Global Think-in: Facing History Squarely
The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere
October 15, 2015 · 6:00PM-8:00PM
Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, Beijing
Panelists discussed the politics of memory of World War II in this seventieth anniversary year in domestic and geopolitical perspectives. Each panelist made a 7-minute introductory statement, which was then followed by a discussion among the panelists, moderated by Gluck, and finished with some questions from the audience.
- Narita Ryuichi, Japan Women’s University, on Japan
- Bu Ping, Chinese Academy of Social Science, on China
- Li Zonguan, Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression, on China
- Jie-hyun Lim, Sogang University, on Poland
- Valerie Rosoux, Louvain University, on the EU
- Carol Gluck (moderator), Columbia University
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Workshop: Nations and their Pasts
October 16, 2015 · 10:00AM-2:00PM
Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, Beijing
Each speaker gave a 20-minute presentation, which focused on national histories and their transnational challenges and opportunities. The presentations were given by:
- Jie-hyun Lim, National Histories in East Asia
- Iwasaki Minoru, Japan and its Non-memory of its Colonial Past
- Umemori Naoyuki, Opportunities for Transitional Justice in East Asia
- Valerie Rosoux, Memory in Rwanda
- Hou Chunyan, Chinese History on Exhibit
- Armelle Viard, Autobiographical Memory and Future Thinking
- Daniel Dayan, Witnessing and its Discontents
- Carol Gluck (moderator), Columbia University
This event was open to the public. Registration has closed.