The two-day conference brought together scholars who are working in a range of fields, including architecture, art history, film and media studies, philosophy and religion, both within East Asian studies and beyond.

Dr Mikuriya's paper – ‘Hippolyte Baraduc and the Iconography of the Soul,’ explored the work of the French physician Hippolyte Baraduc, and how his images exemplify a certain form of the scientific imagery from the 19th century.

It was a real honour to be invited to speak. It was a thoroughly engaging conference, and I was delighted to have the opportunity to share my latest research in such a prestigious setting,"

she says.

Mikuriya will be returning to Harvard in May this year. She says,

Still on the basis of my research, but entirely independently of my involvement in this conference, immediately upon my return to London, I received an invitation to speak at the Platonism as a Living Tradition conference organised by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. To be invited by Professor Gregory Shaw, whose work on the Syrian Neoplatonic philosopher Iamblichus I greatly admire and often cite, is a thrill I had not expected."

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