[KS] Workshop Announcement: (Un-) Democratic Pasts: Historical Memory in Hyperpolitical Times in East Asia and Beyond.

[Patrick Vierthaler]

(Un-) Democratic Pasts: Historical Memory in Hyperpolitical Times in East Asia and Beyond.
Join us for a workshop (on site and online) on historical memory in hyperpolitical times at the University of Vienna on 13 June 2025.
15:30 - 15:40 (all times in CEST) Andreas Eder-Ramsauer, University of Vienna: Opening Remarks
15:40 - 17:10 Panel 1 Benjamin Nienass, Montclair State University: "Memory, Agonism and our 'Moment of Danger'"Anna Wiemann, LMU München: "Memory-Work in Post-Disaster Tōhoku: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Narratives"Andreas Eder-Ramsauer, University of Vienna: "„Left-Wing Reactionism“ or „Progressive Nostalgia“? The Use of the Past in Left-Wing Populism in Japan and its European Influences"
17:30 - 19:00 Panel 2Yamaguchi Tomomi, Ritsumeikan University: "The Global Politics of Denial: Japan’s Right-Wing Campaigns Against “Comfort Women” Memorialization""Patrick Vierthaler, Kyoto University: "Right-Wing Historical Memory and Mass Media in Post-Authoritarian South Korea: Where did “Rational Conservativism” Fail, and Why?"Martin Tschiggerl, Austrian Academy of Sciences: "Battlefield of Remembrance: The Second World War in digital games"
Details and Zoom link available here: https://japan.univie.ac.at/startseite/einzelnews/news/workshop-undemocratic-pasts-historical-memory-in-hyperpolitical-times-in-east-asia-and-beyond/
--------Patrick VIERTHALER Assistant Professor (Contemporary History)
Institute for Research in Humanities / Hakubi Project
 Kyoto University 606-8501 Kyoto JAPAN
京都大学　特定助教（現代史）人文科学研究所／白眉センター

Tel.: +81 - 80 - 2294 - 6434
HP: pvierthaler.com
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