Past Events

How Green Was My Night Soil

October 11, 2019

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4:00PM - 5:00PM EDT

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Caltech, Dabney Hall 110

In Person

William Bennet Munro History Seminar, Caltech https://www.caltech.edu/campus-life-events/master-calendar/william-benn…

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「グローバル・ヒストリー」のなかの近世日本 ー環境史と環太平洋世界を例にしてー

Jan 11, 2014

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12:00AM EST

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Tsukuba University

In Person

I will be speaking on global history and how it relates to the study of early modern Japan. I will also spend some time discussing the training of early modern Japanese historians in the United States.

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Excrement in the City, AHA Panel 125 on Tokyo

January 3, 2014

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2:30PM - 4:30PM EST

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Washington, D.C., Marriott Wardman Park, Thurgood Marshall Ballroom West

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Presentation (title TBA), Early Modern Japan Europe Network (Kientzheim, France)

Dec. 13 - Dec 14, 2013

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12:00AM - 12:00AM EST

In Person

European Centre of Japanese Studies in Alsace. In French: Centre Européen d’Etudes Japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA) http://www.premiumorange.com/ceeja/spip/spip.php?rubrique10

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Nicholas Tarling Lecture (Keynote Address) at Biennial Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society at the University of Auckland

Nov 24, 2013

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9:30AM EST

In Person

I'm honored to have been invited to deliver the Nicholas Tarling Lecture at the Biennial Conference of the New Zealand Asian Studies Society, to be held at the University of Auckland on 22-24 November 2013. The conference theme is Environment, Dis...

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Genealogies of Japanese Early Modernity at the AILC/ICLA, Paris

July 22, 2013

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9:00AM - 10:30AM EDT

In Person

Part of a seminar series on "Comparative Early Modernities" (organized by David Porter, University of Michigan) at L’Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée/International Comparative Literature Association congress in Paris, July 18-24. http:/...

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Curiosity and Obsession

April 11, 2013

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4:15PM - 5:45PM EDT

In Person

“Curiosity and Obsession,” discussant for Shigehisa Kuriyama, “Toward an Archaeology of Distraction (2): Curiosity and Distraction,” Reischauer Lectures, Harvard University

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Discussant for a panel entitled Representation from a Distance: Early Modernity, Sinosphere, Japan, at the AAS in San Diego

March 22, 2013

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3:15PM - 5:15PM EDT

In Person

Panel 157, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, California http://www.asian-studies.org/Conference/Panels-by-World-Area.htm#JAPAN

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Edo Period: Politics, Peace, and People, a public lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

March 20, 2013

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1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT

In Person

Step into Japan's classical Edo period, considered the pinnacle of Japanese history and culture. Explore a militarized society at peace, a period of foreign isolation, and the strict social order imposed by the samurai ruling class, all of which evolved...

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Discussant at "Work in Early Modern Japan: Precarious Pasts"

Mar 2, 2013

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12:00AM EST

In Person

http://trianglejapan.org/work-in-early-modern-japan-precarious-pasts/

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Global History at Tsukuba University

Feb 2, 2013

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12:00AM EST

In Person

I will be giving a talk on the possibilities of global history at a workshop aimed mostly at graduate students at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan.

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Peasant Militias and Samurai Longings in the Nineteenth Century

Dec. 8 - Dec 9, 2012

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12:00AM - 12:00AM EST

In Person

Conference on Representations of the Samurai: Imagining Warriors and Warrior Culture in Early Modern Japan, Sophia University

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