Felicia and Floris participate in a Workshop at Durham University
On October 30th Felicia and Floris took part in the online workshop ‘Questions and Themes in the Research in the History of East Asia.’ The workshop was organised by the Department of History at Durham University in part to coincide with the research visit by Professor David Howell (Harvard).
The workshop provided a wonderful platform for researchers to not only present their own research, but also to become more acquainted with research outside of their own discipline. Not only did the workshop, through its geographical focus bring together scholars working on a wide range of topics such as the environment, transnational history, Medical studies and the History of philosophy, it also forged interdisciplinary connections by incorporating researchers from fields such as Literature, History, and Media Studies.
At the workshop Felicia presented the overview of the project and how this relates to current research on East Asia. Floris, though involved with the Q&A on the project, presented on his own research on rōnin and the creation local status in rural Japan.
The workshop presented a wonderful opportunity to listen to some of the exciting new research being conducted on East Asia, and the enthusiasm the participants showed for the project generated numerous questions and avenues of inquiry we’ll be excited to explore in the future.
Below is a list of the participants and their talks:
John Lee, The Environmental Aftermath of the Imjin War
Sare Aricanli, Changing Meanings within Medical Texts in China and Japan
Floris van Swet, Shifting Status: Rōnin and the creation of local status groups in Tokugawa Japan
William Schaefer, Patch, Line, Grid: Wang Youshen’s Urban Ecological Mosaics
Chris Courtney, A Century in the Furnace: Living with Heat in Wuhan 1920-2020
Felicia Gottmann, Migration, Adaptation, Innovation 1500-1800: A New Global History Project
Nick McGee, “Freeing” the Chinese Migrant: Empire and Diaspora in 19th Century China
Dario Lolli, Dispositives and Dispositions for Media ‘Extension’: Licensing Cultures in Japan and Beyond
Aaron Moore, Fantastic Empire: A Discursive Archaeology of the Future in Modern Japan, 1900-1945
Adam Bronson, Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy
Hansun Hsiung, Materializing the Mind: Thoughtography, c. 1910-68