Joint Symposium "Regional Biological Resources in Tropical Africa"

Sat, December 23, 2017

We will hold a symposium "Regional Biological Resources in Tropical Africa" on Decemer 23, 2017. The symposium is jointly sponsored by Inte...

Dr. Sonwa, our visiting professor, will give a lecture at Kyoto University

Fri, December 15, 2017

Dr. Denis Jean Sonwa, who is now staying at Japan as a visiting professor of African Studies Center - TUFS, will give a lecture about "Cocoa...

The 8th ASC Seminar will be held on Dec. 4

Mon, December 4, 2017

We are pleased to inform that the 8th ASC Seminar will be held on December 4, 2017. The theme is "Searching for Peace in Burundi." In this ...

ASC Seminar #7 / TUFS-KU Seminar #3 will be held

Thu, November 30, 2017

We are pleased to announce that ASC Seminar #7 / TUFS-KU Seminar #3 will be held on November 30 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. TUF...

International symposium "Family Transformation in Rapidly Developing Asia-Africa Societies Faced with Economic Disparity, Urbanization and War"

Nov. 4 - 5, 2017

International Joint Research by Female Researchers, Initiative for Realizing Diversity in the Research Environment (JST), Japan Society for ...

African Studies Center "Kick-off" Symposium “Frontiers of African Studies”

Nov. 3, 2017

"Kick-off" SymposiumAfrican Studies Center - Tokyo University of Foreign Studies "Frontiers of African Studies" Date: November 3rd, 2017 Ven...

The Research Meeting supported by ASC

Thu, Nov. 2, 2017

African Studies Center - TUFS is going to support a research meeting held by International Joint Research by Female Researchers, Initiative ...

ASC Seminar #6 / TUFS-KC Seminar #2 will be held

Fri, October 20, 2017

African Studies Center -TUFS (ASC -TUFS) and the Center for African Area Studies -Kyoto University (CAAS -KU) will hold ASC Seminar #6 / TUF...

Exhibition Présence Africaine: “A Forum, a Movement, a Network”

Aug. 17 - 31, 2017

The exhibition, Exhibition Présence Africaine: "A Forum, a Movement, a Network", which concentrates on photographs and pictures related to t...

Internationl Symposium, Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives Identities, memories and resistances between Africa, Europe and the Americas from colonization to post-colony

Aug. 22 - 24, 2017

Internationl Symposium, Présence Africaine: Towards New Political and Cultural Perspectives Identities, memories and resistances between Afr...

International Symposium: Art and Affect in Africa

Aug. 19, 2017

International Symposium: Art and Affect in Africa is to be held on August 19, 2017. ◆Date/Time: Saturday, Aug 19, 2017 13:00-17:30 ◆Venue: ...

Photo exhibition: Central Kalahari Hunter-Gatherers in 1960s and 1970s

July 6 to 28, 2017

Jiro Tanaka, a Kyoto University professor emeritus and a pioneer of Bushmen studies in the Kalahari, took a lot of photographs during his re...

Kickoff symposium to be held on November 3

An international symposium will be held on Friday, November 3 (a national holiday), to commemorate the establishment of the African Studies ...

African Studies Center – TUFS website

After three months since the April 2017 opening of ASC-TUFS, we are pleased to announce we now have our own Website up and running!

【Book Publication】SHIRAISHI, S & SHIINO, W. eds. Understanding Social Problems as Situated Phenomena

Wakana SHIINO, Associate professor of ILCAA and African Studies Center, has just published a book on fieldwork. Soichiro SHIRAISHI and Wakan...

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