Events in East Asian Studies at Lewis & Clark College

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Dutch Colonists, Chinese Merchants and Indonesian Wives: The Visual Culture of Eighteenth-Century Batavia.

Assistant Professor Dawn Odell

The Department of East Asian Studies invites you to a research talk with Dawn Odell, Assistant Professor of Art History/Asia.

Date: Friday, February 20th

Time: 4:00pm

Place: Miller 207

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The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Korea: Uncovering the Hidden History of the Korean War

South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Dong-Choon Kim, Professor, Department of Sociology, SungKongHoe University, and Standing Commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea

Hee Kyung Suh, Ph.D., Investigator, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea

In response to petitions by bereaved families, the South Korean National Assembly established an independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2005 to investigate charges that unarmed civilians and political prisoners were massacred before and during the Korean War. The U.S. and the current South Korean governments have been reluctant to fully acknowledge the findings of the Commission because the evidence unearthed raises doubts about the official narrative of the Korean War. The two speakers will discuss the major findings of the Commission, the investigative process with reference to specific cases, and future challenges facing the Commission's truth and reconciliation work.

Co-sponsored by the departments of History, International Affairs, and Sociology/Anthropology

Date: March 30, 2009

Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Place: Albany Quadrangle, Smith Hall

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Gendered Cultures of War in China: Corporeality in Political Cartoons from the War of Resistance Against Japan

Louise Edwards

Louise Edwards is Professor of China Studies and Director of the China Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. Her current research explores women in politics in China and gendered cultures of war in China. Her lecture examines the manner in which gender and race politics are inscribed in bodily forms in political cartoons produced for magazines and newspapers during China's war of resistance against Japan in the late 1930s and early 1940s. It draws comparisons with political cartooning produced during wartime in other national contexts in an attempt to understand how gender functions within Chinese cultures of war.

Co-sponsored by the departments of Art, Sociology/Anthropology, Chinese, History, and Gender Studies

Date: April 2, 2009

Time: 5:30pm

Place: Miller 105

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Japanese and American War Atrocities, Historical Memory, and Reconciliation

Professor Mark Selden

Mark Selden is a research associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University and a coordinator for The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. His Scholarship examines the processes of political economy, geopolitics, and social change in East Asia.

Date: Monday, April 20

Time: 5:30pm

Place: Miller 105