Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Japanese and French Empires in East Asia, Raleigh NC, April 8-10, 2011

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Japanese and French Empires in East Asia, Raleigh NC,
April 8-10, 2011

> H-ASIA
> March 27, 2011
>
> Conference: Boundaries in Question: Japanese and French Empires in
> East Asia, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, April 8-10, 2011
> **********************************************************************
> From: David Ambaras <david_ambaras@ncsu.edu>
>
> BOUNDARIES IN QUESTION: JAPANESE AND FRENCH EMPIRES IN EAST ASIA
>
> A conference sponsored by the Department of History, North Carolina State
> University, in conjunction with the Triangle Japan Forum
>
> When April 08, 2011-– April 10, 2011 at 4:00 pm
> Where 331 Withers Hall, North Campus, NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695
>
> This conference will bring together scholars of the Japanese empire and
> scholars of French Indochina to engage in a dialogue on comparative and
> transnational approaches to the study of imperialism and colonialism in
> East Asia.
>
> In French Indochina as well as in Japan''s colonies in Taiwan, Korea, and
> Manchuria, authorities endeavored to produce ultra-modern spaces of
> enlightened life that were built upon traumatizing practices of
> dislocation
> and exploitation of both indigenous and colonizing subjects. Their
> projects
> mobilized notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, but could not
> contain the tensions within and among these categories of identity and
> action. As aspects of modern capitalism, French and Japanese imperialisms
> stimulated new regional and global flows of people, things, and ideas, but
> French and Japanese metropolitan authorities and colonial states struggled
> to manage them, at times requiring (or rejecting) international
> assistance.
> Moreover, both empires were built upon the spaces of the Sinocentric
> regional system. Both the French and Japanese empires engaged with Chinese
> trading networks; as important, they had to manage significant Chinese
> populations within their respective colonial spaces and spheres of
> informal
> power, as well as movements of their subjects into and out of China.
>
> Advance registration is required. For more information and to register:
> Conference Website
>
>
> David R. Ambaras
> Associate Professor
> Department of History
> Campus Box 8108
> North Carolina State University
> Raleigh, NC 27695-8108
> Phone: 919-513-2228
> Fax: 919-515-3886
> david_ambaras@ncsu.edu
> Skype: dambaras
>
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