International Symposium: Art and Affect in Africa is to be held on August 19, 2017.

◆Date/Time: Saturday, Aug 19, 2017 13:00-17:30

◆Venue: Hall 301, ILCAA (Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

◆Program:

0. Yutaka SAKUMA (ICLAA) Introduction

1. Presentation
Roger Somé (Université de Strasbourg) "Creation, emotion and reception of arts works in Africa"
Fumiaki YANAGISAWA (Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo) "≪Emotional Sensibility≫ : From Fry's Formalism to Senghor's Humanism"
Bruce CLARKE (Artist, Photographer) "Fighting ghosts: visual arts and contemporary history in Africa"

2. Comment
Akira OKAZAKI (ILCAA Research Fellow)
Kazuto NAKATANI (Kyoto University)

3. Discussion

◆Language: French (with Japanese consecutive interpretation), Japanese and English

◆Admission: Free

◆No pre-registration is needed.

◆Jointly sponsored by:
Core resarch project "The Potential Value of Indigenous Knowledge in Managing Hazards in Asia and Africa: The Anthropological Explorations into the Linkage of Micro-Macro Perspectives 2", Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Ryoko NISHII (ILCAA) Research Project Number:17H00948) and Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (Principal Investigator: Moriyuki HOSHINO (The University of Tokyo) Research Project Number:17H02328)