[PAST EVENT] "Intimate Trauma, Cool Distance: The Photographic Politics of Postwar Japan"

March 3, 2011
3:30pm
Location
Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332
262 Richmond Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Julia Adeney Thomas will give a talk on her forthcoming book, Between Reality and Sex: Japanese Photography in War, Occupation, and After. Educated at Princeton, the University of Oxford, and the University of Chicago, Dr. Thomas is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She has also held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of Michigan. A specialist in modern Japanese history, she is the author of Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the American Historical Association.

The talk is free and open to the public!
Contact

[[hxkita,Hiroshi Kitamura, Associate Professor of History]]