Conferences

A two-day international conference held at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and Maison Française d'Oxford that examines the transnational formations of anti-imperial non-state knowledge between two metropolises in Japan and France.

Through a non-state transnational approach to Hokkaido, this conference will challenge the prevailing view of the islands as objects of colonisation and exploitation, recasting them as subjects of history in their own light.

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

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

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.

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

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”.