[11th Plenary Committee Meeting] Special meeting for research direction (May 11, 2013)

Date: May 11, 2013. 13:00-14:30
Venue: Middle-sized Meeting Room, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University

Leaders and Sub-Leaders of research units/ research clusters came together to discuss future directions of the project.

Agenda

1. International symposium in Kyoto on October 2013
– Symposium title was decided as “African Potentials 2013: International Symposium on Conflict Resolution and Coexistence”.
– The symposium will be held for three days during from 4th to 6th October.
– Keynote speaker is Prof. Fredrick Cooper at New York University.
– The symposium is composed of four sessions and a session includes four presentations and comments.
– Each speaker has 30 minutes including question time
– Deadline of abstract (300 words) submission is July 31 and that of research paper (3,000-5,000 words) is September 3. The proceedings will be distributed to participants on October 4.

2. Report on the Conference of Canadian Association of African Studies
-The conference was held during from 1 to 3 May, 2013.
-Theme of the conference is “Africa Communicating: Digital Technologies, Representation, and Power”
-Our research project organized a session which composed of four presentations by Motoki Tahakashi (Kobe Univ.), Ichiyo Habuchi (Hirosaki Univ.) Naoki Naito (University of Tokushima), and Othieno Nyanjom (Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis) and a comment to the presentations by John Galaty (McGill University).
-The session entitled “Social Cohesion in Kenya: Changes in the State, Markets and Communication” attracted many participants and the discussion was very active.

3. Theme of plenary committee meeting on July 13
The 3rd African Forum will be held in Juba, South Sudan. Prior to the forum, a meeting concerning peace-making in South Sudan will be held on July 13 as 12th plenary committee meeting. An organizer of the meeting, Dr. Eisei Kurimoto, explained the plan.

4. Support to fieldworks of young researchers

5. Final report 2012 and grant application form 2013

6. Schedule of the plenary committee meeting, unit meeting, and cluster meeting

7. Other topics