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U-Tokyo
International Seminar
—FRIDAY AFTERNOONS—
at the
Graduate School of Economics
Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
Organized by Hiro Hirai
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)