[KS] 9/6 and 9/7 Colloquia at UC Berkeley: Jae-Jung Suh

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Fri Aug 31 14:37:39 EDT 2012


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University of California, Berkeley

 

Cordially invites you to the following colloquia

 

 

Histories of Nuclear Crisis in Korea, Opportunities for Northeast Asia's
Peace?

Lecture: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |
September 6 |  4:00 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)

 

Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

 

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Korean Studies
(CKS), Academy of Korean Studies

 

North Korea and the United States have been entangled in disputes, charges,
and counter charges over the former's nuclear activities as they have been
engaged in a flurry of diplomatic activities and even preparations for
military actions. Broadly speaking, there are two crises over nuclear
weapons in Korea: a 60 years crisis and a 20 years crisis. The former began
during the Korean War and is not yet over, hatching the latter in the 1990s.
I discuss these historical crises and present a theoretical model that
explains not only these crises but also the three diplomatic efforts to
resolve them peacefully: Geneva Agreed Framework of 1994, Perry Process of
1998-1999, and the Six Party Talks.

 

This lecture is part of a series "Continental Korea," placing Korea in
historical East Asian context.

 

Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

 

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Transnational Public Sphere? Historical Contentions and Dialogues in
Northeast Asia

Lecture: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |
September 7 | 3:30 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)

 

Speaker: Jae-Jung Suh, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University

 

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Korean Studies
(CKS), Academy of Korean Studies

 

This talk is part of a larger conference on Asian relations, "The South
China Sea: Re-Assessing Regional Order in Asia." Time approximate.

 

President Myung-Bak Lee of Korea recently visited a small rock island and
had a monument established there. This, and his demand that Japan's Emperor
apologize for the past wrong doings during the colonial rule, irked many
Japanese and led the Kan government to take a stern response. As a result,
the bilateral relationship, which had seen some of the best days, quickly
deteriorated to a low where the Japanese Ambassador was recalled. This is
not an isolated incident in the region. Korea, Japan, and China have been
entangled in various disputes and dialogues about their common past since
the end of the Second World War. Rather than focusing exclusively on the
recent example, I situate it in the post-war history of the region. I
examine various incidents of historical contentions to assess whether these
disputes condemn the region to a future of conflicts or whether they hold a
future possibility of a transnational public sphere in Northeast Asia.

 

This lecture is part of a series "Continental Korea," placing Korea in
historical East Asian context.

 

Event Contact: ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

 

 

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