New Directions in the Study of Religion in the ‘Opening of Japan‘
Panel 5 – New Directions in the Study of Religion in the ‘Opening of Japan‘

Esra Almas
Tatars in Interwar Japan: Unlikely Agents of Modernity
Nile Green
A Persianate Japanology? The Indo-Iranian Encounter with Meiji Japan
Chinami Oka
One is Two, Two is One, and Hence, God Is ‘Bi-Sexual’: A Transnational, Religious, and Intellectual History of Arai Ōsui and Civil War Losers in Meiji Japan
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This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com
Date: 11 May 2019, 9:30 (Saturday, 2nd week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Speakers: Dr Esra Almas - Assistant Professor in Translation Studies (Şehir University), Nile Green - Professor & Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History (UCLA), Chinami Oka (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Part of: CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reopening-the-opening-of-japan-150th-anniversary-of-the-meiji-restoration-tickets-60060061260#tickets
Audience: Public
Editor: Manimporok Dotulong