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2025年8月4日〜5日に山中湖にあるセミナーハウス、アブルボア山中寮にて、「Market, Society and Morality in Comparative Historical Perspectives」をテーマとする研究合宿を開催しました。本合宿は、6月にAway Dayとして開催した国際セミナーを発展させたもので、参加者の最優先のプロジェクトについて、他の参加者からフィードバックを受けることを目的としています。事前に自身の研究課題に関する資料を共有し、当日はプレゼンと質疑応答を通じて活発な議論が行われました。2日目はテーマ別に分かれ、学際的・比較史的観点からの理解を深める有意義な機会となりました。立場の異なる参加者3名からの感想も掲載しております。ぜひご覧ください。

On August 4–5, 2025, we held a retreat titled “Market, Society, and Morality in Comparative Historical Perspectives” at the Abrevoir Seminar House by Lake Yamanaka. This retreat was a continuation and development of the international Away Day held in June, and its main purpose was to provide participants with constructive feedback on their top-priority research projects.

In preparation for the event, participants pre-circulated materials related to their research. During the seminar, each participant gave a presentation followed by a lively Q&A session. On the second day, participants divided into thematic groups, engaging in in-depth discussions from interdisciplinary and comparative historical perspectives.

It was a highly productive and meaningful opportunity to deepen our understanding of each other’s work.

以下が参加者3名の感想となります |　Below are some messages from the participants.

“This retreat was a phenomenal experience in participatory and egalitarian intellectual exchange. Situated beside the beauty of Lake Yamanaka, a group of lab members and guests came together to discuss our individual research projects and collaboratively ruminate upon their insights and possibilities. These conversations, in turn, informed a range of broader discussions on the nature, value, and role of historical scholarship within and without the university. The social dimension of the retreat was also valuable as it fostered and strengthened our community. All of these dimensions of the retreat contributed to what I felt to be flourishing, intellectual and otherwise. I will certainly attend future retreats! “

Dr. Thomas Ashby – JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

“Set against the beautiful backdrop of Mount Fuji and Yamanakako, the workshop at Yamanaka Ryo was a short yet truly memorable experience. Participants shared diverse and insightful research, and though time was limited for Q&A, the overnight stay allowed for meaningful face-to-face conversations. The session on early career challenges was especially reassuring, reminding us that many struggles are shared. Mealtimes together also deepened both academic and personal connections in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere.”

Mengxing Yu – Kyoto University

“Doing a presentation and discussion with researchers as an undergraduate was a very valuable experience, and I was also able to hear helpful advice on my own undergraduate research and future study. One moment that was especially memorable for me was a discussion with researchers who had just completed their PhDs. When I asked what kind of theme they had in mind when they first started their research, they all answered that they had very different themes in the beginning, and they just tried writing down what they could at the moment.  Being able to talk with researchers not only about research topics but also about approaches to research and the nature of historical studies more broadly was very interesting for me.”

Satoko Futawatari – The University of Tokyo

《English version is below》

2025年6月10日、浜離宮芳梅亭にて国際セミナー「越境する歴史：17世紀ヨーロッパと20世紀東アジア」を開催しました。

本セミナーでは Wilfrid Laurier University のDavid Smith 准教授、Texas A&M University のEvan Haefeli 教授、京都大学の安平弦司准教授をゲストコメンテーターに迎え、参加者が自身の研究を紹介し合い、相互理解を深めることを目的として、短時間のプレゼンテーションと活発なディスカッションが行われました。発表内容は17世紀英国海軍の契約関係、日本におけるピル承認運動、商標制度の形成など多岐にわたり、分野を越えた多様なテーマが取り上げられました。議論と交流を通じて、参加者が自身の研究の核心を言語化し、他分野の視点を取り入れる貴重な機会となりました。

参加者のコメントを一部ご紹介します。「ゲスト・コメンテーターとして参加していた Evan Haefeli 教授（TexasA&M）が “No such thing as a stupid question” のようなことを仰っていたことが印象深い。報告後の議論が停滞した時の発言だったが、日頃の自研究室におけるゼミでも内容が稚拙だったり的外れだったりすることを恐れて発言を控えてしまう私にとっては、はっとさせられる言葉だった。実際、議論で出された質問はどれも知識をひけらかすものではなく、報告者の研究を深めるものや他者の研究に対する純粋な好奇心から発せられるもので、高い専門性をもつ聴衆たちが面白い研究に対して貪欲に知識を得ようとする空間は居心地が良かった。」（京都大学大学院文学研究科 修士２年　熊谷光里、国際セミナー「越境する歴史」に参加して）

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On June 10, 2025, we have organized the Away Day on the theme of “History Crossing: 17th-Century Europe and 20th-Century East Asia” at Hamarikyu-Hobaitei.

The seminar welcomed Associate Professor David Smith from Wilfrid Laurier University, Professor Evan Haefeli from Texas A&M University, and Associate Professor Genji Yasuhira from Kyoto University as guest commentators. With the aim of encouraging participants to share their research and deepen mutual understanding, the program featured brief presentations followed by lively discussions.
The presentations covered a wide range of topics, including contractual relationships in the 17th-century British Navy, the approval process of the birth control pill in Japan, and the development of trademark systems, among others. Through scholarly dialogue and exchange, participants were given a valuable opportunity to articulate the core of their own research and incorporate perspectives from other academic disciplines.

One participant shared a memorable moment from the seminar: “Professor Evan Haefeli (Texas A&M), who joined as a guest commentator, said something along the lines of ‘There’s no such thing as a stupid question.’ He made this remark when discussion stalled after a presentation, and it left a strong impression on me. In my own graduate seminars, I often hesitate to speak up for fear that my comments might be shallow or off the mark. His words were a wake-up call. In fact, the questions raised during the discussions were not about showing off knowledge, but rather stemmed from genuine curiosity and a desire to deepen the presenter’s research. The atmosphere—where highly specialized participants were eager to engage with interesting research—was intellectually stimulating and truly comfortable to be part of.”
— Hikari Kumagai, M.A. student, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University (Participant in the international seminar “Histories Across Borders”)

JSPSの研究員として本研究室に在籍しているThomas Albert Ashbyトーマス・アルバート・アシュビー氏と政治思想史の世界的権威Quentin Skinner クエンティン・スキナー氏との共著論考’Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty’がGlobal Intellectual History誌に掲載されました。おめでとうございます！

リンクはこちらです：https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2025.2524782?scroll=top&needAccess=true

The co-authored article ‘Independence, Globality, and the Battle of Ideas: A Dialogue on Liberty’ by Thomas Albert Ashby (currently affiliated with our lab as a JSPS Research Fellow) and Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University of London) has been published in the journal Global Intellectual History.
Congratulations!

This discussion article focusses on the history and theory of freedom, particularly in relation to the arguments of Skinner’s recent book, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (2025). Alongside a wide-ranging exploration into seventeenth- and eighteenth-century anglophone political thought, this dialogue engages questions relating to historical methodology, the possibilities and perils of artificial intelligence, and how to think about historical ideas in a global context.

    The link to the article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2025.2524782?scroll=top&needAccess=true

特別研究員として本研究室に在籍された現一橋大学大学院 経営管理研究科 准教授の横江良祐さんが執筆した論文「New moderationism: medical discourses on alcohol and the decline of drunkenness in interwar Britain 」がオックスフォード大学出版局 Modern British History に掲載されました。おめでとうございます！

論文はオープンアクセスです。こちらのサイトからダウンロード可能です。

Dr Ryosuke Yokoe’s new journal article is out now!

Ryosuke Yokoe, a former research fellow at RUBiC, has just published his new article in Modern British History. Many congratulations! The paper is open-access and can be downloaded for free here.

博士課程 4年の矢島ショーンさんが執筆した論文「Fuel, Fear, and Fault: Mass Media and Cartel Criticism during the German Coal Crisis of 1900」がケンブリッジ大学出版局 Cambridge Core の Enterprise & Society に掲載されました。おめでとうございます！

論文はオープンアクセスです。こちらのサイトからダウンロード可能です。

Shaun Yajima’s new journal article is out now!

Shaun Yajima, PhD student in the RUBiC lab, has just released his first academic article in Enterprise & Society, an established field journal in business history research. Many congratulations! The paper is open-access and can be freely downloaded here.

JSPSのポスドク研究員として本研究室に在籍した Nora Baker ノラ・ベイカーさんが日本での研究活動中に執筆した論文「Marie Durand (1711–1776): Vicarious Strategies in the Letters of a Huguenot Detainee」が Women in French Studies 誌の特別号に掲載されました。

論文へのリンクは以下のとおりです。おめでとうございます！
Project Muse : https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2024.a936288

Dr Nora Baker, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow and formerly a member of our lab, has just published her journal article.

During her research activities in Japan, Dr Baker wrote an article, now published in a special issue of Women in French Studies, entitled ‘Marie Durand (1711-1776): Vicarious Strategies in the Letters of a Huguenot Detainee’. Congratulations Dr Baker!

A link to the article can be found below.
 
Project Muse : https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2024.a936288

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2024年度の生物学史シンポジウムが11月18日（月）に下記の通り弊研究室との共催で開催されます。スタンフォード大学のロンダ・シービンガー先生をお招きして、その科学史的著作について4名のご発表とともに、様々な角度から掘り下げます。ぜひご参加ください。

【日時】 11月18日（月）15:30 -17:30 （18:00 – 20:00 懇親会) 　

【場所】東京大学本郷キャンパス　経済学研究科学術交流棟（小島ホール） 第２セミナー室

【使用言語】英語

【テーマ】「ジェンダー、コロニアリズム、アグノトロジーと科学史――ロンダ・シービンガーの著作をめぐって」

【登壇者】

– 鶴田想人 (大阪大学) Opening Remarks

– 小川眞里子 (東海ジェンダー研究所) Introduction

– 岡本隣 (東京大学) “Women in Colonial Botany: From the Case of Agnes Block”

– 並河葉子 (神戸外国語大学) “Breaking New Ground: The Impact of Londa Schiebinger’s Work on the Study of Slavery in the Caribbean”

– 弓削尚子 (早稲田大学) “Bringing the History of Science and Agnotology to the Gender History/Studies Classroom”

– 井野瀬久美恵 (人間文化研究機構) “Slave Mothers: The Peacock Flowers and Iemanja”

– ロンダ・シービンガー (スタンフォード大学) Comments

– Discussion

【懇親会】

　場所：山上会館1階 T-Lounge CREDO
　会費：7,000円（学生4000円）　※当日お支払いください

【主催】日本科学史学会　生物学史分科会
　　　　人文社会科学国際化推進センターおよび山本浩司研究室

【お問合せ】soto.tsuru@gmail.com (鶴田想人)

参加登録フォーム　※シンポジウムのみ、または懇親会のみのご参加も歓迎いたします

【Inviting In-Person Participants】The Biological Unit of the History of Science Society of Japan 2024 Symposium”Gender, Colonialism, Agnotology and the History of Science: On the Works of Londa Schiebinger”(18 November 2024)

We are currently inviting in-person participants for the Biological Unit of the History of Science Society of Japan 2024 Symposium “Gender, Colonialism, Agnotology and the History of Science: On the Works of Londa Schiebinger” co-hoted by our lab.

【Date】 Monday 18 November, 15:30 – 17:30 (18:00 – 20:00 Conference Dinner)

【Venue】Kojima Hall 2nd Seminar Room, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo

【Language】English

【Theme】Gender, Colonialism, Agnotology and the History of Science: On the Works of Londa Schiebinger

【Speakers】

– Soto Tsuruta (Osaka Univ.) Opening Remarks

– Mariko Ogawa (Tokai Foundation for Gender Studies) Introduction

– Lynn Okamoto (Univ. of Tokyo) “Women in Colonial Botany: From the Case of Agnes Block”

– Yoko Namikawa (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies) “Breaking New Ground: The Impact of Londa Schiebinger’s Work on the Study of Slavery in the Caribbean”

– Naoko Yuge (Waseda Univ.) “Bringing the History of Science and Agnotology to the Gender History/Studies Classroom”

– Kumie Inose (National Institutes for the Humanities) “Slave Mothers: The Peacock Flowers and Iemanja”

– Londa Schiebinger (Stanford Univ.) Comments

– Discussion

【Conference Dinner】

　Venue: T-Lounge CREDO, Sanjo Conference Hall
　Fee: ¥7,000 (Students ¥4,000) *To be paid on site

【Organiser】The Biological Unit of the History of Science Society of Japan

【Co-organiser】 The University of Tokyo Center for Global Advanced Studies & RUBiC: Research Unit for Business in Context

【Contact】 soto.tsuru@gmail.com (Soto Tsuruta)

Registration form

　

　　　　

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2024年7月13-14日、東京大学本郷キャンパス小島ホールにて国際シンポジウム「Societal Sidelines: Exclusion and Resilience in the Early Modern World」が開催されました。このイベントは、本研究室PI山本浩司、研究室メンバーのノラ・ベイカーが安平弦司氏(京都大学大学院文学研究科)と企画開催したもので、日本経済国際研究センター(CIRJE)と日本学術振興会の助成を受けて行われました。また7月15日には、巣鴨にあるカフェ・ポート・グラスゴーで、関連する一般向けイベント「オランダ共和国における多様性と交流」を開催しました。

シンポジウムはハイブリッド形式で開催され、イベントには近世のマージナリゼーションとエンパワーメントに関連する幅広いトピックを専門とする学者が集まり、参加者は、清王朝時代の中国におけるテュルク文化、17世紀のシベリアにおける先住民の人質、近世インドにおけるレスリングの実践など、さまざまな問題についての活発な議論を交わすことができました。また、会議初日に踊知二教授（武蔵大学）が行った基調講演では、日本の隠れキリシタンとヨーロッパの再洗礼派がそれぞれ迫害の中で生き抜くために採用した戦略について比較史的分析が展開されました。参加者は、歴史的事例を通して疎外された人々にとってのレジリエンスの重要性について考えるきっかけを得られました。この会議によって得られたネットワーキングの機会は、今後の更なる研究交流のきっかけになることが期待されます。

シンポジウム開催にあたって、CIRJEと日本学術振興会の寛大な財政的支援に感謝の意を表したいと思います。また、CIRJEの田中公子様と石川晶子様には、貴重な後方支援をいただき、心より感謝申し上げます。 

プログラムの詳細については、こちらをご参照ください。

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The international symposium ‘Societal Sidelines: Exclusion and Resilience in the Early Modern World’ was held on 13-14 July 2024 at Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. The event was organised by Nora Baker, Genji Yasuhira, and Koji Yamamoto, and was generously funded by the Centre for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. On 15th July, we also held a related public-facing event, ‘Diversity and Exchange in the Dutch Republic’, which was held at Café Port Glasgow, in the Sugamo area of Toshima-ku.

The symposium took place in hybrid format, with most speakers presenting in person, but with a few presenters and attendees managing to tune in and speak from distant time zones. The event brought together scholars specialising in a wide range of topics relating to marginalisation and empowerment during the early modern period. Attendees gained insight on a variety of issues, including Turkic culture in Qing-dynasty China, indigenous hostages in seventeenth-century Siberia, and on sacred wrestling practices in early modern India, to name but a few of the case studies explored over the course of the conference.

This event’s global outlook and ethos succeeded in bringing together researchers from many different career stages, and from over fourteen different countries. Many fruitful exchanges were made, as scholars were given the opportunity to reflect on the parallels which exist between diverse areas of study. The value of a comparative approach was highlighted by the keynote speech given on the eve of the first day of the conference, by Professor Tomoji Odori, of Musashi University. Professor Odori’s lecture examined the strategies employed by both Japan’s Kakure Kirishitan and Europe’s Anabaptist communities in order to survive amid persecution. Participants contemplated the importance of resilience for marginalised peoples in the past, leading to reflections which will, hopefully, help inform a more inclusive future. The opportunities for connecting and networking fostered by this conference will also bolster international academic unity.

The organisers would like to express our gratitude to CIRJE and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for their generous financial support, without which this symposium would not have been possible. We would also like to sincerely thank Ms Kimiko Tanaka and Ms Akiko Ishikawa of CIRJE for the invaluable logistical support that  they provided.

For more information on the programme, please click here.

本研究室PI山本が登壇する「東大 Week＠Marunouchi 2024」が下記の通り開催されます。当イベントは東京大学と三菱地所株式会社が2022年に産学協創協定を締結し立ち上げた「MEC-U Tokyo Lab」によるトークイベントで、昨年に引き続き丸の内周辺のカフェ・レストランが会場となっています。ぜひご参加ください。

■7/31(水) 東京大学教員陣によるプレゼン
【開催場所：丸の内仲通りビル1階「GARB Tokyo」】
　18:00～18:45
　　①『デジタルネイティブとカーボンニュートラルの同時実現への挑戦』
　　登壇者：江崎浩（東京大学 大学院情報理工学系研究科 教授）
　19:15～20:00
　　②『ビジネスは社会課題を解決できるのか －歴史とジェンダーの視点から』
　　登壇者：山本浩司（東京大学 大学院経済学研究科 准教授）

参加方法：下記サイトより事前申し込み
イベント公式サイト：https://todaiweek-marunouchi.jp/

世界思想社のwebマガジン「せかいしそう」に、PR誌『世界思想』50号「歴史」特集号に掲載された本研究室PI 山本浩司の「男性としてジェンダー史をはじめること」が公開されました。ぜひお読みください。

男性としてジェンダー史をはじめること | せかいしそう (sekaishisosha.jp)

The online magazine of Sekai Shisōsha has recently featured an article by our PI, Koji Yamamoto, titled “Research Gender History as a Man”. This piece was originally published in the 50th issue of the PR magazine Sekai Shisō, a special edition focused on ‘History’.