The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and Cluster of Excellence “EurAsia Transformations” (Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Vienna), are pleased to co-host the Tobunken Seminar: “The Mythmaking of Silk Roads: Reinventing Eurasian Heritage in Japan, 1880-1980”. As the opening event of the four-day programme “EurAsia-Tokyo Academy”, this seminar aims at investigating, by focusing on Japan as a case study, how the knowledge of Eurasian heritage acquired during the late nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries have influenced the way in which many people worldwide came to understand the visual, material and textual legacies of the trans-Eurasian trade network called “Silk Roads”.   Date […]

We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia will hold a Tobunken Seminar, featuring Dr. Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak, a specialist in Ottoman history with a particular focus on the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Ottoman Empire during the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Dr. Karabıçak has been affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow since 2024.In this seminar, Dr. Karabıçak will examine revolutionary movements and counter-revolutionary responses in Ottoman Europe during the Ottoman Age of Revolutions by contextualizing them in the imperial governing structures.The seminar will be conducted in English and held both in person and online. To attend the seminar, please fill […]