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SUMMARY:Conversations & Cocktails: "Samurai Superstars in Antebellum Ameri
 ca" with Natalia Doan
DESCRIPTION:The Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts Presents Conversati
 ons & Cocktails: "Samurai Superstars in Antebellum America" with Natalia 
 Doan.\n\nThis virtual talk will explore how\, in 1860\, seventeen-year-ol
 d samurai Tateishi Onojirō and his rumored flirtations and popularity wit
 h American women during the first-ever Japanese diplomatic mission to the
  US sparked national controversy and questioning of antebellum ideas abou
 t race and culture.\n\nDr. Natalia Doan is an Assistant Professor of Hist
 ory at the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, where she teaches the cu
 ltural and intellectual history of modern and early modern Japan. She rec
 eived her doctorate in Asian Studies from the University of Oxford and is
  the author of Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi 
 Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press\, 2026).\n\nThis t
 alk is part of the 2026-2027 Conversations & Cocktails series presented b
 y the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts. Conversations & Cocktails i
 s a free public lecture and discussion series that showcases the original
  research of our distinguished UT arts and humanities faculty. Join us as
  we feature groundbreaking work exploring a wide range of topics in the a
 rts and in humanities fields such as philosophy\, history\, and literatur
 e studies.\n\nRegister for the virtual talk with the link below.\n\nhttp:
 //next-to-u.app/events/0726441a-b2e8-4870-8a79-2e405c123ef2
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/0726441a-b2e8-4870-8a79-2e405c123ef2
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