JASID Kansai Branch will host the following seminar. We welcome everyone to participate, and feel free to contact us for the Zoom link.

Summary

• Date/Time: November 22, 2023, 14:00 to 16:00
• Language: English
• Venue: Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation
  Studies (GSICS), 4th Floor Presentation Room & Zoom

Topic 1:

Recent Reforms in Teacher Development in Cambodia

Speaker 1:

Dr. Sam Sideth Dy, Secretary-General of the National Committee for
Life-Long Learning/ Deputy Director-General for Education, Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sport (MOEYS), Cambodia

Topic 2:

EGRA/EGMA as an Initiative to Realize SDG 4.2: A Cambodian Case

Speaker 2:

Dr. Sam Sideth Dy, Secretary-General of the National Committee for
Life-Long Learning/ Deputy Director-General for Education, Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sport (MOEYS), Cambodia

Contact

JASID Kansai Branch Secretariate

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We are just a week away from the annual conference. We look forward to welcoming everyone on campus.

On the day of the conference, there is scheduled construction within the campus, and several events are expected to take place. It may cause some inconvenience due to the limited campus space, but we appreciate your understanding.

We have created a conference program booklet. Please download and make use of it. Please also find some important announcements in this email.

1. Conference Program Booklet (PDF)

The program booklet can be accessed through the link below. The password is the same as for accessing presentation papers from the conference HP. It includes presentation guidelines, venue information, conference schedule, and more (you can also find these pieces of information on the conference HP).

The booklet will not be distributed in print at the venue. We recommend downloading it to your own device or printing and bringing it with you.

Conference Program Booklet:

2. Entry to the venue

Please enter the venue through the main gate on Sophian Street (see the camps map below). Follow the signs and guidance from student volunteers to reach the Kioizaka Building (various sessions), Building 11 (lounge, childcare room), and Building 2 (plenary, poster session, general assembly and social gathering).

Campus map:

There will be three reception desks at the venue. Please come to one of the reception desks when you arrive. The opening hours are as follows:

Day 1

• Building 11, 1st floor (main reception): 9:00-13:15
• Building 2, 5th floor: 9:30-13:00, 16:30-18:30
• Building 2, 17th floor: 12:45-16:30 (You can enter the plenary venue starting from 13:00)

Day 2

• Building 11, 1st floor (main reception): 9:00-17:00

At the reception desk, we will provide you with an empty name badge holder. Please bring your own business card and insert it into the holder.

Please state your name at the reception. In case of payment verification or other requirements, you may be asked to present a receipt that can be downloaded from Confit.

3. Using WiFi at the Venue

You can use Eduroam to connect to WiFi. If you cannot use Eduroam, you can connect to “sophiawifi2019” using a guest account. When using a guest account, some devices may require initial configuration when connecting. Please select a manual from the link below to check the setup instructions (we recommend that you download the manual before coming to the venue). The guest account and password are found in the conference program booklet. The setup process is somewhat complex, so if possible, we recommend using Eduroam.

Eduroam:

Guest account connection manuals:

4. Book Sales During the Conference

On the second day of the conference, Sunday, the 12th, book sales will take place in the basement lounge of Building 11 (rest area) from 9:00 to 17:00. You can purchase books, including those by society members, at discounted prices. Please come and visit.

Contact

34th Annual Conference Organizing Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

Introducing Foreign Models for Development: Japanese Experience and Cooperation in the Age of New Technology

This is Izumi Ohno, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). We are pleased to inform you that our open access book, 『Introducing Foreign Models for Development: Japanese Experience and Cooperation in the Age of New Technology』(edited by Izumi Ohno, Kimiaki Jin, Kuniaki Amatsu, and Junichi Mori) has been just published from Springer. It is written by ten authors with rich experience in research and practice in development cooperation. For those interested, the book is downloadable from the link below.

This book studies how foreign models of economic development can be effectively learned by and applied to today’s latecomer countries. The key concepts are translative adaptation and local learning. It contains many case studies based on Japan’s past experience and its extensive development cooperation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The book is built on a research project by JICA Ogata Research Institute, “Japanese Experience of Industrial Development and Development Cooperation: Analysis of the Translational Adaptation Process.”

Table of Contents

Part I Translative Adaptation in the Industrialization Process
1. Introducing Foreign Models for Development: A Perspective from Translative Adaptation (Izumi Ohno)

2. Industrial Policies for Learning, Innovation, and Transformation: Insights from Japan and Selected Countries (Akio Hosono)

Part II Case Studies from Japan, Asia, Latin America, and Africa
3. Japan’s State Learning in the Meiji Period from the Vision Perspective (Kuniaki Amatsu)

4. National Movements for Quality and Productivity Improvement with Local Adaptation: The Experience of Japan and Singapore (Izumi Ohno and Getahun Tadesse Mekonen)

5. Bilateral Policy Dialogue: Japanese Cooperation for Enhancing Industrial Policy Capacity (Kenichi Ohno, Akio Hosono, Kuniaki Amatsu, and Minoru Yamada)

6. Industry Engagement in TVET and the Japanese Cooperation in Vietnam: The Case of Hanoi University of Industry (Junichi Mori)

7. Promoting Kaizen in Africa: 10-Years of Experience of Japanese Cooperation in Tunisia and Ethiopia (Tsuyoshi Kikuchi)

8. Thailand’s Experience of Learning Industrial Technologies and Monodzukuri Education with Localization (Izumi Ohno and Junichi Mori)

Part III Translative Adaptation in a Changing World
9. Kaizen and Non-cognitive Skills Development in Africa in the Age of Digitalization (Kimiaki Jin)

10. New Industrial Landscape: Implications for Industrial Policy and Japanese Industrial Development Cooperation (Toru Homma)

Contact:

Izumi Ohno (GRIPS) 

• Email: i-ohno [at] 　(replace [at] with @)

Kyoto Environment and Development (KED) Seminar is taking place at 3pm this Thursday.

We will welcome Takashi Kurosaki from Hitotsubashi University, and he will talk about the effects of the Covid-19 & Natural Agricultural Shocks on Preferences of Pakistani Farmers.

Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #26

• Date &Time: October 26, 2023, Thursday, 15:00-16:30 (JST)
• Language: English
• Venue: Seminar Room E217 (GSA, Kyoto University) / Zoom Web Seminar
• Speaker: Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)

If you would like to join this meeting via Zoom, register in advance:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about the meeting.

Title:

Effects of the Covid-19 & Natural Agricultural Shocks on Preferences of Pakistani Farmers (co-authored with Hamza Umer, Hitotsubashi University)

Abstract:

It is imperative to examine how different negative shocks influence preferences because preferences influence micro level decisions that provide foundations for macro-level outcomes. We contribute to this domain by reporting an incentivized field experiment that examined the effects of agr icultural income shocks driven by either the Covid-19 or other natural calamities on preferences of Pakistani farmers such as risk-taking, impatience, generosity and fairness. We find that the Covid-19 shock reduced impatience and generosity while the natural shock increased risk-aversion. Our findi ngs suggest that despite having a similar impact on farmers’ agricultural income, the two shocks influence a different set of preferences, and hence, we need to measure them both to identify their precise impact on preferences. Overall, these results offer new information about the relative impacts of the Covid-19 and natural shocks on preferences and help us understand the wealth and age-based heterogeneous effects of these shocks.

Contact

Chair: Ken Miura (Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University)

• Ken Miura [at] 　(replace [at] with @)

We are now less than three weeks away from the conference. So far, we have received registrations from over 320 individuals. We express our sincere gratitude to everyone who has registered. We are pleased to inform you that the conference proceedings are now available. Please also note other important updates.

1. Conference Proceedings

– You can access the Conference Proceedings through the following link. Please use the same password as for accessing the individual presentation papers and abstracts on the conference HP. The Proceedings contains papers for general oral presentations, planned sessions and some roundtable sessions, as well as abstracts for roundtable and poster sessions. Please note that not all papers are included, as it depends on the preferences of the presenters.

2. Communication within an oral presentation session

– If a session chair needs to contact presenters, please contact them directly using the email addresses provided in the presentation papers. The organizing committee cannot provide contact information.

3. Poster Presentation (for presenters)

– The venue is the 5th-floor student cafeteria in Building 2. Setup time is from 9:00 to 9:30 on Saturday, October 11. You can complete your registration at the cafeteria from 9:00. The poster presentation time is from 9:30 to 13:00, including “core time” (11:45 to 12:45). During the core time, please be present at the venue and read to communicate with the visitors. We expect morning session participants to come to the poster session at this time. Please also be present at other times as much as possible (it’s fine to take breaks and leave the venue as needed). Posters will be on display all day on the 11th, so participants can view them during the social gathering from 18:30 to 20:30 as well.

– After the social gathering, please remove the posters by yourself. Posters that are not removed will be taken away by the organizing committee. The venue will not be used on the 12th (Sunday), so poster displays are only on the 11th.

– The panel size is 170 cm in height and 110 cm in width. Masking tape for attaching posters will be provided by the organizing committee. Thumbtacks (push pins) cannot be used. Posters should be displayed in order of the entry number in the designated locations.

4. Childcare Services (Extension of Application Deadline)

– During the conference, we will provide on-campus childcare services for preschool children. The application deadline has been extended. The fees are 500 yen per hour for general attendees and 300 yen per hour for students. Please review the details in the following document and submit your application by October 31 (Tuesday).

★Childcare Information:

Contact

34th Annual Conference Organizing Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

It is with great sadness and grief that we inform you of the passing of Dr. Yumiko Tanaka,JICA Senior Gender Advisor and Visiting Professor at Josai International University on September 26, 2023. Yumiko Tanaka has long been a valuable JASID member and active representative of the Gender and Development Research Group.

Yumiko Tanaka served as Director of the Social Development Department, International Cooperation Specialist (Gender and Development), and Senior Gender Advisor at JICA. She was a Representative of the Government of Japan for the UN Commission on the Status of 　Women since 2018. She also taught at numerous universities for many years.

She was a pioneer and leading expert in gender and development leaving significant marksin the field of international development. She was also passionate about training younger scholars and gender experts.

We celebrate all that Dr. Tanaka accomplished in her lifetime and want to express our gratitude for all her contributions.

Contact

Gender and Development Research Group

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System maintenance will be performed on the following schedule, which will involve the suspension of JASID’s membership system.

We would like to inform you that some functions of the 34th Annual Conference website will be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to our members, and ask that you please avoid the maintenance time.

Implementation period

• Thursday, October 12, 2023, 21:00 – 24:00 (JST)

Unavailable Services

The following functions will be unavailable on each website during the above system maintenance time.

Member’s MY Page

the conference website (Confit)

All functions on the convention website will be available as usual during the maintenance except for the following.

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Basic and Advanced techniques for Impact Evaluation

“Anyone can understand without fail and you can be a professional !!”

• Participant’s voice 1: “The instructor explained everything using only ＋, −, ×, ÷. It was truly amazing”.
• Participant’s voice 2: “Very happy because I became able to read academic theses using statistics, and now I am reading many day by day”.

Outline

• Date: December 19 (Tue), 21 (Thu) , 22 (Fri), 2023
• Venue: Zoom. You can access anywhere in the world. Lectures will be video-recorded. Participants can access and watch those videos (in one week after the workshop)
• Language: English. (The instructors are Ph.D. holders from American universities)
• Host: IDCJ Evaluation Department

(Website)

(Program)

Instructor

– Ryo SASAKI, Ph.D. in Evaluation, Western Michigan University (USA)
– Keiichi TAKAKI, Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University (USA)

Max and Minimum Number of participants

Max 20 (Minimum Attendants for implementation:10 people)

Prerequisites

(1) You should be able to implement addition, subtraction, multiplication, division (+, –, ÷, ×).

Register

Click and fill-in the following google form: (i) your name, (ii) organization name, (iii)email address and (iv) any comment/inquiry.

(Google forms)

Fee

JPY 29,000 (tax included) for full two days participation: JPY 8,000 (tax included) for only 1st session (“Presentation of Impact Evaluation Case Studies”)

Due date

December 1(Fri), 2023

Text

A set of softcopy of texts will be distributed in advance in PDF format. In addition, a set of hardcopies of texts will be sent to the residents in Japan in advance.

Contact

Ryo SASAKI, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher, Evaluation Department.
International Development Center of Japan (IDCJ).

• [at] 　(replace [at] with @)

We have released the online conference program, which includes the timetable, presentation abstracts, and presentation papers, available through Confit (conference portal). Additionally, we have compiled information about how to participate in the plenary session scheduled for the first day of the conference. Please take a moment to review this information.

1. Conference program (Confit)

You can access the program via the conference website. To view and download the PDF papers, you will need a password, which will be provided separately by the organizing committee to those who have completed their registration and payment.

★ Conference Website:

Creating the program involves various adjustments, such as session scheduling, assignment of presentations, negotiations with session chairs and commentators, and securing venues. Kindly note that we are unable to accommodate requests for changes to sessions or schedules. We appreciate your understanding.

The poster session is scheduled for November 11th (Saturday) from 09:30 to 13:00. We have designated 11:45-12:45 as the core time, so we would appreciate it if presenters could be available at the venue during this time to answer questions from attendees.

Publishing companies will be selling books written by JASID members at the rest area (11th Building Basement Lounge) on the second day of the conference, on the 12th (Sunday) from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Please come and visit.

A simplified version of the conference program (PDF), including venue maps and presentation guidelines, will be made available approximately 1 to 2 weeks before the conference.

2. Participation in the plenary session

The conference plenary session titled “Where Is Japan’s Official Development Assistance Heading? – In response to the revision of the Development Cooperation Charter,” scheduled for the afternoon of November 11 (Saturday), is a public event co-hosted with Sophia University. Please review the event flyer on the conference website for more details.

★ Plenary session:

This event allows both in-person and online participation. Due to venue capacity constraints, we can accommodate up to 150 attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Those unable to enter the main hall will be able to watch the event on a screen in an adjacent room (capacity: 150 attendees). Registration is scheduled to begin at 13:00, 30 minutes before the event starts.

Both venues will have sub-monitors in addition to the main screen, providing Japanese text information of speech for those with hearing difficulties.

The plenary session will be conducted in Japanese. Those requiring English simultaneous interpretation should bring their devices (such as smartphones) and headphones to connect to the ZOOM Webinar for audio translation.

Questions for the speakers can be written in Japanese or English on paper distributed at the registration desk and will be collected during breaks. If you wish to ask a question to speakers directly, please complete the registration process early and enter the venue.

Participants joining online do not need to register in advance. Please enter via the link provided in the “Language” section at the bottom of the information page (this link is for society members; please refrain from sharing it with the general public).

After the plenary session, JASID will hold its members’ general conference in the same venue.

3. Early bird registration

The deadline for early bird registration with a discounted fee is Wednesday, October 11.

Contact

34th Annual Conference Organizing Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

“Journey Towards Gender Equality in Kenya: Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Law, and Custom”

We are delighted to extend an invitation to you for our upcoming hybrid seminar, “Journey Towards Gender Equality in Kenya: Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Law, and Custom.”

Details of the seminar are as follows:

• Date and Time: 4th October 2023, 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM (EAT)
• Venue: Japanese Embassy in Kenya (Mara Road, Upper Hill. Nairobi) and Online (Zoom)
• Registration: Please register using this link

Organized by:

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Nairobi Research Station
Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi
African Women Studies Center, University of Nairobi

Seminar Description:

This seminar will delve into the multifaceted journey toward gender equality in Kenya, focusing on the complex interplay between gender dynamics, legal frameworks, and cultural customs. Following an inspiring keynote address by Hon. Roseline Njogu from the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs of Kenya, distinguished experts and scholars will share their insights and engage in discussions to illuminate both the challenges and advancements in this vital area.

To access detailed information about the event, including the agenda, speakers, and registration, please refer to the attached poster. The registration link is provided within the poster for your convenience.

We encourage you to participate in this insightful seminar, either in person at the Japanese Embassy in Kenya or online, as it promises to be a platform for valuable discussions and knowledge sharing.

Program

WELCOME REMARKS:
PROFESSOR WINIFRED KAMAU, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

KEYNOTE SPEECH:
HON. ROSELINE NJOGU, THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY,
STATE DEPARTMENT FOR DIASPORA AFFAIRS,
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND DIASPORA AFFAIRS OF KENYA

SESSION 1 – GENDER EQUALITY IN KENYA FROM LEGAL PERSPECTIVE
MODERATOR: MS AYAKO HATANO, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
SPEAKERS :
DR AGNES MEROKA-MUTUA, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MS. YVONNE ANYANGO OYIEKE, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
DR ROSELINE MUTUKU, STRATHMORE UNIVERSITY

SESSION 2 – GENDER EQUALITY IN KENYA FROM INTERDISCIPLINARY
PERSPECTIVE
MODERATOR: DR AGNES MEROKA-MUTUA, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
SPEAKERS:
DR MANAMI HAYASHI, UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY-AFRICA
DR CAROLINE MARYGORETY AKINYI OTIENO, UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
MS AYAKO HATANO, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

CLOSING REMARKS
DR YUMI YAMANE, DIRECTOR OF JSPS NAIROBI RESEARCH STATION

Contact

Should you have any questions or require further information, do not hesitate to contact us at:

• Link to Poster 
• Email: nbo-academia [at] (replace [at] with @)
• Tel: +254 740 181 283 (WhatsApp)

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested in the event. Please save the date, and we look forward to your participation.

JASID Kansai Branch Seminar Announcement

JASID Kansai Branch will host the following seminar. We welcome everyone to participate, and feel free to contact us for the Zoom link.

The 167th Study Session (Seminar)

• Date/Time: September 28, 2023, 17:00 to 19:00
• Topic: Will trade liberalization help to reduce poverty and inequality in LDCs?
• Speaker: Dr. Phouphet Kyophilavong, Dean/ Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, National University of Laos
• Discussant: Dr. Viriyasack Sisouphanthong, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Management, National University of Laos
• Language: English
• Venue: Zoom

Contact

JASID Kansai Branch Secretariate

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This is an announcement for 2023 JASID-Tokai Conference
for Young Researchers on September 29.

We are going to have this conference as a face to face meeting.
If you are interested in topics in the program,
please visit our site whose URL is listed as below.

Program

JASID-Tokai Conference for Young Researchers (9/29)

Date & Time

September 29 (Friday), 2023, 13:00-16:00

Site

Auditorium, 8th Floor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.

Access map

[in English]
[in Japanese]

Registration

No registration is required in advance.
Please fill in the list of participants at the reception.

Contact

JASID Tokai 
Masakazu Someya (Steering Member of JASID-Tokai) Asso. Prof. Graduate
School of International Development, Nagoya University

• someya [at] (replace [at] with @)

This conference will strive to accommodate a wide range of participants, including those with disabilities, by providing reasonable accommodations. We kindly request the cooperation of presenters in ensuring information accessibility.

Additionally, we have compiled information regarding infection control and the use of childcare facilities during the conference (the following information is also available on the conference website).

The complete program is scheduled to become available on Monday, October 2.

1. Reasonable accommodations

We ask all presenters at this conference to cooperate in ensuring information accessibility. Please read the information at the link below and prepare presentation materials accordingly.

★Ensuring Information Accessibility in Presentation

All conference attendees who need reasonable accommodations are encouraged to fill out the form below by October 10th (Tuesday).

★Application Form

2. Infection control measures

With the exception of the plenary and some individual presentation sessions, this conference will be held in-person. The conference organizing committee will implement the following infection control measures. We request your cooperation to ensure the safety of all conference participants.

[For all participants]

• Please check your health conditions before coming to the conference site. If you have a fever (above 37.5 degrees Celsius) or are feeling unwell, please refrain from attending in-person, regardless of whether you have tested positive or negative for infections.
• Plenary sessions will be conducted both in-person and online. Due to limitations related to the venues’ Wi-Fi availability and facilities, we cannot provide online access for the other sessions. We have set up a limited number of sessions exclusively online. If attending in-person is difficult for you, please participate in these sessions.

[For in-person presenters]

• If you are unable to attend in-person, please notify the conference secretariat (jasid2023fall@). You cannot switch to an online presentation. You cannot also present a video-recorded presentation since it does not allow for real-time Q&A.

[For commentators]

• If you are unable to attend due to health issues, please notify the conference secretariat and also inform the session chairperson. If you have prepared comments in writing in advance, please send them to the chairperson. If you have planned to provide oral comments only, please consult with the chairperson to find a solution, such as asking the chairperson to provide comments instead.

[For Chairperson]

• If you are unable to attend due to health issues, please notify the conference secretariat and consult with the session commentators to find a solution, such as asking a commentator to assume the role of a chair.

3. On-Site Measures

• Hand sanitizers will be available at various locations, and regular ventilation of lecture rooms will be conducted. Disinfectant for microphones in each classroom will also be provided.
• The decision to wear masks will be left to the discretion of individual attendees.
• The social gathering will not be buffet-style but will involve individually packaged servings.

4. Childcare Facilities Utilization

A daycare nursery room will be available for preschoolers at the conference site. Its per-hour cost will be JPY 500 for non-students and JPY 300 for students. Please read the details by clicking the link below and send the application by October 10th (Tuesday).

★Child Care Service

5. [Reminder] Submission of Report (Presentation) Papers

Those presenting in the general oral presentation and special session categories are required to submit their report papers by September 30th (Saturday). Please refer to the conference website which includes details regarding the submission procedure.

★Conference

6. Schedule

• Presentation paper submission deadline: Saturday, September 30th at 23:59
• Online program available: Monday, October 2
• Early bird conference registration deadline: Wednesday, October 11
• Payment for social gathering (simultaneously done with conference registration): Sunday, November 5
• Conference dates: November 11-12 (Saturday-Sunday)

Contact

34th Annual Conference Organizing Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• Contact: jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

We would like to express our gratitude for the numerous presentation proposals. The conference program committee has reviewed and approved 72 general oral presentations, 7 special sessions, 18 roundtable discussions, and 21 poster presentations.

1. Conference program

Please refer to the following URL for the current conference program.

Program URL:

2. Conference registration

* We are pleased to inform you that the conference registration site is now open. Please register for the conference from the link below. Please note that only credit card payments are accepted.

★ Registration URL:
Please choose “English” in the upper right corner.

* For details regarding the registration fee, please consult the relevant page on the conference website (URL below).

Please choose “English” in the upper right corner.

* The deadline for early bird registration with a reduced fee is Wednesday, October 11. After this date, we will accept registration at a normal fee until the conference day.

* Receipts can be issued through the “Receipt Download” section on the registration site after logging in the Confit system. Please keep your receipt or the “Registration Confirmation Email”, as you will need to present one of these documents for entry at the conference venue. You can either present a printed copy or show the document on your smartphone screen.

3. Social gathering

On the first day of the conference, November 11th, Saturday, from 18:30 to 20:30, we plan a social gathering for participants to exchange opinions and build networks. You can choose an individual meal packet from three types: vegan, halal, and no restriction. Due to operational reasons, the participation fee must be made by November 5th, Sunday at the same time as registration for the conference. Please complete the payment process from the conference registration link above.

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34th Annual Conference Executive Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)
Contact: jasid2023fall@

Continuation or Change of Membership Type for 2024

For Student Members

Each year in August/September, we conduct a confirmation of eligibility as a student member for the upcoming year.

Student members who fall under any of the following categories must submit proof (such as a copy of their student ID card) that they are still a student on or after October 1 during the following application period by following the procedures below.

• Student members whose student ID uploaded on Member My Page is valid until the end of September 2023
• Student members whose student ID documents (including student ID cards) uploaded to Member My Page do not show an expiration date
• Student members whose [Last Education > Date of Graduation/Completion] on My Page is before the end of September 2023

Application Period

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 – Sunday, September 17, 2023
*Deadline to be strictly observed

How to apply

Please complete the following application form.
[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline is strictly enforced.

Student members who can upload their latest student ID only after October 1, 2023

Please notify Secretariat of the delay in submitting your student ID through the application form above by the response deadline.

• Deadline for response: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline to be strictly observed.

〔Note〕

Student members who have not contacted or consulted us in advance and whose academic enrollment as of October 1 has not been confirmed by the JASID Secretariat as of the end of September will automatically have their membership type switched to regular membership starting in the new fiscal year (October).

Accordingly, the annual membership fee will change from 5,000 yen to 10,000 yen (membership fee will be invoiced in early April 2024).

Student members who have already left the academic register

Student members who plan to change to full membership in the next fiscal year should declare their enrollment status as of October 2023 using the application form below.

After that, please log in to your My Page to delete your student ID file and update your affiliation information.

[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023
  *Deadline to be strictly observed.

Request to Academic Advisors

Regardless of whether they are international students or not, many student members are uninformed about the systems and mechanisms of academic societies.

If you have supervising student who is belonging to JASID as a student member, please instruct them on the procedures for continuing student membership.

Full member who wish to change their membership status to student member

Please read the following URL to see if you qualify for student membership.

Eligibility for Student Membership

Q: I am no longer a student

Procedure

If you are a full member who meets the requirements for student membership and would like to change your membership type to student membership from the FY2024, please use the application form below to complete the academic certification process.

Please note that working students are requested to belong as full members.

[JASID_ FY2024] Verification of Student Member Eligibility

• Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023 *Deadline to be strictly observed

Contact

JASID Secretariat Office
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To JASID members on leave of absence who wish to resume our activities

The JASID members who are currently on a leave of absence and wish to resume our activities from the fiscal year 2024, which will begin in October 2023, are requested to notify us within the application period.

Application Period

* Deadline to be strictly observed

How to apply

Please complete the following application form.
[JASID_ FY2024] Application for Reinstatement Application for Reinstatement
Response deadline: Sunday, September 17, 2023
*Deadline to be strictly observed

Flow after Application

After the deadline, the application will be reviewed and approved by the Executive Committee, and you will be notified of the results in mid-October or later.

Contact

The JASID Secretariat Office

JASID has introduced a leave of absence system starting in FY 2023.

This system allows full members and student members to take a leave of absence for up to four consecutive years.

During the period of suspension, member services will be suspended, the sending of the journal and ML will cease, and applications and presentations at the conference will not be possible.

In addition, the right to be elected and to vote in the election of candidates for the Board of Directors will also be suspended.

For more information about the self-suspension program, please visit the following URL.

Recess

休会申請フォーム/
Application for Recess
Deadline for response: Sunday, September 17, 2023
*Deadline to be strictly observed

Flow after application

After the deadline, the JASID Secretariat office will scrutinize the applications and, after approval by the Executive Board, will inform you of the results in mid-October or later.

Contact

the JASID Secretariat Office
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the Secretariat.
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We are pleased to announce that we will continue to offer our members reduced annual membership fee for the FY 2024, which begins on October 1, 2024.

This reduction is only applicable to regular and student members who have applied for this reduction program and have been approved by the Executive Board.

Members who wish to reduce their annual membership fee for the FY 2024 (from Oct. 2023 to Sep. 2024) must apply to the headquarters office by the application deadline.

Please read the conditions and application instructions below, fill out the application form, and submit it by the deadline.

Application Guidelines

1. Eligibility for Reduction

Full member:

Members who do not hold full-time jobs and are in financial difficulty.

Student member:

Students who are in severe financial need.

2. Amount of Reduction

Full Member

Half off the annual membership fee (10,000 yen)
—> Your membership fee will be 5,000 yen.

Student Member

Regular amount for student members (5,000 yen)
—> Your membership fee will be 2,000 yen.

3. Application Form

Those who needs to apply must submit this form.

[JASID_FY2024] Application Form for Membership Fee Reduction

4. Application Period

From Tuesday, August 15, 2023 to Sunday, September 17, 2023
*Deadline to be strictly observed

5. Application Process

After the deadline, the application will be carefully reviewed and approved by the JASID Executive Board meeting, and the results will be announced from the JASID secretariat in mid-October or later.

Contact

JASID Secretariat Office

If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the JASID secretariat office.

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Regarding the 34th annual conference scheduled to be held at Sophia University on November 11-12, we would like to remind everyone that the deadline to submit a presentation proposal is August 5th (Saturday).

We are eagerly awaiting your presentation submissions.

▼For more details, please refer to the following link (choose “English” at the right upper corner):

Contact

34th Annual Conference Executive Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

Dear young researchers,

This is an announcement for call for papers in 2023 JASID-Tokai Conference for Young Researchers. We will have the above research conference on September 29. Young researchers are encouraged to take this opportunity to receive comments and suggestions for further improvement of your research.

Conditions for paper submission

• To be (or is going to be) a member of JASID
• Selected presenters are subsidized to participate in JASID 2023 or 2024 Conference.

Schedule

• Dead Line of Application: 12:00 AM on August 31 (Thursday), 2023
• Application : the application form is available by contacting the email address below. Show “JASID-Tokai Conference for Young Researcher” in the subject of the mail.
• Date & Time: September 29 (Friday), 2023, 13:00-16:00
• Site: Auditorium, 8th Floor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University.

Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions. Very much look forward to having many applications.

Contact

JASID Tokai
Masakazu Someya (Steering Member of JASID-Tokai)
Asso. Prof. Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University

• someya [at] 　(replace [at] with @)

Thank you for your cooperation to JASID.

JASID Secretariat office will be closed from Jul. 29th to Aug. 13th for summer break.

And e-mail will be available after August 13, but please note that it may take some time to reply.

We apologize for any inconvenience this situation and appreciate your understanding.

Best Regards,

Hiroaki Shiga
JASID Secretariat

The 34th Annual Conference website is now open!

Conference HP:

3. Conference format

– Following the 2023 Spring Conference in Akita, the 34th Annual Conference will be held face-to-face (not in a hybrid format).

– One of the parallel sessions will be held fully online. It will be possible to present a paper and/or participate from a distance.

– If you wish to participate in an online session at the conference site, you will need to bring your own computer or tablet and log in with your eduroam account.

4. Participation in the conference

– Registration to attend the conference is scheduled to start in early September.

– The conference registration fee can only be paid online by a credit card.

– Printed copies of the conference proceedings will not be distributed to attendees. Those who have paid a registration fee will have access to the Proceedings online in advance of the conference.

5. Schedule

• Proposal submission deadline: Saturday, August 5 (no late submission accepted)
• Notification of acceptance/rejection: Thursday, August 31
• Conference registration opens: Early September
• Presentation paper submission: End of September

Contact

34th Annual Conference Executive Committee
Chairperson: Taro Komatsu (Sophia University)

• jasid2023fall [at] (replace [at] with @)

The Resilience seminar cordially invite you to join the following hybrid seminar.
For zoom participation, prior registration is required here.

Resilience Seminar #41

• Date & Time: January 26, 2023, Thu 16:30-18:15 JST
• Language: English
• Venue: Seminar Room E220, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
  and Zoom Web Seminar (hybrid)

Speaker

Masanori Matsuura, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)

Title

Weather Shocks, Livelihood Diversification, and Household Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Abstract

Extreme weather shocks have occurred more frequently because of global climate change. Livelihood diversification including crop and income diversification is one of the most remarkable strategies to cope with economic and weather shocks to improve rural livelihood. We investigate the empirical linkages among weather shocks, livelihood diversification, and household food security, exploiting three waves of nationally representative rural household panel data merged with granular climate data in Bangladesh

Brief bio

Mr. Masanori Matsuura worked for a Japanese private think tank as an analyst and obtained MSc in Agricultural Economics at National Taiwan University, prior to joining IDE-JETRO. His research interests lie in the intersection among climate change, food security, health, and rural development.

Contact

Division of Natural Resource Economics
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Ken Miura

• [at] (replace [at] with @)

*This seminar is co-hosted by Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar and Hokkaido Branch of Japan Association for African Studies.

The Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar cordially invite you to join the hybrid seminar.

Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #19-20

• Date & Time: May 25, 2023, Thursday, 15:00-18:15 (JST)
• Language: English
• Venue: Seminar Room E217 (GSA, Kyoto University) / Zoom Web Seminar
• Speaker: Takeshi Sakurai (University of Tokyo) and John Gibson (University of Waikato)

Register in advance for this meeting:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Presentation by Takeshi Sakurai
Title: Improving Infant Nutrition through the Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Abstract:

This study investigates the impact on infants’ nutritional status of introducing a new complementary food product for infants into the market. We conducted experimental sales of the product, Koko Plus, with randomly selected mother-infant pairs every week for half a year in Ghana. We found that the introduction of Koko Plus into the market significantly increased children’s weight. However, the effect was heterogeneous: it was smaller among children whose baseline weight was lower. We investigated the mechanisms underlying this heterogeneity and found that it was associated with access to safe drinking water. If mothers gave their children safe drinking water, the sale of Koko Plus significantly increased their child’s weight regardless of baseline nutrition status. The results imply that the success of a market-based approach to complementary food products in improving infant nutrition is dependent on access to safe drinking water.

Presentation by John Gibson
Title: Measuring rural economic activity remotely: Do we just need better sensors?

Abstract:

It is difficult and expensive to measure rural economic activity in developing countries. The usual survey-based approach is less informative than often realized due to combined effects of the clustered samples dictated by survey logistics and the spatial autocorrelation in rural livelihoods. Administrative data, like sub-national Gross Domestic Product for lower level spatial units, are often unavailable and informality and seasonality of many rural activities raises doubts about the accuracy of these measurements. In order to overcome these barriers a recent literature argues that high-resol ution satellite imagery can be used to measure rural economic activity and can provide indicators of rural living standards. Potential advantages of using remote sensing data include greater comparability between countries irrespective of their varying levels of statistical capacity, cheaper and mor e timely data availability, and the possibility of extending estimates to spatial units below the level at which GDP data or survey data are reported. While there are many types of remote sensing data, economists have particularly seized upon satellite-detected nighttime lights (NTL) as a proxy for local economic activity. Yet there are growing doubts about the universal usefulness of this proxy, with recent evidence suggesting that NTL data are a poor proxy in low-density rural areas of developing countries. This study examines performance in predicting rural sector economic activity in China with different types of satellite-detected NTL data that come from sensors of varying resolution. We include the most popular NTL source in economics, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program data, whose resolution is, at best, 2.7 km, two data sources from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiomet er Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi/NPP satellite which have spatial resolution of km, and data from the Luojia-01 satellite which is even more spatially precise, with a resolution of km. With this range of resolutions we can ascertain whether better sensors, used by the more spatially precise d ata sources, lead to more accurate predictions of county-level primary sector GDP. We supplement this statistical assessment with a set of ground-truthing exercises. Overall, our study helps to inform decisions about future data directions for studying rural economic activity in developing countries .

Chair:

Ken Miura (Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University)

Contact

Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University
 Ken Miura

• @　(replace [at] with @)

International Workshop on
“Asian urbanism and urban informality”

With rapid and compressed development and urbanisation, Asian mega cities become global hubs of production, finance and consumption, attracting the global investors and emerging upper class, but at the same time, exhibiting the continuous expansion of the urban informality. Globalization, digitalization and neo-liberal order are further accelerating the socioeconomic transformation of these emerging cities. The workshop introduces cutting-edge researches on dynamism and dilemma of Asian urban development as well as new features of the urban informality.

Overview

• Date and Time: June 30th, 2023 (Fri) 14:40-17:40
• Venue: Saitama university (Theater room)
• Language: English

Speakers:

Ⅰ. Frontier of Asian urban development

1. ‘Circulating Asian Urbanism’
Hyun Bang Shin (Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Director of the Saw　Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, London School of Economics)

Ⅱ. New dynamism of urban informality in Asia

2. ‘Diversification Strategies of “Self” and Informality: A Case Study on Business Transaction Using Social Media Between Asian and African Countries’
Sayaka Ogawa (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)

3. Why was Duterte’s War on Drugs Justified? : Transformation of Spaces, Socialites, and Subjectivities in Metro Manila’
Wataru Kusaka (Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

Discussants:

1. Zhe Ren (Research fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO)
2. Ai Hisano (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo)
3. Nazia Hussain (Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo)

Moderators:

• Tamaki Endo (Saitama University)
• Kenta Goto (Kansai University)

This will be a hybrid event with attendees welcome in person and via zoom.
To register, (Deadline, June 28th, Wed)

Access: Saitama University ()

For the detail, please check the posters

Organizer:

KAKEN Research Project “Informalizing Asia: Dynamics and dilemma of global mega cities”,
(Grant-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Principle Investigator, Professor Tamaki Endo, Saitama University)

Co-organizer:

• Saitama University
• Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO)

Contact

Tamaki Endo

• endo [at]

The 24th JASID Spring Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to share some updates about the conference program.

１．Information on Program and Proceedings

Program and Proceedings have been uploaded to the website. Please access and download from the link below. A password is required to download, and it will be sent to the participants through another email from the committee. We will not print or distribute them.

(1) Program

‐ Program

‐ Time Table

‐ Session

（2）Proceedings

‐Download PDF for print

２．To presenters

(1) On-site session

– Presentation slides must be transferred to the set laptop at each room prior to the session begins.
– Presenters in the morning sessions should transfer their files and review the presentation between 9:10 and 9:30 a.m.
– Presenters of the afternoon session should transfer their files and review the presentation during the lunch break (11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.).
– If you will have a presentation in an online session, please prepare your own PC even if you are at the venue.

(2) On-line session

– If you will have a presentation in an online session, you can enter the Zoom room at the following times and check the slide projection.
Morning: 9:20 a.m.- 9:30 a.m.
Afternoon: 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.

(3) Poster session

– Present your poster in Community Space, 1st floor of the venue by 9:30 a.m.
– The core time of the poster session is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
– Present your poster to the audience in the core time.

３．Items about venue settings

(1) Reception

– The reception opens at 9:10 on the 2nd floor.
Please bring two business cards of yours. One is used for registration purpose and the other is for your name tag.

（2）Wifi access

‐Akita City public wifi is available at the conference venue. Please check the manual from the link below.：Akita City Wi-Fi Manual（）

（3）Lunch/ Coffee and sweets

‐Lunch and tea will be served. Lunch box will be offered from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 at the reception area (2nd floor).。
‐Coffee and sweets will be served at the 1st floor, community space, between 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.. Please note we only have one cup of coffee and one set of sweets per person.
‐The cost is included in the participation fee.

（4）Personal belongings and large-size items, luggage

‐Any valuable personal belongings should be kept by yourself.
‐We request all participants to leave your luggage at your hotel if possible.
‐A dedicated space to keep large size luggage in the 3rd floor, nearby A3-2 emergency exist and C stairs.

（5）Media

‐This event may be broadcasted locally in Akita. When asked, please cooperate for interviews.。

（6）Others

‐On the 1st floor, second-hand clothes are sold in the community space. When you are asked, please cooperate for questionnaires.

※ You can find more details in the program.

The 24th Spring Conference is just around the corner. We have received about 200 registrations and about 40 students, mostly the students of Akita International University, will support the conference.

All Conference Organising Committee members and student volunteers are very much looking forward to seeing you all in-person at the conference venue, Akita Cultural Creation Centre on June 10.

Contact

The 24th Spring Conference Secretariat
Associate Professor. Shogo Kudo (Chair)
Akita International University

• jasid2023spring [at] (replace [at] with @)

The Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar cordially invite you to join the hybrid seminar.

Kyoto Environment and Development Seminar #19-20

• Date & Time: May 25, 2023, Thursday, 15:00-18:15 (JST)
• Language: English
• Venue: Seminar Room E217 (GSA, Kyoto University) / Zoom Web Seminar
• Speaker: Takeshi Sakurai (University of Tokyo) and John Gibson (University of Waikato)

Register in advance for this meeting:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Presentation by Takeshi Sakurai
Title: Improving Infant Nutrition through the Market: Experimental Evidence from Ghana

Abstract:

This study investigates the impact on infants’ nutritional status of introducing a new complementary food product for infants into the market. We conducted experimental sales of the product, Koko Plus, with randomly selected mother-infant pairs every week for half a year in Ghana. We found that the introduction of Koko Plus into the market significantly increased children’s weight. However, the effect was heterogeneous: it was smaller among children whose baseline weight was lower. We investigated the mechanisms underlying this heterogeneity and found that it was associated with access to safe drinking water. If mothers gave their children safe drinking water, the sale of Koko Plus significantly increased their child’s weight regardless of baseline nutrition status. The results imply that the success of a market-based approach to complementary food products in improving infant nutrition is dependent on access to safe drinking water.

Presentation by John Gibson
Title: Measuring rural economic activity remotely: Do we just need better sensors?

Abstract:

It is difficult and expensive to measure rural economic activity in developing countries. The usual survey-based approach is less informative than often realized due to combined effects of the clustered samples dictated by survey logistics and the spatial autocorrelation in rural livelihoods. Administrative data, like sub-national Gross Domestic Product for lower level spatial units, are often unavailable and informality and seasonality of many rural activities raises doubts about the accuracy of these measurements. In order to overcome these barriers a recent literature argues that high-resol ution satellite imagery can be used to measure rural economic activity and can provide indicators of rural living standards. Potential advantages of using remote sensing data include greater comparability between countries irrespective of their varying levels of statistical capacity, cheaper and mor e timely data availability, and the possibility of extending estimates to spatial units below the level at which GDP data or survey data are reported. While there are many types of remote sensing data, economists have particularly seized upon satellite-detected nighttime lights (NTL) as a proxy for local economic activity. Yet there are growing doubts about the universal usefulness of this proxy, with recent evidence suggesting that NTL data are a poor proxy in low-density rural areas of developing countries. This study examines performance in predicting rural sector economic activity in China with different types of satellite-detected NTL data that come from sensors of varying resolution. We include the most popular NTL source in economics, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program data, whose resolution is, at best, 2.7 km, two data sources from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiomet er Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi/NPP satellite which have spatial resolution of km, and data from the Luojia-01 satellite which is even more spatially precise, with a resolution of km. With this range of resolutions we can ascertain whether better sensors, used by the more spatially precise d ata sources, lead to more accurate predictions of county-level primary sector GDP. We supplement this statistical assessment with a set of ground-truthing exercises. Overall, our study helps to inform decisions about future data directions for studying rural economic activity in developing countries .

Chair:

Ken Miura (Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University)

Contact

Division of Natural Resource Economics, Kyoto University
 Ken Miura

• @　(replace [at] with @)

The 24th JASID Spring Conference Organizing Committee is pleased to share some updates about the conference registration and program.

1. Conference Registration

Deadline for pre-registration extended

The deadline for pre-registration (discounted rate) originally set today , April 29 (Sat) is now extended to 【May 6 (Sat)】. Those who have received the notification of acceptance, please utilise this opportunity to register to the conference with a discounted price.

(i) Pre-registration by May 6 (Sat),
(ii) Final deadline for registration on May 14 (Sun).

▼Conference registration:

**Please note that payment is by credit card only.

2. Excursion Program

The details of the excursion program have been uploaded to the website. Please note that you cannot apply to excursion separately from the conference registration. The application deadline for the excursion program is the same as the conference registration,【 May 14 (Sun)】.

▼About Excursion Program

3. Childcare Services

Childcare services will be provided during the event. You can also participate in the excursions with your child.
If you wish to use childcare services or participate in excursions with your children, please send an e-mail to Ms. Kyoko Takahashi, with the information as below.

1. The number of children
2. Their ages
3. Date and time when you wish to take childcare service

◆Contact

Ms. Kyoko Takahashi

• takahashikyoko [at] (replace [at] with @)

◆Deadline

May 14（Sun), the deadline for registration for the conference.

4. Message from the Chair of Conference Organaising Committee

The venue of the 24th Spring Conference, Akita City Cultural Creation Centre, was built in 1967 as the Akita Prefectural Art Museum. This building has a unique roof with a round-shape window that helps to shed sunlight to its inside.

Such design of the building was necessary for a museum located in Akita where the amount of sunlight is significantly less in winter. Since 2019, the same building is repurposed to host various cultural activities. We received 40 oral presentations, 5 round table sessions, 3 planned sessions, and 18 poster presentation applications.

In total 66 projects are going to be presented. I am very much looking forward to hearing discussions on various topics during the conference in our special venue, Akita City Cultural Creation Centre.

About Akita City Cultural Creation Centre

Contact

The 24th Spring Conference Secretariat
Associate Professor. Shogo Kudo (Chair)
Akita International University

• jasid2023springe [at] 　(replace [at] with @)

The JASID secretariat office will be closed from April 28th to May 8th, 2023.

We will reply to your e-mail after a holiday.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

Best Regards,
JASID Secretariat

Institute of Islamic Area Studies at Sophia University invites Myriam Ababsa (associate researcher at the French Institute for the Near-East (IFPO)), and hold a research seminar on the property, inheritance and gender in Jordan with Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa) and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii).

Myriam Ababsa is social geographer based in Jordan since 2000. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. She also works for the United Nations as an urban planner. In this seminar, she will talk about the land tenure and inheritance system in Jordan, and social mechanism to exclude women from land property based on the fieldwork she carried out in Jordan in 2015-2016.

Kazuaki Takemura (Takachiho University), who has been studying land ownership in the desert with Egypt as his field, will comment on her presentation from a comparison with Egypt.

Overview

• Time: May 23 (Tues) 2023, 17:30 – 19:00
• Place
  [Onsite] Building 2, Room 730 (7th floor), Sophia University Yotsuya Campus（）
  [Online] Zoom
• Language: English

Program

17:30-17:35　
Opening
Erina IWASAKI (Sophia University)

17:35-18:20　
Myriam ABABSA (French Institute for the Near-East: IFPO)
“Women’s Land Inheritance Rights and Practices in Jordan”

18:20-18:30
Comments
Kazuaki TAKEMURA (Takachiho University)

18:30-19:00
Discussions

Registration

(Registration deadline May 18, 2023 )*Seminar URL will be sent to you later.

 Organization

• Research on the Dynamics of the Reconstruction of Publicness in Contemporary Islam (Academic Research Promotion Fund by the Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan) (Principal Investigator: Masayuki Akahori)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) “Maslaha as practiced in Muslim societies: A comparative study with a special focus on rights of socially disadvantaged people” (Principal Investigator: Satoe Horii)
• Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Research Project on Islam and Gender: Towards a Comprehensive Discussion” (Principal Investigator: Eiji Nagasawa)

Contact

Institute of Islamic Area Studies, Sophia University

• sias-co[at] please change [at] to @

Myriam Ababsa has directed the Atlas of Jordan. History, Territories, Society (Ifpo 2013), and co-edited with Baudouin Dupret and Eric Denis Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East (University of Cairo Press, 2012) and with Rami Daher, Cities, Urban Practices and Nation Building in Jordan (Ifpo 2011).
She holds a PhD in Geography from the University François Rabelais of Tours (2004) on Raqqa (Syrian Studies Association, Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize, Special Mention, 2006).