Why Does Japanese Fertility Remain So Low? Lessons from a Misguided Policy Approach. Japanese government policies to increase mothers’ labor force participation and simultaneously raise the country’s very low birth […]
Yize Hu will be presenting “Neoliberal Technocracy in 1980s’ Japan'' in which he will discuss how conservative intellectuals and systems engineers used the systems approach as the epistemological tool to […]
With a panel of invited faculty, we will have a Q&A regarding methodologies that can be applied interdisciplinarily.
Papers will be circulated one week in advance, if you would like to attend but have not received the paper,please email one of the organizers. Feel free to contact us: […]
What was “revolutionary” about Hong Kong’s anti-extradition movement in 2019? This talk assesses the breakthroughs and limits of the historic uprising, against an entrenched colonial hegemony co-produced by British and […]
This workshop will be conducted by Allon Brann, Teacher Support Specialist (Graduate Students) in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation.
Widespread civic duty has emerged as a last bastion against democratic backsliding. Why do some citizens feel a duty to vote, take up arms, and otherwise sacrifice for their democracies? […]
Papers will be circulated one week in advance, if you would like to attend but have not received the paper,please email one of the organizers. Feel free to contact us: […]
The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers […]
What is the relationship between energy and power in the industrial age?In this talk, historian Victor Seow explores this question through his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in […]
Scholarship on racial politics in Japan has tended to take a dichotomous view of Japan as either a culturally homogenous, racially exceptional society where racism does not exist or a […]
Paul Kreitman’s research interests include environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. He received his PhD in History from Princeton University in 2015, with a […]