Modernity in Common: Japan and World History
The 2013 International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Carol Gluck from Columbia University (New York, USA). This lecture also marks the 20th anniversary of our institute, and will be followed by a reception.
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The 2013 International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Carol Gluck from Columbia University (New York, USA). This lecture also marks the 20th anniversary of our institute, and will be followed by a reception.
The Lecture
Professor Gluck's lecture is based on the dual assumption that just as one cannot tell the modern history of any society in isolation from the world, the history of the modern world can in fact be grasped from the vantage point of any place on the globe. In this instance, the place is Japan. One of a “globeful of modernities,” Japan shares commonalities and connections with other modern societies. At the same time it offers the opportunity to develop ideas about the “modern” based on empirical evidence different from the European experiences that underlay earlier theories of modernity. She will examine four questions frequently asked about modern Japanese history, from the nineteenth century until the present, in order to see how they appear when viewed in a global context -- in the context of "modernity in common".
The programme
16.00 - 16.15 Welcome by Dr Philippe Peycam (Director IIAS)
16.15 - 17.15 Lecture by Prof. Carol Gluck (Columbia University, NY, USA)
17.15 - 17.30 Q&A
17.30 - 18.30 Reception
The speaker
Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History in the Department of History and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University. Professor Gluck writes on modern Japan, twentieth-century international history, World War II, and history-writing and public memory in Asia and the West. Her most recent book is Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, co-edited with Anna Tsing (Duke University Press, 2009). Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History, will be published by the University of California Press in 2013, and Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
