Events

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.

"Queering History: Historical Perspectives on Japanese Queerness and Japanese Perspectives on the History of Queer," taking place in LGBTQIA+ history month, will feature discussions both of queer theory as a lens and method to examine history, and narratives of historical actors who resonate with these categories from the premodern period to the present.

Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2023) is the result of the Meiji Restoration sesquicentennial conference held at St Antony's College in 2019. It rethinks the way in which 'the Opening of Japan' constitutes a historical event that connected the archipelago to the wider world.

A discussion among OJHW members about the state of transnational history and 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.

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”.

How does research on Japan inform ecological practice that is pertinent beyond the framework of area studies, and vice versa? This workshop invites individual papers from Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers for an inter-disciplinary discussion.

This workshop offers an opportunity for a transnational dialogue between scholars and practitioners of Japanese revitalization programmes, and key participants of the Cittaslow movement.