Events
16 January 2025
The 5th Meet the Author Series, with Professor Martin Dusinberre, is on the horizon. It will take place on 16 January at 10:00 am GMT. Stay tuned for more details!
29 November 2024
The 4th Research Showcase Series, ‘European Trans-Imperial Corporate Cooperation in the French Colonies: The Eurafrican Illusion in Italy and West Germany, 1950–1960’, took place on 29 November at 13:00 GMT, featuring Dr Giovanni Costenaro as the guest speaker.
28 October 2024
Our new Special Lecture Series launched on 28 October, commencing with an inaugural session featuring Professor Jude Lal Fernando as the esteemed guest speaker.
12 September 2024
On September 12, the 4th session of the Meet the Author Series was convened by CTH, during which Dr Chris Suh from Emory University presented his newly published book entitled “The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion” (New York, Oxford University Press, 2023).
9 July 2024
CTH held the 3rd session of our Research Showcase Series, titled ‘Dravidian History: The Transimperial Journeys of a Linguistic, Political, and Racial Artefact’ on 9 July 2024, inviting Professor Shobana Shankar from the State University of New York as a speaker.
28 June 2024
On 28 June 2024, five members of CTH participated in The World History Association’s 33rd Annual Conference in San Francisco, where they organised a panel entitled ‘Currents across Imperial Boundaries: Transimperial Entanglements of Colonialism and Anticolonialism in the 19th and 20th Centuries’. Satoshi Mizutani served as the chair.
The presenters and their titles were as follows:
Tomoki Yamada, “ ‘Anti-imperial Groundwater’ in West Africa: Togolese Anticolonial Petitioning in a Transimperial Nexus, 1918–23”
Eloy Romero Blanco, “Rey Journey and the Transimperial Fighting for Cuba across Empires”
Vicky Shen, “Sweetness and Modernity: Plantation Sugar, the Environment, and the Collapse of a Transimperial Network in the Asia-Pacific”
Aaron Peters, “High-Altitude Pan-Asianism: Japan and Informal Empire in Afghanistan and Nepal, 1919–1940”
23 February 2024
CTH hosted the 2nd session of the Research Showcase Series titled ‘The Possibility of the Nonhuman in Transimperial History: Methodological Inquiry‘ on February 23, 2024, featuring Ms. Vicky Shen from the University of Pittsburgh as a speaker.
30 November 2023
On 30 November 2023, three members of CTH participated in the 66th African Studies Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, where, along with two other participants, they organised a panel entitled ‘Crossing Imperial Boundaries: Transimperial Circulations and Anti-colonial Strategies’.
Tomoki Yamada and Sakiko Nakao presented papers titled ‘Tanganyika and Indians in the Interwar Transimperial Settings: Colonial Aspirations and Anti-colonial Petitioning’ and ‘Africa for Africans and Asia for Asians? An Imagined Transimperial Alliance for Racial Resistance’, respectively. Satoshi Mizutani served as a discussant.
12 October 2023
On 12 October 2023, the Center for Transimperial History held the first session of the Research Showcase Series, where Satoshi Mizutani presented his paper titled ‘The Dual Transimperiality of British Colonial Thought: The Evolution of the Egypt-Korea Analogy under Anglo-Japanese Cooperation’.
8 June 2023
The third session of its ‘Meet the Author Series’, Sakiko Nakao, Nationaliser le panafricanisme : La décolonisation au Sénégal, en Haute-Volta et au Ghana (1945–1962) (Paris: Karthala, 2023).
22 January 2023
The first meeting of our 2022–26 KAKEN project (The theory and practice of ‘trans-imperial history’: towards an open-ended framework of research) was held on 22 January 2023 at Doshisha University.
Yoshihiro Yakushige, ‘Settler colonialism and biblical archaeology in Palestine’
2 December 2022
The second session of the ‘Meet the Author Series’, Kristin L. Hoganson and Jay Sexton (eds.), Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain, Duke University Press, 2020)
28 June 2022
The first session of the ‘Meet the Author Series’ (Samuël Coghe, Population Politics in the Tropics: Demography, health and transimperialism in Colonial Angola, Cambridge University Press, 2022) [mixed personal/online]
3 March 2019
Beyond Comparison: Japanese colonialism from the perspective of transimperial history, an international workshop at Doshisha University
13 January 2019
The 7th JSPS study session
27 May 2018
The 6th JSPS study session
20 February 2018
The 5th JSPS study session
3 December 2017
The 4th JSPS study session
15-16 September 2017
In-Between Empires: Trans-imperial History in a Global Age, an international workshop (closed) held at Humboldt University Berlin
6 July 2017
Rethinking Imperial Histories from the Realm of In-between, a symposium held at Doshisha University
25 June 2017
Beyond Comparison: Japan and Its Colonial Empire in Trans-imperial Relations, Panel presentation at AAS-in-ASIA 2017@Seoul
