Inheriting Books: Overseas Bookstores, Distributors, and Their Networks

Keynote Panel "Evidence and the Challenges of the Humanities," Yoshitaka Hibi, Etsuko Taketani, Indra Levy, Christina Laffin, and Anne McKnight (moderator) , Sep. 7th, in 27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies (2018), "Past, Present, and Future: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media," UC Berkeley.

I talked about the book-distribution networks that existed before WWII and what I believe its significance is to our research. Also I briefly discussed university reform in Japan and the current crisis in the humanities and its connection to this research project.