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Global History Seminars in Osaka: 2003-4 2005 2006 2007 │ 2008

Global History Workshops in Osaka

 


 

1st Global History Workshop

Global History in Asian Perspectives

16-7 September 2003 in Toyama and Uozu

 

Toshiaki Ojima (Kanagawa College of Art)

The World of the Sea of Japan mirrored in jade

 

Tsukasa Mizushima (University of Tokyo)

Global History and South Asian Networks

 

Andrew Porter (KLC, University of London)

Britain's Empire and Globalization

 

Seiichirou Yoshizawa (University of Tokyo)

Some Aspects of Global History in the Recent Historiographies on China

 

Toshiyuki Miyata (Tenri University)

Tan Kim Ching and Siam "Garden Rice": The Rice Trade between Singapore and Siam in the late Nineteenth Century

 

Shigeru Akita (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)

From Imperial History to Global History: Searching for History of Economic Relations

 


 

2nd Global History Workshop

Globalization in Northeast Asia in the 20th Century

 

Part 1: From the Harbin Station: Globalization goes West

25 June 2005 at Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University

co-organized by the Association of Modern Chinese History

 

David Wolff (Woodrow Wilson Center, USA and Seikei University)

Globalization and the Soybean: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives

 

Takako Ueda (Kinki University)

Chinese network in Northeast Asia: Its growth, decline and revival

Comment by Shuji Matsuno (Ritsumeikan University)

 

 

Part 2: To the Harbin Station: Globalization comes East

26 June 2005 at Nakanoshima-center, Osaka University

co-organized by the Association of Russian-East European History

 

David Wolff (Woodrow Wilson Center, USA and Seikei University)

To the Harbin Station, 1898-1920

Comments by Eisuke Kaminaga (University of Tokyo) and Yukimura Sakon (Hokkaido University)

 


 

3rd Global History Workshop

Global History and Asia/Europe

14-15 January 2006 at Nakanoshima-center, Osaka University

 

Juergen Osterhammel (University of Constanz)

"Civilization" and the "Civilizing Mission" as Keys to Nineteenth-Century World

Comment by Wolfgang Schwentker (Osaka University)

 

Kaoru Sugihara (Osaka University)

The Emergence of a Resource-saving Path of Economic Development in East Asia

Comment by Shigeru Akita (Osaka University)

 

Robert Bickers (University of Bristol)

Shanhailanders and others: British communities on the China coast, 1843-1954

Comment by Toru Kubo (Shinshu University)

 

Tsukasa Mizushima (University of Tokyo)

Institution as Social Grammer: Colonial Land System in India and Malaysia

Comment by Tomotaka Kawamura (Toyama University)

 


  

4th Global History Workshop

20 April 2006 at Graduate School of Letters Osaka University

co-organized by Economic History Research group of Osaka

 

Jan Luiten van Zanden(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Wages, Prices, and Living Standards in China, Japan, and Europe

 

Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)

Wages and Incomes as Indicators of the Standard of Living: Early Modern England and Japan Compared

Comments by Chiaki Yamamoto (Kansai University) and Kounosuke Odaka (Housei Universitry)

 

21 April 2006 at Nakanoshima-center, Osaka University

 

Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Girlpower: The European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period

Comment by Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)

 

Toru Kubo (Shinshu University)

History of East Asian Cotton Industry in the 20th Century

Comment by Shigeru Akita (Osaka University)

 

22 April 2006 at Kyoto Sangyo University

co-organized by Association of Dutch History

 

Jan Luiten van Zanden(Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Common workmen, philosophers and the birth of the European knowledge economy. About the price and the production of useful knowledge in Europe 1350-1800

 


  

5th Global History Workshop

America’s Wars and the Making of the World Order

15-16 July 2006 at Kansai University

co-organized by Research group of Prof. Kan on American diplomatic history and Institute of Law Studies, Kansai University

 

Satoru Mori (University of Tokyo)

The Vietnam War’s Impact on the Special Relationship: Johnson-Wilson Years

 

Andrew Rotter (Colgate University)

Just and Unjust Wars: The American Experience, 1892-2004

 

Robert McMahon(Ohio State University)

The Impact of the Korean War and the American Order in East Asia

 

Takeshi Matsuda (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)

Cold War Politics, Racism and 'Soft Power'

 

Hideki Kan (Seinan Jogakuin University)

The Cold War and the Nixon Administration’s Initiative for Sino-American Rapproachment

 

Masaaki Gabe (Ryukyu University)

The U.S.-Japan Security Relation and the Cold War in Asia

 

Hiroshi Matsuoka(University of Tsukuba)

The Vietnam War and the American Order

 


 

6th Global History Workshop

Maritime Trade and Trading Metropoles: Europe and Asia, 17th to 20th Centuries

30-31 August 2006 in Hamburg

Held at Museum für die Geschichte der Stadt Hamburg, Holstenwall 24, 20355 Hamburg.

Organised by PD Dr Frank Hatje, Prof Toshiaki Tamaki and Dr Klaus Weber,

in cooperation with Prof Dr Franklin Kopitzsch (Arbeitsstelle für Hamburgische Geschichte, Universität Hamburg) and Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle (Hamburg)

 

Franklin Kopitzsch (Universität Hamburg), Key Note Lecture

 

Session I: Economy and Political Order in Europe and Asia

 

Shigeru Akita (Osaka University)

The International Order of Asia and Hong Kong in the 1930s and 1950s from a Comparative Perspective

 

Toshiaki Tamaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)

A Tale of Three Cities – Amsterdam, London, and Hamburg: Dutch Contribu¬tions to the Growth of European Economy

 

Tsukasa Mizushima (University of Tokyo)

The Development of a Port City and Its Impact on Indian Economy: Pondicherry in the mid-18th Century

 

 

Session II: Merchant Networks Going East & Going West

 

Takashi Oishi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

Reaching Kobe, Japan, Along the Chain of Colonial Ports and Settlements: Intra-regional Networks of Indian Merchants from the 1880s to the 1930s

 

Margrit Schulte Beerbühl (Universität Düsseldorf), Klaus Weber (The Rothschild Archive, London)

Central Europe’s Informal Atlantic Empire? German Merchants in London, Cadiz, Bordeaux and the Caribbean (c. 1650 - 1850)

 

Jorun Poettering (Universität Hamburg)

Hamburg’s 17th-Century Admiralty Toll-Books: Investigating the City's Foreign Merchants

 

 

Session III: Imperial and Neutral Maritime Ports

 

Miki Suguira (Tokyo International University)

The Merchants’ Divisions of Functions and Specialization in Early Modern Amsterdam in a Comparative Perspective

 

Silvia Marzagalli (Université de Nice)

Strengths and Weaknesses of 18th-century Atlantic trade: the Case of Bordeaux

 

Frank Hatje (Universität Hamburg)

Liberty, Neutrality, and Trade: Hamburg, 17th to 19th Centuries

 


 

7th Global History Workshop

Impact of ‘China’ and International Order of East Asia

11 November 2006 at Senri Life-Science Center

co-organized by Project team on Contemporary China at Osaka University of Foreign Studies

 

Manabu Shimizu (Sophia University)

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Transformation of Central Eurasia

Comment by Akihiro Iwashita (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University)

 

Mihoko Kato (Hokkaido University)

The formation of multipolar world’and Asia-Pacific in Russian diplomacy: policies towards China and Southeast Asia

Comment by Humio Goto (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)

 

Yu-Ming Hsu (National Dong Hwa University)

Postwar dealings and An attempt of Reorganizing Regional Politics: Taiwanese Policy to Ryukyu Island in the 1940s and 50s

Comment by Hotoshi Tanaka (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)

 

Zhu Yingquan (Nanjing University)

Peaceful Rise of China and International Relations in Asia

Comments by Tsutomu Himeno (Osaka University) and Yukimura Sakon (Hokkaido University)

 

Zhu Dong Qin (Huaqiao University, China)

New Overseas Chinese in contemporary China

Comment by Kazuaki Tsutsumi (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)

 

12 November 2006 at Nakanoshima-center, Osaka University

 

Zhu Yingquan (Nanjing University)

Economic Globalization and International Relations(経済全球化与国際関係)

Comment by Toru Kubo (Shinshu University)

 

Norihisa Yamashita (Hokkaido University)

From World-System Analysis to Global History

Comment by Shigeru Akita (Osaka University)

 

15 November 2006 at Graduate School of Integrated Sciences, University of Tokyo, co-organized by the Association of Contemporary China Studies

 

Zhu Yingquan (Nanjing University)

Economic Globalization and International Relations(経済全球化与国際関係)

comment by Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)

 


 

8th Global History Workshop

Global History and Chinese History

13-14 January 2007 at Nakanoshima Center, Osaka University

 

Kent G. Deng (London School of Economics)

Miracle or Mirage ? : Foreign Silver, China’s Economy and Globalization from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

Comment by Akinobu Kuroda (University of Tokyo)

 

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna)

World History and Chinese History: 20th Century Chinese Historiography between Universality and Particularity

Comment by Shin Kawashima (University of Tokyo)

 

Wolfgang Schwentker (Osaka University)

The Growth of the Mega-cities in the Twentieth century

 

Toru Kubo (Shinshu University)

Development of Cotton Industry in Postwar Hong Kong and Taiwan

 

Kaoru Sugihara (Kyoto University)

Energy Use and the East Asian Path of Economic Development

 

15 January 2007 at Housei University

co-organized by NPO-IF Research Institute of World History and the Research Group on the 1980s

 

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik (University of Vienna)

World History and Chinese History: 20th Century Chinese Historiography between Universality and Particularity

Comment by Toru Kubo (Shinshu University)

 

15 January 2007 at Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University

 

Kent G. Deng (London School of Economics)

The State and Market in China’s Traditional Maritime Sector

Comment by Atsushi Aoki (Osaka University)

 

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