OverviewJoint ResearchResearch ResourcesTraining and Capacity Building21Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)Africa from historical perspectives. The goal of this project is to explore a new eld of study on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by emphasizing subjects related to staple food crops. There remain numerous unsettled historical questions about these crops although they have had an important role socially and culturally in Sub-Saharan African societies. Human Mobility and Multi-ethnic Coexistence in Middle Eastern Urban Societies (the second term)Project term: April, 2013 – March, 2016 Coordinator: KUROKI, HidemitsuThis study, the second phase of the study of the same title conducted from 2010 to 2012, analyses the reality of human mobility and the expansion and transformation of urban spaces in six Middle-Eastern cities: Beirut, Aleppo, Jerusalem, Cairo, Istanbul, and Tehran, to reveal how multi-ethnic and multi-religious relations have formed and how these relations have affected modern political and social movements in the region. The objective of the second phase is to understand mobility and ethnicity in relation to multi-layered time and space encompassing cities, their backlands, and wider relevant areas, using the multi-layered basemap system. The Japan Center for Eastern Studies in Beirut and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) will take turns hosting seminars. Transformation of Religions as Reected in Javanese TextsProject term: April, 2013 – March, 2016Coordinator: SUGAHARA, Yumi (Osaka University)This project clarifies how foreign religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam have been interpreted and transformed in Java from the 9th to 19th century by comparing and analyzing Javanese (old and modern Javanese) texts. First, we will compile a concordance of the Javanese texts that have been transcribed and published for academic purposes since the 19th century. Then, we will identify and analyze diachronic changes in these religions’ concepts in Java as well as related changes in the Javanese language and culture as expressed in these Javanese texts. Concurrently, we aim to create an international academic network for Javanese text research, by compiling the intended concordance through cooperation with researchers throughout the world.
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