・講演日時：2026年4月10日（金）14:30-17:00
・表題：International Seminar on "East India Companies, Diplomatic Encounters, and Cross-Cultural
Interactions in Early Modern Maritime Asia"
・講師：
・Mathias Istrup Karlsmose (Ph.D Candidate, Stockholm University)
・Shohei Okubo (Associate Professor, Ryukoku University)
・Shinsaku Kato (Associate Professor, Shiga University)
・開催様式：対面
・開催場所：総合研究棟士魂商才館3F セミナー室Ⅰ（Venue: Seminar Room 1, Third Floor, Shikon Shosai-kan)
・講演言語：英語
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Abstract
The East India Companies are organisations established in northwestern European countries one after another in
the early seventeenth century to conduct trade with Asia. After those companies arrived in maritime Asia, they,
as major players in cross-cultural interactions, came into contact with local governments and societies in political, economic, and social aspects. This international seminar will explore the realities of cross-cultural interactions
during the early modern period, by focusing on the contact between the Danish East India Company and the
Japanese people under the Tokugawa Shogunate and the encounters between the Dutch East India Company and
the Mughal Empire in the diplomatic scene, as well as the impact of the Dutch East India Company's opium trade
on economies and societies in maritime Asia.
Program
14:30-14:35 Opening Remarks
14:35-15:10
Speaker: Mathias Istrup Karlsmose (Ph.D Candidate, Stockholm University)
Title: "Their religion is not of the forbidden kind: Danish-Japanese Contacts in the 17th Century"
15:10-15:45
Speaker: Shohei Okubo (Associate Professor, Ryukoku University)
Title: "From Trade to Social Problem: Opium, the VOC, and the Transformation of Late Eighteenth-Century Maritime Asia"
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:35
Speaker: Shinsaku Kato (Associate Professor, Shiga University)
Title: "Diplomatic Arts of the Mughal Empire: From an Analysis of Mughal-European Relations"
16:35-17:00 General Discussion
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