<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With apologies for crossposting, we would be very grateful for your help in publicising the following announcement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">European Research Council Project<b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> “</b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia, 1945-1965",</i>and <b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Dr. Barak Kushner, Principal Investigator,</b> are pleased to announce the conference:</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">The Reconstruction of East Asia, 1945-65</b><i style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> </i></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cambridge University, UK, December 9-12, 2016</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Aim of the conference</b>: this gathering will question how the collapse of the Japanese empire affected the region and how a host of different and competing groups struggled to remap and revision East Asia in the aftermath of the end of empire. The effort will examine these events from an East Asian and transnational perspective.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Our goal</b> is to generate new dialogues among scholars who work on a wide variety of historical and geographical perspectives, focusing on China, Japan, Korea (South and North), and Taiwan. Scholars researching aspects of military demobilization, law and responsibility, the reorganization of authority and new political ideologies, transformations in postwar society, culture, the manufacture of identity, the geo-political restructuring of borders, and ethnic or nationalist violence in reconstructed East Asia in the two decades following the end of World War Two are encouraged to apply.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Topics may include but are not limited to:</span></p><ul class="ul1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17.5px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">War crimes trials but moving beyond what is already starting to emerge in the field</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Traitor trials and/or issues of collaboration</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Peace treaty negotiations that shed new light on the era</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gender issues</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Problems of migration arising in the immediate postwar</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Purges in East Asia</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Important incidents: such as the 2.28 incident, the Shibuya Incident, the Cheju Island Incident</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The reapplication of law or creation of new courts in many countries and how they interacted</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Memorial legacies and related subjects</span></li><li class="li1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em;"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Problems in demobilization, demilitarization</span></li></ul><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">See the larger goals of the ERC project and a full write up of previous conferences and outputs at the ERC Project website: <a href="http://www.warcrimesandempire.com/" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(50, 153, 186); background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">http://www.warcrimesandempire.com</span></a>. Questions about the project can be addressed to<b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""> Dr. Barak Kushner</b>, <a href="mailto:bk284@cam.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(50, 153, 186); background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">bk284@cam.ac.uk</span></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">**Deadline to send in a 500-word summary and 3-page CV for application: <b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">March 1, 2016. </b>Please email submissions to the conference address:<a href="mailto:reconstructionofeastasia@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(50, 153, 186); background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="s2" style="box-sizing: border-box;">reconstructionofeastasia@gmail.com</span></a> </span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suitable participants will be contacted and will be kindly asked to send a full version of their paper <b style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">by November 20, 2016</b> (5,000 words). The papers will be pre-circulated in order to facilitate discussion during the conference.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Travel costs (economy) and the costs of accommodation in Cambridge (3 nights) will be covered for all workshop participants. Workshop participants may be invited to submit their papers for publication.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">We would be grateful for sharing this call for papers among interested scholars and colleagues.</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br class=""></span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best,</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barak Kushner, PhD, </span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Reader in Japanese History (Associate Professor)</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Department of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">University of Cambridge</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sidgwick Avenue</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cambridge CB3 9DA</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">United Kingdom</span></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);" class=""><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fellow of Corpus Christi College</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">phone: 44 (0)1223-335-174</span></p><p class="p1" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box;">fax: 44 (0)1223-335-110</span></p><p class="p2" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.65em; color: rgb(66, 66, 66); font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242);"><span class="s3" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="mailto:bk284@cam.ac.uk" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(50, 153, 186); background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">bk284@cam.ac.uk</a></span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>