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6 March 2014 (Thu.)
13:30-16:30		 Exchange Lecture between UMS (School of Social Science) and TUFS (ILCAA)
  • 13:30-13:40 OPENING REMARKS by Dean of School of Social Sciences, UMS and Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)
  • 13:40-14:20 PRESENTATION 1: Keiko TOSA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Lecture/presentation on Culture and Society in Myanmar (tentative title)
  • 14:20-15:00 PRESENTATION 2: Yuriko YAMANOUCHI (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Lecture/presentation on Culture and Society in Oceania (tentative title)
  • 15:00-15:40 PRESENTATION 3: Lecture/presentation by researcher/staff from UMS
  • 15:40-16:30 Discussion (Q & A)
  • 16:30 CLOSING REMARKS
  • Language: English
Organized by
KKLO and University Malaysia Sabah
 School of Social Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
7 March 2014 (Fri.)
14:00-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “What It Means to Write on Wood: A New Boundary-crossing Approach on Ancient Chinese Slip and Tablet Documents”
  1. Editorial Meeting
  2. Kyoko MEGURO (Kyoto Prefectural University) “Annual Events in Ancient China--A View from Unearthed Materials” (First part)
  3. Kyoko MEGURO (Kyoto Prefectural University) “Annual Events in Ancient China--A View from Unearthed Materials” (Second part)
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8 March 2014 (Sat.)
10:30-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Investigation into the Possibilities and Implications of a Usage-based Approach to Grammar”
[open]
  • 1. Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) “Limitation of paradigm-based grammatical description”
  • 2. Discussion “Position of morphosyntactic paradigms in a grammatical system”
  • 3. Business meeting
  • Language: Japanese
 301
8 March 2014 (Sat.)
14:00-18:30		 Fieldnet Lounge/The Symposium: Ethnography of Self-help Groups: Making sense of ‘self-help groups’ in comparative perspective
[open]
Organized by
ILCAA
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9 March 2014 (Sun.)
14:00-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Economic Activities and Behaviors Based on Islam”
[open]
  • 1. Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate) Opening Remarks
  • 2. Mayuko OKAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher,Waseda University) “Fashion and Beauty in Oman” (tentative title)
  • 3. Hajime KAMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsukuba University) “A Case Study on Behavior of Islamic Financial institutions: Evidence from GCC Countries” (tentative title)
  • Language: Japanese
 304
13 March 2014 (Thu.)
Exhibition 16:30-18:00
Lecture 18:00-20:00		 JaCMES Lecture Series: The Middle East and Japan No.9 “Calligraphic Beauty in Interaction”
[open]
  • Carla SALEM (Lecturer, American University of Beirut) “Silent Pages”
  • Fuad Koichi HONDA(Professor, Daito Bunka University / President, Japan Arabic Calligraphy Association) “My Experience in the Art of Arabic Calligraphy: For the Memory of Great Works by Kamil al-Baba”
  • Koichi YAMAOKA (Secretary General, Japan Arabic Calligraphy Association) “The Establishment of Japan Association for Arabic Calligraphy and its Activities”
  • Language: Arabic and English (With simultaneous interpretation)
  • Admission: Free
  • For details, please see here.
Organized by
Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)
 Crowne Plaza, Hamra, Beirut
18 March 2014 (Tue.)
13:30‐17:30		 Grammatical Studies Workshops 6― Plurality (2)
[open]
  • Speakers:
  • 1. Yuma ITO (Graduate School of Kyoto University) “Unmarked Dual in Mlabri personal pronoun”
  • 2. Atsuko UTSUMI (Meisei University) “Pluractional Verbs - Verbs that denote plural subjects and iterative Aspect -”
  • 3. Hideyuki ONISHI (Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Optional plural marking and definiteness in Rawang”
  • 4. Michinori SHIMOJI (Kyushu University) “Dual in Ryukyuan”
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • For details, please see here (in Japanese)
Organized by
ILCAA, Linguistic Dynamics Science Project2 (LingDy2)
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20 March 2014 (Thu.)
14:00-15:30 (open)
15:30-16:00 (closed)		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others”
  • 1. ILCAA Forum (open)
  • Dr.Wulan (Ulaγan) (ILCAA Visiting Professor/Research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthoroplogy, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “On the Manususcropts of the Secret History of the Mongols”
  • 2. Business meeting (closed)
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20 March 2014 (Thu.)
14:00-15:30		 ILCAA Forum/ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Formation of Cultural Areas in East and Southeast Asia: the Tay Cultural Area and Others”
[open]
  • Dr.Wulan (Ulaγan) (ILCAA Visiting Professor/Research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthoroplogy, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) “On the Manususcropts of the Secret History of the Mongols”

  • Dr.Wulan (Ulaγan), a visiting fellow to the ILCAA in 2014 and a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthoroplogy, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, published a critical edition of the Secret History of the Mongols from Zhonghua Publishing House in Beijing in 2012. The Secret History of the Mongols is a well known classic work among the Mongols. She will introduce the manuscripts of the Secret History preserved at the libraries in the world. She will also talk on several topics related to the Secret History.

  • Language: Japanese
 303
22 March 2014 (Sat.)
13:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Modes of Articulation of Local Societies to Contemporary Science as Ways of Thought and Practice”
  1. Shigeyuki AOKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Aizu) “Our place in the universe - interplay of sciences and philosophies.”
  2. Kumiko TANAKA (Kyushu University) “Towards understanding the computational structure of language and sign systems”
 306
24 March 2014 (Mon.)
13:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Human Society in Evolutionary Perspectives (3)”
  1. Shunkichi HANAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Otherness for chimpanzees (tentative).”
  2. Takeo FUNABIKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “The meaning of “otherness” in one-to-one relationship.”
 306
25 March 2014 (Tue.)
14:00‐18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and Plural Societies”
[open]
  • 1. Hiroshi ONO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Tachibana University) “A Farman of Sultan Ya'qub Aq-Qoyunlu”
  • 2. Yutaka HORII (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Doshisha University) “Venetians in Early Modern Egypt” (Tentative title)
  • Language: Japanese
 304
28 March 2014 (Fri.)
14:00-18:00		 Research Meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies
[open]
  • 1. Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA (Research Associate, ILCAA) “Scope and Perspective of Prehistory of Islamic Finance in Malaysia”
  • 2. Nobuyoshi FUJINAMI (Research Associate, ILCAA) “An Ottoman Statesman Meets International Law: Bluntschli's Le droit international codifié and Hasan Fehmi Paşa's Telhis-i Hukuk-ı Düvel”
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
Organized by
Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World”
 306
29 March 2014 (Sat.)
13:00-18:30		 Project meeting for “Compiling Textbooks of African Languages”
  • 1. Business meeting
  • 2. Yuko ABE (ILCAA) ”Bende textbook for Bende community”
  • 3. Daisuke SHINAGAWA (Kagawa University) “Learning grammar by field-linguistic methods: a case of Chaga-Rombo”
  • 4. Yuko ABE (ILCAA) & Masaaki KADOYA (Waseda University) “Swahili textbook for Japanese learners”
  • 5. Katsuhiko SHIOTA (Osaka University) “Textbook editing for ILCAA Intensive Language Course”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy)
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29 March 2014 (Sat.)
13:30-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Study on the Relationship between Agriculture and Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa from Historical Perspectives (2)”
  • 1. Yuichiro FUJIOKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kinki University) “Changes in Safety Nets for Food Security under Climatic Disasters in Northern Namibia”
  • 2. Discussion about Publication of Results
  • Language: Japanese
 302
29 March 2014 (Sat.)
14:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Reconsidering Intermediate Social Groups in Premodern South Asia”
[open]
  • 1. Shinji SHIGEMATSU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Otemon Gakuin University) “Historical Trace of Raiyatwari Land System, from an Exhaustive Rural Survey of I. Village of Salem District, Tamilnadu State”
  • 2. Minoru INABA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Revisiting the Ḥūna and the Hephtalites: Recent studies on the Central Asian states in Northwestern India”
  • 3. Ayako NINOMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aoyama Gakuin University) “Sufi Tariqa as an intermediate group”
  • Language: Japanese
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