Early Modern "Medieval": Reconstructing Japanese Pasts

Keynote Speakers:
Noriko Kurushima, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Fumiko Umezawa, Keisen University, Tokyo

Panelists:
Kevin Carr, University of Michigan
David Eason, University at Albany, State University of New York
Suzanne Gay, Oberlin College, Ohio
Thomas Keirstead, University of Toronto, Canada
Morten Oxenbøll, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Morgan Pitelka, University of North Carolina
Eric Rath, University of Kansas
Peter Shapinsky, University of Illinois, Springfield
David Spafford, University of Pennsylvania
Hitomi Tonomura, University of Michigan
Melanie Trede, University of Heidelberg, Germany;
    UM CJS Toyota Visiting Professor, 2011-12
Reinhard Zöllner, University of Bonn, Germany

UM Commentators:
Miranda Brown, Asian Languages and Cultures
Diane O. Hughes, History
George Hoffman, Romance Languages and Literatures
Thomas R. Trautmann, History and Anthropology

Sponsors:
The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies; Japan-US Friendship Commission;University of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Office of Vice President for Research, Rackham Graduate School, International Institute, Institute for the Humanities, and Department of History

The conference is free. Space is limited. Please pre-register.

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