[16th Public Workshop] “Diversity and Perspectives of Contemporary African Area Studies” (Co-organized by the 200th Regular Seminar of the Center for African Area Studies) (December 19, 2013)

Date: December 19, 2013. 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg, Large-sized Meeting Room, Kyoto University

Program

“From study of African languages to that of African minds”
Shigeki Kaji (Kyoto University)

“Interests and surprises in African nature”
Kazuharu Mizuno (Kyoto University)

“Conflict resolution and realizing coexistence in Africa”
Itaru Ohta (Kyoto University)

“20 years of suburban villages in northern Tanzania”
Jun Ikeno (Kyoto University)

Discussant
Mitsuo Ichikawa (Kyoto University / Japan Monkey Center)

Summary

There are diverse approaches for understanding contemporary Africa and African area studies have been developing with the diversity. This workshop is the 200th memorial workshop in a series of the regular public seminar of the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS) which has continued since 1986. In this workshop, four researchers from the CAAS have talked about own notion of African area studies on the basis of their own experiences of field research and, with a discussant, discussed the future perspectives of African area studies.