WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

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Day One (1st July)

Gavan McCormack is emeritus professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. A graduate of the universities of Melbourne and London (PhD from London in 1974), he taught at the Universities of Leeds (UK), La Trobe (Melbourne), and Adelaide, before joining the ANU in 1990. He has lived and worked in Japan on many occasions since first visiting it as a student in 1962, and has been a Visiting Professor at Kobe, Kyoto, Ritsumeikan, Tsukuba, and International Christian Universities. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia in 1992. His work has been translated and published in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and the main European languages.

Recent books include The Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2^nd revised edition, 2001; Japanese, Korean and Chinese translations from Misuzu shobo, Changbi, and Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Japan’s Contested Constitution – Rethinking the National Role (co-authored with Glenn Hook, London, Routledge, 2001) and Target North Korea: Pushing North Korea to the Brink of Nuclear Catastrophe (New York, Nation Books, and Sydney, Random House Australia, 2004, Japanese edition from Heibonsha, 2004 and expanded Korean edition from Icarus, Seoul, 2006).

He is a media commentator on North-East Asia and a coordinator of the web journal, Japan Focus, http://japanfocus.org, which in September 2008 was awarded the Ryukyu shimpo’s inaugural Ikemiyagi Shui Prize for communicating Okinawan problems and thinking to the world. Since January 2008, he has been contributing a regular invited monthly column to Kyunghyang shinmun (Seoul), published in Korean.

Yeong Hwan Kim has participated in the East Asia Collaborative Workshop since 1997 at Hokkaido, Japan. Living in Japan and Korea, he has also been involved in a variety of social movements regarding Japan’s war responsibility and compensation, and such issues as Korean residents in Japan, forced migration and labor, the Japan’s “comfort women”, Yasukuni Shrine, the history textbook controversies in Northeast Asia, and Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. From 2002 to 2006, Kim worked at the Grassroots House Peace Museum in Kochi, Japan and is now working at the Center for Peace Museum in Korea. Kim’s primary goal is to find the way people could meet for the realization of peace beyond ethnic and national boundaries.

Peter Van Ness is a visiting fellow in the Contemporary China Centre and the Department of International Relations at the ANU, and coordinator of the project on peacebuilding in Northeast Asia: http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/blogs/peacebuilder/ His most recent book is Confronting the Bush Doctrine (edited with Mel Gurtov).

Hideko Nakamura is a freelance researcher, writer and peace activist. She is the representative of Melbourne based peace group, Japanese for Peace. The group recently organised a peace forum on reconciliation. She currently works as a research assistant for Dr Carolyn Stevens at the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne. Hideko is a regular columnist for Nichigo Press and SAITAMA Network, writing on peace issues. Her interests include justice, women’s issues and human rights issues. She wrote her Ph.D thesis on women’s peace activism in Japan.

Day Two (2^nd July)

Timothy Y. Tsu is a professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Sino-Japanese relations, Japan-Southeast Asia relations, the Japanese environment, Japanese colonization of Taiwan, and Japanese and Chinese religion. His latest article on Chinese cooking in Japan is forthcoming in Asian Studies Review.

Morris Low is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Queensland and Adjunct Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is an historian of Japan. He is interested in how Japan built a modern nation from the late nineteenth century and the role of science, technology and visual culture in that process. He has also taught at Monash University in Melbourne and the Australian National University in Canberra where he was Manager (Consultant) of the Australia-Japan Research Project at the Australian War Memorial. His book Japan on Display: Photography and the Emperor (Routledge, 2006) showed how photography shaped public perceptions of the emperor from the nineteenth century to the present day. Science and the Building of a New Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) explored the self-fashioning of Japanese physicists and their engagement with Western science in postwar Japan. His forthcoming co-authored book entitled Urban Modern: Inventing an International Culture of Change in the Second Industrial Revolution (MIT Press) explores the role of the city as an engine of scientific and technological change.

Elise Foxworth is a lecturer in Japanese studies and language at Monash University in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Her research interests are in the fields of Japanese studies, minorities in Japan, Japanese literature as well as cultural studies and identity studies. She recently completed her doctoral dissertation, Identity and Self Representation in the Japanese Literature of Three Korean Writers in Post War Japan: Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is also engaged in the translation of Japanese literature by Korean writers in Japan.

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. She convenes the Asia Civic Rights Network, and co-edits its online journal AsiaRights. Her research covers areas including frontiers, minorities and migration (with a focus on Japan and its neighbours), and issues of historical conflict and reconciliation in contemporary Northeast Asia. Her books include Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (M. E. Sharpe, 1998), The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (Verso, 2005; published in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten), and Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007; published in Japanese by Asahi Shinbunsha).

Day Three (3rd July)

Leonid Petrov graduated from St. Petersburg State University (1994) in Russia where he majored in Korean History and Language. He obtained a PhD in History at the ANU (2003) where he specialised in the studies of North Korea. In 2003-2005, Prof. PETROV taught History of North-South Korean Conflict and Cooperation at the Intercultural Institute of California in San Francisco and the Korean Economy at Keimyung University in Daegu. In 2006-2007 he acted as Chair of Korean Studies at the Political Sciences University (Sciences Po) in Paris. Currently he works on “Historical Conflict and Reconciliation in East Asia” (ARC-ANU) and “North-South Interfaces on the Korean Peninsula” (CNRS-EHESS) projects.

Geoffrey Jukes is a Senior Fellow of the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne and an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (Middle East and Central Asia) of the Australian National University.

Visiting Fellow in Oxford (1979 and 1981-85), Cambridge (1980 and 1987), Visiting Professor at Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University (1992-93 and 2003), and Senior Associate Member St. Antony’s College in Oxford since 1969. Authored The Soviet Union in Asia, University of California Press, 1973. Translated with commentary of Boris Slavinsky The Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact 1941-45, Routledge/Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, 2004. Part-author and co-editor (with Kimie Hara) of Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience; Untying the Kurillian Knot, Routledge, 2009.

Georgy D. Toloraya is the Director of Korean Programs at the Institute of Economy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. For many years he taught International Relations and lead research at the Centre for Contemporary Korean Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. Dr. Toloraya is a professional diplomat, formerly the Deputy Director-General of the First Asian Department of Russian Foreign Ministry. He served in Pyongyang, Seoul and Sydney. He authored and co-authored six books on Northeast Asian affairs.

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