Program

Friday June 19th
09:00: Opening of venue, Tea/Coffee
09:30: Opening statements from Ethan Mark and the MEARC

Session I, 10:00-12:50
Peter Gran, Temple University, “Overcoming the Problem of Eurocentrism in Historicizing WWII with Reference to Egypt”
Discussant: Eric Jennings, University of Toronto

Ethan Mark, Leiden University, “Monuments to a Forgotten WWII: Indonesia/Netherlands/Japan”
Discussant: Peter Gran, Temple University

12:00-12:50
Aaron William Moore, University of Manchester, “Defending Our Way of Life: Gender, Class, and Age in War Diaries by Teenaged Girls in China, Japan, England, and Russia”
Discussant: Jeremy Taylor, University of Nottingham

Session II: 14:30-16:10
Judith Byfield, Cornell University, “An Appeal To All Women in the World: Princess Tsaha, Nigerian Women and the Italo-Ethiopian War”
Discussant: Aya Ezawa, Leiden University

Aya Ezawa, Leiden University, “The Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies in the history and memory of WWII: racial and gender dimensions”
Discussant: Aaron William Moore, University of Manchester

16:30-18:40
Film Screening: Three Years Without God (Tatlong taong walang Diyos, Philippines, 1976)
Set during the Japanese occupation period, the little-known classic Three Years Without God stars Nora Aunor, the postwar Philippines’ most acclaimed actress, as the village schoolteacher Rosario. After her fiancée Crispin leaves her to fight the Japanese as a guerilla, Rosario is raped by Masugi, a Japanese-Filipino officer. Masugi later returns to apologize for his act and attempts to court her, providing scarce necessities for her family. Matters are further complicated when she finds she is pregnant and her father is arrested by the Japanese. She must make a choice: accept the officer's proposal to make her his wife, or reject him and the baby they have conceived together.

Saturday June 20th
09:30: Opening of venue, Tea/Coffee

Session I, 10:00-12:50
Lewis Mayo, University of Melbourne, “World War II and Global Structures of Cultural Capital”
Discussant: Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto

Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University, “‘Loyalty to a country under the heel of a white man is disloyalty’: the Cocos Islands Mutiny”
Discussant: Lewis Mayo, University of Melbourne

11:40-12:00: Coffee/Tea Break

12:00-12:50
Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto, “Total War and Inclusionary Racism in the US and Japan”
Discussant: Judith Byfield, Cornell University

Session II, 14:30-17:20
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto, “Vichy vs Free France: the French colonial schism”
Discussant: Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University

Federico Finchelstein, New School (NY), ““Transatlantic Fascism. Italian Fascism, Argentine fascism and Peronism”
Discussant: Ethan Mark, Leiden University

16:30-17:20
Jeremy Taylor, University of Nottingham, “New Iconographies for a pan-Asianist China (1940-45)”
Discussant: Federico Finchelstein, New School (NY)

Sunday June 21st
09:30 Opening of venue, Tea/Coffee

Discussion Session: Conclusions, Methods, and Strategies, 10:00-12:30
Where are we now? Results/Lessons of the Workshop. What’s there, what’s missing?
Where to go from here? From Workshop to Textbook to Internet Course