International Workshop “The Qing Dynasty in the 19th Century and "Modernity": East Asia and the West in the Late 19th Century”

Organized by ROLES (RCAST Open Laboratory for Emergence Strategies) of the University of Tokyo

Date and Time: Thu. 9 November 2023, 13:00-16:00(JST)

Venue: The University of Tokyo KomabaⅠCampus（3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo）
Bldg.18, 4th floor, Collaboration Room 3

Language: Japanese

Format: In-person

Registration Required from this Link

Program

Introduction and Discussion: KAWASHIMA Shin, Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Speaker: Thomas Barrett, Postdoctoral Research Associate in East Asian History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / Governing Body Fellow and Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, The University of Cambridge

“Halliday Macartney, the Qing London Legation, and Late Qing China’s Engagement with Diplomatic Norms”

Speaker: HAYAMARU Kazumasa, Project Assistant Professor / Project Research Associate, RCAST, the University of Tokyo
“Shedding ‘Early Modernity’ and Evading ‘Modernity’: The Daicing and its Attempts to Prolong the Status Quo in Nineteenth-century China”

Speaker: FUKUOKA Mariko, Associate Professor, National Museum of Japanese History / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

“Japanese and Siamese Diplomatic Engagement with the West in the 1850s: New Insights from a Comparative Approach”

Discussion: IOKIBE Kaoru, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo