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Amo, Kae
Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Division of African Area Studies Associate Professor
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Last Updated :2025/05/02
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Email Address
Email Address
amo.kae.6c
kyoto-u.ac.jp
Professional Memberships
- From Aug. 2024, To PresentThe Japan society for the comparative study of civilisations
- Association française d'éthnologie et d'anthropologie
- La société des Africanistes
- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
- To PresentJAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR AFRICAN STUDIES
Academic Degree
Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)
Research History
- From Apr. 2023, To PresentKyoto University, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Assistant Professor, Dr
- From Apr. 2021, To Mar. 2023Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Global Culture, Lecturer
- From Apr. 2020, To Mar. 2021Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Humanities, Lecturer
- From Apr. 2019, To Sep. 2019Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), Departement of Language and Culture Studies, Part-time lecturer
- From Jan. 2013, To Dec. 2018Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, France-Japan Fondation, Researcher
Profile
Profile
Kae Amo currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS) in Kyoto University.
She was a lecturer at the Faculty of Global Culture at Kyoto Seika University, Japan between 2020 and 2023.
In addition, she is an associate researcher at the Institut des mondes africains (Institute of the African Worlds), and the France-Japan Foundation. These two entities are part of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris (EHESS).
Between April and September 2019, she served as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). In this capacity, she was in charge of the “Discover Africa in French” course.
Prior to that, she was a research coordinator for the France-Japan Foundation at EHESS (2013-2018). In this position, she launched a research project focusing on the new relations between Asian and African countries. She planned, monitored and evaluated a series of activities such as conferences, field trips, one-on-one meetings, or workshops gathering an average of 50 guest speakers and 400 participants annually.
Kae Amo holds a PhD in Anthropology (EHESS, and University of Gaston Berger in Senegal, 2019). Her dissertation was on “The Dynamics of Islam in Higher Educational Institutions in Senegal”. She earned three Master’s degrees in political science (Keio University, Japan, 2010), anthropology (EHESS, France, 2009), and sociology (UCAD, Senegal, 2007). Kae’s main research interests include: Islam, social development, and education in West Africa; Urbanization, social infrastructure and transportation in West African cities; Media and popular cultures in sub-Saharan Africa; and Asia-Africa relationships. She has published several articles and research papers in French and Japanese on these topics.
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Research
Research Interests
Research Areas
- Humanities & social sciences, Cultural anthropology and folklore, African studies, anthropology, Islam, Religion and Politics
Papers
- (To be published) Comparative Study of Religiosity in African and Asian Modernized Societies : Revisiting Epistemological perspectivesKae AMO; Naoki KASHIOJournal of Kyoto Seika University, Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Lead author
- (To be published)The 60th JAAS Annual Conference, Public Sympojium“The Future of Africa and the Young Generations”Kae AMO; Takuo IWATA; Yukiko KONDO; Takahiro FUKUNISHI; Yohei MIYAUCHIJournal of African Studies, Mar. 2024
- Emergent Use of Visual Media in Young Muslim StudiesKenichi Sawazaki; Kae Amo; Yo Nonaka; Shuta Shinmyo; Mamoru Hasegawa; Ahmed Alian; Yunus ErtuğrulTRAJECTORIA | Anthropology, Museums and Art, Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed
- Les étudiantes musulmanes sénégalaises. Une ethnographie de la diversité religieuse et identitaire au sein des campus universitairesKae AMOCahiers d’Études africaines « La classe en islam : entre piété et distinction », Éditions de l’EHESS, 2022, Dec. 2022, Peer-reviewed
- Georges Gurvitch as a Russian émigré intellectual: His contributions on the Modern French Sociology and the Political AnthropologyKoji YOSHINO; Kae AMOBulletin of the Research Institute of Regional Area Study Nagasaki Wesleyan University, May 2022
- Symposium title: Child Science of Parenting and Schooling: Comparison between Asia and Africa. (Japanese Society of Child Science officially supports this symposium)Juko Ando; Mei Zhong; Kae AmoINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Jul. 2016, Peer-reviewed
Misc.
- Video work (documentary) "REGARDS NOMADES" (Crossing Viewpoints)FHD; ec; Japanese; French with English subtitle; Directed; edited by; Kae Amo Cas; Kae Amo; Kenichi Sawazaki; Yo Nonaka; Mamoru Hasegawa; Ahmed Alian; Ertuğrul Yunus; Photographed by; Kenichi Sawazaki; Kae Amo; Oumarou Barry; ©Kae Amohttps://youtu.be/GJtrCb6ES20?si=FSVbzdnJH9mD9NSv, Jun. 2023
- (To be published)Book Review : The Senegalese Religious Movement of Baye Fall : An Ethnography of Muslims Working for God, by Tomoki Ikebe.Kae AMOJournal of African Studies, Mar. 2024
- (To be published) Teaching Note : Potential for Collaboration in Remote Multilingual Spaces ―A case of Communication And Learning Experiences Based on the Africa-Seika Students Exchange (CALEBASSE) Project―FUJIEDA Ayako, NAKAO Sakiko, AMO Kae, Yoo Soo Kyung, YOSHINO Toshiaki, OOSHIMO Daisuke, Urushima AndoreaJournal of Kyoto Seika University, Mar. 2024
- Online Collaborative Learning in a Multicultural Environmen;A Case Study on;Shared Campus Summer School;StreetsAyako Fujieda; Kae AMOJournal of Kyoto Seika University, 2022
- Children in family, school, and society: China and Senegal.Juko Ando; Mei Zhong; Kae AmoINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Jul. 2016
- 文化欄 若者たちと「イスラーム」 : セネガルの事例から阿毛 香絵Africa, 2015
- セネガルにおける伝統教育とクルアーン学校 (学界通信 第50回 日本アフリカ学会学術大会「アフリカ子ども学フォーラム」報告 「アフリカ子ども学」フォーラム:フランコフォン・アフリカの学校教育と「伝統」教育)阿毛 香絵アフリカ研究, Dec. 2013
- セネガルの農林業―現状と開発の課題―2013年版阿毛香絵; 勝俣誠; 門村浩; 後藤雅哉; 佐藤向陽; 冨塚孝則; 西野俊一郎; 西山範之; 宮道一千代海外農業開発調査研究 国別研究シリーズ, Mar. 2013
- ＜第50回 日本アフリカ学会学術大会「アフリカ子ども学フォーラム」報告＞「アフリカ子ども学」フォーラム：フランコフォン・アフリカの学校教育と「伝統」教育竹ノ下 祐二; 亀井 伸孝; 阿毛 香絵; 清水 貴夫; 澤村 信英アフリカ研究, 2013
Presentations
- L’islam, la politique et la transformation de la notion d’élite au SénégalKae AMOLa réunion n°5 du programme GSRL “Religion et Francophonie”. En collaboration avec le programme Asie du GSRL, 13 Mar. 2024, Invited
- La collaboration de recherches en sciences sociales / sciences humaines entre l’Asie, l’Afrique et l’Europe : Expériences entre la France, le Japon et le SénégalKae AMOLes 8es Rencontres des chercheurs francophones du Kansai (RCFK 2023), 08 Apr. 2023
- Urbanization and Mobility in African Cities. Cases from Dakar (Senegal) and Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire).Kae AMOWorld Anthropology Congress 2023 (16UG – Urbanism, Globalism, Corporatism and Popular Cultures), 09 Aug. 2023
- Religion and Sociability of the Digital Native Generation : Mirroring a Changing Senegalese SocietyKae AMOJapan Association for African Studies The 60th Annual ConferenceConference "Considering the Future of Africa from the Perspective of New Generations", 14 May 2023, Invited
- Reconsidering The “Republique Confrérique” of Senegal. From African Socialism to Neoliberalism and Islamic populismKae AMO in; Panel session "Potentiality; Challenges of Laïci; Studies in West Africa; Takao SHIMIZU; Kyoto Seika UniJapan Association for African Studies The 60th Annual Conference, 13 May 2023
- Comic Arts made in/from Africa Humor, Stereotypes and Transcultural identityKae AMOThe 59th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for African Studies (JAAS), 21 May 2022
- Islam in Senegal between public and private : from streets to cyber spaces.Kae AMOThe 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Aug. 2021
- The Field of Higher Education and Islam in Senegal: From Islamic Intellectuals to Student BelieversKae AMOThe 250th African Area Studies Meeting, Kyoto University, 16 Jul. 2020, Invited
- Youth movements past and present. Cases from Japan and Senegal, Panel『50 years after May 1968: Perspectives from Asia and Africa 』Kae AMOInternational Conference: Africa-Asia – A New Axis of Knowledge – Second Edition, Sep. 2018
- African Journalist & Japanese Cultural AnthropologistKae AMO; Oumarou BARRYAichi Prefectural University Solidarity Program, Asia and Emerging Countries Program Series Seminar, 26 Jun. 2018
- "Senegalese Youth and Islam"Kae AMOTokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) African Studies Center, 21 Jun. 2018, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) African Studies Center
- Role and Perception of Humanitarian Actors : The Cases of Japanese Development Assistance in SenegalKae AMOSASE 30th Annual Meeting Global Reordering: Prospects for Equality, Democracy and Justice, Jun. 2018, Doshisha University
- Islam, contestation et nouvelles formes de pratiques politiques à DakarKae AMOConférence, Les Agendas de Politika – « Mai 68, 50 ans après : la lutte continue!… t-elle ? » EHESS, Paris, France, 15 May 2018
- Roles and Perceptions of Japanese Development Actors in sub-Saharan Africa: Cases from SenegalKae AMOInternational conference, The Rise of Asia in Global History and Perspective Université Paris-Sorbonne, Université du Havre, Mar. 2018
- La prière et la “mendicité”. Les taalibés à l’épreuve de l’économie morale et religieuseKae AMOWorkshop International, Enfants et Rites. Des sujets, des acteurs ou des objets ? Regards anthropologiques sur les modes de participation des enfants aux pratiques rituelles Université de Liège, Belgique, Dec. 2017
- Japanese Humanitarian Workers in Senegal: The cases of JICA VolunteersKae AMOInternational conference、New Spatiality on Asian and African Area Studies / Voices for The Future: African Area Studies in a Globalizing World University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Dec. 2017
- Islam and New Urban Landscapes in Dakar (Senegal) : Politics, TIC, Youth and FemininityKae AMOEuropean Conference on African Studies (ECAS) Bassel, Suisse, Jun. 2017
- Une nouvelle solidarité politique et/ou religieuse d’en haut et d’en bas : expériences entre le Sénégal et le JaponKae AMOInternational Workshop, Les nouvelles solidarités à l’épreuve du politique et du religieux (Europe, Afrique, Amériques, Asie) , CESSMA UMR 245-INALCO / RIAM-FMSH / ITEM-UPPA, INALCO, Paris, France, Mar. 2017
- Floating Body, floating space : construction of Urban landscape by human bodies (Saint Louis,Sénégal)Kae AMOCNRS, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (Kyoto), EHESS, International Workshop, Landscapes in the anthropocene EHESS, Paris, France, Dec. 2016
- Public Lecture "African Journalist & Japanese Cultural AnthropologistKae AMO; Oumarou BARRY愛知県立大学連帯事業・アジア・新興国プログラム連続セミナー, 26 Jun. 2016, Aichi Prefectural University, Regional Liaison Center, Invited
- Cultural encounter and identity hibridation between Asia and AfricaKae AMOA-ASIA Inaugural Conference AFRICA-ASIA: A New Axis of Knowledge Venue University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, Sep. 2015
- Role and perception of various actors in humanitarian actions: the cases of Japanese development assistance in SenegalKae AMO5th Asian & the Pacific studies Congress INALCO, Paris, France, Sep. 2015
- Sufi scholars and ICTs in SenegalKae AMO6th conference of European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2015), Mobilisations collectives en Afrique, Contestations, résistances et révoltes Sience Po, Paris, France, Jul. 2015
- Conference, media and the Internet for the sake of Allah: Muslim elites in Sub-Saharan Africa in the information ageKae AMO5th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS2013): African dynamics in a multipolar world, Lisbon, Portugal, Jul. 2014
- Islam, public space and cosmopolitism in Senegal: between local, national and universalKae AMOXVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Tokyo, Jul. 2014
- Primary Education and Koranic Schools in Senegal: Between Modernization, Traditional Education and Re-IslamizationKae AMOThe 50th Annual Meeting of JAAS, The University of Tokyo, May 2013
- La ‘‘sociabilité politique’’ à l’épreuve : masse, hommes politiques et religieux sur l’écran de l’élection présidentielle 2012 (Sénégal)Kae AMOConférence annuelle de l’Association canadienne des études africaines (ACÉA) l’Université Laval, Québec-Canada, May 2013
- Modernizing Quranic schools : the cases of Touba and Saint-Louis in SenegalKae AMOInter-Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). Children and Youth in a Changing World, KITT University, Bhubaneswar, Nov. 2012
- Le corps des saints, le corps du pouvoir, le corps politique : Corps et Soufisme à l’ère de la modernisation politique (Sénégal)Kae AMOColloque International, Soufisme et politique au Maroc et au Sénégal. Termes et enjeux contemporains. Centre Jaque Berque, Centre d’Etudes Africaines (CEAf) Venue Université Mohammed V, Rabat- Maroc, Nov. 2012
- Islamic movements and higher education in SenegalKae AMOAfrican Studies Conference (Associazione par gli Studi Africani in Italia) University of Pavia, Italy, Sep. 2012
- Du ‘‘décolonialisme’’ à la patrimonialisation culturelle : pour une nouvelle lecture de notre presentKae AMOJournée d’Etudes : Histoire et langage colonial : Questions sur la décolonisation du langage. l’EHESS/IRD, le CEAf en collaboration avec Centre de Recherches du Brésil Contemporain EHESS/CNRS, Institut de Développement et d’Echanges Endogènes (IDEE) Venue EHESS, France, Jun. 2012
- Higher Education and Islam in Senegal: Education, Religious Practices and Identity FormationKae AMOThe 49th Annual Meeting of JAAS, 27 May 2012
- Les jeunes en Afrique à l’épreuve de la mutation religieuse : de la relecture de l’histoire à la reconquête des sphères publiquesKae AMO42ème Conférence annuelle de l’Association canadienne des études africaines (ACÉA) l’Université Laval, Québec-Canada, 02 May 2012
- Les réseaux Sud/Sud des établissements confessionnels d’enseignement supérieur et la mobilité des enseignants / étudiants en Afrique : les récits, les trajectoires et la reconstruction identitaireKae AMOWorkshop international : Mémoire de routes et de corps. Figures et discours de migrants, ANR-MIPRIMO, IFAN-UCAD, May 2012
- Les nouveauxmouvements religieux dans les milieux universitaires au Sénégal : les espaces socioreligieux, la politisation et l'individualisationKae AMOWorkshop International "Les nouveauxmouvements religieux dans les milieux universitaires au Sénégal : les espaces socioreligieux, la politisation et l'individualisation", Programme ANR Publislam, Mar. 2012
- Entre les connaissances religieuses et universitaires : lesenseignements, les pratiques et les nouvelles identités religieuses en Afrique, le cas du SénégalKae AMO1er Congrès de l’AFEA (l’Association Française de l’Ethnologie et de l’Anthropologie), Sep. 2011
- Réflexion autour des ‘‘néo-confrériques’’ au Sénégal : nouvelles identités politico-religieusesKae AMO4ème Congrès de l’AFS (l’Association Française de Sociologie) Université de Grenoble, France, Jul. 2011
- Le rôle des milieux universitaires dans le processus de démocratisation au Sénégal - Les nouveaux acteurs, les nouveaux canaux et les nouveaux ‘‘espaces publics’’ émergeantsKae AMODeux décennies de démocratie et de gouvernance en Afrique : leçons, défis et perspectives / CODESRIA, Jun. 2011
- Les mouvements politico-religieux dans les milieux universitaires et la production des "espaces publics religieux" au SénégalKae AMORencontres des études africaines en France, Sep. 2010
Books and Other Publications
- パブリック・ヒストリーの実践 : オルタナティブで多声的な歴史を紡ぐ笠井, 賢紀; 田島, 英一, Contributor, 第9章 宗教的経験と「歴史」実践のあいだ ──セネガルのスーフィー教団を事例として慶應義塾大学出版会, Jan. 2025
- Figures et discours de migrants en Afrique : mémoires de routes et de corpsSeck, Abdourahmane; Canut, Cécile; Ly, Mouhamed Abdallah, Dir, Contributor, « «Migration-formation » pour une quête de connaissance et de reconnaissance : figures des migrants dans les établissements d’enseignements de l’arabe et de l’islam au Sénégal ».Riveneuve, 2015
- Living Free in a Non-Free SocietyOussouby Sacko ed, Contributor, Chap6 "Sexuality" and Freedom (Suzumi Suzuki; Kae Amo)Kobunsha, 18 Aug. 2023
- 現代アフリカ文化の今 : 15の視点から、その現在地を探るSacko, Oussouby; 清水, 貴夫; 和崎, 春日; 緒方, しらべ; 中村, 融子; Yameogo, Claver; 遠藤, 聡子; 吉本, 秀純; 青木, 敬; 阿毛, 香絵; 菅野, 淑; 小川, さやか青幻舎, May 2020
- Les politiques de l'Islam en Afrique. Mémoires, réveils et populismes islamiquesAmo Kae, Contributor, Les dynamiques religieuses dans les milieux de l’enseignement supérieur au SénégalKarthala, Jun. 2018, Not refereed
- Africa where children live - between tradition and development -Amo Kae, Contributor, Chapter 2 Small muslim students. Wolof and Fulube in SenegalShowado, Nov. 2017, Not refereed
- 60 chapters to know Senegal and Cap-VertAmo Kae, Contributor, Chapter 7, 16, 21, 38, 44Akashi, 2010, Not refereed
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Education
Teaching subject(s)
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Introduction to Area StudiesH820, Spring, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Asian and African Sufi Studies3217, Fall, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2024, To 31 Mar. 2025Innovative Africa and SDGs2811, Fall, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, 2
Participation in PhD Defense
- The Regulation and Utilization of Private Child Daycare Centers in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaAddisu Meseret Tadesse, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Sub-chief Examiner25 Mar. 2024
- The Regulation and Utilization of Private Child Daycare Centers in Addis Ababa, EthiopiaAddisu Meseret Tadesse, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Sub-chief Examiner25 Mar. 2024
