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2025.2.8 [Sat] The study meeting of ILCAA Joint Research Projects ‘Situating Gender,Sexuality and Family in Eastern Africa: Lessons and Challenges from Uganda and Beyond’
December 23, 2024 Events
Situating Gender, Sexuality and Family in Eastern Africa: Lessons and Challenges from Uganda and Beyond 東アフリカにおけるジェンダー、セクシュアリティと家族の状況: ウガンダおよびその他の地域からの教訓と課題 ●Date: Sat 8th February 2025 2025.2.8(土) ●Time: 13:00 – 16:00 ●Venue: Zoom and Middle-sized Room at Inamori memorial building Kyoto University 京都大学稲盛財団記念館3階 中会議室 〒606-8501 京都市左京区吉田下阿達町46 ●Register for Zoom お申込み REGISTER ↓ …
2024.12.7Sat-8 Sun ILCAA Symposium ‘Situated Choices, Student Identities and Agencies for University Education in Uganda’
November 19, 2024 EventsILCAA Joint Research Project Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice
2024.12.7 Sat-8 Sun. ILCAA Symposium ‘Situated Choices, Student Identities and Agencies for University Education in Uganda’ AA研 国際集会 「状況のなかの選択、学生のアイデンティティとエイジェンシー：ウガンダの大学教育と若者たち」 Venue: Room 303, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) 東京外国語大学AA研大会議室303 Language: English, Admission: Free Access: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/about/access Register:https://forms.gle/QenrrF4ixJUZa7hE9 Please register by 4 Dec 2024! Note: Please encourage younger scholars including graduate students and PhD candidates to attend the casual lunch meeting on Saturday. It will be a great opportunity for their networking across areas of study. Click here to get the poster PDF 【Program】 [Day …
2024.9.29 Sat. 2024年度第2回研究会（通算第2回目）The 2nd meeting of the ILCAA Joint Research Project: Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice 東部アフリカにおける’hustle’する若者たちの民族誌：その想像力と実践力
November 18, 2024 EventsILCAA Joint Research Project Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice
The 2nd meeting Date/Time: Sun 29 Sep 2024 13:00–18:00 Venue: 302, Online meeting Language: English 1) Project Communication 2) Presentations and Discussions about ‘hustle’ as a concept · Takuya HAGIWARA (Toyo Univ./ Joint Researcher) · Isao MURAHASHI (Univ of Shizuoka / Joint Researcher) · Kithinji Laban Kinyua (Sophia Univ. /Joint Researcher) · Soichiro SHIRAISHI (Hirosaki Univ/ Joint Researcher)
2024.4.27 Sat. 2024年度第1回研究会（通算第1回目）The 1st meeting of the ILCAA Joint Research Project: Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice 東部アフリカにおける’hustle’する若者たちの民族誌：その想像力と実践力
May 1, 2024 EventsILCAA Joint Research Project Ethnography on Youth ‘hustles’ in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice
The 1st meeting Date/Time: Sat 27 Apr 2024 14:00–18:00 Venue: 302, Online meeting １. Wakana SHIINO (ILCAA) ２. All members Coordinator: Wakana SHIINO Co-Coordinator: Soichiro SHIRAISHI Joint Researchers: Keiya HANABUCHI, Midori DAIMON, Takuya HAGIWARA, Eri HASHIMOTO, Isao MURAHASHI, Yukiko KONDO, Takuma OTANI, Ian Karusigarira, Georgina Seera, Kithinji Laban Kinyua, Rebecca Babirye, Constance Mudondo, Enos Kitambo, Kassim Mwanika
2024.3.6 Wed. 2023年度第3回研究会（通算第11回目）The 11th meeting of the ILCAA Joint Research Project: Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa グローバル時代のアフリカの「若者」のキャリア志向と「現実」との交渉：東部アフリカを中心に
April 4, 2024 EventsILCAA Joint Research Project Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa
AA研共同利用・共同研究課題 グローバル時代のアフリカの「若者」のキャリア志向と「現実」との交渉：東部アフリカを中心に The 11th meeting_ 2023年度第3回研究会（通算第11回目） Date/Time: Wed 6 Mar 2024 10:00–18:00 Venue: 302, online meeting Language: English Organized by ILCAA 10:00– Meeting for publication of Japanese results 13:00– Presentation1: Karusigarira Ian (GRIPS/ Joint researcher) “University Students’ Activism in Uganda: Culture, the State, and Prospects” Presentation2: Soichiro Shiraishi (Hirosaki University/ Joint researcher) “Route to Makerere Hill: University Access from a Rural Area in Contemporary Uganda” →Cancelled [Abstract] Shifting Dimensions of Hybrid Authoritarianism in Uganda By Ian Karusigarira (GRIPS/ Joint researcher) There is a growing interest in the shifting dimensions of authoritarian rule most od Africa. For the purposes of this proposal, two major aspects are to be elucidated: …
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18th IUAES World Congress held between 16th -20th July 2018
August 15, 2018
The Open panel we convened in IUAES Academic congress (Open Panel no. OP 61) addressed a diversity and heuristics concerning the cross-cultural analysis of diversification and re-organization of family in Uganda, Kenya and Namibia. Topical discussions ranged from the studies of gerontology (tackling the cultural and well as as development issues concerning aging) to the issues of refugee and citizenship, sexuality (Female Genital Modification) and adoption. The open panels attracted reactions are open discussion on these thematic topics. Indeed, these areas of research are very relevant to the academia in this period of rapid transformation globally, nationally as well as at societal and family level.
2018 Our Publication: Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-cultural Analysis Edited by Wakana SHIINO, Soichiro SHIRAISHI & Christine M. MPYANGU
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This book contains the output of the JSPS bilateral research project that was undertaken in 2016 and 2017 with the collaboration of Japanese and Ugandan researchers. The title for the overall project was ‘The Diversification and Reorganization of “Family” in Uganda: Cross-cultural Analysis of Economic Discrepancies and Potential in Indigenous Institutions for Social Security’. Diversification and Reorganization of ‘Family’ in Uganda and Kenya: A Cross-cultural Analysis Edited by Wakana SHIINO, Soichiro SHIRAISHI & Christine M. MPYANGU by Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa Tokyo University of Foreign Studies ISBN : 978-4-86337-280-1 CONTENTS † Preface Wakana SHIINO Introduction: Transformation of the ‘family’ in Uganda and Kenya Wakana SHIINO and …
2016 Our Publication: Re-Finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity.
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SHIINO, Wakana, Soichiro Shiraishi and Tom Ondicho eds., Re-Finding African Local Assets and City Environments: Governance, Research and Reflexivity. Tokyo: The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016 March. This volume is the result of two workshops held in Nairobi in 2011 and 2013 in a collaboration between Japanese and African researchers. The workshops were entitled “Approaches and methodologies of field research in Africa” (September 2011), and “Mobility, hybridity and the way to co-existence: re-structuring daily life in rural and urban African societies” (February 2013). In these workshops researchers attempted to “re-discover” Africa, through new approaches and angles, in line with …
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