University of Cambridge
Department of East Asian Studies
Asian Studies Centre Seminar Series
Michaelmas Term 2008
All seminars, unless otherwise noted, are held on Monday in the Lecture Room
8-9 @5pm, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES), [formerly
the Faculty of Oriental Studies Building],
Sidgwick Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 9DA.
Monday, 13 October 2008
Dr. Koen De Ceuster,
Leiden University (Netherlands):
'Whose Korean History? Some Thoughts on Writing National History Beyond
the State'
Dr. Koen De Ceuster is a PhD from
Leuven University (Belgium), lecturing at the Centre for Korean Studies,
Leiden
University. His research deals with aspects of modern Korean history and
historiography, with a special interest in the formation, expression and
representation of national and other identities. More recently,
he has discovered a new area of interest in North Korean art theory and
practice. Recent publications include: �When History
Matters: Reconstructing South Korea�s National Memory in
the Age of Democracy,� in Steffi Richter (ed.)
Contested Views of a Common Past: Revisions of History in Contemporary
East Asia (Frankfurt, New York: Campus Verlag, 2008);
North Korean Posters, The David Heather Collection (Munich: Prestel
Verlag, 2008); �Success and Failure of the Korean
Delegation at the 2nd Hague Peace Conference� in
Han�guk sahakbo, 30 (2008) (in Korean);
�The World in a Book: Yu Kilchun�s
S�yu Ky�nmun� in Remco E. Breuker (ed.),
Korea in the Middle, Korean Studies and Area Studies (Leiden: CNWS
Publications, 2007).
Monday, 20 October 2008
Dr. James Babb,
University of
Newcastle: 'What Is Japanese Conservatism?'
Dr. James Babb is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the
University of
Newcastle. From 2006-2007 he was a Visiting Professor at the Ohara Social
Research Institute, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. He has written
extensively on Japanese politics including two books,
Tanaka: The Making of Postwar Japan and Business and Politics in
Japan.
His current research focuses on the evolution of Japanese conservatism.
Friday, 31 October 2008 � special lecture at
Robinson
College (note change of day and venue, still at 5pm)
Ambassador Ra Jong-yil, President of Woosuk University (South Korea):
inaugural
lecture for the The Ra Jong-yil Annual Lecture Series in Korean Studies,
'The Discovery of the World - A Korean Perspective'
Ambassador Ra Jong-yil has had a long and distinguished career in public
service and academia. A graduate of
Seoul National
University (from which he received his BA and MA degrees) he also holds a
Ph.D. in international relations from
Cambridge
University. His early career was as a Professor of Political Science at
Kyunghee University in
South Korea. From 1996 to 1998, he played a key role in the first peaceful
change of government through election in
Korea and served as the Director of Administration in the Kim Dae-jung
Presidential Transition Committee. During President Kim�s
time in office, Dr Ra served as both the First
and Second Director of the Republic of
Korea�s National Intelligence Service. During the
administration of President Roh Moo-hyun, he also served as Senior Advisor
to the President on National Security. Dr Ra has also held a number of
very prominent
diplomatic postings, serving from 2001 to 2003 as ROK Ambassador to the
United Kingdom and from 2004 to 2007 as ROK Ambassador to
Japan. Dr Ra has published widely on a range of subjects, including
political theory, cultural politics in Northeast Asia, Cold War issues,
and on the politics and governance of
North Korea. He is currently the President of Woosuk University.
Monday, 3 November 2008
Dr.
Vimalin Rujivacharakul
University of Delaware (USA):
'The World in the Mirror: World Architecture and the Origins of the Orient'
Dr. Vimalin Rujivacharakul is Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural
History in the Department of Art History. Her research interests include
modern architectural history; history and historiography of East Asian
art, architecture and archeology; Sino-European intellectual history; and
transcultural historiography of modernity and modern architecture. She
received her PhD in architecture from the
University of California at
Berkeley. She also holds degrees in architectural history and theory and
architectural design from
Harvard University and the
University of
Michigan. Dr. Rujivacharakul is a recipient of numerous fellowships,
including the Getty Residential Fellowship in 2004-5, Andrew W. Mellon
Research Fellowship in 2007, the Chiang Ching-kuo Fellowship for a major
conference grant
in 2006, the Scott Opler Award for Emerging Scholar from the Society of
Architectural Historians in 2005, and the Distinguished Dissertation
Award from the Institute of East Asian Studies in 2004, among others.
She was a Mellon Fellow at the Needham Research
Institute during the spring of 2008 and is currently a visiting fellow at
Clare Hall,
University of
Cambridge. Dr. Rujivacharakul is completing her book,
The Rise of Chinese Architecture: Knowledge-making and Theories of
Evolution at the Edge of World Architectural History. Her edited volume,
Collecting China: China and the World in a History of Collecting, is
forthcoming. During the past five years she has headed the multi-year
translation project of
Yingzao Huikan, in collaboration with the faculty members of the
School of Architecture at
Tsinghua
University.
Monday, 10 November 2008
Dr.
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka,
Leiden University (Netherlands):
'Trans-national Rations: Feeding
the Troops in the Pacific and the Korean War'
Dr. Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is Lecturer in Material Culture at the Department
of East Asian Studies, Leiden
University, the Netherlands. Her research to date has utilized food as a
window into the modern history of
Japan and
Korea. Cwiertka is the author of
Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (Reaktion Books
2006) and co-editor of
Asian Food: The Global and the Local (University of Hawaii Press 2002).
Currently, she acts as Principal Researcher of the project
�Sustaining Total War: Militarization, Economic
Mobilization and Social Change in
Japan and
Korea�, which is funded by the Dutch Research Council
(NWO) and investigates the role of war in the development of contemporary
East Asia.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Mr. Jonathan Fenby,
Trusted Sources Inc.:
'China�s Second Generation of Economic Reform: The Tests
Ahead'
Mr.
Jonathan Fenby has just published the
Penguin History of Modern China (Allen Lane), the latest of six books he
has written and edited on
China. He is Director for
China at the research service, Trusted Sources (www.trustedsources.co.uk).
He edited
The South China Morning Post from 1995-2000,
The Observer in 1993-5 and Reuters World Service in 1973-7. He has also
held senior editorial posts at the
Economist, The Independent and the
Guardian as well as writing other books on France and the Second World
War. He has been made a Commander of the
British Empire and a Knight of the French Order of Merit for services to
journalism.
Monday, 24 November 2008
Dr. Rosina Buckland,
British
Museum: 'Japanese Flowers, Chinese Fragrance: the Painting
of Taki Katei (1830-1901)'
Dr. Rosina Buckland is a Research Assistant in the Department of Asia at the
British
Museum. In 2004 she authored the exhibition catalogue for the Asia Society,
New York, 'Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections'.
She has recently completed her doctorate on late nineteenth-century
Japanese literati painting.
Monday, 1 December 2008
Dr. Ekaterina Hertog,
Oxford University:
'�Matches Made on Earth:� Marriage
Decision-Making in Contemporary
Japan'
Dr. Ekaterina Hertog is a Career Development Fellow in the Sociology of
Japan at the University of Oxford. She recently completed a research
project on Japanese unwed mothers and published an article on the topic in
the July issue of
Japan Forum. Her book, Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in
Contemporary Japan, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009.
She has started work on a new research project on the Japanese marriage
market.
*******************************Barak Kushner, PhDUniversity Lecturer in
Japanese HistoryDepartment of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and
Middle Eastern StudiesUniversity of CambridgeSidgwick AvenueCambridge CB3
9DAUnited KingdomFellow of Corpus Christi Collegephone: 44
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