OverviewJoint ResearchResearch ResourcesTraining and Capacity BuildingPluralistic World Understanding based on African StudiesLeader: NAGAHARA, YokoIn the overwhelming tide of globalization the African Continent is undergoing a significant 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, migration of the people and interrelationship of the groups, women and gender in 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/Joint Research ProjectsLinguisticsStudies on Event Integration Patterns in African LanguagesProject term: April, 2012–March, 2015Coordinator: KAWACHI, Kazuhiro (National Defense Academy of Japan)Covering spoken languages in all the major language phyla in Africa (Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan), and including sign languages in Africa in its scope of study, this project investigates how African languages 13Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)the societies, etc. The members of this program organize research seminars, introductory seminars for younger scholars 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 conflict and refugees, political autocracy, social discrimination, etc. and contribute to the fundamental solution of these problems.Ongoing Projects in 2012(Projects are categorized into three groups, linguistics, anthropology, and history/area studies; however, many of them are interdisciplinary in nature.)
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