CANCELLED: Carol Gluck on "Modernity in Common: Japan and World History"

The public guest lecture by Professor Carol Gluck has unfortunately been cancelled.

The 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.  Here I 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.”

Time:3 March 2016, 10:30-12:00
Place: Faculty of Humanities, Room: 24.2.07 

Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History in the departments of History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. A prize-winning historian, she specializes in the history of modern Japan from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with writings in modern social and cultural history, international relations, World War II, history-writing and public memory in Japan and the West. 

Her many publications include Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period; Showa: The Japan of Hirohito; Asia in Western and World History; Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon; Thinking with the Past: Japan and Modern History; Past Obsessions: World War Two in History and Memory (forthcoming) as well as works in Japanese.