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05 Jun 2025 → 26 Jun 2025
Guest lecturer

War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943

05 Jun 2025 → 26 Jun 2025
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    from Thursday 5 June to Thursday 26 June 2025
    See also:
    • Anne Cheng
    Estampe japonaise de style ukiyo-e montrant un officier naval debout sur un pont en feu, au milieu d’explosions, dans une scène héroïque de bataille
    Naval commander Hirose Takeo by Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1904.

    Naoko Shimazu is invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Professor Anne Cheng.

    Abstract

    This is a series of lecture on the history of modern Japan designed to introduce a diverse range of perspectives from the first half of the twentieth century.

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    Program

    Guest lecturer
    14:30 - 15:30

    Japanese War Diaries from the Russo-Japanese War

    Naoko Shimazu
    05 Jun 2025
    War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
    Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    05 Jun 2025
    14:30 - 15:30
    Guest lecturer
    14:30 - 15:30

    The Making of a Heroic War Myth in Modern Japan

    Naoko Shimazu
    12 Jun 2025
    War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
    Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    12 Jun 2025
    14:30 - 15:30
    Guest lecturer
    14:30 - 15:30

    Japan at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference

    Naoko Shimazu
    19 Jun 2025
    War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
    Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    19 Jun 2025
    14:30 - 15:30
    Guest lecturer
    14:30 - 15:30

    Symbolic Diplomacy: Tojo and the 1943 Tokyo Conference

    Naoko Shimazu
    26 Jun 2025
    War and Peace: A Global History of Japan, 1904-1943
    Salle 5, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    26 Jun 2025
    14:30 - 15:30

    See also

    Anne Cheng, chair Chinese Intellectual History

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