Upcoming Events at the Donald Keene Center
If you are in New York city in the next few months, you might want to check out the spring schedule for the Donald Keene Center for Japanese culture at Columbia...
Category: Events
“Early Modern” Periodization
I participated in a symposium on February 1st hosted by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Institute, on the topic of early modern periodization in East Asia. It w...
Korean history talks: January-February 08
Some very interesting Korean history talks coming up in the next few months. Obviously to attend them all one would need the sort of jetsetting lifestyle that i...
Exhibition: 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 2007.11.09 – 2008.02.03
There is a wonderful photo exhibit, 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 at the Ilmin museum of art right next to 광화문 station of the works of 정해창, whose 1929 exhibition was t...
Event: Tokyo DIJ Presentation
Passing on this announcement of the February DIJ presentation: DIJ History & Humanities Study Group Wednesday, 6 February 2008, 18:30 at the German Insti...
2007: Japan Top Ten Year in Review
OK, fellow bloggers and Japan-watchers, I’d like to propose that we participate in the mass hysteria that is the year-end-review list. What media stories ...
Two talks this week
A couple of very interesting talks coming up at short notice for anyone who happens to be around in LA or Seoul in the next couple of days (or perhaps both if y...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
Tombs on Tuesday
It’s been a good week for archaeology in the news, it seems: Liao tombs in Mongolia, of course Ming-era Imperial (eunuch) tombs near Beijing
To Stab a Historian
I have been compiling notes and comparing various narratives of modern Japanese history in preparation for my orals. It is easy to lose touch with the bigger pi...
Symposium Commemorating the Completion of the Occupation Period Magazine Article Database
The Prange Archive online magazine article database for the occupation period was an absolutely essential tool for me in my most recent research project. If you...