Schedule

Hiromu Nagahara (MIT)
"Letters from an Accidental Japanologist: Gilbert Attwood and the First Japanese Students in Boston"

Sean O'Reilly (Akita International University)
"Cinematogenic History: Unforgetting the Battle of Tsubakidai"

Jeonghun Choi (Harvard University)
"Learning the West in a Village in Yamagata: Hori Kumatarō's Reading of The Principles of the Rise and Decline of Nations, c. 1897"

Raja Adal (University of Pittsburgh)
"Sinographs and Global Technologies of Writing"

Michael Thornton (Northeastern University)
"Urban Histories of Japan's Empire: Tsuishikari, Tokyo, and the Ainu"

Amin Ghadimi (Osaka University)
"Labor and Imperial Democracy in the 1885 Ueno-Hibiya Riot"

Merle Kartscher (Harvard University)
"The Letters of a Japanese Woman in 1936, and Her Surprisingly International Love Life"

Gene Kim (Harvard University)
"Japan and the King Crab: An International History"

Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"A License to Kill? The Japanese Army's NCO Manual from 1933, the Banditization of Warfare, and the Roots of the Nanjing Massacre"

Yuting Dong (University of Chicago)
"Neighborhoods in a Colonial Railway Town—A Spatial Analysis of the Interaction of Chinese and Japanese in Shinkyo (1932-45)"

Konrad Lawson (St. Andrews University)
"Kon Wajirō" on Domestic Management and the Design of Everyday"

Bohao Wu (Peking University)
"Brokering the Imperial Heritage: Examining the Spread of the Manchukuo Myth in Postwar Asia"

Sara Kanbayashi (Princeton University)
"The Tragic Death of Sakai Naka: Constructing a Feminist Archive from Military Waste"

Nick Kapur (Rutgers University)
"Conspiracy Reality: The 1961 Sanyū" Incident and the Rebirth of the Japanese Right"

Taro Tsuda (Doshisha University)
"The Conservative Party and the Working Class: the LDP Labor Charter of 1966"

Catherine Tsai (Yale University)
"The Deportation of Liu Wenqing (柳文卿): The Immigration Control Act and the Problem of International Student Rights in Cold War Japan"

Jesus Solis (Harvard University)
"Atomic Autographs: Dark Tourism and ‘Dark Souvenirs’ in Postwar Hiroshima"