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19 January 2024
The piece, co-authored with Steven Irvings, is titled: In the Black Ships’ Wake: Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate


19 January 2024
Professor James Montgomery's 2018 book Dīwān ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: A Literary Historical Study has been longlisted for a Sheikh Zayed Prize (editing manuscripts category).


19 January 2024
Professor Andrew Marsham’s new book traces the origins of the first Islamic empire to the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Steppe in the centuries before Islam and explores economic, social, religious, and political change in this pivotal era in the history of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.


17 January 2024
Professor James Montgomery, the Sir Thomas Adam's Professor of Arabic Literature has been awarded in December 2023 a Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (Arabic to English) as runner-up for his translation with Sophia Vasalou of Al-Tawḥīdī, The Philosopher Responds.


10 January 2024
Elizabeth Monier was interviewed for an article "Plan to boost Emirati families key as expat population surges" in The National, an Emirati newspaper, published January 6th about Dubai's new social agenda.


08 January 2024
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has announced that Dr. Thomas P. Barrett, who is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate within the faculty, has been awarded the Society's 2023 Bayly Prize for his doctoral dissertation 'Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat', for which he received his doctorate for from the University of Oxford in 2022.


20 December 2023
Dr Hajni Elias has contributed a chapter titled "Commemorating the Dead for the Living: Two Eastern Han (25 – 220 CE) Stelae from Southwest China" to the new book "East Asia and Beyond the Archives: Missing Sources and Marginal Lives" published by Leiden University Press


18 December 2023
Based in the Faculty of Divinity, the Cambridge Interfaith Research Forum was established in 2022 to enhance research connectivity at and beyond the University of Cambridge. It provides a particular space to make connections, locate differing expertise, and look at things from a new perspective. Elizabeth Monier of AMES has now joined the research forum to enhance her work researching Coptic Christianity and the navigating of religious boundaries in Egypt.


14 December 2023
On 28 November, Dr Steger joined the BBC World Services Newshour programme to discuss reproductive and contraceptive politics in Japan where some pharmacies are trialing the sale of the contraceptive pill for the first time.


29 November 2023
On Friday afternoon on 24 November Professor Kushner participated in a colloquium in Paris concerning the future of Japanese studies. It was the closing event for the “Horizon 2073: vers un siècle de recherches en sciences sociales sur le Japon,” hosted by the Centre de recherches sur le Japon, and held at Centre de colloques du Campus Condorcet.


28 November 2023
In this article, published in the latest issue of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (EASTM, E.J Brill), Roel Sterckx examines excretion, defecation and latrine culture in early China, a subject largely left untouched in sinological scholarship.


22 November 2023
The UK-Japanese Defence and Intelligence Relationship event recording is now available to watch online


07 November 2023
Thomas P. Barrett has won the 10th Historical Society of Japan Prize (第10回史学会賞) for his article 'Qing Legation Members as Private Diplomatic Actors: D. B. McCartee’s Role in the Sino-Japanese Dispute over the Ryukyu Annexation' (「D.B.マッカーティと「琉球処分」問題——清朝在外公館における外国人館員の私的活動とその意義をめぐって」), published in volume 131, issue 2 of Shigaku Zasshi 史学雑誌 in 2022.


06 November 2023
On 4 November 2023, Professor Barak Kushner and Dr Tom Barrett hosted Professor Nakamura Motoya and his research team from Japan to discuss the current state of modern Chinese history in Japan