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The Oxford Japanese History Workshop is a transnational group of postgraduate students, early-career scholars, and senior academics that organises conferences, events, and closed termly workshops, with a particular focus on transnational non-state history. Research presented under its auspices have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and have developed into edited volumes and monographs. More >

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)

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)'

Film Screening: Ainu Hunter, Mon-chan by Eiko Soga + Q& A with Eiko Soga

Alice Baldock, panelist at TORCH Reimagining Performance Network: ‘Embodiment Onstage’ Roundtable

Manimporok Dotulong presents research on the Arafura Zone, Meet the Fellows 2022, Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Alexandria Dugal awarded JSPS postdoctoral fellowship (Tokyo Woman's Christian University)

Eiko Honda takes up Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) position in Japanese Studies, Aarhus University

Alice Baldock

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow

Wadham College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Lewis Bremner

Lecturer, Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Margaret Bryan

DPhil Candidate in History

St Cross College

Xiangming Chen

DPhil Candidate in History of Art, Lincoln College

Shang Cheng

DPhil Candidate in History

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

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

JF-GJS Fellow

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS)

NYU Shanghai

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate in History

St. Catherine's College

Arron O'Connor

MPhil Candidate in Japanese Studies

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 Candidate 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

Warren 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

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)

Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Cambria Press, 2021)

The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2024)

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

Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press, 2024)

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