Bébio Amaro

Associate Professor, Nagasaki University

Specialist in Jesuit architecture and early modern urban planning in Japan 

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Fujikawa Mayu 藤川真由

Associate Professor, Meiji University

Specialist in early modern European representation of East Asian peoples and culture

Author of Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe. Penn State University Press, 2025

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​​​​​Iwasaki Yoshinori 岩崎義則

Associate Professor, Kyushu University

Specialist in the history of Matsuura domain

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Nagashima Meiko 永島明子

Senior Curator (Japanese Lacquer)

Kyoto National Museum

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Kristina Kleutghen

David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University

Specialist in Qing dynasty Chinese art and Sino-foreign relations

Author of Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces. University of Washington Press, 2015.​​

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Ulirke Körber, PhD

Cultural Heritage Conservations

Researcher, NOVA University Lisbon

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​​​​​​​​​Madalena Matos

Curator, MNAz (National Tile Museum)

Specialist in Japanese Arms & Armor

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Birgit Tremml-Werner

Senior Lecturer in Global History, Stockholm University

Specialist in Early Modern Diplomatic Relations and the Political Economies of Empires involved in the Trans-Pacific trade

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