Global-Historical Diffusion of Western Concepts

and the Transformation of Northeast Asian Regional Order

Programme

 

September 18 (Thursday)

 

09:00-09:30

Registration [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

 

09:30-10:00

Opening Ceremony[Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Welcoming Remarks: Yongdeok Kim, President of Northeast Asian History Foundation

Welcoming Remarks: Shin Bok, Kim, Vice President of Seoul National University, Kim

 

10:00-10:20

Keynote Speech[Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Lydia Liu(Columbia University, W.T. Tam Professor in the Humanities), “The Discourse of Injury in Imperial Warfare" 

 

10:30-12:30

Japanese Session [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Junichi Isomae(International Research Center for Japanese Studies), "Religion, Shinto and Academic Discourse in Modern Japan"

Sadami Suzuki(International Research Center for Japanese Studies), "On 'Liberty and Equality' in Meiji Japan"

Dongkook Kang(Nagoya University), "Concept of Heaven and God of East Asia in 19th century: Comparative research on the cases of Taiping rebellion and Dong-Hak"

Conceptual History and Comparative Political Theory [Social Science Building]

Kari Palonen(Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä), "Styles of Rhetorical Imagination in Comparative Political Theory and Conceptual History"

Hassan Bashir(Liberal Arts Program, Texas A&M University at Qatar), “"The Problem of Alterity and Comparative Theorizing"

 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-13:50 [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Keynote Speech: Prof. Youngsun Ha(Seoul National Univ.), “The Conceptual History of International Politics in the 19th Century Korea

 

13:50-15:50

Conceptual History and Comparative Political Theory [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Anthoula Malkopoulou(University of Jyväskylä), "Setting the agenda for a conceptual history of voting principles"

Vasileios Syros(University of Helsinki), "Methodological Issues in the Comparatve Study of Different Traditions of Conceptual History"

 

15:50-16:00

Coffee Break

 

16:00-18:00

Korean Session [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

In Hyo Seol(Dep. of International Relations, Seoul National University), “The Conceptual History of 'Revolution in Military Affairs, RMA': (An Analysis on the Evolving Process of the Concept of RMA Based on the Methodology of Conceptual History

Oh Jin Kim(Dep. of International Relations, Seoul National University), “Ins and Outs of Lovers' Suicide: Introduction and Transformation of Western Individualism in Korea

  


September 19 (Friday)

 

09:00-9:40

Keynote Speech: Prof. Hirano Kenichiro(Tokyo University) [Kyujanggak Conference Room], "Doing Conceptual History on Modern Japanese International Relations: A Difficult and yet Fascinating Challenge".

 

10:00-12:00

The Conceptualization of the Economic and the Social in European and Asian languages [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Hagen Schulz-Forberg(Aarhus University, Denmark), Bo Strath(Nordic, European and World History, University of Helsinki), “Towards a Global Conceptual History of the Social and the Economic?”

Myungkyu Park(Department of Sociology, Seoul National University), "Emergence of 'the Social' in Modern Korea: The Concept and Reality of 'Sahoe(사회, Society')"

Korean Session [Kyujanggak Seminar Room]

Youngsun Ha(Dep. Of International Relations, Seoul National University), “The concept of “peace” in Korea

Bonjin Kim(The University of Kitakyushu), "Reception and Change of the concept of Right(s) in Nishi Amane and Yu Kilchun"

Soo-am Kim(Korean Institute for National Unification), “The Concept of “Human Rights” in Korea

Chaesung Chun(Dep. Of International Relations, Seoul National University), “The concept of “nation” in Korea

 

12:00-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-14:10 [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Keynote Speech: Natascha Gentz(Vittinghoff)(Univ. of Edinburgh), “Coming to terms with new concepts: translingual practice in China and Japan

 

14:10-16:10

Civilization [Kyujanggak Seminar Room]

Masayuki Sato(Education and Human Sciences, University of Yamanashi), TBA

Pim den Boer(European Cultural history, University of Amsterdam), "Civilization :the introduction and diffusion of a transnational concept: case studies and comparative perspectives"

Galina Zvereva, "civilization" in Russia

Irene Herrmann, "civilization" in Switzerland

US and Europe [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Douglas Dow(Clinical Professor of Government and Politics, University of Texas at Dallas), "Conceptual Change in the American Conservative Movement: The Case of the Unitary Executive"

Petri Koikkalainen(Department of Social Studies, University of Lapland, Finland), "The changing semantics of civil society: An analysis and critique of present-day European politics"

 

16:10-16:20

Coffee Break

 

16:20-18:20

Asia [Kyujanggak Conference Room]

Pekka Korhonen,(University of Jyväskylä), "Asia and Chinese Civilization:Japanese Uses for the Concept of Asia 1695-1885"

Batsaikhan Ookhnoi(Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of International Studies), “Mongolia: Becoming a Nation-State”

Ere Nokkala(European University Institute),"Chinese Order as a Model for German Reform Absolutism?"

Evgeny Roshchin(Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, University of Jyväskylä, “Supplanting Love, Accepting Friendship”

 

18:20-18:40 Closing Ceremony [Kyujanggak Conference Room]