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Date/TimeEvent TitleDetailsVenue
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
Tue 15 Jul 2025
15:30-17:30		 Why didn't I “get a job” then?
[open]
  • Speakers
  • Akio FUTAI (Faculty Member, ‘Human Security’ Programme, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
  • Kari TSUSHIMA (Faculty Member, Diversity Promotion Centre, Saitama University)
  • Wakana SHIINO (Faculty Member, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
  • Language: Japanese, English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For more details, please see here.
  • Registration deadline: Tue 15 Jul 15:00
  • Contact: fenicsevent[at]gmail.com, wakana[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Hopes for Social Mobility, Demands for Wealth Redistribution: Ethnographies of African Urban Middle-class Bottom” (Principal Investigator: SHIRAISHI Soichiro (Hirosaki University) Project number: 23K25087)
Cooperated with
TUFiSCo, TUFS Global Career Centre
 405
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
13:00-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “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 8th meeting AY2025
  • 14:00-15:50 Hafner, Arnd Helmut (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Maiji University) ”Again on the Automation of Text Comparison”
  • 15:50-16:10 Break
  • 16:10-18:00 WASHIO Yuko (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ritsumeikan University) ”Reading:Wooden Tablets from the Western Han Zoumalou-site 13”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 Online meeting
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
13:30-17:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice” (jrp000300), the 5th meeting AY2025
  • 13:30-14:30 Enos Kitambo (Gulu Univ) 'On the concept of “hustle” from the perspective of my field'.
  • 14:30-15:30 Kassim Mwanika (Gulu Univ) 'On the concept of “hustle” from the perspective of my field'.
  • 15:30-16:30 Wakana Shiino (ILCAA, TUFS) 'On the concept of “hustle” from the perspective of my field'.
  • 16:30-17:00 Discussion
  • Language: English
Organized by
ILCAA
 405, 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
Fri 25 Jul 2025
16:00-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Overcoming divisions and searching for coexistence: Approaches of Islam and Gender Studies” (jrp000303), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 16:00-16:05 Introduction
  • 16:05-16:55 Mina Hattori (Nagoya University) "The Meaning of Women’s Higher Education:Reverse Gender Gap in Indonesia"
  • 16:55-17:45 Hitomi Ono (The University of Tokyo) "Girls' Education in Afghanistan"
  • 17:45-18:25 Discussion
  • 18:25-18:30 Closing
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room, Online meeting
Sat 26 Jul 2025
13:00-17:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Cultural Heritage Archiving of Historic Cairo and its Practical Use for Research and Education” (jrp000290), the 2nd meeting AY2025
  • 13:30-13:40 Wakako Kumakura (Keio University) "Progress Report on the Research Project"
  • 13:40-15:00 Naoko Fukami (Kokushikan University) "Reconsidering Block Structures in Premodern Cairo: An Analysis Based on Historical Maps"
  • 15:00-15:10 Break
  • 15:10-16:30 Susumu Sato (Kanazawa Seiryo University) "Current Status and Future Prospects of GIS Database Construction Centered on Cairo"
  • 16:30-17:00 General Discussion (on Future Plans)
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 301, Online meeting
Sat 26 Jul 2025
15:00-17:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Taking on the challenges: An anthropological study of adventurous practices in contemporary Africa” (jrp000309), the 3rd meeting AY2025
  • 15:00-15:20 Mikako Toda (Sophia University) ”An Examination of ‘Evolués & Feymen: Old & New Figures of Modernity in Cameroon’ (Readings in Modernity in Africa)”
  • 15:20-16:00 All participants “Discussion 1: Exploring anthropology of challenges and adventures”
  • 16:00–16:20 Akinori Hamada (The Tokyo University)”An Examination of the introduction of Ethnographies of Waiting ”
  • 16:20-17:00 All participants “Discussion 2: Exploring anthropology of challenges and adventures”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 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
Sun 27 Jul 2025
14:00-17:00		 J-Peaks Research Project “Cattle farming and water supply in the Modern era"
  • Self introduction and discussion on the plan of the project
  • NODA Jin (ILCAA) "On the Deriugina's paper of the comparative research on the cattle farming in Mongolia and Kazakhstan"
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
J-Peaks Research Project “Cattle farming and water supply in the Modern era and their sustainabiliy: from the comparison between Mongolia and Central Asia”, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Ecological Coexistence and Nomadic Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Central Asian Pastoralism” (Principal Investigator: Jin NODA (ILCAA) Project Number: 25K00503)
 Online meeting
Sun 27 Jul 2025
～ Mon 28 Jul 2025		 Okinawa Ginoza Village × Cameroon, Global Explorers 2025 Hands-on Play-acting Workshop (2025 Chikyu Tankentai), Welcome to "the Forest of Life"!
[open]
  • 27 July:
  • 10:00-12:00 Let's sing in African forests! [AM session]
  • 14:30-16:30 Let's sing in African forests! [PM session]
  • * Both sessions are the same.
  • 28 July:
  • 10:00-15:00 Let's share the stories of GINOZA!
  • (12:00-13:00: Lunch break)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required. (First-come-first-served basis)
  • Ginoza Village Office, Tourism and Commerce Division
  • Tel: 098-968-5125
  • Fax: 098-968-5037
  • e-mail: kankou2[at]vill.ginoza.lg.jp (Please change [at] to @)
  • Deadline: July 23 (Wed) *The registration will be closed once the limit is reached.
Jointly sponsored by
Ginoza Village, Okinawa (Participating Municipality in the Cabinet Secretariat EXPO International Exchange Program); MANALABO; TUFiSCo; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (Principal Investigator: Noriko Iizuka, Project number: 24K04451); Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (Principal Investigator: Ayana Tanaka, Project number: 25K16477)
Cooperated with
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; JCAS
 Ginoza Village Community Outreach Center (Fureai Koryu Center)
Fri 1 Aug 2025
15:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel (2): Hundredʼs Years Paradigm and Multilayered Reality” (jrp000310), the 2nd meeting AY2025
  • Theme: Settler Colonialism and the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
  • 15:00-16:20 Taizo IMANO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Chukyo University)
  • 16:30-17:50 Yoshihiro YAKUSHIGE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University of Economics and Law)
  • 18:00-19:00 Member meeting
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA, Research Group on Palestine/Israel
 UTokyo, Komaba bldg. 18, 4F, Lecture Room 2 / Online meeting
Sat 2 Aug 2025
13:30-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “The Origin of "Sharing": Aspects of Coexistence in Humans and Nonhuman Primates” (jrp000287), the 2nd meeting AY2025
  • 13:30-16:00 Ayako SEKINO (Ritsumeikan University) "What do the Baka hunter-gatherers share through food distribution?"
  • 16:00-18:30 Mihoko KIBE (The University of Tokyo) "Mutual labor and appreciation: A case from a rural village in Lao PDR under market integration"
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 304
Sat 2 Aug 2025
14:00-17:45		 ”Variety of Phonetic Features” Joint Research Meeting
  • 14:00−14:15 Naoki UETA (ILCAA) ”Introduction”
  • 14:15−14:35 Naoki UETA (ILCAA) ”Phonetic Characteristics of Mongolian and Variety of Phonetic Features in East Asian Languages”
  • 14:35−14:55 Yasunori TAKAHASHI (Kobe University) ”Past and Future of Chinese Prosody Research”
  • 14:55−15:15 Xi CHEN (Waseda University) ”How Are Impressions of Dialects and Languages determined? Using Phonetic Features as Clues”
  • 15:15−15:30 Break
  • 15:30−15:50 Heesun HAN (Osaka Shoin Women's University) ”Overview of Korean Phonetic Research, Focusing on Issues Related to Prosody”
  • 15:50−16:10 Chiemi HIDAKA (Meiji Gakuin University) ”Geographic and Social Varieties in Taiwanese Mandarin Phonetics”
  • 16:10−16:30 Sho YAMAOKA (University of Tsukuba) ”Past and Future of Experimental Phonetic Studies in Vietnamese”
  • 16:30−16:45 Break
  • 16:45−17:45 All members ”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)
 302
Tue 5 Aug 2025
14:30-20:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Multi-disciplinary Study on the Interactions between Islamism and Socio-cultural Factors in Southeast Asia: From Micro and Macro Perspectives” (jrp000288), the 2nd meeting AY2025
  • 14:30-14:40 Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) Opening Remarks
  • 14:40-15:10 Julkipli Wadi(UP Institute for Islamic Studies) “Navigating Resilience and Resistance in the Philippines and the Muslim South.”
  • 15:10-15:40 Jaquline P. Kitingan(UMS) ”Cultural Convergence in Ritual Practices Reflecting Interactions Between Coastal Communities And The Lotud of Tuaran, Sabah”
  • 15:40-16:00 Coffee Break
  • 16:00-16:40 Takeshi KONO(Toyo Eiwa University) ”Responding to Wars in Middle East: the Cases of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.”
  • 16:40-17:20 Q&A Session
  • 17:20-17:30 Hisao TOMIZAWA (University of Shizuoka) Closing Remarks
  • 18:00-20:00 Reception Dinner
  • Language: English
Organized by
KKLO
 Le Meridien Hotel KK

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