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Seminars of the current academic year
Fiscal 2024
No. 6 Africa Research Seminar will be held on Friday, November 22nd,2024.| organizers | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
co-organizer:科研費・国際共同A「アフリカにおける紛争と女性のエージェンシー：女性解放と連帯」（代表者：眞城百華） | | date and time | Friday, November 22nd,2024
16:00-19:00 | | title | アフリカにおける「解放闘争と女性」再考：紛争・ジェンダー・移行期正義 | | speakers | Helen Scanlon (Faculty of Humanities, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town)
Momoka Maki (Faculty of Global Studies/ Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University) | | venue | Building 12 Room 402, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/ | | languages | English and Japanese (with translation for English parts) | | registration | https://forms.gle/22JEJ6EsER4CcjKk9
Please register by November 20th. | | inquiry | i-asianc@sophia.ac.jp |
No. 5 Seminar on Migration and Refugees in the Mediterranean will be held on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024.| organizer | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University | | date and time | Wednesday, December 4, 2024
17:30-19:00 | | title | Migration flows and policies in the Mediterranean after the Arab Spring | | speaker | Hassen BOUBAKRI (Sousse University, Tunisia) | | venue (Hybrid) | Onsite: Building 2, Room 615a (6th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/
Online: Zoom meeting information will be sent to those registered. | | language | English | | registration | https://forms.gle/3Xqo7XZEswe1Ex1k9
Please register by December 1st. | | inquiry | i-asianc*sophia.ac.jp (change * to @) |
No. 4 Seminar: Reconsidering Burmese Way to Socialism（1962-88): Re-analyzing the political and cultural meaning of the 26 year experiment will be held on Saturday, September 21st,2024| organizer(s) | Institute of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University | | date and time | Saturday, September 21st，2024
14:00〜17:00 | | title | Reconsidering Burmese Way to Socialism（1962-88): Re-analyzing the political and cultural meaning of the 26 year ’experiment’ | | speakers | １．Kei Nemoto（Honorary Fellow of Institute of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University）
Burmese Way to Socialism: Features and historical background
２． Dr. Michal Lubina（Visiting Fellow of Institute of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University/Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University, Poland）
Burmese Way to Socialism : A Comparison with People’s Republic of Poland
３．Toru Kawabe （Collaborative Fellow of Institute of Asian, African and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University）
Philosophical significance and challenge of Burmese Way to Socialism
| | venue | On site:
Sophia University, Yotsuya campus, Building no.2, 6th floor, Room 603
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/
| | language | English with no translation | | registration | https://forms.gle/HVrr7kF9bfjPLmBq6 | | Zoom Meeting ID | For those participate online
revised meeting ID as of Sep. 17.
https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/91744962867
Meeting ID: 917 4496 2867
Passcord: 996259 | | inquiry | i-asianc@sophia.ac.jp |
No. 3 Seminar: African Studies in Africa as Generational and Epistemological Insurrections will be held on July 3rd, 2024.| organizer(s) | Organized by Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Supported by Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS), African Studies Center-TUFS | | date and time | Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
17:30-19:00
| | title | African Studies in Africa as Generational and Epistemological Insurrections | | speaker | Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., Ph.D. | | venue | onsite/online
onsite
Building no.2,6F Room 603
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/ | | language | English | | registration | Please register from below by July 1.
https://forms.gle/C9pUek17T5pTfJZDA
Capacity: 25 for face-to-face, 100 for Zoom
| | inquiry | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies at Sophia University
i-asianc*sophia.ac.jp(change* to @) |
No. 2 Open Seminar: Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar will be held on Friday, June 7, 2024.| organizer(s) | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University | | date and time | 17:00-19:00
Friday, June 7th, 2024 | | title | Revolution and Solidarity in Myanmar | | speaker | Dr. Nick Cheesman
Director of Myanmar Research Centre, Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University
(Author of Myanmar: A Political Lexicon, Cambridge UP, 2023)
| | venue | Building no.2,6F Room 603
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/
| | language | English (no Japanese interpretation) | | registration | Register by June 5th through
https://forms.gle/ziBQfNH2pQkTfW8w7
(up to 25 persons)
| | inquiry | i-asianc*sophia.ac.jp(change* to @) |
No. 1 Seminar: 'Beyond Cool Japan: The Special Role of Japan in Saudi Modernity and Reform' will be held on Monday, May 13, 2024.| co-organizers | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Chair of the State of Qatar for Islamic Area Studies, Waseda University | | date and time | 16:30-18:30
Monday, May 13th, 2024 | | title | The Special Role of Japan in Saudi Modernity and Reform | | speaker | Speaker: Sean Foley (Professor, Middle Tennessee State University)
Discussant: Manami Goto (AssistantProfessor, Akita University)
MC: Namie Tsujigami (Professor, Sophia University) | | venue | Building no.2,6F Room 603
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus/ Online Zoom
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/
| | language | English (with no translation) | | registration | Register by May 9 through
https://forms.gle/XjBMh6mUtc55SJ176 | | inquiry | i-asianc*sophia.ac.jp(change* to @) |
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