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Date/TimeEvent TitleDetailsVenue
Sat 5 Jul 2025
08:00-12:00		 Joint Research Projects "The new boundary-crossing approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents（5）:Utilizing digital humanities for a comprehensive diplomatics of unearthed wooden documents(jrp000291)"The 7th meeting(2025-7)
  • 8:00-9:50 Hafner, Arnd Helmut(ILCAA Joint Researcher, Maiji University): ”On the Typological Classification of unearthed Administrative Documents and on the Automation of Text Comparison”
  • 9:50-10:10 Break
  • 10:10-12:00 Sugiura Masayoshi(Gakushuin University): ”Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 12”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 Online meeting
Sat 5 Jul 2025
13:00-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “A study on the grammar of discourse in Eurasian languages” (jrp000296), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 13:00-13:10 KOGURA Norikazu (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 13:10-15:00 HAYASHI Toru (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Fellow), Spatial distinction and temporality in the usage of Turkish demonstratives
  • 15:10-17:00 All participants, General Discussion
  • 17:10-18:30 All participants, Discussion for the publication of project outcomes
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 304
Sat 5 Jul 2025
14:00-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "The Anthropological Study of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices" (jrp000299), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 14:00-14:10 FUKAGAWA Hiroki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University), Introduction
  • 14:10-15:40 MIYAZAKI Hirokazu (Northwestern University), Hope in the Nuclear Age: Apocalypse, Memory, and Legacy After 80 Years
  • 15:40-18:00 All participants, Q&A, Discussion/ Planning for the next meeting
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (General) "Anthropology of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices" (Principal Investigator: Hiroki Fukagawa)
 Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room
Sat 5 Jul 2025
14:00-18:00		 A Bodily Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusiveness: Opening, Connecting, Creating
[open]
  • 14:00-14:20 Ikuya Tokoro (ILCAA), Miwako Tanaka (Higashi Nippon International University), Opening Remarks
  • 14:20-15:30 Film Screening ”Traveling Bodies: Dance Company Mi-Mi-Bi”
  • 15:30-15:45 Break
  • 15:45-16:15 Kazuyo Morita (Artist), Dialogue on the Bodily Sense in the Practice of Mi-Mi-Bi
  • 16:15-16:45 Asa Ito (Institute of Science Tokyo), Diversity and Inclusiveness Opened by Bodily Dialogue
  • 16:45-17:00 Break
  • 17:00-17:30 Panel Discussion：Kazuyo Morita (Artist), Asa Ito (Institute of Science Tokyo), Miwako Tanaka (Higashi Nippon International University)
  • 17:30-18:00 Q&A Session
  • Language: Japanese
  • Contact: osde.jimu[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
JSPS Academic Knowledge Co-Creation Program: Overcoming Social Division and achieving Diversity through Embodiment; ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology)
 303
Sun 6 Jul 2025
11:00-17:15		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt 3:　Politics of Capital Accumulation” (jrp000308), The 1st meeting AY2025
  • 11:00-11:05 SAKUMA Yutaka (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University), Greeting
  • 11:05-12:35 MARUYAMA Junko (Tsuda University), Letting Be: Sharing and Visiting among a Hunter-Gatherer Society in Botswana
  • 13:35-15:05 IKOMA Miki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “[Tentative Title] The Human Economy through Quantified Debt: Negotiations over Fresh Tea Leaves in a Tea-Producing Community in Myanmar”
  • 15:10-16:40 YAMADA Miki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University Ph.D. student), Fetishism of the Charisma in Northern Thailand: Constructing a Society through Constructing a Fetish
  • 16:45-17:15 All participants, 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)
 Medium Conference Room, Administration Building
Wed 9 Jul 2025
15:00-16:00		 Presentation on the information resource created by the IRC projects (1st meeting in 2025)
[open]
  • 15:00-15:05 YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro (ILCAA), Introduction to the IRC projects
  • 15:05-15:35 TOGAWA Masahiko (ILCAA), Modern Indian Paintings and Japanese Painters
  • 15:35-15:45 Tsutomu Kawai (Secretary General of the Tagore-Kampoa Association), Arai Kampo's Stay in India and his Buddhist Paintings
  • 15:45-16:00 Discussion
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wed 9 Jul 15:00
  • Contact: ilcadj1[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Information Resource Center (IRC)) (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
Information Resource Center (IRC)
 304, Online meeting
Fri 11 Jul 2025
14:15-14:55		 "Fieldnet Workshop" the second workshop 2025
  • 14:15-14:35 Ryusei ITO (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University) "Reconfiguring Social Categories: A Case Study of Tuareg Blacksmiths in Senegal"
  • 14:35-14:55 All participants Discussion
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; TUFiSCo
 Online meeting
Sat 12 Jul 2025
12:50-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "Clarification of the Actual Situation of Agro-pastoral Complex Frontier in the Trans-Himalayan Region: From the Approach of Vocabulary Study" (jrp000297), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 12:50-13:00 Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine), Opening Address
  • 13:00-14:00 Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine), Agro-Pastoral Complex of Central-Northern Nepal on the Southern Slope of the Tibetan Himalayan Region
  • 14:00-15:00 Yusuke BESSHO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Komazawa University), Uncle Tulku: Reincarnation Boom of Middle-Aged Men on the Southern Slopes of the Himalayas and Religious-Relation Network
  • 15:00-16:00 Takayoshi YAMAGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokusei Gakuen University), The Original Image of Tibetan Pastoral Culture: Insights from a Literature Survey and Plans for Summer Fieldwork in Ladakh
  • 16:30-17:30 Satoshi YOKOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University), Fermented Food Culture and Natural Resource Use in Nagaland, India: Participation in International Conference Organized by Nagaland University
  • 17:30-18:30 Samdrol Tsomo (Doshisha University), Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University), Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA), Vocabulary on Pastoral Culture in Damshung, Central Tibet: Focusing on Milk Culture
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 303
Sat 12 Jul 2025
15:00-17:00		 Competing Readings of Justice in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought
[open]
  • 15:00-15:05 Emi Goto (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 15:05-16:00 Moussa Mohammed (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University), Competing Readings of Justice in Contemporary Islamic Political Thought
  • 16:00-17:00 Q＆A, Discussion
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Friday July 11
  • Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "Comparative study of Muslim communities on diversity and coexistence: Focusing on practice" (24K03160, Principal Investigator: Emi Goto); Contemporary Islamic Conceptions of Justice Between Nonviolence and the State (2025-BAP-400-043, principal researcher: Mohammed Moussa); Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “'Religionization of Politics' and 'Politicization of Religion' in the Contemporary Middle East: Comparative Studies on the Muslim Brotherhoods” (23H03612, Principal Investigator: Takayuki Yokota)
 301, Online meeting
Sun 13 Jul 2025
13:30-16:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Long-term cultural interrelation and transformation around the Gulf of Oman" (jrp000302), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 13:30-13:40 Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) “Introduction”
  • 13:40-14:20 Satoshi OGURA (ILCAA) “Coastal Areas in Sindh in the First Millennium: From the House of Suren to the Umayyad Dynasty”
  • 14:20-14:30 All members “Discussions”
  • 14:30-14:40 Break
  • 14:40-15:20 Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) “Historical Geography of the Regions around the Gulf of Oman: From an Iranian Perspective”
  • 15:20-15:30 All members “Discussions”
  • 15:30-15:40 Break
  • 15:40-16:30 All members “General discussions and meetings”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 301, Online meeting
Sun 13 Jul 2025
14:30-17:00		 Revisiting the Intellectual Legacy of Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
[open]
  • 14:30-14:40 Opening Remarks, Yoshiaki Mihara (the University of Tokyo)
  • 14:40-15:10 Hiroki Okazaki (Asia University) “The Importance of the Two Figures: Afghani and Abduh”
  • 15:10-15:40 Karam Abbas (Cairo University) “Al-Afghani’s Ecology ideas”
  • 15:40-15:50 Break
  • 15:50-16:20 Yoshiko Kurita (Chiba University) “Jamal al-Din al-Afghani: His Ideas on War and Racism”
  • 16:20-16:55 Discussion & Q&A
  • 16:55-17:00 Closing Remarks
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For more details, please see here. Registration deadline: Sat 12 Jul 2025 24:00
  • Contact: okazaki_hiroki[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, The Concept of “Coexistence” in Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought and Literature and Its Practical Application (22K12988), Principal Investigator: Hiroki Okazaki; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), The Emergence of Anti-Imperialist & Anti-War Ideas and the Role of International Networks: Focusing on the Significance of “Middle Eastern Experiences” (23K00863), Principal Investigator: Yoshiko Kurita; Global Mediterranean at ILCAA
 Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo, Building No. 18, 4th Floor, Collaboration Room 1
Mon 14 Jul 2025
18:00-20:30		 TUFS Cinema: Arab Film Series “Feminists Insha’Allah! The Story of Arab Feminism”
[open]
  • 17:30 Doors open
  • 18:00-19:00 Screening of Feminism Inshallah: A History of Arab Feminism
  • 19:00-19:10 Break
  • 19:10-19:20 Introduction by Emi Goto (ILCAA)
  • 19:20-20:00 Panel Discussion
  • Moderator: Emi Goto
  • Panelists: Karam Abbas (Cairo University, Egypt), Hiroki Okazaki (Asia University), Keiko Takaki (ILCAA Research Fellow)
  • 20:00-20:30 Q&A Session
  • Simultaneous Interpretation: Available in collaboration with the Graduate School Program in Japanese-English Interpretation and Translation
  • Language: English, Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For more details, please see here.
Jointly sponsored by
TUFS Cinema, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) "Comparative study of Muslim communities on diversity and coexistence: Focusing on practice" (24K03160, Emi Goto); Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, The Concept of “Coexistence” in Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought and Literature and Its Practical Application (22K12988, Hiroki Okazaki)
Cooperated with
the Center for Intercultural Studies, TUFS
 Agora Global Prometheus Hall
Fri 18 Jul 2025
16:30-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "Everyday Forms of Ethnicity and Religiosity in Kurdistan: Comparative Inquiries into Social Organization of Cultural Difference and Crossborder Interaction in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey" (jrp000305), the 1st meeting AY2025
[open]
  • 16:30-16:35 Opening
  • 16:35-17:30 Field Research Report (Kurdistan, March 2025) by Yasuyuki Matsunaga (ILCAA Joint Researcher, TUFS), Mostafa Khalili (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University Hakubi Project), and Sohrab Ahmadian (ILCAA Joint Researcher, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers, TUFS)
  • 17:30-18:30 Discussion
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • To participate, please contact matsunaga[at]tufs.ac.jp. (Please change [at] to @.) Registration deadline: Wed 16 Jul 2025
  • Contact: matsunaga[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; JFE 21st Century Foundation Grant Research
 301, Online meeting
Sat 19 Jul 2025
13:00-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "The Anthropological Study of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices" (jrp000299), the 2nd meeting AY2025
  • 13:00-13:20 Hiroki FUKAGAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University), Introduction
  • 13:20-14:20 Kengo KONISHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University), Toward an Anthropology of En and Hope: exploring "revitalization" in the field
  • 14:20-15:20 All participants, Q&A
  • 15:40-16:40 Sae NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo), Longing for "another time": a thought on hope arising from the depth of despair
  • 16:40-17:40 All participants, Q&A
  • 17:40-18:30 Discussion/ Planning for the next meeting
  • Language: English
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (General) "Anthropology of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices" (Principal Investigator: Hiroki Fukagawa)
 405
Sat 19 Jul 2025
14:00-16:45		 TUFS Cinema: Arab Film Series “The Soil & The Sea”
[open]
  • 14:00-14:10 Message from the Director (Video Screening)
  • Daniele Rugo (Director), Carmen Abou Jaoudé (Co-Producer)
  • 14:10-15:25 Film Screening: The Soil and the Sea (73 minutes)
  • 15:25-15:35 Break
  • 15:35-16:15 Tomoaki Okabe (Kobe University), Emi Kodama (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science PD / Senshu University), Post-Screening Talk
  • 16:15-16:45 Q＆A
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • This event will be held on a pre-registration basis.
  • For registration, please see here.
  • * Once you have registered, a confirmation email will be sent to the email address. Please bring this confirmation email with you on the day of the event as you will be asked to show it at the entrance.
  • * It is possible to attend the event without pre-registering, but you will need to register at the entrance, so pre-registering will allow you to enter smoothly. If the number of attendees exceeds the capacity of the venue, priority will be given to those who have pre-registered.
  • For more details, please see here.
Jointly sponsored by
TUFS Cinema, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; Core Project (Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation in Muslim Society) of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)
Cooperated with
the Center for Intercultural Studies, TUFS
 Agora Global Prometheus Hall
Sat 19 Jul 2025
15:00-16:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Adaptation and Reorientation of Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East” (jrp000301), the 1st meeting AY2025
[open]
  • 15:00-15:10 Yui Kanda (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 15:10-15:45 Ito Takao (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University), Was there Another Version of Ibn Kathīr’s History?
  • 15:45-16:15 Q&A and Discussion
  • 16:15-16:20 Coffee Break
  • 16:20-16:30 Meeting (Closed)
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Thu 17 Jul 2025, 22:00 (JST)
  • Contact: kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
ILCAA
 304, Online meeting
Sun 20 Jul 2025
13:30-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project ”Islamization of Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period: South Asian Influences and Religious Traditions Prior to the Arrival of Islam” (jrp000311), the 1st meeting AY2025
[open]
  • 13:30-15:20 Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “Genres of 16th-17th Century Malay and Javanese Manuscripts and Islamization” Tentative
  • 15:30-17:00 Tatsuya NAKANISHI (Kyoto University) “Big waves of shi rizing in the sea of bayt: Chinese translation of Persian Sufi verses by Huis during the Qing period” Tentative
  • 17:15-18:00 Meeting
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • To participate, please contact to y.sugahara.hmt[at]osaka-u.ac.jp. (Please change [at] to @.)
Organized by
ILCAA
 304, Online meeting
Wed 23 Jul 2025
17:00-18:30		 Carpet as Women's Hidden Language: Exploring the Reflection of Female Identity in Iranian Handwoven Carpets
[open]
  • 17:00-17:05 Emi GOTO (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 17:05-17:50 Taravati Sepideh (Former Visiting Research fellow, Waseda University), Carpet as Women's Hidden Language: Exploring the Reflection of Female Identity in Iranian Handwoven Carpets
  • 17:50-18:30 Q&A
  • Language: English
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Tuesday July 22.
  • Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
Core Project “Field Archiving of Memory: Dynamics of Cooperation in Muslim Society” of the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)
 301, Online meeting
Sat 26 Jul 2025
～Sun 27 Jul 2025		 ILCAA Joint Reseach Project, Research on African Food Cultures: Approaching Their Changing Realities (jrp000289), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 2025/07/26 (Sat)
  • 13:30-15:15 Ryota Yamaguchi (Kanazawa University), In Pursuit of the Phantom Cassava Liquor: 'Fire Liquor' among the Bongando of Democratic Republic of Congo
  • 15:30-17:15 Yasuyuki Morimoto (Bioversity International), Awake the Sleeping Demand! Innovation in the African Food System Inherited as 'Cultural Heritage'
  • 2025/07/27 (Sun)
  • 9:30-11:15 Daisuke Yasui (Ritsumeikan University), Where We Are in Food Studies: Perspectives on Food Studies from a Sociological Perspective
  • 11:30-12:00 Takeshi Fujimoto (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Toyama), Research Liason
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; Japan African Food Culture Study Group
 Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room

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