Marginal Social Groups and Historical Documents in Asia—Japan and the Ottoman Empire

Marginal Social Groups and Historical Documents in Asia—Japan and the Ottoman Empire

Monday, March 25, 2019 - 10:00am to Tuesday, March 26, 2019 - 4:30pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

Marginal Social Groups and Historical Documents in Asia—Japan and the Ottoman Empire

(アジアの周縁的社会集団と史料—日本とオスマン帝国)

In this two-day workshop we will consider various aspects of the social history of Japan in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, while also examining the experiences of marginal social groups in the Ottoman Empire in order to develop a broad comparative perspective on the transition to modernity in different parts of Asia.  The morning of the second day of the workshop will also include a session focused on reading Tokugawa period documents from the Beinecke Library.  The event is part of an ongoing collaboration between Yale and Osaka City University.

 

Schedule

3/25 (Mon) Day 1     

9:45-10:00am Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:00am-12:00pm Session I   The Medicine Trade and Social Groups in Early Modern Osaka (Luce 203)

10-10:30am Sachiko WATANABE, “The Distribution of Medicine and Merchant Groups” (薬種の流通と商人集団).  (Presentation in Japanese)

10:30-10:45am John D’Amico, Summary and response (English)

10:45-11:05am Peng HAO, “The Nagasaki Trade and Osaka” (「長崎貿易と大坂」) (Presentation in Japanese)

11:05-11:20am Tom Monaghan, Summary and response (English)

11:20-12:00pm Discussion

12:00-1:15pm  Lunch

1:15-3:15pm Session II   Marginal Social Groups’ Experiences of Modernity in the Ottoman Empire (Luce 203)

1:15-2:00pm  Masayuki UENO, “The Rise of the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul Reconsidered.” (アルメニア教会イスタンブル総主教職の地位向上、再検討)(English)

2:00-2:45pm  Henry Clements, “Documenting, Forgetting, and Remembering the Süryani of the Ottoman Empire.” (オスマン帝国のシリア正教徒:記録から忘却、そして想起へ). (English)

2:45-3:15 Discussion with Alan Mikhail

3:15-3:45pm  Coffee break

3:45-5:45pm Session III  Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern Japan (Luce 203)

3:45-4:15pm Takashi TSUKADA, “Social Structure on the Margins of the Great City of Osaka: From the Records of the Narumai family of Namba Village” (巨大都市大坂の周縁の社会構造―難波村・成舞家文書の可能性―」)(Presentation in Japanese, with English comments from Daniel Botsman)

4:15-4:45pm Tōru MORISHITA (Yamaguchi University), “On the Establishment of the Iwakuni Domain Warehouse (Kura yashiki) in Osaka” (「岩国藩大坂蔵屋敷の成立」) (Presentation in Japanese, with English comments from Fabian Drixler)

4:45pm-5:15pm Maren Ehlers (UNC-Charlotte), “The Osaka Lacquerware Trade and the Ōno Domain Store in the Late 1850s”. (「大野藩店・大野屋と安政年間の大坂漆商売人と職人」)(Presentation in English and Japanese)

5:15-5:45pm Discussion with Keith Wrightson

6:30pm- Welcome dinner


3/26 (Tues)  DAY 2

9:30-12:30pm Session IV  Document Reading Workshop: Kyoto Komonjo (Beinecke Library)

12:30-2pm Lunch break

2:30-4:30pm Session V  Perspectives on the Social History of Modern Japan (Luce 203)

2:30-3pm John Porter (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies),  “Land Ownership and Local Society in Early Meiji Asakusa Shincho” (「明治初期浅草新町=亀岡町における土地所有と地域社会」)  Presentation in English.

3-3:30pm Waka HIROKAWA (Senshu University), “Syphilis and Regional Community in Modern Japan (「近代日本の梅毒と地域社会」) Presentation in English.

3:30-4pm Ashita SAGA, “The Modernization of Prostitution in Yokohama from the Late Edo period to Early Meiji” (「幕末~明治初年の横浜に見る遊廓社会の近代化」) Presentation in English.

4-4:30pm Discussion with Rohit De

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