AJC2000 Programme

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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)