Meiji at 150 Lecture Series


September 29, 2017

“The Monarchy in Modern Japan: with a Special Focus on the Abdication Issue”

Kenneth J. Ruoff

Professor of History

Director of the Center for Japanese Research

Portland State University

 

 

 

 


November 10, 2017

“How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about Nineteenth-Century Japan”

 

David L. Howell

Professor of Japanese History

Chair, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations

Harvard University

 

 

 

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November 24, 2017

“The Emperor and His Poetic Subjects: The Utakai Hajime Ceremony and Meiji Japan”

Gideon Fujiwara

Associate Professor, History Department

Coordinator, Asian Studies Program

University of Lethbridge

 

 

 

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November 30, 2017

“Taking Synchrony Seriously: The Crises of 1866 in Japanese and Global History”

Mark Metzler

Professor of History and International Studies

University of Washington

 

 

 

 


February 2, 2018

“Fracturing Families: Adoption for Heirship from Tokugawa to Meiji”

Marcia Yonemoto

Professor of History

Director, Graduate Teacher Program

University of Colorado-Boulder

 

 

 

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February 9, 2018

“Scales of History: Resonant Vibration between Family History and Global History”

Shunya Yoshimi

Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies

University of Tokyo

 

 

 

 

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February 27, 2018

“History and Hardship of the Japanese Immigrants to Canada”

Sherri Kajiwara

Director and Curator

Nikkei National Museum

 

 

 

 

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March 2, 2018

“The Family in Early Modern Japan: Looking for the Logic of Exceptional Choices”

Mary Elizabeth Berry

Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita

Department of History

University of California-Berkeley

 

 

 


March 29, 2018

8th Annual History Department Burge Lecture

“Illumination and its Discontents: Electricity Theft and the Political Economy of Japanese Energy”

Ian Jared Miller

Professor of History

Harvard University