Rethinking the Restoration:
New Approaches to the
Bakumatsu-Meiji Transition
A Workshop at Yale University
4 - 5:30 p.m Opening Reception: Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), Room 211
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 11:30 Panel 1 "Engaging the World:
International Aspects of the Transition"
Daniel Botsman, Harvard University: “Punishment, Extraterritoriality and the Politics of Civilization in the Bakumatsu-Meiji Transition”
Robert Hellyer, Allegheny College: “From Japanese Foreign Relations to A System of Foreign Relations for Japan: The Roles of Satsuma and Tsushima: 1840-1876”
Angus Lockyer, Wake Forest University: “State, Subject, and Spectacle: The Promise and Pitfall of Exhibitions”
Discussant: Ronald Toby, University of Tokyo
11:45 - 12:30 Lunch
12:45 - 2:45 Panel 2 "Embracing the Sacred: Religion and Popular Culture"
Barbara Ambros, Harvard University: “Reinventing the Sacred: The Impact of Local Politics on Shinbutsu bunri at Sagami Ooyama”
Michael Foster, Stanford University: “Strange Games: Monstrous Commodifications and Otherworldly Communications”
Sarah Thal, Rice University: “Imperial Hierarchies: Shrines, Government, and Status in the Meiji Transition”
Discussant: Conrad Totman, Yale University, Emeritus
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 5:00 Panel 3 "Creating a Space: Education, Environment, and Literature"
Brian Platt, George Mason University: “Meiji State Formation as Movement: Bakumatsu Energies and the Early- Meiji 'Local School' Campaign”
Brett Walker, Montana State University: “Subjugating Nature and Wolf Killing in Nineteenth-Century:Japan: From 'Slaves of Living Things' to 'Supreme Spirits of LivingThings' “
Wei Zhuang, Yale University: “Bakin and Shoyo: Rethinking the Transformation of the Japanese Fiction from Edo to Meiji”
Discussant: David Howell, Princeton University
6:00 - 8:00 Buffet dinner at Luce Hall, Common Room
Sunday, November 4 Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 202
9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 Concluding discussion