{"id":3286,"date":"2022-10-11T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2022-10-11T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T05:56:13","slug":"conference-an-archaeology-of-wealth-and-poverty-unexpected-sources-of-medieval-japanese-economic-thought-mercredi-19-octobre-2022-18h-heure-du-japon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"[Conf\u00e9rence] \u00ab\u00a0An Archaeology of Wealth and Poverty: Unexpected Sources of Medieval Japanese Economic Thought\u00a0\u00bb (mercredi 19 octobre 2022, 18h heure du Japon)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dans le cadre des \u00ab\u00a0Kyoto Lectures\u00a0\u00bb, Ethan Segal (Michigan State University) donnera une conf\u00e9rence intitul\u00e9e :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">\u00ab\u00a0An Archeology of Wealth and Poverty: Unexpected Sources of Medieval Japanese Economic Thought\u00a0\u00bb<br>Mercredi 19 octobre \u00e0 18h, heure du Japon<br>\u00c0 l&rsquo;\u00c9cole Fran\u00e7aise d&rsquo;Extr\u00eame-Orient (Kyoto) et sur Zoom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pr\u00e9sentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper offers preliminary findings from research on an understudied topic: premodern economic thought. Japan\u2019s medieval age was a time of tremendous change as people began using imported Chinese coins, selling goods in regional markets, and developing new instruments of credit. Such activities surely affected the ways that people viewed the world, yet curiously, few left behind lengthy written reflections on economic matters like those found in other premodern societies as well as in Tokugawa Japan. Perhaps that is why most published histories of Japanese economic thought begin in the Tokugawa or later periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What broader significance did medieval Japanese assign to wealth and poverty (and how did their understandings of wealth and poverty evolve over time)? Why did their view of usury differ from those found in other contemporary societies? How did women\u2019s involvement in the expanding economy affect gender norms? And, perhaps most importantly, what types of evidence can be marshalled to answer these questions and reveal new developments in medieval economic thought? The paper draws on primary sources from diaries and government documents to folktales, religious stories, and illustrated scrolls in an effort to answer such questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ethan Segal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan Segal is associate professor of Japanese history and chairperson of the Japan Council at Michigan State University.\u00a0 A scholar of medieval Japan, his publications include the book <em>Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan<\/em>, published by the Harvard University Asia Center.\u00a0 Other topics of his research and publications include proto-nationalism, historical memory, women and gender, and depictions of Japan on film and television.\u00a0 He is currently on leave from MSU, conducting research with the support of a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This hybrid lecture will be held on site<\/strong> (email required in advance: <a href=\"mailto:efeo.kyoto@efeo.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">efeo.kyoto@efeo.net<\/a>) <strong>and via Zoom.<\/strong> The meeting link of Zoom will remain posted on the ISEAS website top page (<a href=\"https:\/\/iseas-kyoto.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/iseas-kyoto.org<\/a>) and the blog of EFEO Kyoto from two days before the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EFEO Kyoto:<\/strong> 29 Kitashirakawa betto-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8276 Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dans le cadre des \u00ab\u00a0Kyoto Lectures\u00a0\u00bb, Ethan Segal (Michigan State University) donnera une conf\u00e9rence intitul\u00e9e : \u00ab\u00a0An Archeology of Wealth and Poverty: Unexpected Sources of Medieval Japanese Economic Thought\u00a0\u00bbMercredi 19 octobre \u00e0 18h, heure du Japon\u00c0 l&rsquo;\u00c9cole Fran\u00e7aise d&rsquo;Extr\u00eame-Orient (Kyoto)&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=3286\" class=\"more-link\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actualites","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}