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Past Events 2009/2010





MEARC "Human Security" Lecture Series

11 & 12 June 2010 CONFERENCE "Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention in the International Society of East Asia - Historical Legacies and New Dynamics" (Program) - (Online report)
17 May 2010 Prof. Rana Mitter "Fear and Want: Wartime Origins and Contemporary Uses of Human Security in China" (PDF)
27 Apr 2010 Prof. Julie Gilson Human Security and Transnational Advocacy in East Asia (PDF)
12 Apr 2010 Dr. Erik Herber "Socio-legal Approaches to Human Security: Japanese Criminal Justice Policy and the “Fear of Crime”" (PDF)
30 Mar 2010 Prof. Ken Booth THE BIG QUESTION OF OUR TIME (PDF)
16 Mar 2010 Ms. Melanie Wacker "Japan Bans Cluster Munitions – The Role of Civil Society" (PDF)
03 Mar 2010 Dr. Lindsay Black &
Dr. Yih-Jye Hwang
"Writing ‘Human Security’ in China and Japan:
Foreign Policy, State Identity, and Great Power
Competition in East Asia" (PDF)

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MEARC "Cultural Sphere of Nationalism in East Asia" Lecture Series

23 Feb 2010 Dr. Remco Breuker (Leiden University) “A crucial factor in the creation of a nation”: the forgetting of the Vietnam War in South Korea (PDF)
16 Feb 2010 Prof. Steffi Richter (University of Leipzig) Between “cool” and “beautiful”: Trans/Nationalizing J-culture (PDF)
02 Feb 2010 Prof. Gunter Schubert (University of Tuebingen) The Struggle to be a “Normal Country” : Nationalism and National Identity in Post-authoritarian Taiwan (PDF)
11 Dec 2009 Prof. Kuan-Hsing Chen (National Chiao Tung University) "Conditions of Deimperialization" (PDF)
8 Dec 2009 Prof. Chi-Yu Shih (National Taiwan University) " Bridging Civilizations through Nothingness: Manchukuo as Nishida Kitaro’s "Place"" (PDF)
17 Nov 2009 Dr. Naoko Shimazu (University of London) "Consuming ‘War’ in Pre-War Japanese Popular Culture" (PDF)
27 Oct 2009 Dr. Florian Schneider (Leiden University) "The Beijing Olympics and Chinese Nation Branding: (Mis)Managing National Identity through Cultural Governance" (PDF)
15 Oct 2009 Dr. Dibyesh Anand (Westminster University, London) "Postcolonial Informal Empires in Asia " (PDF)
22 Sep 2009 Professor Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore) "Asia Redux: Conceptualising the Region for our Times" (PDF)
15 Sep 2009 Professor William Callahan (University of Manchester) "Cultural Governance and Identity Politics in East Asia" (PDF)

MEARC Activities outside of Lecture Series

18 May 2010 Prof. Lung Ying-Tai "Big River Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949" (poster)
30 Nov 2009 Exhibition Opening:
The Future via Anime
an Exhibition of Stills from Famous Japanese Anime
For more information, see Asiascape.net
29 Sep 2009 Dr. Pieter Dijkhuizen (United Nations World Food Programme) " Present Nutrition, Food and Agricultural Situation in North-Korea " (PDF)

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