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 […]

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 […]