The 1st CONFERENCE OF JAPAN SOCIETY FOR AFRASIAN STUDIES(JSAS)
KANSAI UNIVERSITY – ASIA AND AFRICA STUDIES GROUP (AASG)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
THEME: NAVIGATING AFRO-ASIAN STUDIES
6 October 2018 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00 ~17:45 (Doors Open 9:00)
Venue: Kansai University, Senriyama Campus, Second Building, 2 Gokan
(Rooms C507, C602, C603, C604, Conference Room of Faculty of Economics)
Registration: 9:30~9:45 (Room C507)
Participants are strongly advised to register online before the Conference
10:00~11:00
Plenary session (Welcome messages, Key-note speech) (C 507)
Moderator: Pedro Amakasu Raposo
10:00~10:10
Welcome Greetings:
1. Pedro Amakasu Raposo on behalf of Asia and Africa Studies Group (AASG)
2. Vick L Ssali, Interim President, Japan Society for Afro-Asian Studies (JSAS)
3. Professor Hiromi Nosaka, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
(provisional)
10:10~11:00
Keynote Speech:
Professor Kaoru Sugihara (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature) “The Asian Path of Economic Development and Its Relevance to Sub-Saharan Africa”
11:10~12:10 General Meeting (C 507)
12:10~13:10 Lunch
13:15~14:40 Session I
Place: Conference Room A (Afro-Asian Relations – Part I) ( C 602)
Moderator: Michiko Kitaba, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
Presenters, paper titles and affiliations:
13:15~13: 40 - Seifudein Adem (Doshisha University, Kyoto). “Postcolonial Africa and Meiji Japan: A Preliminary Comparison”
13:45~14:10 - Franck E. Bonzemba (UN International Trade Center, Geneva). “Leadership in Development Cooperation between Asia and Africa: Japanese vs. Chinese Case”
14:15~14:40 – Vick L. Ssali (Aichi Gakuin University). “Japan in the Eyes of an African”
Place: Conference Room B (African Politics and Development Economics – Part I) (C603)
Moderator: Katsuhiko Kitagawa, Professor Emeritus Kansai University
Presenters, paper titles, and affiliations:
13:15~13: 40 - Ian Karusigarira (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). “The Effect of State Corruption and Patriarchy on the Political Development: Reassessing Uganda’s Revolutionay Politics”
13:45~14:10 - Rahab Mureithi (MA student, Kansai University, Osaka) “Improving Intellectual Property System for Kenya’s Economic Development”
14:15~14: 40 - Oyindeinbofa Nicholas-Ere (Kobe Institute of Computing, Graduate School of Information Technology, Kobe). “Improving Africa Traditional / Indigenous Food Preservation and Processing Techniques: Nigeria as a Case Study”
14:45~15:00 Break Time (coffee and snacks)
15:00~17:25 Session II
Place: Conference Room A (Roundtable Discussion: Afro-Asian Relations Part II) (C602)
“Forging ahead with an Afro-Asian Studies Initiative in Japan”
Moderator: Professor Yoichi Mine (Doshisha University)
Participants: Seifudein Adem (Doshisha University)
Vick Ssali (Aichi Gakuin University)
Kazuyo Hanai (University of Tokyo)
Laban Kinyua Kithinji (Sophia University)
Discussants: Jean-Claude Maswana (Tsukuba University)
Christian Otchia (Kwanseigakuin University)
Place: Conference Room B (African Politics and Development Economics Part II) (C603)
Moderator: Pedro Amakasu Raposo, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
Presenters, paper titles, and affiliations:
15:00~15:25 - Rangarirai Gavin Muchetu (Doshisha University, Kyoto). “Human Security in Agrarian Societies: a case for the adoption of the cooperative
model”
15:30~16:55 - Yumiko Okamoto (Doshisha University, Kyoto). “Do Standards and Certificates Support Upgrading and SDGs in Global Value Chains?
The Case of the Ugandan Organic Coffee Farmers Association”
16:00~16:25 Osei Oteng-Asante (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo). “The West African Response to Trade Integration: 1880-1940”
16:30~16:55 - Wonder Terrence Magoso (MA. Student, Doshisha University, Kyoto). “RDP Housing Projects in the Context of Empowerment: The Case of Emaflethini Community Pietermaritzburg, South Africa”
17:00~17:25 - Asmao Diallo (MA student of Doshisha University) “The Impacts of the Agricultural Orientation Law on Contemporary Women
Agribusiness Entrepreneurship in Mali.
17:30~17:45 Closing Remarks: Representative of JSAS and the host Institution/University for the Next Conference
18:00~20:00 Dinner: Friendly/Social Gathering
(Kansai University Restaurant: Circolo)
Host Institution: Kansai University, Faculty of Economics
Organizing Committee: Kansai University, Faculty of Economics, Asian and African Studies Group (AASG): Pedro Amakasu Raposo, Michiko Kitaba, Kenta Goto, Katsuhiko Kitagawa (Professor Emeritus), Naoko Tsuyama (Visiting Professor) and Atsuko Munemura (Researcher of the Institute of Economic and Political Studies).