Programme for
The Third Anglo-Japanese Conference
of Historians
27 - 29 September 2000
at the
Institute
of Historical Research
University of London
Senate House London WC1E 7HU
revised 12 October 2000
(Japanese)
Wednesday 27th September
10.30 Coffee and Registration
11.00 Introduction and Welcome
Professors David Cannadine & Kazuhiko
Kondo
Medieval Constitutional History
11.15 1. Keizo
Asaji (Kansai), The Community of the Realm in England, 1258-60
Chair: Vanessa Harding; Respondent:
Michael
Clanchy
12.45 Lunch
Medieval and Early Modern Gentry
02.00 2. Yukio
Arai (Ochanomizu), Why was the Opening Passage of Gentry’s Letters
so long
in the 15th Century?
Chair: Michael Clanchy; Respondents:
Caroline
Barron & Barrie Dobson
03.30 Tea
04.00 3. Yasushi
Aoki (Rikkyo), To be a Leading Gentry: Sir Charles Davers and Suffolk
Voluntary Subscriptions, 1782
Chair: Kazuhiko Kondo; Respondent: Stephen
Farrell
06.00 Royal
Historical Society reception at UCL
Thursday 28th September 2000
Early Modern London
09.30 4. Toshio
Sakata (Keio), The Growth of London and its Regional Structure in
the Early
Modern Period
Chair: Robin Macpherson; Respondents:
Derek
Keene & Vanessa Harding
11.00 Coffee
11.30 5. Masatoshi
Miichi (Chuo), How Great were the Great Earthquakes of 1580 and
1692?
Chair: Robin Macpherson; Respondents:
Derek
Keene & Vanessa Harding
01.00 Lunch
The British State and Empire from the 16th to 18th
Centuries
03.00 6. Tadashi
Yamamoto (Osaka Keizai), Ireland in British Atlantic Polity in the
Early Modern Age
Chair: Patrick O'Brien; Respondents: Stephen
Ellis & John Morrill
04.30 Tea
05.00 7. Akio
Kawashima (Kyoto), British Colonial Botanic Gardens and Edinburgh
Chair: Patrick O'Brien; Respondents: David
Cannadine
07.00 Buffet
supper at IHR
Friday 29th September 2000
Women’s History
09.30 8. Sadae
Kawamura (Kyoto Pref.), Elizabeth Jesser Reid and the Founding of
Bedford College for Women
Chair: Kazuhiko Kondo; Respondent: Penelope
Corfield
11.00 Coffee
The Empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries
11.30 9. Harumi
Goto-Shibata (Chiba), Japanese Perceptions of the Opium War, 1840-1930
Chair: Yoichi Kibata; Respondent: Ian
Nish
01.00 Lunch
02.00 10. Shigeru
Akita (Osaka U.F.S.), The International Order of Asia in the 1930s:
a Japanese Perspective
Chair: Steven Smith; Respondent: Tom
Tomlinson
20th Century Politics
03.30 11. Minoru
Takada (Kyushu I.U.), Friendly Societies and the Making of the Welfare
State
Chair: Steven Smith; Respondent: Pat
Thane
05.00 Tea
05.30 12. Takao
Matsumura (Keio), The Nuffield Social Reconstruction Survey, 1941-45
Chair: Toshio Kusamitsu; Respondents:
Pat Thane & Jose Harris
07.00 Closing Remarks
Professor Kazuhiko Kondo
/ Professor David Cannadine