Joint ResearchResearch Resources13OverviewTraining and Capacity BuildingJoint Research Projectsin Beirut, Lebanon. Various types of seminars, workshops, and educational programs for post-doc researchers, Ph.D. candidates, and MA students will be held at ILCAA, JaCMES, and Kota Kinabalu Liaison Ofce. Another objective of our program is to digitalize historical sources such as ancient maps, travelogues, pictures, and periodicals.[Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies]Leader: NAGAHARA, YokoMembers: FUKAZAWA, Hideo. ISHIKAWA, Hiroki. KAWAI, Kaori. SHIINO, Wakana.In the overwhelming tide of globalization the African Continent is undergoing a signicant change in recent years. The historians and anthropologists at ILCAA are trying to grapple with the contemporary problems in various regions and communities of the Continent through their research with a longer historical perspective. Their research is organized under this program to promote pluralistic world understanding.Some of the topics under the Program are: colonial experiences and social change, relationship between nomads and agricultural people, migration of the people and interrelationship of the groups, women and single people in the societies, etc. The members of this program organize open seminars, introductory seminars for younger researchers and students, and promote cooperation with international scholarship while each of them conducts their own research on one or another topic. The result of the research will be published in the form of books and articles, and on the web-site as well.The research in the program questioning the structure of the modern world itself, will help understanding the historical background of the contemporary problems of African countries, such as military conict and refugees, political autocracy, social discrimination, etc. and contribute to the fundamental solution of these problems.ILCAA Joint Research Projects, conducted by the members of the institute in collaboration with researchers outside the institute, constitute the core of research activities at ILCAA as the International Research Center for the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. Members of all the projects who are not regular staff at ILCAA are all given an afliation with ILCAA as Joint Researchers.The Joint Research Projects are evaluated annually by the Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration, which includes researchers within and outside ILCAA. Projects are evaluated in terms of all of their activities, including their output, publications of the results, and their overall academic signicance.Research results of Joint Research Projects in the past include about 600 publications and on-line dictionaries and databases that are available for use by any researchers and the general public.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/jrp/Ongoing Projects in 2010(Projects are categorized into three groups, linguistics, anthropology, and history/area studies; however, many of them are interdisciplinary in nature.)[Comparative Study of Multilingualism]Project term: April, 2008 – March, 2011Coordinator: SUNANO, Yukitoshi (Prefectural University of Kumamoto)If it is clear that the ideal type of “one nation, one language” state of the 19th century is no longer valid, the alternative ideal of a multilingual society remains still ambiguous.This project aims to re-examine the notion of multilingualism as recommended by inuential international institutions like UNESCO through a comparative study of different multilingual situations in Asia, Africa and Europe, and to have a more comprehensive understanding of the multilingualism.Joint Research ProjectsLinguistics
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