Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)
Past Events
Rethinking Religion in Meiji Japan (Tanaka Symposium) (Organised by Dr Chinami Oka, June 2023)
Missing Bodies, Missing Voices (Organised by Alice Baldock and Chiara Comastri, March 2023)
Reopening the Opening of Japan (Organised by Dr Manimporok Dotulong and Dr Lewis Bremner, 2018)
Ecologies of Knowledge (Organised by Dr Eiko Honda and Dr Alice Freeman, 2017)
News and Announcements
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet writes "Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History" for the Centre for Intellectual History Blog
Natalia Doan discusses her research on Japanese television
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet delivers 2024 Kellogg Lecture at Amherst College, U.S.A., May 9
Warren Stanislaus presents at 5th CGA & GPS Young Scholars Symposium “Asia and the World”
Manimporok speaks about ‘The Rest, the West, and the Ugly’ at Royal Irish Academy, International Affairs Conference, Dublin, 1 May
Joel Littler gives talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 8 February 2024
Joel Littler gives guest lecture at Mahidol University, MUIC titled "What's the Point?" Nihilist Democracy in Late-Meiji Japan
Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi receive ICAS book prize for their work on Japan's Russia
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet wins the 2023 Ivan Morris Prize for his MSc dissertation
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet exhibits the ‘Endless Book’ at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr Chinami Oka organises 5th Tanaka Symposium: Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan
Publications
Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi (eds.) Black Transnationalism and Japan, Leiden University Press (2024)
Joel Littler, "A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909," in Modern Asian Studies (2024)
Xiangming Chen, "Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan" in Journal of Art Historiography (2023)
Chui-Joe Tham, 'The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan', in Modern Asian Studies (2023)
Eiko Honda, 'Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892' in Modern Asian Studies, 1-30.
Warren Stanislaus, "From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain" in Japan Forum (February, 2022)
Dr Natalia Doan, “African America and Japan” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (March 2022)
Chinami Oka, "Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States", The Historical Journal (April, 2022)
Alice Baldock, "Body (of) Knowledge: Women, the Body, and Dance in Postwar Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (January, 2022)
Manimporok Dotulong, "Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan," Past and Present (January, 2022)
Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi (Cambria Press, 2021)
Natalia Doan, "Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," Journal of Social History (Fall, 2021)
Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination by Nadine Willems (Leiden University Press, 2020)
Yu Sakai, "Survive to be critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘masquerading’ media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905," War in History (June, 2020)
Eiko Honda et al., "Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19" in Journal for the History of Environment and Society (2020)
People
Alice Baldock
Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
Eiko Honda
Sho Konishi
Mateja Kovacic
Manimporok
Warren A. Stanislaus
About
Since its inception in 2008, the Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW) has fostered a community of intellectuals whose research touches on a wide range of themes, topics, and timescales in Japanese history. The OJHW has been especially committed to the development of innovative approaches in global and transnational history. With an ever-growing number of doctoral researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and affiliated researchers, the OJHW is a burgeoning centre of expertise that continues to generate new understandings of East Asia and beyond. Its members have produced research that has appeared in journals ranging from Modern Asian Studies and The Journal of Asian Studies to The Historical Journal, Past and Present, and The American Historical Review. The OJHW continues to host international conferences that bring together specialists in Japanese history and many others working across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Beyond academia, the OJHW is engaged in a range of outreach and service activities. It strives to bridge the gap between the ivory tower and the general public, working with nonprofit organisations, artists, farming communities, and grassroots activists. The work of OJHW members has appeared in sites ranging from local newspapers to major international events such as the Venice Biennale.
Co-conveners 2024-25: Federica Costantino and Maggie Bryan
Convener 2023-24: Joel Littler
Co-conveners 2022-23: Alice Baldock and Chui-Joe Tham