2023-2024 "New Books on Japan" Series

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September 13, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Oishii: The History of Sushi (Reaktion Books, 2021)

Author: Eric Rath, Professor of History, University of Kansas

Discussant: Takeshi Watanabe, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University

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October 8, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

In Close Association: Local Activist Networks in the Making of Japanese Modernity, 1868–1920 (Harvard University Asia Center Press, 2022)

Author: Marnie Anderson, Professor of History, Smith College

Discussant: Anne Walthall, Professor of History Emerita, University of California, Irvine

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November 16, 2023 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Provincializing Empire: Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora (University of California Press, 2023)

Author: Jun Uchida, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University

Discussant: Mark Metzler, Giovanni and Amne Costigan Professor in History, University of Washington

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December 13, 2023 | 6:00-7:30 PM EST

Japan's Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Author: Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University

Discussant: Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Professor of History, University of Color

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January 17, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone (University of California Press, 2023)

Author: Ryo Morimoto, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Discussant: Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

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February 15, 2024 | 8:00-9:30 PM EST

Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Author: Morgan Pitelka, Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Ethan Segal, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University

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March 7, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 PM EST

Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Chicago University Press, 2023)

Author: Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University

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April 11, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train (Stanford University Press, 2022)

Author: Jessamyn R. Abel, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Discussant: Yuting Dong, Assistant Professor of East Asian History, University of Chicago

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April 23, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 PM EST

Demarcating Japan: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855–1884 (Harvard University East Asia Center Press, 2023)

Author: Takahiro Yamamoto, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Discussant: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

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May 9, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM EST

Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity (Harvard University East Asia Center Press, 2022)

Author: Simon Avenell, Professor in the School of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University

Discussant: Robert Hoppens, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley