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Date/TimeEvent TitleDetailsVenue
Fri 18 Oct 2019
14:00–18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents (3): Rediscovering the Japanese Tradition of Oriental Studies” The 39th meeting
  • 14:00–15:50 Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyobunko) “Reexamination of strip reconstructions for Strips and Tablets from the Liye Site based on Liye(I)01(First part）”
  • 16:10–18:00 Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyobunko) “Reexamination of strip reconstructions for Strips and Tablets from the Liye Site based on Liye(I)01(Second part)”
  • Language: Japanese
 301, Kyoto University
Sat 19 Oct 2019
10:00–17:30		 Kinship and Family in a Muslim Village in Bengal: Revisiting an Ethnography by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko after 50 Years
[open]

    First Session

  • Chair: Zakir Hossain Raju (Independent University Bangladesh)
  • 10:00-10:05 Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) “Introduction”
  • 10:10-10:50 Abhijit Dasgupta (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Delhi) “Village, Kinship and the Wider World: Prof. Hara Tadahiko’s Contributions to Sociology in South Asia”
  • Discussant: Debasish Kumar Kundu (University of Dhaka)
  • 10:55-11:35 Anwarullah Chowdhury (The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dhaka & The former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Bahrain) “Contribution of Tadahiko Hara to Social Anthropology: A Tribute to Professor Hara”
  • Discussant: Zobaida Nasreen (University of Dhaka)
  • 11:40-12:20 Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA)“Revisiting the Ethnographic Study by the Late Professor Hara Tadahiko: Islam and the Peasant Society of the Gohira village in Chittagong, Bangladesh”
  • Discussant: Sayed Abu Touab Shakir (Jahangirnagar University)

    • Second Session

  • Chair: Rasheda Akhter (Jahangirnagar University)
  • 13:20-14:00 Md Mujibul Anam (Jahangirnagar University), Md Abul Kalam (Helen Keller International, Bangladesh) “The methodological aspects of Professor Hara’s Ethnography and its relevance to Bangladesh village studies”
  • Discussant: Sharmeen Ahmed (Independent University Bangladesh)
  • 14:05-14:45 Atrayee Saha (Muralidhar Girls' College) “Village as an Economic and Cultural Unit Tadahiko Hara’s study of Paribar and Kinship”
  • Discussant: Mohammad Tarikul Islam (Jahangirnagar University)
  • 14:50-15:30 Ranjan Saha Partha (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Jahangirnagar University) “Reconceptualizing Peasantry in the Changing Village Structure of Bangladesh.”
  • Discussant: Moiyen Zalal Chowdhury (Hiroshima University)

    • Third Session

  • Chair: Manosh Choudhury (Jahangirnagar University), Raisa Rasheeka (Independent University Bangladesh)
  • 16:00-16:30 Ai SUGIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University) “Individualism in Rural Bangladesh: Ethnography of Professor Hara and Other Village Studies”
  • Discussant: Masood Imran (Jahangirnagar University)
  • 16:30-17:30 “General Discussion”
  • Discussant: Nurul Huda Sakib (Jahangirnagar University), Ala Uddin (University of Chittagong)
  • Comments: Abhijit Dasgupta (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Delhi)
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • No pre-registration is needed.
Jointly Sponsored by
ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia”, Core Project “The Potential Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Hazards in Asia and Africa: The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives 2”, 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)，Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR), Independent University, Bangladesh
 Faculty Lounge Room No. 7010 Department of Media and Communication, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB)
Sat 19 Oct 2019
14:00–18:45,
Sun 20 Oct 2019
9:30–16:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Origin of Human Sociality: Towards New Perspective on Hominization” The 3rd meeting

    19 Oct

  • 1. Michio NAKAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “What is “sociality” and what is its “origin”?”
  • 2. Takeo FUNABIKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Professor emeritus, Tokyo University) “The Positive feedback between Body Front and Sociality：Upright position makes human front body communicative and social”

    • 20 Oct

  • 1. Hideaki TERASHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Gakuin University) “Pair bond, family, band”
  • 2. Shin'ichi FUJII (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “Manners of the Coexistence: Competition and Symbiosis in the Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands”
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly Sponsored by
ILCAA, 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：17H02328)
 306
Sun 20 Oct 2019
14:00–18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “A Typological Study of the Areal Lexicon of Mainland Southeast Asia” The 2nd meeting
  • 1. Takashi KATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University) “Lexical typological aspects of some languages of northern Laos and northern Thailand”
  • 2. Yuma ITO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyama University of International Studies) “Emotion expressions of Mlabri and its research method”
  • 3. All members “Discussion”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
Core Project "Linguistic Dynamics Science3" (LingDy3)
 304
Thu 22 Oct 2019
–Wed 23 Oct 2019
18:00–21:00		 Workshop on the current state of heritage language and culture and their relationship to the value and identity of the community

    22 Oct

  • 1. Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA) “How does traditional language and culture become weak?”
  • 2. Sumittra Suraratdecha (RILCA, Mahidol University) “Language and culture revitalization in an ethnic minority community in Thailand”
  • 3. Workshop: The current state of the traditional language and culture of Okinoerabu

    • 23 Oct

  • Workshop on the current state of heritage language and culture and their relationship to the value and identity of the community
  • Facilitators: Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA), Sumittra Suraratdecha (RILCA, Mahidol University)
  • Discussion session with community members
  • 1) Current state of traditional language and culture: traditional language and the life in the community
  • 2) What does it mean for me to speak in the traditional language; what does the traditional language mean to me
  • 3) What does the traditional language mean to the community
  • 4) In what way do we want to protect the traditional language?
  • 5) What can we do with the traditional language?
  • Language: Japanese, English
Organized by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)
 Okinoerabu Island Tourism Association (1029-3, Yajya, China-cho, Oshima-gun, Kagoshima-ken)
Wed 23 Oct 2019
13:00–16:00		 Field Linguistics Workshop: Technical Workshop “Text editors for editing documents: various uses of find and replace”
[open]

    Contents:

  • ・What is a text file?
  • ・Basic operations of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • ・Find/replace/find in files
  • ・Regular expressions
  • ・Uses of find and replace
  • Lecturer: Hideo Sawada (ILCAA)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here.
Jointly Sponsored by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3” (LingDy3), Information Resource Center (IRC)
 304
Fri 25 Oct 2019
13:00–17:00		 Workshop on the current state of heritage language and culture and their relationship to the value and identity of the community
  • Workshop on the current state of heritage language and culture and their relationship to the value and identity of the community
  • Facilitators: Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA), Sumittra Suraratdecha (RILCA, Mahidol University)
  • Discussion session with community members
  • 1) Current state of traditional language and culture: traditional language and the life in the community
  • 2) What does it mean for me to speak in the traditional language; what does the traditional language mean to me
  • 3) What does the traditional language mean to the community
  • 4) In what way do we want to protect the traditional language?
  • 5) What can we do with the traditional language?
  • Language: Japanese, English
Organized by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)
 Yoron Minzokumura (693, Higashi-ku, Yoron-cho, Oshima-gun, Kagosihma-ken)
Sat 26 Oct 2019
13:00–18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Typological Study of Microvariation in Bantu (2)” The 1st meeting
  • 1. All members “Contribution of data and discussion on microvariation in subject properties in Bantu languages”
  • 2. Seunghun Lee（ILCAA Joint Researcher, International Christian University） “Correlation analysis of Microvariation data by R (programming language)”
  • 3. All members “Business meeting on annual activities of the project”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)
 302
Sat 26 Oct 2019
14:00–17:00		 International Workshop “The Fate of Rashid al-Din's Manuscripts”
[open]
  • 1. Osamu OTSUKA（The University of Tokyo） “The Transmission and Reception of the Jami' al-Tawarikh”
  • 2. Mohammad Reza Ghiasian （University of Kashan） “The Intentions of the Timurid Ruler Shahrukh in Collecting Rashid al-Din’s Manuscripts”
  • For details, please see here.(in Japanese)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • No pre-registration is needed.
Jointly Sponsored by
Haneda Memorial Hall, Kyoto University，Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties”(Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO, Project Number:15H01895), Core Project“Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”
 Haneda Memorial Hall, Kyoto University (13, Omiya Minamitajiri-cho, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8832)
Wed 30 Oct 2019
15:30–17:30		 Lecture “Forgeries in Several Illustrated Persian Manuscripts of the Medieval Period”
[open]
  • Mohammad Reza Ghiasian (University of Kashan) “Forgeries in Several Illustrated Persian Manuscripts of the Medieval Period”
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • No pre-resistration is needed.
Jointly Sponsored by
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties”(Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO, Project Number:15H01895), Core Project“Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”
 Conference Room, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo (7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
Sat 2 Nov 2019
13:30–17:00,
Sun 3 Nov 2019
10:00–17:00		 International Workshop: Recent Studies of Tangut Documents in IOM, Russia (2019)
[open]
  • 2 Nov (open)
  • 3 Nov (Not open to the public)
  • For details, please see here.(70KB)
  • Language: English
Jointly Sponsored by
GICAS, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Construction of Method of Studies on Scripts in Asia”(Principal Investigator: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) Project Number:19K21628)
 304, Multimedia Conference Room (2 Nov)/
302, Small Conference Room (3 Nov)
Mon 4 Nov 2019
10:00–13:00		 International Workshop “Material evidence for Iranian history”
[open]
  • Yui KANDA (The University of Tokyo) “City of Artisans and Poets: New Evidence on Production of Lustre-painted Ceramics in the Early Modern Kashan”
  • Mohammad Reza Ghiasian (University of Kashan) “The Life History of a Manuscript and Its Transformations during the Centuries”
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • No pre-resistration is needed.
Jointly Sponsored by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties”(Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO, Project Number:15H01895), Core Project“Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”
 Hongo Satellite 8F
Tue 5 Nov 2019
–Sun 10 Nov 2019
9:30–16:30		 Language Documentation Seminar (in Buryat, Russia)
  • Lecturers: Tokusu Kurebito (ILCAA), Zhargal Badagarov (Buryat State University/ Heidelberg University)
  • Native speaker: Natalya Mekhontseva Petrovna (Tofalar)
  • For detailed program, please see here. (135KB)
  • Language: Russian, English
Jointly Sponsored by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3), Buryat State University, Ulaan-Ude, Russia
 Buryat State University, Ulaan-Ude, Russia
Fri 15 Nov 2019
14:00–18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents (3): Rediscovering the Japanese Tradition of Oriental Studies” The 40th meeting
  • 14:00-15:50 Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reexamination of strip reconstructions for Strips and Tablets from the Liye Site based on Liye(I)02(First part）”
  • 16:10-18:00 Naomi SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “Reexamination of strip reconstructions for Strips and Tablets from the Liye Site based on Liye(I)02(Second part)”
  • Language: Japanese
301, Kyoto University
Sat 23 Nov 2019
13:00–18:30		 Kickoff Symposium: “The Origin and Evolution of Sociality: Developing new theories of human evolution based on collaboration between anthropology and primatology”
[open]
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)
 304
Mon 18 Nov 2019
–Thu 28 Nov 2019
10:00–17:00
（18 Nov 13:00–17:00,
28 Nov 10:00–13:00） 		The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken
[open]
  • Exhibition: The Universe of Sibe Calligraphy: Works of Getuken

    • - Lectures by the Artist

  • Sat 23 Nov 2019, Sun 24 Nov 2019 13:30–
  • Venue: (23 Nov) ILCAA Multimedia Seminar Room (306), (24 Nov) ILCAA Multimedia Conference Room (304)
  • Getuken “The Creation of Sibe Calligraphy”

    • - Artist's Guided Tour

  • 20 Nov, 21 Nov, 22 Nov: 13:30–
  • 23 Nov, 24 Nov: After the Lecture (See above)
  • Venue: 1F, ILCAA
  • Language: Japanese, Chinese (w/ Japanese interpretation)
  • Admission: Free
  • No pre-resistration is needed.
  • Leaflet1 (5.5MB)
  • Leaflet2 (1.3MB)
  • Website:
    https://sites.google.com/view/sibekuren/activities/getuken2019 (In Japanese)
Jointly Sponsored by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, GICAS
 Venue：1F, ILCAA
Sun 8 Dec 2019
13:00–18:30		 JSPS KAKENHI Project “A comprehensive study on the north-south transportation system of the pre-modern Central Eurasia” The 4th meeting
  • Yoshiyuki FUNADA (Hiroshima University) “The class system of the Mongol ruling classes”
  • Takahiro ONUMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku Gakuin University) “A Report on the Qing relics held in Hokkaido”
  • Meishi YAMAMOTO (Osaka International University) “Post station routes in post-Mongol Qinghai”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A comprehensive study on the north-south transportation system of the pre-modern Central Eurasia”(Principal Researcher: Yoshiyuki FUNADA (Hiroshima University) Project Number: 18H00723)
 Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room
Mon 16 Dec 2019
–Sun 22 Dec 2019
9:00–18:00		 The 6th Language Documentation Training Workshop in Miyako, Okinawa
  • - Building a good working relationship with consultants and the community
  • - Collection of information on language use and language attitude
  • - Collection of different kinds of language data
  • - Processing and management of linguistic data
  • - Collection of socio-cultural data
  • - Collection of information on community needs and issues
  • - Developing community-centered projects addressing the needs
  • Instructors: Toshihide Nakayama (ILCAA), Tsuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta)
  • Language: Japanese
  • For details, please see here.
Organized by
Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)
 Ikema Island, Miyakojima, Okinawa

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