{"id":3987,"date":"2026-04-13T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/?p=3987"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:47:46","slug":"26th-hasekura-seminar-kiri-paramore-the-problem-of-periodization-in-global-history-what-comes-before-modern-medieval-early-modern-or-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/26th-hasekura-seminar-kiri-paramore-the-problem-of-periodization-in-global-history-what-comes-before-modern-medieval-early-modern-or-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"26th Hasekura Seminar: Kiri Paramore, \u201cThe Problem of Periodization in Global History: What Comes Before \u2018Modern\u2019\u2014Medieval, Early Modern, or Something Else?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"1285\" src=\"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kiri-Paramore-lecture.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3989\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7268522221333547;width:436px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How should we understand the historical period that comes before \u201cthe modern\u201d?<br>In this lecture, Kiri Paramore examines the first sustained academic use of the concept of \u201cearly modernity,\u201d which emerged in Japan in the early twentieth century. Developed partly in reaction to the imperialist implications of the periodization of Ancient\u2013Medieval\u2013Modern, the idea of early modernity offered an alternative trajectory toward nationhood and sovereignty, rooted not in feudal militarism but in civil culture and the spread of Neo-Confucianism. By tracing this intellectual history, Paramore sheds light on how Japanese historians opened up more culturally and historically plural ways of thinking about modernity and global history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Date&amp;Time: April 20, 2026, 13:00~14:30<br>Venue: Tohoku University Kawauchi Campus, Multimedia Education and Research Complex, 6F<br>(MAP:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/map\/en\/?f=KW_A05\">https:\/\/www.tohoku.ac.jp\/map\/en\/?f=KW_A05<\/a>)<br>Capacity: 100<br>Registration: Not required<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u4e3b\u50ac\uff1a \u6771\u5317\u5927\u5b66\u65e5\u672c\u5b66\u56fd\u969b\u5171\u540c\u5927\u5b66\u9662\u3001 \u6771\u5317\u5927\u5b66\u5927\u5b66\u9662\u56fd\u969b\u6587\u5316\u7814\u7a76\u79d1\u3000<br>\u5171\u50ac\uff1a \u6771\u5317\u5927\u5b66\u65e5\u672c\u601d\u60f3\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u4f1a\u3001 \u6771\u5317\u5927\u5b66\u65e5\u672c\u5b66\u7814\u7a76\u4f1a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For inquiries: Klautau, Orion \uff08klautau[@]tohoku.ac.jp\uff09*Please change [@] to @<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we understand the historical period that comes before \u201cthe modern\u201d?In this lecture, Kiri Paramore examines the first sustained academic use of the concept of \u201cearly modernity,\u201d which emerged in Japan in the early twentieth century. Developed partly in reaction to the imperialist implications of the periodization of Ancient\u2013Medieval\u2013Modern, the idea of early modernity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zemi-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}