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Call Number: SC0266
Creator:
Stanford University
Title: American Studies Seminars in Japan records
Dates: 1950-1981
Bulk Dates: 1950-1960
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Summary: The records consist mostly of correspondence but also include memoranda, reports, financial documents, syllabi, bibliographies,
clippings, and several photograph albums. Some of the materials relate to seminars held in Kyoto, 1951-1952. There is one
file on establishing an American Studies Program at Stanford, 1953. Collection includes extensive correspondence of Hideo
Kishimoto, 1952-1960, with some typescript articles and talks. Other correspondents include Claude Buss, John D. Goheen, J.
E. Wallace Sterling, George H. Knoles, George H. Kerr, Shinzo Kaji, Morton G. White, and Perry Miller.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
The records were received by the Stanford University Archives via administrative transfer in 1980.
This collection is open for research; materials must be requested at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], American Studies Seminars in Japan Records (SC0266). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The American Studies Seminars in Japan were jointly sponsored by Stanford and the University of Tokyo and partially funded
by the Ford Foundation. The seminars, held in the summers of 1950 to 1956, were taught by American scholars in various fields
for students at the University of Tokyo. Among the seminar organizers were Hideo Kishimoto and Shinzo Kaji of the University
of Tokyo and George Harmon Knoles and John D. Goheen of Stanford.
The records consist mostly of correspondence but also include memoranda, reports, financial documents, syllabi, bibliographies,
clippings, and several photograph albums. Some of the materials relate to seminars held in Kyoto, 1951-1952. There is one
file on establishing an American Studies Program at Stanford, 1953. Collection includes extensive correspondence of Hideo
Kishimoto, 1952-1960, with some typescript articles and talks. Other correspondents include Claude Buss, John D. Goheen, J.
E. Wallace Sterling, George H. Knoles, George H. Kerr, Shinzo Kaji, Morton G. White, and Perry Miller. The collection also
includes the
Bulletin of the Center for American Studies of the University of Tokyo, Nov. 4, 1981, with recollections of the seminars by its participants.
Buss, Claude Albert.
Goheen, John D.
Kaji, Shinzo.
Kerr, George H., 1911-
Kishimoto, Hideo, 1903-1964.
Knoles, George Harmon.
Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.
Stanford University
Sterling, J. E. Wallace, (John Ewart Wallace), 1906-1985
White, Morton Gabriel, 1917-
Intercultural education.
Photoprints.
United States--Study and teaching.