Tobunken Workshop: Digital Humanities for Middle Eastern History

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 (Marmara University/Visiting Researcher, IASA, The University of Tokyo)
“Debt and Credit Relationships of Male Members of the Ottoman Imperial Palace (1650–1700)”

Erina Ota (Uehiro Project for the Asian Research Library, The University of Tokyo)
"An Exploratory Study toward Textual Analysis of 15th-Century Arabic Biographical Dictionaries"

Tomoaki Shinoda (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"Scholars Who Read This Book Also Read…: An Experiment in Islamic Reading History through Fahrasa Literature and a Plethora of Challenges"

 

 

*This workshop is supported by JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan.

Contact: Jun Akiba j-akiba[a]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp