Workshop "Family, relatedness and emotions in premodern Japan - developing historical anthropology"

[Pia Jolliffe]

Dear All,

Greetings from Oxford!

Please may I draw your attention to the workshop "Family, relatedness and emotions in premodern Japan - developing historical anthropology" , Brigitte Steger, Polina Barducci and I are co-convening at the University of Cambridge, 9-10 April. 

In this historical-anthropological workshop scholars will present their work-in-progress on practical and performative aspects of family life in premodern Japan. We understand “families” as people who are related through shared activities in everyday life, during seasonal celebrations and the various rites of passages that mark major life course transitions. We are particularly interested in the performative aspects of such activities, the emotions put at display and the forms of relatedness that are created in these ways between individuals and across time.

Please see the full program attached. We still have 3-4 spaces to invite non-presenting delegates to the conference dinner on Friday 10 April. Please let Brigitte Steger (bs...@cam.ac.uk) know if you would like to join the workshop and if you would like to join the conference dinner, please confirm this by 1 April. 

Best wishes,

Pia

Dr Pia Jolliffe FRHistS

Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford

St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LY