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

 

Workshop for the Academic Frontier Project:
‘Social Change in Asia and the Pacific’
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 Sarkar 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 Questioning HistoriographySummary

Chair: Michael Watson
Speakers: Tanika Sarkar
   ‘Contested Histories in the Indian Context’
  Sanjay Seth
   ‘Reason or Reasoning / Clio or Siva?’
  Kiyoshi Kojima
   '"World History" as Method'
Discussant: Rajyashree Pandey

13:15 - 15:00 SESSION 2 Rereading Nationalist History”⇒Summary

Chair: Akira Oki
Speakers: Reynaldo C. Ileto
   ‘Historiography in the Shadow of Empire:
   A Philippine Case Study’
  Yoshiko Nagano
 

 ‘Collective Memory in a ‘Globalized’ Society:
   The Debate on the Philippine Revolution Reconsidered’

Discussant: Tessa Morris-Suzuki

15:30 - 17:15 SESSION 3 Reconstructing the National NarrativeSummary

Chair: Hatsue Shinohara
Speakers: Patricio N. Abinales
   ‘American Lineages of Filipino Official Nationalism’
  Donna J. Amoroso
   ‘Taking Stock of the Past/Pasts:
   Ways of Making Sense of ‘Malaysia’’
Discussant: Kiichi Fujiwara

 

◆ Program: Second Day - March 2 (Sun.) ◆

9:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4 “Recovering the Memory of ViolenceSummary

Chair: Shigeki Takeo
Speakers: Daqing Yang
   ‘The Ghosts of Nanjing’
  Nariaki Nakazato
   ‘The Calcutta Communal Disturbances of 1946:
   Politics, Mobilization and the Riotous Crowd’
  Chiharu Takenaka
   ‘Can the Victims Speak? Gendered Wars in 1990s’
Discussant: Tanika Sarkar

13:15 - 15:45 SESSION 5 Writing History under the American HegemonySummary

Chair: Michael Watson
Speakers: Kiichi Fujiwara
   ‘Who are to be Remembered?
   Commemorating the War Dead in Japan’
  Hatsue Shinohara
   ‘Teaching of the Atomic Bomb as History:
   A Challenge to Transnational (Global) History’
  Tessa Morris-Suzuki
   ‘What is to be Filmed?
   Visual Representation and the Writing of History’

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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