Fw: Memorial conference for Marius Jansen

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From: "David L. Howell" <howell@...>
Marius B. Jansen Memorial Conference: "Early Modern and Modern Japan"

Princeton University
Frist Campus Center, Room 302.

May 12 and 13, 2001

Saturday, May 12th:

09:30-10:30: Opening Tributes: The Making of Modern Japan
Theodore Cook
Julia Thomas
Mark Peattie


11:00 - 12:30: Panel: The Age of Wars and Tokugawa Japan:
(Chair: David Howell)

Daniel Botsman: Inquiries (ukagai) and the Contours of State Power in
Tokugawa Japan.

Philip Brown : Sharing the Pain and Sharing the Gain: Corporate
Landholding in Tokugawa Japan.

Luke Roberts : Life is Precious: The Kirisute Gomen Incident of the
1790s.

Constantine Vaporis: Spatial Consciousness, Martial Conflict and
Political Authority in Edo.

1:30 - 3:00: Panel: Changing Perceptions of Japan in East Asia
(Chair: Yoshiaki Shimizu)

William Atwell: The Tenmei Famine in International Perspective.

Barbara Brooks: The League of Nations and Japan's Traffic in Women and
Children in Asia.

Joshua Fogel: Japanese Visitors to Shanghai in the 1860s.

Yukio Lippit : Painting China in the Tokugawa World.



3:30 - 5: 00: Panel: Modernization' and Modern Japan
(Chair: Sheldon Garon)

David Ambaras: Colonizing the Margins in Imperial Japan.

Gao Bai: Japan's Economic Dilemma: The Institutional Origins of
Prosperity and Stagnation.

J. Victor Koschmann: American Modernization Theory and the Civil Society
School

Gilbert Rozman : The Modernization of Japan Revisited


6:30- 9:00 Buffet Dinner at Frist Campus Center


Sunday, May 13th

09:30 -11:00: Panel: Nineteenth Century Japan & the Meiji Restoration
(Chair: Martin Collcutt)

James Bartholomew : Modern Japan Through the Lens of the History of
Science.

John Breen : Imperial Audiences.

Fred Notehelfer : Rethinking Meiji.

Bob T. Wakabayashi : Marius Jansen and the Meiji Restoration.

11:30 -12:30: Closing Tributes: Marius' Imprint on the Field

Sidney Brown, and others.

For more information, including information on accommodations in the
Princeton area, please contact Richard Chafey at chafey@....
If you plan to attend, an email to that effect to Richard Chafey would
be greatly appreciated (it'll help us make the final plans).