The Global Asia Research Center holds a special lecture by Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History at Georgetown University.
Title: Emplotting the Japanese Empire 帝国日本：筋書き化の問題
Lecturer: Jordan Sand (Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University)
Lecture 1, December 21 (Wed) 2022
The Japanese Colonial Empire: Problems and Approaches
Time: 06:15 PM～08:00 PM (Japan Time)
Place: 14-403(Waseda Campus) & ZOOM
Lecture 2, January 12 (Thu) 2023
Border-Crossing and Cosmopolitanism in the Japanese Empire
Time: 06:15 PM～08:00 PM (Japan Time)
Place: 14-401(Waseda Campus) & ZOOM
Lecture 3, January 13 (Fri) 2023
The Short Happy Life of the Nation of “Manchukuo”
Time: 06:15 PM～08:00 PM (Japan Time)
Place: 14-403(Waseda Campus) & ZOOM
Language: English（質疑応答等は日本語でも可能）
Contact: globalasia-office [at] list.waseda.jp
Abstract
These three lectures will explore issues in the study, narration, and teaching of the Japanese colonial empire. There has now been a generation of historical scholarship in English, as well as in Asian languages, on the empire. No history of late-nineteenth or early twentieth-century Japan can be written today without recognition of its importance. Yet it remains unclear how it should be incorporated into general narratives of modern Japan. How can we understand the empire as a part of Japan’s modern history—and Japan as a part of the modern history of other nations in Asia and beyond—without viewing it solely through the lens of war, defeat, imperial collapse, and emergence of post-war nation-states? What can we learn—and what should we learn—from trying to understand it without assuming this teleology? As part of an ongoing project to write a new history of modern Japan, these lectures will outline possible narratives, sources, and teaching approaches, and invite participants to contribute to a critical discussion of how to emplot the Japanese empire.
Zoom Meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/97692508011?pwd=RHJhZlZLNTVnVnFqbWs5TUdNazloQT09
Meeting ID: 976 9250 8011
Passcode: sgu