7th IAfP Research Seminar Series / 101st KUASS “The Political Economy of the TICAD Process: Bureaucratic Interests and the Immobility of the Japanese Private Sector” was held on 17 Dec 2021

The seminar, 7th IAfP Research Seminar Series / 101st KUASS “The Political Economy of the TICAD Process: Bureaucratic Interests and the Immobility of the Japanese Private Sector” by Dr. Kweku Ampiah (Visiting Professor, African Studies Center-Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of...

7th IAfP Research Seminar Series / 101th KUASS “The Political Economy of the TICAD Process: Bureaucratic Interests and the Immobility of the Japanese Private Sector”

“The Political Economy of the TICAD Process: Bureaucratic Interests and the Immobility of the Japanese Private Sector”   Speaker:Dr. Kweku Ampiah (Visiting Professor, African Studies Center-TUFS / Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK) Date and Time:December 17th 2021(Friday) Online (Zoom)For participation, please sign up here....

5th IAfP Research Seminar Series / 99th KUASS / 12th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation “The Emergence of Property Concerns” was held

The seminar, “The Emergence of Property Concerns’” by Dr. Federico Rossano (University of California, San Diego), was held on 16th November 2021. It was co-organized by the IAfP office, Center for African Area Studies, and “Natural and cultural history of landscape formation in contact zones between hunter-gatherers and agro-pastoralists in...

2nd International Joint Conference of Kyoto University’s “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs (IAfP: Innovative Africa Program)” Call for Presentations

We will hold the 2nd International Joint Conference on December 20, 2021 as part of the project, “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs (IAfP: Innovative Africa Program)” in Kyoto University. In this project, a short-term program for African students is conducted from September to...

International Symposium for Global Sanitation: “The Sanitation Triangle: Socio-Culture, Health, Materials” was held on 14 October 2021

 International Symposium for Global Sanitation: “The Sanitation Triangle: Socio-Culture, Health, Materials” was held on 14 October 2021, organized by “The Sanitation Value Chain: Designing Sanitation Systems as Eco-Community-Value System” Project, Research, Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) and supported by The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University and “Innovative...

The First Online Meeting of the Advisory Committee for Developing Human Resources for Africa Organized as part of the Inter-University Exchange with African Countries (October 5, 2021)

 On October 5, 2021, Kyoto University and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies organized the first online meeting of the Advisory Committee for Developing Human Resources for Africa, as part of the “Inter-University Exchange Project with African Countries,” an exchange program supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and...