The EAI Center for Values and Ethics, together with ARI Center for East Asian Thoughts, conducts the project, “Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility.” The main goals of this project are to find the rationale of the inherited responsibility about the historic wrongdoings done by the previous generations, to promote the communicability of Comfort Women Cases and their problems relevant to the inherited responsibility in global academia, and to examine a best possible way of historical reconciliation and peaceful coexistence through civic collaboration in East Asian countries. Thinking over the appropriate ways these goals conceptualize their research agendas as well as practical schemes, we organize the international workshop, “Historical Reconciliation and Inherited Responsibility.” Through this workshop, we hope for a scholarly deliberation, encompassing diverse theoretical, practical, and methodological experiences. At the same time, we wish to have a forum to see about the historical reconciliation of the East Asian countries prospectively and to help overcome the schizophrenic nationalistic inclinations in the East Asian countries.

 

I. Opening Remark (10:00 – 10:20 AM)

 

Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Director of EAI CVE & ARI EAT, Associate Professor at Dept. Political Science, Korea University

 

II. Keynote Address (10:20 – 10:50 AM)

 

Sook-Jong Lee, President of EAI, Professor at Dept. Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University  

 

III. Session One: Inherited Responsibility & Peaceful Coexistence (11:00 -12:40 PM)

 

Moderator

Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Director of EAI CVE & Director of ARI EAT, Associate Professor at Dept. Political Science, Korea University,

 

Papers:

Historical Injustices and Reconciliation in Comparative Perspective

Melissa Nobles, Associate Professor at Dept. Political Science, MIT

 

Compensation for Historic Injustice

Daniel Butt, Lecturer at Dept. Politics, Bristol University

 

Discussants:

Umemori Naoyuki, Professor at Dept. Political Science, Waseda University

Yong Wook Lee, Assistant Professor at Dept. Political Science, Korea University

 

IV. Lunch (1:00 – 1:50 PM)

 

V. Session Two: Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context (2:00 – 3:40 PM)

 

Moderator

Melissa Nobles, Associate Professor at Dept. Political Science, MIT

 

Papers:

Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1950-2006

Yinan He, Assistant Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

 

Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore

Tze Loo, Assistant Professor at Dept. History, University of Richmond

 

Discussants:

Hee-Kang Kim, Assistant Professor at Dept. Public Administration, Korea University

Na-Young Lee, Assistant Professor at Dept. Sociology, Chung-Ang University

 

VI. Session Three: Inherited Responsibility & Non-Ethnocentric Deliberation (4:00 – 5:40 PM)

 

Moderator

Umemori Naoyuki, Professor at Dept. Political Science, Waseda University, umemori@waseda.jp

 

Papers:

Theses on Postcolonial Taiwan: A Partisan View

Rwei-Ren Wu, Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica

 

The ‘Comfort Women’ Case Reconsidered: Inherited Responsibility as Civic Responsibility

Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Director of EAI CVE & Director of ARI EAT, Associate Professor at Dept. Political Science, Korea University

 

Discussants:

Joo-Youn Jung, Assistant Professor at Dept. Political Science, Korea University

Hyunah Yang, Associate Professor at the School of Law, Seoul National University