Dear JAAS members, The JAAS board members extend heartfelt condolences to JAAS members suffered from the Noto Earthquake on 1st January 2024, and decided to exempt the annual membership fee of fiscal year 2023 for such members. In case that you have not yet paid the membership fee for this fiscal year and want to receive the exemption, please fill the application, which is downloadable from the JAAS homepage, and send it to the board members for general affairs mentioned below. The deadline is 31 March 2024. ◎ Download >> : (Word File) As for the annual membership fee for the next year (fiscal year 2024), we will ask to […]

The JAAS board decided to adopt membership fee exemption measures for those who are experiencing difficulties in continuing their research activities due to the economic depression triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. 1) Eligible members: non-permanent or non-fulltime workers as well as undergraduate and graduate students whose income has been reduced to less than half of the normal times during the last fiscal year or will be reduced to less than half of the normal times during this fiscal year. 2) Application document: one page password protected PDF document in A4 with a written description of your economic condition in relation to the point 1 above. 3) Submission: For information security, […]

The JAAS board member meeting on March 29 decided to adopt membership fee exemption measures for those who are experiencing difficulties in continuing their research activities due to the economic depression triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. 1)Eligible members: non-permanent or non-fulltime workers as well as undergraduate and graduate students whose income has been reduced to less than half of the normal times during the last fiscal year or will be reduced to less than half of the normal times during this fiscal year. 2)Application document: a 1 page password protected PDF document in A4 with a written description of your economic condition in relation to the point 1 above. 3)Submission: […]

The 58th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for African Studies will be held online on May 22nd (Sat) and May 23rd (Sun), 2021. Those who wish to participate should register online on the JAAS web site (https://african-studies.jp/reg/). Your participation is welcomed. The 58th Annual Meeting Information Board URL: https://peacebuilding.wixsite.com/jaas58conferenceinfo

The JAAS General meeting on May 23 decided to adopt membership fee exemption measures for those who are experiencing difficulties in continuing their research activities due to the economic depression triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. 1) Eligible members: non-permanent or non-fulltime workers as well as undergraduate and graduate students whose income has been or will be reduced to less than half of the normal times during the months of April and May 2020. 2) Application document: a 1 page password protected PDF document in A4 with a written description of your economic condition in relation to the point 1 above. 3) Submission: For information security, you are required to send […]

The first circular on the JAAS 57th annual meeting has already sent by Dogura office, which is the JAAS secretariat. Some of you have certainly received it. The JAAS 57th annual meeting will be held on 23 and 24 May 2020 at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Your participation is mostly welcome. All JAAS members are requested to register regardless of participation, as those who are absent are also required to submit the Letter of Proxy on the web. Please register from the following URL. https://african-studies.jp/reg/ For those who make a presentation and those who organized a Forum, we recommend to use the templates: an Abstract Template file and Forum […]

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