AJC2000 Programme
Wednesday 27th September
10.30 Coffee and Registration
11.00 Introduction and Welcome
Prof. David Cannadine (IHR, London)
Prof. Kazuhiko Kondo (Univ. of Tokyo)
Medieval Constitutional History
11.15-12.45 Keizo Asaji (Kansai Univ.)
The Community of the Realm in England, 1258-60
Chair: Vanessa Harding; Respondent: Michael Clanchy
Lunch
Medieval and Early Modern Gentry
02.00-03.30 Yukio Arai (Ochanomizu Univ.)
Why was the Opening Passage of Gentryfs Letters so long in the 15th Century?
Chair: Michael Clanchy; Respondents: Caroline Barron & Barrie Dobson
Tea
04.00- Yasushi Aoki (Rikkyo Univ.)
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
Early Modern London
09.30-11.00 Toshio Sakata (Keio Univ.)
The Growth of London and its Regional Structure in the Early Modern Period
Chair: Robin Macpherson; Respondents: Derek Keene & Vanessa Harding
Coffee
11.30-01.00 Masatoshi Miichi (Chuo Univ.)
How Great were the Great Earthquakes of 1580 and 1692?
Chair: Robin Macpherson; Respondents: Derek Keene & Vanessa Harding
Lunch
The British State and Empire from the 16th to 18th Centuries
03.00-04.30 Tadashi Yamamoto (Osaka Keizai Univ.)
Ireland in British Atlantic Polity in the Early Modern Age
Chair: Patrick O'Brien; Respondents: Stephen Ellis & John Morrill
Tea
05.00 Akio Kawashima (Kyoto Univ.)
British Colonial Botanic Gardens and Edinburgh
Chair: Patrick O'Brien; Respondents: David Cannadine
07.00 Buffet supper at IHR
Friday 29th September
Women's History
09.30-11.00 Sadae Kawamura (Kyoto Pref. Univ.)
Elizabeth Jesser Reid and the Founding of Bedford College for Women
Chair: Kazuhiko Kondo; Respondent: Penelope Corfield
Coffee
The Empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries
11.30-01.00 Harumi Goto-Shibata (Chiba Univ.)
Japanese Perceptions of the Opium War, 1840-1930
Chair: Yoichi Kibata; Respondent: Ian Nish
Lunch
02.00-03.30 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
03.30-05.00 Minoru Takada (Kyushu I.U.)
Friendly Societies and the Making of the Welfare State
Chair: Steven Smith; Respondent: Pat Thane
Tea
05.30 Takao Matsumura (Keio Univ.)
The Nuffield Social Reconstruction Survey, 1941-45
Chair: Toshio Kusamitsu; Respondents: Pat Thane & Jose Harris
07.00 Closing Remarks
Prof. David Cannadine (IHR, London)
Prof. Kazuhiko Kondo (Univ. of Tokyo)