Young Researchers International Training Program (ITP)& Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits International Symposium: “New East Asian Studies toward Creating a Symbiosis Society in East Asia”

January 10-12, 2013
At the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Korea Cosponsors:
Institute for Japanese Studies & Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University and Kobe University

Photos of the Symposium

The Aim of the Symposium

In order to create a symbiosis society, the following two programs at Kobe University are training the young researchers who will be the driving force of future East Asia. The Graduate School of Humanities and the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University have jointly operated “The Young Researchers International Training Program” since the 2008 fiscal year for a total of five years. The Graduate School of Humanities also has operated an “Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits” for four years since the 2009 fiscal year. These two programs have held a wide variety of international research and educational activities in cooperation with overseas institutions. The programs have worked with a total of fifteen other institutions, including our seven overseas partner institutions in Asia, Europe and North America. The number of young researchers who were conducting their long-term research projects abroad at one of the institutions reached sixty-six while those who were conducting their short-term projects reached forty-five for the duration of the programs thus far.

When Kobe University officially closes these two programs, it will hold a symposium titled “New East Asian Studies toward Creating a Symbiosis Society in East Asia” in cosponsorship with the Institute for Japanese Studies and the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University. This symposium will be an opportunity for young researches and professors to engage in valuable sessions during which they can listen closely to opinions from a panel of experts about new education and research in East Asia as well as discuss the trends of international politics and economies in East Asia and the cultural problems in global society.

Although the subject areas of this symposium will vary widely (Politics, International Relations, Philosophy, Literature, History and Sociology), the event will be driven by a common motive: young researchers from both Korea and Japan will show their deep thinking about an approaching symbiosis society in East Asia. The international relation among East Asian countries faces a mountainous pile of problems that must be solved immediately. As the symposium’s coordinators, we have high hopes that the discussions at this event will contribute in some small way to overcoming these problems and to creating a better vision of a symbiosis society in East Asia.

Takeshi KAMATANI, Chairman of the Committee for the Promotion of the Young Researchers International Training Program
Yasushi OGATA, Chairman of the Committee for the Promotion of the Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits

Program

Day 1: Thursday, January 10
International Symposium "Sessions on East Asian Studies"

Session 1 by young East Asian researchers from the Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits (3:00-6:00 pm)

Room:GLRoom
Language:Japanese
Chairs: JO Gwanja (Assitant Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Hiroko MASUMOTO (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Naoto CHATANI (Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Hiroyuki NAKAHATA (Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
3:00-3:20 pmAkinori LEE (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Kant and Environmental Ethics: The Concept of Coexistence with Nature
3:20-3:40 pmSakura YAHATA (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Schelling's Idea of Productive Nature in the Philosophy of Nature
3:40-4:00 pmCommentator: KIM Insoo (PhD Student at Department of Sociology, SNU)
4:00-4:20 pmMiki YANO (MA Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Japanese-Language Education in Germany
4:20-4:40 pmMiyako KISO (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
A Study of Sentence-Final Expressions Used by Chinese Learners of Japanese
4:40-5:00 pmCommentator: LEE Soon-Nam
(PhD Student at Graduate School of International Studies, SNU)
5:00-5:20 pmShinya OIE (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Technology and Politics in East Asia: A Case of Asbestos Health Damage and Civic Movement in Amagasaki
5:20-5:40 pmSatoshi UESHIMA (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
In Early Modern Tsushima: Analysis of Korean Missions Travel Records
5:40-6:00 pmCommentator: KIM Eunhye (PhD Student at Department of Sociology, SNU)

Session 2 "Trends and Perspectives on Japanese and East Asian Studies in the 21th Century" by Professors of Seoul National University and Kobe University (3:00-6:00 pm)

Room: 412
Language: Japanese
Chair: PARK Cheol-Hee (Director at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
3:00-3:40 pmKeynote Speeches
Nam Ki Jeong (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
LIM Chai Sung (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Chiharu NAKAMURA (Executive Vice President of KU [in charge of International Exchange])
Tsuyoshi MATSUDA (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Daisuke HIGUCHI (Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
3:40-6:00 pmFree Discussion
Discussant: PARK Jeehwan (Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Nam
Ki Jeong (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
LIM Chai Sung (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Chiharu NAKAMURA (Executive Vice President of KU [in charge of International Exchange])
Tsuyoshi MATSUDA (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Kiyomitsu YUI (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Atsushi OTSURU (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Daisuke HIGUCHI (Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
Kyoko MURAI (Associate Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)

6:00-8:00 pm Reception

Day 2: Friday, January 11
ITP General International Symposium "New East Asian Studies toward Creating a Symbiosis Society in East Asia"

Room: GLRoom
Language: English

"Education and Research toward Creating a Symbiosis Society in East Asia" (10:00-11:30 am)
Chair: NAM Ki Jeong (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)

10:00-10:10 amCeremony
10:10-10:30 amJEONG Jong-Ho (Chief of International Cooperation Office, SNU)
Keynote Lecture
10:30-10:50 amChiharu NAKAMURA (Executive Vice President of KU [in charge of International Exchange])
Keynote Lecture: "Kobe University Ignites Strategic Partnerships with East Asian Universities"
10:50-11:10 amPARK Cheol-Hee (Director at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
Academic Keynote Lecture
11:10-11:30 amKan KIMURA (Professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, KU)
Academic Keynote Lecture: "Northeast Asian Relations in the Globalizing World"

11:30 am-1:30 pm Lunch Break

Session 1 "The Korean Peninsula and Korean Society" (1:30-3:00 pm)
Chair: Jun MATSUNAMI (Professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, KU)
1:30-1:50 pmYoshitaka MIMURA (PhD Student at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies , KU)
The Royal Power and the State
1:50-2:10 pmTatsuya MAISAWA (PhD Student at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies , KU)
The Origins of the Civil Movements in South Korea
2:20-2:40 pmMiho YOKOMIZO (PhD Student at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies , KU)
Gangnam Style: A New Aspect of Korean Society
2:40-3:00 pmCHO Ahra (PhD Student at Graduate School of International Studies, SNU)
Social Change in Korea Reflected in 2012 Presidential Election

3:00-3:30 pm Coffee Break

Session 2 "Cultural Exchanges in Global Societies" (3:30-5:00 pm)
Chair: LIM Chai Sung (Associate Professor at Institute for Japanese Studies, SNU)
3:30-3:50 pmYang YIN (PhD Student at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
A Constrastive Study on Speech Acts Based on Chinese, English and Korean Translations of Japanese Novels
3:50-4:10 pmMarika OKINO (PD at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
On the Relationship Between Japanese Americans and African Americans in Nina Revoyr's Southland
4:20-4:40 pmShunsuke SHIKATA (PD at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
US Policy toward Taiwan and Overseas Chinese in the Early Cold War
4:40-5:00 pmCHONG Kiin (PhD Student at Department of Korean Language and Literature, SNU)
What does translation do?: Korean, Chinese, English Translations of Natusme Soseki's "Botchan"

Concluding Remarks (5:00-5:30 pm)
Chair: Yasushi OGATA (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)

5:00-5:15 pmKiyomitsu YUI (Professor at Graduate School of Humanities, KU)
5:15-5:30 pmKWEON Sug-In (Professor at Department of Anthropology, SNU)

6:00-8:00 pm Reception

Day3: Saturday, January 12
9:30-11:30 am Academic Tour