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bulletin 2018 edition twenty nine | editor: suzy cohen
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japan-africa
exchange program
Canon Foundation in Europe
and Kyoto University
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An invitation to this year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Lisbon, Portugal
warsaw highlights
Overview of last year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Warsaw, Poland
japan-africa exchange program
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canon foundation in europe and kyoto university Our 2018 Canon Fellows
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Canon Foundation in Europe, in September 2017, we
launched a new program committed to promoting exchange specifically between Japan and Africa. spotlight
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Together with Kyoto University and the Center for African Area Studies (CAAS), this new program
is committed to promoting exchange specifically between Japan and Africa. Kyoto University about us
scholars are invited to apply for fellowships to do research related to African Studies at Kyoto’s Application and contact
partner institutes in Africa and vice versa. details
The program will exist alongside our current fellowship program which offers fellowships
to Europeans and Japanese who want to do research in Japan and Europe respectively.
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japan-africa
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and Kyoto University
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An invitation to this year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Lisbon, Portugal
warsaw highlights
Overview of last year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
We are honoured to partner with Kyoto University for this important initiative. Kyoto University represents the foremost academic in Warsaw, Poland
institution in Japan where research is conducted and exchanged with Africa. The focus is on research and studies regarding Africa’s
natural environment, in relation to its peoples, cultures and endogenous development including wildlife. introducing
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Preferential emphasis will be placed on applications related to ‘people-to-people’
exchange projects contributing to development in Africa by means of scientific research
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and bilateral knowledge transfer.
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For more information about the Japan-Africa Fellows, and for application details,
please visit: http://www.africaunit.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/20171213_1078 about us
Application and contact
In a similar set up, together with our co-sponsored partner, the European University
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Institute, Florence, Italy, we offer one fellowship per year to a candidate of Japanese
nationality or with permanent residency in Japan in the field of international relations.
See: https://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships
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japan-africa
exchange program
Canon Foundation in Europe
and Kyoto University
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An invitation to this year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Lisbon, Portugal
warsaw highlights
Overview of last year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Warsaw, Poland
your invitation to the introducing
Our 2018 Canon Fellows
regional fellow meeting
friday 16 november 2018 spotlight
lisbon, portugal Fellows page
To Alumni Fellows from France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and
current Fellows who finish their Fellowships by November, about us
we cordially invite you to the 2018 Regional Fellow meeting Application and contact
in co-operation with the Department of Art History, details
Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
More details to follow in September
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warsaw, poland, 2017
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In co-operation with the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the Overview of last year’s
University of Warsaw, the November 2017 meeting was held in Regional Fellow Meeting
the University library. As well as welcoming our Alumni Fellows in Warsaw, Poland
from East Europe, we were honoured that Alumni Canon
Foundation Fellow Prof. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka agreed to give introducing
a lecture entitled Branding Japan: the Global and the Local. Our 2018 Canon Fellows
Before and during the meeting, guests were invited to visit the
Chashitsu Kaian – a traditional Japanese tea pavilion situated spotlight
inside the library and is one of its kind in Europe. Guests took Fellows page
part in a tea ceremony served by the students of the Japanese
studies department at the Faculty of Oriental Studies. With about us
special thanks to Ula Mach-Bryson and her students for Application and contact
performing the ceremony. details
Above: Guest speaker, Canon Foundation Fellow Prof. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka
Top right: Dr. Fabienne Huebener, Canon Fellow from 2000 receiving her lapel.
Middle and below right: Guests enjoying the traditional Japanese tea and ceremony
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1. dr. christopher adenyo* 13. dr. gabriel frontpage
from: Univ. of Ghana, Ghana sanchez santolino
to: Kyoto University, Japan from: Institute of Materials
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host: Prof. Dr. Miho Science of Madrid, CSIC, Spain japan-africa
Inoue-Murayama to: University of Tokyo, Japan
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research: Agriculture & Forestry: this year’s canon foundation in europe fellows host: Prof. Naoya Shibata
Sequencing and mapping of
*japan-africa fellow **co-sponsored canon foundation fellow with the european univ. inst.
research: Material Sciences: Canon Foundation in Europe
the grasscutter (large rodent) direct Visualization of
Electromagnetic Fields in
and Kyoto University
(Thryonomys swinderianus)
genome to identify genes 5. dr. claudia 7. dr. yukari hira 10. ms. gaia pintucci Domain Wall Nanoelectronic
relevant for domestication cecchetto from: Kyoto Univ. of Ed., Japan from: Univ. Hamburg, Germany Devices save the date
from: Univ. of Padova, Italy to: Univ. of Strasbourg, France to: Kyoto University, Japan
2. mr. tobias burgers to: Okinawa Institute of host: Prof. Christophe Geiger host: Prof. Yuko Yokochi 14. dr. joana silva An invitation to this year’s
from: Free Univ. Berlin, Germany Science & Technology, Japan research: Law: Intellectual research: Literature (Sanskrit): from: University of Minho, Regional Fellow Meeting
to: Keio University, Japan host: Dr. Bernd Kuhn Property Law. Balancing Copy- A New Adornment: the Creation Portugal
research: Neurosciences: right & Freedom of Expression: & Transmission of Commentaries to: Gakushuin University,
in Lisbon, Portugal
host: Prof. Motohiro Tsuchiya
research: Politics and an innovative multimodal recent development of on the Western Recension of the Tokyo, Japan
International Relations: approach for the study of the fundamental right approach Amaruśataka host: Prof. Akihiko Takashima warsaw highlights
The Concept of Security in barrel cortex through VSD of European & French courts research: Neurosciences:
the Age of New Technologies. imaging & high-resolution 11. prof. hajanirina unmasking the role of Tau protein Overview of last year’s
Implications of the rising use of LFP recordings 8. dr. noriko itoh* rakotomanana* in adult brain homeostasis: Regional Fellow Meeting
new technologies on international from: Kyoto University, Japan from: Univ. of Antananarivo, a novel approach for new answers
6. dr. giovanni forcina to: Mahale Mountains Antananarivo, Madagascar
in Warsaw, Poland
security relations in East Asia
from: National University National Park, Tanzania to: Kyoto University, Japan 15. dr. hiroyuki takemoto*
3. ms. astrid engl of Singapore Avian Evolution research: Anthropology: host: Prof. Akira Takada from: Kyoto University, Japan introducing
from: Academy of Fine Arts, Lab, Dept. Sciences, Singapore Re-assessment of local research: Environmental to: Makerere University,
Vienna, Austria to: Kyoto University, Japan knowledge on plants & species Studies: meta-analysis of the Makerere, Uganda Our 2018 Canon Fellows
to: Tokyo Gakugei Univ., Japan host: Prof. Dr. Miho identification after 50 years at long-term biological data collected host: Prof. Eric Sande
host: Prof. Dr. Joshua Paul Dale Inoue-Murayama Mahale National Park, Tanzania by Kyoto University scholars research: Physical Anthropology:
research: Art/design: Japanese research: Biosciences: in Ankarafantsika, north-western the origins of human terrestrial
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kawaii culture in Tokyo at the Improving the current 9. dr. sakiko kaiga** Madagascar: its implication life: investigation from the Fellows page
Intersection of Art, Design understanding of the genetic from: International Christian to conservation efforts perspective of the forest thermal
& Everyday-Life Culture mechanisms underlying mate University, Peace Research environment
choice & reproductive success Institute, Tokyo, Japan 12. ms. ana ruiz about us
4. dr. timo essig to assist ex situ conservation to: European Univ. Institute, from: San Jorge University, 16. mr. ryosei taniguchi Application and contact
from: Karlsruher Institut für breeding programs of the San Domenico, di Fiesole, Italy Zaragoza, Spain from: Kyoto University, Japan
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Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Japanese golden eagle host: Prof. Corinna Hunger to: University of Tokyo, Japan to: University of Paris 1, France
to: Hokkaido University, Japan (Aquila chrysaetos japonica) research: History of International host: Prof. Yasushi Asami host: Prof. Dominique Kalifa
host: Prof. Toru Ohmoto Relations: the Label of Democracy: research: Architecture research: History: The ‘Political
research: Mathematics: the Mobilisation of a ‘Universal & Area Planning: Urban planning. Crimes’ in Elections: ln the
the topology of manifolds Value’ in the Era of the League Shrinking communities in Spain Beginning of the French Third
& singular spaces of Nations 1919-45 & the linkage with Japanese case Republic (1870-1879)
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(2018 canon foundation fellow)
A quite unexpected but promising outcome of my research
stay in Japan is that I developed an enthusiastic passion
for Japanese vintage toys, particularly for Hiragana blocks frontpage
(tsumiki). Originally purchased as a learning tool to improve
my Hiragana skills, I quickly got excited about the beautiful japan-africa
design. My collection now includes several sets from different exchange program
decades which I purchased at flea markets or online auctions. Canon Foundation in Europe
and Kyoto University
Always being fascinated with the simplicity and beauty
of Japanese artifacts, it quickly turned out my stay in Japan
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wouldn’t only have an essential impact on the quality and
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realization of my project but also for my own art practice.
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I now own about a hundred sets from different periods in Lisbon, Portugal
in various colours and styles.
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There is actually one more side effect to my passion:
2015 Canon Fellow Dr. Nobuaki Murai (3rd from left) receiving Overview of last year’s
by studying the illustrations but also by the refinement of
his Research Doctorate in Assyriology at Leiden University, Regional Fellow Meeting
research strategies, I could not only make out relations to
the Netherlands in January 2018. in Warsaw, Poland
aspects of kawaii culture as my research topic but it also
improved my Japanese in an efficient and joyful way.
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Hiragana is the basic Japanese phonetic script. It represents Our 2018 Canon Fellows
every sound in the Japanese language. By learning hiragana,
you will learn the basics of Japanese pronunciation. In essence, spotlight
it is the first step to learning Japanese. Fellows page
Astrid is an artist and researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts
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in Vienna. She is at Tokyo Gakugei University doing research
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on Japanese kawaii culture at the intersection of art, design
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and everyday-life-culture.
Above right: Two examples from her substantial collection of Hiragana blocks
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japan-africa
exchange program
Canon Foundation in Europe
and Kyoto University
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An invitation to this year’s
Regional Fellow Meeting
in Lisbon, Portugal
warsaw highlights
Overview of last year’s
application Regional Fellow Meeting
in Warsaw, Poland
Founded in 1987 to enhance cultural and scientific understanding Fellowships are awarded for a minimum of three months
between Japan and Europe, we offer grants for research in all fields. to maximum one year.
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Candidates should have obtained at least their Master’s degree Please click here to register online for our application form Our 2018 Canon Fellows
within the last ten years. Non-nationals should have permanent
15 September 2018 is the deadline for receiving applications
citizenship in either Europe or Japan. spotlight
for Fellowships starting from 1 January 2019.
Fellows page
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canon foundation in europe Tel: +31 20 545 8934 Application and contact
P. O. Box 2262 Email: foundation@canon-europe.com details
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