Collaborative Workshop (GARC & Dept. of Political Science, Yonsei University)
Fri 27 Jan
|Ryukoku University, Building 4, Room 201
The collaborative workshop between GARC and Yonsei University will bring together international scholars with a background in Critical Global Politics to discuss both pressing issues shaping the region and the world, as well as thought-provoking philosophical questions.
Time & Location
27 Jan 2023, 10:00 – 17:00 GMT+9
Ryukoku University, Building 4, Room 201, Japan, 〒612-8577 京都府京都市伏見区深草塚本町67
About the event
As realpolitikal threats are omnipresent, and as the research surrounding them receives primary attention in academia, it becomes indispensable to scrutinize existing paradigms and narratives that gave initial momentum to such positivist policies and discourses.
AGENDA:
PANEL 1. THE MAKING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE/IR KNOWLEDGE AND ITS PRODUCERS
10:00-11:40
The Possibility of Comparative Postcolonialism: Interpreting the Formation of 'IR' in South Korea and Taiwan
Presenter: Jungmin Seo, Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
Decolonizing Knowledge Production: A Personal Account
Presenter: Young Chul Cho, Professor, School of International Studies, Jeonbuk National University
Transnational Adoption and Political Science
Presenter: Seoyoung Choi, Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
IR Scholars in Japan as Homo Academicus
Presenter: Ching-Chang Chen, Professor and Head, Department of Global Studies, Ryukoku University
PANEL 2. 'COMFORT WOMEN' ISSUES
13:30-14:50
Two 'Comfort Women' in the Korean Government
Presenter: Hye Min Ryu, Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
Severed Behind the National Digital Borders: The Case of 'Comfort Women'
Presenter: Sihyeon Park, MA Student, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
Reconsidering the 'Comfort Women Issue' Between Japan and South Korea from the Ethics of Bodhisattva
Presenter: Naofumi Yamada, Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University
PANEL 3. ETHICS AND GENDER IN POSTCOLONIAL SOCIETIES
15:20-17:00
Re/Framing National/ist Manhood in National Cemeteries, South Korea
Presenter: Dongeun Shin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
Beyond 'Intersectionalized Hate': Postcolonial Korea and the Undervalued Care Labor
Presenter: Seohwa Park, Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University
Buddhism and Ethics: How Could We Overcome the Shortcomings of the Nothingness?
Presenter: Kosuke Shimizu, Professor and Dean, Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University
Neocolonial Sendungsbewusstsein: Japan's Human Securities and the Utilitarian Nature of Its Westphalian Behemoth
Presenter: Andrei Yamamoto, Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of International Studies, Ryukoku University