• Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “A typology of eclipse expressions in East and Southeast Asia”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

ILCAA

• 10:00-12:00 Each member Presentation “Summary of Final Report”
• 12:00-13:00 Kayoko ISHII (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Rikkyo University) Timeline of editorial process for the Final Report
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

• 1. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) Reading “The Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian22 (First part)”
• 2. Tsuneko SUMIYA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara University) Reading “The Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian22 (Second part)”
• 3. Briefing on recently puplished Liyeqinjian(2) and Preparation for Joint Reading Project

23 Jun

• 1. Kaori KAWAI (ILCAA) Introduction of the project
• 2. Self-introductions
• 3. Trends of three study fields on human sociality
• (1) Kaoru ADACHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto Sangyo University) Primatology
• (2) Koji KITAMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Okayama University) Ecological Anthropology
• (3) Motomitsu UCHIBORI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hitotsubashi University / The Open University of Japan) Social/Cultural Anthropology

24 Jun, Lectures by guest speakers

• 1. Yuriko IGARASHI (Nihon University) “The human evolution from the view point of fertility”
• 2. Ryo ODA (Nagoya Institute of Technology) “Evolutionary cognitive bases of altruism”

• 1. Takayuki NAKAMURA (ILCAA joint Researcher, Waseda University) Introduction
• 2. Yutaka SAKUMA (ILCAA) On the next research project
• 3. Self-introductions
• 4. Hidehiro TACHIBANA (ILCAA joint Researcher, Waseda University) “Présence Africaine and concepts of culture”
• 5. Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Joint Research Project “Pre’sence Africaine: Text, Thought and Movement”, Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory) “Study of the black literary and cultural journal Présence Africaine by an anthropological approach”

Remembering Village after 50 Years: Revisiting an Ethnography by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko

• Shinkichi TANIGUCHI (Hitotsubashi University, Professor Emeritus) Welcome address
• 1. Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) “Revisiting Ethnographic Studies of Rural Society in Bengal:Reconsidering an Ethnographyof the Muslim Peasant Society by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko”
• 2. Ai SUGIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/JSPS) “Multifaceted nature of contemporary Bangladeshi village society: from an ethnography by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko and subsequent village studies”
• 3. Koichi FUJITA (Kyoto University) “Social foundation of agricultural and rural development in Bangladesh with special reference to the arguments by the late Professor Hara Tadahiko”
• 4. Mineo TAKADA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hiroshima Shudo University) “On the works of Hara Tadahiko with special reference to his first field research”
• Hiroshi ISHII (ILCAA, Professor Emeritus): Discussant
• General Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Japan Bengal Forum, 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” and Joint Research Project “Ethnographic Studies of Muslim Society in South Asia”

• 1. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) Project orientation
• 2. Hitoshi KURIBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tohoku University) “Report: Current Situation of Research on Mongolic Languages in China (tentative title)”
• 3. Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA) and Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) “Report: Database for Mongolic Languages constructed in ILCAA (tentative title)”
• 4. Discussion
• *Sorry, this is a closed meeting. If you want to participate, please contact to Yasuhiro Yamakoshi, the project organizer. Email address is yamakoshi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp

• 14:00–14:15　Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA) Introduction
• 14:15–15:00　Puangthong R. PAWAKAPAN (Chulalongkorn University) “Challenges of documenting the Oct 6 massacre in the amnesic Thai society”
• 15:00–15:15　Rest
• 15:15–16:00　Comment
• discussant 1: Thongchai WINICHAKUL (IDE-JETRO)
• discussant 2: Masaki TAKAHASHI (Musashino Univerisity)
• 16:00–17:00　Discussion
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

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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”

• 1. Dai YAMAO (Kyushu University) “Analyzing the 4th Iraqi Parlamental Election.”
• 2. Akiko YOSHIOKA (The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “the 2018 Iraqi General Election and the political situation in Iraqi Kurdistan"the 2018 Iraqi General Election and the political situation in Iraqi Kurdistan”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS), Relational Studies on Global Crises B02

30 Jun

• 1. Taro ADACHI (Tokyo University of Agriculture) “African Agriculture from the Entomologist Perspective”
• 2. Shun ISHIYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “A Comparison between Agriculture on the Southern Fringes of the Sahara and Oasis Farming in the Sahara”

1 Jul

• 1. Kaori KOMATSU (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokkai Gakuen University) “intensificationとgeneralization”
• 2. Discussion on Future Publication
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Joint Research Project “Rethinking the History of Agriculture and Rural Societies in Africa”, Sustainable Rural Development based on Co-existence of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Semi-arid Africa (Principal Investigator: Tadasu TSURUTA (Kindai University) Research Project Number: 17H04628)

• 14:00-15:10 Nazgul SHAMSHIEVA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate school of Humanities and Social Sciences, Okayama University) “An Analysis of the Verb bol- in Kyrgy”
• 15:20–16:30 Kazuki AOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Graduate school of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo) “The Postpositions of Turkic and the New “Postpositions” of Turkish”
• 16:40–17:50 Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) “Modal Particles in Modern Uyghur”
• 17:50–18:00 Discussion on Publication
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3)

• 1. Amane KOBAYASHI (The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) “Seven years of Lybian Civil War”
• 2. Hiroshi MATSUMOTO (Daito Bunka University) “Civil War in Yemen”
• Discussant: Mitsugi ENDO (The University of Tokyo)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) (NIHU Area Studeis Project for the the Modern Middle East)

• 14:00–14:05 Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Opening
• 14:05–14:45 Kazue HOSODA (ILCAA) “Transboundary Culture and Diversity: Minority Cultures in Israel”
• 14:45–15:25 Masayuki OKADO (Sophia University, Tokyo) “Family Ties and the Hub for the Gathering:　From the Case of Upper Egyptian Migrant Workers who Crosses Borders.”
• 15:25–15:40 Break
• 15:40–16:20 Jin NODA (ILCAA) “Middle East in the eyes of China's Northwest: the history of migration and crossing border.”
• 16:20–16:50 Discussions
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• Pre-resituration e-mail address: ekkyo-sympo[at]tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

Jointly sponsored by

Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS), National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU Area Studeis Project for the the Modern Middle East)

• 1. Sohey UDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Museum of Ethnology) “Why don’t Japanese cormorant fishers domesticate cormorants?”
• 2. Shuhei KIMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tsukuba University) “Divine act and human act: a case of a tsunami-prone community in Japan”
• 3. Sho MORISHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University) “Constructing the “Scientific Skills" for Religious Customs: Practice of Bosscha Observatory, Indonesia”

• 13:30–15:00 Kazuhiro ARAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University) “Islam and “Arab” in Indonesia: recent situation in religious and political spheres” (tentative title)
• 15:20-16:50 Takashi KAWABATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, UZABASE) “The Regime Change in Malaysia: Exploring Implications of the 14 General Elections”
• 17:10-18:40 Hisanori KUSAKABE (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) “Islam and Rohingya Issue in Bangladesh:Two years since the Dhaka Attack”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

• David Brophy (The University of Sydney)
• “The East Turkistan Cause in the Inter-War Middle East”
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsered by

ILCAA Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS), Central Asian Studies Group: “Printing media and Political and Social Movements in Modern and Contemporary Central Eurasia,” Inner Asian Section, Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, Central Eurasian Studies Association

• 1. Jin NODA (ILCAA) Opening address
• 2. Jin NODA (ILCAA) “The Scope of the Kazakh intellectuals in Xinjiang: a case of Aqit Ulemjiuli”
• 3. Abdirashidov Zaynabidin Sharabidinovich (ILCAA Visiting professor / Tashkent State University of the Uzbek Language and Literature, Uzbekistan) “Brothers in religion: the image of a Chinese Muslim in the Ottoman periodicals”
• 4. David Brophy (University of Sydney, Australia) “A Much-Travelled Modernist: Saʿid Muḥammad al-ʿAsali Between the Ottoman Empire and the Muslims of Xinjiang”
• 5. Hisao KOMATSU (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) Comment
• 6. Discussion
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• *For those who will participate in this workshop, please inform us of your participation to the following contact address in advance: nodajin[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)

Jointly sponsered by

ILCAA Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS), Joint Research Projects “From Turkestan to Istanbul: in seeking the freedom, Comparative studies of political and intellectual trends in early 20th-century Central Asia”

• Sun 5 Aug, 10:00–16:00
• Poster Presentations and Satellite Workshop
• Mon 6 Aug, 9:00–18:45
• Ryūkyū, Hachijō and Japanese
• Tue 7 Aug, 9:00–18:10
• Ainu and Northeast Asia
• Wed 8 Aug, 9:00–17:00
• Documentation and Revitalization
• Program
• For more details, please see here.
• Contact details: ael[at]ninjal.ac.jp (*Please replace [at] with @)
• Pre-registration is needed. Please register your information in the following page by 27 Jul.
• Admission: The early-bird registration fee will be JPY 5,000 (regular) / JPY3,500 (student, MA student, PhD student) until 6 Jul 2018. From 7 Jul 2018, the registration fee increases with JPY7,000 (all). Lunch will be provided each day from 5 Aug to 8 Aug. The lunch fee is included in the registration fee.
• Language: English

Jointly sponsered by

Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan, NINJAL, Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3” (LingDy3), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Comparative historical research on Ryukyuan by using linguistic family trees