Expanding the Legacies and Public Memory of the 2000 Women’s International Tribunal: Beyond Colonialism and Toward the Future


 

  • Date: December 5th, Saturday, 2020 10:00 – 18:30
  • Online conference via Zoom [English & Japanese interpretations provided]

“Expanding the Legacies and Public Memory of the 2000 Women’s International Tribunal: Beyond Colonialism and Toward the Future” is being hosted by SNUAC Northeast Asia Center, supported by The Research Network on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery. Although the conference is being held online (Zoom) due to circumstances regarding COVID-19, we hope that many researchers and interested people participate from around the world. Korean to English and Korean to Japanese real-time interpretations will be provided.

■ Registration: http://bit.ly/34Cz3JU
■ Inquiry: jmssrnetwork2020@gmail.com


Moderator: Eunjung Jung (Chief, Educational Training Team, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

Opening Address
Hyunah Yang (President, Research Network on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery)

Session 1
Moderator: EunHee Chi (Executive Director, ASEM Global Ageing Center)
Mi-Kang Yang (Former Co-standing Chairperson, Asia Peace and History Education Network)
Shiba Yoko (Co-Chair, the National Action for Resolution of the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ Issue)
Chinsung Chung (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)

Session 2
Moderator: So Ra Kim (Executive Director, Research Institute on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Women’s Human Rights Institute of Korea)
Chang Rok Kim (Professor, Kyungpook National University, School of Law)
Hyunah Yang (Professor, Seoul National University, School of Law)
Puja Kim (Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Jung-Ae Park (Research Fellow, Northeast Asian History Foundation)

Session 3
Moderator: Sung Hyun Kang (Professor, Institute for East Asian Studies at SungKongHoe University)
Heisoo Shin (Member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)
Na-Young Lee (Professor, Sociology at Chung-Ang University)
Chingja Yang (Co-Chair, the National Action for Resolution of the Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ Issue)

Session 4 Discussion
Moderator: Soojin Kim (Senior Curator, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History)
Panel:
Tani Barlow (Professor, Department of History, Rice University)
Yunshin Hong (Visiting Researcher, Osaka University of Economics and Law)
Kijeong Nam (Professor, Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University)
Seonwha Kim (Judge, Suwon District Court)
Jae-sung Lim (Lawyer & Ph. D. in Sociology)
Sooah Kim (Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Program in Gender Studies, Seoul National University)