Asia in the Modern World: Images & Representations

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction to the course
Module 1: Black Ships and Samurai
2	BS & S I: Opening of Japan, beginning of Westernization; Japanese history up to Perry
3	BS & S II: How did the Japanese visualize the Americans, and the Americans, the Japanese?	Assignment 1 out
4	Facing East, facing West I	Assignment 1 due
5	Transition: After Perry: Historical overview of the transition from Perry to Russo-Japanese War
6	Group activity
Module 2: Social Protest in Imperial Japan: The Hibiya Riot of 1905
7	Social protest and the media	Assignment 2 out
8	Imperial democracy	Assignment 2 due
Module 3: Transition from Hibiya to Shiseido
9	From Hibiya to Shiseido—Shiseido: consumer culture, cosmopolitanism
10	Shiseido & modernity
11	Conclusion of “Visualizing Japan” on edX	Revision of Assignment 2 due
12	Making of “Visualizing Japan” on edX	Assignment 3 out
13	Student presentations on the Shiseido assignment	Assignment 3 due
14	Student presentations (cont.)
15	Visualization and history
Module 4: Visualizing Postwar Tokyo - UTokyo MOOC
16	Occupation and Americanism
17	Occupation and Americanism (cont.)
18	Imperial gaze and royal wedding
19	Special guest lecture 1
20	Special guest lecture 2
21	Imperial gaze and royal wedding (cont.)
22	Group project preparation
23	Presenting your play about the occupation; also individual consultations on your final project
24	“Four Facets of Contemporary Japanese Architecture” — UTokyo MOOC
25	Individual consultation for the final paper
26	Student presentation
27	Student presentation (cont.)	Final paper due