We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia will host a Tobunken Seminar featuring Professor Fuat Dündar, a renowned specialist in late Ottoman migration and population policy. Professor Dündar is from TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, and has been a visiting researcher at IASA since September 2024.
In this seminar, Professor Dündar will discuss population movements that occurred with the collapse of two empires—Japan and the Ottoman Empire—from a comparative perspective.
This seminar will be held both in person and online. To register for this event, please fill in the form.
Date and time: June 26, 2025 (Thu), 4:15pm~5:45pm
Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, First Meeting Room (304)/Zoom
https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/access/
Speaker: Fuat Dündar (TOBB University of Economics and Technology / IASA Visiting Researcher)
Title: Re-examining Ottoman Migrations in Light of Hikiagesha Researches
Chair: Jun Akiba (IASA, U Tokyo)
Registration form: https://forms.gle/ePwYJnfLj1uibXgG8 (Deadline: June 25, 2025, 6pm)
Lecture Abstract:
Looking at the migrations accompanying the collapse of the Ottoman Empire (especially the 1878-1923 Balkan migrations) and the Japanese migrations that took place during the collapse of the Japanese Empire (1946-1949) obliges a total comparison. Comparing these two post-imperial migrations provides comparing political systems, population composition and distribution, identity politics, and international balances. Despite the profound differences between these two migrations that are so far apart geographically and historically, such a comparison helps us understand Ottoman migrations (muhacir) better. The absence of the phenomena encountered in Japanese repatriations (hikiagesha) in Ottoman migrations led to questioning not only the existing ones but also the ones that were not. Such a comparison will also help to place the Ottoman migrations within global history. In this presentation, where I will share the first findings of the research, I will discuss the ways in which the two migrations are remembered by comparing migration monuments as a sampling.
Note:
This seminar will be followed by a lecture by Mr. Jason Browning’s lecture, entitled “Ibn ‘Arabī’s Endorsement of Accidents-Only Atomism and His Esoteric Addendum.” For more information, please visit the IASA website.
https://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/news_en20250529151038/
*This seminar is supported by JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan.
Contact: Jun Akiba j-akiba[a]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp