Date: July 19, 2014
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg. (Inamori Center), Kyoto University

Program

“Comparative Regional Studies on Possibilities of Local Governances in Tropical Forest Utilization Ⅱ”

Speaker 1: Naoki Matsuura (School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka)
Title: Possibility of collaboration between anthropologists and zoologists
toward the coexistence of human and wild animals－A case of the African rainforest conservation project

Speaker 2: Yuji Takenoshita (Faculty of Child Studies, Chubu Gakuin University)
Title: “Logging workers’ village” to “gorilla village”: An attempt to Relink tropical forest and local community

(Co-organized with 5th Meeting of Joint Research Project “Comparative Regional Studies on Possibilities of Local Governances in Tropical Forest Utilization” of the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University and 6th Meeting of Africa Shizen Hogo Kenkyukai)

Date: June 21, 2014
Venue: Inamori Foundation Memorial Bldg. (Inamori Center), Kyoto University

Program

“Comparative Regional Studies on Possibilities of Local Governances in Tropical Forest Utilization”

Speaker 1: Gen Yamakoshi (Kyoto University)
Speaker 2: Kiyoshi Takeuchi

(Co-organized with 4th Meeting of Joint Research Project “Comparative Regional Studies on Possibilities of Local Governances in Tropical Forest Utilization” of the Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS), Kyoto University and 5th Meeting of Africa Shizen Hogo Kenkyukai)

Date: June 20, 2013. 15:00-17:00
Venue: Middle-sized seminar room, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University

Program

Title: Conflicts among residents over commons; cultivated area expansion in the seasonal damp ground in Tanzanian farm village
Presenter: Kana Yamamoto (JSPS Research fellow/ Kyoto University)

Abstract

Most of the damp grounds distributed over Africa are existed as the commons that local residents commonly use, but recently cultivated area expands and there are tendencies that households start enclosing the damp ground. Turning damp grounds into cultivating fields yields an interest among local residents and often leads to conflicts. In this presentation, showing the process and the background of expansion of cultivating field in the seasonal damp ground in Tanzanian farm village, I clarify the figure of people trying to find the way of using the commons that is suitable for the present conditions while they disputes over the use of surrounding environment.

Date: November 15, 2012. 15:00-17:00
Venue: Room 318, 3F Inamori Center, Kawabata Campus, Kyoto University

Program

Title: The formation of the Tanzanian awareness
Presenter: Toshimichi Nemoto (Japan Tanzania Tours Ltd.)

Abstract

The borderline in African Continent, where is multiracial, was designated based on Berlin Conference of 1885. While each colony tried to become independent aiming at the formation of one-nation-state, many of them repeatedly experienced ethnic conflicts. However, Tanzania has not experienced major ethnic conflicts or a civil war since its independence 50 years ago. This presentation looks back the recent contemporary history of Tanzania since the mid-19th century.