TUFS Networking Meeting for African Students 2025 will be hosted by African Studies Center on Friday, 25 April 2025. We hope that this meeting will be the opportunities for 2 exchange students from Republic of Zambia to build network with supporters of exchange students, students and faculty members of TUFS in Japan. TUFS students！Participation is open to all majors. We will be waiting for you to join us! TUFS Networking Meeting for African Students 2025 ◆Date and Time: Fri. 25 April 2025 17:40-19:10 (JST) ◆Venue：Tokyo University of Foreign Studies、AGORA Global 1F ◆Eligibility for Participation: Only for TUFS Student, Staff ◆Language: English and Japanese (Each language will be roughly translated into Japanese or English) ◆Admission: 500Yen (at the door) ◆pre-registration: Please register from this【Form】Deadline date: Sunday April13th ※ Please register if you wish to attend even after the deadline has passed. Please pre-register as much as possible. Report We held a networking event as a return for our crowdfunding campaign, and we were pleased to have 59 participants join us (38 members from TUFS and 21 CrowdFunding supporters). Thank you to everyone who participated. Since we invited crowdfunding supporters to this event, it was a pleasant few hours with TUFS students, creating a warm and friendly atmosphere. We also had Ms.Linda and Mrs.Daniel, who are currently on exchange from Zambia University, introduce their country with interpretation provided by Japanese students. Afterward, everyone seemed to enjoy casual conversations. We would like to thank Zensho, who were invited to this event through the "ASC Africa Education Research Support Fund" (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Special Fund), for bringing in gyudon (beef bowl) as a treat, with the request that they let African students taste it and share their thoughts. Thank you very much. We also sincerely appreciate those who made direct donations at the reception on the day of the event. Together with the participation fees, these donations will be sent to the "ASC Africa Education Research Support Fund." We hope that the exchange between students from Africa and those within and outside the university will continue to deepen and expand, leading to ongoing individual and university-wide exchanges in the future. We also hope you will continue to support the activities of our center. Thank you once again for your participation.

The Spring2025 semester began on April 8, and the campus will be becoming more crowded with students. The ASC Center holds Open Lunch once a month (on the first Wednesday of the month) with free participation by students, faculty, and staff. Wednesday April 16th, we had hold a "Welcome" Open Lunch for 2 exchange students who arrived in Japan from Zambia on end of March and are welcomed as exchange students. University and graduate students also joined us, we really hope that this lunch will bring them new good encounter.

"Inter University Exchange Project (Africa)" began in 2020 will end in March 2025. A closing conference will be held on 17 February with 10 universities conducted this project in Japan. As part of this Closing conference, we will hold "Undergraduate Experiences in Japan and Africa: Exchange Students Symposium". This symposium aims to look back and share the achievements of undergraduate-level exchange programs. Please join us!! Undergraduate Experiences in Japan and Africa: Exchange Students Symposium Date: Monday 17th February 2025, 12:30-14:30 (JST)Venue: Hybrid (Zoom or TUFS Agora Global 1F Prometheus Hall)Participants: Open to PublicLanguage: EnglishRegistration: Please register from hereDeadline→Sunday 16th February 2025＊For on site participants: You are welcome jump into the event but we would appreciate it if you pre-register. *Please visit this page for the latest information as needed.

The 98th ASC Seminar will be held with Associate Prof. Louisa Lombard, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University. Please come along and join us if you are in the area, you can also join us via Zoom, please register in advance. Title: "The Initiative-Killing Machine: The End and the Future of Peacekeeping" Abstract: In the 21st century, expectations of UN military peacekeepers have risen. They are supposed to do whatever it takes to protect civilians - including use force. However, the increase in writ has been accompanied by an increase in bureaucracy and risk aversion, putting the soldiers in a bind. My ethnographic research with Rwandan soldiers working as peacekeepers shows the everyday ways that UN peacekeeping has therefore become redundant in the complicated conflict management marketplaces of Central Africa today, and is being taken over by bilateral and sub-regional deployments that make no pretense of impartiality. This talk illustrates these points by looking at the problem of command (the philosophy of how to get soldiers to do things), arguing that rather than a command philosophy, the UN has a control philosophy. The result is an initiative-killing machine. ◆Speaker: Associate Prof. Louisa Lombard, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University　https://anthropology.yale.edu/profile/louisa-lombard【Books by Associate Prof. Louisa Lombard】https://amzn.asia/d/izhhT5o、https://amzn.asia/d/j2KDlL5 ◆Date：December 11th, 2024 (Wed) 5:40p.m.～7:10p.m.（JST）/ 8:40a.m.～10:10a.m.（GMT) ◆Venue：Hybrid　 Onsite： Room107（1F Research and lecture bldg.,TUFS Fuchu Campus） Online：ZOOM ◆Language：English ◆Addmission fee：Free 【Please pre-register in advence from here】Or Use QR Code. Registration deadline: Noon Dec 11th, 2024 (Wed) The Zoom link will be sent after you pre-registerd. ◆Jointly organized by African Studies Center - TUFS and Kanto Branch of Japan Association for African Studies Report We held the 98th seminar in a hybrid style and 16 participated on-site and 23 participated online. Prof. Louisa Lombard gave her presentation on 'The Initiative-Killing Machine: The End and the Future of Peacekeeping', being followed by lively discussion among Japanese and African scholars and also students in TUFS.