University of Tokyo, Japan
Chisa Mizobuchi is a PhD Student and a JSPS research fellow for young scientists (DC1) at the Department of Asian History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo. She is currently working on the history of relationships between humans and animals, with particular attention to elephants in India during the Mughal period and the early British colonial period from the early sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Her research includes not only Indian environmental history, but also cross-cultural history in South Asia and global intellectual history. Her recent work in Japanese is “Crossing the Cultures of Asia and Europe in the Early Modern Period: A Case Study of Elephants with Turrets in the European Visual Arts,” Comparative Civilization: Journal of the Japan Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, 39, 2023.
Travelling Objects, Species, and Ideas III
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)