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17th Oct 2023 Commons Café /the 81st ASC Seminar @ ILCAA, TUFS
September 20, 2023 Events
Title: ‘Care and Reunification in a Cape Verdean Family: Changing Articulations of Family and Legal Ties’ The presenter: Prof. Heike Drotbohm (The head of the Anthropology department at Mainz University of Mainz, Germany） Abstract: This presentation looks at the interaction between transnational family relationships, on the one hand, and family-related immigration policies, on the other. Taking the conflicting concerns that arose between administrative decision-makers and family members during an attempt to reunite a Cape Verdean family spread across several countries as an example, the questions of what ‘family’ means, what relationships are included and the nature of the relationships involved answered differently by different actors will be shown. …
2023.2.1. 17:00~18:30 Commons café / ASC seminar by Dr. Florence K. Muhanguzi, ‘Rethinking Strategies for Ending Sexual Harassment in Higher Education in Institutions in Uganda’
January 11, 2023 Events
Poster: https://www.aajoint.live-on.net/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/01/Florence-1stFeb-seminar-4.pdf Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa(ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS) Commons Café /ASC Seminar Date: 1st February 2023 Time: 17:00~19:00(JST) Venue: 303@ILCAA and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Florence K. Muhanguzi（Makerere University） “Rethinking Strategies for Ending Sexual Harassment in Higher Education in Institutions in Uganda” Commentator : Dr. Siyanbola A. Omitoyin (University of Ibadan) Dr. Muhanguzi has just conducted a survey on sexual harassment in several Ugandan universities and she will introduce the latest cases in Ugandan universities. We would like to use this as an important starting point for considering the case in Japan. Pre-registration is required: https://forms.gle/6jHtEg9i9UqgvttN8 Language: English Admission: Free …
2023.1.31.17:00~19:00 Commons Café /FSC/ASC Seminar by Dr. Stella Nyanzi ‘Struggling against Homophobia in Uganda: An Academic-Activist-Ally’s Analysis’
January 11, 2023 Events
Poster: https://www.aajoint.live-on.net/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/01/Stella-31st-Jan-seminar-3.pdf Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa(ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS) Commons Café /FSC/ASC Seminar Date: 31st January 2023 Time: 17:00~19:00 (JST) Venue: 303@ILCAA and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Stella Nyanzi (PEN Germany) ‘Struggling against Homophobia in Uganda: An Academic-Activist-Ally’s Analysis’ Discussant: Keiji Fujimoto (Photographer) https://www.keijifujimoto.net/ Stella and Keiji, who have each worked on homophobia, and who may have been in the same place during the Pride parade in Uganda are now in Japan and they will discuss the issue of ‘LGBTIA+’ together. Pre-registration is required. https://forms.gle/LrMW32FbwvAApj6k8 Please scan the QR code for registration by January 30, 2023. Admission: Free Language: English Access: http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/about/access …
2022年度第4回研究会（通算第8回目）2022年12月3日（土）13:00–16:30The 8th meeting of the ILCAA-Africa youths’ project on Saturday 3rd December 2022
December 31, 2022 EventsILCAA Joint Research Project Global Youth Dynamics and ‘reality’ negotiation in Eastern Africa
2022年度第4回研究会（通算第8回目）2022年12月3日（土）13:00–16:30 1．近藤有希子（AA研共同研究員、京都大学） 「『もう丘には戻らない』―虐殺後のルワンダに生きる若者の選択と暴力の記憶―」 2．セーラ ジョージア（AA研共同研究員、京都大学） 「やせっぽちの女の子、太った女性：ウガンダ都市部における肥満のダイナミクス」 The 8th meeting of the ILCAA-Africa youths’ project on Saturday 3rd December 2022, Presenter: SEERA Georgina Title: Skinny girls, fat women: the dynamics of obesity among women in urban Uganda Abstract of the presentation Introduction: Obesity among women tends to be more prevalent among the older women than among the younger women in Uganda and in most countries around the world. The biological circumstances surrounding this are undeniable. However, since there are exceptions, it is worth exploring the circumstances that characterize the co-existence of skinny girls and fat women in society, with sometimes even the same skinny girl, growing up into a fat or very …
2023.1.28-29@ILCAA-TUFS, TOKYO and Zoom【TUFiSCo-ILCAA International Symposium】Sexuality in Contemporary Africa: Tradition, Education and Practices 現代アフリカにおけるセクシュアリティ： 伝統、教育、そして実践
December 30, 2022 Events
ABSTRACT Despite the international development organizations’ efforts toward mitigation of learner single motherhood, early pregnancies, and HIV prevalence among societies in Africa, these issues have remained persistently incremental in the last one decade and more recently worsened during COVID-19 pandemic. Menstrual poverty and related WASH problems remain systemic. What explains this trend? Prior to colonial invasion, sexuality was central to every society whereby the family was the educational pivot. The events that followed colonial occupation repositioned the sexuality values toward ‘presumed modernity’. The transitioning from the traditional to the ‘presumed modern’ practices has mutated into dynamic between-ness. In this symposium, we ethnographically interrogate this between-ness and associated complications. We tackle …
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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
April 20, 2018 GalleryOur WorksPublications
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.
April 4, 2016 GalleryOur WorksPublications
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 …
