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Beta Version of the New Daiber Collection Database Released

Tobunken Seminar : Ibn ‘Arabī’s Endorsement of Accidents-Only Atomism and His Esoteric Addendum

The 2nd Regular Seminar (2025) “‘Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle’: Nineteenth-century British Orientalism and perceptions of Persian Sufism”

Fabrizio Speziale, “Noah’s Grandsons and the Elephant: Functions of Persian Pseudonymous Texts in South Asia”
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Upcoming Events
- 2025-07-15
Event Details TitleThai Perceptions of the International Order since the Pre-Modern Era: Shaping and Shifting Its Relations with China, Japan, and the US into the 21st Century SpeakerKitti Prasirtsuk, Professor of Political Science, Thammasat University DateTuesday, July 15, 2025 Time3:00 PM – 5:00 PM JST VenueMain Conference Room, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo & Zoom (Hybrid) LanguageEnglish only Discussants Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo Ryo Sahashi, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo ModeratorRyo Sahashi RegistrationClick here to register Abstract This lecture traces the historical development of […]
- 2025-07-28
Global Asian Studies (GAS) at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of UTokyo will be holding a symposium in summer 2025 to discuss issues surrounding women and disease in medical and metaphorical transformations. Organized by GAS and Dr. Shu Yang from Western Michigan University in the United States, this post-Covid symposium aims to facilitate reflection on gender and medicine in a vibrantly Chinese context. Symposium Abstract: This post-pandemic era provides the ideal backdrop for rethinking the definition and regulation of disease and women’s place in it. Our Tokyo symposium brings together world scholars to discuss Chinese societies, past and present, through the lens of female dis-eased status. It is […]
- 2025-07-28
We cordially invite you to International Symposium on July 28 (Mon), 2025. This event is held only in person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: July 28 (Mon), 2025, 10:00-16:50 (JST) Venue: Main Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo Title: Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China Registration: https://forms.gle/3HEGEoTaA6HvGGPHA Language: English Program: 10:00-10:20 Symposium Overview Shu Yang, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University 10:20 -11:50 Panel 1: Bad Body “The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective” Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student “Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era” Jingwen Zhang, University […]
- 2025-07-30
We cordially invite you to JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series on July 30 (Wed), 2025. This event is held both online and in person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: July 30 (Wed), 2025, 11:00-12:30 (JST) Venue: The 1st Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo; Online (Zoom) https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/access/ Title: What Does Transitional Justice Mean in Southeast Asia? Speaker: Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Associate Professor, McGill University Moderator: Tony Scott, JF-GJS Fellow (IASA), UTokyo Abstract: In Southeast Asia, transitional justice has a very mixed record. In Indonesia, impunity reigns over the 1965-66 massacres. In the Philippines, the Ferdinand Marcos regime […]
- 2025-08-01
We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia is holding a Tobunken Workshop "Digital Humanities for Middle Eastern History" on Friday, August 1, 2025. This workshop provides an opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas about the adaptation of digital humanities methodologies to the study of Middle Eastern and Islamic history. The workshop will be conducted in English.If you would like to participate, please register using the form below. Date: August 1, 2025 (Fri) 2pm~4:30pm Venue: 2nd conference room (302, 3rd floor), The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/access/ Registration form: https://forms.gle/mihroMgqATns9bHU9 Program: Chair: Jun Akiba (IASA) Speakers: Betül İpşirli Argıt […]
- 2025-09-28
We cordially invite you to Sumitomo Conference 2025 on September 28 (Sun) and October 4 (Sat), 2025. This event will be held online. To join this event, please fill in the registration form below. Date and time: September 28 (Sun), October 4 (Sat) 2025, 14:00-15:30 (JST) Venue: Online(Zoom) Title: Japan Studies in Asia (3): Japan in Asia Revisited Chair: Shigeto SONODA (Professor, IASA, University of Tokyo) Registration: Pre-registration is required for each session separately. – Session 1: https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/qa___30sRlaxLUoFm5w6Ag – Session 2: https://u-tokyo-ac-jp.zoom.us/meeting/register/Hx-iN5qbRtq7eq_9oJfkAgz Language: English (Session 1), Japanese (Session 2) Program: [Session 1] “Japan” in Southeast Asia during War Period (English) 14:00-14:05 Introduction (Shigeto Sonoda / University of Tokyo) 14:05-14:10 Greetings (Takatoshi Hino / The Sumitomo Foundation) 14:10-14:30 (1) Japanese Heritage in Bukit […]
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Living With the Vinaya: An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar

Asia Rising:A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia

The Semantics of Development in Asia : Exploring ‘Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan
