The Dokdo Divide: Impasse and Outs

Details: Friday, November 02 , 2012 | 6:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: The Dokdo Divide: Impasse and Outs
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Event Name: $10 Members | $5 Students | $20 Guests
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Event Link: Alexis Dudden is professor of history at the University of Connecticut. Her work focuses on Northeast Asia’s modern historical circulations through the legacies of the Japanese empire. Her first book, Japan’s Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power (2005), examines late nineteenth century Japanese efforts to legitimate the nation’s imperial project on the world stage through the country’s takeover of Korea. Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States (2008) continues this trajectory into the post-colonial/post-war era by interrogating mechanisms intended to settle imperial and wartime histories that instead created a political and social dynamic of coordinated remembering and intentional forgetting that defines the possibilities for regional interaction. She is an editorial board member of the online journal, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, and is the recipient of Fulbright and ACLS fellowships. Her current work, Islands, Empire, Nation: A History of Modern Japan, analyzes Japan’s contemporary territorial disputes through the changing meaning of islands broadly defined.
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2012 11 02 dokdo-divide icon Korea and Japan are at an impasse over territorial claims. What is the history of the island divide? Why are sentiments high? What are the domestic determinants of the current crisis in both Korea and Japan? How to bridge the dispute?

Please join us for a discussion and debate with Professor Alexis Dudden of the University of Connecticut, in conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President of The Korea Society. Professor Dudden will provide historic background, and both will speak to contemporary fissures and ways forward in a lively session that brings respective concerns and audience questions to the fore.

Friday, November 2, 2012

5:30 PM | Registration & Reception
6:00 PM | Discussion

For more information, contact: Nikita Desai or call (212) 759-7525 ext. 355.