{"id":853,"date":"2017-07-06T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/?p=853"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:43:57","slug":"0718-2","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/events\/0718-2\/","title":{"rendered":"18 JUL, Seminar &#8220;The Size of History: Small Worlds, Big Worlds, and &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170718.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-855\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170718.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a>IGS Seminar, &#8220;The Size of History: Small Worlds, Big Worlds, and the People Caught in Between&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date: Tuesday, July 18, 16:40-18:10<br \/>\nVenue: Room 135\uff08\u672c\u9928135\u5ba4\uff09, Main Building, Ochanomizu University<\/p>\n<p>Speaker:\u00a0Laura Nenzi (IGS, Ochanomizu University\/ University of Tennessee)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is there a right size to history? How large does an event or a person must be in order to be included in a history book? Do we need to uncover the small worlds of individuals whose inconsequential actions did not change the historical process? This talk will reflect on the historiographical and methodological debate that pits \u201clarge-scale\u201d versus \u201csmall-scale\u201d history\u2014global history and microhistory. Using the example of Kurosawa Tokiko (1806-1890), an unknown teacher, fortuneteller, poet, and political activist from Mito domain who attempted to alter the course of late-Tokugawa history and failed, I will make a case for the inclusion of unrepresentative and obscure historical actors in the history books. Caught between small and big history, these characters change our understanding of individual agency and shed new light on the creative process whereby those at the margins imagined a central role for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u261b Prior registration required \uff08Admission Free\uff09 Registration Form<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-size: 10pt;\">*Closed Seminar, Ochadai students only<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Organizer: Institute for Gender Studies<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","events_category":[123],"class_list":["post-853","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","events_category-events-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"events_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events_category?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}