Korean Studies

TuDoKu

3rd Conference: September 29-30, 2017 in Kyōto

"Transnational Cultures: Colonialism and the Cold War in Japan and Korea"

Schedule of Sessions

Friday, September 29

09:45 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks

10:10 - 12:00 Session 1: Historical Origins of Colonialism // Chair: HATTORI

  • Klaus ANTONI (Universität Tübingen)
    "Okinawa – Japan’s first colony? Tametomo and the historical Japanization of the Ryûkyû kingdom"
  • David WEISS (Universität Tübuingen)
    "A Prehistory of Colonialism: Views of Korea in Tokugawa Japan"

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:50 Session 2: Citizenship and Nationality // Chair: SCHRIMPF

  • AN Jong Chol (Universität Tübingen)
    "From Gender-Biased to Gender Equality Citizenship? The Politics of the Nationality Law, 1948-1997"
  • Tobias SCHOLL (Universität Tübingen)
    "Korean-Japanese Relations and South Korean Transborder Citizenship"

15:10 - 17:00 Session 3: Divided / Shared Memories of the Cold War // Chair: WACHUTKA

  • ITAGAKI Ryuta (Doshisha University)
    "Divided Family and Shared Memories: Ego-narratives of a North Korean Linguist Kim Sugyŏng and His Family"
  • You Jae LEE (Universität Tübingen)
    "Migration to a Divided Nation: Korean Former Miners and their Memory"

18:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Saturday, September 30

10:10 - 12:00 Session 4: Colonial Migration // Chair: AKIYAMA

  • JUNG Byung Wook (Korea University)
    "Chinese Workers and Anti-Chinese Riots in Colonial Korea"
  • YOON Hyo Jung (Korea University)
    "A Study on a United Front in the Colony Korea on a Transnational Perspective: Singanhoe Agitating for Acquirement of Chinese Nationality of Immigrant Koreans in Manchuria"

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:50 Session 5: Rethinking North Korea // Chair: KIM-WACHUTKA

  • Isabella JUKAS (Universität Tübingen)
    "North Korea’s Third World Offensive"
  • KIM Yeo-kyung (Doshisha University)
    "Social Movement and Cultural Reproduction: Focusing on Meanings of Korean Schools in Zainichi Korean Women’s Life Histories"

15:10 - 17:00 Session 6: Politics of Comparison // Chair: HORRES

  • KOTERA Ai (Doshisha University)
    "Myth making? The Holocaust memory of the third generation in Israel"
  • MIZUTANI Satoshi (Doshisha University)
    "British attitudes to Korea’s claim for independence, ca. 1905-20―the trans-imperial significance of Britain’s colonial experience in India and Egypt"

17:10 - 18:00 Discussions

18:30 - 20:30 Dinner