| DATE: | Friday, March 19, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 1:00-6:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House |
| FORMAT: | Joint Colloquium |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, IEAS |
1:00 pm
1:15 pm
"The Intellectual Impact and Legacy of Kaikoku"
Naoaki Hiraishi (University of Tokyo)
2:15 pm
"The Origin of Punctuality and the Evolution of Modern Japanese Society"
Takehiko Hashimoto (University of Tokyo)
"How Did Modernity Alter the Japanese Sense of Embodiment?"
Shigehisa Kuriyama (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
"Religious Conversion Across the Tokugawa-Meiji Divide"
Yosuke Nirei (History, UC Berkeley)
3:45 pm
Coffee Break
"Engendering National Strength: Transformations of Gender in the Post-Restoration Army"
Sabine Frühstück (UC Santa Barbara)
"To Make Japan Scientific"
James Bartholomew (Ohio State University at Columbus)
"Education in Mid-19th Century Japan: Did Change in America Bring Change to Japan?"
Akira Tachikawa (International Christian University, Japan)
5:30 pm
"Kaikoku in Comparative and Contemporary Perspective"
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of relations between Japan and the United States.
Jointly sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office, Center for Japanese Studies, and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
