Online Symposium "Pan-Asianism and Beyond"

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Online Symposium "Pan-Asianism and Beyond"

Organizer
Koç University Center for Asian Studies
Venue
Online
Funded by
Japan Foundation
ZIP
34450
Location
Istanbul
Country
Turkey
From - Until
03.03.2022 - 04.03.2022
By
Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

This symposium aims to revisit the idea of Pan-Asianism, a concept that emerged in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and explore new scholarship on inter-Asian connections up to the present. It will focus on Japan’s relations with Asia—ideas and people that envisioned a transnational unity and modernity in Asia, alternative to the Western-centered worldview of history, culture, and politics.

Online Symposium "Pan-Asianism and Beyond"

Koç University Center for Asian Studies presents (supported by the Japan Foundation):

"Pan-Asianism and Beyond: The Past, Present, and Future of Inter-Asian Connections"

This symposium aims to revisit the idea of Pan-Asianism, a concept that emerged in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and explore new scholarship on inter-Asian connections up to the present. It will focus on Japan’s relations with Asia—ideas and people that envisioned a transnational unity and modernity in Asia, alternative to the Western-centered worldview of history, culture, and politics. This online event will bring together scholars from Europe and Turkey to Japan, who engage in works that examine inter-Asian encounters and relations in various fields—intellectual history, personal journeys, cultural contacts and comparisons, and international relations.

The symposium is free and open to the public.
Register for Part I & II: bit.ly/registration-one
Part III & IV: bit.ly/registration-two

Programm

Part I: Emergence of Pan-Asianism in Japan [3 March, 11 am – 1 pm, Istanbul time, GMT +3]

Sven Saaler (Sophia University)
“Non-Governmental Networks in Prewar Asia: A Precursor of Twenty-First Century Civil Society”

Christopher W.A. Szpilman (Teikyo University)
“The Shock of World War I and the Emergence of Radical Pan-Asianism”

Part II: Pan-Asian Travelers [3 March, 2 pm – 4:30 pm, GMT +3]

Selçuk Esenbel (Boğaziçi University)
“Shades of Meiji Japanese Pan-Asianism: Yamada Torajirō’s Toruko Gakan (A Pictorial Look at Turkey) and General Utsunomiya’s Diary”

Erdal K. Yalcin (Boğaziçi University/ Koç University)
“Otani Kozui, an Ex-Shin Buddhist Patriarch and His Ten Volume ‘Kōa Keikaku’ (A Project for the Rise of Asia)”

Miyuki Aoki Girardelli (Istanbul Technical University)
“Orientalism in the East: The Ottoman Experience of Japanese Diplomat Watanabe Hiromoto in 1876”

Part III: New Asianism in International Politics [4 March, 10 am – 12 pm, GMT +3]

Christopher Lamont (Tokyo International University)
“Pan-Asianism after the War: Afterlives of Pan-Asianism in Japan-Middle East Relations”

Seiko Mimaki (Takasaki City University of Economics)
“Beyond Pan-Asianism: The Non-Aligned Movement in the Contemporary World”

Part IV: Empires and Pan-Asian Imageries [4 March, 1 pm – 3:30 pm, GMT +3]

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (University of Bologna)
“Pan-Asianism, Anti-Westernism and the Birth of National Literatures: A Comparative Perspective”

Esra Gökçe Şahin (Koç University)
“Acharaka Comedy, Sonic Revolution and Japan’s Militarization”

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (Koç University)
“Japanese Feminist Pan-Asianisms: From Maternalist Pacifism to Moral Rearmament”

Contact (announcement)

kuasia@ku.edu.tr