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Seminars on Africa in Academic Year 2013, 2014 & 2015
"Africa in Front of Us"

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Secondhand Clothing Market in Tanzania

■Event Overview
In order to observe and inquire into affaires of “disabilities, aging, illnesses and differences” on a global basis, it is important to hone our perspectives toward the developing countries in addition to collaborating with the Western and East Asian countries. In this academic year, the Research Center for Ars Viviendi holds a monthly seminar on Africa, titled “Africa in Front of Us”. We would like to approach Africa as the land that is not “far from” but “adjacent to” our daily life. In such approaches, sometimes our way of livings unexpectedly appears in different forms.               
Let’s take ourselves to a stone’s throw from Africa.


First Seminar "Another Disposable Culture: Where Secondhand Clothing Goes" X "Why Do Japanese Young People Go to Africa?"
  Conversation:OGAWA Sayaka (Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences) X SAITO Ryoichiro(Executive Director of Africa Japan Forum)
  Date & Time: May 17, 2013 (Fri.) 17:00-
  Place: Meeting (2nd Floor), Academeia Ritsumei 21, Ritsumeikan University

Second Seminar "Connection with Illnesses: AIDS, Human Rights and Social Movements"
  Conversation: NISHI Makoto (Program-specific Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research, Kyoto University) X SAITO Ryoichiro(Executive Director of Africa Japan Forum) X NIIYAMA Tomoki (Post Doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
  Date & Time: June 14, 2013 (Fri.) 17:00-
  Place: Meeting (2nd Floor), Academeia Ritsumei 21, Ritsumeikan University

Third Seminar "Individual Lives and Thread of History: Screening of Lumumba"
  Screening: Lumumba", 2000
  Lecture & Discussion: WATANABE Kozo (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences)
  Date & Time: July 19, 2013 (Fri.) 17:00-
  Place: Room#702, Zonshinkan Hall (2F), Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Fourth Seminar "Colors of African Literature〜Black, White & Others〜"
  Conversation: KUBOTA Nozomi (Translator/Poet) X NISHI Masahiko(Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences)
  Date & Time: October 18, 2013 (Fri.) 17:00-
  Place: Museum Meeting Room(2nd Floor), Academeia Ritsumei 21, Ritsumeikan University

Fifth Seminar "From African Soil to Japanese Soil: Lecture of Kaba-ko"
 Lecture: Moussa Hema(Lecturer, Les Prés Saint-Gervais de Musique)
 Performance: Moussa Hema & Kaba Ko
 Date & Time: November 5, 2013(Tue.)17:00-
 Place: Igakukan Hall #1, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Sixth Seminar "Cooperativity within Our Body: Gestures and Rhythm of People with Visual/Hearing Disabilities"
 Presentation/Discussion: Mohamed Omer Abdin (Graduate Student, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)XYOSHIDA (FURUKAWA) Yutaka (Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Woman's Christian University)
 Date & Time: November 15, 2013 (Fri.)17:00-
 Place: Museum Meeting Room(2nd Floor), Academeia Ritsumei 21, Ritsumeikan University

Seventh Seminar "Interest Directed toward Mozambique: Expectations as a Supply Center of Foods and Energies to Japan?"
 Presentation/Discussion: WATANABE Naoko (Japan International Volunteer Center)
 Date & Time: April 7, 2014 (Mon.)17:30-
 Place: 3rd Meeting Room, Suekawa Memorial Lecture Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Eighth Seminar "Public Health for Whom?"
 Presentation/Discussion: Murray Last (Professor Emeritus, University College London)
 Date & Time: May 22, 2014 (Mon.)17:00-
 Place: #212 Keigakukan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Ninth Seminar "Disabled People who Cross the Border / People with Leprosy who Create a Village"
 Presentation/Discussion:
 Mikako Toda(Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies,Kyoto University)
 Akie Kyo(The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University)
 Date & Time: June 27, 2014 (Fri.)17:00-
 Place: #211 Keigakukan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Tenth Seminar "Reconsidering Reconciliation Policy of Society after Conflict: Focusing on South Africa after Post-apartheid"
 Presentation/Conversation:
 Toshimitsu Abe(Otani University)
 Akira Inoue(Ritsumeikan University)
 Date & Time: July 11, 2014 (Fri.)17:00-
 Place: #211 Keigakukan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Eleventh Seminar "Colonial Madness: A Prologue for Considering Psychiatry in Modern Africa"
 Lecture:
 Takehiko Ochiai (Ryukoku University)
 Date & Time: June 18, 2015 (Thu.) 17:00-18:30
 Place: 3rd Study Group Room, Gakujikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Twelfth Seminar "Biomedicine / Ethnic Group / Trust: Search for Malaria Remedy among the Egun in Lagos State, Nigeria"
 Lecture:
 Takashi Tamai (Visiting Researcher, Ritsumeikan University)
 Date & Time: July 17, 2015 (Fri.) 17:00-18:30
 Place: 3rd Study Group Room, Gakujikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University

Thirteenth Seminar "'Transforming Guns into Hoes': The Role the Peace Establishment Project Has Played and ESD"
 Lecture:
 Yoshiko Takahashi (Ehime Global Network)
 Date & Time: December 11, 2015 (Fri.) 17:00-18:30
 Place: 3rd Study Group Room, Gakujikan Hall, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University




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