• TBA
• * Please note that this exhibition will be open to the public from 26 January.
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Modes of Articulation of Local Societies to Contemporary Science as Ways of Thought and Practice”

“SHOYU TO BUNPAI NO JINRUIGAKU” by Keiichiro MATSUMURA.

• 1. Keiichiro MATSUMURA (Rikkyo University) Presentation by the Author
• 2. Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA), Hideo FUKAZAWA(ILCAA), Hibi Y. Watanabe (The University of Tokyo) Comment
• 3. Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Core Project “The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives”

• 1. Kyoko KOGA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kochi University) “Event integration in Akan: focusing on non-motion events”
• 2. Ernst Kotze (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) “Linguistic categorization as a determinant in making appropriate choices for the roomaji component of a Japanese/Afrikaans dictionary”
• Language: Japanese and English

1. Chiyuki ITO (ILCAA) and Jaehyun SON (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Duksung Women’s University) “The Accent of Native Nouns in the Taykwu Dialect of Korean”
2. Rei FUKUI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “Linguistic backgrounds of the writers of Middle Korean Hangul texts”

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting

• Lecturer: Haruka USHIKU (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
• “For Connecting Producers in Rural Africa to Global Distribution Chains: A Form of Handgraft Production Viewed from the Perspective of Brokers in Northern Gahna”
• Commentator: Jyunko MARUYAMA (Tsuda College)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.
• Poster (in Japanese)

Organized by

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies”

Jointly sponsored by

the Japanese Association for African Studies

1. Akimitsu IKEDA（ILCAA Junior Research Fellow） “Space and/in the Middle East”
2. Oversee about the Joint Research Project
3. The debate about the outcome publishing

• 1. Greeting
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Screening (1) “Summer Pasture” with Japanese subtitles 16:30-18:00
• 4. Screening (2) “Valley of the Heroes” with Japanese subtitles 18:00-19:00
• 5. Talk by the director Khaxianjia, Q & A 19:00-20:00 (with Japanese consecutive interpretation)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy2)

1. Editorial Meeting
2. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University) Reading “Wuyiguangchang Donghanjiandu06” (First part)
3. Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University) Reading “Wuyiguangchang Donghanjiandu06” (Second part)

7 February

1. Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Associate) and Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Report on the words of the food, clothing, and shelter”
2. Namthar Gyel (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Shiga Prefecture) and Ryunosuke OGAWA (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) “Report on the words of meat and bones”
3. Yusuke BESSHO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hiroshima University) and Shin’ichi TSUMAGARI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Science) “Report on the religious words”
4. All members “How to make movies for nomadic dictionary”

8 February

1. All members “Compiling the materials of the Tibetan nomadic vocabulary” “Disccussion on illustrations for nomadic dictionary”

• 1. Yasunori TAKAHASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University) “Frequency of occurance and phonetic reduction: a case study from Chinese”
• 2. Toshihide NAKAYAMA (ILCAA) “Issues regarding the unit of analysis and description in linguistics”
• 3. Yu Yanagimura (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo College of Medico-pharmacotechnology) “Speech perception based on the exemplar model”
• 4. Discussion on descriptive-theoretical issues related to the dynamic characteristics of grammar
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

• 1. Greeting
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Screening of “Valley of the Heroes” with Japanese subtitles
• 4. Lecture by the director Khaxianjia, Q & A (with Japanese consecutive interpretation)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy2)

• 15:30-15:40 Greeting and Introduction
• 15:40-19:30 Study Report
• 1. Nao KITAHARA (Participant of the course of Amdo Tibetan in 2010) “Nomad’s adhesion to meat and ahimsa”
• 2. Yusuke BESSHO (Hiroshima University) “Frontiers of study on Amdo nomads”
• 3. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) “Pilgrimage on Tibetan Literature”
• 4. Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Research Associate) “Comparison between Eastern and Western Tibetan”
• 5. Junko MIURA (Participant of the course of Amdo Tibetan in 2010) “Fieldwork of rGyal rabs gsal ba’i me long”
• 6. Chuidenbum (Toin University of Yokohama) “World-wide Influence of Tibetan language and culture”
• 7. Miwa NAKAHARA (Participant of the course of Amdo Tibetan in 2010) “Amdo Folksongs”
• Commentator: Atsuko WATANABE (Otani University)
• *This event is held as a part of projects commemorating 50th Aniversary of ILCAA.
• Program
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

The Second International Workshop on information structure of Austronesian languages

• 11 February
• 1. Arndt RIESTER (University of Stuttgart) “Annotating corpus data with information structure”
• 2. Yoshiharu KUMAGAI (Aichi Prefectural University) “The Flow of New Information in Narrative Discourse”
• 3. Hiroki NOMOTO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Givenness of individuals and eventualities: Perspectives from Malay passives”
• 4. Masahiko NOSE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Shiga University) “Information structure and discourse markers in Tok Pisin: differences in genres”
• 5. Kazuya INAGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) “Discourse and Information Structure in Kadorih”
• 6. Nikolaus HIMMELMANN (University of Cologne) “On articles and reference management in western Austronesian examples”
• 7. Sonja RIESBERG (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Cologne) “Information structure in Totoli:Reference management and its interrelation with voice selection”
• 8. Hiroaki KITANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Aichi University of Education) “Information structure and complement clauses in Kapampangan”
• 12 February
• 【Information and discourse】
• 1. Anthony JUKES (ILCAA Joint Researcher, CRLD, La Trobe University) “Focus and Argument Indexing in South Sulawesi languages”
• 2. Atsuko UTSUMI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meisei University) “Topic-marking constructions in Bantik”
• 3. discussion
• 【Definiteness marking】
• 4. Frantisek KRATOCHVIL (ILCAA Joint Researcher / Nanyang Technological University) “Definiteness and referent tracking in Abui”
• 5. Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA) and Ketut ARTAWA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Udayana University) “The definite marker in Balinese”
• 6. Alexander ADELAAR (ILCAA Visiting Professor, The University of Melbourne) “The definite and possessive marker in Malagasy”
• 7. Stefan Schnell（CRLD, La Trobe University） “Lexical anaphors in Vera'a and Teop narrative discourse”
• 8. Rik De BUSSER (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Chengchi University) “The role of Bunun deixis in information structure: An initial assessment”
• Reception
• 13 February
• 1. Dwi Noverini Djenar (The University of Sydney) TBA
• 2. Yoshimi MIYAKE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Akita University) “Discourse particles and information structure in colloquial Indonesian”
• 3. General Discussion
• 4. Business Meeting
• Timetable and abstracts
• Language: English
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy2)

International Symposium “Transformation of Religions as reflected in Javanese texts”

• 11 February (open)
• 1. Opening Remarks
• 2. Miho YAMASAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Transformation of religions as reflected in Old Javanese inscriptions from 9th and 10th centuries; Analysis of the imprecations”
• 3. Dwi PUSPITRINI (University of Indonesia) “The religious words in Adiparwa” (tentative)
• 4. Stuart ROBSON（AA研外国人研究員）“Some aspects of the thought-world of the Old Javanese Kakawin”
• 5. Toru AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “The significance of “mokṣa” in the Ramayana reliefs in the light of Old Javanese texts”
• 6. discussion
• 7. Kartika SETYAWATI (Gadjah Mada University) “Kidung Surajaya: believers of the mountains.”
• 8. Ben ARPS (Leiden University) “The benefits of purity in Amarta and Surakarta: the shadow play of Bima Suci, 1810s–1830s”
• 9. George QUINN (Australian National University) “A textual history of the tenth wali”
• 10. discussion
• 12 February (open)
• 1. Nancy FLORIDA (University of Michigan) “Ronggasasmita’s Suluk Aceh: Syattari metaphysics in Javanese Sufi poems composed in 1815 Aceh”
• 2. Koji MIYAZAKI (ILCAA) “Javanese Calendar and Myth: Story of Watu Gunung”
• 3. Ronit RICCI (Australian National University, Hebrew University) “Muslim and Javanese in the diaspora: preliminary thoughts about Javanese experiences in colonial Ceylon”
• 4. Willem van der Molen (ILCAA Joint Researcher, KITLV) “The meaning of Islam in the history of the Chinese in Java according to the Sajarah Cina”
• 5. discussion
• 6. Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)
• 7. Edwin WIERINGA (University of Cologne) “Re-reading traditional Javanese literature: nineteenth-century elite court literature and the question of gender”
• 8. Oman FATHURAHMAN (ILCAA Joint Researcher, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta) “A further discussion on the Javanese Islamic manuscripts in the British Library Collection”
• 9. Saiful UMAM (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta) “Glocalization of early printed pegon texts”
• 10. discussion
• 13 February (closed)
• 1. about Javanese Concordance
• 2. Closing
• Chairpersons: Mikihiro MORIYAMA (Nanzan University), Yumi SUGAHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) ,Toru AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
• Program
• Language: English
• Admission：Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

ILCAA and ILCAA Joint Research Project “Transformation of Religions as Reflected in Javanese Texts”, JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator : Koji MIYAZAKI (ILCAA))

1. Hitoshige HAYAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe Gakuin University) “Continuity and discontinuity: Reconsideration on the transfer”
2. Masakazu TANAKA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) “Thinking the Other through Violence and Sex, OR a Possibility of Sacrificial Body”

• 15:30-16:30　Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA (ILCAA Research Fellow) “Malaysian Economy in 2014-2015” (tentative title)
• 16:30-17:30　Q & A Session
• Language: Japanese

Organized by

KKLO and The Japan club of Kota Kinabaru

• Lecturers: Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London)
  David Nathan (EWA, University of Oxford)
  Anthony Jukes (CRLD, La Trobe University)
  Sonja Riesberg (University of Cologne)
  Hideo Sawada (ILCAA)
  and others
• Programme: This workshop aims to provide methodological and technical training in various aspects of language documentation and archiving of endangered/minority languages, dealing with the topics including:
  ・overviews of language documentation and archiving
  ・audio/video recording
  ・data management
  ・data mobilization
  ・archiving
  ・photography in language documentation
  ・fieldwork issues
• Please visit our webpage for details:
• Call for participants:
• Application Form:
• Deadline for applications:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (in Japan Standard Time), 21st November 2014.
• Deadline for applications:The application must arrive no later than 12:00 (in Japan Standard Time), 15th December 2014.

• Christoph Werner (University of Marburg) “Secular Waqf? Foundations, Endowments and Philanthropy in Pahlavi Iran”
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

MEIS and Core Project “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World” (MEIS2)

20 February

1. Editorial Meeting
2. Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyo Bunko) Reading “Liyeqinjian56” (Firstpart)
3. Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyo Bunko) Reading “Liyeqinjian56” (Second part)

21 February

1. Editorial Meeting
2. Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyo Bunko) Reading “Liyeqinjian57” (Firstpart)
3. Akira MOMIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Toyo Bunko) Reading “Liyeqinjian57” (Second part)

21 February: International Workshop “Early Modern Iran: The Safavids, Qajars and Waqf”

• 1. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Opening address
• 2. Ichiro OZAWA (Sophia University) “Arming the frontier: Proliferation of modern firearms in Ottoman-Iranian borderlands in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)”
• 3. Naofumi ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “An enigmatic dispute over ownership of a village: Landlords, villagers, and the local community in 19th Century Iran”
• 4. Mohammadreza NEYESTANI (Aix Marseille Universite) “Structure and uses of Shia waqfs during the Safavid period”
• 5. Christoph WERNER (Philipps-Universitat Marburg) “Illumination Waqfs: A new type of endowment in Safavid and Qajar Iran”
• 6. General discussion
• 7. Toru MIURA (Ochanomizu University) Concluding remarks
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.
• program

Organized by

MEIS and MEIS2

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World” and JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research “International Comparative Study of Waqf (Islamic Endowment)” (Principal Investigator: Toru MIURA (Ochanomizu University))

22 February

• 1. Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University) “Formation of Modern Society in the Ottoman Empire, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries: The State of the Art and New Agendas”
• 2. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) “Fiscal Administration in Safavid Iran”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Organized by

ILCAA Joint Research Project “Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World”

Jointly sponsored by

JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Jun AKIBA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chiba University))

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” Open Meeting

• 1. Tamon BABA (ILCAA Short Term Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) “Eastern Africa in the Rasulid Corpus”
• Commentator: Yasuyuki KURIYAMA (Toyo University)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

Jointly sponsored by

Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies”

1. Summary and brainstorming on publishing

• 1. Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) “Distributional change in TO in Fukuoka dialect of Japanese: A usage-based account”
• 2. Discussion on descriptive-theoretical issues related to the dynamic characteristics of grammar
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

• 1. Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Fellow) Opening Remarks
• 2. Yasuhiro FUKUSHIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Fellow) “Formation of Islamic Characteristics of Islamic Finance: A Case Study on Malaysia” (tentative title)
• 3. Q and A session
• 4. Momo SHIOYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Shimane) “Muslim Fashion's Image and Identity in Contemporary Indonesia” (tentative title)
• 5. Q and A session
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

• 14:30-14:40 Opening Address (1) Mohd Hamdan Haji Adnan(Universiti Malaysia Sabah)
• 14:40-14:45 Opening Address (2) by Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA)
• 14:45-15:15 Lecture (1) Yukako YOSHIDA (National Museum of Ethnology) “Human and Non-human Agents in the Creation of Topeng Dance Drama in Bali(tentative)”
• 15:15-15:45 Lecture (2) Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA) “Not Cultivator but Weeder: Agriculture and Agrarian system in Songhai Society (Western Niger)”
• 15:45-16:00 Break
• 16:00-16:30 Lecture (3) Daisuke NAITO (Center for International Forestry Research) “Changing Landscape and Local Community in Kinabatangan, Sabah”
• 16:30-17:00 Lecture (4) Paul Prodong (Universiti Malaysia Sabah) "Selling conservation initiatives to indigenous community: some experience from Sabah"
• 17:00-17:30 Discussion
• 17:30 Closing
• Language: English

Organized by

KKLO and School of Social Science, Universiti Malaysia Sabah

International Workshop: Central Asian Documents Preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences

• 24 March
• 1. Dai MATSUI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hirosaki University) Keynote Speech
• 2. Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) “Linguistic Studies Based on the Tangut Materials in Russia”
• 3. Takayasu SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Morioka University) “Studies of the Xixia Society Based on the Tangut Materials in Russia”
• 4. Keiji ONISHI (Ryukoku University) “Tanguts and its ancestor -based on “The Sea of Meanings, Established by the Saints” ”
• 5. Discussion
• 25 March
• 1. Irina POPOVA (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Central Asian Documents Preserved in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences”
• 2. Kirill SOLONIN (Renmin University of China / St. Petersburg State University) “Studies on the Tangut Buddhist Documents in Russia”
• 3. Kirill BOGDANOV (Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences) “The current research and catalogue work with the unidentified materials from IOM RAS Tangut collection”
• 4. Discussion
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.
• Program (Japanese and English)

Organized by

ILCAA and ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Society in Dunhuang based on the studies of multilingual sources newly discovered”

1. Joint Review Meeting on Manuscripts of History of Food and Agriculture in Africa