Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians

7th Anglo-Japanese Conference of Historians, 11th-14th September 2012

History in British History

Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge


Provisional programme (as revised 30 May 2012)


Tuesday 11th September

1.30pm- Conference registration
2.30-6.00pm: Postgraduate/early career panel featuring British scholars working on Japanese history, and Japanese scholars working on British history

including Japanese four papers:
Tatsuya Koizumi (University of Tokyo), The opium retail system in Hong Kong, 1845-1943
Hisashi Kuboyama (University of Edinburgh), Loyalism and radicalism of Glasgow tradesmen in the age of the American Revolution
Shohei Sato (Waseda University), Secret agreement: the week that changed the Gulf, July 1971
Koji Yamamoto (University of Edinburgh), Capitalism for the public good? Innovations, stereotypes and the culture of 'projectors' in seventeenth-century England


Wednesday 12th September

9.30- Conference registration
10.00-10.30: Welcome & Introduction
10.30-12.40: Panel 1: Medieval historiography (chair: David Bates, UEA)
Keizo Asaji (Kansai University), Short Introduction & Plantagenet Gascony through the chronicles of Matthew Paris Comments by Bjorn Weiler (Aberystwyth) & David Carpenter (KCL)

12.40-2.00pm: Lunch

2.00-5.30pm: Panel 2: Rethinking imperial history (chairs: Naoko Shimazu, Birkbeck College/Philip Murphy, Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
Harumi Goto-Shibata (University of Tokyo), Short Introduction
Miho Matsunuma (Gunma University), Inter-imperial circulation and interpretation of colonial knowledge: translation and comparison of English, French and Japanese writings at the turn of the 20th century
Haruo Tohmatsu (National Defence Academy of Japan), Imperial interregnum? Iraq, Palestine, and Manchuria 1928-1933
Seiichiro Yoshizawa (University of Tokyo), Imperial history in an East Asian perspective
Asahiko Hanzawa (Meiji Gakuin University), Music, food and the Anglo-American Informal Empire: A view from a Japanese


Thursday 13th September

10.00-1.00: Panel 3: Urban history and heritage: artefacts, architecture and towns (chair: Matthew Davies, Institute of Historical Research)
Kaz Oishi (University of Tokyo), Short Introduction
Chikashi Sakashita (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University), Endowed charities and the changing ideas of pubic good in the English town, c.1750-1840
Kota Ito (Tsuda University), Modern vandals?: Contested ideas of heritage in Victorian towns
Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin University), Cultural methodologies of branding Utopia towns

1.00-2.30: Lunch

2.30-5.30: Panel 4: Making history count in modern Britain (chair: Julian Hoppit, UCL)
Kentaro Saito (Kyoto Sangyo University), Short Introduction
Chiaki Yamamoto (Osaka University) and Manabu Ozeki (Okayama University), Agricultural surveys in Japan and England
Ikki Suge (Doshisha University), Logistical management of the Dowlais Iron Company
Takeshi Nagashima (Senshu University), Public health statistics in England and Japan


Friday 14th September

10.00-12.30: Panel 5: Parliamentary records and the political nation (chair: Joanna Innes, Somerville College, Oxford)
Yasushi Aoki (Rikkyo University), Short Introduction
Shin Matsuzono (Waseda University), Who made informal parliamentary records? their authenticity and impact upon the political nation in early 18th century Britain
Harry Dickinson & Bill Speck participating