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- 2026-03-17
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and Cluster of Excellence “EurAsia Transformations” (Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna), are pleased to co-host the Tobunken Seminar: “The Mythmaking of Silk Roads: Reinventing Eurasian Heritage in Japan, 1880-1980”. As the opening event of the four-day programme “EurAsia-Tokyo Academy”, this seminar aims at investigating, by focusing on Japan as a case study, how the knowledge of Eurasian heritage acquired during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries have influenced the way in which many people worldwide came to understand the visual, material and textual legacies of the trans-Eurasian trade network called “Silk Roads”. Date […]
- 2026-03-26
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, in collaboration with the Department of Islamic Studies at the University of Bonn and the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, is organizing a workshop entitled “Genealogies in Motion: Recording, Visualizing, and Mobilizing Lineage across the Islamicate World.” The workshop examines the practice of genealogy writing and approaches genealogies as both material and intellectual artifacts, analyzing them from technical, social, and ideological perspectives. It focuses on three types of genealogies associated with distinct milieus: sayyid/sharīf genealogies, dynastic genealogies, and Sufi genealogies. Participants are kindly requested to pre-register for either in-person or online attendance. Dates: […]