecutive interpretation
• For registration, please see here. Face-to-face participants do not need to register, so please come directly to the venue.＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date.＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo, Keen State College, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator: Aya Kawai (ILCAA) Project number: 19K13461)

• 14:00–15:50. Abe Soichiro(Kanazawa University) “Examples of Utilization of TEI-Encoding in Japanese Humanities”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Arnd Helmut Hafner(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Examples of Utilization of TEI-Encoding in European Sinology”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:05. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “Opening remarks”
• 13:05–13:20. Naofumi NAKAGAWA (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) “Introduction”
• 13:20–13:45. Maho HANZAWA (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) “Exploring the research site of patas monkeys in Mole National Park, Ghana”
• 13:45–14:10. Naohiko IMAJO (ILCAA) “Exploring the research site of Alevi in Republic of Turkey”
• 14:10–14:20. Questions and Answers
• 14:20–14:40. Break
• 14:40–15:05. Ikki MATSUDA (Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University) “Developing the research site of proboscis monkeys in Kinabatangan, Malaysia”
• 15:05–15:30. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) “Developing the research site of east african pastoralists: Chamus in Kenya and Dodoth in Uganda”
• 15:30–15:40. Questions and Answers
• 15:40–15:50. Yuji TAKENOSHITA (Faculty of Rehabilitation, Chubu Gakuin University) “Comment 1: Long-term continuous research site of great apes in Moukalaba-Doudou National Park, Gabon”
• 15:50–16:00. Akira TAKADA (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University) “Comment 2: Long-term continuous research site of Gui/Gana in Ghanzi district, Botswana”
• 16:00–17:00. General Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 17th Jul.
• Jointly sponsored by 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” (Principal Researcher: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number:19H05591), ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology) “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

• We read Śivadharmottara Chapter 7.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: ogura [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by ERC Project “The Śivadharma and the Making of Regional Religious Traditions in Premodern South Asia”, L'Orientale University of Naples, ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Department of Indian Languages and Literature, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo

• African religions can be broadly divided into Christianity, Islam, and indigenous religion. In this event, three cultural anthropologists specializing in African religions will discuss the characteristics and contemporary movements of each religion based on their respective publications from this year. By incorporating photographs, videos, and personal experiences accumulated during their long-term fieldwork, we aim to convey the diversity and fascinating aspects of African religions in a comprehensive manner.
• Speakers:
• Ran MURATSU - Institute of Asian and African Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Tomoki IKENOBE - Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo,
• Kiyuki EBATA - Wabuka Shrine (Kitakyushu City), Kyoto University.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Kinokuniya Book store, Core Project Anthropology ILCAA, TUFS Field Science Commons

17 Jul

• 9:30. Introduction

• 9:45–10:30. Yuko Yokochi (Kyoto University) “Śiva’s Paradisiacal World in the Śivadharmottara”
• 10:30–11:00. break
• 11:00–11:45. Florinda De Simini (L’Orientale University of Naples) “The Road to Hell: Sinners and Sins in Early Śaivism and Dharmaśāstra”
• 11:45–12:30. Kenji Takahashi (The University of Tokyo) “The Path to Paradise Begins in Hell: A Study of the 7th Chapter of the Śivadharmottara”
• 12:30–14:00. Lunch break
• 14:00–14:45. Jesse Pruitt (L’Orientale University of Naples/University of Toronto) “The Latter Lives of the Subsequent Stations: Tamiḻ Representations of the Śivadharma’s Heavens, Hells, and Third Place”
• 14:45–15:30. Takeshi Yokoyama (University of Tsukuba) “Heavens and Hells in Indian Buddhism: The World of Mount Meru and the Sentient Beings Who Transmigrate in It”
• 15:30–16:00. Break
• 16:00–16:45. Francesco Sferra (L’Orientale University of Naples) “A Life of Hell: Narakas and Nārakas According to the Abhidharmasamuccayakārikā by Saṅghatrāta”

18 Jul

• 10:15–11:00. Tadashi Tanabe (Kyoto University) “Heavenly Images in Gandharan Art”

• 11:00–11:30. Break
• 11:30–12:15. Ryūtarō Takezaki (University of Tokyo) “Hell in the Veda: A General Survey”
• 12:15–13:00. Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA) “How Did Muslims Describe the Indic View of Heaven and Hell?”
• 13:00–14:30. Lunch break
• 14:30–15:15. Kengo Harimoto (L’Orientale University of Naples) “The Śivadharmasaṅgraha and its Eight Hells”
• 15:15–16:00. Csaba Kiss (L’Orientale University of Naples) “Paradise Lost?: Extra Heavens in Paper Manuscripts of the Vṛṣasārasaṃgraha”
• Chair: Florinda de Simini (L'Orientale University of Naples)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by ERC Project “The Śivadharma and the Making of Regional Religious Traditions in Premodern South Asia”, L'Orientale University of Naples, ILCAA Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Department of Indian Languages and Literature, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo

• Art, which has expressed various images held by humans, and anthropology, which has explored the diversity of images associated with culture, technology, and religion. At the intersection of these fields, a book titled 'Expanding Images: Boundless Exploration of the Intersection between Anthropology and Art' has been published by Aki Shobo, bringing together the practices and thoughts of eleven individuals who contemplate the possibilities of unseen images through research, creation, and exhibition.
• To commemorate the publication, a talk event will be held featuring the three co-editors of the book, as well as one of the contributors.
• [Profiles of Participants]
• Mizuho FUJITA: Chief Curator/Program Director at Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto City University of Arts.
• Itsushi KAWASE: Associate Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies.
• Ran MURATSU: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
• Yoshinari NISHIO: Artist and Associate Professor in the Department of Advanced Art Expression, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• B&B website
• Peatix ticket page
• Organized by B&B
• Cooperated by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology)　“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

• Taichi KURONUMA (Assistant Professor, ILCAA) “Formation and transformation of the historical landscape in Southeast Arabia: Case studies in the southern parts of the Al-Hajar piedmont in northern Oman”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Ai NISHIDA (Kyoto University) , Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA, TUFS) “On the Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) project”
• Chair: Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00–10:30. All members Reports and Discussion
• 10:30–12:00. Keiichiro SAKO (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Ritsumeikan University) “Living as Slaves, Watching as Aristocrats: A Case Study of Social Stratification in East Sumba, with Field Reports”
• 13:00–14:30. Juntaro FUKADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Mie University) “Is “Dead Stock” of Shell Money “Tax Collection” without Sovereignty?”
• 14:30–16:00. Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Meiji University) “What is the Human Economy?: Gifts, Debt, and Morality”
• 16:10–17:40. All members Discussion
• Chair: Yutaka SAKUMA

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 19H01388), n.a.

• Program
• 14:00–15:30. Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) “Introduction (Opening Remarks)”
• 15:40–18:30. Kazuhiro ARAI (Keio University) “The meaning of Prophetic genealogy in contemporary Indonesia: the argument on the reliability of Indonesian habibs' genealogy in 2023.”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office (KKLO)

• Shu FUJITA (TUFS Field Science Commons Research Associate) Learn fieldwork through video editing
• Guest lecturer: Daisaku HASHIZUME (Meiji University)
• Fieldwork consists of experiencing things in the field, considering about what you feel and think there, and expressing them in written or visual form. In this workshop, you will learn about the process of thinking about and expressing field experiences by editing the video footage that Daisaku HASHIZUME took during his anthropological fieldwork in Solomon Islands. By editing the footage based on the fieldwork, you will be able to “think like” you are thinking from the fieldwork. Even if you have never edited a video or done fieldwork before, please come and join us.
• Chair: Shu FUJITA

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by TUFS Field Science Commons

• 13:00–14:30. Discussion
• Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA)
• Takeshi ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku Bunkazai Eizo Kenkujo (Institution for research and documentation of cultural properties in Tohoku area))
• Misako OOTA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University)
• Satomi OSHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Miyagi University of Education)
• Chie KAMINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology)
• Yoshiaki TAKEMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Heian Jogakuin (St. Agnes') University)
• Ryoko NAGAMINE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts)
• Emi MAEHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties)
• Daisuke MUTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University)
• Ako MASHINO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of the Arts)
• 14:30–14:40. Break
• 14:40–15:40. Writing Planning and Consultation 5 members
• 15:40–15:50. Break
• 15:50–16:50. Writing Planning and Consultation 5 members
• 16:50–17:00. Planning for the next meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the “Time of Corona” -Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)

• Oral presentations:
• 13:25–13:30. “Opening remarks”
• 13:30–14:30. Yusuke MITANI (Ishikawa Prefectural University) “Inter-individual differences in foraging behaviors of Japanese macaques in farmlands: influences of sex, age, and personality on the differences and its implication for damage control”
• Commentator: Hiroto ENARI (Yamagata University)
• 14:30–15:20. Kana TERAYAMA (Kochi University) “Effects of sampling regime on the estimation of animal space use”
• 15:30–16:30. Kazuho FUNAKAWA (Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University) “Dietary ecology of Japanese macaques at the individual scale using stable isotope analysis”
• Commentator: Yamato TSUJI (Ishinomaki Senshu University)
• 16:30–17:20. Josue PASTRANA (Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University) 「Costs and benefits of living in a vegetated, compared with non-vegetated, enclosure in male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)」
• Poster presentations:
• 17:30–18:15. TBA

• Language: Japanese, English
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• *Let's travel the world together! 2023
• Chikyu Tankentai is a series of workshops which tickle children's curiosity to know more about the world.The event is co-organized by anthropologists and actors. Under the theme of “Let's transform with a Balinese mask!”, participants will take part in Balinese masked theater “topeng”, and explore Balinese cosmology and view of humanity.
• 【AM】10:30-12:45
• 【PM】14:30-16:45
• Organizers and Actors: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA), Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University/ Representative of MANALABO), Koji SONODA (Niigata University/ Duputy representative of MANALABO), Yuji YANOHARA (National Museum of Ethnology/ MANALABO). Hidetomo NAGASAWA(actor), Mihoko WATANABE (actor)
• 【AM session】For 1st grade elementary school students and above (including adults)
• 【PM session】For Anyone over 18 years old
• Capacity: 15 per session

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, MANALABO, ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology)“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Principal Investigator: Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University) Project number:21K01057), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator:Koji SONODA (Niigata University) Project number:22K13263)
• Cooperated by Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)

• 13:30–13:40. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Introduction
• 13:40–15:00. Kota KARIYA (The University of Tokyo) “Mahdism in the Early Sokoto Caliphate”
• 15:10–16:30. Hiroki SAKAI (Wako University) “Characteristics of the Turkic Heroic Epic : With the example of Alpamys Batyr”
• 16:30–17:00. General Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Those who registered as online participants will receive the Zoom invitation on 30th Jun.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here. Registration is required by noon, 30th Jun.
• Organized by The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• 10:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (1)
• 13:00. All participants Discussion on the terms for the studies on scripts (2)
• Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• 13:00–14:00. Takeshi FUJIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Toyama) “Explanation of the purpose of this joint research project”
• 14:15–16:00. Yui SUNANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Niigata University) “Local brewing in Kenya and Tanzania in the expansion of commercial beer”
• 16:15–18:00. Yachiyo TOBITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsukuba University) “Dietary culture of Senegalese urban residents”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Japan African Food Culture Study Group

• The 40th Overseas Scientific Research Forum will be held inviting three lecturers in the front line of research in ecology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics to discuss the potential of field science in the digital age based on their latest outcomes of overseas scientific research.
• Program:
• 13:00–14:00. General Meeting
• 14:10–15:30. Overseas Scientific Research Forum Workshop “The potential of field science and Joint research in the digital age”
• Lecture1: Tetsukazu YAHARA (Kyushu Open University, Field: ecology, evolutionary biology) “Plant Diversity Research in Southeast Asia Utilizing Genome Analysis and Its Contribution to the Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network”
• Lecture2: Taku IIDA (National Museum of Ethnology, Field: ecological anthropology) “Archiving of primary sources for field sciences: the trajectory of Digital Library for Humanities”
• Lecture3: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA, Field: linguistics, Tibetan studies) “Field archiving of the traditional culture of Tibetan pastoral people”
• 15:40–17:10. Discussion with each lecturer
• Room1: Tetsukazu YAHARA “Plant Diversity Research in Southeast Asia Utilizing Genome Analysis and Its Contribution to the Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network”
• Room2: Taku IIDA “Archiving of primary sources for field sciences: the trajectory of Digital Library for Humanities”
• Room3: Izumi HOSHI “Field archiving of the traditional culture of Tibetan pastoral people”
• 17:15–17:30. Round Table

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please contact: gisr[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 15:00–16:00. Kanji KATO (ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities) “Digital archive of grammar description of the Japonic languages”
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• Presenter 1. Laban Kithinji KINYUA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sophia University/TUFS) “Digital Media Platforms as Spaces of Refuge, Safety Nets, and Seeking Justice in Kenya”
• Presenter 2. Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) “Women going to the Middle East: the recent condition of 'housegirls' in Kenya”
• Moderator: Wakana SHIINO

• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) Project number: 22H00769)

• 13:30–13:45. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) Introduction of the joint research project
• 13:45–15:00. Self-introductions of joint researchers (Sea areas, island areas, river-mouth deltas)
• 15:00–15:30. Discussion (Sea areas, island areas, river-mouth deltas)
• 15:30–15:40. Break
• 15:40–17:10. Self-introductions of joint researchers (Inlands, mountainous areas, forest areas)
• 17:10–17:30. Discussion (Inlands, mountainous areas, forest areas)
• 17:30–18:00. Discussion (The next steps of the project)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 14:00–15:50. Arnd Helmut Hafner(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Training Workshop Historical Informatics (03): Reconsidering Methods of Accumulation of Form and Style Information”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Arnd Helmut Hafner(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Training Workshop Historical Informatics (03): Reconsidering Methods of Accumulation of Form and Style Information”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Ran MURATSU (ILCAA Assistant Professor) “Witchcraft and Possession in Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches in Africa: The Case of Benin”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 14:00–16:00. CAITLIN COKER (Hokkaido University) “Worlding Bodies- The Limitations and Possibilities of a Dancing Anthropology”
• 16:30–18:30. Masakazu TANAKA (Professional Institute of International Fashion) “Fashinable Body”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:10. Osami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University) Opening Remarks
• 13:10–14:00. Yoshimi YOSHIKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido Museum) “(tentative title:) For the publication of the field materials of Saru dialect of Ainu in ILCAA: A study based on questionnaire surveys for the users of the Ainu language archives”
• 14:10–15:00. Yasushige TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkaido University) “Some issues with the documentation of Ainu Language materials: manuscripts by Matsu Kannari as an example (2)”
• 15:20–16:10. Kyoko KOJIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher) , Yoshie ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher) Discrepancy between the published material and the raw field data: findings from a trial operation of the database for the preliminary study of the historical significance of Tamura archives
• 16:20–17:10　. sami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University) Progress, achievement and policies of the archiving project of Ainu field materials in ILCAA: focusing upon the relationship between artificial intelligence and audio material archives and the rights of the people concerned
• 17:20–18:00. Osami OKUDA (moderator) General discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 11:00–11:50. Jing'er WEN (Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “On the phonological differences in Sibe dialects”
• Host: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
• Commentator: Tomoyuki KUBO (ILCAA Research fellow)
• 14:00–16:00. Cultural Lecture
• Shoufu YONG, “My Father - Yong Shanta, a self-taught translator”
• Host: Kicengge (Otemon Gakuin University)

• Language: Sibe, Japanese, Chinese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) “Historical and sociolinguistic study of the Manchu language”(Principal Researcher: Tomoyuki KUBO (Kyushu University) Project Number: 20K20274)

• The former session: 13:00–15:00
• In the former session, Prashant PARDESHI, an invited speaker (professor of National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics) is going to deliver his own presentation, under the following title:The World Atlas of Transitivity Pairs (WATP): What it reveals about the typology of transnitity pairs?. The speakers will talk within 90 minutes, followed by a Q&A session for 30 minutes.
• For the program, please see here.
• http://ling.human.is.tohoku.ac.jp/media/files/_u/topic/file/pardeshi_lecture.pdf
• The latter session: 15:10–17:30
• In the latter session, the following two pairs of speakers will give their 40 minute talks, followed by 30 minutes discussion:
• Hiroshi AOYAGI (Nanzan University) “Some Notes on Morphosyntax and Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean”
• Yupeng YUE, Yoshiki OGAWA (Tohoku University) “A preliminary study on the structural borrowing, (the loosening of) lexical strata, and constructionalization: with special reference to causative-inchoative alternation and the nominalizating suffix -sa in Japanese.”
• ＊The participants of this session are limited to the members.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Language Change and Language Variation Research Unit, GSIS, Tohoku University

• This project examines the circulation of culture between the Middle East and Japan in the 20th century through the lens of literature and the arts in a broad sense that transcends genres. Particular attention will be paid to aspects of “projecting the self” and “creating the self,” highlighting the ways in which peoples of the Middle East and Japan have viewed each other. Ultimately, we would like to link our discoveries to the goal of “Global Area Studies,” which is to clarify the mechanisms of the construction and transformation of the contemporary global order.
• Program:
• Session 1 (Closed seminar, Global Mediterranean Studies members only)
• Chair: Nicholas Mangialardi (Williams College)
• 9:30–9:40. Nicholas Mangialardi (Williams College) Introduction
• 9:40–10:05. Emi GOTO (ILCAA) Rethinking Religion through Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s Writings on Japan
• 10:10–10:35. Zahra Moharramipour (The University of Tokyo) Between East and West: Perceptions of Persian Art in Early 20th Century Japan
• 10:40–11:05. Hiroyuki SUZUKI (The University of Tokyo) Distance to the Palestinian Question: Japanese Civil Society and the Middle East
• 11:10–12:00. Discussion
• ＜Lunch Break＞
• Session 2 (Open to the public)
• 14:00–16:00. Nicholas Mangialardi (Williams College) Cinemas, Celebrities, and Censors: Making the First Egyptian-Japanese Film Arabu no Arashi

• Language: English
• Organized by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)

• 14:00–15:00. Pryiankoo Sarmah (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati), Seunghun J. Lee (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “Phonetics of voiceless nasals in Tibeto-Burman languages”
• 15:30–16:30. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA), Seunghun J. Lee (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU) “Phonetic typology of fricatives in Bantu languages”
• 16:30–17:00. General discussion

• Language: English
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• This project examines the circulation of culture between the Middle East and Japan in the 20th century through the lens of literature and the performing arts in a broad sense that transcends genres. On this particular occasion, we are holding a film screening (Friday, June 2) and a lecture followed by a discussion (Saturday, June 3) on the subject of Arabu no Arashi/ Arab Storm (directed by Yasushi Nakahira, 1961), a film set in Egypt starring Yujiro Ishihara. Particular attention will be paid to aspects of “projecting the self” and “creating the self,” highlighting the ways in which peoples of the Middle East and Japan have viewed each other.
• 14:00–14:05. Emi GOTO (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:05–15:00. Cinemas, Celebrities, and Censors: Making the First Egyptian-Japanese Film Arabu no Arashi (Nicholas Mangialardi, Williams College)
• 15:00–16:00. Discussion
• Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Mangialardi is a scholar of Arabic literature and music whose research focuses on modern Egypt. He is currently working as a visiting assistant professor of Arabic Studies at the Williams College. His recent works include “The Social Life of Songbooks” (ArabLit Quarterly, 2021) and “Deciphering Egyptian Rap Ciphers” (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2019).

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 1st Jun.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, TUFiSCo

2 Jun

• 10:30-13:00. Review of Tsuchida Materials I

• 14:00-15:00. Report on the current status of materials curation and Prospects for Research Using Tsuchida Materials I
• 15:00-17:30. Review and Examination of Tsuchida Materials II

3 Jun

• 10:30-13:00. Review of Tsuchida Materials III

• 14:00-15:00. Report on the current status of materials curation and Prospects for Research Using Tsuchida Materials I
• 15:00-17:30. Review and Examination of Tsuchida Materials IV

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons

• This project examines the circulation of culture between the Middle East and Japan in the 20th century through the lens of literature and the performing arts in a broad sense that transcends genres. On this particular occasion, we are holding a film screening (Friday, June 2) and a lecture followed by a discussion (Saturday, June 3) on the subject of Arabu no Arashi/ Arab Storm (directed by Yasushi Nakahira, 1961), a film set in Egypt starring Yujiro Ishihara. Particular attention will be paid to aspects of “projecting the self” and “creating the self,” highlighting the ways in which peoples of the Middle East and Japan have viewed each other.
• 17:00–17:05. Emi GOTO (ILCAA) Introduction
• 17:05–17:15. On Arabu no Arashi (Nicholas Mangialardi, Williams College)
• 17:15–18:45. Screening of Arabu no Arashi (Directed by Yasushi Nakahira, 1961, Japanese)
• For details, please see here.
• https://www.nikkatsu.com/movie/20607.html
• 18:45–19:00. Break
• 19:00–19:30. Q&A
• Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Mangialardi is a scholar of Arabic literature and music whose research focuses on modern Egypt. He is currently working as a visiting assistant professor of Arabic Studies at the Williams College. His recent works include “The Social Life of Songbooks” (ArabLit Quarterly, 2021) and “Deciphering Egyptian Rap Ciphers” (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2019).

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Film in Japanese, talk in English with a Japanese translation
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 1st Jun.
• Jointly sponsored by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• 15:00–16:00. Erina OTA-TSUKADA (ILCAA) “Co-Thinking about Questions with No Answers: Humanities Outreach with ‘Realization’ and ‘Empathy’”
• The Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (A) “Islamic Trust Studies” calls a series of outreach activities aimed at returning academic achievements to society “Civil Dialogue.” Since FY2021, ILCAA and Setagaya Jinji Hoyouen have jointly conducted outreach activities in the form of dialogues without limiting the target audience on the part of the organizers. In this talk, I would like to review the civil dialogue at the preschool and the exhibition at ILCAA and talk about the results and challenges of the project. Let’s find together the co-creation of humanities knowledge beyond “communication.”
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: tufisco-office [at] tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: Japanese
• For the program, please see here.＊Zoom participants will receive an email with the Zoom URL at a later date.＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• 10:00–11:30. All participants Business meeting
• 11:30–13:00. Break
• 13:00–13:10. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 13:10–14:30. Junko SARUHASHI (Aoyama Gakuin Univerity) “The circulation of semiotic resources in nation-specific festivals and space creation: The case of Thai Festival in metropolitan areas in Japan”
• 14:30–14:40. Break
• 14:40–15:20. Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University) ““Who wants to see the City Hall in green and white?” A report on fieldwork in March 2023”
• 15:20–15:30. Break
• 15:30–16:45. All participants Workshop+Discussion, Facilitator: Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University), Speaker: Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University), Rei SUGIURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo/JSPS), Commentator: Takaya HAYASHI (Mukogawa Women's University)）

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)
• Cooperated by Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages

• ＜Message from Sonomi SATO＞
• Since March 2011, spring has come every year, the first year and the second year. It is a break in our days and a time to face ourselves and look back at ourselves. I hope that by viewing this work, viewers will also have a time to face themselves.
• Program:
• 14:00. Opening
• Greeting Ryoko NISII
• 14:15–15:30. Screening
• Fiction film “spring comes again and again” (2019 / 45 min)
• Documentary “If I could talk to your eyes” (2019 / 29 min)
• 15:30–15:45. Break
• 15:45–16:45. Sonomi SATO + Tomoko NIWA + all participants Talk + Q&A
• 16:55–17:00. Tomoko NIWA Closing
• ＜Film director, talk＞Sonomi SATO (filmmaker)
• ＜Planning＞Tomoko NIWA (National Institutes for the Humanities)
• ＜Moderator＞Ryoko NISII (ILACAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For the program, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, TUFiSCo, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Reconsideration of Anthropology of Dearh:An Anthropological Approach to Reality" through Affect Theory” (Principal Investigator: Ryoko NISHII(ILCAA) Project Number: 21H00642)
• Cooperated by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsideration on Death: Anthropological Explorations on the Actuality of life”

• 13:00–13:30. Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Consultation on future plans for the study group
• 13:30–14:30. Daisuke MUTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gunma Prefectural Women’s University) “The COVID-19 Pandemic and Striptease Theatres: The “Fundamentally Unwholesome” Performing Arts Scene”
• 14:30–15:15. Q&A
• 15:15–15:30. Break
• 15:30–16:30. Masataka SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University / The Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain Religion) “Domesticating Corona Crisis :Case of Monster Amabie and Onbashira Festival”
• 16:30–17:15. Q&A
• 17:15–18:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the “Time of Corona” -Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)

• 14:00–15:50. Arnd Helmut Hafner (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reflections on the Use of TEI Encoding for the Construction of a Data Base of Bamboo Slips and Wooden Tablets”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Arnd Helmut Hafner (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Training Workshop Historical Informatics (02): Accumulation of Vocabulary Information”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by IlCAA

• Speaker1: Koishi FUJITA (Kyoto University) “Economic development and transformation of labour market in Bangladesh: With special reference to rural labour market”
• Speaker2: Toshihiko SUDA (Daito Bunka University) “Influence of increasing migration on Bangladeshi rural economy: Observation of the two villages in Cumilla District”
• Speaker3: Mineo TAKADA (Hiroshima Shudo University) “Bangladeshi society through the lens of migration: Based on research experience and literature review”
• General Discussion
• Chair: Ai SUGIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please contact: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) fakir[@]aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠) .
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research: Fostering Joint International Research (B) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0024)

• 15:00–16:00. Shu FUJITA (TUFiSCo) “How can we use LLM in our research: case studies and a review of their potential”
• 15:00–16:00. The commons café this time will be a face-to-face meeting, more like a ‘café.’ Mr. FUJITA will provide a brief introduction about LLM services (such as ChatGPT), then participants will discuss to find new research possibilities based on them.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: tufisco-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: Japanese
• For the program, please see here.＊You are also welcome to join us on the day of the event.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• A talk by Dr. Timothy Brickell, who is currently staying at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia Africa as a JSPS Postdoctoral fellow.
• Abstract:
• Western Austronesian languages exhibiting symmetrical-voice alternations are frequently categorised as either ‘Philippine-type’ or ‘Indonesian-type’. Both geographic and a range of morphosyntactic criteria are used to distinguish these two subcategories. Despite this, it has been noted that this binary distinction is at times insufficient for describing the variation among these languages. The study provides further evidence of this typological problem, by examining several aspects of morphosyntax in four languages of the Minahasan micro-group of North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
• In terms of bound pronominal systems and clausal constituent order, these languages exhibit, to varying degrees, features which are atypical to either subcategory. Additionally, previously described transition processes which might explain the development of these features are shown not to be applicable. Instead, the various language-internal innovations are best described as a result of multiple well attested, and sometimes conflicting, cross-linguistic preferences which occur at various levels of structure. This further illustrates the relevance of these natural-language tendencies more broadly, regardless of other structural considerations such as morphosyntactic alignment or the arrangement of grammatical relations.
• In terms of bound pronominal systems and clausal constituent order, these languages exhibit, to varying degrees, features which are atypical to either subcategory. Additionally, previously described transition processes which might explain the development of these features are shown not to be applicable. Instead, the various language-internal innovations are best described as a result of multiple well attested, and sometimes conflicting, cross-linguistic preferences which occur at various levels of structure. This further illustrates the relevance of these natural-language tendencies more broadly, regardless of other structural considerations such as morphosyntactic alignment or the arrangement of grammatical relations.
• Chair: Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) asako[at]tufs.ac.jp (＊Please change [at]to＠.)
• Language: English
• For the program, please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

22 Apr

• 1. Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) “Mircea Eliade's Theory of the Origin of 'Religion' and Indigenous Religious Culture in India. (Tentative)”
• 2. Noriko ITO (Kyoto University) “From non-human studies, how might we approach ‘the origin and evolution of human sociality’? (Tentative)”

23 Apr

• 1. Shinichi FUJII (National Museum of Ethnology) “The Evolution of Law and Sociality: from Way to Law (tentative title)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

21 Apr

• 14:00–15:50. Shunsuke AOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seisen University) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian01 (first part)”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Shunsuke AOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seisen University) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian01 (Second part)”

22 Apr

• 10:00–11:50. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian02”
• 11:50–13:15. Break
• 13:15–15:00. Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyo Bunko) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian03”
• 15:00–15:15. Break
• 15:15–17:00. Shunsuke AOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Seisen University) “Reading: Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian04”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Islamic Trust Studies Workshop “The Balkan route of Refugees and Immigrants: the pushbacks and its background” will be jointly organized B03 “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” and “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building.”
• Speaker: Testuya SAHARA (Meiji University, B03 Co-investigator)
• Discussant: Aiko NISHIKIDA (Keio University)
• Program:
• 16:00–16:05. Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 16:05–17:05. Tetsuya SAHARA “The Balkan route of Refugees and Immigrants: the pushbacks and its background”
• 17:05–17:15. Aiko NISHIKIDA Comments and discussion by the discussant
• 17:15–18:00. General discussion
• Abstract:
• The speaker will present the collapse of immigration and refugee restriction policies after Europe's refugee crisis and the current situation of horrible human rights violations caused by the collapse.

• Contact: yamamoto_saki[at]rikkyo.ac.jp (Saki YAMAMOTO) (please change [at] to ＠)
• Condition: In person (Only only open to members of the“Islamic Trust Studies”research groups)
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Trust and Peace Building in Conflict Affected Areas” (Principal Investigator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University) Project Number: 20H05829), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Migrants, Refugees, and Community Building”(Principal Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05826)

• 14:00–15:50. Arnd Helmut Hafner(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Training Workshop Historical Informatics: Accumulation of Form and Style Information (first part)”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Arnd Helmut Hafner(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Training Workshop Historical Informatics: Accumulation of Form and Style Information (first part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Susumu SATO (Research Associate, ILCAA) “Attempting to reconstruct the Middle East Map Database”
• Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA) “Rethinking Suratrāṇa: God's armor or Yavanas' title?”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is 29th Mar.
• Language: Japanese
• For the program, please see here. Registration deadline is 29th Mar.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”

• 13:30–14:30. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) “Quest for the Persian Original of Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah”
• 14:30–15:30. Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “On Nurdin Ar-Raniri's Critique of wahdatul wujud”
• 15:45–16:45. Yasuko YOSHIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Specially appointed Researcher of Graduate School of Asian and African Studies, Kyoto University) “Po Kuk in Bani's religious text Patar”
• 16:45–17:45. Pramono (Andalas University, Padang, Indonesia) “A Newly Discovered Manuscripts: Second Version of Syarh Rubai of Hamzah Fansuri written by Syamsuddin al-Sumatrani”
• 18:00–18:30. Meeting

• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Early Islamization of Southeast Asia: Religion, Kingship, and Cosmology” (Principal Investigator: Yumi SUGAHARA (Osaka University) Project number: 21H00575)

• [This meeting has been Canceled]
• 10:00–16:00. Reviewing lectures
• 10:00–16:00. Conversation practices by participants
• 10:00–12:00. Online interactive sessions with Munda people
• 13:00–16:00. Presentations by participants

• Language: Japanese, Munda
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Kei NAGAOKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS/The University of Tokyo) “Medicinal Herbs of Tibetan Medicine and Pastoralism in the Himalayas”
• 2. Ai NISHIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Animal Offerings in the Old Tibetan Funeral Rituals”
• 3. All members Review Meeting on the book “A Dung Culture Flourishes on the Tibetan Plateau” (authored by Pingping Zhang)
• 4. Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) “Systematic Comparisons of Folk Vocabulary about Milk Culture”
• 5. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Exploring the History of Interaction in the Tibeto-Himalayan Regions and the Surrounding Areas through Milk Processing Technologies and Food Habits”
• 6. Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS/TUFS) “Database-based Comparison of Fuel Utilization Across the Tibeto-Himalayan Region”
• 7. Pingping ZHANG (The University of Kitakyushu) “Ecological and Symbolic Perspectives of Yak Dung for Tibetan Nomads”
• 8. Yusuke BESSHO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Komazawa University) “'Killing' and 'Keeping Alive' Livestock”
• 9. Keisuke IWATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Tsukuba) “Transportation System of the Dalai Lama Government between Tibet and Mongolia by Focusing on the Livestock Management”
• 10. Nantaijia (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Qinghai Nationalities University) “Transformation from Traditional to Contemporary Pastoralism in the Tibetan Plateau ー Based on the Example of Lhakar Model in Tsekog”

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing), Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows “Geolinguistical and Historical Study on Tibetic Languages with Focuses on Characteristic grammar and Ethnoterminology” (Principal Investigator: Shiho EBIHARA Project Number: 20J40127), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Tibetan Cultural Lexis Database Project” (Principal Investigator: Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H04480)

25 Mar

• 14:00. Hitoshi SUZUKI (IDE)

• 14:30. Elham Saberi (Hiroshima University)
• 15:45. Confessions
• 17:00. The Session will be closed

26 Mar

• 10:00. Kenji TOMITA (Doshisha University)*

• 10:30. Nachiko MORI (Hitotsubashi University)*
• 11:10. Behnam Jahedzadeh (Osaka University)
• 11:55. Naho NAKAMURA (Osaka University)
• 13:15. Makoto HACHIOSHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 14:35. Tomoko YAMAGISHI (Meiji University)
• 14:55. Kenji KURODA (National Museum of Ethnology)
• 15:15. Miki KAMIYAMA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• 15:45. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA)
• 16:05. Confessions2
• 17:00. The Session will be closed.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• ＊If you wish to participate online, please be sure to enter your e-mail address in the form above. We will send you the Zoom URL by the day before the workshop.
• Language: Japanese
• For the program, please see here. Registration deadline is 23:59 [GMT+9], 22nd Mar.
• Organized by Iranian Studies Group

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For the program, please see here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) “Deciphering the History of Yaponesians through Comparison and Analyses between Japanese and the Other Concerned Languages” (Principal Investigator: Mitsuaki ENDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University) Project Number: 18H05510)

• The Workshop “Circles of Trust: Marriage, Village Guarantors, and Private Reading Groups in the Ottoman Empire” will be jointly organized by Group B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (AKIBA Jun, 20H01322).
• Program:
• 13:30–13:45. Opening
• 13:45–14:30. Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA) “Trust, Connectivity and Empire: Nested Suretyships in the Ottoman Postal System”
• 14:35–15:20. Tommaso Stefini (European U Institute) “Risky unions: Venetian/Ottoman marriages and contested inheritances”
• 15:50–16:35. Baki Tezcan (UC Davis) “The not-so-well-connected domains of Ottoman knowledge production: Su’udi’s The Book of Felicity and The New Report and their reception.”
• 16:35–17:00. Discussions
• Moderator: Jun AKIBA (The University of Tokyo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (Jun AKIBA (The University of Tokyo)Project number: 20H01322)

• 1．14:00–14:15. Introduction／Icebreak
• 2．14:15–15:15. Short talks by the speakers
• [15:15–15:30 break].
• 3．15:30–16:30. Group discussion (on-site and online)
• 4．16:30–17:00. Wrap-up
• Speakers:
• Sho YAMAOKA (Osaka University／JSPS)
• Yuzuki TSUKAGOSHI (Graduate school, University of Tokyo)
• Yasuka FUKAYA (ILCAA)
• Yuko URABE (ILCAA／JSPS)
• Fascilitator: Hayato AOI (TUFS)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing), Center for Transdisciplinary Research, Networking and Dialogue (TReND), TUFS; Multi- and Inter-cultural Research and Innovation Fellowship (MIRAI fellowhip), TUFS

• Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization”and A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” will invite Dr. Zhanar Jampeissova in collaboration with Central Eurasian Studies Association. She will give a lecture “The Russian Statistical Science of the 19th Century: The Impact of the Consumption Theories on the Colonization of the Kazakh Steppes”.
• Program
• Speaker: Dr.Zhanar Jampeissova (Astana IT University, Kazakhstan) Title: “The Russian Statistical Science of the 19th Century: The Impact of the Consumption Theories on the Colonization of the Kazakh Steppes”
• Moderator: Jin NODA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: nodajin［at］aa.tufs.ac.jp (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 22nd Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)“Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization”(Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC Hokkaido University) Project Number: 20H05823), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas(A)“Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge”(Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA, TUFS) Project Number: 20H05825), Central Eurasian Studies Association

• 15:00–16:00. Yona TAKAHASHI (ILCAA) “On the Language of Jesus: How to analyze the language environment in 1st century Palestine”
• Chair: Shu FUJITA (ILCAA Research Associate)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo will be organizing an international conference on Ottoman history, entitled “Pacific Rim Ottomanists’ Conference” on March 22 and 23, 2023. This conference brings together scholars of Ottoman history based in East Asia and the Western regions of the United States to share their ongoing research. The conference will be held both in person and online. Please fill in the form and choose either “online” or “in person.” In-person participants (up to 18 people) will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis.
• Program:
• 17:00–18:40. Opening session
• Jun AKIBA (The University of Tokyo) Opening remarks
• Baki Tezcan (UC Davis) “Birgili, Akhisarlı, and Kadızade: A Story of Disenchantment in Three Acts.”
• Jun AKIBA “Visiting the Courtroom through Back Door: A New Look at the Ottoman Sharia Courts”
• [1st Session].
• 10:30–12:00. Law and Justice in the Ottoman Empire
• Tommaso Stefini (European Univ. Institute) “Ottoman justice and Political Economy of Empires: Venetian merchants in Ottoman Courts (16th-18th centuries)”
• Nora Barakat (Stanford Univ.) “Assembling Private Property in the Late Ottoman Empire, From Homs to Hufuf”
• [2nd Session].
• 13:20–14:50. Early Modern Istanbul: From the Palace to the Street
• Koh Choon Hwee (UCLA) and Madoka MORITA (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) “How to Keep the Horses Happy: Urban Crowding in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul”
• Satoshi KAWAMOTO (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) “New Dorms for New Elites :The Baltacılar and the Ottoman Palatial Architecture in the Seventeenth Century”
• [3rd Session].
• 15:20–16:50. Ottoman Urban History
• Masato TANAKA (The University of Tokyo) “Men of Professions and Money”: Freemasonry, Civic Associations, and the Formation of a New Social Class in Late Ottoman Beirut
• Eunjeong Yi (Seoul University) and Madoka MORITA (ILCAA) “Reconsidering Mahalles of Ottoman Istanbul” (tentative title)
• *The conference is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 20H01322 and 20H05827

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: Jun AKIBA (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia) j-akiba[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 23:59, 19th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number:20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (Principal Investigator: Jun AKIBA (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo) Project number:20H01322)

• Program:
• 13:30. Open
• 14:00–14:40. Presentation 1
• Takao ITO (Kobe University) , Erina OTA (ILCAA) “Digital analyzes of Arabic biographies in the fifteenth century”
• 14:45–15:25. Presentation 2
• Susumu SATO (ILCAA) “Analyses of the urban space of Historic Cairo using GIS”
• 15:30–16:10. Presentation 3
• Hiroshi KATO (Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University) “Analyzing History from the viewpoint of space: the ship navigation circumstances of the Suez Canal during the interwar period”
• 16:10–16:30. Break Time
• 16:30–16:40. Comment 1 by Yutaka GOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Yokohama City University)
• 16:40–16:50. Comment 2 by Kazuhiro ARAI (Keio University, C01 Co-investigator)
• 16:50–17:30. Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05830), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A Comparative Study of Alexandria and Yokohama during the Interwar Period using “the Historical Digital Globe” GIS” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka GOTO (Yokohama City University) Project Number: 21H03695), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Research on the Human Nexus of the Civilian Elite Through a Digital Analysis of Pre-Modern Arabic Texts” (Principal Investigator: Erina OTA (TSUKADA) (ILCAA), Project Number: 21H05374)

• 9:00–10:30. Keiichiro SAKO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan University) “A preliminary study of social stratification in Eastern Sumba: focusing on the relationship between nobles and slaves”
• 10:30–12:00. Masaharu KAWANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University) “The Intersection of Vernacular Concepts about ”Indebtedness” in Pohnpei, Micronesia: Recontextualizing Debt in Ethnographic Descriptions of Economic Relationships”
• 13:00–14:30. Chikako NAKAYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “About “Notgeld” or emergency money in the interwar Germany and Austria”
• 14:30–16:00. Manami HAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science／Osaka Metropolitan University) “A Report on the Reception of David Graeber in French Political Anthropology”
• 16:10–17:40. All members Discussion
• Chair: Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamisme of Debt” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 19H01388)

• 14:00–14:15. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Opening address
• 14:15–14:55. Osamu OTSUKA (The University of Tokyo) “Tārīkh-i Banākatī Reconsidered: Beyond Rashīd al-Dīn-centrism
• 15:10–15:50. Philip BOCKHOLT (WWU, Münster) “Read by Whom? On the Question of Readership of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar in the Eastern Islamic World”
• 16:05–17:00. General Discussion
• Abstract:
• Tārīkh-i Banākatī Reconsidered: Beyond Rashīd al-Dīn-centrism Osamu OTSUKA (The University of Tokyo) Abū Sulaymān Dāwūd b. Abī al-Faḍl Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Banākatī’s Tārīkh-i Banākatī is a Persian universal history compiled in the Ilkhanid period that was dedicated to the ninth Ilkhanid ruler, Abū Sa‘īd (r. 1316–35) on 31 December 1317. This work has commonly been considered to be an abridgement of Rashīd al-Dīn’s (d. 1318) Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh since the middle of the nineteenth century. This kind of negative evaluation is found deeply rooted in most previous studies. While the work Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh is highly admired and widely studied, other Persian universal histories written in the Ilkhanid period including the Tārīkh-i Banākatī, have not attracted commensurate attention. It is worth noting that later intellectuals in pre-modern Persianate societies never evaluated the Tārīkh-i Banākatīas a mere abridgement of the Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh, which has no value. This paper is the first philological study of the Tārīkh-i Banākatī. By investigating its remaining manuscripts and comparing the text with that of other Persian universal histories, I reconsider its historical value in Persian historiographical studies (especially in the Ilkhanid period). Read by Whom? On the Question of Readership of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar in the Eastern Islamic World Philip BOCKHOLT (WWU, Münster) The Persian world history Ḥabīb al-Siyar is one of the most copied historiographical works in Islamic intellectual history. Written by the Iranian historian Khvāndamīr (d. 1535/36) in Herat during the rule of the Shiʿi Safavids in the 1520s, the book was subsequently adapted to the religious and political expectations of his later patrons, the Sunni Mughals in India, and circulated through hundreds of copies spread across the entire eastern Islamic world. In my paper, I will analyse manuscript copies of the work and offer new insights into their readership at various locations in the premodern Islamic world. Taking cues from reception, provenance, and historical readership studies, I will examine ownership and readership notes, endowment seals and illustrations in order to shed light on the owners and readers of the work between the 16th and early 20th centuries. By giving an in-depth analysis of marginal notes found in the extant copies, I will situate the Ḥabīb al-Siyar within the broader framework of Islamic book culture and show that the chronicle was part of a larger canon of texts. This canon was read within a greater Persianate world including not only the Safavid court in Iran and the Mughal court in India, but also places on the Deccan as well as in Central Asia and the Ottoman Empire. My paper thus offers comprehensive insights into the transregional transmission of Persian historiography as well as regionally specific readership practices.
• Moderator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Contact:
• eurasia-haneda[at]bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp (HANEDA MEMORIAL HALL)
• gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (Global Mediterranean at ILCAA)
• ＊Please change [at] to @

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is at noon 20th Mar.
• Jointly sponsored by HANEDA MEMORIAL HALL (Center for Studies of Cultural Heritage and Inter Humanities, CESCHI), Global Mediterranean at ILCAA

• The Workshop “Trade Diasporas across the Early Modern Mediterranean” will be organized by B01“The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems(Principal Investigator: KONDO Nobuaki).”
• Tommaso Stefini (European University Institute) “Hosting the stranger: trade diasporas across the early modern Mediterranean (15th-18th centuries)”
• Abstract
• During the early modern period, expanding diplomatic activities and trade connections across the Mediterranean promoted the creation of diasporas of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim merchants in the main commercial centers of the Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean Europe. In order to benefit from economic opportunities and to cope with the challenges arising from human migration and religious diversity, the rulers of Christian and Muslim states had to devise institutional arrangements to regulate the presence of foreign communities within their borders. These arrangements usually included hosting these groups in distinct neighborhoods or secluded buildings, allowing them a degree of self-administration in intra-group taxation and justice administration, and offering them fiscal exemptions and legal privileges in state courts. By focusing on the Ottoman trade hubs of Istanbul, Izmir, and Aleppo and on the European ports of Venice, Livorno, and Marseille, this presentation will argue that, despite differences in the political and legal systems, the Ottoman, Italian, and French governments devised comparable solutions to regulate the residence and business activities of foreign merchants. These solutions included the issuance of charters of privileges and duties and similar regulations on matters of residence, justice administration, and economic rights which aimed to both include foreign merchants in the states’ legal and economic systems and limit their contacts with the host population. These similar arrangements, it will be argued, stemmed from the shared institution of the safe- conduct (Latin, salvus conductus, Arabic/Turkish aman), which had regulated inter-state relations and the protection of religious minorities and foreign merchants in the Middle East and Mediterranean Europe since the period Crusades in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Despite these shared solutions, however, there also existed a degree of difference among all the contexts under study-for instance, in the freedom of movement and business activity granted to merchants as well as in acceptance of any religious groups- which relate to the political economy of long-distance trade of different states.
• Moderator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project Number: 20H05827)

• The second meeting of the Joint Research Project, “The Mediterranean Sea as a Connected Sea”, will be held at JaCMES in Beirut on 20 March.
• The presenters are as follows:
• Felix Arnold (ILCAA Joint Researcher, German Archaeological Institute) The Eastern Influence on a room of Alhambra Palace
• Georg Christ (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Manchester) Venetians in Alexandria and the Mediterranean World
• Tomoaki SHINODA (ILCAA) Learning agnosticism in Saadian Marrakesh
• Haruka SUEMORI (Hokkaido University) Ottoman-Venetian Maritime Regime on Piracy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
• Chair: Tomoaki SHINODA

• Language: English
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–13:30. Keita KURABE (ILCAA), Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo) “Grammatical Studies and Digital Humanities”
• 13:30–14:20. So MIYAGAWA (NINJAL) “Methods and Praxis in Digital Humanities: Centering on Linguistic Data (Text Corpora, Audio, and Video)”
• 14:30–15:20. Yuzuki TSUKAGOSHI (Graduate School, The University of Tokyo) “Possibilities of Machine Learning and AI in Linguistics”
• 15:30–16:00. All participants Discussion
• Moderator: Yona TAKAHASHI (TUFiSCo)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo), Information Resources Center (IRC)

19 Mar

• 15:00–17:30. Pre-meeting

20 Mar

• 10:00–12:00. Meeting
• 13:30–17:30. Meeting
• 18:00–20:00. Information exchange meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI(ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• Eight members in this project and an invited speaker (Yoshio ENDO; Kanda University of Foreign Languages) are going to make their own presentations. The speakers among members will talk within 35 minutes, followed by respective Q&A sessions for 15 minutes.The invited speaker will talk for 90 minutes, including the Q&A session.
• 1. Sinichiro SANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University) “Corpus-Based Analysis of Ranuki: Phonological and Sociolinguistic Perspective”
• 2. Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) “Initial geminate onsets in Irabu Ryukyuan: a moraic-theory account and its typological implications”
• 3. Yoshiki OGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku University), Hiroyuki NAWATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shimane University) “Dative Subject Constructions as Individual-level Possessive Constructions and FinP”
• 4. Yoshio ENDO (Kanda University of International Studies). [Invited Speaker] “The cartography of syntactic structures of interrogative sentences”
• 5. Yasuaki ISHIZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University) “On the historical development of the so-called spray class locative alternation verbs in English”
• 1. Hisao TOKIZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo University), Yasutomo KUWANA (Asahikawa Medical University) “Agglutinativity in implicational universals”
• 2. Yasunori TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University), Kaiqiao CHEN (Kobe University) “Transitivity of verb-object compounds in Cantonese and Sino-Vietnamese”
• 3. Koji SUGIZAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University), Yoshiki OGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku University) “The Acquisition of Right Periphery in Japanese: A Preliminary Study”
• 4. Hideki KISHIMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University) “On the peculiarity of naze questions”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• ＊On-site participation is restricted to the project members.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:30–14:00. Fuminobu NISHIDA (Waseda University) Introduction
• 14:00–15:00. Shaohan WU (Seoul National University) “Variation and Perceptual study of age differenciation of tone in Chinese dialects” (interim)
• 15:00–16:00. Yuta SATO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Prosodic Charancerstics of Sindhi” (tentative)
• 16:00–16:15. Break
• 16:15–17:00. Fuminobu NISHIDA (Waseda University) “Phonology of Lepcha” (tentative)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 10:00–12:00. Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)） “Women's Life Cycle in Changsha during the Third Century”
• 12:00–13:30. Break
• 13:30–15:30. Arnd Helmut HAFNER (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian87(first part)”
• 15:30–16:00. Break
• 16:00–18:00. Arnd Helmut HAFNER (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian87(second part)”
• 10:00–12:30. Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University), Yuko WASHIO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University) “Structure and Format of Resident Records Found at the Liye-Site”
• 12:30–14:00. Break
• 14:00–16:00. Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian88”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

18 Mar

• 14:00–14:10. Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:10–15:40. Masako MATSUI (Aichi Gakuin University), Yoichi TAKAMATSU Contents and style of ahdnames
• 16:00–17:30. Yoichi TAKAMATSU Reading ahdname I

19 Mar

• 14:00–15:30. Yoichi TAKAMATSU Reading ahdname II
• 15:50–17:20. Yoichi TAKAMATSU Raading records of “Düvel-i Ecnebiye Defteri”
• 17:30–18:00. General Discussion

• Chair: Yoichi TAKAMATSU

• Admission: Free
• Please contact: fsc_office[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation in Muslim Society

• Keynote
• 14:00–14:20. Masatomo KAWAMOTO (Nara University) Locating Ḥaram documents in Japanese study of Central and West Asian archives
• Presentations
• 14:20–14:50. Dai MATSUI (Osaka University) Old Uigur Legacy in Chancelleries of the Post-Mongol Dynasties in Iran and Western Central Asia
• 14:50–15:20. Ryoko WATABE (The University of Tokyo/ ILCAA Joint Researcher) Turko-Mongol society in 14th-century North-west Iran as seen in Persian documents from Haram al-Sharif: Preliminary study of the documents of Amir Aduchi's family
• 15:20–15:50. Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) and Omar ALI (Sohag University) The turmoil at the end of the 14th century as seen in heritage documents of a Khorasan merchant
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• Comments and Discussion
• 16:10–16:35. Yoichi YAJIMA (Nara Women's University/ILCAA Joint Researcher)
• 16:35–17:00. Ken'ichi ISOGAI (Kyoto University)
• 17:00–17:25. Kentaro SATO (Hokkaido University)
• 17:25–18:00. General Discussion
• Moderator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is at noon 17th Mar.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Masatomo KAWAMOTO (Nara University) Project number: 21H00580), ILCAA Core Project“Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation in Muslim Society”,Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)“Synthetic Research on the Document Sources of the Mongol Empire”(Principal Investigator: Dai MATSUI (Osaka University) Project number: 20H01324)
• Cooperated by ILCAA Joint Research Project “Archival study on fiscal administration of holy shrines in Muslim societies: A case of the Safavid shrine in Iran (2)” (Principal Investigator: Ryoko WATABE (the University of Tokyo) )

• 14:00–14:05. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) “On the Project ‘Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (2)’”
• 14:10–15:00. Naomichi KUROSAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, KOKUGAKUIN University) “Recent Studies on Scripts and Documents of Naxi”
• 15:10–15:30. Discussion
• Chair: Shintaro ARAKAWA

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required. Registration deadline is at noon 18th Mar.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a major shift in the format of research meetings from face-to-face to online. While this has greatly helped to break down geographical barriers, it has also created a new barrier for postgraduate students who are looking to join the research community and build networks with other researchers. In order to solve this problem as much as possible, we are organizing a joint online presentation of master's theses for those who have submitted their master's theses and are thinking of becoming a researcher, with the aim of exchanging information, building networks and supporting research among researchers.
• 13:00–13:05. Opening remarks
• 13:05–13:30. Naoyuki HIROSAWA (Graduate School, Kyushu University) “Information structure in the Omae dialect of Shiiba (Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan)”
• 13:35–14:00. Moe KITAMURA (Graduate School, University of Tokyo) “Borrowing of the Western Iranian pronominal clitics in Domari”
• 14:10–14:35. Hideharu ONO (Graduate School, TUFS) “A Study of the -(I)p and -A Converbs in Kazakh”
• 14:40–15:05. WEN JINGER (Graduate School, TUFS) “A Study on the Phonological Difference in Some Sibe Dialects: Focusing on the Dialects of Third, Fourth and Fifth villages in Cabcal, and Ice Gašan”
• 15:05–15:30. Discussion and Closing Remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by ILCAA Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)”

• Hirohide KURIHARA (ILCAA) ““Comrades plus Brothers” again? - Some Reflections on the VCP General Secretary's Visit to PRC (30 Oct.–1 Nov.2022) ”
• Chair: Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 1. Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA, Professor) The Performance Report of the Joint Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia” in 2022
• 2. Chiyuki ITO (ILCAA, Associate Professor) “Phonological and phonetic changes in the Korean language”
• 3. Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA, Associate Professor) “A Commercial Network between Japan and Egypt during the Inter-war Period, Connected by Phosphates”

• Admission: Free
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 13:00–15:15. Meeting
• 15:30–16:15. Ai SUGIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “A Political Ecology of Riverside Villages in Bangladesh”
• 16:15–17:00. Discussion

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh” (Principal Investigator：Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA), Project Number:18KK0024)

• (Doors open at 12:45.).
• 13:00–13:05. Greeting from Fieldnet
• 13:05–13:15. Opening Remarks
• 13:15–13:45. Fumiya NAGAI (Assistant Professor, Keisen University) “Uncertainty over Certainty of Rights: A Case Study on Negotiations and Reconciliation related to Aboriginal Rights in Western Canada”
• 13:45–13:50. Questions and Answers
• 13:50–14:20. Liu Zhenye (PhD Candidate, Kyoto University) “Excluded from the Dialogue of Uncertainty: The Case of Guest Workers from Southeast Asia in Macau Casinos”
• 14:20–14:25. Questions and Answers
• 14:25–14:35. Break 1
• 14:35–15:05. Zhang Shijun (PD, Peking University) “Uncertain Beijing Art Market: A Case Study of the Auction Activities”
• 15:05–15:10. Questions and Answers
• 15:10–15:40. Naomi KAWAMOTO (Visiting Researcher, Okayama University) “The Sacred and His Names: A Case of an Image of Child Jesus in a Mexican Village”
• 15:40–15:45. Questions and Answers
• 15:45–15:55. Break 2
• 15:55–16:15. Commentary 1：Nobuaki KISHIGAMI (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
• 16:15–16:35. Commentary 2：Osamu NAKAGAWA (Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
• 16:35–16:55. Commentary 3：Masakazu TANAKA (Vice President, Professional Institute of International Fashion, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
• 16:55–17:55. Discussion
• 17:55–18:00. Ending Remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: shijun.z[at]outlook.com (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details,please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 1. Junko KOMORI (ILCAA Joint researcher, Osaka University) “Typological features in Bambara”
• 2. Yuka MAKINO (ILCAA/ JSPS) “'Inconvenience' in linguistic description caused by fluidity of urban languages: How to interprete and describe borrowing and code switching/mixing”
• 3. Kumiko MIYAZAKI (ILCAA Joint researcher, State Universit of Zanzibar) “One language, one translation?: Many translations yielded by multilingualism”
• 4. All participants “General discussions: perspectives on the final year of the project including publication”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• Program:
• 14:30–14:40. Introduction
• 14:40–15:10. Dr. Yui KANDA (ILCAA, TUFS) “Reception of the Persian metrical version of Kalila and Dimna in Anatolia during the early modern period”
• 15:10–15:20. Coffee break
• 15:20–15:50. Dr. Philip Bockholt (WWU, Münster) “On the Turkish Tradition of the Kalīla and Dimna: Parallel Translations for Different Patrons”
• 15:50–16:00. Coffee break
• 16:00-17:00. Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 23:59 [GMT+9], 5th Mar.
• Organized by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)

• The “Islamic Trust Studies” Project calls a series of outreach activities that return its academic outcomes to society by “Civil Dialog Caravan.” This exhibition will give opportunities to reflect on the two years of its Civil Dialog activities and deliberate about the sustainable co-creation of academic knowledge for a new epoch.
• Details:
• Based on the concept of “connectivity (capability of forming a connection)” fostered through the medium of Islam, the “Islamic Trust Studies” Project has performed inclusive and dialog-form outreach activities since 2021, collaborating with ILCAA and Setagaya Daita Jinji Nursery School. Our “Civil Dialog” aims to return the fruits of research in an interactive way, which is suitable for “Transformative Research Areas.” Today, the humanities and social sciences are eagerly desired to get the society to recognize their value and meaning by sharing their attractiveness with people and putting these academic areas in a broader context. The exhibition looks back over the two-year outcomes and tasks of the “Civil Dialog” through the reconstruction of two Civil Dialog events “The World Connected by Animals (2021)” and “The World Connected by the Sky and the Sea (2022)” with panel display. Why don't you explore with us what the sustainable co-creation of academic knowledge should be for a new epoch?

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• No pre-registration is needed.
• Closed: Sat, Sun &holidays
• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Grant-in Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust Building in Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Area Organizer: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA); 20H05823)

• The Workshop “Layers of law and maritoriality in the Ottoman Mediterranean” will be organized by Group B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems”.
• Michael TALBOT (University of Greenwich) “From Abode of Holy War to the Waters of the Sublime State: Layers of law and maritoriality in the Ottoman Mediterranean”
• Abstract：
• The Mediterranean Sea was a place of violent confrontation and interconnected commerce in the 17th and 18th centuries, but was also the setting for struggles and compromises over sovereignty. The Ottoman Empire and its autonomous Regencies in North Africa controlled a significant part of the Mediterranean coast, and it is through exploring their understandings of their authority over those coasts and the seas beyond that we can better understand shifting attitudes and practices around sovereignty, diplomacy, and commerce across the later 17th and 18th centuries. Looking at the Ottoman Empire and the Regency of Algiers, this paper will discuss how ‘maritoriality’ in the Ottoman world developed as a legal response to new military and commercial challenges that required a series of temporary and permanent innovations to regulate coastal and maritime spaces and commerce.
• Moderator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827)

• 1. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA)
• 2. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
• 3. Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA)
• 4. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Descriptive study on the definition of “sentence”” (Principal Investigator: Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) Project Number: 22H00656)

• Program:
• 15:30-15:40. Introduction
• 15:40–16:20. Dr. Philip Bockholt (WWU, Münster) “The Many Persian and Turkish Versions of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar”
• 16:20-17:00. Discussion
• Abstract:
• Khvāndamīr’s general history Ḥabīb al-Siyar of 1524 was by far the most important historiographical work of the early Safavid and Mughal periods. Taking into account the political events that took place in Iran, Central Asia and India around 1500, I will first examine the manuscript tradition of the work and analyse in detail how the author adapted his chronicle to the Shiʿi and Sunni religio-political worldview of his Safavid and Mughal overlords. This will provide answers to the questions of how Khvāndamīr combined past events, how he understood “writing history” and what patterns he relied on to construct his work. Secondly, I will trace the Ḥabīb al-Siyar in its “Turkish garb” and shed light on its translation, which was commissioned by the Ottoman grand vizier Dāmād İbrāhīm Pasha in the 1720s, at a time when the Ottomans were at war with their Safavid neighbours. Since Khvāndamīr wrote the work for the Ottomans’ arch-enemies and gave it a Shiʿī orientation, the committee of several translators appointed by the grand vizier faced the challenge of translating explicitly anti-Ottoman and pro-Shiʿī sections within the text. In particular, I will focus on the translators’ approach to historical events that were of utmost importance to the Ottomans, such as Sultan Selīm’s victory over Shah Ismāʿīl at Chāldirān in 1514. The analysis will shed light on the relationships between scholars and patrons, as well as the transmission of texts against the respective religious and political backgrounds of the Eastern Mediterranean in the early modern period.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: gmed.ilcaa[at]gmail.com (please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here. Registration deadline is 23:59 [GMT+9], 5th Mar.
• Organized by NIHU Global Area Studies Program: The Global Mediterranean at ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa)

• We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, will be hosting the workshop, “Japonya'da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-6” (Tobunken Seminar) on March 6 (Mon), 2023. Japonya'da Sohbet-i Osmaniye has been organized to bring together emerging scholars in Japan and leading scholars abroad in the field of Ottoman history with the aim of promoting scholarly exchange. For the sixth workshop, we have invited Dr Michael Talbot from the University of Greenwich to be a discussant. The workshop will be held in person. The language of the workshop is English.
• Speakers:
• Iku NAGASHIMA (The University of Tokyo) “The Ottoman Counterinsurgency and Violence on the Eve of the Young Turk Revolution”
• Shingo SUZUKI (Independent researcher) “The Modern Ottoman Medical and Sanitary System and Local Society: Izmir at the Turn of the 20th Century”
• Sota NARUJI (Meiji University) “Refugee Settlement and Assistance in the Ottoman Empire in the Late 19th Century”
• Discussant: Michael Talbot (University of Greenwich)
• Moderator: Madoka MORITA (TUFS)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: Jun AKIBA (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo) j-akiba[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “International joint research on social class and gender in the Ottoman Empire” (Principal Investigator: Jun AKIBA (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo) Project number: 20H01322)

• 9:30-11:00. Chair: Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
• Makoto FURUMOTO (ILCAA) “Rethinking the historical relation of Zanzibar Swahili with Comorian”
• Minah Nabirye (BantUGent) “Cleft constructions in Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)”
• Sara Pacchiarotti (BantUGent) “The reconstruction of Proto-WCB independent and possessive pronouns for speech act participants: does morphological evidence support lexicon-based phylogenetic groupings?”
• 13:00-13:15. Opening remarks
• 13:15-14:00. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) “A micro-parametric appraoch to cross-Bantu typology and its insight to the group-internal structural diversification”
• Commentator: Sara Pacchiarotti (BantUGent)
• 14:15-15:00. Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) “The Bantu Expansion or how West Africans transformed Africaʼs linguistic, cultural and biological landscapes”
• Commentator: Nobuko YONEDA (Osaka University)
• 15:15-16:00. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (BantUGent) “Investigating the feasibility of a hub-and-spoke model to hold ILCAA's Bantu lexica into a single multipurpose online dictionary database”
• Commentator: Kanji KATO (Research Organization of Information and Systems／TUFS)
• 16:00-16:15. Closing remarks

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by JSPS Bilateral programs: 'The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography', Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing), Tokyo African Linguistics Knot

• 13:30–15:00. Data session: A Cross-Bantu perspective on causative/ inchoative verb alternation
• Convenor: Koen Bostoen (BantUGent) “A historical-comparative exploration of causative/ inchoative verb alternations in Bantu”
• Discussants: Shigeki KAJI (Kyoto Sangyo University), Maya ABE (Osaka University)
• 15:30–17:00. Data session: Subject properties in Bantu
• Convenor: Nobuko YONEDA (Osaka University)
• Discussants: Guy Kouarata (BantUGent), Yuka MAKINO (ILCAA/ JSPS)

• Language: English
• Jointly sponsored by JSPS Bilateral programs: 'The Past and Present of Bantu Languages: Integrating Micro-Typology, Historical-Comparative Linguistics and Lexicography', Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing), Tokyo African Linguistics Knot

• Year-end annual meeting
• Excursion at Arashiyama MonkeyPark Iwatayama.

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI(ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• 13:00-13:30. Kumiko SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
• 13:30-14:30. Fuyuki EBATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Niigata University)
• 14:40-15:40. Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
• 15:50-18:00. All members

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa”(DDDLing)

• Year-end annual meeting
• （1）Reports on research activities at 2022.
• （2）Research plans at 2023.
• （3）Reports on field research from 1999-2022.
• （4）Instructions for excursion at Arashiyama MonkeyPark Iwatayama.

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by 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” (Principal Investigator: Kaori KAWAI(ILCAA) Project Number: 19H05591)

• 14:00–15:50. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “On the Arrangment of the Eastern Han Wooden Tablet Documents from the Wuyi-Square-Site”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian86”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• Program:
• 13:30–13:45. Opening
• 13:45–14:25. Norifumi DAITO (Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo) “Trade, Consumption and Diplomacy in the Indian Ocean”
• 14:30–15:10. Michael TALBOT (University of Greenwich) “Diplomacy in Practice: Dispute Resolution in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-British Relations”
• 15:15–15:55. Masako MATSUI (Aichi Gakuin University) “Dutch Encounters with the Ottoman Empire: Did Ottoman Capitulations influence Dutch Eastern Diplomacy?”
• 16:10–17:00. Discussions
• Moderator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki Kondo (ILCAA); 20H05827)/Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), “Toward a Global History of Inter-State Relations: A Comparative Study on Governmental Controls on Commercial Exchanges and Traffics in Eurasia, 1400-1900” (Principal Investigator: MATSUKATA Fuyuko (Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo); 21H04355)

• 1. Yosuke MIKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Komazawa University) “Diachronic changes of rules of compound verb accent in the Kanto region of Japan”
• 2. Annual reports (the 2nd year)
• 3. Planning (the 3rd year)

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)

• 1. Minah Nabirye (BantUGent project, Ghent University) Language documentation for Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)
• 2. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (BantUGent project, Ghent University) From corpus to online lexicon for Swahili (Bantu, G42d), and what its searches can tell us about actual dictionary use

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by Tokyo African Linguistics Knot, Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• Islamic Trust Studies Symposium 2022 (academic year) “Connectivities in the middle of antagonism and conflicts” will be held at ILCAA of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies by the organizer of “Islamic Trust Studies.”
• イベント詳細：
• Moderator: Masako ISHII (Rikkyo University, B03 Principal Investigator)
• Discussant: Shinichi TSUJI (Meiji Gakuin University)
• 13:30–13:35. Opening Address by Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA／Hokkaido University SRC, Area Organizer／A03 Principal Investigator)
• 13:35–13:40. Introduction by Masako ISHII
• 13:40–14:05. Speaker 1: Hiroyuki SUZUKI (The University of Tokyo, B03 Co-investigator) “Trust and suspicion under the conflict: the relationship woven by Palestinians and ‘others’”
• 14:05–14:30. Speaker 2: Hideaki SEKINOU (Meiji University, A03 Co-investigator) “The present situation surrounding immigration issues: case of relationship between Muslims and Jews in Germany”
• 14:30–14:40. Break
• 14:40–15:05. Speaker 3: Jun KUMAKURA (Hosei University, B03 Co-investigator) “The issue of trust or unity in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: the formation of ethnic leadership and its transformation”
• 15:05–15:30. Speaker 4: Hidemitsu KUROKI “Lebanese and Syrian immigrants and restructuring of the Middle East during the World War I”
• 15:30–15:40. Break
• 15:40–16:00. Comments by Shinichi TSUJI
• 16:00–17:00. General Discussion
• 17:00–17:50. Core time for poster sessions
• 17:50–18:00. Closing address
• 18:00-18:30. Core time for exhibition tour

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Organized by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Principal　Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA), Project Number: 20H05823)

• 16:00–16:10. Yoichi TAKAMATSU (Head of the IRC) “Introduction for Workshop Series “Digital Humanities for Everyone” and the IRC Project”
• 16:10–17:00. Hiroki NOMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) “Development and Use of Malay-Indonesian Concordancer Malindo Conc”
• IRC started a workshop series titled “Digital Humanities for Everyone” that introduces online resources developed by ILCAA. This is the second workshop in this series, introducing an online resource titled “Malindo Conc.”
• Malindo Conc(https://malindoconc.lagoinst.info/concordance/en/) is a concordancer site that enables users to search Malay-Indonesian web corpus by word or morpheme with grammatical information.
• We will discuss the process the site was built and its research application.
• Chair: Hideo SAWADA (ILCAA)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Meeting ID: 833 0136 4687, Passcode: 215058
• Language: Japanese
• Please join from the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by IRC，TUFiSCo

• The film ethnography “Still the Lion Continues His Journey: The Journal of Ise-Daikagura by Yamamoto Gendayu Company,” which closely follows the people of Ise Daikagura who continue to travel while performing lion dances and acrobats, and their lives in the time of COVID-19.
• In addition to the film's supervisor, Chie Jinno, Kagami Michiyo, who makes her living from Edo daikagura in Tokyo, will also join the talk sesssion.
• After the screening, we will hear about the history of daikagura in the East and West, the differences in the forms of performance, its appeal, and its current status after the Corona disaster. There will also be a daikagura demonstration by Michiyo Kagami.

• Admission: Free (Please order one drink.)
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, ILCAA Core Project“Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”, ILCAA“FIELDPLUS”Editorial departmen;Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Performing arts nurtured in the“Time of Corona”-Response to the crisis, negotiation on Physicality, and their positions in each society” (Principal Investigator: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) Project number: 21H00643)

• 15:00–16:00. Shu FUJITA (ILCAA) “Methods and Reflections on the Workshop ‘Learning Fieldwork through Video Editing’”
• Chair: Yona TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Research Associate)

• Language: Japanese
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA, TUFiSCo

• Summary:
• Orang Asli' is the general term for the Indigenous Peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, which comprises 18 diverse groups: sea people, cultivators, hunter-gatherers, and so on. Under the rapid development of Malaysia, the Orang Asli have experienced significant changes in their lives.This symposium will bring together Orang Asli representatives, Malaysian researchers, and Japanese researchers to talk about these changes, through the use of visual images.
• Program:
• 17:00. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) ‘Opening Remarks: Changes in Malaysia and the Orang Asli’
• 17:05. Shingo ODANI (Chiba University) ‘Changes in Orang Asli Settlements around Taman Negara’
• 17:15. Kazuhiro SUDA (Hokkai-Gakuen University) ‘Economic Activities in Sungai Sayap, Terengganu’
• 17:30. Yukio KUCHIKURA (Emeritus Professor of Gifu University) ‘Economic Activities of the Resettled Semaq Beri Community in Terengganu (focused on 1978-1979)’
• 17:45. Juli Edo (CMIS, University of Malaya) ‘Changes in Land Rights of Semai: A Glimpse of Ethnohistory’
• 18:00. Lipah Anjang (Semai) ‘Role of Women: Past and Present’
• 18:15. Q&A and break
• 18:25. Jefree Salim (Orang Seletar Photographer) ‘Seletar: The Sea People of Johor’
• 18:40. Toshihiro NOBUTA (National Museum of Ethnology) ‘A Turning Point for Temuan People in Negeri Sembilan’
• 18:50. Shereen Ajani (University of Malaya) ‘Temuan Bukit Lanjan: 22 Years after Development’
• 19:00. Rusaslina Idrus (University of Malaya) ‘Visual Ethnography for Land Rights’
• 19:10. Q&A and discussion
• 19:20. Aya KAWAI (ILCAA) ‘Closing Remarks’

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English, Japanese, Malay (online simultaneous／consecutive interpretation)
• For registration, please see here.
• Poster image
• Jointly sponsored by Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts (ILCAA), The Center for Malaysian Indigenous Studies (University of Malaya), TUFiSCo (ILCAA), KKLO (ILCAA), “Building Digital Library for Humanities” (X-DiPLAS) (National Institutes for Humanities Co-creation Research Initiatives (Knowledge Co-creation Projecs)), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Influence of Indochinese languages and cultures upon the linguistic activities of Kayanic peoples in Borneo Island” (Principal Investigator: Mika OKUSHIMA (Tenri University) Project number: 20H04432), Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator: Aya Kawai (ILCAA) Project number: 19K13461)

• The workshop “Islamic Economy in Comparisons” will be jointly held by A01 “Mobility and Universality in the Islamic Economy” and C01 “Analyses of Connectivities by Digital Humanities Methods.”
• Speaker: Yuta ARAI (Kyoto University, A01 Researcher) Title: “Historiography, Kingship, and Economy; Ibn Khaldun's Perspective on Human Society in the Kitab al-'Ibar”
• Discussant: Takao ITO (Kobe University, C01 Co-investigator)

• Admission: Free ＊Open to the public
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Mobility and Universality of Islamic Economy” (Principal Investigator: Shinsuke NAGAOKA (Kyoto University) Project number: 20H05824), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Connectivity Analyses by Digital Humanities Method” (Principal Investigator: Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05830)

• The lecture will feature Dr. Yasmin Faghihi and Dr. Huw Jones from the Cambridge Digital Library.
• Speakers:
• Yasmin Faghihi (Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library)
• Huw Jones (Head of the Digital Library Unit, Digital Humanities Coordinator)
• Coordinator:
• Kiyonori NAGASAKI (Senior fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities)
• Program:
• Tuesday, Feb 21, 2023 14:00–17:00
• “Digital catalogues, digital libraries: using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for collections data”
• In this event, we will talk about the creation of digital datasets for cultural heritage materials. We will focus on TEI specifically as the basis of collaborative work between libraries, archives and researchers, and also between institutions. We will use the examples of FIHRIST as a long running and well established union catalogue of manuscript descriptions, and of Cambridge Digital Library as a repository which combines descriptive and image data.”

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, English ＊Simultaneous interpretation can be heard.
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Cambridge Digital Library, Core Project“Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, National Institute of Japanese Literature, International Institute for Digital Humanities, U-PARL, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A）“Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Principal　Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC), 20H05823), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 9:30–10:30. Hiroto UCHIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS) “The phonetics-phonology interface of the alveolar fricative in Cherokee”
• 10:30–11:30. Jeremy Perkins (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aizu), Seunghun J. Lee (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ICU), Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Aspirated and unaspirated fricatives in Korean, Burmese and Jingpho”
• 11:30–12:00. General discussion

• Language: English
• Organized by Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa (DDDLing)

• The workshop “Cross-Cultural Contact and Trust on the Oceanic Space during the Early Modern Period: Cases of Measures against Piracy” will be jointly held by Islamic Trust Studies A02 “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” and B01 “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” with Ritsumeikan Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS).
• Program
• Moderator: Jin NODA (ILCAA)
• Speaker: Haruka SUEMORI (Hokkaido University), Shinsaku KATO (ILCAA)
• Commentator: Shinsuke SATSUMA (Ritsumeikan University)
• Time Table
• 14:00–14:10. Shinsaku KATO Opening Remark
• 14:10–15:00. Haruka SUEMORI “The Ottoman-Venetian Relation over Piracy in the Mediterranean Sea around 1700”
• 15:00–15:10. Tea Break
• 15:10–16:00. Shinsaku KATO “Security for the Navigation on the Indian Ocean in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries: From an Analysis of the Relation between the Mughal Empire and the Dutch East India Company”
• 16:00–16:10. Tea Break
• 16:10–16:30. Shinsuke SATSUMA Comment
• 16:30–17:30. Q&A Session

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Contact: shin_kato[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (TUFiSCo) (please change [at] to @)
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Changes in the World of Islamic Thought and Knowledge” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05825), Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A) “The Ideas of the Muslim Community and State Systems” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project number: 20H05827), Ritsumeikan Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (CMEIS)

• *Let's travel the world together! 2023 Chikyu Tankentai is a series of workshops which tickle children's curiosity to know more about the world.The event is co-organized by anthropologists and actors. Under the theme of “Let's transform with a Balinese mask!”, participants will take part in Balinese masked theater “topeng”, and explore Balinese cosmology and view of humanity.
• 【AM】10:00–12:15
• 【PM】14:30–16:45
• Organizers and Actors: Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA), Noriko IIZUKA (Kyoto University/ Representative of MANALABO), Koji SONODA (Niigata University/ Duputy representative of MANALABO), Yuji YANOHARA (National Museum of Ethnology/ MANALABO), Mana YUMII (actor/ BEBERICA theatre company), Mihoko WATANABE (actor)
• Participants: For 2nd grade elementary school students and above (including adults)
• Capacity: 15 per session

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.
• For details, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by TUFiSCo, MANALABO, ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”

• The lecture will feature Dr. Yasmin Faghihi and Dr. Huw Jones from the Cambridge Digital Library.
• Speakers:Yasmin Faghihi (Head of the Near and Middle Eastern Department at Cambridge University Library)
• Huw Jones (Head of the Digital Library Unit, Digital Humanities Coordinator)
• Coordinator: Kiyonori NAGASAKI (Senior fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities)
• Program:
• Saturday, Feb 18, 2023 14:00-16:30
• “Beyond the interface: TEI as data for Digital Humanities”
• In this event, we will discuss TEI as the basis of Digital Humanities methodologies. Drawing on examples from FIHRIST and Cambridge Digital Library, we will show how TEI datasets can be used for humanities research and how the outputs of research can be integrated in digital archives.

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: Japanese, English ＊Face-to-face participants can listen to simultaneous interpretation.
• For face to face participants, please visit the link here.
• For online participants, please visit the link here.
• Jointly sponsored by Cambridge Digital Library, Core Project“Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation within the Islamic Society”, National Institute of Japanese Literature, International Institute for Digital Humanities, U-PARL, Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas（A）“Connectivity and Trust-building in the Islamic Civilization” Organizer (Principal　Investigator: Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA/SRC), 20H05823), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

• 13:00–13:10. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 13:10–13:40. Takaya HAYASHI (Osaka University) “What is to be inherited beyond generations?: Cases from Vietnamese resettlement areas in Kansai region”
• 13:45–14:15. Phi Hai Yen PHAM (Graduate School, Osaka University) “Teaching and learning Vietnamese activities for children living in Japan ~ Experiment with “My Vietnam” textbook ~ ”
• 14:20–14:50. Mika KONDO (Osaka University) “What and how do children with Vietnamese roots inherit?”
• 15:00–15:30. All participants Discussion

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Zoom meeting invitation will be sent in the afternoon on 15th Feb (Wed.).If you don’t receive it on 15th Feb, please contact adachi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp by 16th Feb (Thu.) (Please change [at] to @).
• Language: Japanese
• For registration, please see here.Registration deadline is at noon 15th Fab. (Application may be closed early)
• Jointly sponsored by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing), ILCAA Joint Research Project

• Time: 9:00–12:00 (Bangladesh Standard Time), 12:00–15:00 (Japan ST), 20:00–23:00 (Canada/ Vancouver time the day before)
• Chair: Bulbul Siddiqi (North South university)
• Introduction: Bulbul Siddiqi
• Speaker 1: Masood Imran Mannu (Jahangirnagar University) Bangalism and Muslimness: Reflexivity of Hyphenated Identity in Bangladesh
• Speaker 2: Nurul Huda Sakib (Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh) Commercialization of Religious Practices in Bangladesh
• Discussant 1: Humayun Kabir (Thompson Rivers University, Canada)
• Discussant 2: Obaidullah Al Marjuk (Independent University Bangladesh)
• Response by each speaker
• General discussion
• Concluding Remarks: Ranjan Saha Partha (Jahangirnagar University)

• Admission: Free
• Pre-registration is required.
• Language: English
• For registration, please see here.
• Jointly sponsored by ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia” (Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 19H00554), JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research: Fostering Joint International Research (B)“Social Dynamism and Islamic Culture in Bangladesh”(Principal Investigator: Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0024), Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
• Cooperated by 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

17 Feb

• 14:00–15:50. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian83 (first part)”
• 15:50–16:10. Break
• 16:10–18:00. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian83 (second part)”

18 Feb

• 10:00–11:50. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian84”
• 11:50–13:15. Break
• 13:15–15:00. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian85 (first part)”
• 15:00–15:15. Break
• 15:15–17:00. Tatsuma MATSUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Reading:Wooden Tablets from the 9th Layer of the Liyeqinjian85 (second part)”

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by ILCAA

• 14:00–14:10. Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:10–15:00. Junko HIBIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sacred Heart School Corporation) “Review of the Heritage Language Variation and Change Project (HLVC)”
• 15:00–15:15. All participants Discussion
• 15:25–16:45. All participants Business meeting

• Language: Japanese
• Organized by Core Project “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)
• Cooperated by Tokyo Academic Forum on Immigrant Languages