Events

Day 1 – Thursday, February 27

Morning Session
10:00–12:00 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 22, Room 502)
Closed to Reconciliation Studies Project members only
Meeting of the Security and Human Rights Working Group

Afternoon Session
13:30–17:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 22, Room 502)

Open to the public
Presentation Title: “U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy – 1970s to 1980s”
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Takuya Sasaki (Specially Appointed Professor, Rikkyo University Faculty of Law)
Moderator: Prof. Toyomi Asano (School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)

Discussants:
Dr. Satoshi Tanaka (Lecturer, Ritsumeikan University)
Dr. Hyonrae Koh (Lecturer, Kanto Gakuin University)
Dr. Arata Hirai (Specially Appointed Lecturer, Tokai University)
Dr. Fumi Inoue (Assistant Professor, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Waseda University)

Day 2 – Friday, February 28

Morning Session
10:00–12:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 22, Room 502)
Speaker: Prof. Andrew Gordon (Harvard University)
Presentation: “Deals with memorials in Japan to Korean and other laborers brought/forced to work during wartime.”
Closed to project members only

(Osaka Venue)
9:00–12:50 (Hybrid at Osaka University / Online)
Speaker: Prof. Carol Gluck (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University)
Presentation: Prof. Gluck Workshop 2025 (Memory, History, Reconciliation)
Venue: Osaka University, Suita Campus, Main Human Sciences Bldg. 5F, Social Sciences Meeting Room M523

Afternoon Session
14:00–15:30 (Venue: Waseda University / Online hybrid)
Waseda University, Building 22, Room 502 (Doors open at 13:00)

Open to the public
Title: Proposal for Conflict and International Relations Analysis Introducing the Concept of “Embedded Relationality” (Japanese)
Speaker: Prof. Keiko Sakai (Professor, Chiba University Institute for Advanced Academic Research / Graduate School of Social Sciences)

Late Afternoon Session 16:30–18:00
Closed to project members only
Young Scholars Session – Comments and Advice from Prof. Sakai
Presenters: Dr. Hiroko Kawaguchi, Dr. Hajime Onozaka

Day 3 – Saturday, March 1

Morning Session
9:00–12:50 (Hybrid at Osaka University / Online; Waseda Venue: Building 22, Room 502)
Speaker: Prof. Carol Gluck (Columbia University)
Presentation: Prof. Gluck Workshop 2025 (Memory, History, Reconciliation)
Venue: Osaka University, Suita Campus, Main Human Sciences Bldg. 5F, Social Sciences Meeting Room M523

Afternoon Session
13:30–15:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 22, Room 502)
Open to the public
Speaker: Prof. Akiko Takenaka (University of Kentucky)
Presentation: “Japan’s Historical Memory and the Unending Postwar – The Case of Yasukuni Shrine”
(Based on her book Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar)

Day 4 – Sunday, March 2

Morning Session
10:00–12:00 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 26, Room 702)
Speaker: Prof. Akiko Takenaka (University of Kentucky)
Presentation: “Women’s Peace Movement in Cold War Japan – Reconsidering the Concept of Motherhood”
(Based on her book Mothers Against War)

Afternoon Session
13:30–15:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 26, Room 702)
Speaker: Dr. Nick Kapur (Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University)
Presentation: “National Consensus in Postwar Japan: Between Idealism (Article 9) and Realism (the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty)”
Discussant/Moderator: Prof. Toyomi Asano
(Reference: “The Location of Reflection in Postwar Japan – Focusing on Kanichi Asakawa,” Asteion Journal)
Closed to project members only

15:45–17:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 26, Room 702)
Informal Session on Publishing and English-Language Dissemination
Speakers: Dr. Nick Kapur (Rutgers University), Prof. Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge)
(Prof. Kushner’s attendance subject to change)

Day 5 – Monday, March 3

Morning Session
9:00–12:30 (Venue: Waseda University, Building 22, Room 511)
Speaker: Prof. Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge)
Presentation: “Geopolitics of Justice: Current Trends in Historical Memory Studies”

13:00–15:00 – Informal Discussion on Research Environment at University of Cambridge and Publishing (Continued)
Speaker: Prof. Barak Kushner

Closing