Harry Harootunian

Harry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History, emeritus, University of Chicago; Research Associate, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Recent publications include The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives (Duke University Press, 2020) and Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History (Columbia University Press, 2019). Harootunian is currently trying to complete a book, Fascism and Time in Modern Japan, Archaism and Anachrony.

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History’s Repetition

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History’s Repetition

When the unwelcome collaboration of nature and history furiously swept over and uprooted everything in its way in Fukushima on 3.11, the then mayor of Tokyo exp... More

Conjunctural Inventory

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Conjunctural Inventory

A recent editorial in the French daily Liberation (June 25, 2011) reminded its readers of how the mercurial collapse of the House of Lehman Brothers spread so r... More