East Asia Program Lecture Series presents "Japan’s 'New Pre-War': On the Repetition of a Capitalist Form"

Ken Kawashima (Associate Professor, University of Toronto) will give a talk and lead a seminar on his current research, which explores the complex interrelationships between repeated capitalist crisis and the repetition of what he calls the ‘pre-war form’ of capitalist development in modern Japan. This talk is based on his recent article, “Japan’s ’New Pre-War’: Five Dislocations of its historical development”, published in Socialist Register 2024: A New Global Geometry. 

To participate in the seminar, please read this article.

About the East Asia Program

As Cornell’s hub for research, teaching, and engagement with East Asia, the East Asia Program (EAP) is a forum for the interdisciplinary study of historical and contemporary East Asia. Part of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the program draws its membership of over 45 core faculty and numerous affiliated faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students from across Cornell's colleges and schools.