Friday, January 3, 2:30–4:30 p.m.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting Sessions

40. Beyond Europe? Japan and the Ottoman Empire in the Birth of Intra-Asian Modernity

Palmer House, LaSalle Room 5

Chair: William Blair, Princeton University

Papers: Army and Nation: Ottoman and Japanese Military Reform
Handan Nezir, University of Manchester

Developing Modern Navies: Ottoman and Japanese Experiences in the Nineteenth Century
William Blair

East Meets East: An Ottoman Mission in Meiji Japan
Michael Penn, The University of Kitakyushu

Beyond Eurocentrism? Okawa's Shumei's Writings on the Muslim World, 1913–45
Cemil Aydin, Harvard University

Comment: Renée Worringer, University of Minnesota

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