Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS) Research Seminars (Hybrid & Online) – 2024 Spring Semester Programme

The Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS) is pleased to announce the 2024 Spring Semester programme for their hybrid & online research seminars.

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16 April 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm-6:00 pm (Japan Standard Time) (HYBRID)
Tom Learmouth (London School of Economics) 
Kojima Conference Room (2F), Kojima Hall, 7 Chome-3 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0033
‘From Tabi to Tyres: The Absorption of Foreign Manufacturing Knowledge in Japan, 1908–1937’

14 May 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm-6:30 pm (JST) (ONLINE)
Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (The University of Hong Kong)
‘The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964-1971’

18 June 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm-6:30 pm (JST) (ONLINE)
Yi Liu (Ruhr University Bochum)
‘Shifting Dynamics: German Banks’ Strategies in Hong Kong during the post-war Period’
Kei Uenishi (University of Tokyo)
‘China’s indirect trade via Hong Kong, 1950s–1980s’

25 June 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 pm-6:30 pm (JST) (HYBRID)
Francesco Benigno (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Comments by Harumi Goto (University of Tokyo)
Venue To Be Decided
‘The Minister-Favorite in Seventeenth-Century Europe’

22 July 2024 (Monday), 5:00 pm-6:30 pm (JST) (ONLINE)
Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield)
Comments by Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
‘The Epidemic of Crisis Suicides During Britain’s War of Nerves, 1938-1940’

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