Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015
Mon 12 October 2015 - Mon 30 November 2015
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of
Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Monday, 12 October 2015
“Cosmopolitan Culture in Imperial Japan”
Dr Jordan Sand, Georgetown University, in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Monday, 19 October 2015
“From ‘Sacred Cow’ to ‘Kobe Beef’: A Bovine Perspective on Japan’s Modern Revolution”
Dr Daniel Botsman, Yale University
Monday, 26 October 2015
“A Story Untold: Japanese Comic Storytelling (Rakugo) During World War II”
Dr Matthew Shores, University of Cambridge
Monday, 2 November 2015
“Interrogating Agency in Japanese War Bride Narratives”
Dr Linda Flores, University of Oxford
Monday, 9 November 2015
“The End of Catching Up With the West and Its Impact on Education Afterward”
Dr Takehiko Kariya, University of Oxford
Monday, 16 November 16, 2015*
“The Burma-Siam Death Railway and the British War Crimes Trials at Singapore”
Dr Yuma Totani, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Monday, 23 November 2015*
“Intimate Rivals: Japanese Domestic Politics and a Rising China”
Dr Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
Monday, 30 November 2015*
“Japanese War Guilt and Sino-Japanese Relations in the 1970s”
Dr Robert Hoppens, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
All seminars start at 17:00 and take place in Rooms 8 and 9
in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.
* This event is co-sponsored and supported by the European Research Council-funded “War Crimes and Empire” project directed by Dr Barak Kushner.
The Department of East Asian Studies acknowledges the financial support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation for some of the Japan-related seminars.
For futher information contact:
Dr Barak Kushner
University Reader in Japanese History
bk284@cam.ac.uk
Dr Matthew Shores
University Lecturer in Japanese
mws42@cam.ac.uk
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge, CB3 9DA
Cost: free
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Enquiries: Dr Matthew Shores Website Email: mws42@cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223-335173
Timing
All times
Mon 12 October 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 19 October 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 26 October 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 2 November 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 9 November 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 16 November 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 23 November 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mon 30 November 2015 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |