慶應=ライシャワー共同研究プロジェクト（Reischauer-Keio Joint Research Project）
History, Historians, and Public Issues
第1回ワークショップ（2015年）
歴史、歴史家、公的争点
Cosponsored by The Faculty of Law, Keio University and The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University
主催：慶應義塾大学法学部、ハーヴァード大学ライシャワー日本研究所
- Date: December 16 & 17, 2015
- Location: G-SEC Lab. at 6th floor of the East Research Building on Mita Campus, Keio University
See the campus map below and you will find the building as No.3 on the map.
http://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/access/mita.html#prg2
Workshop
Welcome, President Atsushi Seike, Keio University
Welcome, Dean Juro Iwatani, the Faculty of Law, Keio University
Introduction of the Project by Keigo Komamura (Professor of Law, Keio University) and Helen Hardacre (Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University)
Session 1 (30 min.): ” ‘The People with whom Resides Sovereign Power’: Environment, Citizen Activism, and Popular Sovereignty in Postwar Japan”
by Timothy George (Professor of History, University of Rhode Island)
and Saburo Horikawa (Professor of Sociology, Hosei University)
Session 2 (30 min.): “Establishment Constitutionalism in Postwar Japan: Regaining national sovereignty, ‘Incomplete fascism,’ and democracy”
by Franziska Seraphim (Associate Professor of Japanese History, Boston College)
and Tokujin Matsudaira (Associate Professor of Law, Kanagawa University)
Session 3 (30 min.): “Being Active: Guarantees and Limits on Realizing Japan’s Constitution
by Alexis Dudden (Professor of History, University of Connecticut)
and Mina Watanabe
(Secretary General of the Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM)
Break
Students’ Perspectives (15 min.)
Open Discussion (remaining time)
Wrap-up; announcement of next day’s session (Hardacre)
History, Historians, and Public Issues
—On “OPEN LETTER IN SUPPORT OF HISTORIANS IN JAPAN”
Openig: Hardacre (moderator)
The origins of the Open Letter– Dudden (15 min.)
Relevant Contacts between US and Japanese Historians
—George and Seraphim (15 min. for each)
Japanese Commentary on the Open Letter
— Mari Miura (Professor of Politics, Jōchi University)(15 min.)
— Yoshihide Soeya (Professor of Keiō Univeristy)(15 min.)
Students’ Perspectives (15 min.)
Open Discussion (30 min.)
Workshop Wrap-up, final remarks (Komamura).