[KS] 4th Enemy Encounters Webinar “Samurai Nation: Global Views of Japan”

[Noordam, Dr. Barend]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for information about the fourth session of the 2024-2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University, Germany. As previously announced the Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 webinar series has come to a close, but it will be succeeded by this new webinar series.


“Samurai Nation: Global Views of Japan from the 1890s to the Second World War”
Oleg Benesch
(Professor, University of York)

  *   January 22, 2025, 3:00 PM (Heidelberg, CET) via ZOOM.
  *   The webinar will be recorded, but not the question time.
  *   If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de>.

In this session, Oleg Benesch (Professor, University of York) will share his thoughts on global perceptions of Japan from the late nineteenth century until the Second World War:



Today, the samurai is a global icon and one of the best-known symbols of Japan. This talk examines the evolution of the samurai figure in the decades between the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the end of the Second World War in 1945. During this fifty-year period, the samurai image was reinvented in the service of nationalism within Japan, while also becoming highly influential in foreign depictions of Japan. This talk examines uses of the samurai image in other countries during these decades, with a focus on changing views of Japan as ally or enemy in various contexts.



BACKGROUND

For more information about the Research Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”, please go to our website  https://ambivalentenmity.org/.
This project has received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

Kind regards,



Barend Noordam



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Dr. Barend Noordam

RTG Ambivalent Enmity | Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies | HCTS

Karl Jaspers Centre

Voßstr. 2 | Building 4400 | Room 009

69115 Heidelberg, Germany



Tel: +49 (0) 6221 544082

E: barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de

W: https://ambivalentenmity.org/people-2/post-doctoral-research-fellows/

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