Half Apollo, half samurai: The Ancient Greece of Japan

26 July 202627 July 2026

Michel Lucken, professor of Modern Japanese History, explains how Socrates and Epaminondas came to stand alongside Confucius, why human figures are missing from the pediments of Japanese neoclassical architecture, and what links ancient vases to contemporary manga. In the 1990’s, French historian of modern Japan Michel Lucken was conducting doctoral research on the country’s cultural […]

Postmodernism is dead and buried by Alan Kirby

2 April 201930 August 2024

Alan Kirby says postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces. I have in front of me a module description downloaded from a British university English department’s website. It includes details of assignments and a week-by-week reading […]