Workshop Children and Childhood in Meiji Japan
Friday, 30 June 2017
Mori-Ôgai-Gedenkstätte
14:00 - 16.00
Christian Galan & Harald Salomon
Introduction: The Publication Project
Aya Hōmei (Manchester)
Medical Midwifery and the Meaning of Unborn Life in the Late Meiji Period
16:30 – 18:00
Isabelle Konuma (Paris)
Legal Creation of Filiation and Parental Authority Under the Civil Code of Meiji (1898)
Ruselle Meade (Cardiff)
Juvenile Science and the Japanese Nation: Shōnen’en and the Cultivation of Scientific Subjects
Saturday, 1 July 2017
Mori-Ôgai-Gedenkstätte
10:00 - 12.00
Christian Galan (Toulouse)
Children and School in the Meiji Era: From “savage” behavior to “docile and useful” bodies
Michael Kinski (Frankfurt)
Physical Education in Meiji Japan
14:00 – 16:00
Harald Salomon (Berlin)
Economy and Emotions: Reassessing Child Labor in Meiji Japan
L. Halliday Piel (Lasell)
Children’s Street Culture in Higuchi Ichiyō’s Takekurabe
16:30 – 18:30
Doris Bargen (Amherst & Berlin)
Killing Kids: Exploring Children’s Agency in Ancient Japan
Roundtable
Agency & Transnational Perspectives
Supported by Toshiba International Foundation