Conferences

This page features past conferences and symposia organised or supported by members of the Oxford Japanese History Workshop. For a full list of events, explore the events page.

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International Conference - Reopening the "Opening of Japan"

10 May 2019 to 11 May 2019
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”.
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International Conference - Black Transnationalism and Japan

29 October 2021
An international, digital conference examining the history of transnational exchange between Black and Japanese people around the world.
Missing Bodies Missing Voices Conference

International Conference - Missing Bodies, Missing Voices

10 March 2023 to 11 March 2023
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.
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Tanaka Symposium - Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan

06 June 2023
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.
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International Conference - Re-assembling Manchukuo from Below

09 May 2025 to 10 May 2025
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.
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Tanaka Symposium - Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities

15 May 2025
This symposium explores new approaches to Japanese culture, society, and literature by examining Tohoku (northeastern) Japan in a global context.