更新日:2015/10/02
■13th Seminar of Anthropology of Education and Learning
I am pleased to inform you that 13th Seminar of Anthropology of Education and Learning, a serial seminar that have been carried out since Academic Year 2012, will be held in Kyoto University on 9th (Friday) October 2015. This time we invite Dr. Sheena Shah <http://www.caldi.uct.ac.za/people/sheena-shah/> from the Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town. Dr. Shah has actively worked on the maintenance, shift, and education of endangered languages, particularly what we call Khoisan languages. She is currently in Japan as a visiting scholar of the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University. In this seminar she will give us a talk titled “Writing for speaking: The development of Nǀuu educational materials” in order to review achievements and challenges to revitalize the Nǀuu language, one of the Khoisan languages.
This is an admission-free seminar. For attending it, please inform us your (1) name, (2) affiliation, and (3) attendance or not in the reception, to the following email address <h-seki@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, for preparing the room, handouts, and reception. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
13th Seminar of Anthropology of Education and Learning
Venue: Small Meeting Room 1, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building (third floor), Kyoto University
http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/about/access
Schedule
9th October 2015 (Friday)
15:00-15:10
Introduction
Akira Takada (Kyoto University)
15:10-17:00 (including discussion)
Writing for speaking: The development of Nǀuu educational materials
Sheena Shah (University of Cape Town / Kyoto University)
17:30-20:00
Reception
The talk is given in English. Admission-free for attending the seminar. For the reception, contribution for the actual expenses will be required.
Financially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) “Cultural and ecological foundations of education and learning: An anthropological study on rhythm, imitation, and exchange (Primary Investigator: Akira Takada)”
Co-hosted with 41st Kyoto University African Study Seminar (KUASS)
Contact: c/o Mr.Hiroki SEKI, CCI Project, Kyoto University
E-mail: h-seki@asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
