Seminars
2018
77th Global History Seminar
15：00-18：00 23th February 2019
Special Meeting room, Machikaneyama-kaikan, Osaka University
Wolfgang Schwentker (Human Sciences, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University）
„Exploring the Poverty of Others: Kuwata Kumazô, European Labour and Japanese Social Reform, 1895-1925“
Kuwata Kumazô (1868-1932) was a conservative social reformer, co-founder of the 社会政策学会. He spent many years in Europe and published various books on the European labor movements, especially in Britain. As an expert for the solution of social problems he contributed to the first Japanese factory law of 1911. During the war he visited Russia and after 1920 he reported from Europe about the revolutions in Germany and Hungary and the rise of Mussolini.
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グローバルヒストリー研究をめぐる意見交換会―総括と今後の展望
12：00－17：00 16h February 2019
R６０７ Osaka university, Nakanoshima Center
Masashi Haneda（Vice President, Tokyo University）et al.
76th Global History Seminar
14：00-17：00 11th February 2019
1F · Seminar Room B, the Faculty of Law, Osaka University
ResResearch seminar "East Asia and Japan in thest Century: Possibility of History Study
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江沛 (Graduate School of Law / Nankai University, China) "Twice Opening in China since 1840: Comparison and Revelation" (Commentator: Graduate School of Letters, Shigeru Akita)
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宋志勇 (Graduate School of Law / China / Nankai University) "China and Japan Collaborative History Research and Reconstruction of Japan's Policy toward China in the After Judge" (Commentator: Graduate School of Law, Takeshi Takiguchi)
75th Global History Seminar
16：30-18：30 9th January 2019
Shigaku Kyodo Kenkyushitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
Bozhong Li
(Chair Professor of Humanities at Peking University, China)
”The End of the Silk Road”
74th Global History Seminar
16：00-18：30 8th January 2019
Daikaigi-Shitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
（1) Mridula Mukherjee
(Professor of Modern Indian History (Retd.) Centre for Historical Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University)
"Global Implications of the Indian Understanding of and Resistance to Colonialism"
（2) Aditya Mukherjee
(Professor of Contemporary History Centre for Historical Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University)
"The Great Divergence and the 19th Century World"
73th Global History Seminar
(co-organized by The Research Group of Maritime Asian History)
Organizer Ohashi Atsuko (Nagoya University)
16：00-18：00 4th December 2018
Daikaigi-Shitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
Vu Duc Liem
（Hanoi National University of Education, University of Hamburg)
"State and Society in Early Nineteenth Century Vietnam: The Quest for a New History "
72th Global History Seminar
16：30-18：30 6th November 2018
Daikaigi-Shitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
A.G. Hopkins
(Emeritus Professor, University of Cambridge and University of Texas, Austin)
"Rethinking the American Empire"
71th Global History Seminar
16：30-18：30 13th July 2018
Shigaku Kyodo Kenkyushitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
Masahiko Yamada
（OTRI Visiting Researcher, Osaka University and Kyoto Women's University）
Currency and Regional order in the 11th-12th century French Kingdom ーthe cases of Northern France (in Japanese)
70th Global History Seminar
16：30-18：30 29th June 2018
Daikaigi-Shitsu, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
Sun Laichen
（California State University Fullerton, OTRI Specially Appointed Professor, Osaka University,）
"Vietnamese Guns and Chinese Warfare (1550-1683): A Global Approach"
69th Global History Seminar
16：00-18：30 17 May 2018
Nakaniwa Conference room, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
Prof. Alessandro Stanziani
（EHESS and CNRS Paris)
”Before the Great Transformation: small units, labor intensive growth and aristocratic-
bourgeois societies, 18th-19th centuries"
68th Global History Seminar
HEKKSAGON 2018 Osaka Conference related Workshop
“Global Perspectives on the History of Europe and Asia”
Date: 12th April 2018 (Thursday) 9:00—17:00
Venue: Convention Center, Meeting Room 1 (1F),
Osaka University (Suita campus)
・The Early Modern World from Global Perspectives
Chair: Shigeru Akita (Osaka University) 9:00-11:30
(1) Nikolas Jaspert (University of Heidelberg)
“Conversions to Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean”
(2) Dominic Sachsenmeier (Goettingen University)
Between Hegemonies. Global Perspectives on 17th-Century Chinese Catholicism"
(3) Daisuke Furuya (Osaka University)
Comment: Kojiro Taguchi (Osaka University)
Lunch (11:30-12:30 at Ichou-Kaikan)
・The Twentieth-Century Transformation of the International Order of Asia in the 1930s-1950s
Chair: Harald Fuess (University of Heidelberg） 13:00-17:00 (including tea)
(1) Takuma Melber（University of Heidelberg）
“Asia and Europe under Japanese and German occupation in World War II – a short comparison”
(2) Hiroaki Adachi (Tohoku University)
(3) Yasuko-Hassall-Kobayashi (Osaka University)
“We need a command of Japanese! - Flows of knowledge between Japan and Australia during WWII”
(4) Tatsushi Fujihara (Kyoto University)
“Rice Varieties Developed in the Japanese Empire 1930s-1950s”
Comment: Christopher Craig (Tohoku University)
Steven Ivings (Kyoto University)
Organized by Graduate School of Letters and Global History Division, Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative (OTRI), Osaka University
67th Global History Seminar
15：00-18：00 9 March 2018
Nakaniwa Conference room, Graduate School of letters, Osaka University
（１）Prof. Dane Kennedy (George Washington University, US)
“Mobility, Cross-Cultural Networks, and the Struggle for Postcolonial Sovereignty”
（２）Prof. Bala Chandran
(Genēve Institute for International Relations and Development, Switzerland)
“History's global turn: perspectives from rim and region”
66th Global History Seminar
19 January 2018
Special Meeting room, Machikaneyama-kaikan, Osaka University
Toyonaka-campus, Japan (building no. 80 in the campus map)
Osaka-NTU Global History Workshop & Preparation for Book Publication:
“Changing Dynamics and Mechanisms of Maritime Asia in Comparative Perspectives”
