Urs Matthias Zachmann

Scholarly Presentations

6 April 2013, Tokyo: “大沼保昭, A Transcivilizational Perspective on International Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston, 2010)へのコメント（東アジアの視点から）”, 比較地域体系共同研究, Meiji University.
19 December 2012, Bayreuth: „Zivilisation, Raum und ‘Rasse’: Prüfsteine der deutsch-japanischen Beziehungen“ (Civilization, Space and 'Race': touchstones of German-Japanese relations), Bayreuth University, History Department.
8 October 2012, Cambridge (UK): “International Law in Japan, 1931-1960: from Greater East Asia to Pax Americana”, Asian Studies Centre Seminar Series 2012/13, Cambridge University.
27 July 2012, Berlin: "Japanese International Law in the Global Nineteenth Century", paper presented at the international workshop "Japan in the Global Nineteenth Century - Continuities and Entanglements", Freie Universität Berlin (Japanese Studies).
21 June 2012, London: "The Future of Chinese-Japanese Relations and Global Governance", Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Seminar "Russia, China and Global Governance".
5 May 2012, Tubingen: “Nuclear Power and Buddhism: Reactions of institutional Buddhism in Japan to the Fukushima catastrophes”, paper at the Workshop for Japanese Religions, Tubingen University.
11 April 2012, Munich: “The Eternal Promiscuity of the Japanese Mind: Some Thoughts on the Tradition of Hybridity in Japanese Modern Intellectual History”, keynote lecture for the workshop of the Bavarian Academy of Science and Humanities “Rupturing Epistemes, Shifting Paradigms: Turning Points in Japanese Intellectual, Aesthetic and Political History”.
29 March 2012, Oslo: “Being Japan: Nationalist visions of the world in late Meiji Japan (the case of Kuga Katsunan, 1857-1907)”, paper presented at the international workshop on “Tōzai bunmei-ron” at Oslo University, Faculty of Humanities.
27 February 2012, Tsukuba, Japan: “The History of Japan’s Modern Legal System”, opening lecture for the Spring School of 2012 at Tsukuba University.
25 August 2011, Tallinn: “The Subversive Internationalist - Rethinking Japan’s Visions of International Cooperation during the Taisho Democracy”; paper at the 13th conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies at Tallinn, Estonia.
27 February 2011, Heidelberg: “Enter the Void - Japan’s Transition from Regionalism into a New International Order, 1944-1960”, paper presented at conference “Globalization, Identity and Regional Integration in East Asia, 1861-2011: Re-Assessing the Impact of Globalization and the Future of East Asia”, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, organized by the Institute of Japanese Studies, Heidelberg.
7 February 2011, Munich: „Konflikt und Kooperation in Ostasien: Strukturelle Faktoren in der Entwicklung eines ostasiatischen Regionalismus, 1871-2011“, public Habilitation lecture at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of Munich University.
1 December 2010, Canberra, Australia: “German Scholarship and Anglo-American Scholarship on International Law on Empire, Colonialism and Sovereignty, paper presented at the workshop “Empire and Sovereignty in a Dialogue of International History/Relations/Law”, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.
17 November 2010, Bochum: „Japans Neupositionierung in der Nachkriegsordnung Ostasiens: politische Optionen und Perspektiven japanischer Völkerrechtler“, public lecture at the Faculty of East Asian Studies of Bochum University.
9 November 2010, Munich: “Race and the Legal Structure of Japan’s New Order in East Asia, 1938-1945: Japanese International Lawyers and the Concept of Race in Foreign Relations”, paper presented at the workshop “Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions” at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich (organizers: Rotem Kowner, Haifa, and Walter Demel, Munich).
26 March 2010, Philadelphia: “Internationalism and International law in 1930s Japan: National Sovereignty, World Government and Regional Pluralism”. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting.
16 December 2009, Shanghai: “The Future in East Asia, 1937-45: Re-visioning Sino-Japanese Relations in ‘Greater East Asia’”. Paper presented at the conference „History, Identity and the Future in Modern East Asia: Interrogating History and Modernity in Japan and China”, Shanghai, Dec. 14-17, 2009, organized by Fudan University, Tokyo University and Leiden University.
24 October 2009. Paris: “Empire of Cultures? Pluralism, Universality, and the Political Uses of Culture in Japan’s Project of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, 1940-45”. annual meeting of the conference “Cultures d’empires? Circulations, échanges et affrontements culturels en situations colonials et imperials” organized by the Institut Universitaire de France, EHGO, IDHE (Cnrs), IRIS (Cnrs), Centre des sciences de la littérature française [Paris X].
29 September 2009, Halle, Germany: “Das Verfertigen der Gedanken beim Reden: die stenographische Literatur (sokki) der Meiji-Zeit als „fließender Text“‘ (The Stenographic Literature (sokki) of the Meiji Period as „Floating Text“). Paper presented at the 14. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag (Section Literature and Mediality).
17 September 2009, Tokyo: 「近代日本における国際法思想の変化－主に戦間期における戦争と自衛観に中心して」(The Transformation of International Legal Thought in Modern Japan: The Concepts of War and Self-Defense in Interwar Japan). Paper presented to the extended kenkyū-kai of Seikei University, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
18 June 2009, Munich: “International Legal Thought in Japan after Versailles: the Case of Yokota Kisaburo.” Paper presented at the international symposium “Asia after Versailles, 1919-1933”, organized by the Japan Center of Munich University.
25 May 2009, Frankfurt a.M.: “Krieg, Friedenssicherung und Selbstverteidigung: zur Problematik friedlicher Konfliktlösung und legitimer Gewaltausübung im völkerrechtlichen Denken Japans, 1919-1960” (War, peace keeping and self-defense: State violence and peaceful conflict resolution in the Japanese discourse on international law, 1919-1960). Public lecture delivered at the Max-Planck-Institute of European Legal History.
16 March 2009, Heidelberg: “Equality of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Great Power Relations - Japan’s Argument around World War I.” Paper presented at the international symposium “Shifting Re-creations of European and Asian ‘Others’ in East Asian Schoolbooks” organized by the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows".
21 September 2008, Lecce, Italy: “Enemy Mine: Managing the Allied Powers’ Assets in Wartime Japan, 1941-45.“ Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies.
4 July 2008, Dresden: “Legal Transference: How Japanese international lawyers managed the intellectual transition from Greater East-Asia to World Government, 1944-1951.” Paper presented at the 2nd European Congress of World and Global History.
4 May 2008, Halle, Germany: “Was ist Globalgeschichte?” (What is Global History?). Talk at the 11th meeting of the Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung.
15 November 2007, Munich: “Der zweite chinesisch-japanische Krieg 1937-45: Ursachen und Hintergründe“ (The Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-45: Causes and Circumstances). Public lecture given as part of the Ringvorlesung “Entwicklungen und Entscheidungen: Interdisziplinäre Vorlesung zur Geschichte und Politik Ost- und Südostasiens“, Munich University (LMU).
13 July 2007, Heidelberg: “Race without Supremacy: Racism as a Counter-narrative in the Political Discourse and Practice of late Meiji Japan, 1890-1912.”, Paper presented at the conference “Global Dimensions of Racism in the Modern World: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives” organized by the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Heidelberg University.
11 November 2006, Springfield Ohio, USA: “But Monads Do Have Windows: Synchronizing Japan’s Media with the World During the Boxer Expedition, 1900.“ Paper presented at the conference Japan and the World at Wittenberg University.
26 September 2006, Tutzing, Germany: “Law and Sensibilities: the Development of Japanese Legal Thought on International Law, 1919-1951”. Paper presented at the workshop for young academic professionals of the Society for the Social Sciences in Japanese Studies (VSJF), Evangelische Akademie Tutzing.
20 September 2006, Berlin:「枠なき人間：丸山真男の「福沢に於ける実学の転回」（1947年）及びその翻訳の諸問題について”」(The frameless man: on Maruy¬ama Masao’s ‘The Practical Learning-Turn in Fukuzawa’s Thought’ (1947) and Problems of its Translation). Paper presented at the workshop “The Idea of Democracy in Japan - How to Translate the Political Thought of Maruyama Masao into Western Languages?” at the Japanese German Center Berlin.
14 September 2006, Bonn: “Bellum iustum: die zivilisatorische Funktion von Krieg und Konflikt im aussenpolitischen Denken der spaeten Meiji-Zeit am Beispiel Kuga Katsunan“ (Bellum iustum: the civilizing function of war and conflict in Late Meiji foreign political thinking, with special reference to Kuga Katsunan). Paper presented at the 13. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag.
6 May 2006, Heidelberg: “Das kurze Schicksal einer großen Idee: Konoe Atsumaros Vorstellung einer panasiatischen Allianz, 1898“ (The Brief History of a Great Idea: Konoe Atsumaro’s Concept of a Pan-Asiatic Alliance, 1898). Talk held at the seventh meeting of the Initiative zur historischen Japanforschung.
2 February 2005, Tokyo: 「日本の文明的自己認識形成における中国の役割、1895-1904 - 1897/98年の「東洋問題」と日本の輿論を中心に」 (China’s Role in the Process of Japan’s Cultural Identification, 1895-1904: with Special Reference to the Far Eastern Crisis 1897/98 and its Impact on the Japanese Public Opinion). Paper presented to the seminar of Prof. Obinata Sumio, Waseda University.
27 August 2004, Heidelberg: “’The Foreign Element’: Japanese Reactions to the Rise and Fall of the Hundred Days Reform, 1898.” Paper presented at the Fifteenth Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies.
24 March 2004, Cambridge, Mass., USA: “Imperialism in a Nutshell: the International Dimension of the Tripartite Intervention, 1895.” Paper presented in the International History Seminar (Erez Manela / Akira Iriye) of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.
13 December 2003. Kyōto, Japan: “In Asien, aber nicht von Asien: Orientalismus und ‘Asien’ in der Meiji-Zeit“ (In Asia, but not of Asia: Orientalism and the Notion of ‘Asia’ in Meiji Japan). Paper presented at the symposium „Selbstbehauptungsdiskurse in Ostasien - Versuch einer Zwischenbilanz“ organized by the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo).
11 December 2003, Tokyo:「近代日本の対外観と１９世紀末のヨーロッパのオリエンタリズム”」(Views on International Policy in Modern Japan and Nineteenth Century European Orientalism). Paper presented to the seminar of Prof. Yasumaru Yoshio, Waseda University.
12 November 2003, Tokyo: “China’s Role in the Process of Japan’s Cultural Self-Identification, 1895-1904.” Paper presented to the History & Humanities Study Group of the German institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo).
18 October 2003, Buffalo, New York, USA: “Scaling the Walls of Asia Binary: Orientalism and the Notion of Asia in Meiji Intellectual History”. Paper presented at the New York Conference on Asian Studies.
1 October 2002. Bonn: “China in der kulturellen Selbstdefinition Japans bei Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901): Anmerkungen zu Fukuzawas Datsua ron (1885)“ (China’s role in the process of Japan’s cultural self-identification, the case of Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901): some remarks concerning Fukuzawa’s Datsua ron, 1885). Paper presented at the 12. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag.

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