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U-Tokyo
International Seminar

 —FRIDAY AFTERNOONS—
at the
Graduate School of Economics
Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo

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…or Join us on Zoom

 
Organized by Hiro Hirai

Aurora Consurgens manuscript, Zurich exemplar

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

14:00 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)