Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 7:00PM-8:30 PM ET | REGISTER FOR ZOOM
MJHA Roundtable: Remaking Shōgun - Historians Assess
Featured Panelists:
Mary Elizabeth Berry, Class of 1944 Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Berkeley Eleanor Hubbard, Independent Scholar Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Henry Smith, Professor of History Emeritus, Columbia University
In the wake of the latest television remake of James Clavell's celebrated novel Shōgun, a panel of distinguished historians of early modern Japan and England will consider what the shows and novel get right and wrong about history, examine how interpretations of the story and the source material have evolved over time, and look back on nearly 50 years of teaching with (and against) Clavell's tale of an English sailor in late Sengoku Japan.
The Modern Japan History Association is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit organization supported by member contributions.
