Professor Carol Gluck's February 6 lecture at Portland State University, "Postwar Japan: A Pre-postmortem" was covered in a recent article in the university newspaper, the Portland State Vanguard. The article, titled "Postwar Japan: past or present," lays out Professor Gluck's analysis of Japan's relationship to World War II, noting that Japan is the only country that still … [Read more...]
CANCELLED: Carol Gluck to discuss Japanese women’s constitutional rights and Beate Sirota Gordon at UN event in March
Due to travel restrictions, this event has been cancelled. Click here to view the flyer. … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck delivers keynote address at conference on “Modern Japan in the Comparative Imagination”
Professor Carol Gluck gave a keynote address at an interdisciplinary conference on the comparative imagination in history-writing in Durham, UK. The conference, which was held at Durham University May 9-10, considered how modern Japanese history, literature, and art have been shaped by and understood through comparisons across national and cultural boundaries. Professor Gluck … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck interviewed about the naming of Japan’s new era
Professor Carol Gluck was interviewed by the BBC, Voice of America, Globo Brazil, and others about the new reign name, "Reiwa" announced in Japan on April 1. She also published a column on the subject in Newsweek Japan, April 9, 2019. Click here to read the column in Japanese. … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Speaks at International Conference, Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, spoke at the second installment of Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge, held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on September 20-23. The conference, which had 400 participants from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, sought to deepen explorations of new realities, and long histories connecting Africa and Asia. The conference … [Read more...]
