News
News
Tobunken Seminar “International Workshop on Long-Term Social Transformations in Nepal”
JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series “Southeast Asian Can Think Outside Southeast Asia”
JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series “K-Culture (Hallyu) and Korea-Japan Relations: Focusing on ‘BTS Studies’”
Outcomes of the Research Project Funded by the Korea Foundation（Directed by Professor Ryo Sahashi)
Events
Upcoming Events
- 2025-04-25
We cordially invite you to GAS Lecture Series on April 25 (Fri), 2025. This event is held online and in-person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: April 25 (Fri), 2025, 10:00-11:30 AM (JST) Venue : The 1st Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo / ZOOM Title: The Remarkable Commissioner Lin Zexu: An Old Tale Retold Speaker: David G. Atwill, Professor of History, New York University Shanghai Discussant: Sebastian Veg, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA), University of Tokyo Moderator: Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Assistant Professor, IASA, University of Tokyo Abstract: The Remarkable Commissioner Lin Zexu: An Old Tale Retold Hand-picked by the emperor from among the empire's best and brightest officials, […]
- 2025-06-02
We cordially invite you to GAS Book Talk on Junel 2 (Mon), 2025. This event is held online and in-person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: June 2 (Mon), 2025, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM (JST) Venue: The 1st Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo / ZOOM Title: War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia Speaker: John Lee Candelaria, Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University Moderator: Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Assistant Professor, IASA, University of Tokyo About the Book: How do nations use war memorials to shape their national and international identities? In War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia, John Lee Candelaria explores this intriguing question through the lens of three Southeast Asian nations: the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. He […]
- 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 […]
Events
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
Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019
