Date and Time: June 19 (Thu), 2025, 14:00-16:00 (Japan Time)   Venue: Main Conference Room (3F), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo   Title: 'Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle': Nineteenth-century British Orientalism and perceptions of Persian Sufism   Speaker: Lloyd Ridgeon (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia)   Moderator: Kazuo Morimoto (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia)   Registration: To register for this event, please fill in the form below by June 18 (Wed), 2025, 12:00 PM (JST).                       https://forms.gle/qEH3gGbUPQEFU5Ek8    Language: English    Abstract: Nineteenth-century British perceptions of Persian Sufism contribute to the understanding of the contemporary, […]

The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (IASA), is pleased to announce a lecture by Mr. Jason Browning (Indiana University-Bloomington / IASA). The talk will argue that Ibn ʿArabī was familiar with substance-less, accidents-only atomic theories promoted by such earlier scholars as Ḍirār ibn ‘Amr (ca. 728-815 CE) and chose to fashion them into his own innovative, esoteric atomic theory. The event will be held in a hybrid format, with online participation available via Zoom.  Lecture Title:Ibn ‘Arabī’s Endorsement of Accidents-Only Atomism and His Esoteric Addendum  Speaker:Mr. Jason Browning (Indiana University-Bloomington / IASA)Profile: https://ceus.indiana.edu/people/graduate/doctoral/browning-jason.html  Date:Thursday, 26 June 2025, 18:00–19:30 (JST)  Venue:Room 304, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia […]

We are pleased to announce that the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia will host a Tobunken Seminar featuring Professor Fuat Dündar, a renowned specialist in late Ottoman migration and population policy. Professor Dündar is from TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey, and has been a visiting researcher at IASA since September 2024.In this seminar, Professor Dündar will discuss population movements that occurred with the collapse of two empires—Japan and the Ottoman Empire—from a comparative perspective.This seminar will be held both in person and online. To register for this event, please fill in the form.   Date and time: June 26, 2025 (Thu), 4:15pm~5:45pm   Venue: Institute for Advanced […]

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 […]