April 5 lecture examines modern history of Japan

Posted 04/03/01

Carol Gluck, an internationally acclaimed scholar and speaker on modern Japan, will deliver a lecture, "Telling the Twentieth Century: Views from Elsewhere," on Thursday, April 5, at 4 p.m. in 3 Rockefeller Center.

Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. Her special field is the history of modern Japan from the mid-19th century to the present, with writings in modern cultural history, international relations, postwar Japanese history, historiography and public memory in Japan and the West.

Her major publications include Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the late Meiji Period (Princeton University Press, 1985); Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (co-editor with Stephen Graubard, W. W. Norton, 1992), and Asia in Western and World History (co-editor with Ainslie Embree, M. E. Sharpe, 1997). She is completing a new book based on her 1998 Schoff Lectures titled Past Obsessions: War and Memory in the Twentieth Century.

Gluck has been a visiting professor of History at Harvard University, at the Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University, and l'École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales. She has also been Visiting Research Associate at the Faculty of Law, Tokyo University. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford for 1999-2000.

Honors and awards include the John King Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, the Lionel Trilling Award of Columbia University (both for Japan's Modern Myths); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Mark van Doren Award and Great Teacher Award for teaching, Columbia University; Alumnae Achievement Award, Wellesley College; Distinguished Lectureships of the Association for Asian Studies and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences. In addition, she has received numerous grants, and has served on a variety of professional boards and associations, and recently , she was president of the Association for Asian Studies, 1996-97.

Gluck's Dartmouth lecture is sponsored by the History Department's Seminar for Critical Historical Studies.