Reports of Past Events
The 2nd Japan Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo was held
Report As part of the building up of Strategic Partnership between the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago, the second joint Todai-UChicago workshop titled “Japan Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo” was held at the University of Chicago on October 8-9, 2015. This is part of a 3-year annual workshop series joined by UChicago graduate students and the Global Japan Studies program of Todai. This year four presenters from Todai: – Ikeda Maho (PhD student, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), – Sakihama Sana and Hirai Yuka (PhD students, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), – Kawamura Satofumi (Project Assistant Professor, University of
GJS Lecture Series 9th “Area and the Regime of Separation: For the Japanese Studies to Come”
Report Information Title: Area and the Regime of Separation: For the Japanese Studies to Come Speaker: Naoki Sakai (Professor, Departments of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Cornell University) Date and time: October 15, 2015 (Thur.), 2:00-4:00PM Venue: Main Conference Room (3rd Floor), The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo Language: English
IASA cosponsored Summer Workshop “Studies of Asian Arts, Religion, and History” was held successfully in Fudan University, June 23 – July 3, 2015
Annual Summer Workshop “Studies of Asian Arts, Religion, and History”, sponsored by National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, cosponsored by East Asian Studies Department and Program, Princeton University and Institute for the Advanced Study of Asia, the University of Tokyo, completed all of its courses on July 3, 2015. Professor Yasushi OKI (Institute for the Advanced Study of Asia) gave a 3-hour-lecture on June 27, titled “Publishing and Literature in Late Ming Dynasty”. Discussion among the participants lasted for two hours afterwards. This year’s Participants are 40 graduate students who are specialized in Asian studies. Some of the participants from Princeton University, Yale University, Heidelberg University and other universities
Tobunken-Seminar “How to describe Chinese Administrative Law as a system under the Principle of Gesetzmaessigkeit der Verwaltung or Rule of Law in Administration”
Title: How to describe Chinese Administrative Law as a system under the Principle of Gesetzmaessigkeit der Verwaltung or Rule of Law in Administration Lecturer: TAKAMZAWA, Osamu,Professor ,Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Time and Placd::15:15-16:40 on 15 June,2015 at the Meeting Room2, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Report The conclusion of the report was that the Principle is still under the forming process, because LAW, promulgatede by National People\’s Congress(including its Standing Committee) can not satisfy the system. Participants also discussed on the sub-system(or main system?) of authorizing the State Council\’s legislation in taxation ,formed in 1980\’s. It is still an ongoing system. New Legislaion Law of
Tobunken-Seminar "The application of International Jaw in late Qing Dynasty:Preventing Japanese Buddhist Missionaries from Propagation"
Title: The application of International Jaw in late Qing Dynasty:Preventing Japanese Buddhist Missionaries from Propagation Lecturer: YAN Liyuan,Renmin University of China,Reserch Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Time and Place: 15:15-16:40 on 1 June,2015 at the Meeting Room2, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Report The historical process on the title was intorcuced and then, mainly two questions were discussed by the particepants. 1, Were there any special probems on Otani-School? They were most active at that time. 2, Through the fact of using International Law,tyipically on some articles of treaties, we can see the progress of dipomatic activity. However ,we should
Birgit Tremml-Werner “Spain, China and Japan in Manila, 1571-1644. Local Comparisons and Global Connections” is published
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Prize of “ Livre de l’Académie d’Architecture” for Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise（CNRS Editions）
The Japanese-French architectural dictionary Vocabulaire de la spatialité japonaise [The Vocabulary of Japanese Living Space]（CNRS Editions）, in which our Research Fellow, Atsuko Ukai was responsible for the entries for “Japanese paper” and “play,” received a prize from the l’Academie d’architecture in France (Prix du Livre de l’Académie d’Architecture 2014). This dictionary is an ambitious work with about 200 keywords for understanding Japan from an architectural and cultural point of view, including special terms used in Japanese architectural space such as karesansui [rock garden] and tsuboniwa [inner (small) garden] as well as terms such as madori [house plan/layout] and buruu sheeto [blue sheet (tarp)] with deep connections to everyday Japanese life.
Tobunken Seminar “A Reconsideration about the Reasons for the Success of Opium in China in the XIXth Century” / Global History Collaborative, 2nd reseach seminar.
Report As an event in the series of Tobunken Seminar/Global History Collaborative Seminar, Associate Professor Xaver Paulès at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales gave a talk with the title of ”A Reconsideration about the Reasons for the Success of Opium in China in the XIXth Century” on Friday 12 December 2014.Professor Paulès explained, in a convincing way, reasons of the success of opium in the XIXth century China from political, economic and social points of view. At the Q&A session after the talk, there were many comments and questions on characteristics of Qing China society, terminology, comparison with Japan and Southeast Asia in global history’s context, etc.
Workshop on “Chile, Japan, and Asia”
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA), UTokyo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile(Chile) Date: October 8th, Wednesday, 2014 Place: 2nd conference room, 3rd floor, IASA, UTokyo Speakers: Ikemoto Yukio Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia(IASA), UTokyoSato Jin Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia(IASA), UTokyoJohannes Rehner Professor, Center for Asian Studies (CEA UC) & Institute of Geography, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileRaimundo Soto Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Católica de ChileSebastián Baeza Professor, Institute of Geography, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Program 10：00～11：00 Johannes Rehner, “Resource driven export boom, economic growth and employment in Chile´s Regions – impacts of trade with Asian countries” 11：00～12：00 Ikemoto Yukio, “On Japanese Economy”
Tobuken Seminar “Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery and the Scribal Practices at the Monastery of St. John the Little”
The Tobunken seminar on September 8 invited Dr Chrysi Kotsifou as a speaker. Dr Kotsifou, Polanski fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, gave a talk under the title of “Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery and the Scribal Practices at the Monastery of St. John the Little”.Dr Kotsifou’s presentation was based on her findings at the excavation site of the Monastery of St John the Little, Wadi al-Natrun, Egypt, as part of the Yale Monastic Archaeology Project. The main focus of her talk, the inscriptional material found at the monastic site, demonstrated the rich, vibrant world of the monks in living in tenth-century Egypt, and their literary skills.The seminar
Tobunken Seminar “Research on Counterbalance of Two Elements: Legislation Model of Land Law in Variation Period of Tang and Song Dynasty”
Title: Research on Counterbalance of Two Elements: Legislation Model of Land Law in Variation Period of Tang and Song Dynasty Lecturer: HAN, Xiao, China University of Political Scince and Law, Research Fellow of Institute for Adbanced Studies on Asia Date: 16/June/2014 Time and Place: 3pm-5pm at the Meeting Room 2, 3rd floor of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo Language: Chinese( without interpretation) Abstract：There is obvious inheritance between tang and song dynasties on legislation model of land law. Counterbalance of two elements, which is called legislation model, had always been carried out by tang and song’s land legislation. One element was that land legislation safeguards
Tobunken Seminar (GHC: Global History Collaborative, 1st Seminar) “Encountering the \’Non-European\’ and Defining \’Europeanness”
On 25 April, a Tobunken seminar was held. Jean-Frédéric Schaub, directeur d’etudes at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, gave a talk under the title of “Encountering the \’Non-European\’ and Defining \’Europeanness\’”. The seminar was planned as the memorial first event of Global History Collaborative funded by the JSPS for the next five years. It is an initiative for creating a close network which serves as leading international base for the research of new world history/global history. A series of seminars, workshops, conferences and joi nt summer programs are planned in addition to the exchange of researchers and PhD students among four institutions. The development of joint
Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS fellow) published his article on the latest issue of the SCIAMVS.
Isahaya published his article on the latest issue of the SCIAMVS, a journal for the history of science.Yoichi Isahaya, “The Tārīkh-i Qitā in the Zīj-i Īlkhānī: the Chinese Calendar in Persian.” SCIAMVS 14 (2013): 149-258. It consists of the English translation, commentary and Persian edited text of the Chinese calendar in an Islamicate astronomical handbook compiled in 13th century Iran in the period of the Mongol empire. This material can be regarded as a primary source produced as a result of cross-cultural contact in Eurasia under the Mongol domination. The article is also a result of his three-years research at this institute as a JSPS fellow. (jpg) (jpg)
Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS fellow) made a presentation at a workshop held in Istanbul for 6-8 December, “Maragha and its Scholars: the Intellectual Culture of Medieval Maragha, ca. 1250-1550.”
Yoichi Isahaya (JSPS fellow) made a presentation at a workshop held in Istanbul for 6-8 December, “Maragha and its Scholars: the Intellectual Culture of Medieval Maragha, ca. 1250-1550” (program: http://impact.orient.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Maragha-and-its-Scholars-Program.pdf). This workshop focused on an observatory in Maragha (now in northwestern Iran) and scholars who were working there or influenced by the works of former scholars. The Maragha observatory, which was established in the middle of the 13th century under the Mongol hegemony, functioned as one of the foremost nexuses of the scholarly networks in the Islamicate world (sometimes across that world). The IMPAcT project (http://impact.orient.ox.ac.uk/), which mainly deals with 13th to 16th century Islamic philosophy, theology and adjacent sciences,
Tobunken Symposium “Making a New Constitution and State-Religion Relations: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Egypt”
Title ： Making a New Constitution and State-Religion Relations: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Egypt Date ： July 23, 2013 14:00-16:30 Venue ： Main conference room, 3rd floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken), The University of Tokyo Language ： English Organizer ： NAGASAWA Eiji A Symposium titled Making a New Constitution and State-Religion Relations: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Egypt was held on July 23, 2013, at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo, Japan, with Prof. Gianluca P. Parolin (Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Japan/ Assistant Professor of Law, the American University in Cairo, Egypt) and Mr.
Tobunken Symposium “Beyond Established Categories in World Historical Studies”
Date: July 24, 2013 (Wed) 16:00-18:30 Venue: Main conference room, 3rd floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Tobunken), The University of Tokyo Table of Contents Paper 1: From Comparative Study to Transnational Art History Ukai Atsuko Paper 2: The Making of Europe in 16th century East Asia Birgit Tremml Paper 3: When “China\’s West” became “Europe\’s Orient” Vimalin Rujivacharakul Paper 4: “Islamism” Revisited Goto Emi General Discussion General Discussion Chair: Toriyama Junko 報告 Report: This symposium focused on one of the most foundational attributes in historical studies: categories. Born of the need to classify subjects of inquiries, categories enable historians to label the unfamiliar and place it within
Tobunken Seminar (IASA Seminar) “Comparison between the Developments of Institution of Concealment in Chin Japan”
Title: Comparison between the Developments of Institution of Concealment in Chin Japan Lecturer: YANG, Yiyue, China University of Political Science and Law, Visiting Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Date: 11/July/2013 Time and Place: 1pm~3pm at the Meeting Room 1, 3rd floor of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo Participants: 5 Language: Chinese Hosted by Regular Research Project of An Attempt at the Integration of Studies in the Traditional, Modern and Contemporary Chinese Legal System (Prof. TAKAMIZAWA, Osamu, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo) Report: Concealment has quite broad meaning in social life, but in the domain of pre-modern