Research Activities

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

date: December 17, 2010 Venue: University of Tokyo title：roduksi Padi dan Impor Beras Indonesia Selama 40 Tahun: Sebuah Catatan

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia concluded an Agreement on Academic exchange with Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale. Ever since its establishment in 18th century, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale has played a major role as a hub for Asian Studies not alone in Italy but in Europe. Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale is actively developing its education and research activities of Asian regions in the fields of humanities and social sciences. We would like to promote this academic exchange with Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale through the human exchange of researchers by mutual visits, joint symposia, and exchange of academic information and materials. Neapolitan ville,

The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia was founded in 1941 as a research institute attached to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo Imperial University at that time) with the objective of carrying out “comprehensive studies regarding Oriental culture.” Last year, in 2011, it commemorated the 70th anniversary of its founding. The main areas that are the subject of studies at our institute range from Egypt to the Korean Peninsula (Japan is included indeed). In each region within this vast scope, we are conducting diligent studies in fields as different as politics, economy, religion, history, archaeology, literature, art and so on. Both archival research (both written and non-written materials) and on-site

Date ： Thursday, 1 March 2012, 16:00-18:00 Venue ： Large Meeting Room (Dai-kaigisitu), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo Speaker ： Michael Feener (National University of Singapore) Title ： “Changing Configurations of Alid Piety in Indonesian Islam” The presentation will be based on some new work that will be published later this year in a forthcoming book that I have edited with Chiara Formichi entitled, Shi`ism and Beyond: `Alid Piety in Muslim Southeast Asia (London Institute of Ismaili Studies Series/ I.B. Tauris). Moderator　： Haneda Masashi (Director & Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia) This seminar is open for public. 【Report】 A Tobunken seminar “Changing Configuration

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

Islamic Modernism and the Question of Eurocentric Global Intellectual History Date:  June 1, 2011 Time:  18:00-19:30 Venue:   Main Meeting Room 1(3rd floor), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (Toyo Bunka Kenkyujo), Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo Title:   Islamic Modernism and the Question of Eurocentric Global Intellectual History Speaker:   Professor Cemil Aydin (George Mason University) About Speaker:   Cemil Aydin is IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies and Associate Professor of History at the Department of History and Art History, George Mason University, where he also serves as Director of Ali Vurak Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies. Professor Aydin’s numerous publications include: The Politics of Anti-Westernism in

Title : “< Sözüm> Document of Timur” LecturSpeaker: ONO Hiroshi (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Tachibana College) Date : Thursday 16 June 2011 Time and venue: 17:00-19:00, at No.2 Meeting Room in IASA Language : Japanese Entry: Admission free. No registration required Enquiry: Haneda Masashi. haneda@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp, 03-5841-5883  

Kazuo Morimoto gave a lecture at the Mohaqqeq Tabatabai Islamic Foundation in Qom, Islamic Republic of Iran. The lecture, delivered in Persian language, was titled “The Institution of Niqabat al-Sadat before the Mongol Period.” The lecture was followed by an active Q & A session, in which Morimoto profited from comments and ideas of colleagues in Qom with rather a different academic background. Morimoto, being introduced by Hojjat ‘l-Eslam Sayyed Ali Tababayi Yazdi, Director of MTIF. Morimoto, during the lecture

” 1.Own research: The Ritual Civilization: Western Understandings of Confucianism 2.An Introduction to the International Journal of Asian Studies (IJAS) The 1st Staff Seminar 2012 at IASA was held in the afternoon of 14 June 2012. Associate Professor Robert Lawrence Chard gave two lectures before nearly 20 participants. In the first, titled “The Ritual Civilization: Western Understandings of Confucianism,” he described how Confucianism was historically taken by Western observers as a key to understanding Chinese civilization, culture and society, and how that approach still influences on modern Western scholarship on China today. In the following lively discussion, Chard and the participants discussed many topics, including how Asian scholars might have

Local History in the Context of World / Global History: Case Studies in Cultural History Following the academic agreement concluded last year by Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University and East Asian Program at Princeton University, the First Fudan, Princeton and Todai Conference was held as below. Title: Local History in the Context of World / Global History: Case Studies in Cultural History Date & Time: From 9:00 to 17:45, Monday, December 19th, 2011. From 9:00 to 13:15, Tuesday, December 20th, 2011. Venue: Koshiba Hall, Faculty of Science Bldg. 1, School of Science, The University of Tokyo (7-3-1 Hongo,