• 14:00–14:10 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) Opening remarks
• 14:10–15:10 Yukinori KIMOTO (JSPS/Graduate school, Nagoya University) “Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) and related programmes in SOAS University of London”
• 15:20–16:20 Keita KURABE (ILCAA) “Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and language documentation in Myanmar”
• 16:30–17:30 Questions and answers
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Information Resources Center (IRC), Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

22 Feb

• 13:20-13:30 Welcome address
• 13:30-15:00 Shigeki KAJI (Former President of Linguistic Society of Japan, Kyoto Sangyo University) Opening lecture: Language description in Africa (Installation sessions before and after the lecture)

25 Feb

• 10:30-17:00 Praat
  - lecture in the morning
  - practice in the afternoon
  Seunghun, Lee (International Christian University and University of Venda)

26 Feb

• 10:30-17:00 Flex
  - lecture in the morning
  - practice in the afternoon
  Yuko ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher，Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)，Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA)
• 17:00-17:15 Closing remarks
• Language: English
• Participation fee: Free
• Requirement:
• 1. Registration needed. To participate, please access to the“Event” page of ReNeLDA websiteand fill in the application form.
• 2. All participants are required to bring their own laptop.
• 3. All participants are required to attend all 3 days of the workshop.
• Contact: If you need more information, please contact Prof. Gastor Mapunda
  mapundag[at]gmail.com (Please change [at] to ＠)

Jointly sponsored by

JSPS Core-to-Core Program (B. Asia-Africa Science Platforms) “Establishment of a research network for exploring the linguistic diversity and linguistic dynamism in Africa”, Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 14:00–16:00 Keiko IWAMOTO (ILCAA Junior Research Fellow) “When did the tahrir defters disappear? :Study on the development and decline of the tax investigation register books”
• Commentator: Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA)
• 16:30–17:30 General Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA, Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “A diachronic and synchronic study on bookkeeping and registers in the Muslim societies” (Principal Investigator: Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA) Project number: 17H02398)

28 Feb

• 10:30–10:40 Naoki OGOSHI (The University of Tokyo) Opening Address
• [Plenary Talk]
• 10:40–11:40 John C. MAHER (International Christian University) “From Dante to Fishman: The Role of Migration in Sociolinguistics and in the Language Situation of Ireland”
• Session 1: Immigrant and Host Languages in Asia
• [Keynote Speech]
• 13:00–14:00 Haiyoung LEE (Ewha Womans University), Sun Hee PARK (Ewha Womans University) “Research Trends in Korean Language Education for Learners from Multicultural Families”
• 14:05–14:35 Yasuhiro ARAI (Toyo University), Naoki OGOSHI (The University of Tokyo), Lianhua SUN (Dalian University of Technology), Dongzhe LI (Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages) “A Sociolinguistic Survey of Koreans in China: ‘Language Socialization’ of Koreans in China”
• 14:40–15:10 Jae Ho LEE (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo) “Japanese-Korean Bilinguals’ Language Use and Age as Another Factor: Focusing on the Students of a Chosengakko/Cosenhakkyo, Korean School in Japan”
• 15:10–15:20 Q&A
• Session 2: Immigrant and Host Languages in Europe and Pacific
• [Keynote Speech]
• 15:30–16:30 Gürol AKTAŞ, Peter HEIN (Sprach- und Integrationsschule e.V. (SIS e.V.) Berlin) “Teaching German Language and Culture to Refugees and Migrants in Germany”
• 16:35–17:05 Tooru HAYASI (ILCAA Fellow, The Open University of Japan) “Between Two Languages: Opinions about Language Use among Young Turkish-German Bilinguals in Berlin”
• 17:10–17:40 Kanae IWASAKI (The University of Tokyo) “The Influence of English and Japanese on Hawaiian: A Brief Review”
• 17:40–17:50 Q&A

1 Mar

• Session 3: Future of Japanese Language: As Immigrant and Host Languages
• [Keynote Speech]
• 13:30–14:30 Rika YAMASHITA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kanto Gakuin University), Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA Research Associate) “South Asians and South-East Asians in Japan: Demographic and Sociolinguistic Implications”
• 14:35–15:05 Hoang Thanh Danh NGUYEN (Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University), Thi Huyen Trang LE (Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University) “Japanese Loanwords Adopted into Vietnamese by Newly Arrived Vietnamese Students and Temporary Workers”
• 15:05–15:15 Q&A
• 15:25–15:55 Valeriya EVSEENKO (The University of Tokyo), Kazuko MATSUMOTO (The University of Tokyo) “Language Contact in Sakhalin: Japanese and Korean Loanwords in the Russian Language”
• [Invited Talk]
• 16:00–16:45 Kazuko MATSUMOTO (The University of Tokyo), Akiko OKUMURA (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo), Flavia FEIJO (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo), Marco FONSECA (Graduate School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois) “The Genesis of Brazilian Portuguese as a Migrant Koine in Japan: Language and Dialect Contact, and the Feature Pool”
• 16:45–16:55 Q&A
• 16:55–17:00 Tooru HAYASI (ILCAA Fellow, The Open University of Japan) Closing Address
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 25 minutes for each presentation and 20 minutes for Q & A for 2 presentations.
• 1. Yohei KONDO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “Surviving Strategies of Minority Groups in Oman”
• 2. Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) “Surviving Strategies of Minority Groups in Syria”
• 3. Aiko NISHIKIDA (ILCAA) “Surviving Strategies of the Palestinians in Lebanon”
• 4. Takayuki YOSHIMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Waseda University) “Surviving Strategies of the Armenians”
• 5. Ray Mouawad (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Saint Joseph University) “Surviving Strategies of Minority Groups in Lebanon”
• 6. Asuka TSUJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kawamura Gakuen Women’s University) “Surviving Strategies of the Copts”
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA, University of Balamand, Lebanon

1 Mar

• 14:45-16:30 Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ryukoku University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 12 (First part)”
• 16:45-18:30 Sachiko IIDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Ryukoku University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 12 (Second part)”

2 Mar

• 10:00-12:00 Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 13 (First part)”
• 13:30-15:30 Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 13 (Second part)”
• 16:00-18:00 Arnd Helmut Hafner (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University) “On the Transcription and Annotation of the Weiyudengzhuang from the Yuelu-Collection (3)”
• Language: Japanese

2 Mar

• 1. Sota HARAKO (Japan Forest Technology Association) “Diversity in Bena Agriculture on the Upstream of Rufiji River, Tanzania”
• 2. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) “Agriculture in Ethiopian Kingdoms: Based on Primary Sources”

3 Mar

• 1. Yasuaki SATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka Sangyo University) “The Present Situation and Challenges among Banana Growers in Uganda”
• 2. Discussion on Future Publication
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

• Discussion about Publication of Results
• Language: Japanese

• 14:00-16:00 Masayoshi SOMEYA (Takachiho University) “Steps to an Ecology of Animate Body: Ecological Approach to Everyday Life Skills”
• 16:15-18:15 Keiichi OMURA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Air) “The art of seduction: Considering the art of social intercourse in the era of “Chthulucene” through the analysis of the Inuit ethics” (tentative title)
• 18:15-19:00 Discussion for Research Plan
• Language: Japanese

• Lecturers:
• Tokusu KUREBITO (ILCAA), Zhargal Badagarov (Buryat State University, Russia/ Heidelberg University, Germany), Dugvema Vasilyeva (Buryat State University, Russia)
• Program: please see the attatched file.
• Language: Russian and English

Jointly sponsored by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Irkutsk University, Russia

• Lutz Marten (ILCAA Research Fellow, SOAS, University of London) “Variation, divergence and convergence in Bantu morphosyntax”
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 1. Richard Maxwell Eaton (University of Arizona) “Patterns of Turkish Desecrations and the Decline of Buddhism in North India”
• 2. Walter Slaje (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) “What does it mean to smash an idol? Iconoclasm in Medieval Kashmir as Reflected in Contemporaneous Sanskrit Sources”
• Commentator: Minoru INABA (Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

ILCAA Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”

• 15:00–15:10 Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA) Opening
• 15:10–15:20 Noriko OGIWARA (Kurosio Publishers) About the Publication: From the publisher's editor
• 15:20–16:20 Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) “About the Publication: Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork”
  Commentator: Nobuko YONEDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Osaka University)
• 16:30–17:00 Q&A
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science3 (LingDy3)”

• 18:30-18:40 Honoré WATANABE (ILCAA) Opening
• 18:40-18:50 Noriko OGIWARA (Kurosio Publishers) About the Publication: From the publisher's editor
• 18:50-19:30 Michinori SHIMOJI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyushu University) About the Publication: Language Description and Linguistic Fieldwork
• 19:30-20:30 Roundtable: Bittersweet Experience in Our Linguistic Fieldwork and Grammar Writing / Q&A
• Capacity: 20 people
• Pre-registration is required.
• Please see the link here.
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• For details, please see here.(183KB)
• Language: English (9-10 Mar), Japanese (11 Mar)
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA, Conference: The Classification of Indic Knowledge at the Mughal Court: the Ā’īn-i Akbarī (9-10 Mar), KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Kingship and Legitimacy of Islamic Dynasties” (Principal Investigator: Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Project Number: 15H01895) (9-10 Mar), Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0013) (9-10 Mar)

Supported by

Perso-Indica (9-10 Mar)

• 1. Hiroko TAKANASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Women's University) “Grammar, style and stance: direct and indirect indexicality of the second-person pronouns at the end of IU”
• 2. Atsuhiko KATO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University) “On 'Literary style' in Pwo-Karen”
• 3. Open discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”

• 14:00–14:10 Marsitah Mohd Radzi (UMS) Openning Address
• 14:10–14:15 Ikuya TOKORO (ILCAA) Openning Address
• 14:15–14:55 Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) ““Disabled” Bodies and Humor: Two cases of Balinese comedy theater” (tentative)
• 14:55–15:35 Noko KUZE (National Museum of Nature and Science) “Research and Conservation of Orangutans in Borneo and Sumatran Islands”
• 15:45–16:25 Sayed Uddin (International Islamic University Malaysia) “Impacts of Socio-Demographic Factors on Utilisation of Health Care Services: Empirical Evidence From Migrant Workers in Malaysia”
• 16:25–17:00 General Discussion
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-regisatration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

Kota Kinabaru Liaison Office, ILCAA, Universiti Malaysia Sabah

• 1. Hassan Rezai Baghbidi (Osaka University) “Persian Zoroastrian Literature”
• 2. Prashant Keshavmurthy (McGill University) “Sharḥ: Two Kinds of Sociality and Two Ways of Reading in Three Mughal Commentaries on Sa‘di’s Gulistān”
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA Research Group “Dynamism of Cultural Contact in South Asia”, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) “Studies on Cultural Pluralism in Early Modern South Asia: With Special Reference to Translation” (Principal Investigator: Nobuhiro OTA (ILCAA) Project Number: 18KK0013）

ILCAA offers various workshops on field linguistics aimed mainly at junior researchers such as graduate students and post-doctoral researchers. The workshops aim to offer lectures and training that are useful for documenting and describing under-studied and under-documented languages.
Main topics: Scientific communication and communicator

• Facilitator: Hayato AOI (ILCAA Research Associate)
• Speakers: Yuto NIINAGA (NINJAL), Satbyul KIM (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature), Hikaru KAMOGAWA (Japan GEMS Center)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Part 1: Free
  Part 2: 1,000yen
• Pre-registration is required. For details, please see here. (in Japanese) (682KB)

Jointly sponsored by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, Japan GEMS Center

• 1. Masahiko TOGAWA (ILCAA) Introduction
• 2. Mayuri KOGA (Kaichi International University) On the book of “Ethnography of Rituals and Performing Ritual Arts in South Asia”
• 3. Ai SUGIE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/JSPS) Discussant
• 4. Toshiki SHIBUYA (Kanto Gakuin University) “Cultures apprearing to belong to the lower castes”
• 5. Tetsuya NAKATANI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nara Prefectural University) Discussant
• General Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

• Participants:
• Nicholas EVANS (Australian National University)
• Danielle BARTH (Australian National University)
• Seongha RHEE (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
• Yanti (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia)
• Eka PRATIWI (College of Foreign Languages (STIBA) Saraswati Denpasar)
• Heiko NARROG (Tohoku University)
• Hitomi ONO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Reitaku University)
• Kazuya INAGAKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nanzan University)
• Yukinori KIMOTO (JSPS/Graduate school, Nagoya University)
• Carine KAWAKAMI (University of Hyogo, Konan University)
• Asako SHIOHARA (ILCAA)
• Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA)
• Keita KURABE (ILCAA)
• For any inquiries, please contact: asako[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to ＠)
• Language: English

Jointly sponsored by

Core Project “Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3)”, JSPS Developing human resources taking the lead in research on endangered and/or minority languages in an international network

• 16:00- Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn (American University of Beirut) Opening Remarks
• 16:10- Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) Introduction of the Lecturer
• 16:20- Nobutaka SUZUKI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, University of Tsukuba) “Examining Najeeb Saleeby as American Colonial Advocate and Educator”
• 17:00- Q & A
• Language: English
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Jointly sponsored by

ILCAA Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES), ILCAA Core Project “Political, Social and Cultural Polarization and its Backgrounds in the Middle East and the Muslim World”, American University of Beirut

• 13:30-13:50 Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) Introduction “Current situation of Historical GIS: Studies, Tools, and Problems”
• 13:50-14:10 Hiroshi KATO (Hitotsubashi University) “On the Topography as a Given Condition for the Local Development: in Case of Fayyum Province in Egypt”
• 14:10-14:30 Kazuhiro ARAI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Keio University) “Regional division within the historical Hadramawt: a study with the use of Google Earth”
• 14:50-15:10 Takenori YOSHIMURA (Daito Bunka University) “Relations between the Expansion of Historic Cairo and the Development of Urban Water Facility: A Comparative Analysis of Geographic Informations and Historical Descriptions”
• 15:10-15:30 Nobuo MISAWA (Toyo University) “Modern Japanese Advances to the Islamic World: Toward the Utilization of GIS Studies with the Various Source Materials”
• 15:40-16:20 Comments: Manabu KAMEYA (Hirosaki University), Yutaka GOTO (Yokohama City University)
• 16:20-17:00 Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.
• Please see the link here(in Japanese)

Organized by

ILCAA Field Science Center (FSC)

• 13:00–13:30 Discussion on the orientation of “Life as Dynamism”
• 13:30–15:45 Kyoko NAKAMURA (ILCAA Research Fellow) “Waiting for Flower-Holding Bird”
• 16:00–18:45 Yukako YOSHIDA (ILCAA) “Laughing at “Disabled” Bodies: An analysis on Balinese theater and everyday life (tentative)”
• Language: Japanese

• For details, please see here.(125KB)
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No pre-registration is needed.

Organized by

KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Aspects of Tibeto-Burman Languages through analysis of the Directional prefixes” (Principal Investigator: Shintaro ARAKAWA (ILCAA) #16H03414)

• 14:00-15:50 Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 14 (First part)”
• 16:10-18:00 Kyoko MEGURO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University) Reading “Tablets from the 9th layer of the Museum Collection of Liyeqinjian 14 (Second part)”
• Language: Japanese