Lecture Announcement at Kyoto University (5th December): “Visual Vocality and the Order of Reason”

[Irene Maria Tomoe Steineck]

Dear colleagues,

Excuse any cross-posting. I am writing to share the announcement of my upcoming lecture at Kyoto University:

“VISUAL VOCALITY AND THE ORDER OF REASON: Knowledge Hierarchies and Aesthetic Power from Europe to Nineteenth-Century Japan”

The lecture will take place at Kyoto University, Yoshida South Campus, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Room 433, 

on 5 December 2025, 16:45–18:30 (JST). 

If you happen to be in Kyoto and interested in visual culture, religious history, or colonial/imperial entanglements, you are very welcome to join.

Best regards

Tomoë I. M. Steineck

Lecturer OAKG & AOI

Partnership Strategist UZH-MRZ

Affiliated researcher UZH AOI Japanese Studies, HIJAS Hosei University Tokyo, NICHIBUNKEN

Forthcoming Publications:

• Protest Deities and the Logic of Images: Images as Epistemic Agents in Japanese Religion. Alternative Rationalities and Religious Practices in a Global Perspective. (Inaugural issue CAS-E). Brill, April 2026
• Negotiating Paradigms: Construing the Nexus of Mission, Collection, and Imperialist Agenda. Monography (in preparation)

Recent:

• Declaring Buddhism Dead in the 19th Century: The Meiji Oligarchy and German Protestant Mission in Japan. In Dynamic Encounters Between Buddhism and the West. ed. by L. Langone & A. Ilieva. Special issue. East Asian Journal of Philosophy 3. 2024. (1): 25–45. (https://eajp.online/ref-159428@summary)