Masuda Hajimu (family name Masuda, 益田 肇) is a historian of 20th century Asia and U.S. foreign relations. He focuses on the histories of ordinary people and their violence, as well as the recurrent rise of grassroots social conservatism in the globalized modern world.
I received the 21st Osaragi Jiro Rondan Prize for my book Hitobitono nakano Reisen sekai [The Cold War World among Ordinary People (Iwanami, 2021).
I received the 75th Mainichi Suppan Bunka Prize for my book Hitobitono nakano Reisen sekai [The Cold War World among Ordinary People] (Iwanami, 2021).
母校出身学部の立命館大学国際関係学部で2月10日、大佛次郎論壇賞受賞記念講演を行いました(オンライン)。この講演については、『京都新聞』(3月3日付紙面)に大きく取り上げられました。
The 5th RCW Oral History Workshop was held at NUS (online) on Feb 14-26. We discussed 12 papers submitted by scholars and graduate students from China, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, France, Romania, and the United States.
I gave a series of talks in Sept 2021-April 2022. YouTube video on my talk “What really was the Cold War?: Imagined Reality, Social Mechanism, Ordinary People’s War” at the University of Vienna, Austria, is available here.
The 4th RCW Oral History Workshop was held at NUS (online) on July 19-31, 2021. We discussed 10 papers submitted by scholars and graduate students from Japan, China, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sweden, and the United States.
I attended the 2021 Jeju Forum (24-26 June). On 25 June, I gave my presentation, “Reconsidering Massacres from ‘Social Warfare’ Perspective” in a panel session titled “April 3rd Incident and the Global Cold War and Peace.”
NUS and LSE are accepting applications for admission to their NUS-LSE Double Degree MA in Asian and International History till 23 May 2022.
『人びとのなかの冷戦世界 想像が現実となるとき』書評会の小特集が『クァドランテ』第24号（2022年3月）に掲載されました。評者は戸邉秀明、渡辺直紀、藤井豪の各氏。司会・岩崎稔。