Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)

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)

Alice Baldock organises butoh performance: Eternity123, 11th March 2023

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)'

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

DPhil Student

Balliol College

Federica Costantino

DPhil Student

The Queen's College

Natalia Doan

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies

Wadham College

Alexandria Dugal

DPhil, 2022

Zhou Fang

DPhil Candidate in History

Keble College

Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico

Faculty of History and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

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 Student

Mansfield College

Sho Konishi

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

Mateja Kovacic

Assistant Professor, Department of Interactive Media

Hong Kong Baptist University

Joel Littler

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brown University, Department of East Asian Studies/Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate

Chinami Oka

Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies

Pembroke College

Olga Khomenko

British Academy Fellow in Japanese History

Alok Ranpise

DPhil student

St Antony's College

Yu Sakai

Assistant Professor in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge

Eiko Soga

DPhil in Fine Art

Warren A. Stanislaus

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society

NYU Shanghai

Chui Joe Tham

DPhil Student

Linacre College

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

Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)

Past Events

News and Announcements

Alice Baldock organises butoh performance: Eternity123, 11th March 2023

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

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)

People

Alice Baldock

Lewis Bremner

Margaret Bryan

Xiangming Chen

Shang Cheng

Chiara Comastri

Federica Costantino

Natalia Doan

Alexandria Dugal

Zhou Fang

Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada

Lukas Heller

Eiko Honda

Tyuki Imamura

Pia Jolliffe

Kaoruko Kawashima

Sho Konishi

Mateja Kovacic

Joel Littler

Manimporok

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

Chinami Oka

Olga Khomenko

Alok Ranpise

Yu Sakai

Eiko Soga

Warren A. Stanislaus

Chui Joe Tham

About

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)'