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Date/TimeEvent TitleDetailsVenue
Sat 14 Jun 2025
13:00-17:50		 ILCAA Joint Research Project Archiving Fieldwork Materials of the Ainu Language: An Interdisciplinary Research (3) (jrp000293) The 1st meeting, AY2025
  • 13:00-13:10 Osami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University), Opening remarks
  • 13:10-14:00 Sho HAGIO (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), Academy of the Basque Language and data archives: prospects for archiving and publication of Basque related materials
  • 14:10-15:00 Kyoko KOJIMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher), Yoshie ABE (ILCAA Joint Researcher), For the archiving of Ainu field materials in ILCAA
  • 15:20-16:10 Miki KOBAYASHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, National Ainu Museum), Some issues in collecting linguistic examples from the Ainu language archives
  • 16:20-17:10 Osami OKUDA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University), Progress, achievement and prospects of the archiving project of Ainu field materials in ILCAA
  • 17:20-17:50 General discussion (Facilitator: Osami OKUDA, ILCAA Joint Researcher, Sapporo Gakuin University)
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 Room 3310 at Sapporo Gakuin University, Online meeting
Sat 14 Jun 2025
13:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "Anthropology of Embodiment (2) : Dynamics of De-/Re-Embodiment" (jrp000307) the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 13:00-13:30 TOKORO Ikuya (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 13:30-19:00 All participants, Self Introduction & Discussion for the Project
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 306
Sat 14 Jun 2025
14:00-19:30		 JSPS Research Project “Rethinking South Asia Studies from the Perspective of “Emotion”” research meeting
  • 14:00-15:30 Toshie Awaya (ILCAA Fellow), ‘The Leftist Movements and “Emotions” in Kerala: Preliminary Notes.’
  • 15:45-17:15 Hisae Komatsu (Otemon Gakuin University), ‘“Emotions” in the Magazine Cand.’
  • 17:30-19:30 Conference for publication
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Rethinking the South Asian Studies through the Perspective of ‘Emotions’” (Principal Investigator: Toshie AWAYA (ILCAA Fellow, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Project number: 22H03834)
 304
Sun 15 Jun 2025
14:00-15:30		 ILCAA Forum
[open]
  • 14:00-15:30 BANDYOPADHYAY Sumahan (ILCAA Visiting Professor), Sacred Hill and a Benevolent God: Cultural Innovation, Performance, Identity Among the Santal People of Eastern India
  • Commentator: SHIBUYA Toshiki（Japan Women's University）
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Sat 14 Jun
  • Contact: fakir[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; South Asian Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; ILCAA Core Project “Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance/Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts”
 304
Thu 19 Jun 2025
15:00-16:30		 ILCAA Forum
[open]
  • 15:00-16:30 TAKAHASHI Yona (ILCAA) The History of Controversy on the Language of Jesus
  • Language: Japanese
  • For those who attend online, please see here. Registration deadline: Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 17:00
  • Contact: ogura[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
ILCAA
 304, Online meeting
Fri 20 Jun 2025
14:00-18:30		 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 1st meeting AY2025
  • 14:00-16:00 OKAMOTO Masaaki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University), Do Islamic Organizations Matter to Indonesia’s Poor? Findings from a Survey of Three Mass Organizations
  • 16:00-18:30 YOSHIDA Yukako (ILCAA), Community Engagement in Kampung Pancasila, Bekasi: A Study of Muslim-Hindu Relations
  • Language: English
Organized by
ILCAA
 306
Fri 20 Jun 2025
15:00-19:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel (2): Hundred’s Years Paradigm and Multilayered Reality" (jrp000310) The 1st meeting AY2025
[open]
  • 15:00-16:20 Ryoji Tateyama (ILCAA Joint Researcher, IEEJ) Perspectives on the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
  • 16:30-17:50 Akira Usuki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Women's University) Perspectives on the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict
  • 18:00-19:00 Member meeting
  • Language: Japanese
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For face to face participants, please visit the link here. (The number of seats is limited. If the form is closed, please consider online participation. )
  • For those who attend online, please see here.
  • Registration deadline: Wednesday, June 18, 2025.
  • Contact: emi-gto[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA, Research Group on Palestine/Israel
 UTokyo, Komaba bldg. 18, 4F, Lecture Room 1, Online meeting
Wed 25 Jun 2025
15:00-16:00		 Commons Café: Best practice: A report of visits in the institutes in the United Kingdom for promoting open access
[open]
  • 15:00-15:40 MURAKAMI Haruka (University Library, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), TAKAHASHI Yona (ILCAA), KURONUMA Taichi (ILCAA), Best practice: A report of visits in the institutes in the United Kingdom for promoting the open access in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  • 15:40-16:00 Discussions
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Tue 24 Jun
  • Contact: tufisco-office[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo) and ILCAA
 405, Online meeting
Thu 26 Jun 2025
9:30-12:30		 Food Systems and Health in Southeast Asia
[open]
  • 9:30-9:40 Opening Address
  • 9:40-10:00 CHONG Chun Wie (Monash University Malaysia), Ethnicity-specific Obesogenic Microbiome in Malaysia
  • 10:00-10:20 UMEZAKI Masahiro (The University of Tokyo), Subsistence Change and Health Transition in the Mountainous Areas in Northern Laos
  • 10:20-10:30 Q&A
  • 10:30-10:50 WONG Sunny (Nanyang Technological University), KANG Xing (Nanyang Technological University), Diet Habits in Singapore and their Association with the Gut Microbiome
  • 10:50-11:10 NAKA Hiroaki (The University of Tokyo), Food Habits and Health among Orang Asli in Malaysia
  • 11:10-11:20 Q&A
  • 11:20-12:20 Discussion and Further Collaboration
  • 12:20-12:30 Closing Address
  • Language: English
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wed 25 Jun 2025 (GMT+8)
  • Contact: a-kawai[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
Monash Microbiome Research Centre, Monash University Malaysia; Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa; J-Peaks Research Project “Food Systems Transformation and Health in Southeast Asia”
 Meeting Room 2-5-42, Monash University Malaysia
Sat 5 Jul 2025
13:00-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “A study on the grammar of discourse in Eurasian languages” (jrp000296), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 13:00-13:10 KOGURA Norikazu (ILCAA), Introduction
  • 13:10-15:00 HAYASHI Toru (ILCAA Joint Researcher, ILCAA Research Fellow), Spatial distinction and temporality in the usage of Turkish demonstratives
  • 15:10-17:00 All participants, General Discussion
  • 17:10-18:30 All participants, Discussion for the publication of project outcomes
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 304
Sat 5 Jul 2025
14:00-18:00		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "The Anthropological Study of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region: Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices" (jrp000299), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 14:00-14:10 FUKAGAWA Hiroki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kobe University), Introduction
  • 14:10-15:40 MIYAZAKI Hirokazu (Northwestern University), Hope in the Nuclear Age: Apocalypse, Memory, and Legacy After 80 Years
  • 15:40-18:00 All participants, Q&A, Discussion/ Planning for the next meeting
  • Language: Japanese
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)
 Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room
Sat 5 Jul 2025
14:00-18:00		 A Bodily Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusiveness: Opening, Connecting, Creating
[open]
  • 14:00-14:20 Ikuya Tokoro (ILCAA), Miwako Tanaka (Higashi Nippon International University), Opening Remarks
  • 14:20-15:30 Film Screening ”Traveling Bodies: Dance Company Mi-Mi-Bi”
  • 15:30-15:45 Break
  • 15:45-16:15 Kazuyo Morita (Artist), Dialogue on the Bodily Sense in the Practice of Mi-Mi-Bi
  • 16:15-16:45 Asa Ito (Institute of Science Tokyo), Diversity and Inclusiveness Opened by Bodily Dialogue
  • 16:45-17:00 Break
  • 17:00-17:30 Panel Discussion：Kazuyo Morita (Artist), Asa Ito (Institute of Science Tokyo), Miwako Tanaka (Higashi Nippon International University)
  • 17:30-18:00 Q&A Session
  • Language: Japanese
  • Contact: osde.jimu[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Please change [at] to @)
Jointly sponsored by
JSPS Academic Knowledge Co-Creation Program: Overcoming Social Division and achieving Diversity through Embodiment; ILCAA Core Project (Anthropology)
 303
Sun 6 Jul 2025
11:00-17:15		 ILCAA Joint Research Project “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt 3:　Politics of Capital Accumulation” (jrp000308), The 1st meeting AY2025
  • 11:00-11:05 SAKUMA Yutaka (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Meiji University), Greeting
  • 11:05-12:35 MARUYAMA Junko (Tsuda University), Letting Be: Sharing and Visiting among a Hunter-Gatherer Society in Botswana
  • 13:35-15:05 IKOMA Miki (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “[Tentative Title] The Human Economy through Quantified Debt: Negotiations over Fresh Tea Leaves in a Tea-Producing Community in Myanmar”
  • 15:10-16:40 YAMADA Miki (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University Ph.D. student), Fetishism of the Charisma in Northern Thailand: Constructing a Society through Constructing a Fetish
  • 16:45-17:15 All participants, Discussion
  • Language: Japanese
Jointly sponsored by
ILCAA; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “The Human Economy in the Post-Human Era” (Principal Investigator: Yutaka SAKUMA (Meiji University) Project Number: 24H00128)
 203
Wed 9 Jul 2025
15:00-16:00		 Presentation on the information resource created by the IRC projects (1st meeting in 2025)
[open]
  • 15:00-15:05 YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro (ILCAA), Introduction to the IRC projects
  • 15:05-15:35 TOGAWA Masahiko (ILCAA), Modern Indian Paintings and Japanese Painters
  • 15:35-15:45 Tsutomu Kawai (Secretary General of the Tagore-Kampoa Association), Arai Kampo's Stay in India and his Buddhist Paintings
  • 15:45-16:00 Discussion
  • Language: Japanese
  • Admission: Free
  • Pre-registration is required.
  • For registration, please see here. Registration deadline: Wed 9 Jul 15:00
  • Contact: ilcadj1[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp (Information Resource Center (IRC)) (Please change [at] to @)
Organized by
Information Resource Center (IRC)
 304, Online meeting
Sat 12 Jul 2025
12:50-18:30		 ILCAA Joint Research Project "Clarification of the Actual Situation of Agro-pastoral Complex Frontier in the Trans-Himalayan Region: From the Approach of Vocabulary Study" (jrp000297), the 1st meeting AY2025
  • 12:50-13:00 Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine), Opening Address
  • 13:00-14:00 Masahiro HIRATA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine), Agro-Pastoral Complex of Central-Northern Nepal on the Southern Slope of the Tibetan Himalayan Region
  • 14:00-15:00 Yusuke BESSHO (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Komazawa University), Uncle Tulku: Reincarnation Boom of Middle-Aged Men on the Southern Slopes of the Himalayas and Religious-Relation Network
  • 15:00-16:00 Takayoshi YAMAGUCHI (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Hokusei Gakuen University), The Original Image of Tibetan Pastoral Culture: Insights from a Literature Survey and Plans for Summer Fieldwork in Ladakh
  • 16:30-17:30 Satoshi YOKOYAMA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Nagoya University), Fermented Food Culture and Natural Resource Use in Nagaland, India: Participation in International Conference Organized by Nagaland University
  • 17:30-18:30 Samdrol Tsomo (Doshisha University), Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Kyoto University), Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA), Vocabulary on Pastoral Culture in Damshung, Central Tibet: Focusing on Milk Culture
  • Language: Japanese
Organized by
ILCAA
 303
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
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
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

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