Congratulations to our visiting research fellow, Sohrab Ahmadian, on successfully defending his dissertation on January 22, 2024. The title of his dissertation is "Zainichi Kurd-jin no Diaspora Taiken ni kansuru Shitsuteki Kenkyu" (A Qualitative Investigation into Diaspora Experienes of the Kurds Living in Japan) and has been submitted to the Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, the Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Tsukuba.
The GDC hosted a seminar presentation by Dr. Bilge Yabanci, a visiting foreign scholar at TUFS from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy).
Speaker profile:
Dr. Bilge YABANCI
A Global Marie Curie fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
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Curriculum Vitae [url]
Website: https://unive.academia.edu/BilgeYabanci
The GDC is helping the colleagues organize the following international workshop.
GDC Director, Yasuyuki Matsunaga, participated in the IPSA RC14 & RC43 Colloquium held at Queen's University Belfast, May 31 - June 2, 2023. He presented a paper titled "Dissecting Ethnonational Undertones in Minority Religious Movements in Iran," at a panel chaired by Keiko Sakai, Chiba University, with Giorgio Shani, ICU, as a discussant.
Two papers presented previously at TUFS-GDC workshops have recently been published by peer-reviewed academic journals. Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Rasekh and Dr. Emel Akçalı!
The GDC organized a panel titled "Relational Approaches to Political Culture, Discourse, and Discursive Strategies" at the Japan Association for Comparative Politics (JACP) Conference.
The Program in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, just posted a job announcement at the level of tenured associate professor.
Yasuyuki Matsunaga took part in the first two online workshops of the Decolonizing Kurdish Studies Initiative, organized by the MacMillan Center Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University jointly with the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University.
Khalil Dahbi, adjunct professor at TUFS Graduate School and Research Fellow, GIGA, Germany, published a book review in Protest Vol. 1, Issue 1.
