The Early Modern “Medieval”Reconstructing Japanese Pasts
October 7 – 8, 2011
University of Michigan
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Kevin Carr
University of Michigan
“When did Fuji Become “Japan”? Visual Representations of the Mountain in Medieval and Early Modern Art”
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David A. Eason
State University of New York, Albany
“The Battles of Kawanakajima: Contested Narrative in the Construction of Seventeenth-Century Military Studies”
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Suzanne Gay
Oberlin College, Ohio
“Kawabata Doki’s Early Modern Framework: Merchant Pragmatism and Continuity”
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Thomas Keirstead
University of Toronto, Canada
“The Romance of the Middle Ages”
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Morten Oxenböll
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
“The Edo Reconfiguration of the Soga Vendetta”
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Morgan Pitelka
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The Early Modern Afterlives of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)”
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Eric Rath
University of Kansas
“An Herb for Reflecting on Hazy Memories: on the Origin of Smoking in Japan”
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Peter D. Shapinsky
University of Illinois, Springfield
“Memories of the Domesticated Pirate”
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David Spafford
University of Pennsylvania
“Family Tradition: Early Modern Warrior Genealogies and the Recovery of an Imagined Past”
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Hitomi Tonomura
University of Michigan
“Appeal of the Battling Warrior Manhood in Early Modern Writings”
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Melanie Trede
University of Heidelberg, Germany
2011–12 Toyota Visiting Professor at CJS, UM“Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: the 1672 Project of Hachiman Engi Handscrolls”
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Reinhard Zöllner
University of Bonn, Germany
“Hi no Maru: the Early Modern Japanese Interpretation of the Flag of the Rising Sun”
Sponsors
- Japan-United States Friendship Commission
- Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
- Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
- College of Literature, Science and the Arts, University of Michigan
- Department of History, University of Michigan
- Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
- International Institute, University of Michigan
- Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan
- Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan
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The University of Michigan.