The workshop on the
Transformation of Liberalism and the New Scheme of Social Integration:
Organic View from the Fin-de-siecle to the Interwar Period Examined
September 26-27, 2009
Yokohama National University
(1) Venue (outside the campus of YNU)
Saturday, 26 September: Seminar room at Sharegrid
252 Yamashita, Naka, Yokohama
Map (in Japanese):
<http://www.sharegrid.co.jp/training/images/map.pdf>http://www.sharegrid.co.jp/training/images/map.pdf
Sunday, 27 September: Satellite of YNU
Room 1809, Landmark Tower, Yokohama
Map (in Japanese):
<http://www.yokohama-landmark.jp/access/index.html?lmp01>http://www.yokohama-landmark.jp/access/index.html?lmp01
This workshop is part of the research project of 'the Organic View of
the Society and the Designing of Economic Governance: comparative
research of the economic thought from the fin-de-siecle to the
inter-war period' (Scientific research grant-in-aid 20243015 by Japan
Society for Promotion of Science)
(2) Programme & the list of speakers:
Saturday, 26 September 15:00-19:00
(2-a) Dr Hauke Janssen, Spiegel (in Germany)
Nationaloekonomie und Nationalsozialismus": German economics in the
1920s and 1930s
Discussant: Jyun Kobayashi (Rikkyo University)
Dr Janssen is the author of Nationaloekonomie und Nationalismus: die
deutsche Volkswirtshaftslehre in den dreissiger Jahren des 20.
Jahrhunderts, 3. Ueberarbeitete Auflage, Metropolis-Verlag, 2009.
(2-b) Xiao-Dong Li, Associate Professor at University of Shimane
Yan Fu's Idea of Liberty
Professor Li is Chinese scholar who works on the influence of western
ideas to China and Japan on the turn of late nineteenth and early
twenties century. Yan Fu (or often described as Yen Fu, 1853-1921) is
one of the major figures who introduced the western ideas including
John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer to China on the turn of the
century from nineteenth to twentieth, and translated those writings
of Evolution and Ethics of T.H. Huxley and Wealth of Nations of Adam
Smith into Chinese.
(2-c) Jyunichi Himeno, Professor at Nagasaki University
"Social Evolution" and Eugenics as Language of Politics on Race:
Chamberlainite vs. New Liberals
Sunday, 27 September 10:00-18:30
(2-d) Dr Axel Korner, Reader in modern European history at University
College London
Italian culture and the making of national identities: between
international experiences and municipal tradition, 1860 - 1920
Discussant: Yasunori Fukagai (YNU)
Dr Korner is the author of Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: from
Unification to Fascism, Routledge, 2008. He will refer to the
introduction and chapters 5, 9 and 10 of this volume on the presentation.
ISBN 9780415962919
<http://www.routledge.com/books/Politics-of-Culture-in-Liberal-Italy-isbn9780415962919>http://www.routledge.com/books/Politics-of-Culture-in-Liberal-Italy-isbn9780415962919
(2-e) Tetsuo Taka, Professor at Kyushu Sangyo University
American New Liberal Economic Thinking in 1920's: Chicago Series
Lectures on Adam Smith
(2-f) David Ciepley, Assistant Professor at the faculty of political
science, University of Denver
The New Deal, Totalitarianism, and the End of Progressivism
Discussant: Elliot Brownlee (University of California - Santa Barbara / YNU)
Professor Ciepley is the author of the Liberalism in the Shadow of
Totalitarianism, Harvard University Press, 2006. His presentation
will be expansion of the introduction and part II (Totalitarianism
and the economy: the renaissance of free enterprise) of this volume.
<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CIELIB.html>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/CIELIB.html
Professor Brownlee published many books including Federal Taxation in
America: Short History, new edition, Cambridge University Press,
2004, and edited the volumes such as The Reagan Presidency: Pragmatic
Conservatism & its Legacies, University Press of Kansas, 2003
(co-edited with Hugh Davis Graham). He is now examining the materials
of Carl S. Shoup which is possessed by University Library of YNU.
(2-g) Ken Kato, Research Assistant for this research project at YNU
The Visions of American Social Security of the 1930s: Wisconsin
School and Edwin E. Witte
(2-h) Yasunori Fukagai, Professor at YNU
On the Transition of Liberalism and the Variety of the Scheme of
Social Integration
Some others may join to the list as speaker or discussant.
Organised by
Yasunori Fukagai
Yokohama National University
Faculty of Economics
Yasunori Fukagai
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