【歡迎報名】8/28 Taiwan-East Asia Event: Reconstructing WWII in East Asia

Taiwan-East Asia Event: Reconstructing WWII in East Asia

Museum Studies Leicester University

戰後時期,東亞的處境是如何在全球戰爭的陰影下,讓人類從這場自身引發的毀滅性災難中恢復過來?然而,至今東亞各國仍難以達成一致的共識,這種情況背後又有哪些原因呢?我們著眼於日本、韓國、中國以及台灣,探究他們在面對日本帝國的歷史時所呈現的不同敘事,這是一個充滿挑戰性的研究範疇。透過實際案例和理論思考,這個工作坊將以引人入勝的方式進行討論,探討一些歷史清算與和解處理的議題。

How does the immediate postwar experience of East Asia fit the global story of how the world recovered from the most devastating war that humanity has perpetrated on itself? Where do the nation-states in East Asia until today find little common ground, and what are some of its causes? Exploring the historical narratives by Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan with regard to Imperial Japan is but one of the challenging research clusters. This workshop addresses some of these topics in an engaging dialogue on historical reckoning and healing from a practical and a theoretical perspective.

地點:國立台灣師範大學台灣語文學系@台北市雲和街1號3樓306
會議時間:2023 年 8 月 28 日(一)下午 2:30 ~ 5:30
會議語言:英語
報名網址:點此前往
現場及線上報名截止日:8 / 24(四)
線上會議連結將於 8 / 27 釋出
聯絡信箱:ntnutaiwancenter@gmail.com

Location: Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, Conference Room 306
Date and Time: Monday 28, August 14:30 ~ 17:30PM (HYBRID; CET: 08:30AM, GMT 07:30AM)
Language: English
Registration: Click Here
Deadline for online & in person registration: Thursday 24, August
Note: Webinar link will be made available on 27, August
Contact Email: ntnutaiwancenter@gmail.com

Event Details

Speakers

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Dr. Astrid Lipinsky 李雅瑞 (Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies): For Heroes? For Victims? For Survivors? The Taiwanese Ama-Museum memorizes ‘Comfort Women’

Profile

Convenor Vienna Center for Taiwan Studies, University of Vienna
Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/Sinologie
Wiener Zentrum für Taiwanstudien
https://ufind.univie.ac.at/en/person.html?id=33696
https://vcts.univie.ac.at/

Abstract

This talk is based on numerous visits and interviews with the Ama Museum staff and discusses which picture of the former ‘comfort women’ the museum and the NGO behind the Ama Museum, the Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation (TWRF), paint. Which primary aims does the Museum have, and do visitors agree and accept? After the last known Taiwanese ‘comfort woman’ passed away, former methods to memorize publicly like court proceedures in Japan, the visits of Japanese supporters to ‘comfort women’ in Taiwan, regular demonstrations with former ‘comfort women’ in front of the Japanese Representative Office in Taipei or a film with ‘comfort women’ (Song of the Reed, 2019) are no longer feasible. However, the issue has to be established as an eternal part of Taiwanese human rights debates.

Dr. Toby Lincoln 林涛(Chinese Urban History, University of Leicester): A place for the Post-war in China?

Profile

School of History, Politics & International Relations, Leicester University
Chinese Urban History
PGR Director, College of Social Sciences Arts, Humanities
https://le.ac.uk/people/toby-lincoln

Abstract

The history of the immediate post-war period in China is dominated by the linked narratives of the Communist Revolution and the Civil War. This means that the way China recovered from and began to come to terms with the trauma of WW2 remains unexplored. Here, I review briefly what the history of the post-war period from other societies in Europe, Japan, the USSR, and Taiwan may offer to scholars seeking to explore the legacies of WW2 in China. In doing so, I argue that despite diverging politically from many other parts of the world, the post-war experience in China should be written into the global story of how the world recovered from the most devastating war humanity has perpetrated on itself.

Dr. Aaron W. Moore 莫亞楠 (Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh): Memoir writing in East Asia (China, Taiwan, Japan)

Profile

Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations
Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh
Professor Aaron William Moore | The University of Edinburgh

Abstract

Casual observers of life-writing from the war years, in particular, often create hierarchies of reliability according to time period and genre. Wartime diaries are more reliable than postwar memoirs, and memoirs are more reliable than later oral histories, but in my previous publications, I have tried to disrupt these assumptions and focus more attention to the possibilities and limitations presented by genre. Reflecting on my 2011 Modern Asian Studies publication, ‘The Problem of Changing Language Communities’, in this paper I will discuss some of the memoirs written by veterans of WWII, as well as summarising how they relate to wartime diary writing. In addition to this, I hope to show how historical memory continues to shape conversations about the war years, by setting topics and concerns for later writers. Diaries, memoirs, and oral histories do not exist in distinction with one another, but on a continuum of perspectives about the past that overall reveal the paucity of language when relating historical experience.

Dr. Liu Wen-yi, 劉聞宜 ( Ph.D. Museum Studies, University of Leicester): Two heritage sites, visitors’ reactions and the transition period after WWII in Taiwan

Profile

Ph.D. Museum Studies, Leicester UniversityI am Wen-Yi Liu, graduated as a PhD in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester in July 2022. My research focuses on dark/negative histories and heritage sites in Taiwan; the historical periods are mainly concentrated on Japanese colonial period (1895 – 1945 A.D.) and the White Terror (1949 – around 1987). In my thesis, I also discuss the difference between the terms ‘dark’ and ‘negative’ regarding heritage.

Abstract

In this talk, two heritage sites in Taiwan are examined, revealing visitors’ reactions and the historical backgrounds that result in such expressions. The two heritage sites are Chia-Yi Old Prison, which was erected when Taiwan was colonised by the Japanese government, and Jing-Mei Memorial Park, which performed as a detention centre and prison in the White Terror period. These two historical periods cover the beginning, the end of WWII and great transitions of governments/policies/systems/ideologies and so on; the crash of different ideologies and the harsh situation of civil war in mainland China had caused various chaos and conflicts in Taiwan. The transition period and the profound legacies have largely influenced current Taiwanese people’s impressions on and attitudes to the past and different groups of people, and the repairing process is still in progress. 

Organizing Committee  國際台灣學研究中心&台灣語文學系

Ann Heylen 賀安娟 國際台灣學研究中心主任
Frank Chen 陳楷峯
Lap-kan Au 區立勤
Stephanie Wei 魏玉菁
Un-tiong Lim 林允中
Kiun-Lip Hu 胡均立
Marisol Lin 林曦

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