ELITES OF MODERN JAPAN / ÉLITES DU JAPON MODERNE

ELITES OF MODERN JAPAN / ÉLITES DU JAPON MODERNE

ELITES OF MODERN JAPAN / ÉLITES DU JAPON MODERNE
Translators, Doctors, Engineers, and Architects
Traducteurs, médecins, ingénieurs et architectes
International workshop - June 4, 2015
EHESS, Salle 640, 6e étage, 190 avenue de France, 75013 Paris
Welcome and introduction
Nicolas Fiévé (EPHE, CRCAO) & Aleksandra Kobiljski (EHESS, CCJ)
Concepts and frameworks
9.30 - 10.30
Guillaume Carré (EHESS, CCJ), Social Margins and the Notion of Elite in Early Modern Japan
Shimizu Yuiichirō (Keiō University), Reformatting Elite in Modern Japan
Translators
10.30 - 12.00
Chair: Fabien Simon (Université Paris Diderot, ICT)
Annick Horiuchi (Université Paris Diderot, CRCAO), Translators of Dutch Books in the Early Nineteenth-century Japan
Ruselle Meade (University of Tōkyō), Translators as Elites in Meiji Japan: The case of Yamagata Teisaburō
Discussant: Fabienne Jagou (EFEO, IAO)
Lunch break: 12.00 - 13.00
Doctors and midwifes
13.00 - 14.30
Chair: Philippe Bourmaud (Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3, LARHRA)
Bernard Thomann (INALCO, CEJ), Occupational health experts in Shōwa Japan
Homei Aya (University of Manchester), Between doctors and local women: midwives in 1950s Japan
Discussant: Annick Guénel (CNRS, CASE)
Engineers and architects I
14.30 - 15.30
Chair: Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
Erich Pauer (University of Marburg), Studying at the Imperial College of Engineering: Lecture Notes & Internship Reports
Benoît Jacquet (EFEO, CRCAO), The Scope of a Profession: Itō Chūta’s Definition of Architecture
Coffee break: 15.30 - 16.00
Engineers and architects II
16.00 - 17.30
Yola Gloaguen (EPHE, CRCAO), Building an Architectural Practice in Interwar Japan: Antonin Raymond’s Tokyo Office
Aleksandra Kobiljski (EHESS, CCJ), Global Before Local: Japanese Engineers & the World Engineering Congress (1929)
Discussant: Adelheid Voskuhl (University of Pennsylvania)
Concluding remarks
17.30 - 18.30
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh), Nicolas Fiévé (EPHE, CRCAO), Aleksandra Kobiljski (EHESS, CCJ),
Adelheid Voskuhl (University of Pennsylvania)
With the support of Join Research Unite CCJ (UMR 8173), Joint Research Unite CRCAO (UMR 8155) and Cluster of Excellence (Labex) Dynamiques asiatiques (DYNASIA)
Workshop venue and amenities are wheelchair-accessible - To register email: [email protected]