The Global Asia Research Center holds a special online workshop by Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History at Georgetown University.

〇Title：Teaching and Studying Meiji Japan in the Twenty-First Century

【Lecture 1】The Opening of Japan’s Ports Seen in Regional Context

【Lecture 2】Meiji Industrialization: A Worm-Led Revolution

【Lecture 3】Country to City: Urbanizing Lifeways in the Late Meiji Period

〇Lecturer：Jordan Sand (Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University)

〇Date & time：

〇Language：English

〇Eligible participant： students, faculty members and public.

〇Contact：For Zoom links, please contact globalasia-office [at] list.waseda.jp

Abstract

The 150^th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration passed in 2018. In recent years, a variety of new research has appeared that reframes Meiji Japan. The questions historians ask reflect their contemporary context. Present-day globalization, for example, informs this recent scholarship on the nineteenth century. Our contemporary context is yet more important in teaching. What should students learn today from the study of the Meiji Restoration and of Meiji Japan broadly? What is compelling and important to them? Japan’s global position has changed markedly since the late twentieth century. Changes in Japan and in the world as a whole prompt new questions. This series of three lectures will explore topics in nineteenth-century Japan from the perspective of the twenty-first-century global classroom.