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”

• For details, please see here.
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

Organized by

ILCAA

• 1. Tomoyuki KUBO (Kyushu University), Zhuangsheng (Kyoto University) Brushup on conversational Sibe.
• 2. Reports by the participants of the course of Sibe in 2011 on their activities concerning Sibe language and culture.
• Language: Japanese

Organized by

ILCAA

Jointly sponsored by

LingDy2, The society for Sibe language and linguistics and JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator :Tomoyuki KUBO (Kyushu University))

1. Summary and brainstorming on publishing

1. Rumiko MURAO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Rikkyo University) “The Mobility and Social Integration in the Post-conflict African village”
2. Shin SUGAWARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya City University) “Development of Debates on Citizenship in France”
3. Research meeting

• 10:30-11:15 Poster session 1
• 11:15-12:00 Poster session 2
• 13:00-14:00 General discussion on poster presentations
• 14:15-15:45 Invited talk：Toshiyuki SADANOBU (Kobe University)
• 16:00-17:30 Organized session “Linguistic studies based on spoken discourse: the past and the future”
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free

Organized by

Workshop on Linguistic Studies based on Spoken Discourse Organizing Committee

Jointly sponsored by

Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy2)

• Business Meeting
• Topics:
• Plannning for language documentation workshops in 2015
• Reporting and sharing information on language documentation that each member is conducting
• Putting metadata and annotating to linguistic data that each member obtains

• 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.

JaCMES Lecture Series:The Middle East and Japan No.10 “Arab Uprisings Reconsidered from Lebanese and Japanese Points of View”

• 1. Massoud DAHER (Lebanese University) “Arab Uprisings of 2011 in the Light of the History of Arab States”
• 2. Eiji NAGASAWA (The University of Tokyo) “Thawra and Nation State System in the Arab World”
• Language: Arabic and English (simultaneous interpretation available)
• Admission: Free

Organized by

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

• 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

1. Meeting on summerization of this co-research project and preparing its documentation

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. Clemens POPPE (ILCAA Joint Researcher, The University of Tokyo) “On the synchronic analysis of tone and accent in the Kyengsang and Kangwen dialects”
2. Young suk KANG (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Matsuyama University) “Word formation and accent in the Pusan dialect of Korean”

• 1. Atsushi NONOGAKI (ILCAA joint researcher, Aichi Institute of Technology) “On the correlation between the decorative motif in Indian architecture and the people’s wishes”
• 2. Hiroyuki MASHITA (ILCAA joint researcher, Kobe University) “An aspect of personal bonds under the Mansab system as reflected in foster brothership of the Mughal Empire”
• 3. Discussion
• Language: Japanese
• Admission: Free
• No registration is required.

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