The second Junior & Visiting Members Workshop of this year was held on Friday, November 10.
Three participants - two foreign graduate students residing in the Tokyo base of GHC and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists postdoctoral fellow - presented reports. The more-than-dozen young researchers and graduate students who attended vigorously exchanged views on the content of each report.
The program was as follows.

Antonio Blat (University of Valencia), "A Global Life in the Nineteenth Century. The Spanish Diplomat, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme (1851-1904)"

Connor Mills (Princeton University), "Histories of Everyday Life in Japanese Base Towns, 1945-1955"

Yuka Tomomatsu (JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher, IASA, The University of Tokyo), "Gendered Economies of Agriculture: Transformation of Everyday Livelihoods in Northern Ghana"

Drawing from the preparation of his doctoral thesis, Blat presented a summary of the life and works of a Spanish diplomat who had been posted to cities such as Yokohama, Berlin, and Washington, D.C.; he also discussed the current state of his thesis. Likewise, Mills discussed the daily exchanges of American military personnel with the local people in Japanese towns under U.S. occupation after the Second World War. Based on the results of her fieldwork, Tomomatsu raised questions with the basic recognition that gender is involved in the implementation of development assistance in West Africa by advanced countries. Her presentation was based on a portion of her book currently being prepared for publication.
（HANEDA Masashi）