Selected Articles

Many research papers presented at these workshops have subsequently been published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

2025

Costantino, Federica. “‘The First Step Towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance.” Modern Asian Studies, February 17, 2025, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X24000507.

2024

Kovacic, Mateja. “Hong Kong’s Anime: A Cultural History of Anime in Hong Kong’s Last Decade.” The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 5 (December 2024): 75–112.

Littler, Joel. “A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the Making of Naniwabushi as a Mode of Popular Dissent in Transwar Japan, 1902–1909.” Modern Asian Studies 58, no. 2 (2024): 512–35. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X23000392.

2023

Honda, Eiko. “Minakata Kumagusu and the Emergence of Queer Nature: Civilization Theory, Buddhist Science, and Microbes, 1887–1892.” Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (2023): 1105–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X22000385.

Kovacic, Mateja. “Between Animated Cells and Animated Cels: Symbiotic Turn and Animation in Multispecies Life.” Science as Culture 33, no. 2 (2023): 174–204.

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.jams.v5.1460.

Oka, Chinami. “Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States.” The Historical Journal 66, no. 1 (2023): 101–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X2200005X.

2022

Baldock, Alice Bethany Susan. “Body (of) Knowledge: Women, the Body, and Dance in Postwar Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 81, no. 2 (2022): 365–79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821002266.

Dotulong, Manimporok. “Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan.’” Past & Present 257, no. 1 (2022): 280–317. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab038.

2021

Doan, Natalia. “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy.” Journal of Social History 55, no. 1 (2021): 149–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaa049.

Sakai, Yu. “Survive to Be Critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘Masquerading’ Media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.” War in History 28, no. 4 (2021): 797–824. https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344519871974.

2020

Bremner, Lewis. “The Magic Lantern as a Lens for Observing the Eye in Tokugawa Japan: Technology, Translation, and the Rangaku Movement.” Modern Asian Studies 54, no. 3 (2020): 691–729. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X19000143.

2019

Doan, Natalia. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and The Antebellum African American Press.” The Historical Journal 62, no. 4 (2019): 997–1020. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000050.

2018

Willems, Nadine. “Transnational Anarchism, Japanese Revolutionary Connections, and the Personal Politics of Exile.” The Historical Journal 61, no. 3 (2018): 719–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X1700019X.

2015

Konishi, Sho. “The Science of Symbiosis and Linguistic Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Japan.” Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems (Zagreb) 13, no. 2 (2015): 299–317. https://doi.org/10.7906/indecs.13.2.8.

2014

Konishi, Sho. “The Emergence of an International Humanitarian Organization in Japan: The Tokugawa Origins of the Japanese Red Cross.” The American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (2014): 1129–53.

2013

Konishi, Sho. “Ordinary Farmers Living Anarchist Time: Arishima Cooperative Farm in Hokkaido, 1922–1935.” Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 6 (2013): 1845–87. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000953.

Konishi, Sho. “Translingual World Order: Language without Culture in Post-Russo-Japanese War Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (2013): 91–114.

Rapley, Ian. “When Global and Local Culture Meet: Esperanto in 1920s Rural Japan.” Language Problems and Language Planning 37, no. 2 (2013): 179–96. https://doi.org/10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap.

2011

Konishi, Sho. “The People at Rest: The Anarchist Origins of Ogawa Usen’s ‘Nihonga.’” World Art 1, no. 2 (2011): 235–56. https://doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2011.602711.

2007

Konishi, Sho. “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’: A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress.” The American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007): 101–30. JSTOR.