A New Gakumon no Susume (An Encouragement of Learning) – University of Tokyo Professors in the Modern Era (Global Focus on Knowledge)

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AY 2014

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A New Gakumon no Susume (An Encouragement of Learning) – University of Tokyo Professors in the Modern Era (Global Focus on Knowledge)

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Coordinator: Syunya Yoshimi (Vice President, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies) Navigator: Sachiko Morimoto (The University of Tokyo Archives, The University Museum, the University of Tokyo) Throughout modern times, the University of Tokyo was the main stage where “learning” was born, transplanted, and transformed in Japan. At the University of Tokyo, the academic discipline of engineering was created via Scotland by developments in industry in England, medicine was developed based on German medicine, there was the shift from wasan (traditional Japanese mathematics) to modern mathematics, and in physics, the former shogunate scholars created knowledge that did not come from the foreign government advisors known as oyatoi gaikokujin. On the other hand, the University of Tokyo’s scholars in public law were intimately involved in the creation of a constitutional system, and the relationship between the military and academia was not a straightforward one. All the dramas which developed with the University of Tokyo as the main stage formed the core of knowledge in modern Japan. Yet, we are surprisingly ignorant who created knowledge at the University of Tokyo in the past, and how. This lecture series not only tells of the fruits of modern academia, but also serves to rediscover the people, backgrounds, and settings where the University of Tokyo was the stage where “knowledge” was born. This series will trace the people who were involved in creating and transforming scholarship, leading up to the reforms attempted after World War II and the intellectual struggles during the university dispute.

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A New Gakumon no Susume (An Encouragement of Learning) – University of Tokyo Professors in the Modern Era (Global Focus on Knowledge)

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#1 A New Gakumon no Susume (An Encouragement of Learning) - Where Do Universities Come From? Where Are They Going?

#2 Between "Beat the whites" and "by Jap anyway" - Humiliation and Glory for Physicists

#3 Uchida Yoshikazu and Tange Kenzō – Architecture During, and After, World War II

#4 Between Hiraga Yuzuru’s Naval Architecture and Academic Purges

#5 The Reception of Modern German Medicine in Japan and Developments at the University of Tokyo (Tokyo Medical School, Daigaku Tōkō)

#8 Shiratori Kurakichi and the Formation of Oriental Studies in Japan

#9 Takano Iwasaburō and the Study of Economics in Japan

#10 Henry Dyer and Japanese Engineering

#10 Henry Dyer and Japanese Engineering 2

#11 Toda Teizō and Japanese Sociology

#12 Fujisawa Rikitarō and Japanese Mathematics

#13 Three-Way Discussion – The University Dispute and the Future of Academia