Modern East Asia: Japan

  • Founded
    1960
  • Seminar Number
    445

The Modern Japan Seminar is concerned with the history, politics, society, and culture of Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes interdisciplinary dialogue among historians, anthropologists, sociologists, literary critics and other scholars from the New York area institutions. The seminar meets regularly to discuss a paper from a work in progress by a member or invited speaker. Pre-circulation of papers and discussant comments encourage in-depth discussion and debate.

Seminar Website

Chair
Janis Mimura
Associate Professor, SUNY/Stony Brook, History
janis.mimura@stonybrook.edu

Rapporteur
Timothy Yang
Columbia University, History
tmy2101@columbia.edu

Welcome

Meetings

10/12/2012 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
Hiroshima-Auschwitz Committee and the Globalization of War Memory
Ran Zwigenberg, Hunter College

Discussant: Michael Barnhart , Stony Brook University



11/09/2012 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
The State of Unexception: Japan's War Without Pictures
Julia Adeney Thomas , University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Harry Harootunian , Columbia University/Duke University



12/07/2012 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
Mobilization and its Limits: Popular Songs in Wartime Japan
Hiromu Nagahara, MIT

Discussant: Janis Mimura, Stony Brook University



02/01/2013 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
Abe Kobo
Richard Calichman , City College of New York

Discussant: Christopher Hill , Columbia University



03/01/2013 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
Modernity and War: Expressions of Contemporary Culture in the Novelty Textiles of 1930s Japan
Jacqueline Atkins, Allentown Art Museum

Discussant: Kim Brandt , Columbia University



04/12/2013 Room 918, IAB
6:00 PM
Mahjong in Japan
George Solt, New York University

Discussant: Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Williams College