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Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation–cfp
WOUNDS, SCARS, AND HEALING: CIVIL SOCIETY AND POSTWAR PACIFIC BASIN RECONCILIATION
Concluding Conference
In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.
30 September, 1 and 2 October 2015 at the University of Sydney
Conference Themes
Seventy years after the end of the war, Japan and its neighbours have negotiated a fragile but real transition towards lasting peace and reconciliation, an achievement that has been charted over a series of four conferences held in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 in Sydney, Seoul and Kyoto. Previous conferences have explored measures taken at official and government level, gestures of memorial diplomacy and the impact of the arts, literature and cinema in challenging stereotypes and offering new grounds for understanding. For this fifth and final conference we invite contributions on the significant role of Civil Society in contributing to the process of healing. Social movements and citizens’ campaigns at grassroots level have become formidable agents for change by lobbying governments and mobilising public opinion on issues such as the representation of history in school textbooks, comfort women, forced labourers from China and Korea, and nuclear disarmament.
We invite papers on the role of Civil Society but also those that add to aspects of reconciliation covered in the previous conferences, especially where new research or events have intervened to modify our understanding of this rapidly evolving area. For information on past conferences see the School of Languages and Cultures Magazine, Issue 29, June 2014: sydney.edu.au/arts/slc/news_events/language_culture.shtml and the homepage of previous conferences at sydney.edu.au/arts/publications/JOSA/index.htm
Associated cultural events
The conference is proud to support the premier performance of a Noh drama, Oppenheimer, written by Allan Marett. The text is in English, the themes remorse and resurrection. The Japanese translation will be available at the time of the performance. This play will be performed at the Conservatorium of Music, the University of Sydney on 30 September and 1 October and will be one of the highlights of the 2015 cultural year.
An exhibition of material relating to the Fifteen Year War 1931-45, and the efforts made by grassroots organisations to overcome the legacies of this war.
If legal issues are cleared we intend to show the legendary 1953 film, Hiroshima.
Opening Address
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO (Former Governor of New South Wales 2001-2014 and Former Chancellor of the University of Sydney 2007-2012)
Keynote speakers
Donald Keene
Thomas Keneally, author of the recent novel on the Cowra Breakout: Shame and the Captives
Richard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2014 (to be confirmed)
Prospective guest speakers
Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima City University
Akihiko Kimijima, Ritsumeikan University
Joan Beaumont, Australian National University
Christina Twomey, Monash University
Aiko Utsumi, Osaka University of Economics and Law, Director of Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership
Pankaj Mohan, Academy of Korean Studies
Professor Keiji Sawada, Waseda University
Organising committee
Further information: please contact either Dr Yasuko Claremont or Dr Roman Rosenbaum.
*Dr Yasuko Claremont, Japanese Studies: yasuko.claremont at sydney.edu.au
*Dr Roman Rosenbaum, Japanese Studies: roman.rosenbaum at sydney.edu.au
Dr Judith Keene, Department of History: udith.keene at sydney.edu.au
Professor Michael Lewis, Japanese Studies: m.lewis at sydney.edu.au
Professor Jocelyn Chey, Chinese Studies: jocelyn.chey at sydney.edu.au
Professor Hugh Clarke (Oriental Society of Asutralia): hugh.clarke at sydney.edu.au
Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski, French Studies: elizabeth.rechniewski at sydney.edu.au
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 1, 2015
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