What is to be Written?
Setting the Agendas for Studies of History

Workshop for the Academic Frontier Project:
eSocial Change in Asia and the Pacificf
Supported by
Meiji Gakuin University,
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan)
& Nomura Foundation for Social Science

March 1-2, 2003
9:30-18:00

at Conference Room
Building 1, 10th Floor, Shirokane Campus, Meiji Gakuin University

Speakers

Patricio N. Abinales Kyoto University
  Donna J. Amoroso Kyoto University
  Kiichi Fujiwara The University of Tokyo
  Reynaldo C. Ileto National University of Singapore
  Kiyoshi Kojima Iwanami Publisher
  Tessa Morris-Suzuki Australian National University
  Yoshiko Nagano Kanagawa University
  Nariaki Nakazato The University of Tokyo
  Tanika Sarka Jawaharlal Nehru University
  Sanjay Seth La Trobe University
  Hatsue Shinohara Meiji Gakuin University
  Chiharu Takenaka Meiji Gakuin University
  Daqing Yang George Washington University

 

Program: First Day - March 1 (Sat.)

9:30 - 9:35@OPENING REMARKS

9:40 - 12:00@SESSION 1@gQuestioning Historiographyh Summary

Chair: Michael Watson
Speakers: Tanika Sarkar
  @eContested Histories in the Indian Contextf
  Sanjay Seth
  @eReason or Reasoning / Clio or Siva?f
  Kiyoshi Kojima
  @'"World History" as Method'
Discussant: Rajyashree Pandey

13:15 - 15:00@SESSION 2@gRereading Nationalist HistoryhSummary

Chair: Akira Oki
Speakers: Reynaldo C. Ileto
  @eHistoriography in the Shadow of Empire:
@@@A Philippine Case Studyf
  Yoshiko Nagano
 

@eCollective Memory in a eGlobalizedf Society:
@@@The Debate on the Philippine Revolution Reconsideredf

Discussant: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

15:30 - 17:15@SESSION 3@gReconstructing the National NarrativehSummary

Chair: Hatsue Shinohara
Speakers: Patricio N. Abinales
  @eAmerican Lineages of Filipino Official Nationalismf
  Donna J. Amoroso
  @eTaking Stock of the Past/Pasts:
@@@Ways of Making Sense of eMalaysiaff
Discussant: Kiichi Fujiwara

 

Program: Second Day - March 2 (Sun.)

9:30 - 12:00@SESSION 4@gRecovering the Memory of ViolencehSummary

Chair: Shigeki Takeo
Speakers: Daqing Yang
  @eThe Ghosts of Nanjingf
  Nariaki Nakazato
  @eThe Calcutta Communal Disturbances of 1946:
@@@Politics, Mobilization and the Riotous Crowdf
  Chiharu Takenaka
  @eCan the Victims Speak? Gendered Wars in 1990sf
Discussant: Tanika Sarkar

13:15 - 15:45@SESSION 5@gWriting History under the American HegemonyhSummary

Chair: Michael Watson
Speakers: Kiichi Fujiwara
  @eWho are to be Remembered?
@@@Commemorating the War Dead in Japanf
  Hatsue Shinohara
  @eTeaching of the Atomic Bomb as History:
@@@A Challenge to Transnational (Global) Historyf
  Tessa Morris-Suzuki
  @eWhat is to be Filmed?
@@@Visual Representation and the Writing of Historyf

Discussant: Patricio N. Abinales

16:00 - 17:15@SESSION 6@Discussion and Summary

Chair: Chiharu Takenaka

CLOSING REMARKS: Reynaldo C. Ileto

 

 

 

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