Schedule

Sites of Memory - Saturday, April 26 - 8:30am - 10:45am

Arthur Waldron
Lauder Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: “Sun Yat-sen, Father of Modern China: Death, Burial, and Afterlife"

James L. Hevia
Associate Professor of History and International and Area Studies
Paper Title: “Remembering the Century of Humiliation: The Yuanming Yuan and the Dagu Museums"

Discussant: Daniel Sherman
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin

Revolution and Memory - Saturday, April 26 - 11:15am - 1:45pm

Chen Jian
C.K. Yen Professor of Chinese American Relations, University of Virginia Miller Center of Public
Affairs and Professor of History, University of Virginia
Paper Title: “Legitimizing the ‘Continuous Revolution’: War, Memories and Sustained Mass Mobilization in Mao’s China.”

Christoph Giebel
Assistant Professor of History and International Studies, University of Washington
Paper Title: "Revolution, War, and Memory in Viet Nam [sic]: An Assessment and Agenda"

Rana Mitter
University Lecturer in Modern Chinese History and Politics, Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University
Paper Title: “China’s ‘Good War’: Generational Differences In the Interpretation of the War of Resistance"

Discussant: Peter Zinoman
Associate Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley

Living Memories - Saturday, April 27 - 3:00pm - 5:30pm

Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
Paper Title: “Kamikaze Today: Search for National Heroes in Recessionary Japan”

Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Paper Title: "From the Crucible of War to the Mass Line at Bear Creek"

Daqing Yang
Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University
Paper Title: “Living Soldiers: Relived Memories? Japanese Veterans and Testimonials of War Atrocities.”

Discussant: Ann Sherif
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College

Remembering and Forgetting - Sunday, April 27 - 8:30am - 11:15am

Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
Paper Title: “Brainwashed Captives; Or, What Was Forgotten in the ‘Forgotten War’”

Bruce Cumings
Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, University of Chicago
Paper title: “The Korean War: What Is It We Are Remembering to Forget?”

Harry D. Harootunian
Professor of History, New York University
Paper title: “The Execution of Tosaka Jun: Forgetting History and the Persistence of Japan's Postwar”

Discussant: Marilyn B. Young
Professor of History, New York University