Activities|Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, National Museum of Ethnology

International Conference FY2025

[International Workshop] Screening of documentary film “THE CLUB” with Nalini Elvino de Sousa (producer of the film)
Date November 29, 2025 13:30-17:00
Venue National Museum of Ethnology, 2nd floor, Minpaku Theater
Program

We will screen a film depicting the past and present of the Goan diaspora who migrated from the Indian sub-continent to Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, East Africa, over the Indian Ocean, in the 19th century.

■The trailer of the film can be watched here:
https://youtu.be/PjSEldG2rXE

  • 13:30−13:40 Greetings from Prof. Minoru Mio
  • 13:40−14:10 Introduction to the film "An overview of history of the Goan migration in the intersection of the Portuguese and British colonialisms"
    Kyoko Matsukawa (Konan University)
  • 14:10−15:10 Screening of the film "THE CLUB"
  • 15:10−15:30 Break
  • 15:30−16:00 "The background of the filmmaking" Nalini Elvino de Sousa (Filmmaker, Lotus Film & TV Production)
  • 16:00−17:00 Q&A session
 *The session will be followed by dinner (the venue to be confirmed later)

Host: Indian Ocean World Studies Project at National Museum of Ethnology

Language English
Registration Please register from the link before Nov 25 17:00.
https://forms.gle/Mu14GQsc1AHua4FL7
[International Workshop] KMOU-MINDOWS Workshop: New Horizons of Maritime/Aqua-Humanities
Date September 20, 2025 13:00-18:00
Venue Seminar Room 1 (4th floor), National Museum of Ethnology + Zoom online
Program

We held an international workshop with Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime and Ocean University.

  • 13:00
    • Opening Remark
      Minoru Mio (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan/Project Leader of MINDOWS)
    • Introduction to the Workshop
      Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  • 13:10−14:10 [Session 1: Paradigm Shifters of Maritime/Aqua-Humanities]
    • "What is 'Integrated Sciences for Sustainable Human-Aqua Environment'?"
      Takeshi Onimaru (Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyusyu University)
    • "Foundational Studies for the Constructing Arctic Sea Route 3.0"
      Moon-Soo Jeong (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
  • 14:20−15:20 [Session 2: Maritime Heritage Today]
    • "Yeongdo as a Marine Healing Humanities City: Integrating Maritime Heritage and Human Well-being – From Vision to Practice"
      Chin-Sung Dury Chung (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
    • "Mauritian Heritage from a Maritime Perspective"
      Taku Iida (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  • 15:20−15:50 Break
  • 15:50−16:50 [Session 3: Flows of Technique and Knowledge]
    • "Goldsmithing on Ilha de Moçambique and Transfer of its Techniques from India"
      Azusa Matsui (Center for Indian Ocean World Studies, National Museum of Ethnology)
    • "Scientific Discoveries through the Northwest Passage: Based on Captain Cook's Journals"
      Haram Lim (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
  • 16:50−17:50 [Session 4: Maritime/Aqua-Humanities towards Future]
    • "The Sea and Islands in the Anthropocene Era: From the Civilization of Domination to the Culture of Coexistence"
      Ji-hyeok Jung, Yeon-ju Choi, Yu-hwa Kim, Su-yeon Woo (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
    • "The Sea and Climate Change: What is Humanity's Responsibility? (Focusing on Advisory Opinion of ITLOS Case 31)"
      Jae-min Jang, Min-hyuk Choi (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
  • 17:50
    • Closing Remark
      Moon-Soo Jeong (Institute of International Maritime Affairs, Korea Maritime & Ocean University)
[International Workshop] MINDOWS Workshop: Made in Japan across the Indian Ocean
Date July 24, 2025 13:30-17:00
Venue Seminar Room 1 (4th floor), National Museum of Ethnology + Zoom online
Program
  • Aki Toyoyama (KindaiUniversity)
    "Migration Merchants and the Making of Homescapesin the Indian Oceanic World:Japanese Majolica Tiles from Kinmen to Zanzibar in the Early Twentieth Century"
  • Jeremy Prestholdt (UC San Diego)
    "Clothing empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese consumer goods, and colonial capitalism"
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[Co-hosted International Workshop] Sources and Fieldwork in a Digital Age
Date April 26, 2025 11:00-18:00
Venue Seminar Room 6, National Museum of Ethnology
Detail What is the role of place-based research in an era of online archives and libraries? How has the work of anthropologists and historians been altered by digital tools and sources? Does the speed with which we can gather data limit the time we take to look at, and learn about, evidence? To what extent have the shrinking budgets and diminishing time allocated to research visits contributed to a dearth of experiential observation? While scholars now enjoy unprecedented international mobility (at least in the ‘Global North’), they have used this mobility to swerve away from research that is guided by, and rooted in, an extended experience of place. The resulting loss of material knowledge and local connection deeply affects the balance between familiarity and strangeness that is so central to both anthropology and history. However, so far, this is a shift which has passed largely un-noticed. Our workshop aims to bring together anthropologists and historians from geographically and temporally distinct fields to discuss place-based research in our respective disciplines. Our aim is to reflect on the relationship between non-textual and textual sources, to establish a new debate on the importance of experiential observation (notably under-theorized in history), and to create strategies to restore the role of learning in, and from, a place.
Organised by Global Mediterranean at the National Museum of Ethnology
Co-organised by
 Indian Ocean World Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology
 Maritime Asian and Pacific Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology
 East Eurasian Studies Project at the National Museum of Ethnology
Program
  • 11:00-11:15 Introduction: Lucy Riall (Minpaku, Global Mediterranean, and EUI, Florence)
  • 11:15-11:45 “The power of feeling out of place: a case of European history in Japan”Shusaku Kanazawa (Kyoto Univ., Global Mediterranean)
  • 11:45-12:15 “And what the State said, a century later: reflections on Thursday Island, 1897”Martin Dusinberre (University of Zurich)
  • 12:15-13:30 LUNCH BREAK
  • 13:30-14:00 “Here, there, and everywhere: long-term multi-sited fieldwork and the creation of a digital archive”Michael Feener (Kyoto Univ., Maritime Asian and Pacific Studies)
  • 14:00-14:30 “A few reasons why I head to my fields (so repeatedly)”Hideaki Suzuki (Minpaku, Indian Ocean World Studies)
  • 14:30-15:00 “Murmurs in the archive: re-writing the history of ‘someone else’ in Peru and Chile”Lucy Riall (Minpaku, Global Mediterranean and EUI, Florence)
  • 15:00-15:30 BREAK
  • 15:30-16:00 “Listening to the text and reading the sound: fieldwork before and after Web 2.0”Hatsuki Aishima (Minpaku, Global Mediterranean)
  • 16:00-16:30 “Historical anthropological research in a Digital Age: the view from Africa and elsewhere”Benjamin Soares (University of Florida)
  • 16:30-16:45 BREAK
  • 16:45-18:00 Concluding Discussion
    Commentary: Ippei Shimamura (Minpaku, East Eurasian Studies)

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