Beyond the Imperiality of Freedom
October 4, 2024 | 9:00AM - 3:30PM
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In-person
This workshop will take place in-person in room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
About the Workshop:
Join us for a workshop in celebration of Professor Takashi Fujitani and the history of decolonizing Asia-Pacific.
Workshop Program:
9:15 AM - Opening remarks Tong Lam and Adrian De Leon
9:30 AM - Panel 1
- Adrian De Leon, Model Minority Guerillas
- Sidney Lu, Beyond Ethnic Studies, Rice University
- Melanie Ng, Interpreting Secrets
- Michael Roellinghoff, The “Time of the Now”
10:45 AM - Panel 2
- Tomoyuki Sasaki, Uneven Development, Agriculture, and Rurality in Postwar Japan
- Su Yun Kim, From Transwar to Cold War
- Ji Hee Jung, Power and Mass Communication in Transwar Japan
- Kate McDonald, Remembering the Rickshaw Everyman
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - Panel 3
- Aaron Peters, Pan-Asian Diplomacy on the Frontiers of Empire
- Jiaying Shen, From Collusion to Collision
- Yehji Jeong, From Outlaw to Criminal Banu Kaygusuz Visual Politics of ‘River Laundry’
2:15 PM - Panel 4
- Sinhyeok Jung, Development and Nature Conservation in Postwar Iriomote
- Soomin Kim, Presence through Absence
- Ryan Moran, Life Insurance and the Biopolitical Subject in Modern Japan
About Takashi Fujitani:
A graduate of UC Berkeley, Professor Fujitani came to the University of Toronto from the University of California, San Diego, where he was a professor of modern Japanese history for two decades. He is the Inaugural Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies, Asian Institute. Professor Fujitani’s books include Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1996), Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (Duke University Press, 2001), and Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans in WWII (University of California Press, 2011). He has held numerous grants and fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, and Social Science Research Council. He is also editor of the series Asia Pacific Modern (UC Press).
Workshop Speakers:
- Adrian De Leon, History, New York University
- Yehji Jeong, History, University of Toronto
- Ji Hee Jung, Japanese Studies, Seoul National University
- Sinhyeok Jung, Japanese Studies, Seoul National University
- Banu Kaygusuz, East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
- Su Yun Kim, Modern Lanuages & Cultures, University of Hong Kong
- Sidney Lu, Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University
- Kate McDonald, History, University of Santa Barabara
- Ryan Moran, History, University of Utah
- Melanie Ng, History, University of Toronto
- Aaron Peters, History, Ambrose University
- Tomoyuki Sasaki, Modern Languages & Literatures, College of Wiliam & Mary
- Jiaying Shen, History, University of Toronto
- Michael Roellinghoff, Modern Languages & Cultures, University of Hong Kong