Conferences

The two-day international conference seeks to promote renewed historical understandings by revisiting the “Opening of Japan” as an aspect of the birth of “modern Japan”.

An international, digital conference examining the history of transnational exchange between Black and Japanese people around the world.

A two-day international conference centering on historical actors whose movements and words can deepen, challenge and change the accepted conceptual and chronological orders of historical knowledge of postwar Japan.

This symposium explores how creative religious knowledge and practices changed and challenged the concept of religion in Japan between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This interdisciplinary conference explores Manchukuo-the so-called "puppet state" created by Japan in occupied Manchuria-not from the perspective of the empire, but from the ground up.

This symposium explores new approaches to Japanese culture, society, and literature by examining Tohoku (northeastern) Japan in a global context.