Past events

2016, Atlanta
Luncheon: Douglas Howland, “International Law and Globalization in Nineteenth-Century Asia”
2015, New York
Luncheon: Dilip Menon,“Writing Indian History After Subaltern Studies”
Panel: The Religious Society of Friends in U.S.-Japan Relations, 1880s–1950s: International Marriage, Humanitarian Aid, Homestay Families
  • Sally Ann Hastings, Purdue University (chair and comment)
  • Sharlie Ushioda, Lower Merion School District (Pennsylvania)
  • Marlene Mayo, University of Maryland at College Park
  • Elyssa Faison, University of Oklahoma
2014, Washington, D.C.
Luncheon: Thomas S. Mullaney, “Waiting for Cadmus: Chinese Script in the Age of Alphanumeric Hegemony, 1871-Present”
Reception, joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia
2013, New Orleans (Muriel’s Jackson Square)
Luncheon: Roundtable: “We’ve Come a Long Way”: Asia at the AHA
Speakers:
  • George M. Wilson, Indiana University
  • Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, president-elect AHA

Reception

2012, Chicago
Luncheon: Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda University), “An Origin of Postwar Japanese Nationalism: Eto Jun and His Appropriation of Civil War”
Roundtable (jointly sponsored with SAHSA): Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non-places
Dilip Menon, “Itinerant Territoriality: The Spaces and Times of Postcolonial History.”
Panelists:

  • Kate McDonald (UCSB)
  • Hyun Ok Park (York)
  • Ken Pomeranz (UCI)

Reception, Joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

2011, Boston
Luncheon: Mark Bradley (University of Chicago), “Vietnam and the Postcolonial”
2010, San Diego
Luncheon: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), “History of the Future in Old and New Shanghai”
2009, New York
Luncheon: Eugenia Lean (Columbia University), “Sandalwood Soap, Carthamus tinctorius L., and Hydraulic Acid: Science for the Inner Chambers in Early Twentieth-Century China”
2008, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Anand Yang (University of Washington), “Empire of Crime: Convicts and the Colonial State in South and Southeast Asia”
2007, Atlanta
Luncheon: Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado), “The Geography of Gender in Early Modern Japan”
2006, Philadelphia
Luncheon: Kenneth L. Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine), “China and India: Historical Reflections on Comparative Development”
2005, Seattle
Luncheon: Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley), “Cultural Literacy and National Formation in Seventeenth-Century Japan”
2004, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Jonathan Spence (Yale University), “The Fall of the Ming: National or Personal?”
2003, Chicago
Luncheon: Ronald P. Toby (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Alien Texts/Native Readings: History Writing in Early Modern Japan”
2002, San Francisco
Luncheon: Paul Cohen (Harvard University), “National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China”
2001, Boston
Luncheon: John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Postwar Japan and the Cultures of Defeat”
2000, Chicago
Luncheon: Sumathi Ramaswamy University of Michigan, “History in the Shadow of Loss”
1999, Washington
Luncheon: Leslie Pincus (University of Michigan), “Toward a Political History of Aesthetics in Modern Japan”
1998, Seattle
Luncheon: Gail Hershatter (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Dangerous Pleasures? The Study of Gender in China”
1997, New York
Luncheon: Kären Wigen (Duke University), “Regional Identities in Modern Japan”
1996, Atlanta
Luncheon: Prasenjit Duara (University of Chicago), “Gender/National History: The View from East Asia”
1995, Chicago
Luncheon: Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), “Postwar Japan as History”
1994, San Francisco
Luncheon: Harry Harootunian (University of Chicago), “Overcome by Modernity: Japanese Reflections on Life in the Twenties”
1992, Washington
Luncheon: Jackson Bailey (Earlham College), “Preserving the Family Tradition in Japan: The Kumagais of Tanohata”
1991, Chicago
Luncheon: Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago), “History and Memory: Why the Korean War is Forgotten”
1990, New York
Luncheon: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), “Shanghai Gangsters: The Place of Crime in Modern Chinese History”
1989, San Francisco
Luncheon: Michael Schaller (University of Arizona), “America’s Most Asian Expert? Douglas MacArthur”
1988, Cincinnati
Luncheon: Tetsuo Najita (University of Chicago), “Japanese History: New Sources, New Ideas”
1974-1987
no CAH sessions
1973, San Francisco
Luncheon: Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Modern China and It’s Identity Crisis
1972, New Orleans
Luncheon: D.G.E. Hall (Cornell University), “The Claims of Southeast Asian History”
1971, New York
Luncheon: Karl A. Wittfogel (New York City), “The Classical View of Asian History and Society”
1970, Boston
Luncheon: Edwin O. Reischauer
1968, New York
Luncheon: Ping-ti Ho (University of Chicago), “Chinese Origins: The Birth of China Reconsidered”
1967, Toronto
Luncheon: Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley), “On the Value of Asian Travel”
Session (joint with CAH): The Mongols and Medieval Europe
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair and discussant
“The Mongols in Russia” – Alexander V. Riasanovsky (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Mongols and Western Europe” – Jean Richard (Universite de Dijon)
1966, New York
Session (joint with CAH): Leaders of Nationalism in Asia
Arthur F. Wright (Yale University), chair
“Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: Pan Islam as Proto-Nationalism” – Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Revolution” – Paul Lin (McGill University)
“Gandhi and the Historians” – Martin D. Lewis (Sir George Williams University)
“The Significance of Kemal Ataturk” – Niyazi Berkes, (McGill University)
Comment: Stephen N. Hay (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Luncheon: John K. Fairbank (Harvard University), “Problems of Sinology as an International Enterprise”
1965, San Francisco
Luncheon: Joseph Levenson (University of California, Berkeley), “History and Cosmopolitanism”
Session ( joint with CAH): Liberty Under Law in Contemporary East Asia: The Impact of the Past Upon the Rights of the Accused
Dan F. Henderson (University of Washington), chair
“Criminal Procedure in China” – Jerome A. Cohen, (Harvard Law School)
“Criminal Procedure in Japan” – B.J. George (University of Michigan)
Comment:
“Some Comparisons with the Development of Criminal Procedure in the West” – John P. Dawson, Harvard Law School
“Evaluating the Persistence of Tradition” – Albert Feuerwerker, University of Michigan
1964, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Kenneth P. Landon (Foreign Service Institute), “Southeast Asian Studies and United States Foreign Policy”
Session (joint with CAH): Perspectives on Medieval Eurasia
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair
“Asia in the 7th to 9th Centuries: Unifying and Divisive Factors” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Place of Islam in Eurasian History” – Marshall G.S. Hodgson (University of Chicago)
Comment: S.D. Goitein, University of Pennsylvania
1963, Philadelphia
Luncheon: Harry J. Benda (Yale University), “Modern Indonesia under the Historian’s Looking Glass”
1962, Chicago
no CAH session
1960, New York
Luncheon: Amuya Chakravarty (Boston University), “Tagor and Contemporary Asia”
1959, Chicago
Session (joint with CAH): Marxism in Asia
Eugene Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“Marxist Historiography in Japan” – George M. Beckmann (University of Kansas)
“The Marxist View of Modern India” – Gene D. Overstreet (Swarthmore College)
“China’s Modern History in Marxian Dress” – Albert Feuerwerker (Harvard University; University of Michigan)
Luncheon: H.G. Creel (University of Chicago), “The Chinese Origin of Examination and Its Significance in World History”
1958, Washington, D.C.
Luncheon: Hamilton A.R. Gibb (Harvard University), “Near Eastern Bureaucracy”
Session (joint with Conference on Asian History): Liberalism and Nationalism
Hans Kohn (City College of New York), chair
“The Middle East” – Howard A, Reed (American Friends Service Committee)
“Japan” – Delmer M. Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
“Western Europe” – Eugene Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles)
1957, New York
Session (joint with CAH): The Teaching of Asian History at the College Level
Eugene P. Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“An Integrated Approach in an All-Asia Survey Course” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“An Interdisciplinary Course at the Undergraduate Level” – John K. Fairbank (Harvard University)
Comment: Meribeth E. Cameron, Holyoke College
Luncheon: Owen Lattimore (The Johns Hopkins University), “Status and Politics in Inner Asia”
1955, Washington, D.C.
Luncheon: W. Norman Brown (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacred Cow”
1954, New York
Luncheon: L. Carrington Goodrich (Columbia University), “Westerners and Central Asians in Yuan China”

2014, Washington, D.C.Luncheon: Thomas S. Mullaney, “Waiting for Cadmus: Chinese Script in the Age of Alphanumeric Hegemony, 1871-Present”Reception, joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

2013, New Orleans (Muriel’s Jackson Square)
Luncheon: Roundtable: “We’ve Come a Long Way”: Asia at the AHA
Speakers:
  • George M. Wilson, Indiana University
  • Barbara Ramusack, University of Cincinnati
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, president-elect AHA

Reception

2012, Chicago
Luncheon: Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda University), “An Origin of Postwar Japanese Nationalism: Eto Jun and His Appropriation of Civil War”
Roundtable (jointly sponsored with SAHSA): Mobility as Subject: Histories of Non-places
Dilip Menon, “Itinerant Territoriality: The Spaces and Times of Postcolonial History.”
Panelists:

  • Kate McDonald (UCSB)
  • Hyun Ok Park (York)
  • Ken Pomeranz (UCI)

Reception, Joint with the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia

2011, Boston
Luncheon: Mark Bradley (University of Chicago), “Vietnam and the Postcolonial”
2010, San Diego
Luncheon: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), “History of the Future in Old and New Shanghai”
2009, New York
Luncheon: Eugenia Lean (Columbia University), “Sandalwood Soap, Carthamus tinctorius L., and Hydraulic Acid: Science for the Inner Chambers in Early Twentieth-Century China”
2008, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Anand Yang (University of Washington), “Empire of Crime: Convicts and the Colonial State in South and Southeast Asia”
2007, Atlanta
Luncheon: Marcia Yonemoto (University of Colorado), “The Geography of Gender in Early Modern Japan”
2006, Philadelphia
Luncheon: Kenneth L. Pomeranz (University of California, Irvine), “China and India: Historical Reflections on Comparative Development”
2005, Seattle
Luncheon: Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley), “Cultural Literacy and National Formation in Seventeenth-Century Japan”
2004, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Jonathan Spence (Yale University), “The Fall of the Ming: National or Personal?”
2003, Chicago
Luncheon: Ronald P. Toby (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Alien Texts/Native Readings: History Writing in Early Modern Japan”
2002, San Francisco
Luncheon: Paul Cohen (Harvard University), “National Humiliation in Twentieth-Century China”
2001, Boston
Luncheon: John Dower (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Postwar Japan and the Cultures of Defeat”
2000, Chicago
Luncheon: Sumathi Ramaswamy University of Michigan, “History in the Shadow of Loss”
1999, Washington
Luncheon: Leslie Pincus (University of Michigan), “Toward a Political History of Aesthetics in Modern Japan”
1998, Seattle
Luncheon: Gail Hershatter (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Dangerous Pleasures? The Study of Gender in China”
1997, New York
Luncheon: Kären Wigen (Duke University), “Regional Identities in Modern Japan”
1996, Atlanta
Luncheon: Prasenjit Duara (University of Chicago), “Gender/National History: The View from East Asia”
1995, Chicago
Luncheon: Andrew Gordon (Harvard University), “Postwar Japan as History”
1994, San Francisco
Luncheon: Harry Harootunian (University of Chicago), “Overcome by Modernity: Japanese Reflections on Life in the Twenties”
1992, Washington
Luncheon: Jackson Bailey (Earlham College), “Preserving the Family Tradition in Japan: The Kumagais of Tanohata”
1991, Chicago
Luncheon: Bruce Cumings (University of Chicago), “History and Memory: Why the Korean War is Forgotten”
1990, New York
Luncheon: Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. (University of California, Berkeley), “Shanghai Gangsters: The Place of Crime in Modern Chinese History”
1989, San Francisco
Luncheon: Michael Schaller (University of Arizona), “America’s Most Asian Expert? Douglas MacArthur”
1988, Cincinnati
Luncheon: Tetsuo Najita (University of Chicago), “Japanese History: New Sources, New Ideas”
1974-1987
no CAH sessions
1973, San Francisco
Luncheon: Immanuel C.Y. Hsu (University of California, Santa Barbara), “Modern China and It’s Identity Crisis
1972, New Orleans
Luncheon: D.G.E. Hall (Cornell University), “The Claims of Southeast Asian History”
1971, New York
Luncheon: Karl A. Wittfogel (New York City), “The Classical View of Asian History and Society”
1970, Boston
Luncheon: Edwin O. Reischauer
1968, New York
Luncheon: Ping-ti Ho (University of Chicago), “Chinese Origins: The Birth of China Reconsidered”
1967, Toronto
Luncheon: Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley), “On the Value of Asian Travel”
Session (joint with CAH): The Mongols and Medieval Europe
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair and discussant
“The Mongols in Russia” – Alexander V. Riasanovsky (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Mongols and Western Europe” – Jean Richard (Universite de Dijon)
1966, New York
Session (joint with CAH): Leaders of Nationalism in Asia
Arthur F. Wright (Yale University), chair
“Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani: Pan Islam as Proto-Nationalism” – Nikki Keddie (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Sun Yat-sen and the Chinese Revolution” – Paul Lin (McGill University)
“Gandhi and the Historians” – Martin D. Lewis (Sir George Williams University)
“The Significance of Kemal Ataturk” – Niyazi Berkes, (McGill University)
Comment: Stephen N. Hay (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Luncheon: John K. Fairbank (Harvard University), “Problems of Sinology as an International Enterprise”
1965, San Francisco
Luncheon: Joseph Levenson (University of California, Berkeley), “History and Cosmopolitanism”
Session ( joint with CAH): Liberty Under Law in Contemporary East Asia: The Impact of the Past Upon the Rights of the Accused
Dan F. Henderson (University of Washington), chair
“Criminal Procedure in China” – Jerome A. Cohen, (Harvard Law School)
“Criminal Procedure in Japan” – B.J. George (University of Michigan)
Comment:
“Some Comparisons with the Development of Criminal Procedure in the West” – John P. Dawson, Harvard Law School
“Evaluating the Persistence of Tradition” – Albert Feuerwerker, University of Michigan
1964, Washington, DC
Luncheon: Kenneth P. Landon (Foreign Service Institute), “Southeast Asian Studies and United States Foreign Policy”
Session (joint with CAH): Perspectives on Medieval Eurasia
Denis Sinor (Indiana University), chair
“Asia in the 7th to 9th Centuries: Unifying and Divisive Factors” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Place of Islam in Eurasian History” – Marshall G.S. Hodgson (University of Chicago)
Comment: S.D. Goitein, University of Pennsylvania
1963, Philadelphia
Luncheon: Harry J. Benda (Yale University), “Modern Indonesia under the Historian’s Looking Glass”
1962, Chicago
no CAH session
1960, New York
Luncheon: Amuya Chakravarty (Boston University), “Tagor and Contemporary Asia”
1959, Chicago
Session (joint with CAH): Marxism in Asia
Eugene Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“Marxist Historiography in Japan” – George M. Beckmann (University of Kansas)
“The Marxist View of Modern India” – Gene D. Overstreet (Swarthmore College)
“China’s Modern History in Marxian Dress” – Albert Feuerwerker (Harvard University; University of Michigan)
Luncheon: H.G. Creel (University of Chicago), “The Chinese Origin of Examination and Its Significance in World History”
1958, Washington, D.C.
Luncheon: Hamilton A.R. Gibb (Harvard University), “Near Eastern Bureaucracy”
Session (joint with Conference on Asian History): Liberalism and Nationalism
Hans Kohn (City College of New York), chair
“The Middle East” – Howard A, Reed (American Friends Service Committee)
“Japan” – Delmer M. Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
“Western Europe” – Eugene Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles)
1957, New York
Session (joint with CAH): The Teaching of Asian History at the College Level
Eugene P. Boardman (University of Wisconsin), chair
“An Integrated Approach in an All-Asia Survey Course” – Woodbridge Bingham (University of California, Berkeley)
“An Interdisciplinary Course at the Undergraduate Level” – John K. Fairbank (Harvard University)
Comment: Meribeth E. Cameron, Holyoke College
Luncheon: Owen Lattimore (The Johns Hopkins University), “Status and Politics in Inner Asia”
1955, Washington, D.C.
Luncheon: W. Norman Brown (University of Pennsylvania), “The Sacred Cow”
1954, New York
Luncheon: L. Carrington Goodrich (Columbia University), “Westerners and Central Asians in Yuan China”

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