Japanese History / Studies

The National Trust for Scotland is pleased to invite papers for the first Morton Photography Symposium, to be held on Tuesday 9^th April, 2019 at Broughton House & Garden, Kirkcudbright:

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Recent scholarship has uncovered new histories of women’s participation in professional photography beginning with its introduction to Japan circa 1848. Yet there remains a tendency in scholarship on the history of Japanese photography to think of women’s camera work as separate: its production either driven by gendered motivations or its participation limited by supposed social, physical, and technical limitations that women face.

The Contemporary Japan Group at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science

(ISS, or Shaken), welcomes you to a lecture by

Paper proposals are being sought for the panel, “Recovering the History of Women in Japanese Photography” to be held at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, from March 21-24, 2019 in Denver, Colorado.

The Contemporary Japan Group at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science

(ISS, or Shaken), welcomes you to a lecture by

Dear colleagues,

The CAAS Unit at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Institute of Japan Studies) is pleased to announce a book review workshop on Dr Martyn Smith's recently published Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan (2018, Bloomsbury).

29 June 2018 (Fri.) 18:00～20:00
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, AGORA Global 3F Project Space 1

You are cordially invited to the next session of the DIJ History and Humanities Study Group on Monday, 2 July 2018, 18.30 h at the DIJ Tokyo.

David W. Johnson (Boston College), will give a talk on:
Fūdo 風土: From Ordinary Term to Philosophical Concept

Date:Friday, July 20, 2018

Time:7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)

Speaker: Nancy Snow, Pax Mundi Professor of Public Diplomacy, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies and Adjunct Fellow at ICAS

Moderator:Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS

Admission:Free. Open to the public.

Language:English

Date:Monday, July 9, 2018
Time:7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall 1F Parliament
(access:http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Dr. Giulio Pugliese, Lecturer in War Studies at King’s College London
Moderator:Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS
Admission:Free. Open to the public.
Language:English