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Critical Global Studies Institute and Institute of Social Sciences of Sogang University will jointly host the international conference "East Asia as an Entangled Memory Space" from 21 to 23 September 2017.

At this gathering we seek to critically examine the diverse realms constituting the "memory regime" of East Asia, from the official memory overseen by the state to the vernacular memory of ordinary people reproduced in daily life.

Critical Global Studies Institute and Institute of Social Sciences of Sogang University will jointly host the international conference "East Asia as an Entangled Memory Space" from 21 to 23 September 2017.

At this gathering we seek to critically examine the diverse realms constituting the "memory regime" of East Asia, from the official memory overseen by the state to the vernacular memory of ordinary people reproduced in daily life.

On the opening day, Seok-Jin Lew, director of Institute of Social Sciences, will give a talk titled "East Asia's Digital Memory Space and Online Nationalism" and the visual artist Jane Jin Kaisen will introduce her work "Woman, Orphan, and Tiger" that deals with the memories of an adopted child.

The second day will take up three panel discussions. In the "East Asian Memory Regime in Literature" panel, we will trace the lineage of memories in East Asia and explore the possibilities of working in solidarity through investigation of topics such as East Asia's governmentality and trauma, Third World literary movement and antiwar movement in literature. In the "Rethinking Multilayeredness of Victimhood and Victimization" panel, we will grasp the colonial era resistance movements and minorities and feminism in contemporary Japan in the context of entanglement that goes beyond the duality of victimhood and victimization.  In the "Memory Theories after Mnemonic Turn" panel, based on examination of memory theories and war and post-war narratives we will clarify the forefront of memory studies and sound out its possibility.

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In the final day's "Scars and Vernacular Memory of Colonialism" panel, we will deal with the memories of women and sex workers, Zainichi Koreans, and post-war Japan and reconstruct the trauma of colonialism as vernacular memory from below.

The conference will convene at Room 101 Dasan Hall on the 21st and at Room 302 Jeong Hasang Hall on the 22nd and 23rd, respectively.

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For further information, please refer to the attached program.

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Organizers:  Critical Global Studies Institute (CGSI)   Institute of Social Sciences

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Sponsor:  Sogang SK-SUPEX

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Time:  Sep. 21(Thurs) – 23 (Sat), 2017

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Place:  101 Dasan Hall, Sogang Univ. (Sep. 21)   302 Jeong Hasang  Hall, Sogang Univ. (Sep. 22 – 23)

■ Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Korean and Japanese.

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September 21 (Thurs)

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Moderator: Naoki Watanabe (Musashi Univ.)

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15:00-15:30  Opening Address   

Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang Univ.)   Minoru Iwasaki (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)

15:30-16:30  Opening Lecture and Discussion

Seok-Jin Lew (Sogang Univ.): East Asia’s Digital Memory Space and Online Nationalism

16:30-16:45  Coffee Break

16:45-17:45  Film Screening and Dialogue with the Director

“The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger” By Jane Jin Kaisen, Visual Artist

17:45-18:15  Panelist Introduction

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19:00-21:00  Welcome Dinner

September 22 (Fri)

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10:00-12:00  Panel 1: East Asian Memory Regime in Literature

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Moderator: Chan-je Woo (Sogang Univ.)

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Presentation:

*Seung-Ki Cha (Chosun Univ.): Memory,Governmentality, and Literature - Trauma  and Mnemonic Technology of East Asia

*Emiko Takeuchi (Meiji Univ.): Yoshie Hotta’s Hours and Night Forest and Asian-African Writers’ Conference (AAWC)

*Noritsugu Gomibuchi (Otsuma Women’s Univ.): Tatsuzo Ishikawa and the Tokyo International Military Tribunal (IMT)

Discussion:*Im-soon Kong (Sogang Univ.), Teru Shimamura (Ferris Univ.)

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-15:00  Panel 2: Rethinking Multilayeredness of Victimhood and Victimization

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Moderator: Byeong-nam Yun (Sogang Univ.)

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Presentation:

*Il-yeong Jeong (Sogang Univ.): Multilayeredness of “Resistance Community” Seen through the NIMBY Phenomenon during Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea

*Hyun-Suk  So (Hanyang Univ.): Representation of the Nation and  “the Other” of the Nation - Formation of the Concept of “the Crippled” and the Colonial Conditions in Korea under Japanese Rule

*Rin Odawara (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies): Right to Life and Right to Reproduction – Feminism and Eugenic Thou

Discussion: *Chitsuko Naito (Otsuma Women’s Univ.), Soyoung Lee (Jeju National Univ.)

15:30-17:30  Panel 3: Memory Theories after “Mnemonic Turn”   

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Presentation:

*Jin-sung Chun (Busan National Univ. of Education): Four Keywords Conferred to History by Memory Theories – Post-History, Space, Media, and Human Rights

*Jeong-myong Sim (Konkuk  Univ.): How Disaster Narratives Remember War – Fukushima and the Asia-Pacific War

*Masato Karashima (Kobe Univ.): Japan’s Developmentalism and Asianism – Academic Knowledge and Two Post-war Periods

Discussion:*Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda Univ.), Jeong-seok Khang (Sogang Univ.)

18:00-20:00  Dinner

September 23 (Sat)

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8:30-10:30  ​Panel 4: Scars and Vernacular Memory of Colonialism   

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Moderator: Heon-joo Jung (Yonsei Univ.)   

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Presentation:

*Joo Hee Kim (Ewha Womans Univ.):  “New Town Nationalism” in Itaewon and Women’s Memories of Resistance

*Yamamoto Akihiro (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies): “Who Wants to Revenge on Japanese People?” – Focusing on the Representation of Zainichi Koreans in the Film, “A Man’s Face is His Resumé” (1966)

*Youngran Ko (Nihon Univ.): Japan is No One’s Ally – Disarmed and Neutral “Japan” and Story of “the Korean War”Discussion:Eri Watanabe (Shizuoka Univ.), Eun-kyeong Kim (Sookmyung Women’s Univ.)

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:45  Wrap-up Discussion 

Moderator: Minoru Iwasaki, Jie-Hyun Lim

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Discussion: Eunshil Kim (Ewha Woman’s Univ.), Yoo Seong Cheong (Sogang Univ.),Ryuichi Narita (Japan  Women’s Univ.), Tsuboi Hideto (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

On the opening day, Seok-Jin Lew, director of Institute of Social Sciences, will give a talk titled "East Asia's Digital Memory Space and Online Nationalism" and the visual artist Jane Jin Kaisen will introduce her work "Woman, Orphan, and Tiger" that deals with the memories of an adopted child.

The second day will take up three panel discussions. In the "East Asian Memory Regime in Literature" panel, we will trace the lineage of memories in East Asia and explore the possibilities of working in solidarity through investigation of topics such as East Asia's governmentality and trauma, Third World literary movement and antiwar movement in literature. In the "Rethinking Multilayeredness of Victimhood and Victimization" panel, we will grasp the colonial era resistance movements and minorities and feminism in contemporary Japan in the context of entanglement that goes beyond the duality of victimhood and victimization.  In the "Memory Theories after Mnemonic Turn" panel, based on examination of memory theories and war and post-war narratives we will clarify the forefront of memory studies and sound out its possibility.

​

In the final day's "Scars and Vernacular Memory of Colonialism" panel, we will deal with the memories of women and sex workers, Zainichi Koreans, and post-war Japan and reconstruct the trauma of colonialism as vernacular memory from below.

The conference will convene at Room 101 Dasan Hall on the 21st and at Room 302 Jeong Hasang Hall on the 22nd and 23rd, respectively.

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For further information, please refer to the attached program.

​

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Organizers:  Critical Global Studies Institute (CGSI)   Institute of Social Sciences

​

Sponsor:  Sogang SK-SUPEX

​

Time:  Sep. 21(Thurs) – 23 (Sat), 2017

​

Place:  101 Dasan Hall, Sogang Univ. (Sep. 21)   302 Jeong Hasang  Hall, Sogang Univ. (Sep. 22 – 23)

■ Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Korean and Japanese.

​

September 21 (Thurs)

​

Moderator: Naoki Watanabe (Musashi Univ.)

​

15:00-15:30  Opening Address   

Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang Univ.)   Minoru Iwasaki (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)

15:30-16:30  Opening Lecture and Discussion

Seok-Jin Lew (Sogang Univ.): East Asia’s Digital Memory Space and Online Nationalism

16:30-16:45  Coffee Break

16:45-17:45  Film Screening and Dialogue with the Director

“The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger” By Jane Jin Kaisen, Visual Artist

17:45-18:15  Panelist Introduction

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19:00-21:00  Welcome Dinner

September 22 (Fri)

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10:00-12:00  Panel 1: East Asian Memory Regime in Literature

​

Moderator: Chan-je Woo (Sogang Univ.)

​

Presentation:

*Seung-Ki Cha (Chosun Univ.): Memory,Governmentality, and Literature - Trauma  and Mnemonic Technology of East Asia

*Emiko Takeuchi (Meiji Univ.): Yoshie Hotta’s Hours and Night Forest and Asian-African Writers’ Conference (AAWC)

*Noritsugu Gomibuchi (Otsuma Women’s Univ.): Tatsuzo Ishikawa and the Tokyo International Military Tribunal (IMT)

Discussion:*Im-soon Kong (Sogang Univ.), Teru Shimamura (Ferris Univ.)

12:00-13:00  Lunch

13:00-15:00  Panel 2: Rethinking Multilayeredness of Victimhood and Victimization

​

Moderator: Byeong-nam Yun (Sogang Univ.)

​

Presentation:

*Il-yeong Jeong (Sogang Univ.): Multilayeredness of “Resistance Community” Seen through the NIMBY Phenomenon during Japanese Colonial Rule in Korea

*Hyun-Suk  So (Hanyang Univ.): Representation of the Nation and  “the Other” of the Nation - Formation of the Concept of “the Crippled” and the Colonial Conditions in Korea under Japanese Rule

*Rin Odawara (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies): Right to Life and Right to Reproduction – Feminism and Eugenic Thou

Discussion: *Chitsuko Naito (Otsuma Women’s Univ.), Soyoung Lee (Jeju National Univ.)

15:30-17:30  Panel 3: Memory Theories after “Mnemonic Turn”   

​

Presentation:

*Jin-sung Chun (Busan National Univ. of Education): Four Keywords Conferred to History by Memory Theories – Post-History, Space, Media, and Human Rights

*Jeong-myong Sim (Konkuk  Univ.): How Disaster Narratives Remember War – Fukushima and the Asia-Pacific War

*Masato Karashima (Kobe Univ.): Japan’s Developmentalism and Asianism – Academic Knowledge and Two Post-war Periods

Discussion:*Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda Univ.), Jeong-seok Khang (Sogang Univ.)

18:00-20:00  Dinner

September 23 (Sat)

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8:30-10:30  ​Panel 4: Scars and Vernacular Memory of Colonialism   

​

Moderator: Heon-joo Jung (Yonsei Univ.)   

​

Presentation:

*Joo Hee Kim (Ewha Womans Univ.):  “New Town Nationalism” in Itaewon and Women’s Memories of Resistance

*Yamamoto Akihiro (Kobe City Univ. of Foreign Studies): “Who Wants to Revenge on Japanese People?” – Focusing on the Representation of Zainichi Koreans in the Film, “A Man’s Face is His Resumé” (1966)

*Youngran Ko (Nihon Univ.): Japan is No One’s Ally – Disarmed and Neutral “Japan” and Story of “the Korean War”Discussion:Eri Watanabe (Shizuoka Univ.), Eun-kyeong Kim (Sookmyung Women’s Univ.)

10:30-10:45  Coffee Break

10:45-12:45  Wrap-up Discussion 

Moderator: Minoru Iwasaki, Jie-Hyun Lim

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Discussion: Eunshil Kim (Ewha Woman’s Univ.), Yoo Seong Cheong (Sogang Univ.),Ryuichi Narita (Japan  Women’s Univ.), Tsuboi Hideto (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)