Seminars

Seminars of the current academic year

Fiscal 2025

No. 2@Seminar: Reconsidering Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Contemporary Africa: Urban Vernaculars and the Linguistic Agency in Youth Cultures will be held on Friday, July 18,2025.

organizer(s)Organizer: Institute of Asian, African,and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Supporters: Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS), African Studies Center at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

date and timeFriday, July 18, 2025
17:15-18:45

titleReconsidering Ngugi wa Thiongfo in Contemporary Africa:
Urban Vernaculars and the Linguistic Agency in Youth Cultures
speakersSpeaker: Prof. John M. Mugane (Director of the African Language Program, Havard University)
Discussant: Dr. Kithinji Kinyua(Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Moderator: Prof. Wakiko Ohira (Sophia University)




venue (Hybrid)Room 603, 6th Floor, Building No.2, Sophia University & on Zoom
languageEnglish (with no translation)
registrationPlease register by July 16.
On-site attendance limited to the first 25 People
https://forms.gle/8D6m5yr8jkU3NjuX6

Zoom meeting information will be sent to those registered.
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No. 1@Seminar on Water Heritage in the Western Desert Oases in Egypt will be held on Thursday, June 5th, 2025.

organizersInstitute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Scarce-Water Society Research Center,Sophia UniversityiSATREPSj
date and timeThursday, June 5th,2025
17:30-19:00
titleWater Heritage in the Western Desert Oases in Egypt
speakersDr. Mohamed Ahmed Soliman (Musashino University JSPS Invited Foreign Researcher, Ministry of of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt)
Professor Yasser El Shayed (American University in Cairo)
venueOnsite and online

Building 2, Room 730 (7th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
https://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/aboutsophia/access/campus/

Online meeting information will be sent later to those registered.
languageEnglish
registrationhttps://forms.gle/EMBUvpWGbPi7878U9

Registration deadline June 1 (Sun), 2025
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