Event

This year's Modern Japan History Workshop is co-sponsored by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday, October 18, 10 am to 5:45 pm. Please spread the word!

Website: http://modernjapanhistoryworkshop2014.weebly.com/

The workshop is free and open to the public. But to have an accurate count of panel attendance and meals, we ask that you register for the event by Thursday, Oct. 9. Due to the University alcohol policy, undergraduate students are not allowed to attend dinner.

Please browse through the Workshop program, biographies of participants, and abstracts and follow the Registration link to sign up for the panels/meals that you plan to attend. See you on October 18!

Participants include (for full descriptions, please visit the website):

•     Eiichiro AZUMA (University of Pennsylvania)
•     Frederick DICKINSON (University of Pennsylvania)
•     Sheldon GARON (Princeton University)
•     Nanyan GUO (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
•     Jooyeon HAHM (University of Pennsylvania)
•     Hikari HORI (Columbia University)
•     Robert KANE (Niagara University)
•     Ayako KANO (University of Pennsylvania)
•     Miriam KINGSBERG (University of Colorado at Boulder)
•     Yayo OKANO (Doshisha University)
•     Yuichiro SHIMIZU (Keio University)
•     Takashi SHOGIMEN (Otago University)
•     Kazuhiro Takii (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
•     Ryoichi TOBE (Teikyo University)

The Modern Japan History Workshop is the premier annual regional assembly of students and specialists of modern Japan along the U.S. northeast corridor.
* This workshop is brought to you by the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto), and the Japan Foundation. Special thanks goes to the Mellon Cross-Cultural Conference Grant Program, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Lauder Institute, the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.