News
News
Tobunken Seminar “International Workshop on Long-Term Social Transformations in Nepal”
JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series “Southeast Asian Can Think Outside Southeast Asia”
JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series “K-Culture (Hallyu) and Korea-Japan Relations: Focusing on ‘BTS Studies’”
Outcomes of the Research Project Funded by the Korea Foundation（Directed by Professor Ryo Sahashi)
Events
Upcoming Events
- 2025-06-02
We cordially invite you to GAS Book Talk on Junel 2 (Mon), 2025. This event is held online and in-person. Please register using the form below. Date and time: June 2 (Mon), 2025, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM (JST) Venue: The 1st Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo / ZOOM Title: War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia Speaker: John Lee Candelaria, Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University Moderator: Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Assistant Professor, IASA, University of Tokyo About the Book: How do nations use war memorials to shape their national and international identities? In War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia, John Lee Candelaria explores this intriguing question through the lens of three Southeast Asian nations: the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore. He […]
- 2025-06-02
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, and the Japan Office of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies are pleased to announce a lecture by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (EHESS). The talk will explore pseudonymous Persian texts as a strategy to domesticate non-Muslim technical knowledge and to legitimize the status of Muslim professional groups in Persianate South Asia. The event will be held in a hybrid format, with online participation available via Zoom. Lecture Title:Noah’s Grandsons and the Elephant: Functions of Persian Pseudonymous Texts in South Asia (Abstract below) Speaker: Professor Fabrizio Speziale (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Profile: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/personne/fabrizio-speziale Date:Monday, 2 June 2025, […]
- 2025-06-19
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, […]
- 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 […]
Events
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
Regime Changes and Socio-economic History of Rural Myanmar, 1986-2019
