4 PM, 2 April, 2010 | 4th floor College Hall
Join the Philomathean Society and Frederick Dickinson, Associate Professor of History for an afternoon discussion on topics of intellectual and personal interest. Come to relax, learn, reflect or simply to enjoy a cup of Earl Grey.
Frederick R. Dickinson is an Associate Professor of Japanese History at Penn. Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanazawa and Kyoto, Japan, he teaches courses on modern Japan, East Asian diplomacy and politics and nationalism in Asia. He received an MA (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in History from Yale University and holds an MA in International Politics from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan, 1986). He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914 – 1919 (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999) and Taisho tenno (Taisho Emperor, Minerva Press, 2009). Currently, he is working on a study of Japanese political and cultural reconstruction following the First World War (1919-1931). He has won a number of prizes and fellowships and served as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the 2000 – 2001 academic year.
