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Past Events 2008/2009





MEARC Lecture Series

September 2008

09 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Ting-Feng Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
"The Political Development and Transformation in Taiwan after 2000" (PDF)


Prof. Vladimir Tikhonov (Oslo University, Norway)
"A Nation Born in the Barracks: Militarized Citizenship in the Republic of Korea" (PDF)


October 2008

01 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Fabian Heubel (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)
"Chinese Modernity and Transcultural Critique: Reflections on the Confucian Manifesto of 1958" (PDF)

14 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Winnie King (University of Bristol, UK)
"The Political Economy of Mobilisation: Transnational Activism and Informal Institutions in Cross-Strait Policy Development" (PDF)

27 -- MEARC Filmscreening
"Straits of Joseon" (1943) (PDF)

28 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Takashi Fujitani (University of California, San Diego)
"Koreans as Japanese Soldiers During WWII: Cinematic Representations" (1943) (PDF)

November 2008

11 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Caroline Rose (Leeds University, UK)
"The Spectre of Militarism on Sino-Japanese Relations: mutual threat perceptions in the 21st century " (PDF)

18 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Melody Lu (Leiden University)
"Politics of Immigration Policies and Citizenship in Taiwan and South Korea " (PDF)

24 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Ian Buruma (Leiden University)
" Between Heaven and Earth: Religion and Politics in China and Japan " (PDF)

December 2008

02 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Sabine Frühstück (University of California)
" No More Heroes: Militarized Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Japan " (PDF)

09 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University, Japan)
" The Kyoto School Philosophy and International Relations: Subject, Universality, and War Involvement " (PDF)

February 2009

10 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Long-hsin Liu (Soochow University, Taiwan)
" The Formation and Dissemination of Historical Knowledge in Modern China " (PDF)

17 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Yih-jye Hwang (Leiden University)
" The Birth of the "Taiwanese": A Discursive Constitution of the "Taiwanese" as a National Identity " (PDF)

March 2009

03 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Axel Schneider (Leiden University)
" Progress, the Book of Changes and the nature of history in modern China " (PDF)

10 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Aaron W. Moore (Oxford University)
" Fact and Fiction: Analyzing Genre and Self-Representation in Japanese and Chinese Nationalist War Diaries, 1937-1945 " (PDF)

17 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Quansheng Zhao (American University, Washington D.C.)
" New Approaches of Chinese Foreign Policy " (PDF)

31 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Fabian Schäfer (Leiden University)
" Public Opinion and the Press: The Origins of Media and Communication Studies in Prewar Japan, 1920-1937 " (PDF)

April 2009

31 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Christian Soffel (University of Munich)
" History or Shixue: How much of a Historian is Qian Mu?" (PDF)

May 2009

04 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Chih-yu Shih (National Taiwan University)
" China, China Scholars and China Scholarship: The Oral History of China Studies in Asian Communities " (PDF)

12 -- MEARC Seminar
Dr. Wolfgang Pape
" The Evolving Integration in East Asia: too many reserves? " (PDF)

19 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Chris Goto-Jones
" Swords and Canons: Constructing an Ethics of Violence in Early 20th Century Japan " (PDF)

June 2009

23 -- MEARC Seminar
Prof. Tse-Kang Leng
" Cross-Straits Relations and Taiwan " (PDF)

26 -- MEARC Workshop
" Beyond the credit crunch: regional economic integration in East Asia " (PDF)

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