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JSPS Core-to-Core Program: International Research Network for Ancient Western Asian Studies

This highly-collaborative program — which is organized by Prof. Dr. Karen Radner (with the assistance of Dr. Jamie Novotny) and Prof. Dr. Daisuke Shibata — is designed

  1. to establish and strengthen contacts between historians, linguists, and archaeologists at LMU Munich and Japanese scholars from various academic institutions;
  2. to exchange scholarly ideas through a series of three international workshops;and
  3. to create a digital and annotated corpus of royal inscriptions from the land of Mari. Funding is provided by Radner’s 2022 Leibniz Prize and Shibata’s 2023 JSPS (Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science) Core-to-Core Award.

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Participants in the Royal Inscriptions of Western Asia Workshop, July 2025, Ludwig-Maximilians_Universität, München.

Scholarly visits to LMU Munich

Between 2023 and 2030, Radner’s Chair of Ancient History of the Near and Middle East will host students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors from Japanese universities that are participating in Shibata’s JSPS Core-to-Core Award (“International Research Network for Ancient Western Asian Studies”), especially Tsukuba University. The following researchers have visited the LMU’s Historisches Seminar:

  • Yui Arimatsu (Hiroshima University): 21 November–7 December 2023.
  • Sanae Ito (Nagoya University): 22 July–31 August 2023.
  • Kotaro Mamata (Tsukuba University): 6 February–19 March 2025.
  • Daisuke Shibata (Tsukuba University): 10–31 September, 2023; 14 July–12 August, 2024; and 10 July–1 August 2025.
  • Hajime Yamamoto (Yamaguchi University): 7–31 August 2023.

Shibata, as well as several other scholars, are expected to carry out research at LMU between January 2026 and January 31st 2030.

Workshops on Royal Inscriptions of Ancient Western Asia

A core objective of the collaborative agreement between Radner and Shibata is the organization of three one- and two-day workshops, and the publication a(n open-access) edited volume of the proceedings. Royal inscriptions of Ancient Western Asia are the central theme of all three international gatherings.

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Participants in the Royal Inscriptions of Western Asia Workshop, November 2024, Doshisha University, Kyoto.