KU Leuven Faculty of Arts, Belgium
Jan Schmidt obtained his PhD in History of Japan from Ruhr University Bochum, where he also has worked as Lecturer in Modern History of Japan, and an MA degree in Medieval and Modern History and in Japanese Studies from Heidelberg University. He is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies (Modern and Contemporary History of Japan) and Head of the Japanese Studies Research Unit in the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven. He was Visiting Associate Professor at the Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. He has published extensively on the First World War in Japan and East Asia, being the co-editor of the edited volumes "The East Asian Dimension of the First World War: Global Entanglements and Japan, China and Korea, 1914–1919" (2020) and "Global First World War. African, East Asian, Latin American and Iberan Mediators" (2021) and also the author of the 2021 monograph on "Nach dem Krieg ist vor dem Krieg. Medialisierte Erfahrungen des Ersten Weltkriegs und Nachkriegsdiskurse in Japan (1914–
1919) published by Campus (Frankfurt/New York) which received the 2023 ICAS book price in the German Language Edition.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Trade, Power and Mobility in Asian History II
Thursday, August 1, 2024
11:15 – 13:00 (GMT+7)
Thursday, August 1, 2024
10:45 – 13:00 (GMT+7)