REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR Professor Emeritus Historian Akira Iriye's talk
REGISTRATION CLOSED Professor Iriye will speak on the topic "A Historian Looks at Japan and the Contemporary World" on Monday evening October 27th **Note this event will take place at International House (not at our usual venue)
Harvard Club of Japan is honored to host a talk "A Historian Looks at Japan and the Contemporary World" by Charles Warren Research Profesor of History Professor Emeritus Akira Iriye. Professor Iriye will be turning eighty years old a week before this lecture. Please join the Harvard community in Tokyo to hear this talk by one of Harvard's most respected and beloved professors in the Asian Studies field.
Admission 10,000 yen includes all food (buffet dinner) and drink.
International House, Tokyo
MAP: http://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/access.html
October 27, 2014 at 6:30-9:00pm
Door open at 6:30pm, lecture starts at 7pm, dinner at 8pm. Event ends at 9pm.
Please reserve by October 23rd. All no-shows and cancellations after 10/23 will be invoiced. Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated.
For any questions or problems please e-mail kaycarl@gmail.com
AKIRA IRIYE
Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Emeritus
Professor Iriye is one of America’s most distinguished scholars of international relations. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in US and East Asian History in 1961. His thesis was later published as the book After Imperialism, the Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921-1931. The work was a breakthrough in the history of a pivotal period not only because of its conceptual brilliance but also because of his mastery of original documents in English, Japanese, Chinese, Russian and German. He is the only Japanese to have served as Chairman of the American Historical Society, and he is known as much for his work on American as Asian history.
Professor Iriye has written widely on American diplomatic history and Japanese- American relations. Among his many works are Pacific Estrangement: Japanese and American Expansion, 1897-1911 (1972); Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (1981); Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations (in Japanese, 1991); China and Japan in the Global Setting(1992); The Globalizing of America (1993); and Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997); Global Community, The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (2002).
Prof. Iriye was born in Tokyo in 1934 and graduated from Seikei High School. He one of a distinguished line of Seikei students to attend Harvard; others include Ben Makihara and Tatsuo Arima. He completed his undergraduate studies at Haverford College in 1957. After receiving his Ph. D., he taught at Harvard, and then at the University of California at Santa Cruz and University of Chicago before returning to the History faculty at Harvard in 1989. He became the Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991, and he also served as Chairman of the History Department.