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Beta Version of the New Daiber Collection Database Released

Tobunken Seminar : Ibn ‘Arabī’s Endorsement of Accidents-Only Atomism and His Esoteric Addendum

The 2nd Regular Seminar (2025) “‘Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle’: Nineteenth-century British Orientalism and perceptions of Persian Sufism”

Fabrizio Speziale, “Noah’s Grandsons and the Elephant: Functions of Persian Pseudonymous Texts in South Asia”
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- 2025-07-15
Event Details TitleThai Perceptions of the International Order since the Pre-Modern Era: Shaping and Shifting Its Relations with China, Japan, and the US into the 21st Century SpeakerKitti Prasirtsuk, Professor of Political Science, Thammasat University DateTuesday, July 15, 2025 Time3:00 PM – 5:00 PM JST VenueMain Conference Room, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo & Zoom (Hybrid) LanguageEnglish only Discussants Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies and Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo Ryo Sahashi, Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo ModeratorRyo Sahashi RegistrationClick here to register Abstract This lecture traces the historical development of […]
- 2025-07-28
Global Asian Studies (GAS) at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia of UTokyo will be holding a symposium in summer 2025 to discuss issues surrounding women and disease in medical and metaphorical transformations. Organized by GAS and Dr. Shu Yang from Western Michigan University in the United States, this post-Covid symposium aims to facilitate reflection on gender and medicine in a vibrantly Chinese context. Symposium Abstract: This post-pandemic era provides the ideal backdrop for rethinking the definition and regulation of disease and women’s place in it. Our Tokyo symposium brings together world scholars to discuss Chinese societies, past and present, through the lens of female dis-eased status. It is […]
- 2025-07-28
We cordially invite you to International Symposium on July 28 (Mon), 2025. This event is held only in person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: July 28 (Mon), 2025, 10:00-16:50 (JST) Venue: Main Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo Title: Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China Registration: https://forms.gle/3HEGEoTaA6HvGGPHA Language: English Program: 10:00-10:20 Symposium Overview Shu Yang, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University 10:20 -11:50 Panel 1: Bad Body “The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective” Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student “Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era” Jingwen Zhang, University […]
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Living With the Vinaya: An Ethnography of Monasticism in Myanmar

Asia Rising:A Handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia

The Semantics of Development in Asia : Exploring ‘Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan
