【Symposium】　Dynamics of Asia-Pacific Region - Interdisciplinary Perspectives:History and Prospect -7/24-26　Osaka U.

Dear Colleagues:

Osaka University will hold an international symposium "Dynamics of Asia-Pacific Region - Interdisciplinary Perspectives:History and Prospect -" from 24 through 26 July at the Minoh Campus, Osaka University. We assume that all the participants will have read the conference papers before the symposium. Your presentation should be as brief as possible and leave a plenty of time for discussion (15 minutes for presentation, 45 minutes for discussion). You are very welcome to thismsymposium, but you need to register for this symposium. (sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Only participants and registered guests may access conference papers.

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http://sugita.us/2014osakasymposium

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Osaka University International Symposium Program, 2014

Theme: Dynamics of Asia-Pacific Region - Interdisciplinary Perspectives:

History and Prospect -

Date: 24 - 26 July 2014 

Venue: Presentation Room (1st floor, Building B), Minoh Campus, Osaka University (Osaka Japan)

http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/index.html#minoh (Access map)

http://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/access/minoh (Campus map) #2(First Floor)

+We assume that all the participants will have read the conference

papers before the symposium. Your presentation should be as brief as

possible and leave a plenty of time for discussion (15 minutes for

presentation, 45 minutes for discussion).

DAY1: 24 July (Thursday) Symposium Day1

12:30-14:00 Keynote Speech:

Presenter: Professor Doug Slaymaker (University of Kentucky)

Title: International Issues: Japanese artists and the problems with borders

Chair and Discussants: Professor Maria Toyoda & Professor Toshitaka Takeuchi 

14:15 - 16:20 (Sessions 1&2)

Presenter: Professor Akiko Takenaka (University of Kentucky)

Title: “Postmemorial Trauma”: The Revisionist Turn in Japan’s Memories of the Asia-Pacific War

Chair and Discussant: Professor Bart Gaens

Presenter: Professor Karl Gustafsson (Swedish Institute of International Affairs)

Title: The Japanese Discourse on “anti-Japanism”

Chair and Discussant: Professor Victor Teo

16:35 - 18:40 (Sessions 3 & 4)

Presenter: Professor Rotem Kowner (The University of Haifa)

Title: Japan and the rise of the Idea of Race: On the synthesis of foreign and domestic constructions (1854-1945)  (conference paper is available upon request)

Chair and Discussant: Professor Key-young Son

Presenter: Professor Louise Young (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Title: Rethinking Empire in the Twentieth Century: Lessons from Imperial and Post-Imperial Japan

Chair and Discussant: Professor Emilian Kavalski 

19:00 - 20:30  Supper: Minoh Campus, Osaka University

DAY2: 25 July (Friday) Symposium Day2

10:00 - 12:05 (Sessions 5 & 6)

Presenter: Professor Bart Gaens (The Finnish Institute of International Affairs)

Title: The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM): Institutional Design, (Inter) regionalism, and Norms

Chair and Discussant: Professor Toshitaka Takeuchi

Presenter: Professor Victor Teo (Hong Kong University)

Title: Japan’s Foreign Policy at Cross-roads: Towards a more amicable East Asia

Chair and Discussant: Professor Maria Toyoda 

12:10 - 12:45 Lunch (Bento Box)

12:50 - 14:55 (Sessions 7 & 8)

Presenter: Key-young Son (Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University)

Title: Unpacking Power: Multihegemony, Sutured Regionness and the US-China-Japan Triangle in Northeast Asia

Chair and Discussant: Professor Rotem Kowner 

Presenter: Professor Emilian Kavalski (Institute for Social Justice | Australian Catholic University)

Title: Are there normative powers in the Asia-Pacific? Comparing normative power China, normative power Japan, and normative power Europe

Chair and Discussant: Professor Akiko Takenaka

15:10 - 16:50 (Sessions 9 &10)

Presenter: Yoneyuki Sugita 

Title: Struggle for Agenda Setting: U.S.-Japan Alliance Management over North Korea, 2001-2003

(Conference paper is available upon request)

Chair and Discussant: Professor Louis Young 

Presenter: Graduate students and younger scholars

Title: current research themes

Chair and Discussant: Professor Maria Toyoda

17:00 - 19:30 Dinner: Gankozushi Toyonaka

DAY3: 26 July (Saturday) Symposium Day3

10:00 - 12:00 Graduate School Students Session

Presenter: Graduate students and younger scholars

Title: current research themes

General Meeting

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Yoneyuki Sugita <sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp>