Public book review seminar "The Aid That Hurts: How Inequality Breeds Scams, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Dignity" (by Yuka Tomomatsu, Iwanami Shoten, 2025)

Public book review seminar "The Aid That Hurts: How Inequality Breeds Scams, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Dignity" (by Yuka Tomomatsu, Iwanami Shoten, 2025)

[Date & Time] Saturday, 25th October 2025, 15:30 - 18:00

[Venue] Campus Plaza Kyoto (in person only) https://www.consortium.or.jp/en/about-cp-kyoto/access

[Language] Japanese

[Programme] 
15:30 - 15:35  Shirabe OGATA (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Opening Remarks

15:35 - 15:55  Yuka TOMOMATSU (Hosei University)
Author's Perspective

15:55 - 16:15  Noriko TAHARA (Shitennoji University)
Discussant's Comments 1

16:15 - 16:35  Misa HIRANO (Kyoto University)
Discussant's Comments 2

16:35 - 16:45  Short Break
16:45 - 17:35  Author-Discussants Discussion
17:25 - 18:00  Open Discussion　

A public book review of The Aid That Hurts: How Inequality Breeds Scams, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Dignity
(Yuka Tomomatsu, Iwanami Shoten, 2025) will take place near Kyoto Station. 

Author Yuka Tomomatsu, with commentators Noriko Tahara and Misa Hirano, will discuss the book from perspectives of cultural and economic anthropology, sociology, and African studies. 

The event welcomes students, the public, and anyone interested in Africa's rural economy, international cooperation, and the lives of young people and women.

This event is part of the ILCAA Joint Research Project
"Taking on the challenges: An anthropological study of adventurous practices in contemporary Africa" (jrp000309). 

https://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/detail/jrp000309/

It is co-organized with the ILCAA Core Project "Anthropological Inquiry of Sociality: Dynamics of Tolerance / Intolerance in Transcultural Contexts."