[7th Plenary Committee Meeting] “Conference on Future Research Plan” (July 14, 2012)

Date: Jul. 14, 2012
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg. (Inamori Center), Middle-sized Meeting Room (Room No. 332), Kyoto University

Memorandum

For this general meeting, facilitators and assistant managers of each unit and cluster gathered and discussed the following topics regarding the future research plan:

1. Possible methods to disperse the main project’s results internationally and domestically.
• 5th European Conference on African Studies: African dynamics in a multi-polar world (June 2013, Lisbon, Portugal: Panel Proposal Deadline on Oct. 19, 2012)
• 55th Annual Meeting of African Studies Association: Research Frontiers in the Study of Africa (November 2012, Philadelphia, USA: Panel Proposal Deadline on March 2013)
• Canadian Association of African Studies Annual Conference 2013 (May 2013)
• Regional Conference of International Geographical Union 2013: Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future (August 2013: Joint session with related academic society [20 min presentation x 4]. Panel proposal deadline on the end of Aug. 2012)
• Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association (November 2013)
• Inter-Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (May, 2014)
• Annual Conference of Japan Association for African Studies (May 2013 at University of Tokyo)
2. The possibility of utilizing academic journals and special reports to announce project results.
3. Where and when to hold the international symposium in Japan scheduled for FY 2013.
4. Possible locations for the “Africa Forum’’ in FY 2013.
5. The best method of accumulating data in the ‘’Data Archive.’’