Fieldnet Lounge: Aging, as "Social Problem" or "Human Experience"

13:00-17:50, Sunday, 4th December 2016

Date / Time (Sun.) December 4, 2016 13:00 -17:50
Venue Room 304 (Multimedia Room), ILCAA (Asahicho 3-11-1, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, 183-8534)
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Details 13:00-13:05
Opening Remarks: On Fieldnet Lounge
OTA Nobuhiro (ILCAA)
13:05-13:20
“Introduction: Aging, as ‘Social Problem’ or ‘Human Experience’ ”
IKEDA Akimitsu (ILCAA)

Session 1: Perspectives on “Aging”
13:20-13:50
“Issues of Aging Society / Problems of the Elderly: Findings from
Anthropological Studies on Aged People Living in Urban Areas of Okinawa”
SUGANUMA Ayano (Anthropological Institute, Nanzan University)
13:50-14:20
“Transnational Monetary Transfers for Supporting Parents: Global Householding
between Taiwan and Indonesia”
YOKOTA Sachiko (School of Human Cultures, The University of Shiga Prefecture)

14:20-14:30 Break

Session 2: The Middle East: Fresh Field for Aging?
14:30-15:00
“Between Gaining Authority and Senility: Rethinking Japanese Concept of
Aging ('oi') in Contemporary Egypt”
TORIYMA Junko (JSPS / J.F. Oberlin University)
15:00-15:30
“Looking back on Own Life through Meeting Other's Death: A Case Study
of an Upper Egyptian Attending a Mourning Ceremony in Alexandria, Egypt”
OKADO Masaki (National Institutes for the Humanities / Sophia University)
15:30-16:00
“Hope and Impudence: Marriage Choices of Young People with Life-limiting
Illnesses in Iran”
HOSOYA Sachiko (ILCAA)

16:00-16:30 Break

Session 3: Comments and Discussions
16:30-16:45
Comments (I)
SEKINE Rinako (Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)
16:45-17:00
Comments (II)
ODA Makoto (Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
17:00-17:45
Discussions
17:45-17:50
Closing Remarks IKEDA Akimitsu
Language Japanese
Admission Free
No pre-registration is needed.

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