Schedule
9:30-9:50 Opening Remarks
Moderator Ji Hee Jung (Seoul National University)
Opening Remarks Kijeong Nam (Acting Director, Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Congratulatory Remarks : Takeshi Kato (Director, The Japan Foundation, Seoul), Keisuke Omori (President, Toshiba International Foundation)
9:50-10:30 Keynote Speech
Cold War Justice: Transpacific Critique of America’s Liberal Empire
Lisa Yoneyama (University of Toronto)
10:40-12:10 Session I.
Cold War Liberal Order and Postcolonial Asia
Moderator : Heonik Kwon (Seoul National University · Trinity College, Cambridge)
Another Taiwan is Possible: Towards an Archipelagic East Asia
Leo T. S. Ching (Duke University)
Postwar US Racial Liberalism and the Cold War in US-Occupied Japan
Deokhyo Choi (University of Sheffield)
Interrogating Peace and Democracy in Postwar Okinawa and Mainland Japan
Sinhyeok Jung (Seoul National University)
Discussion Seijin Chang (Hallym University)
13:30-15:00 Session II.
Inside and Outside of Postwar Liberal Democracy
Moderator : Hyojin Kim (Seoul National University)
Japan in the Global Cold War Era
Christopher Gerteis (University of Tokyo · SOAS, University of London)
Right-Wing Activists between Japan and South Korea
Reto Hofmann (Curtin University)
The Gendered Optics of the Cold War: Phantasmagoric Abstraction and Obliteration
Setsu Shigematsu (University of California Riverside)
Discussion Sang-wook Nam (Incheon National University)
15:10-16:40 Session III.
The Liberal Order in the Long Cold War
Moderator : Keiran Macrae (Seoul National University)
Japanese Deimperialization in the Cold War and Post-Cold War Eras: Asia and the American Embrace
Simon Avenell (Australian National University)
Japan’s Postwar Democracy in the Long Cold War: Primer of Democracy and Cold War Liberalism
Ji Hee Jung (Seoul National University)
Don’t Leave Me, daremo inai: The Cruel Optimism of the Liberals in Post-post Cold War Japan
Hitomi Koyama (Leiden University)
Discussion Jung-Sun Han (Korea University)
16:50-17:50 Concluding Roundtable
17:50-18:00 Closing Remarks
