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Seminars of the current academic year
Fiscal 2025
No. 3 Middle East Research Seminar: Is the Sharafnama a "Kurdish" History? Contrasting Influences and Representations in Bidlisi's Chronicle of the Emirs of Kurdistan on October 3rd,2025.| organizers | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University NIHU Global Mediterranean at ILCAA | | date and time | Friday, October 3, 2025
16:00-17:30 | | title | Sacha Alsancakli“Is the Sharafnama a “Kurdish” History? Contrasting Influences and Representations in Bidlisi’s Chronicle of the Emirs of Kurdistan” | | speaker | Sacha Alsancakli (Munster University, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) | | Venue | Room 603, 6th Floor, Building No. 2, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University (7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554, Japan) / Online (Zoom)
| | Registration | Registration Deadline: Wednesday,October 1, 2025, 22:00 (JST)
https://forms.gle/LxwutR41aP9Hj8Jz6 | | Inquiry | i-asianc@sophia.ac.jp |
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 time | Friday, July 18, 2025
17:15-18:45
| | title | Reconsidering Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Contemporary Africa:
Urban Vernaculars and the Linguistic Agency in Youth Cultures
| | speakers | Speaker: 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 | | language | English (with no translation) | | registration | Please 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. | | inquiry | i-asianc@sophia.ac.jp |
No. 1 Seminar on Water Heritage in the Western Desert Oases in Egypt will be held on Thursday, June 5th, 2025.| organizers | Institute of Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Studies, Sophia University
Scarce-Water Society Research Center,Sophia University（SATREPS） | | date and time | Thursday, June 5th,2025
17:30-19:00 | | title | Water Heritage in the Western Desert Oases in Egypt | | speakers | Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Soliman (Musashino University JSPS Invited Foreign Researcher, Ministry of of Tourism and Antiquities, Egypt)
Professor Yasser El Shayed (American University in Cairo) | | venue | Onsite 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. | | language | English | | registration | https://forms.gle/EMBUvpWGbPi7878U9
Registration deadline June 1 (Sun), 2025 | | inquiry | i-asianc＊sophia.ac.jp (change * to @ and send) |
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