2023 December 6 (Wed)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
| S354, Third Level, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Heritage Wars: Legacies of Colonial Rule and Wartime Memories in East Asia for UNISCO Nominations
Speaker: JIHON KIM, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Harvard Asia Center; Chief of the International Cooperation, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University
Chair: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
This talk explains how these recent heritage wars at UNESCO result from dissonant or competing ideas of the colonial and wartime past in East Asia. Based on my personal experience, my focus will be on bilateral and multilateral diplomacy by both State and non-State actors. This talk tries to answer the question of how we might deal with legacies of colonial rule and wartime memories in East Asia in a more inclusive way and invites ideas from the participants.
Harvard University Asia Center, co-sponsored by Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Harvard-Yenching Institute
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