Modern Japan History Workshop at Yale University

Modern Japan History Workshop at Yale University

Saturday, November 12, 2011 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 6511

The Modern Japan History Workshop will be held at Yale University on Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM, with a dinner afterwards for anyone who would like to attend. Information regarding the three panels can be found below. PANELS Amino Yoshihiko, “Village Japan” and 3.11 In an effort to encourage discussion across the usual boundaries of temporal specialization, the first panel will focus on Amino Yoshihiko’s efforts to re-conceptualize the history of the archipelago, from ancient times to the present. Alan Christy (University of California-Santa Cruz), whose translation of Amino’s Nihon no rekishi o yominaosu is soon to be published by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan, Tom Keirstead (University of Toronto) and Bill Johnston (Wesleyan University), have all agreed to offer some thoughts to help get the conversation started. From the sweeping to the specific, the second panel will focus on the interdisciplinary “Village Japan” project conducted by the University of Michigan in the 1950s, and its significance both for post-war Japanese history and the history of post-war “Japan Studies” in the United States. Daniel Bostman (Yale University) will make a brief presentation, together with Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan), William Kelly (Yale University), and Edward Kamens (Yale University). The final panel will focus on the question of how we might begin to view the 3.11 disasters in historical perspective, with presentations from Kerry Smith (Brown University) and Gregory Smits (Penn State), who have both been working on the history of earthquakes, and Jeff Bayliss (Trinity College), who spent much of summer visiting the worst hit areas of Tohoku.

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Japan