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DIJ History & Humanities Study Group

The DIJ History & Humanities Study Group was an informal forum for scholars and Ph.D. candidates working in any field of history or the humanities. Since May 2024 it has been part of the DIJ Study Group.

1998

July 1, 1998
Tradition and Law in Conflict: Farm Tenancy Conciliation in Interwar Japan (1924-1938)

Dimitri Vanoverbeke, Kyūshū University

June 3, 1998
Japanese Trade Diplomacy with East Asia: The Bakumatsu Period

Robert Hellyer, Stanford University

May 6, 1998
Children, Consumer Culture, and the Middle Class, 1908-1922

Mark Jones, Columbia University

April 1, 1998
Meiji Philosophers and the State

Michael Burtscher, Harvard University

March 4, 1998
Transforming the Countryside in Postwar Japan

Simon Partner, Duke University

February 4, 1998
Futurism and Dadaism in the Taishō Period

Thomas Hackner, Universität München

January 14, 1998
Philosophy and Practice of Fatherhood in Modern Japan

Harald Fuess, German Institute for Japanese Studies

1997

December 3, 1997
German-Japanese Relations in the Meiji Period

Rolf-Harald Wippich, Sophia University

November 5, 1997
Psychoanalysis and its Ends: The Disappearance of Psychoanalytic Theory and the Rise of National Psychology in 1930s Japan

Jonathan Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz

October 1, 1997
The Birth Control Movement in Prewar Japan

Karen Callahan, University of California, Berkeley

September 3, 1997
Ōyama Shinkō: A Mountain Cult in Early Modern Japan

Barbara Ambros, Harvard University

July 2, 1997
Japan's Ministry of Education: Strategic Schooling and the State

Brian McVeigh, Tōyō Gakuen Tokyo

June 4, 1997
Establishing Education in Early Meiji Japan: The Myth of Monbushō Management

Abby Schweber, Harvard University

May 7 - December 31, 1969
Public and Private: The Secondary Budget in Japan

Kate Ferber, Tokyo University

April 2, 1997
Tanabe Hajime's 'Philosophy of Repentance' and the War Responsibility Debate in Early Postwar Japan

Owen Griffiths, University of British Columbia

March 5, 1997
War and Feminism: Yamakawa Kikue

Beth Katzoff, Columbia University

February 5, 1997
Juvenile Delinquency and Social Reform in Late-Meiji Japan

David Ambaras, Princeton University

January 22, 1997
MAC and the Japanese Miracle: The Case of Public Testing and Research Centers

Jay Tate, University of Carlifornia, Berkeley