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Date/TimeEvent TitleDetailsVenue
Fri 16 May 2025
14:15-14:55		 Fieldnet Workshop (2025:1)
  • 14:15-14:35 Murakami Rio (TUFS) ”University as a Safe Zone: Practices at a Leading Socially Inclusive University in India”
  • 14:35-14:55 Discussions
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
Fieldnet, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
 Online meeting
Fri 16 May 2025
17:00–18:45		 Lecture by Dr. Sacha Alsancakli, ”The epic of Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya: A preliminary study of the transregional circulation, language localization, and narrative variation in a Persianate historical romance”
[open]
  • 17:00–17:05 Yui KANDA (ILCAA)： Introduction
  • 17:05–17:55 Sacha Alsancakli (University of Münster) ”The epic of Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya: A preliminary study of the transregional circulation, language localization, and narrative variation in a Persianate historical romance”
  • 17:55–18:10 Daneshgar Majid (Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)： Comments
  • 18:10–18:45 General Discussion
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 22:00 (JST)
  • Contact: kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
NIHU Global Mediterranean at ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Reception of Mirror for Princes in Early Modern Persianate World: Research on the Manuscript Tradition of Kalilah wa Dimnah (PI: Yui Kanda)
 304
Sat 17 May 2025
13:00-16:00		 The 15th meeting of Sibe language and Culture
  • 13:00-13:40 Kicengge (Otemon Gakuin University) Keynote Lecture "Sibe Sunday Talk"
  • 13:40-14:10 Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Introduction of "Sibe Corpus Project"
  • 14:20-14:50 Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Workshop for "Sibe Corpus Project"
  • 15:00-15:50 Tomoyuki KUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) Lecture on the pronunciation and transcription of Sibe
  • 15:50-16:00 Closing
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA 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), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Principal Investigator: Norikazu KOGURA (ILCAA) Project number: 24K00061)
 Seminar room 2, 2nd floor, Faculty of Letters. Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Fri 23 May 2025
15:30-17:00		 Lecture by Dr. Sacha Alsancakli, Was Evliyā a Fakester?: On Abdāl Khān's 'Fictional Library' and Its (Lack of?) Use for Kurdish Cultural History
[open]
  • 15:30-15:35 Yui KANDA (ILCAA)： Introduction
  • 15:35-16:20 Sacha Alsancakli ”Was Evliyā a Fakester?: On Abdāl Khān's 'Fictional Library' and Its (Lack of?) Use for Kurdish Cultural History”
  • 16:20-16:35 Yoichi TAKAMATSU (ILCAA)： Comments
  • 16:35-17:00 General Discussion
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 22:00 (JST)
  • Contact: kanda[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Global Mediterranean at ILCAA; “Reception of Mirror for Princes in Early Modern Persianate World: Research on the Manuscript Tradition of Kalilah wa Dimnah” (Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23K12051, PI: Yui Kanda)
 Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room, Online meeting
Sat 24 May 2025
10:00-15:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project: Diachronic perspectives on language description and typology in Bantu, The 5th meeting
  • 10:00-11:30 LEE J. Seunghun (ILCAA Joint researcher, ICU, University of Venda) The Bantu tone system from a typological perspective
  • 13:30-15:00 Daisuke SHINAGAWA (ILCAA) A preliminary report on the statistic survey of inter-parametric covariation based on the Bantu morphosyntactic variation database
  • Commentator: Cédric Patin (Université de Lille)
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
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)
 304, Online meeting
Sat 24 May 2025
15:00-16:45		 Documentary Screening: The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life (2024)
[open]
  • 15:00-15:05 Konomi MURAYAMA (ILCAA) Introduction
  • 15:05-16:00 Documentary Screening： The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life (2024)
  • 16:00-16:30 Persis Karim (San Francisco State University) Comments
  • 16:30-16:45 General Discussion
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 22:00 (JST)
  • Contact: mkonomi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Research in the history of ideas on the discourse of women by Shiite religious intellectuals (KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, PI: Konomi Murayama), Systematic study of literature by the Iranian diaspora (Kyoto University The Hakubi Project, PI: Miki Kinoshita), TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
 405
Sun 25 May 2025
13:00-16:30		 Lecture and Documentary Screening: "Constructing Diaspora Identity and Literature by Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area"
[open]
  • 13:00-16:30 Persis Karim (San Francisco State University) The Construction of Diaspora Identity and Literature among Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Thursday, 22 May 2025, 22:00
  • Contact: mkonomi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Young Scientists “A Historical Study of Discourses on Women by Shiite Religious Intellectuals” (Principal Investigator: Konomi Murayama), 2025 Hakubi Project Research Grant “Systematic Study of Literature by Iranian Diaspora” (Principal Investigator: Miki Kinoshita), Japan-Iran Cultural Exchange Association, TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)
 Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room
Sun 25 May 2025
13:00-17:15		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "Creating a Practice-based Platform in Multimodal Anthropology and Art" The 1st meeting in 2025
  • 13:30-14:30 Tomoko NIWA (Professional Institute of International Fashion) Exploring the 'archive' of Disaster Records and Expressions: From 'Guilt' to 'Entanglement'
  • 14:45-17:15 Shu FUJITA (ILCAA), Masato USHIMARU ”Methods and issues of understanding and exhibiting the field through composite photographs”
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 405
Sun 25 May 2025
14:00-17:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project: Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives (phase 2): The 4th meeting
  • 14:00-15:30 Kpoglu Promise Dodzi (CNRS), PATIN Cédric (Université de Lille)　”L2 Acquisition of French liquids in Ghana”
  • 15:30-17:00 LEE J. Seunghun (International Christian University) , Yanagida Takaki (International Christian University), Fajardo Mananis Christian Ezekiel (International Christian University) ”Phonetic correlates of phonological categories in Kapampangan”
  • Language: English
Organized by
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)
 304, Online meeting
Wed 28 May 2025
12:00-13:30		 Lecture: "Iranian-American Life in the San Francisco Bay Area and Diaspora Studies"
[open]
  • 12:00-13:30 Persis Karim (San Francisco State University) Iranian-American Life in the San Francisco Bay Area and Diaspora Studies
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 22:00
  • Contact: mkonomi[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
the University of Tokyo Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, 2025 Hakubi Project Research Grant “Systematic Study of Literature by Iranian Diaspora” (Principal Investigator: Miki Kinoshita), Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Young Scientists “A Historical Study of Discourses on Women by Shiite Religious Intellectuals” (Principal Investigator: Konomi Murayama)
 University of Tokyo Komaba Campus 1, Building 18, 4th floor, Collaboration Room 1
Thu 29 May 2025
15:00-16:00		 Commons Café "Structuring the Digital Resource Through Archaeological Fieldwork: A Case Study from South-East Arabia"
[open]
  • 15:00-16:00 Taichi KURONUMA (ILCAA) Structuring the Digital Resource Through Archaeological Fieldwork: A Case Study from South-East Arabia
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, 28 May 2025
  • Contact: tufisco-office[at]tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA, TUFS Field Science Commons
 405, Online meeting
Thu 29 May 2025
16:00-18:00		 A Biography of Kurdish Feminism: Halide Dündar
[open]
  • 16:00-16:10 Kaoru Murakami (Institute of Developing Economies) Introduction
  • 16:10-17:10 Prof. Dr. Fuat Dündar (University of Tokyo / TOBB University of Economics and Technology) Lecture
  • 17:10-17:50 Questions and Answers
  • 17:50-18:00 Closing
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday, 28 May 2025
  • Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B):A Study of the Challenges and Solutions for Muslim Communities in the Context of Contemporary Pluralism and Diversity (24K03160)
 Hongo Satellite 4F Seminar Room
Fri 30 May 2025
10:30-17:00		 Young Researchers' Indo-Persian Workshop Pre-sessions
[open]
  • 10:30-12:00 Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA) Report of a Fieldwork of Coastal Forts in Western Maharashtra
  • 14:00-17:00 Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA) Reading session: Muḥammad Shāhābādī's Rāj Tarangīnī-ye Jūnī pandit
  • Language: English
  • No pre-registration is needed.
  • Contact: ogura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
 405
Sat 31 May 2025
15:00-17:00		 Global Mediterranean Book Project Meeting
  • 15:00-15:20 Introduction
  • 15:20-16:00 Progress reports
  • 16:00-17:00 Discussion
  • Language: English
Organized by
Global Mediterranean at ILCAA
 Comfort Space Kichijoji, Online meeting
Sat 31 May 2025
～ Sun 1 June 2025		 The Third Young Researchers' Indo-Persian Workshop
[open]
  • Sat 31 May 2025
  • 10:00-10:10 Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani (EHESS-CESAH), Victor Baptiste (EPHE), Satoshi Ogura (ILCAA) Opening Speech
  • 10:10-10:25 Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) Keynote Address
  • 10:30-11:00 Jean Arzoumanov (University of Chicago) ”Sanskrit catarchic astrology in North-Indian Persian astrological manuscripts”
  • 11:00-11:30 Raffaello De Leon-Jones Diani (EHESS-CESAH) ” A Jain Ritual at the Mughal Court”
  • 11:45-12:15 Muhammad Rehmatullah (Jamia Millia Islamia) ”Confluence of Faiths and Languages: Understanding the Pranami Literary Tradition of 17th Century Indo-Persian World”
  • 12:15-12:45 Yohei Moriguchi (Kyoto University) ”The Development of the Theory of Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Oneness of Being) in Mughal India: Ontological Analysis of Muḥibb Allāh Ilāhābādī’s Persian Commentary on Ibn ‘Arabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam (the Bezels of Wisdom)”
  • 14:45-15:15 Fabio Pagliani (EHESS-CESAH) ”From David to Rāma”
  • 15:15-15:45 Fatemeh Naghshvarian (Universiteit Utrecht) ”Antinomian Traits in Feyżī’s Nal-u Daman”
  • 16:00-16:30 Victor Baptiste (EPHE) ”Persian Poetry in Disguise: Madhumālatī’s Intertext”
  • 16:30-17:00 Nagwant Singh (University of Delhi) ”Knowledge Transmission through the Brajbhasha Poetry in a Multilingual Space: Intertextuality, Translations, and Commentaries in the Mughal Age”
  • Sun 1 June 2025
  • 10:30-11:00 Mehdi Sham Roshan (Université de Lausanne) ”The Emergence of Medieval Indo-Persian Literature: A Study of Amir Khusraw’s Dibācha-i Divān-i Ghurrat al-Kāmāl”
  • 11:00-11:30 Kirti Kanojia (University of Delhi) ”Shahjahan and The Emergence of a Messianic King: Reassessing Narrative Strategies in Indo-Persian Histories”
  • 11:45-12:15 Pooja Hazra (University of California, Davis) ”At the Interstices of Empires: Naukri or Service Culture in Early-Modern South Asia”
  • 14:00-14:30 Riccardo Bonotto (EHESS-CESAH) ”The Yunani Hakim tradition in early modern Afghanistan”
  • 14:30-15:00 Ryusei Homma (ILCAA) ”The Heritage of Perso-Islamic Culture in British India: Mehr ‘Alī Shāh’s Philosophical Elaboration of Sufi Thought”
  • 15:00-15:30 Faheemudin (University of Delhi) ”Echoes of Indo-Persian Legacy: Shibli Nu‘mani and the Articulation of Urdu Literature in the Colonial Era”
  • 15:45-16:15 Ayesha Sheth (Ahmedabad University) ”The World of ‘Rāgamālā’: Jain Musicologists on the Indo-Persian Stage”
  • 16:15-16:45 Haruo Inoue (Kyoto University) ”The Culture of Visualizing Sound in an 18th-Century North Indian Music Theory Text”
  • 16:45-17:15 Amanda Caterina Leong (The Courtauld Institute of Art) ”Recovering Female Javanmardi (Young-Manliness) from the Victoria and Albert Museum Mughal Collection”
  • 17:15-17:45 Hasan Nisar (Yale University) ”The Zulf of the Beloved: Idealized Beauty and Mughal Imitative Practices in Portraiture during the Early Seventeenth Century”
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Thursday, 29 May 2025, 17:00
  • Contact: ogura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
 405

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