| 2026/12/05 |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Opening and Introduction | Wakana Shiino (ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Cruising through Urban Society with Different Balances and Rhythms | Takuya Hagiwara (Toyo University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Creating a Place in the City: Stages and Hustling Among Boda-Boda Riders in Uganda | Takuma Otani (JSPS RPD/ Ritsumeikan University) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | An Ethnography of Two Female ‘Hustlers’ from a Rural Luo Village: The Implications of Gender and Higher Education | Wakana Shiino (ILCAA, TUFS) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | We Look at Our Home: Self-help among Siblings in Uganda | Soichiro Shiraishi (Hirosaki University) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | ‘Hustles’ of the Refugee Youth: Navigating Precarity in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya | Isao Murahashi (University of Shizuoka) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Making Food Move: Hustling and Relational Provisioning among Displaced and Local Women in South Sudan | Eri Hashimoto (Rikkyo University) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 14:20 - 14:50 | The Hustler Who Received God’s Word: Sociality and Passivity in Making a Life in Urban Uganda | Midori Daimon (Kyoto University) |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Glorifying the Hustle Economy: The Role Religion Plays in the Urban Hustle Economy | Rebecca Babirye (Tokyo Christian University (Online)) |
| 15:20 - 15:35 | How "hustle" appears in East African media articles | Justus Thembo (TUFS, PhD student) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Discussion: Comment 1 | Tatiana Thieme (University College London) |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Discussion: Comment 2 | Meenakshi Thapan (ILCAA, TUFS/ Rishi Valley Education Centre) |
| 16:50 - 17:30 | General Discussion | |
| 2026/12/06 |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | “Certified Hustlers” Chronicles of Graduate Youths in Kenya and the Fallacies of a “Hustler Nation” | Kithinji Kinuya (Sophia University) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Playing the Boundary in Academia: Reflections on Class, Caste and Habitus in South Asia and Beyond | Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (University of Bielefeld, Germany) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Young, Hustling and Hopeful: Ethnographic reflections on the spiral of recruitment examinations and (im)mobility among government job aspirants in Neoliberal India | Madhulika Sonkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Backup Plans: Young People Thinking Alternatively in Bodoland, India | Balawansuk Lynrah (Tokyo College, Tokyo Institute for Advanced Study (Online)) |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | LUNCH | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | “Climate Hustlers” Gendered trajectories of survival and Agency among Climate Youth Migrants in Uganda’s Secondary Cities | Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi (Makerere University, Uganda (Online)) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Piecing Together a Life: Women’s Work, Time and Livelihoods Beyond the Wage | Hem Borker (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Surviving Campus Life Through Side Skills: A Tale of Young University-student Hustlers in Uganda | Constance Mudondo (Makerere University, Uganda (Online)) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | “Permanent Jugaad”: Collective Living as Informal Education in Delhi’s Hip Hop Worlds | Sarojini Sapru (UCL, London, UK) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Playing Snakes and Ladders: Trials and Tribulations of Youth Hustlers | Namita Ranganathan (Delhi University, India (Online)) |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Discussion: Comment 1 | Tatiana Thieme (UCL, London, UK) |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Discussion: Comment 2 | Meenakshi Thapan (ILCAA, TUFS/ Rishi Valley Education Centre) |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | General Discussion | |