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This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com
Panel 7 – Mermaids, Magic Lanterns, and the Standard Diving Dress: Transnational Histories of Nature and Technology in Historical Non-Places
Lewis Bremner
The Magic Lantern as a Lens onto the “Opening” of Japan
Maro Dotulong
The Conquest of Shell: Japanese Pearl-Shell Divers in the ‘Arafura Zone’
Mateja Kovacic
Japanese Mermaids and the Making of Darwin’s West
