The Modern Japan History Association (mjha.org) presents a roundtable discussion on "The State of our Field" featuring Sabine Frühstück (UCSB), Carol Gluck (Columbia), Andrew Gordon (Harvard), and Laura Hein (Northwestern). The event is free and open to the public and will be held over Zoom. Pre-registration is required.

Date and Time: Tuesday, October 17, 7:00pm ET / 4:00pm PT / 8:00am JST (Wednesday morning)

Register for Zoom here: https://mjha.org/event-5339441

Event details:

The Modern Japan History Association invites the wider community to a roundtable discussion featuring Sabine Frühstück (Koichi Takashima Professor in Japanese Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara), Carol Gluck, (George Sansom Professor Emerita of History, Columbia University), Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University), and Laura Hein (Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University). Panelists will discuss what they view as promising new directions in the study of modern Japan and Japanese history, classic works of scholarship that have stood the test of time, and areas that still remain under-studied as well as questions that still remain to be addressed.