We are pleased to present the Asian Studies talk by Amy Stanley, author of Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. Dr. Stanley is an author and Professor of History at Northwestern University, and won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography and PEN/America Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

In the early nineteenth century, an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno ran away from home. Defying convention, she made a life for herself in the big city of Edo (now Tokyo) in the decades before the arrival of Commodore Perry and the fall of the shogunate. But as she was an unknown person, finding out what happened to her is a difficult task. This talk focuses on how images and documents in the Japanese archive can be used - carefully - to tell her story.