Japan

Name: Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”
Start: 2025-05-07T17:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-05-07T19:00:00-07:00
Location: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

November 2016
November 2, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on “God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623”

SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623." The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at […]
March 2021
March 6, 2021 @ 4:00 pm

History Associates: Luke Roberts, “A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband”

Zoom CA

Join the History Associates for an engaging presentation from UCSB History Professor Luke Roberts on a specific case that influenced gender roles in 19th-century Japan. Zoom link: ucsb.zoom.us/j/6855143149 Mori Nao, a young samurai wife in Japan, desired a divorce from her abusive husband in 1824. Legally a man could divorce his wife but a wife […]

Free
May 2021
May 19, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

Zoom CA

The East Asia Center welcomes UCSB History alumna Dr. Lily Anne Welty Tamai (Asian American Studies, UCLA) for a talk on "Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa." Mixed-race people born at the end of World War II made history quietly with their families and their communities. Wars and the military occupations that followed, […]

Free
January 2023
January 19, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Gender + Sexualities

Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop | Mika Thornburg | “Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Mika Thornburg will share her in-progress dissertation chapter: "Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985." Please read the paper in advance and be prepared to share your observations and insights with the group.
May 2025
May 7, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Speaker: Graduate Student Erin Trumble Title: "Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan" Description: The talk will focus on retirement as a life stage and examine how it represented a time when women had both more freedom after being liberated from daily tasks and more authority due to their […]

Japan

November 2016

Professor Timon Screech (SOAS) speaks on “God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623”

March 2021

History Associates: Luke Roberts, “A Samurai Wife Divorces her Lout of a Husband”

May 2021

Lily Anne Welty Tamai, “Mixed-Race Black Identities in Postwar Japan and Okinawa”

January 2023

Gender + Sexualities Paper Workshop | Mika Thornburg | “Selling Self-Discovery: Constructing a Desire for Female Travel in Postwar Japan, 1960-1985”

May 2025

Talk: Erin Trumble, “Rebirth after Retirement: How Elderly Women Reinvented Femininity in Edo Japan”

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