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Dr Alice Baldock contributes an essay for butoh book

'On Transformation' in Emotional Waves: Butoh and Contemporary Dance by Claude Hofer (Kehrer Verlag, 2025)

Meiji Civil War Losers: Transnational Connectivity Arising from Defeat

JF-GJS Fellow Seminar by Joel Littler and Chinami Oka, 5 Febuary 2026.

Dr Natalia Doan discusses “Samurai at the White House” on C-SPAN

Dr Natalia Doan (MSc DPhil Oxf) recently appeared on C-SPAN discussing her research on the transnational influence of samurai, in a lecture entitled “Samurai at the White House: Harriet Lane and the 1860 Japanese Embassy” and given at LancasterHistory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The C-SPAN recording is accessible at the following link: https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/samurai-at-the-white-house-1860/669037

Dr Alice Baldock discusses butoh with Vangeline, Eugenia Vargas and Natalia Cuellar

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

Dr. Natalia Doan (MSc DPhil Oxf) recently appeared on the Japanese documentary Natalia Doan no Nihon tanbō: Man’en gannen kenbei shisetsu ~ Ibunka ni deau ~, directed by Inoue Haruo.

In this documentary, Dr. Doan discusses her research on the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States and her recent publication in Reopening the Opening of Japan: New Approaches to Japan and the Wider World in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, edited by fellow Oxonians Lewis Bremner, Manimporok Dotulong, and Sho Konishi.

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

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Natalia Doan, Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

Federica Costantino, "'The First Step towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance," in Modern Asian Studies (2025)

Ian Rapley, Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945, University of Hawai'i Press (2024)

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)

Alice Baldock

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies (October 2023-26)

Wadham College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Lewis Bremner

Lecturer, Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Margaret Bryan

DPhil Student

St Cross College

Xiangming Chen

DPhil Candidate in History of Art, Lincoln College

Shang Cheng

DPhil Student

Chiara Comastri

JSPS Research Fellow

Keio University

Federica Costantino

DPhil Candidate in History

The Queen's College

Natalia Doan

Assistant Professor

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zhou Fang

DPhil Candidate in History

Keble College

Lukas Heller

DPhil Candidate in History

Eiko Honda

Assistant Professor in Japan Studies

Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society

Tyuki Imamura

DPhil Candidate in Fine Art

St John's College

Pia Jolliffe

Fellow at Blackfriars Hall; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Kaoruko Kawashima

DPhil Candidate in History

Mansfield College

Sho Konishi

Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History

Mateja Kovacic

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Yonsei University, Underwood International College

Joel Littler

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS)

NYU Shanghai

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate

St. Catherine's College

Arron O'Connor

MPhil Candidate in Japanese Studies 2024–2026

Chinami Oka

Assistant Professor

Nagoya University

Olga Khomenko

British Academy Fellow in Japanese History

Rue O’Reilly

DPhil Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Wolfson College

Alok Ranpise

DPhil Student in History

St Antony's College

Yu Sakai

Assistant Professor in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge

Eiko Soga

Junior Research Fellow

St Anne's College, University of Oxford

Warren A. Stanislaus

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society

NYU Shanghai

Chui Joe Tham

Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Ming Studies

University of British Columbia

News and Announcements

Dr Alice Baldock contributes an essay for butoh book

Meiji Civil War Losers: Transnational Connectivity Arising from Defeat

Dr Natalia Doan discusses “Samurai at the White House” on C-SPAN

Dr Alice Baldock discusses butoh with Vangeline, Eugenia Vargas and Natalia Cuellar

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

Publications

Natalia Doan, Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

Federica Costantino, "'The First Step towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance," in Modern Asian Studies (2025)

Ian Rapley, Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945, University of Hawai'i Press (2024)

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)

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Alice Baldock

Lewis Bremner

Margaret Bryan

Xiangming Chen

Shang Cheng

Chiara Comastri

Federica Costantino

Natalia Doan

Zhou Fang

Lukas Heller

Eiko Honda

Tyuki Imamura

Pia Jolliffe

Kaoruko Kawashima

Sho Konishi

Mateja Kovacic

Joel Littler

Manimporok

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

Arron O'Connor

Chinami Oka

Olga Khomenko

Rue O’Reilly

Alok Ranpise

Yu Sakai

Eiko Soga

Warren A. Stanislaus

Chui Joe Tham