"Fieldwork photo exhibition: Today's world observed by the students"
(December 24, 2019 - January 14, 2020, Nagakute Campus, Aichi Prefectural University)

Exhibition in the MEXT museum
by the Department of International and Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University
"Fieldwork photo exhibition: Today's world observed by the students"
(September 2 - December 19, 2019,
Museum of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Tokyo)

[Map of the countries and areas where photos in the exhibitions 2011-2019 were taken
by the members of the Department of International and Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University]
(735 photos taken in 82 countries/areas)

International conference in France
"International conference of minority languages spoken or signed and inclusive spaces"
was postponed because of the pandemic of the COVID-19 (March 23, 2020)
[Conference dates: May 25-27, 2020 >> May 10-12, 2021]
[Website of the conference]

My paper was accepted for the oral presentation and the publication in the proceedings
of the international conference on minority languages in France! (February 20, 2020)
International conference of minority languages spoken or signed and inclusive spaces
(May 25-27, 2020, Suresnes, France)

Call for Papers of the 2020 International Conference in Nagoya,
Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS)
"Beyond Natural Resources: The Value of Human Capital in the New Afrasian Connectivity"
(July 4, 2020, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 30, 2020
[Japan Society for Afrasian Studies (JSAS)]
[Call for papers]

The 2020 Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Theme: "Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology"
(October 7-11, 2020, Convention Centre Šibenik, Amadria Park Šibenik, Šibenik, Croatia)
The call for papers/films is open!
Paper/film submission deadline: March 23, 2020
[Website of IUAES]
[Website of IUAES2020]

A Happy New Year 2020! (January 1, 2020)

"Fieldwork photo exhibition: Today's world observed by the students"
(December 24, 2019 - January 14, 2020, Nagakute Campus, Aichi Prefectural University)

Symposium of the 10th anniversary of the Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute,
Aichi Prefectural University
"Toward the societies of cultural symbiosis:
Practices over the past decade and the future perspectives" (December 3, 2019)

The 2020 Inter-Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
Theme: "Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation Anthropology"
(October 7-11, 2020, Convention Centre Šibenik, Amadria Park Šibenik, Šibenik, Croatia)
The call for panels is open!
Panel submission deadline: November 30, 2019
[Website of IUAES]
[Website of IUAES2020]

Public symposium was held in the MEXT museum!
"Practices of education by active learning over the past decade:
Challenges of the Department of International and Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University"
(November 1, 2019, Museum of the Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT))

Invited presentation with about 70 participants
in tha symposium of the 16th Annual Child Science Conference
of the Japanese Society of Child Science
"Children's culture and the roles of friends in the hunter-gatherer society:
Analyses of daily activities and group members"
in the Symposium 1 "The world of the relationships among children seen from the viewpoint of families"
(October 26, 2019, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
[Website of Japanese Society of Child Science]

A short report of the invited presenation in tha symposium of the Annual Meeting
of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology was published (March 30, 2019)
Kamei, Nobutaka. 2019. "Basic recognitions for the question
"Is education based on the evolution or culture?":
History of "diversion" of human abilities" [In Japanese]
"Symposium planned by the organizing committee 5:
Biological bases of education: Evolution or culture?"
In: The annual report of educational psychology in Japan
(The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology) 58.

Invited presentation with about 80 participants
in the plenary round table of the annual meeting
of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE)
as the delegate of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA)
"Anthropological commitments to the society and collaborations with minorities:
In the era of "post-Writing Culture shock"" [In English]
(September 28, 2019, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
[Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology (TSAE)]
[Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JASCA)]

Exhibition in the MEXT museum
by the Department of International and Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University
"Fieldwork photo exhibition: Today's world observed by the students"
(September 2 - December 19, 2019,
Museum of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Tokyo)
[Map of the countries and areas where photos in the exhibitions 2011-2019 were taken
by the members of the Department of International and Cultural Studies, Aichi Prefectural University]
(735 photos taken in 82 countries/areas)

Invited lecture with about 60 participants
in the teacher training workshop for the inclusive education (sign language / braille)
sponsored by Society Without Barriers-Côte d'Ivoire (SWB-CI)
and the Ministry of National Education and Technical Education, Côte d'Ivoire
"Situation de la langue des signes dans le monde
et particulièrement en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre"
("Situation of sign languages in the world, particularly in West and Central Africa") [in French]
(August 17, 2019, Ivorian School for the Deaf (ECIS), Abidjan)

The 32nd West African Languages Congress (WALC)
will be held in Abuja, Nigeria (July - August 2021)
[West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)]

The article "La promotion de la recherche sur la Langue des Signes
par les communautés des Sourds africains :
cas de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et de Centre francophone" (in French)
in Journal of cultural symbiosis research 13 (2019)
(Cultural Symbiosis Research Institute, Aichi Prefectural University)
can be downloaded from the website of Aichi Prefectural University Repository
(uploaded on August 13, 2019)
[Full text] (Aichi Prefectural University Repository, PDF)

The article "The report of the 30th West African Languages Congress (WALC2017)
organized by the West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)" (in Japanese)
in Journal of African Studies 92 (2017) (Japan Association for African Studies)
can be downloaded from the website of J-STAGE (uploaded on August 13, 2019)
[Full text] (J-STAGE, PDF)

Presentation in the 31st West African Languages Congress (WALC2019)
"African sign languages in world history: Through the comparison of LSF, ASL, LSQ and LSAF"
[in English and French] (August 12, 2019, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan)

Participation in the 31st West African Languages Congress (WALC2019)
organized by the West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)
(August 11-15, 2019, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
[West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)]

The article based on the joint plenary talk
in the 8th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8) (August 2015, Kyoto, Japan)
can be downloaded as the versions in English, French and Japanese
(uploaded on August 12, 2019)
Sanogo & Kamei "Promotion of sign language research
by the African Deaf community:
Cases in French-speaking West and Central Africa"
[English version (PDF)] [French version (PDF)] [Japanese version (PDF)]

My presentation in the international congress in Africa was accepted!
"African sign languages in world history: Through the comparison of LSF, ASL, LSQ and LSAF"
in the 31st West African Languages Congress (WALC2019)
organized by the West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)
(August 11-15, 2019, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)

The 31st West African Languages Congress (WALC2019)
organized by the West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO)
(August 11-15, 2019, Félix Houphouët-Boigny University, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
Theme: "African languages as solutions
to the economic, social and environmental challenges in Africa"
[Call for abstracts] (- June 15, 2019)
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"Anthropology of responsiveness" (JASCA)
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Human mind 191 (in Japanese)
Africa where children live (in Japanese)
Encyclopedia of the Hand (in Japanese)
Public anthropology (in Japanese)
Ecoute mes mains
Fieldwork with supporting (in Japanese)
Japanese Journal of Sign Linguistics 19 (Featured articles: A half century of sign linguistics) (in Japanese)
Little "hunters" in the forest (in Japanese)
Japanese Journal of Sign Linguistics 18 (Featured articles: Ethics in sign language research) (in Japanese)
Introduction to the anthropology of play (in Japanese)
Let's visit the Deaf world (in Japanese)
Sign Language textbook: On va signer en LSAF (in English and French)
Actions in the field (in Japanese)
Positive and negative of knowledge resources (in Japanese)
History of Deaf people and sign languages in Africa (in English)
Shall we sign? (in Japanese)

Fall semester in 2019

[Aichi Prefectural University]
Seminar (finished)
Cultural anthropology II (finished)
Project-based learning (finished)
Basic seminar I (finished)
Introduction to the international and cultural studies (finished)
Global academic exchange (finished)

[Doctor's course, Aichi Prefectural University]
Specialized lectures in anthropology (finished)

[Nanzan University]
Culture and evolution (finished)

[Teaching experiences]
[Committee services in universities]

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