INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

Local Knowledge and Education in Ethiopia

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Event Info

Date & Venue
  • March 21, 2024（Thursday）
  • 10:30-16:15 (JST)
  • 504, 5th Floor Common Building, The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Language
  • English (no interpreter)
Contact
  • The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
  • caaskyoto[at]gmail.com

Summary

SESSION 1: MATERIAL CIRCULATION AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF OMOTIC LANGUAGES. SESSION 2: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA.

Date & Venue

March 21, 2024（Thursday）
10:30-16:15 (JST)
504, 5th Floor Common Building, The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Language

English (no interpreter)

Program

SESSION 1: MATERIAL CIRCULATION AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF OMOTIC LANGUAGES 10:30-10:40 Opening remarks [Morie Kaneko (Kyoto University)] 10:40-11:10 Materiality and individuation: a linguistic study on the cultivation and life cycle of ensete in Zargula [Azeb Amha (African Studies Center, Leiden University)] 11:10-11:20 Questions and comments 11:25-11:40 Pecha yant abree? / Where is your place?: A scope of a polysemous word of Omotic Aari [Masayoshi Shigeta and Morie Kaneko (Kyoto University)] 11:40-11:50 Questions and comments 11:50-12:00 Aari vocabulary list, 2nd edition: Towards the co-creation of common intellectual property [Morie Kaneko and Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University)] 12:00-12:10 Questions and comments SESSION 2: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA [TENTATIVE] 14:00-14:10 Opening remarks [Shuichiro Nakao (Osaka University)] 14:10-14:40 Mother Tongue Education Initiative: The case of Aari Language Development Programme [Moges Yigezu (Addis Ababa University)] and Binyam Sisay (The African Institute)] 14:40-14:50 Questions and comments 14:50-15:10 Documentation of Komo Folktale [Tesfaye Negash (Kotebe University of Education)] 15:10-15:20 Questions and comments 15:20-15:35 Coffee break 15:35-15:55 Grammatical aspects of proper names in Mursi [Firew Girma (James Cook University)] 15:55-16:05 Questions and comments 16:05-16:15 Closing remarks [Hideyuki Inui (Yamaguchi University)]

Eligibility

Everyone is welcome to attend.

Co-hosted by

JSPS Scientific Research Fund-B [No.18H03444]; Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (B) [No.18KK0009]; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas (A) "Lifelong sciences: Reconceptualization of development and aging in the super aging society; The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University

Contact

The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University
caaskyoto[at]gmail.com