Workshops

Japan’s Long Nineteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Workshop and Practicum

 

University of Michigan Faculty Sponsors: Jonathan Zwicker (Asian Languages & Cultures) and Maki Fukuoka (Asian Languages & Cultures)

 

Faculty Participants: Daniel Botsman (History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Susan Burns (History, The University of Chicago), Katsuya Hirano (History, Cornell University), and Tetsuo Najita (Emeritus, History, The University of Chicago)

 

Overview: The workshop will run for six days (June 7-12, 2010) and will be structured around a series of working papers drafted by the faculty participants. These papers will be pre-circulated and the morning sessions will be devoted to an intensive discussion of the papers with a focus on general questions of method and the framing of lines of inquiry.

 

The afternoon sessions will be practica devoted to hands-on work with faculty and curators with a variety of forms and formats of material related to the study of nineteenth-century Japan drawn from The University of Michigan’s museums and libraries. These practica are intended to highlight the role that archival material plays in the thinking and rethinking of historical material and the central role we envision a sustained engagement with a variety of source material must play in any extended meditation on the narratives of nineteenth-century history. 

 

The workshop will be aimed primarily at graduate students and advanced undergraduates both from The University of Michigan and from other institutions. Limited support for student participants will be available.

 

Click on this link (http://19cjapan.ii.lsa.umich.edu/) to visit the workshop's website and for more registration information.