Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)
Events
Hilary 2023
All titles are TBA
Week 2: Manimporok Dotulong
Week 5: Lukas Heller
Week 6: Margaret Bryan
Week 7: Johanna Momm
Week 8: Hiroaki Yoshikawa
Week 8 (10th-11th March): Conference, 'Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’ https://www.missingbodiesmissingvoices.com/
Michaelmas 2022
Week 1
Thursday 13th October 12-1PM GMT: Introductory Session
Week 2
Wednesday 19th October 12-1PM GMT: Tomajin Morikawa-Fouquet, 'Anarchist Deracialization and Hirano Imao in Transwar Japan (1920–1970s)'
Week 6
Wednesday 16th November 12-1PM GMT: Federica Constantino, Title TBC
Week 7
Wednesday 23rd November 12-1PM GMT: Xiangming Chen, ‘Curators of China Knowledge: Morokoshi meisho zue and Kyoto-Osaka Cultural Networks in Late Tokugawa Japan'
News and Announcements
Alice Baldock, Chiara Comastri and Sho Konishi organise conference: 'Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’, 10th-11th March 2023
Pia Jolliffe Presents on 27th February, University of Cambridge East Asia Seminar Series: "Children and emotions in the collective memory of the Hidetsugu incident (1595)"
Manimporok Dotulong gives talk at Cornell University, 23rd Feb 2023
Pia Jolliffe presents on 14th February, Middlebury-CMRS Oxford Humanities Program: "Transnational Relations and Young People’s Intellectual lives: The Tenshō Embassy 1582-1590"
Manimporok Dotulong speaks at Transnational and Global History Seminar, Oxford (13th February 23)
Olga Khomenko speaks at Nissan Seminar (9th February 23): ' Ivan Svit and Ukrainian - Japanese collaboration in Manchuria,1922-1945'
Manimporok Dotulong presents paper at Colloque Global Japon(s), EHESS, Paris, 9th Feb 2023
Chinami Oka speaks at Nissan Seminar (2nd February 23): 'A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States'
Pia Jolliffe presents "Children and emotions in a changing world: Japan 1549-1650", 17 January, St Paul's Girls' School
Joel Littler speaks at The 4th ISGS Global Seminar 地球社会統合科学府 第4回グローバルセミナー : 'Meiji Civil War Losers in Noncolonised Asia: Miyazaki Tōten’s Siamese Sojourn (1877-1896)'
Dr Olga Khomenko presents ' Cover of 'The Call of the Ukraine' journal Ivan Svit: creating Ukraine in China (1922-1948)'
Publications
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
Manimporok Dotulong
Eiko Honda
Pia Maria Jolliffe
Sho Konishi
Mateja Kovacic
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-convenors 2022-23: Alice Baldock and Chui-Joe Tham