12/9/2021 CJS Thursday Lecture: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, "Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database"

[Paula R. Curtis]

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Subject: Michigan 12/9/2021 CJS Thursday Lecture: Bettina Gramlich-Oka, "Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database"

Please note that this will be the last lecture of our Fall 2021 Fall Thursday Lecture Series.  Information about the Winter 2022 Thursday Lecture Series can be located here.

Gramlich-Oka

Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database     Bettina Gramlich-Oka Professor of Japanese History Faculty of Liberal Arts Sophia University, Japan    Thursday, December 9, 2021 7:00-8:30 pm EST Register to attend via Zoom Please note the start time for this event is Thursday, 12/9 at 7pm EST/9:00 am Friday, 12/10/2021 Japan. For the edited volume Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020) ten scholars gathered to identify and examine women’s involvement in networks. With the aim to heighten awareness of the gendered history of research on networks, all ten authors thus placed women in the center of their analyses. The result paints a heterogeneous picture which preempts the determination of one simple network pattern or a uniform type of networks particular to “women.” Rather the diversity indicates that not gender alone but many other factors play into the individual’s form of participation in networks. In the presentation, I take this specific result of the volume further by making a comparison of the involvement in networks by a husband and a wife: Rai Shizu and Rai Shunsui. I do this with the help of the visualization tools of the Japan Biographical Database. Bettina Gramlich-Oka is Professor of Japanese History at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University. Some of her publications include Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (Brill, 2006) and the coedited volume Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan (Brill, 2010). In the past years, her research centers on the exploration of networks of the Rai family from Hiroshima during the Tokugawa period. The development of the online Japan Biographical Database is part of this endeavor, as well as the coedited volume with Anne Walthall, Miyazaki Fumiko, Sugano Noriko, Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Gramlich-Oka is currently the chief editor of Monumenta Nipponica. This colloquium series is made possible by the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. Please note, all posted event times are in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone. See all of our upcoming events... Weiser Hall   |   500 Church Street, Suite 400   |   Ann Arbor, MI 48109 um...@umich.edu  |  734.764.6307 A member of the International Institute           © 2021 Regents of the University of Michigan

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Paula R. Curtis

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in History

Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

University of California, Los Angeles

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