The goal of this workshop is to probe into new directions in colonial history of modern Japan. It will seek to challenge the contours of the field by looking at the trans-war history of Japanese settlers in Manchuria, social history of colonial...

The conference will use the early modern and modern history of Japan as a site to explore the questions of craft and vision in the age of global history. Our goal is to pursue convincing new narratives told outside of the nationalist...

Workshop description Envirotech is a field of research emerging at the intersections of technology and environmental history. This workshop proposes to probe into the environment-technology interface in the context of modern...

Andrew Walder (Stanford University) AbstractAs the Mao era, and in particular the Cultural Revolution fade in memory, its history has fallen out of focus and has been infused with myth. Drawing on his recent book, China Under Mao: A Revolution...

 Christopher L. HILL, Professor, University of Michigan, will give a conference. He is invited to speak at the seminar of Centre Japon (EHESS), on the 17th of May 2018.AbstractThe Japanese novelist Endô Shûsaku and the Martiniquan anticolonial...

AbstractIn the years following the death of the autocratic ruler Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), the flow of gossip surrounding political leaders in China’s urban spheres revealed an open, disorderly yet robust arena full of competing voices, agendas, and...

The Fondation France-Japon de l'EHESS (FFJ) is pleased to present its joint workshop co-organized with the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, and the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB). The FFJ promotes academic...