[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 is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. 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), which won the John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association. Her talk will be based on Between Reality and Sex: Japanese Photography in War, Occupation, and After, a book forthcoming from Harvard University Press.