Research Activities

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”

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

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

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

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” (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,

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.

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

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

Title: Origin and Research Review of the People’s Mediaton in the People’s Republic of China Lecturer: XU, Qingyong, School of Government,Nankai University, Visiting Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Date:20/June/2013 Time and Place: 1pm~3pm at the Meeting Room 1,　3rd floor of the Isntitute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Participants:4 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: Xu Qingyong geve a lecture on the hitorical origin of people’s mediation of People’s Republic of China and

Title: Regulation of Islam in Xinjiang,China Lecturer: Kara Miriam Abaramson, Adjunct Professor of School of Law,Temple University Japan Campus, Visiting Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Date: 3/June/2013 Time and Place: 1pm~3pm at the Meeting Room 2,　3rd floor of the Isntitute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo Language: English Participants: 14 Hosted by Regular Research Project of An Attempt at the Integlation of Studies in the Traditional, Modern and　Contemporary Chinese Legal System　(Prof.　TAKAMIZAWA,　Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia,the University of Tokyo)   Report: Kara Miriam Abramson gave a lecture on state regulation of Islam in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China.

Title: Fatwa at a Glance Lecturer: Shaykh Dr. Kahlan b. Nabhan al-Kharusi, Assistant Grand Mufti of Oman Kahlan al-Kharusi is the assistant grand mufti of Oman and Jurisprudential Advisor in the Office for the Issuance of Fatwas, the Ministry of Awqaf & Religious Affairs in Oman. He completed both his masters & doctorate in Islamic studies at the Univ ersity of Oxford. In 2010, by Royal Decree, he was appointed to the present post. Date :  15:30-17:00, Friday 16th, November 2012 Venue:  FIrst Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Organizer:  Morimoto Kazuo

Speaker： Judith Pfeiffer (University Lecturer in Arabic, University of Oxford) Title： Religio-political crises and cultural creativity during the Later Middle Period of Islamic history Abstract： The 14th to 15th century Nile-to-Oxus region was defined by a high degree of political decentralization, cultural and linguistic diversity, social mobility, and confessional ambiguity. Several political and intellectual crises punctuated this period. By focusing on the Mongol Ilkhanate, and drawing in particular on the theoretical works of Rashīd al-Dīn, this paper investigates some of the local debates that were triggered by the shift of religious allegiances among the Mongol elites of the Ilkhanate. These debates, and this particular political environment, reflect long-term transformations in the region, in

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Conrad of the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FreieUniversität Berlin, one of the leading historians in Global History Studies in Germany, gave a lecture at the Tobunken-seminar on October 4th, 2010. The theme of the seminar drewon his first monograph, The Quest for the Lost Nation(University of California Press, 2010), which has been highly prized by European and American academics as a brilliant and unprecedented comparative study of historiographies in Germany and Japan of the early postwar period (1945 – 1960). The lecture was based on a summary of the book’s main arguments as well as of the lecturer’s additional observations about the recent developments of German and Japanese historiographies on

Title：Mongols in 14th Century Italian Painting: New Evidences Speaker：Michele Bernardini (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli) Date：Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 16:00-18:00 Venue：Large Meeting Room (Dai-kaigisitu), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo Report： The institute invited Professor Michele Bernardini of University of Naples, Orientale, famous scholars in the field of Iranian studies, in the framework of the academic exchange programme recently concluded by the two institutions. At the seminar on 22 February 2012, Professor Bernardini introduced a number of Mongol-like figures appeared on various paintings in medieval Italy and discussed their artistic features. He also explained reasons of the birth of this particular genre of paintings. It was a

Dates: 15 and 16 February 2012. Venue: Main Meeting Room, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo abstracts: PDF(416KB) schedule >>  Day One: Money as Social Circuit: anonymous currency and named credit (Toyota Foundation Research Project, D10-R-0091) 930-1010 Kuroda Akinobu , U Tokyo, Unfixed Money: Revisiting Global Monetary History from Mezzoscopic Viewpoint Comments by Farley Grubb, U Delaware Chaired by Cha Myung Soo, Yeungnam 1020-1140 Laurence Fontaine , CNRS, CMH-ENS-EHESS, Money as Social Circuit: The Circulation of Objects and Credit in Early Modern Europe Leigh Gardner , London School of Economics, Money and Credit in Medieval Europe and Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study Comments by Bruno Théret, CNRS,

Rethinking of the Role of China and Japan in the Early Modern World: The Great Reversal Following the academic agreement concluded last year by our institute, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University and East AsianProgram at Princeton University, Professor Benjamin Elman, Chair of Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University gave a special lecture at our institute. Date: June 6, 2011 (Mon) Time: 15:30 – 17:30 Title: Rethinking of the Role of China and Japan in the Early Modern World: The Great Reversal Lecturer: Professor Benjamin Elman, Chair of Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University Moderator: Professor HANEDA Masashi, Director of Institute for Advanced Studies

Seminar on “How to Use AsiaBarometer,” which is one of the activities of “Frontier of Comparative Studies of Asian Societies” financially supported by the JSPS Asia-Africa Scientific Platform Program, was hel on 11th and 12th of July, 2011. This is the second round of the seminar, following the patterns of last year’s. All the participants, 2 from South Korea, 4 from China, 3 from Taiwan, attended whole the seminar. They listened to Prof. Sonoda’s lecture on the brief history of AsiaBarometer and its contents of the research as well as Prof. Zong-rong Lee’s speech on his experience of using AsiaBarometer dataset in the last round. After that, they presented their