Dokdo Dispute: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Details: Friday, December 07 , 2012 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: Dokdo Dispute: Looking Back, Looking Forward
About the Speaker: 2012-12-07 12:00:00
Event Name: $10 Members | $15 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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Please join Professor Alexis Dudden for a lunchtime discussion of the history of the Dokdo dispute--from the early 20th century to the present--how it has emerged as an emotive issues for Koreans and impasse in Korea-Japan relations, and ways forward in resolving the conflict. Professor Dudden addresses the roots of the impasse dating to the Taft-Katsura agreement, international imprecision post-1945, 2012's heightened tensions between Korea and Japan over the issue, and how post-election administrations in Seoul, Tokyo and Washington might resolve the dispute. In closing, she discusses internationalizing the space and environmentally-oriented uses for the area.

Friday, December 7, 2012

12 PM

$10 Members, $15 Guests
Lite Fare Provided, Brown Bag Welcome