Remembering World War II in Japan (Poster)
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2015-09-24
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Date, time and place of event : Thursday, September 24, 2015, 7-8pm, EAC 1.
What do you tell the dead when you lose? How should you deal with a history of both wartime aggression and victimization? What
should be at the heart of national identity in a new postwar era? What does it mean to come to terms with the wartime past? This
talk will explore how Japan has grappled with these questions from the end of the war to the present day. And it will examine
how, in the contested and politicized terrain of war memory, various Japanese have debated what it means to mourn, atone,
apologize, forgive, forget, and remember.
Eiko Maruko Siniawer is Professor of History at Williams College, where she specializes in the history of modern Japan. Her first book—Ruffians, Yakuza, Nationalists: The Violent Politics of Modern Japan, 1860-1960—examined the relationship between political violence and democracy through a focus on the professionally violent. Her current book project (tentatively titled Affluence of the Heart: Waste in Postwar Japan) is on the changing conceptions of waste and wastefulness in Japan from the 1940s to the present. Professor Siniawer holds a PhD in history and an AM in East Asian Studies from Harvard University.
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Posters, World War, 1935-1945, World War II