National experts on Japan’s history and culture will present lectures during a mini-conference titled “Modern Japan in a Global Context” at Wayne State University.
The event runs from 1 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 2 at the Bernath Auditorium of the David Adamany Undergraduate Library, 8155 Gullen Mall, Detroit. Members of the university community and the general public are invited. There is no fee for attendance.
Wayne State’s Emeritus Academy is sponsoring the event with support from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The four lecturers will include:
- Harry Harootunian, professor emeritus, New York University and the University of Chicago
- Elizabeth Lublin, associate professor, Wayne State University
- William Marotti, associate professor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Marlene Mayo, associate professor emerita, University of Maryland
Harootunian, who has published many books in the field of Japanese historical and cultural studies, has been at the forefront of his field. He will speak on “Specters of Untimeliness in Postwar Japan: Reflections on the Problem of a Second Imperial Restoration.”
Lublin’s first book is Reforming Japan: The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period. She will speak on “Nationalism and the Cigarette Industry in late Meiji Japan.”
Marotti is the author of Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan, as well as articles and book chapters on topics including Butoh dance, Japanese avant-garde music and political protests of the 1960s. His lecture is titled “Shinjuku, Tokyo 1968: Media Panics, Nonconformists, and the Play of Politics.”
Mayo has published over 20 articles or book chapters on modern Japan. Her lecture is titled "Reconciliation and Re-Integration: Eleanor Roosevelt's Encounter with Japan, 1953"
For further information, contact Arthur F. Marotti, director, Wayne State University Emeritus Academy, at a.marotti@wayne.edu or 313-577-2490, or visit emeritusacademy.wayne.edu.