Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3F, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “African Studies in China: Past, Present and Future”
Presenter: Dr. Liu Haifang (Director, Center for African Studies, Peking University)
Co-hosted by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S) “African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity
“Indigenous Knowledge in Modern Education Policy Discourse in Ethiopia: Lessons from Japan”
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3F, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “Indigenous Knowledge in Modern Education Policy Discourse in Ethiopia: Lessons from Japan”
Presenter: Dr. Jeilu Oumer Hussien (Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University; Associate Professor, Department of Educational Planning and Management, Addis Ababa University)
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Consequences of Land Tenure Reform in Africa”
Presenters:
Dr. Shinichi Takeuch (African Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies; IDE-JETRO)
Dr. Teshome Emana (Department of Social Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, Addis Ababa University; Visiting professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Dr. Kojo Amanor (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana; Visiting professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Dr. Shuichi Oyama (The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Co-hosted by:
African Studies Center (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Use of Forest Resources for Sustainable Development: Cases of Cameroon”
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3F, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “Do wage employment and self-employment have differential empowerment impact on rural women in Africa? Empirical evidence from Central Ethiopia”
Presenter: Dr. Aynalem Megersa Gemechu (Visiting Associate Professor, Kyoto University / Director of Center for Gender Studies, Addis Ababa University)
Co-hosted by:
The 1st Japan-Ethiopia Joint Lecture
“Significance, and Institutional Support to Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Africa: Evidence from Zambia”
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3F, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “Significance, and Institutional Support to Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in Africa: Evidence from Zambia”
Presenter: Dr. Godfrey Hampwaye (Visiting Professor, African Studies Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan / Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zambia)
Co-hosted by:
African Studies Center (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Researching Power and Identity in African State Formation: Retrospect and Prospect”
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3rd Floor, Inamori Center, Kyoto University
Title: “Researching Power and Identity in African State Formation: Retrospect and Prospect”
Presenter: Dr. Wim M.J. van Binsbergen (Emeritus Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam / Associated Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden)
Co-hosted by:
The 9th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) “Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa” (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)]
“Conjunctural State Autonomy and Policy Change in South Africa, 1994‐2014”
Venue: Small Seminar Room I, 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University
Title: “The thought of the universal and the rarity of emancipatory dialectical thought: some African examples”
Presenter: Professor Michael Neocosmos (Rhodes University)
Co-hosted by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity.
“Lifelong learning and sustainable development: play, music & dance- to work transition in contemporary San communities Africa”
Venue: Seminar Room (#318), 3rd Floor, Inamori Foundation Building, Kyoto University
Title: “Lifelong learning and sustainable development: play, music & dance- to work transition in contemporary San communities Africa”
Presenter: Dr. Maitseo Bolaane (Associate Professor, University of Botswana) Dineo Peke (PhD. Candidate, University of Botswana)
Co-hosted by:
The 8th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) “Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa” (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)]
“Traditional Beekeeping in the Adamaoua Region of Cameroon”
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: ‘A Whore Might be Relieved but not I’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economy of German South West Africa
Presenter: Dr. Mattia Fumanti (University of St Andrews)
Co-hosted by:
The 7th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) “Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa” (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)]
“Human dimensions of wildlife and the future of wildlife dependent livelihoods in the 21st century”
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Human dimensions of wildlife and the future of wildlife dependent livelihoods in the 21st century”
Co-hosted by:
SATREPS Project “Co-creation of innovative forest resources management combining ecological methods and indigenous knowledge”
Kyoto University Tropical Forest Conservation and Social Sustainability Research & Education Unit (KU-TREE)
“Framing Future Africa: A report on new collaborative research in the programme Future rural Africa: future-making and social-ecological transformation”
This presentation provides a short summary of a new collaborative research center (CRC) that has recently been launched at the University of Cologne ("https://www.crc228.de/) and it reports some preliminary findings on the role of framing the future in processes of current land conversions.
The starting point for the new CRC is the observation of large-scale land conversions in Africa. In some areas large tracks of land are set aside for conservation (for instance the KAZA Transborder Park) while at the same time there are plans for large-scale intensification of land use for agriculture or other forms of resource extraction. In some places both processes take place side-by-side, an example is the KAZA Park that is cut-across by a major highway and development corridor. The new CRC tries to understand these processes in terms of the ways in which ideas about the future make these developments possible and more generally how futures are made for rural Africa. We follow A. Appadurai in distinguishing futures of possibilities from futures of probabilities and we seek to understand these transformations as being both social and ecological, linked across local, national, regional and global scales. In this presentation I shall provide some examples on how the anthropology of time is relevant for the larger research programme as defined by the new collaborative research center.
Date: 5 Mar 2018 (Mon) 15:00-17:00
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Framing Future Africa: A report on new collaborative research in the programme Future rural Africa: future-making and social-ecological transformation”
Presenter: Dr. Thomas Widlok (University of Cologne)
Co-hosted by:
JSPS Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation “Network formation for reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world”
Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation
“Situating Coffee Tourism in Ethiopia”
This seminar focuses on situating coffee tourism in the context of Ethiopia. Coffee tourism in Ethiopia has much potential in terms of development related to both the tourism and coffee industry. Ethiopia has much to gain from being the birthplace of Arabica coffee and for producing its fine coffee. Ethiopia also has a wealth of coffee-related narratives, which could add greatly to coffee tourism contents. This seminar argues that if existing tourism attractions in Ethiopia could be linked with Ethiopian fine coffee or other coffee resources such as the coffee ceremony or the Ethiopian coffee legend, coffee tourism in Ethiopia could play a significant role in the development of both the tourism and coffee sectors. Furthermore, successful coffee tourism systems in Ethiopia may also inspire a movement in other coffee-growing countries. Although attracting tourists by means of coffee alone may prove difficult, if coffee could be combined with other contemporary tourism attractions, coffee tourism could be a viable form of tourism activity. In this seminar, I would like to explore various coffee tourism practices in Ethiopia based on my fieldwork.
Date: 26 Feb 2018 (Mon) 16:00-18:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Situating Coffee Tourism in Ethiopia”
Presenter: Dr. Yun Ohsoon (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
“Violence and Governance in Guerrilla War”
Guerrilla war requires careful coordination between rebels and the local population. Yet, many groups fighting for liberation and ‘power to the people’ also attack and oppress the people. This paper examines why insurgents use violence against those whose support they seek. I begin by explaining how violence and governance are intimately connected in civil war, despite being examined in prevailing literature as ontologically distinct categories. Both state and non-state armed groups try to assert control over social, economic, and political resources through militarized governance. As a result, force is embedded in the power struggles and authority contestations that characterize daily life in a war zone. The targeting patterns and spatial diffusion of violence cannot be understood through lenses of opportunism or information asymmetry alone. Rather, the logic of power and policing within insurgent organizations motivates the use and forms of force outside it. Using a few hundred interviews with ex-combatants and civilians, and a large set of rebel governance archives from the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, I demonstrate that patterns of violence against civilians reflect discourses of control, discipline, and obedience in pursuit of organizational power, not simply principal-agent decay. The nexus of formal laws and informal order make violent governance a much more pervasive strategy than has been previously been acknowledged in literature on guerrilla warfare.
Date: 19 Feb 2018 (Mon) 17:00-19:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Violence and Governance in Guerrilla War”
Presenter: Dr. Zoe Marks (The University of Edinburgh)
Co-hosted by:
JSPS Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation “Network formation for reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world”
“The Comparative Political Economy of Industrialization in Tanzania and Vietnam”
Date: 8 Dec 2017 (Fri) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “The Comparative Political Economy of Industrialization in Tanzania and Vietnam”
Presenter: Dr. Hazel Gray (The University of Edinburgh)
Co-hosted by:
JSPS Strategic Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating Brain Circulation “Network formation for reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world”
“Cocoa agroforest management and REDD+ dynamics in Cameroon”
Date: 15 Dec 2017 (Fri) 13:30-15:30
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Cocoa agroforest management and REDD+ dynamics in Cameroon”
Presenter: Dr. Denis Jean SONWA (Senior Researcher, Center for International Forestry Research; the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Visiting Professor, African Studies Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Co-hosted by:
African Studies Centre, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
“Quest for citizenship in their own country: case study of Cameroon’s migrants”
Date: 26 Oct 2017 (Thu) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Quest for citizenship in their own country: case study of Cameroon’s migrants”
Presenter: Prof. Antoine SOCPA (Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Human and Social Sciences, The University of Yaounde I; Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Co-hosted by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity.
Date: 13 Oct 2017 (Fri) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Re-examining Elections, the African Experience”
Presenter: Prof. Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Co-hosted by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity.
“Diplomatic, Political and Economic Relationship of Ethiopia and Japan”
Date: 7 Jul 2017 (Fri) 13:30-15:30
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: “Diplomatic, Political and Economic Relationship of Ethiopia and Japan”
Presenter: His Excellency Mr. Cham Ugala Uriat (Ambassadar of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia)
“Reconsidering area studies in Africa: The Ethiopian experience”,
“Smallholders responses to food insecurity: The case of the Gamo Highlands, Southern Ethiopia”
Date: 26 May 2017 (Fri) 13:00-15:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title 1: Reconsidering area studies in Africa: The Ethiopian experience
Title 2: Smallholders responses to food insecurity: The case of the Gamo Highlands, Southern Ethiopia
Presenter: Dr. Getaneh Mehari (Department of Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University; Visiting Professor of Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"Salt in northern Ethiopia in its socio-cultural context: What the use of salt bars as money tells us about economic culture and values of the traditional society"
Date: 20 April 2017 (Thu) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Salt in northern Ethiopia in its socio-cultural context: What the use of salt bars as money tells us about economic culture and values of the traditional society
Presenter: Dr. Wolbert G.C. SMIDT (Associate Professor in Ethnohistory, PhD Coordinator "History and Cultural Studies" at the Department of History and Heritage Management (DHHM), College of Social Sciences and Languages (CSSL), Mekelle University)
"Beyond the rural-urban divide: Patterns of translocality in postcolonial Namibia"
Date: 3 April 2017 (MOn) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Beyond the rural-urban divide: Patterns of translocality in postcolonial Namibia
Presenter: Clemens Greiner (GSSC, University of Cologne)
5th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) "Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa" (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada).]
"Improving Native Livestock Production in Ghana for Livelihood Enhancement and Wildlife Conservation"
Date: 8 March 2017 (Wed) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Improving Native Livestock Production in Ghana for Livelihood Enhancement and Wildlife Conservation
Presenter: Dr. Boniface B. KAYANG (Department of Animal Science, University of Ghana)
"Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA): Responding to the demand for agricultural development and food security in Africa"
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Date: 17 February 2017 (Fri) 10:00-12:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA): Responding to the demand for agricultural development and food security in Africa
Presenter: Dr. J. Musembi Mutuku (Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa (BecA) Hub, International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi. KENYA.)
"Does the study of individuals and their lives make a fruitful contribution to other fields of interest in African Studies?"
Date: 7 February 2017 (Thu) 15:00-16:30
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Does the study of individuals and their lives make a fruitful contribution to other fields of interest in African Studies?
Presenter: Dr. Jan Patrick Heiss (Department of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies , University of Zurich)
"Theorising Voice: Performativity, Politics and Listening"
Date: 3 February 2017 (Fri) 18:00-20:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Theorising Voice: Performativity, Politics and Listening
Presenter: Ms. Jenny Lawy (University of Edinburgh)
Co-hosted by:
"Network formation for reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world" for the JSPS Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers (PI: Jun Ikeno)
4th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) "Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa" (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada).]
"The State of African Studies in Europe" "Forging New Alliances: Reflections on Religion and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Date: 27 January 2017 (Fri) 15:00-17:30
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Presentation 1："The State of African Studies in Europe"
Presentation 2："Forging New Alliances: Reflections on Religion and Politicsin Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Barbara Bompani (Center of African Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Co-hosted by:
"Network formation for reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world" for the JSPS Program for Advancing Strategic International Networks to Accelerate the Circulation of Talented Researchers (PI: Jun Ikeno)
"Situational Livelihoods: Being a Hunter-Gatherer in North-Central Namibia"
Date: 26 January 2017 (Thu) 11:00-13:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title:Situational Livelihoods: Being a Hunter-Gatherer in North-Central Namibia
Presenter: Mr. Charlie Goodwin (University of Cologne)
Co-hosted by:
3rd Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) "Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa" (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada).]
"The Apex of African Neo-colonialism: Zimbabwe’s War Veterans Vanguard against Mugabe’s Dynastic Rule Establishment"
Date: 1 December 2016 (Thu) 17:00-19:00
Venue: Small Seminar Room No. 2, Inamori Center 3rd Floor, Kyoto University
Title:The Apex of African Neo-colonialism: Zimbabwe’s War Veterans Vanguard against Mugabe’s Dynastic Rule Establishment
Presenter: Dr. Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba (Centre for Applied Social Sciences, University of Zimbabwe)
"Coffee in Ethiopia: Origins and local uses of a globalized drink"
Date: 8 November 2016 (Tue) 15:00-17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Social Relations and Orange Production: The Case of Smallholders Farmers in MKUZI Village, TANZANIA
Presenter: Dr. David Gongwe Mhando (Associate Research Professor at Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania)
"Reconciliation after Genocide: the state of affairs between Namibia and Germany"
Date: 7 November 2016 (Mon) 18:00-20:00（Open at 17:30）
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Reconciliation after Genocide: the state of affairs between Namibia and Germany
Presenter: Prof. Dr. Reinhart Kößler (Institute of Reconciliation and Social Justice, The University of the Free State)
"Majority versus minority languages: A case of air slots allocation of South African Bantu Languages on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) channels"
Date: 28 October 2016 (Fri) 13:30 - 15:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Majority versus minority languages: A case of air slots allocation of South African Bantu Languages on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) channels
Presenter: Dr Madala Crous Hlungwani (University of Venda, South Africa & International Christian University, Japan)
"African (Food-chain) from Ideas to Consumption: Addressing weaknesses of reductionism in knowledge systems studies"
Date: 15 July 2016 (Fri) 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Small Meeting Room 1, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: African (Food-chain) from Ideas to Consumption: Addressing weaknesses of reductionism in knowledge systems studies
Presenter: Dr. Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba (University of Zimbabwe, Centre for Applied Social Sciences CASS, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University)
"Land, agro-pastoralism and Ethiopian development: a case study on competing perceptions of ‘resources’ and livelihoods in Southwest Ethiopia"
Date: 1 July 2016 (Fri) 17:30 - 19:30
Venue:Small Meeting Room 1, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Land, agro-pastoralism and Ethiopian development: a case study on competing perceptions of ‘resources’ and livelihoods in Southwest Ethiopia
Presenter: Dr. Jon Abbink (Leiden University)
"Mbororo perspectives on indigenous identity and Mbororo-Pygmie relations"
Date: 28 June 2016 (Tue) 14:45 - 17:00
Venue: #318, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Mbororo perspectives on indigenous identity and Mbororo-Pygmie relations
Presenter: Dr. Michaela Pelican (University of Cologne)
Discussant: Daiji Kimura (Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), Kyoto University)
Co-hosted by:
1st Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation [financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)(Overseas Academic Research) "Natural history of landscape formation in contact zone between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in Africa" (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada).]
"Suri sexual culture (Southwest Ethiopia): the case of ‘menstrual synchrony’. An anthropological approach"
Date: 23 June 2016 (Thu) 15:00 - 17:00
Venue: Small Meeting Room 1, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (3rd floor), Kyoto University
Title: Suri sexual culture (Southwest Ethiopia): the case of ‘menstrual synchrony’. An anthropological approach
Presenter: Dr. Jon Abbink (Leiden University)
"Overcoming divides: African Studies and the Global South Studies Center at the the University of Cologne"
"Infrastructures, post-pastoralism and territorialization: Mapping anticipation and change in a Kenyan dryland"
Date: 24 February 2016 (Wed) 15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd Floor, Middle-sized Meeting Room (No. 332)
Title: Monitoring forest cover change to assist conservation efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Presenter: Dr. Raymond S. Lumbuenamo (University of Kinshasa)
"The invention of modern water in well watered places and their Pastoral Landscape (Marsabit County, Kenya)"
Date: 10 February 2016 (Wed) 15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd floor, #318 Seminar Room
Title: The invention of modern water in well watered places and their Pastoral Landscape (Marsabit County, Kenya)
Presenter: Dr. Benoit Hazard (CNRS-EHESS)
Date: 15 December 2015 (Tue) 15:00 - 18:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd floor, #318 Seminar Room
Title: Africa & the Global South Post-2015
Presenter: Dr. Timothy M. Shaw (Professor at Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts)
Discussant: Dr. B. Jane L. Parpart (Professor at Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts)
Co-hosted with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials”
"The Graves of Wrath: A Malagasy Sacred Kingship in the Age of Globalization"
Date: 26 November 2015 (Thu): 15:00 - 17:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd floor, #318 Seminar Room
Title: The Graves of Wrath: A Malagasy Sacred Kingship in the Age of Globalization
Presenter: Dr. Laurent Berger (Associate Professor at EHESS, Paris-School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences)
"The archaeology of the Upemba Depression in D. R. Congo"
Date: 17 November 2015 (Tue), 16:00 - 18:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd floor, #318 Seminar Room
Title: The archaeology of the Upemba Depression in D. R. Congo
Presenter:Professor Pierre DE Maret
(Lector and ancien president of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
"Gender and Poverty Dynamics in Uganda: Exploring Women’s Rights to Land
and Property at Household Level "
Date: 16 November 2015 (Mon), 15:00 - 17:00
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Memorial Building, 3rd floor, #318 Seminar Room
Title: Gender and Poverty Dynamics in Uganda: Exploring Women’s Rights to Land
and Property at Household Level
Presenter: Dr. Florence Akiiki Asiimwe (visiting professor of ASAFAS from Makerere
University)
"Writing for speaking: The development of N|uu educational materials"
Date: October 9, 2015 (Fri), 15:00 - 17:00
Venue: Small-sized seminar room I, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Title: Writing for speaking: The development of N|uu educational materials
Presenter: Dr. Sheena Shah (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town / Visiting Scholar at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University)
Co-organized by the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Cultural and ecological foundations of education and learning: An anthropological study on rhythm, imitation, and exchange (Akira Takada)"
"FOSAS project contribution in testing, dissemination and adoption of agricultural innovations lessons and perspectives" "Towards the building of a wildlife management model in the northern periphery of Boumba-Bek National Park, South-eastern Cameroon: What is still missing"
Date: Aug.24 (Mon), 2015, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Room #318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation 1：FOSAS project contribution in testing, dissemination and adoption of agricultural innovations lessons and perspectives
Presenter 1： Dr. Gabriel Ambroise MANGA (Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon)
Presentation 2：Towards the building of a wildlife management model in the northern periphery of Boumba-Bek National Park, South-eastern Cameroon: What is still missing
Presenter 2： Dr. Kadiri Serge BOBO (University of Dschang, Cameroon / School for the Training of Wildlife Specialists Garoua, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Cameroon)
Co-hosted with
JST and JICA program: Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS),
"Establishment of Sustainable Livelihood Strategies and Natural Resource Management in Tropical Rain Forest and its Surrounding Areas of Cameroon: Integrating the Global Environmental Concerns with Local Livelihood Needs"
Principal Investigator: Prof. ARAKI Shigeru (The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"Amos Tutuola and the Elusiveness of Completeness"
Date: July. 4 (Sat), 2015, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Small-sized seminar room I, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Amos Tutuola and the Elusiveness of Completeness
Presenter： Dr. Francis B. Nyamnjoh (Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Co-hosted with The research project funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials” (The representative, Prof. Ohta Center for ,African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
Date: Apr. 30 (Thu), 2015, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Small-sized seminar room II, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Devolution in Kenya: Implications for security
Presenter： Prof. Kennedy Mkutu (Visiting Professor at ASAFAS, Kyoto University, Professor at International Relations and Peace Studies United States International University)
"Slavery, Islam and the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa"
Date: Apr. 25 (Sat), 2015, 15:30 – 18:00
Venue: Room #318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Slavery, Islam and the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa
Presenter： Dr. Gabeba Baderoon (Assistant Professor, Departments of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University)
"Remnant classes in Oti-Volta (Gur) with a focus on noun class degradation and renovation"
Date: Apr. 16 (Thu), 2015, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Middle-sized seminar room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Remnant classes in Oti-Volta (Gur) with a focus on noun class degradation and renovation
Presenter：Prof. Manfred von Roncador (Visiting professor at Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies)
"Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Social and Structural Implications"
Date: Mar. 7 (Sat), 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Small-sized seminar room II, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe: Social and Structural Implications (a tentative title)
Presenter：Dr. Sam Moyo（Executive Director of African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe & Visiting Professor at Kyoto University）
"Public Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Overlooked Development Priority"
Date: Feb. 18 (Wed), 2015, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Room #318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Public Health Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Overlooked Development Priority
Presenter：Dr. Othieno Nyanjom (Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis)
"Reconstructing the history of African crops: the contribution of linguistics and archaeology"
Date: Feb. 2 (Mon), 2015, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Middle-sized seminar room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Reconstructing the history of African crops: the contribution of linguistics and archaeology
Presenter：Roger Blench (Kay Williamson Educational Foundation, Cambridge)
"Valorization of origin based-products in Ethiopia: an option being considered for biodiversity conservation and local development"
Date: Dec. 12 (Fri), 2014, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Small-sized seminar room II, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Valorization of origin based-products in Ethiopia: an option being considered for biodiversity conservation and local development
Presenter：Feleke Woldeyes Gamo (Arba Minch University, Ethiopia / Kyoto University)
Date & time: Dec. 5th (Fri) 15:00-
Venue: Room 318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University
Presentation：Ecological and social dynamics of agricultural systems in southern Cameroon
Presenter： Dr. Martin Yemefack（IRAD / IITA)
Co-hosted with JST and JICA program: Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS),
"Establishment of Sustainable Livelihood Strategies and Natural Resource Management in Tropical Rain Forest and its Surrounding Areas of Cameroon: Integrating the Global Environmental Concerns with Local Livelihood Needs"
Principal Investigator: Prof. ARAKI Shigeru (The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
Presentation 1: Violent Islamic Radicalization: Northern Nigeria in the light of the experience of southern Niger Republic
Presenter 1: Abdul Raufu Mustapha (Oxford University)
Presentation 2: The Dark Side of Inclusion: Informal Enterprise, Inclusive Markets and Islamic Extremism in Nigeria
Presenter 2: Kate Meagher (London School of Economics)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials” (The representative, Prof. Ohta Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
"Non Timber Forest Products of Cameroon: Diversity, potentials, threats and indigenous response strategies"
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Date: 15:00-, 23 Oct. 2014
Venue: Room #318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus
Title: Non Timber Forest Products of Cameroon: Diversity, potentials, threats and indigenous response strategies
Speaker: Dr. Evariste Fongnzossie(University of Douala, Cameroon, PhD)
Co-hosted with
JST and JICA program: Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS),
"Establishment of Sustainable Livelihood Strategies and Natural Resource Management in Tropical Rain Forest and its Surrounding Areas of Cameroon: Integrating the Global Environmental Concerns with Local Livelihood Needs"
Principal Investigator: Prof. ARAKI Shigeru (The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
"Cities and Urbanisation"
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Date: 13:30-15:00, 1 Oct. 2014
Venue: Large Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus
Title: Cities and Urbanisation
Speaker: Ms. Mohau N. Pheko (South Africa ambassador to Japan)
Co-hosted with
Division of African Area Studies, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
"Ecological and biological foundations of sign use"
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Date: 15:30-18:30, 8 Aug. 2014
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus
Title:The evolutionary development of sign-mediated ways of being in the world
Speaker: Dr. Donald F. Favareau (National University of Singapore、Dr./Associate Professor)
Discussant: Mr. Koji Sonoda (Kyoto University)
*For attending reception, please inform us your (1) name, and (2) affiliation, to the following email address t-nomura@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp, for preparing the reception.
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*For the reception, contribution for the actual expenses will be required.
Co-hosted with
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Cultural and ecological foundations of education and learning: An anthropological study on rhythm, imitation, and exchange (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)"
"Ukuringa’ – The role of language in negotiating male youth township identity on a south African street corner"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 26 May 2014
Venue: Kyoto University Inamori Center, 3rd Floor, Small Seminar Room
Title: Ukuringa’ – The role of language in negotiating male youth township identity on a south African street corner
Speaker: Idah Makukule (Public Affairs Research Institute, South Africa, Researcher)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials” (The representative, Prof. Ohta Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
"The Dilemma in Being an Islamic Radical in Northern Nigeria: Whether Non-violent or Violent"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 20 May 2014
Venue: Room #318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus
Title: The Dilemma in Being an Islamic Radical in Northern Nigeria: Whether Non-violent or Violent
Speaker: Prof. Murray Last (University of London, Professor emeritus)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials” (The representative, Prof. Ohta Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
"Updating Khoisan Phonetics"
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Date: 15:00-18:00, 26 March 2014
Venue: Small Seminar Room I, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus
Title(1): Cross-Khoisan phonotactics: a typologically uncommon feature of Khoisan phonology
Speaker(1): Prof. Hiroshi Nakagawa（Tokyo University of Foreign Studies）
Title(2): The phoneme inventory of Taa
Speaker(2): Dr. Christfried Naumann（Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie Leipzig & Universität Leipzig）
(*after the programme we will have a reception)
"Community Participation ; bridging formal education and agricultural research"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 21 Febrary 2014
Venue: Small Seminar Room II, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Community Participation ; bridging formal education and agricultural research
Speaker: Dr. BEDRU Beshir Abdi (Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research)
Co-hosted with
Graduate Program of Asian and African Studies, Ryukoku University,
JSPS research grant program （24651272）on ‘Democratization and Education ; Citizenship in Civics Textbooks in Three African Countries.’(Leader: Shoko Yamada) and
JSPS research grant program （23251005）on ‘Engaged Area Studies in the Arena of African Local-Knowledge Formation and Sharing: Seeking for the new images of community' (Leader: Masayoshi Shigeta)
"The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 3 Febrary 2014
Venue: Small Seminar Room II, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: The Political Economy of Agricultural Extension in Ethiopia: Economic Growth and Political Control
Speaker: Prof. Kassahun Berhanu Alemu (Addis Ababa University)
Co-hosted with
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Engaged Area Studies in the Arena of African Local-Knowledge Formation and Sharing: Seeking for the new images of community" (The representative, Prof. Shigeta Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
"Tobacco and Health: An Overview of Tobacco Control in Zambia"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 10 January 2014
Venue: #318 Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Tobacco and Health: An Overview of Tobacco Control in Zambia
Speaker: Richard Zulu (University of Zambia, visiting Associate Professor of ASAFAS, Kyoto University)
Co-hosted with
the Research Cluster on Southern Africa of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) “Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials” (The representative, Prof. Ohta Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto Univ.)
"Dialogue on ecological pest and diseases management:Form Cameroonian and Japanese experiences"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 1 November 2013
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title(1): Policy and Strategy on Ecological Pest and Diseases Management in Cameroon
Speaker(1): Dr. Noe Woin(Director General, Institute of Agricultural Research and Development)
Title(2): The third alternative farming systems: agrobiodiversity conservation with sustainable agriculture in Japan
Speaker(2): Dr. Kazumasa Hitaka(Graduate School of Agronomy, Ehime University)
Co-hosted with
JST・SATREPS program
"Shifting agency in shaping linguistic landscape: Evidence from Dar es Salaam"
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Date: 15:30-17:30, 12 October 2013
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Shifting agency in shaping linguistic landscape: Evidence from Dar es Salaam
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Chul-Joon Yang (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea)
Co-hosted with
Japan Association for African Studies, and
Center for African Studies, Research Institute for Social Sciences, Ryukoku University
"Enhancing livelihoods in Ghana through improvement in native livestock production"
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Date: 15:00-17:00, 26 September 2013
Venue: Seminar Room (No.318), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Enhancing livelihoods in Ghana through improvement in native livestock production
Speaker: Dr. Boniface B. Kayang (Department of Animal Science, University of Ghana)
Co-hosted with
Kyoto University Fund for Internationalization (2013) "Fund for education and research project of wildlife conservation by collaboration with the University of Ghana" Wildlife Research Center
"Culture, Childhood, and Cognition"
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Date: 15:00-18:30 5 July 2013
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title1: The context of early childhood: Family, culture, and policy – family decision making
Speaker1: Dr. Marguerite (Peg) Barratt (The George Washington University & Kyoto University)
Title2: Culture and attention: Implications for developmental research
Speaker2: Dr. Takahiko Masuda (University of Alberta)
Each slot includes talk and discussion. All talks are given in English without translation.
Admission free for attending the symposium.
For the reception (18:30-20:00), contribution of \1000-2000 a person will be required.
Registration (Deadline: 20 Jun 2013)
If you would like to attend our symposium, please e-mail us at （ t-nomura@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp ） .
Then, please provide us the following information:
(1) Name, (2) Affiliation, (3) Participation to the reception (attend / absent)
Co-hosted with
6th Seminar of anthropology of education and learning (financially supportedby JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
"Cultural and ecologicalfoundations of education and learning: An anthropological study on rhythm,imitation, and exchange (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)"
"Fragmentation, cooperation and power: the institutional dynamics in natural resource governance in north-western Namibia"
Date: 14:30-16:30, 14 May 2013
Venue: Seminar Room (No.318), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Fragmentation, cooperation and power: the institutional dynamics in natural resource governance in north-western Namibia
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vice-Rector for International Relations, Diversity and Academic Career, Universität zu Köln)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials" (Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"Gestures in oral societies: The fading of obligatory gestures through writing"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 6 Apr 2013
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Gestures in oral societies: The fading of obligatory gestures through writing
Speaker: Dr. Matthias Brenzinger (CALDi, University of Cape Town)
Co-hosted with
5th Seminar of anthropology of education and learning (financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) "Cultural and ecological foundations of education and learning: An anthropological study on rhythm, imitation, and exchange (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)"
"The Urban Working Class Dimensions of Zimbabwe's War Veterans Revolution: New empirical evidence from the informal sector"
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Date: 16:00-18:00 19 Mar 2013
Venue: Small Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: The Urban Working Class Dimensions of Zimbabwe's War Veterans Revolution: New empirical evidence from the informal sector
Speaker: Dr. Wilbert Zvakanyorwa Sadomba (Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials" (Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"Unravelling biotemporal signals: Traditional ecological knowledge and local adaptive responses to climate change in the tropical rainforests"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 13 Mar 2013
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Unravelling biotemporal signals: Traditional ecological knowledge and local adaptive responses to climate change in the tropical rainforests
Speaker: Dr. Edmond Dounias (Directeur de Recherche, IRD (Institut de Recherche pour la Developpement), France)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
(Representative: Prof. Mitsuo Ichikawa),
"Human Rights NGOs and Strategies of Public Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 3 Feb 2013
Venue: Small Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Human Rights NGOs and Strategies of Public Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Niezen (Department of Anthropology, McGill University)
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials" (Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"The Influence of Farmer Groups Activities on Resource Management: Experience from the Matengo Highlands, Mbinga District, Tanzania"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 11 Dec 2012
Venue: Medium Seminar Room, 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: The Influence of Farmer Groups Activities on Resource Management: Experience from the Matengo Highlands, Mbinga District, Tanzania
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Justice Nindi (Sokoine University Of Agriculture)
"Taxing Times: Informal Economies and Religious Conflict in Northern Nigeria"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 30 Oct 2012
Venue: Conference Room (No.332), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: Taxing Times: Informal Economies and Religious Conflict in Northern Nigeria
Speaker: Dr. K. Meagher（London School of Economics）
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
(Representative: Prof. Shuhei Shimada),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials" (Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"Conservation and Sustainable Development of Rainforest, Cameroon"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 30 Oct 2012
Venue: Conference Room (No.330), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title 1: Sustainable Management of the South-East Region humid forest of Cameroon
Speaker 1: Dr. Bernard-Aloys NKONGMENECK（University of Yaounde1）
Title 2: Agricultural Development Research and Policy in the Forest Zone of South Region, Cameroon: Challenges and Constraints
Speaker 2: Dr. Antoine David MVONDO ZE（University of Dschang）
"Chiefdom in Africa: An institution of the past or for the future?"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 9 Oct 2012
Venue: Conference Room (No.330), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: "Chiefdom in Africa: An institution of the past or for the future?"
Speaker: Petr Skalník (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic)
Co-hosted with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials"(Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"On the typology of directional verbs in Bantu A (Barombi,Isubu, Mokpe, and Oroko)"
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Date: 15:30-17:00 23 May 2012
Venue: Conference Room (No.332), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: "On the typology of directional verbs in Bantu A (Barombi,Isubu, Mokpe, and Oroko)"
Speaker: Dr. Gratien G. Atindogbé（University of Buea, Cameroon）
"Regional conflicts in Nigeria"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 15 Feb 2012
Venue: Conference Room (No.332), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title 1: "Nigeria: The Post-Amnesty Blues and the Future of Insurgency in the Niger Delta"
Speaker 1: Dr. C. Ukeje（Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria）
Title 2: "Boko Haram: The long road to Islamic Terroism"
Speaker 2: Dr. M. Raufu Mustapha（University of Oxford, UK）
Co-hosted with
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (Representative: Prof. Shuhei Shimada),
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials" (Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"Looking Back to Look Forward: Agricultural Challenges to Opportunities in the African Great Lakes Region"
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Date: 15:00-17:00 8 Feb 2012
Venue: Seminar Room (No.318), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: "Looking Back to Look Forward: Agricultural Challenges to Opportunities in the African Great Lakes Region"
Speaker: Dr. Dr. Emmanuel K. NJUKWE
（IITA/CIALCA : Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa,
Bujumbura, Burundi）
Co-hosted with JST-JICA SATREPS "Sustainable Project in the Forest-Savanna of Cameroon"
"Strengthning JST/JICA Cooperation between Cameroon and Japan"
Date: 15:30-17:00 15 Nov 2011
Venue: Conference Room (No.332), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title 1: "Scientific Research Cooperation in Cameroon"
Speaker 1: Dr. Thomas Dongmo
（Chief, Division of Scientific and Techlological Cooperation,
Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation, Cameroon
Title 2: "Forest Policy and the State of Forest Management in Cameroon"
Speaker 2: Dr. Bernard Foahom
（Scientific Director for Forest, Soils and Environment, IRAD, Cameroon
17：00～19：00 Reception
Co-hosted with JST-JICA SATREPS "Sustainable Project in the Forest-Savanna of Cameroon"
“Indigenous Peoples and Civil Society in Africa”
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Date: 15:00-18:00 21 Oct 2011
Venue: Conference Room (No.331), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
15:00-15:10 Introduction
15:10-16:30 John Galaty (McGill University)
"Maasai Land Conflicts and Civil Society: Local Struggles and a Global Audience"
16:30-16:40 Coffee break
16:40-18:00 Junko Maruyama (Tsuda College)
“Resettlement, Development and Indigenous Peoples’ Movement: Two Cases from San Communities in Southern Africa”
Co-hosted with Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
"Comprehensive Area Studies on Coexistence and Conflict Resolution Realizing the African Potentials"(Representative: Prof. Itaru Ohta)
"Reflections on Khat in Ethiopia"
Date: 17:30-19:00 22 Sep 2011
Venue: Conference Room (No.331), 3F Inamori Bldg., Kawabata Campus
Title: "Reflections on Khat in Ethiopia."
Speaker: Ezekiel Gebissa (Kettering University, USA)
