1st research meeting (November 24, 2020)

The 1st Caravan research meeting was held on November 24, 2020. It was held online (Zoom) due to Covid-19. The members discussed the likely ways in which so-called Eurocentrism can be transcended by focusing on the Pacific, based on the following two reading materials:

1) Leigh K. Jenco & Jonathan Campbell, “Introduction: History from Between and the Global Circulation of the Past in Asia and Europe, 1600-1950,” Historical Journal, Vol. 64, issue 1 (2021);

2) Martin Dusinberre, “J.R. Seeley and Japan’s J.R. Seeley and Japan’s Pacific Expansion,” Historical Journal, Vol. 64, issue 1 (2021).