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U-Tokyo
International Seminar
—FRIDAY AFTERNOONS—
at the
Center for Global Advanced Studies (CGAS)
Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
…or Join us on Zoom
Organized by Hiro Hirai
October 10, 2025
18:00 JST(no Zoom) Special Public Lecture
Alchemy and the Origins of Modern Science
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins)
October 24, 2025
16:00 JST
Francis Bacon and Early Modern “Religion”
Hazuki Shimono (Fukui)
November 4, 2025 (Tuesday)
16:00 JST
Early Meteorological Instruments and Experiences of the Weather
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis (Amsterdam)
November 14, 2025
17:00 JST (Zoom)
Pietro Pomponazzi on Objective Thinking
Leonardo Graciotti (Naples)
November 21, 2025
14:00 JST
Mystical Experience in ibn ‘Arabī: Tasting or Drinking?
Michinari Fujiwara (Tokyo)
December 5, 2025
14:00 JST
Rational and Traditional Argumentation in Early
Ash‘arite Theology
Yoshihiro Okada (Tokyo)
December 12, 2025
14:00 JST
Astral Magic and Lettrism in Medieval Islam
Yua Sato (Waseda)
January 16, 2026
17:00 JST (Zoom)
Patient Violence in Japanese Constructivist Literature
Noriko Katayama (Oxford)
January 23, 2026
16:00 JST
Reviving al-Fārābī’s and Maimonides’ Theories of Language
Yu Hoki (Kyoto)
Spring/Summer 2025
May 16, 2025
17:00 JST
American Medicine and Its Ambition in Early 20th-Century Japan
Sun Jing (Tokyo)
May 30, 2025
16:00 JST (Zoom)
The Renaissance Rejection of Astrology as a Humanist Exercise
Ovanes Akopyan (Venice)
June 6, 2025
16:00 JST
Outer Space or Heavens Above? Mapping the Empyrean Heaven
Antonia Karaisl (Waseda)
June 20, 2025
16:00 JST (Zoom)
Astral Sciences from Arabic into Byzantine Greek
Luca Farina (Rome)
June 27, 2025
14:00 JST
George Starkey (1628–1665) and His Chymical and Medical Ideas
Chiaki Suda (Tokyo)
July 4, 2025
16:00 JST (Zoom)
Migration, Gender and Health in the Japanese Empire
Hiro Fujimoto (Heidelberg)
July 11, 2025
14:00 JST
Exploring Mirrors and Fantasy in The Merchant’s Tale through Roger Bacon’s Perspectiva
Hana Higashinaka (Keio)
Fall 2024/Winter 2025
October 11, 2024
16:00 JST
National, Regional, and Global Identities in the Translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy
Motoaki Hara (Tokai)
October 22, 2024 (Tuesday)
14:00 JST
Arabic in the West
Charles Burnett (Warburg)
October 25, 2024
14:00 JST
Convulsions, Femininity, and Obstetrics from the Perspectives of Early Modern Midwives
Lynn Erina Okamoto (Tokyo)
November 15, 2024
14:00 JST
Curse Tablets from Mainz: Ancients and Their Access to Malediction
Nozomi Shicchi (Jochi)
November 29, 2024
16:00 JST
Providence and the Celestial Bodies in Albertus Magnus’s Commentary on the Sentences
Adam Takahashi (Kansei Gakuin)
December 6, 2024
14:00 JST
Media and Mediators for Popularizing Christianity in Early Modern China
Wang Wenlu (Tokyo)
December 13, 2024
14:00 JST
Emotions and Linguistic Ideas in Seventeenth-Century English Manuals of Sermons
Issei Yagishita (Tokyo)
January 17, 2025
14:00 JST
Alexandrian Medical Curriculum on Sensory Disabilities in Arabic Translation
Hiroaki Sawa (Tokyo)
January 24, 2025
14:00 JST
Levinus Warner and Islamic Literature
Kentaro Inagaki (Tokyo)
Spring/Summer 2024
May 17, 2024
14:00 JST
Godly Interest: Theologising Profiteering in Post-Revolutionary England
Christy Wang (Tokyo)
May 24, 2024
16:00 JST
Astral Magic and Sufi Cosmology
Yuki Nakanishi (Osaka)
May 31, 2024
14:00 JST
Starkey and Chymistry in Early Modern America and England
Chiaki Suda (Tokyo)
June 07, 2024
14:00 JST
Mathematics and Natural Theology in Christian Wolff
Yuhei Obayashi (Nagoya)
June 14, 2024
14:00 JST
Magic and Unmanliness in Poetic Edda
Haki Hohjoh (Tokyo)
June 21, 2024
14:00 JST (Zoom)
Joshua’s Ignorance: Christoph Wittich’s Spinozistic Interpretation of the Bible
Kuni Sakamoto (Meiji)
June 28, 2024
16:00 JST
Jabir and Alchemy
Masayo Watanabe (JSPS)
July 05, 2024
14:00 JST
Henri Blainville (1777–1850) and His Biological Philosophy
Masa Hirai (Tokyo)
July 12, 2024
14:00 JST
Francis Bacon and the Prolongation of Life
Kazu Shibata (Gifu)