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2022/03/28
【2022/3/9】8th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

Dr. Kayoko Tsuji gave the online talk. The title of the talk is “Kyoto City Women’s ”Hull” Honorifics-Transformation from Honorifics- .” Thank you for join us.

2022/03/28
【2022/2/28】7th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

Dr. Maho Isono gave the hybrid style talk. The title of the talk was “A sense of risk and the human perspective and ethics that support it.” Thank you for join us.

2022/01/13
【2022/1/7】The following special issue of “Techniques & Culture” was published

<https://journals.openedition.org/tc/16054>. Among the CCI members, Takada contributed as one of the editors and authors (pp.10-23, 56-69).Joulian, F., Shimada, M., Takada, A., & Tian, X. (Eds.). (2021). Waza, l’art ineffable de l’apprentissage. Techniques & Culture, 76, 1-253.

2022/01/07
【2021/11/14】Online talk of Dr. Federico Rossano and Dr. Anne White

Dr. Federico Rossano form UCSD and Dr. Anne White from UCSD gave the online talk. The title of the talk of Dr. Anne White was “Deflecting, noticing and correcting: Navigating delicate topics in patient visits”,and the title of Dr. Federico Rossano was “Interacting like a human being: On calibrating requests.” Thank you for join us.

2021/03/23
【2021/03/19】The following book was published.

Yamada, S., Takada, A., & Kessi, S. (Eds.). (2021). Knowledge,education, and social structure in Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon: LangaaRPCIG <https://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/knowledge-education-and-social-structure-in-africa>Among the CCI members, Takada (Introduction, Chapter 2) contributed asan editor and author.

2021/03/23
【2021/02/20】A joint review session was held.

In the Zoom symposium of the MC research group<http://rcsp.main.jp/mc/diary7.html>, a joint review session  of“Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind” meets “culture”” washeld.

2021/02/16
【2021/02/11】A book review was published.

The book review of “Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind” meets “culture”” was published in Journal of African Studies, 98, 56-60.

2020/11/09
【2020/11/09】A book review was published.

The book review of “Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind”meets “culture”” was published in Japanese Journal of Social Psychology,35(3) <DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14966/jssp.B3505>.

2020/08/24
【2020/08/23】The results of many years of research was published as the single author book below!

Takada, A. (2020). The ecology of playful childhood: Caregiver-childinteractions among the San of southern Africa.New York: Palgrave Macmillan.<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030494384>

2020/06/29
【2020/06/27】Giving a public lecture

The following webinar symposium was held. “Language, cognition, and interaction 8”Organizer: Yasuharu Den (Chiba University) Talk 1. Reference in conversation; Tuyoshi Ono (University of Alberta) Invited talk 1: Theory of puppet grammar: A social virus parasitic in human creativity; Masato Yoshikawa (Keio University) Invited talk 2: Language socialization and cultural formation of “responsibility” in Japan; Akira Takada (Kyoto Universtiy) Talk 2: Interactional functions and prosodic variations of responsive expressions: A case study of English “really”; Daisuke Yokomori (Kyushu University)

2020/06/25
【2020/6/24】The following book was published

Imagawa, K. (ed.)(2020) Why do we have music? Interdisciplinaryexploration to musicality. Tokyo: Ongaku no Tomo Sha Corp. (in Japanese)<https://www.ongakunotomo.co.jp/catalog/detail_sp.php?code=139100>Among the CCI members, Takada (pp.88-100) contributed a chapter.

2020/06/11
【2020/06/10】The following book was published, based on the special issue in Frontiers in Psychology

<https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00437/full> Among the CCI members, Takada (pp.82-95) and Cekaite (pp.7-25 co-authored with Andrén; pp.114-132 co-authored with Ekström) contributed chapters.Demuth, C., Raudaskoski, P., & Raudaskoski, S. (Eds.)(2020). Lived culture and psychology: Sharedness and normativity as discursive, embodied and affective engagements with the world in social interaction. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA.doi: 10.3389/978-2-88963-690-7

2020/04/08
【2020/04/08】5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

The 5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition was available to watch online with the handout until May 8, 2020 (finished). This time Professor Peg Barratt at the George Washington University gave us a talk. The Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition is set up for exploring into the process that children develop intersubjectivity through the recognition from caregivers. We thus invite distinguished scholars, who are promoting relevant studies to our research questions, and share their works and wisdom. ■5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition “Cultural and theoretical perspectives on parenting”Peg Barratt (Professor of Psychology, The George Washington University) 【Notes】* The talk is given in English […]

2020/04/06
【2020/04/06】A book review was published

The book review of “Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind”meets “culture”” was published in the Japanese Journal of Language inSociety, 22(2) <http://www.jass.ne.jp/another/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/04/158d2dd0b5f81394733393612437f828-1.pdf>.

2020/03/24
【2022/03/24】6th Colloquium of Natural History of Landscape Formation

The 6th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition will be recorded and streamed online.  I am pleased to inform you that the 6th Seminar on the Development ofIntersubjective Recognition will be held at Room 318, the third floor,Inamori Memorial Foundation Building, Kyoto University on 24th(Tuesday),  March 2020. This time Professor Peg Barratt from theGeorge Washington University will give us a talk. The Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition is setup for exploring into the process that children developintersubjectivity through the recognition from caregivers. We thusinvite distinguished scholars, who are promoting relevant studies toour research questions, and share their works and wisdom. 6th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective […]

2020/03/11
【2020/03/24】5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

The 5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition will be recorded and streamed online. This time Professor Peg Barratt from the George Washington University will give us a talk. The Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition is set up for exploring into the process that children develop intersubjectivity through the recognition from caregivers. We thus invite distinguished scholars, who are promoting relevant studies to our research questions, and share their works and wisdom. ■5th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition “Cultural and theoretical perspectives on parenting”Peg Barratt (Professor of Psychology, The George Washington University) 【Notes】* The talk is given in English, no translation will be provided.* This […]

2019/09/09
【2019/09/09】The following paper was published

Takada, A. & Kawashima, M. (2019). Caregivers’ strategies foreliciting storytelling from toddlers in Japanese caregiver-childpicture-book reading activities. Research on Children and SocialInteraction, 3(1-2), 196-223.DOI: 10.1558/rcsi.37287

2019/07/13
【2019/07/13】The following paper was published

Takada, A. (2019). Socialization practices regarding shame in Japanesecaregiver-child interactions. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1545.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01545

2019/07/05
【2019/07/05】Giving a public lecture

The following event was held as the pre-congress of 19th AnnualMeeting of the Japanese Society of Baby Science “Who sings lullabies: making a baby sleep and sleeping of baby”19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Baby Science,University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan, 5th July 2019.1. Short concert of lullabiesSong: Midori Sakai (soprano)Piano: Shinichi Kotaka2. SymposiumPresentation: Koichi Negayama (Waseda University)Presentation: Akira Takada (Kyoto University)Discussant: Yoko Shimura (Saitama University / Doshisha University)Facilitator: Kyoko Imagawa (University of the Sacred Heart)

2019/03/07
【2019/03/07】giving a lecture

The following lecture was given at Aalborg University, Denmark Takada, A. (2019). Socialization practices regarding shame(hazukashii) in Japanese caregiver-child interactions. Paper presentedat Series of guest lectures in psychology, Center for Developmental &Applied Psychological Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, 7th March2019.<https://www.kommunikation.aau.dk/arrangementer/arrangement/socialization-practices-regarding-shame–hazukashii–in-japanese-caregiver-child-interactions.cid390950>

2019/02/09
【2019/02/09】Book Publication

The following book was published.Takada, A. (2019). Anthropology of interaction: Places where “mind” meets “culture”. Tokyo: Shinyosha. (in Japanese)<https://www.hanmoto.com/bd/isbn/9784788516076>

2019/02/09
【2019/02/09】Book Publication

The following book was published. CCI member, A. Takada gave a commentary to Ch.4.Negayama, K., Toyama, N., & Miyauchi, H.(eds.), Shared childrearing: Learning about allomothering from the case of Tarama Island, Okinawa. Tokyo: Kanekoshobo. (in Japanese)<https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-book_29361934.html>

2018/12/18
【2018/12/18】The 4th Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

The 4th Seminar on the Development ofIntersubjective Recognition will be held at Middle-Size Meeting Room,the third floor, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building, KyotoUniversity on 18th (Tuesday) December 2018. This time Prof. DavidLancy, from Utah state University, the US, will give us a talk. Davidis worldly famous as a leading scholar of the Anthropology ofchildhood, and authored  “The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs,Chattel, Changelings” (Cambridge University Press 2015, 2nd ed.).This is an admission-free seminar. The Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition is setup for exploring into the process that children developintersubjectivity through the recognition from caregivers. We thusinvite distinguished scholars, who are promoting relevant studies toour research questions, and share their works […]

2018/12/13
【2018/12/13】Paper Publication

The following paper was published. It is based on the panel discussion surrounding professor Stephen C. Levinson for 20th anniversary of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences held in March 2018.Takada, A., Katagiri, Y., & Kataoka, K. (2018). Comments on “Interactional foundations of language: The interaction engine hypothesis”: Perspectives from related fields and disciplines. The Japanese Journal of Language in Society, 21(1), 407-420. (in Japanese)

2018/11/17
【2018/11/17】A panel held

The following panel was held at San Jose, the USA Crying, caregiving and embodied organization of emotion socialization:A tribute to the lifework of M. H. Goodwin. Panel held at the 117thAnnual meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA,November 17th, 2018. Program, p.305.Organizers: Asta Cekaite (Linkoping University), and Matthew Burdelski(Osaka University)Chair: Akira Takada (Kyoto University)Presenter: Lourdes de Leon (Centro de Investigación y EstudiosSuperiores en Antropología Social), Akira Takada (Kyoto University),Ekaterina Moore (University of Southern California), Asta Cekaite(Linköping University), Matthew Burdelski (Osaka University), AmyKyratzis (University of California,Santa Barbara) and Jacqueline Kemp (University of California, Santa Barbara)Discussant: Marjorie Goodwin (University of California, Los Angeles)

2018/10/18
【2018/10/18】giving talks

The following talks were given at London, UK Takada, A. (2018). How the !Xun soothe and amuse infants? Paperpresented at the Research Workshop “Musilanguage in the cradle ofdifferent cultures”, School of Science & Technology, MiddlesexUniversity London, London, UK, 18th October 2018. Takada, A. (2018). Musicality of infant directed communication amongthe San of southern Africa. Paper presented at the Research Workshop“Musilanguage in the cradle of different cultures”, School of Science& Technology, Middlesex University London, London, UK, 18th October2018.

2018/09/17
【2018/09/17】having a symposium

The following symposium was held at Keio University, Japan Biological foundation of education: Evolution or culture, at 60thAnnual meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology,Hiyoshi campus, Keio University, Kanagawa, Japan, 17th September 2018.Facilitator: Ando, Juko (Keio University)Presentation: Myowa, Masako (Kyoto University)Presentation: Hashiya, Kazuhide (Kyushu University)Presentation: Kamei, Nobutaka (Aichi Prefectural University)Presentation: Nakao, Hisashi (Nanzan University)Discussant: Hasegawa, Mariko (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)Discussant: Takada, Akira (Kyoto University)

2018/05/18
【2018/05/18】The 2018 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award

The following book got the 2018 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology BookAward of American Psychological Association. M. Myowa,co-representative of Child Development Research Group, KyotoUniversity and A. Takada, the PI of CCI co-authored Chapters 3 and 4,and Chapters 6 and 14, respectively. Keller, H. & Bard, K. A. (eds.)(2017) The cultural nature ofattachment: Contextualizing relationships and development. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press.

2018/04/13
【2018/04/27】The 3rd Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

The 3rd Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition will be held at room 318, third floor, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building, Kyoto University on 27th (Friday) April 2018. This time we invite Dr. BLIN Raoul from CNRS and CRLAO (Centre de Recherches Linguistiques sur l’Asie Orientale), Dr. Hiroko Norimatsu from Toulouse Jean Jaurès Universite and CLLE-LTC (Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie) as the speakers. This is an admission-free seminar. Reservation is not required for participating in it. We are looking forward to seeing you there! The Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition is set up for exploring into the process that children develop intersubjectivity through the recognition from caregivers. We […]

2018/04/02
【2018/04/02】Joint seminar

The joint seminar of “Seminar on Developmental Science, Kyoto University” and “2nd Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition” 【Date】2nd April 2018 (Monday) 13:30-15:30(The reception will open on 13:00) 【Venue】#4 lecture room, 2nd Floor, New Building of Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University(Between No.5 and No.8 in the map)https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/documents/main_j.pdf 13:30-13:40 Introduction 13:40-15:00Musilanguage in the cradle: Musical interactions across cultures andlanguage development in infancyFabia Franco (PhD), Middlesex University, London UK  Abstract: The contribution of music to the development of communication and language has only recently come to the attention of scientific investigation. In this talk I will argue that in an infant’s soundscape, music and language are not necessarily two separate systems, particularly when considering the infant-directed register […]

2018/03/28
【2018/03/28】Book Publication

The following book was published. CCI members Ch.3(Burdelski),Ch.4(Cekaite), Ch.33(Morita), and Ch.42(Takada) contributed articles to it. Favareau, D. (ed.)(2018) Co-operative Engagements in IntertwinedSemiosis: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodwin. Tartu: The Universityof Tartu Press.

2018/03/26
【2018/03/26】Book Translation

The following book translation was published.CCI members (Ch.4[Takada], and Ch.14[Shimada]) participated in the translation too. S. Malloch and C. Trevarthen(eds.), K. Negayama, K. Imagawa, S.Kabaya, Y. Shimura, E. Haneishi, & S. Maruyama (Supervisor of translation),Communicative musicality: Exploring the basis of humancompanionship. Tokyo: Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp (pp.43-58).

2018/03/23
【2018/03/14】1st Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition

1st Seminar on the Development of Intersubjective Recognition     【Date】 14th (Wednesday) March 2018   【Venue】 Middle Size Conference room, third floor, Inamori Memorial Foundation Building, Kyoto University   【Schedule】 13:00-13:10 Introduction Akira Takada (Kyoto University)   13:10-14:10 Linguistic devices for indexing gestures in Arta (Philippines): “(u)wa” ‘what-cha-ma-call-it’ as a placeholder and beyond Yukinori Kimoto(Nagoya University, PD)   14:10-15:10 The progression from teacher-led to co-created activities for preschoolers Chie Fukada(Kyoto Institute of Technology)   15:10-15:30 Coffee break   15:30-16:30 Infant’s pointing and participation framework(tentative) Tomoko Endo(Seikei University)   16:30-17:30 Caregiver’s strategies for eliciting young children’s storytelling Akira Takada (Kyoto University) & Michie Kawashima(Kansai Gaidai University)   17:30-18:00 General discussion […]

2018/01/09
【2018/01/09】giving a lecture

The following lecture was given at Osaka University, Japan Takada, A. (2018). An anthropological approach to the study ofcaregiver-child interactions: Analysis of sleep, breastfeeding, andgymnastic exercise among the !Xun of north-central Namibia. A paperpresented at the 4th round of the serial seminar in AY2017 at theCenter for Research on the Mechanism of Molecular Control System ofChild Mind, United Graduate School of Child Development, OsakaUniversity, Osaka, Japan, 9th January 2018. (in Japanese)

2017/12/21
【2017/12/21】paper publication

The following paper was published from Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Morelli, G. A., Quinn, N., Chaudhary, N., Vicedo, M., Rosabal-Coto,M., Keller, H., Murray, M., Gottlieb, A., Scheidecker, G., & Takada,A. (2018). Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- toMiddle-income Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(1),5-24.DOI: 10.1177/0022022117746241

2017/10/27
【2017/10/27】book publication

The following book was published from the MIT Press. Keller, H. & Bard, K. A. (eds.)(2017). The cultural nature ofattachment: Contextualizing relationships and development. StruengmannForum Reports, vol. 22, J. R. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MITPress.<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cultural-nature-attachment> The following chapter is contributed to this book by a CCI member. Morelli, G. A., Chaudhary, N., Gottlieb, A., Keller, H., Murray, M.,Quinn, N., Rosabal-Coto, M., Scheidecker, G., Takada, A., & Vicedo, M.(2017). Taking culture seriously: A pluralistic approach toattachment. In H. Keller and K. A. Bard (Eds.), The cultural nature ofattachment: Contextualizing relationships and development. StruengmannForum Reports, vol. 22, J. R. Lupp, series editor. Cambridge, MA: MITPress, pp.139-169.Rosabal-Coto, M., Quinn, N., Keller, H., […]

2017/08/26
【2017/08/26】giving a lecture

The following lecture was given at Yamagata, Japan Takada, A. (2017). Natural history of childrearing: A study ofcaregiver-child interactions among the !Xun of north-central Namibia.A special lecture presented at the 106th regional meeting of the JapanPediatric Society in Yamagata prefecture, Hotel Metropolitan Yamagata,Yamagata, Japan, 26th August 2017.  Program and abstracts, p.5.<http://minfo2.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp/Ped/congress.html>

2017/08/17
【2017/08/17】What’s New

The following article is found to be among the top 25% most cited PLOSONE articles published in 2016. Senzaki, S., Masuda, T., Takada, A., and Okada, H. (2016). Thecommunication of culturally dominant modes of attention from parentsto children: A comparison of Canadian and Japanese parent childconversations during a joint scene description task. PLoS ONE 11(1):e0147199. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147199.

2017/07/28
【2017/07/28】The following paper was published

Lee, H., Nand, K., Shimizu, Y., Takada, A., Kodama, M., & Masuda, T.(2017). Culture and emotion perception: Comparing Canadian andJapanese children’s and parents’ context sensitivity. Culture and Brain.DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0

2017/06/10
【2017/06/10】having a panel discussion

The following panel discussion was held at the University of Cologne, Germany Takada, A. (2017). Panel discussant of Roundtable 1: De-centeringEurope: Not only from the South but also from the East and from theNorth (together with F., Widlok, T., Krause, F., Ventsel, A., Gray,P., Drazkiewicz, & E., Wemheuer). The GSSC conference “The GlobalSouth on the Move: Transforming Capitalism, knowledge and ecologies”.The University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 7-9 June 2017(June 7th).The conference program, p.11.