1月開催のフォーラム

1月例会は、話題提供者にジョン・E・ヴァンサント先生（アラバマ大学バーミンガム校歴史学部准教授）をお迎えし、開催いたします。講演は英語で実施されます。

日時：1月23日（金）１８時〜１９時３０分
会場：船場生涯学習センター会議室1AB（501・502）（大阪大学外国学図書館5階）で【対面】での開催になります。会場の部屋がいつもの部屋と異なっておりますので、ご注意ください。会場へのアクセスはこちらをご参照ください

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講演の要旨

“The Satsuma-Rutgers Connection During the Early Meiji Era”

Nineteen young samurai from Satsuma domain who studied English, Dutch, and Western military technology in Kagoshima and Nagasaki were selected by their daimyō, Shimazu Tadayoshi, and secretly sent to England in 1865 to expand their knowledge of Western science and technology and learn what they could of Western society. During the spring and summer of 1867, when the “imperial armies” of Satsuma, Choshu, and their allies were succeeding in their battles against the Tokugawa shogunate, thirteen of the Satsuma students in England returned to Japan. Meanwhile, six journeyed to the United States to join the Brotherhood of the New Life, a Christian spiritualist community in upstate New York. Within a couple of years, three of the Satsuma students left the Brotherhood of the New Life community and made their way to New Brunswick and Rutgers College. They were soon joined by other young Japanese men who came to New Brunswick for a Western education. Several of these Japanese who studied at New Brunswick in the late 1860s and early 1870s would subsequently obtain important positions in the Meiji Imperial government. This paper examines the connection between Rutgers College, the Satsuma students, and their influence during the early Meiji Era. 

ジョン・E・ヴァンサント先生について

Dr. John E. Van Sant (PhD., University of Oregon; MA, BA, UC Davis) is Associate Professor of History and Graduate Program Director in the History Department at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He teaches courses on Japanese, East Asian, and World history. His primary area of research is late Tokugawa and Meiji Era history, including Japan’s relations with the United States. He also works with the Advanced Placement World History program. He is a member of the Association for Asian Studies, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. His published books include Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850-1880 (University of Illinois Press, 2000); and articles “Bakumatsu Beginnings: Tempō and the Road to Meiji” (Japan Studies Association Journal, 2015), and “Mori Arinori: Japan’s Diplomat in Washington D.C.”, The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol 31, No. 3 (2024).