Programme – NAJAKS 11

Online presentations are marked in blue.

Thursday 19 May 2022

09.00-09.30	Registration (Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3)
09.30-10.00	Opening remarks (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV))
10.00-11.00	Keynote: Gina Barnes & David Hughes Pen/Insular Relations in Prehistory: understanding the past for future use (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV)) Chaired by Tiina Airaksinen
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
SESSIONS 1
Theme	Culture & Society	History	Linguistics
Chair/ Room	Hyojin Lee U3039, Main Building	Vladimir Tikhonov U4075, Main Building	Riikka Länsisalmi U4080, Main Building
11.30-12.00	Reconciliation through Sharing Tasks: Honouring Elderly Zainichi Korean Women and Crossing Unspoken Boundaries in Japan Yoko Demelius, University of Turku	Boats Against the Post-Colonial Current: USAMGIK and SCAP Efforts to Return Fishing Boats and Infrastructure to the Korean Peninsula Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Leeds	Interactional achievement of affectivity in Japanese conversational interactions Halina Zawiszova, Palacký University Olomouc
12.00-12.30	Ability permeating one’s body: skills as embodied knowledge among self-employed food manufacturers in South Korea Antti Leppänen, University of Turku	Dangers of Repatriation: How Typhoons, Piracy, and Terrorism Contributed to the Building of the Postwar Zainichi Korean Population Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University	Identity development in NNS-NNS telecollaboration using Japanese as a lingua franca Mariya Aida Niendorf, Dalarna University
12.30-13.00	Competency as an Embodied Social Practice: Clothing, Presentation of Self and Corporate Masculinity in South Korea Joanna Elfving-Hwang, the University of Western Australia	Currency Problems in Allied Occupied Korea and Japan, 1945-1952 Simon James Bytheway, Nihon University	Demonstration of Korean grammar in Finnish Jeong-Young Kim, University of Helsinki
13.00-13.30	The Agenda Changed by Neo-Feminism from the Equal System to the Sexuality embedded within the woman’s body Hae Seong Jang, University of Helsinki	Unrest and Violence in Hwanghae Province, 1945-1951 Adam Cathcart, University of Leeds	Incomplete Predicates in Korean TV Captions: from a Contrastive Perspective Sung Hee Youn, Kwansei Gakuin University
13.30-15.00	Lunch (Porthania UniCafe, Yliopistonkatu 3)
SESSIONS 2
Theme	Culture & Society	Soviet Koreans: Identity, History, Culture	Miscellaneous
Chair/ Room	Sonja Häussler U3039, Main Building	Saana Santalahti U4075, Main Building	Ernils Larsson U4080, Main Building
15.00-15.30	Reading Kim, Yujeong’s works in social and cultural context of the 21st century Ji-Hyun Hwang, Folkuniversitet Stockholm	History of Korean Education in Sakhalin/Karafuto and the transformation of postwar Korean language textbooks Paichadze Svetlana and Junyoung Lee, Hokkaido University	Japanese publishers in the Meiji period: Promoting woodblock prints as educational material at National Industrial Exhibitions Freya Terryn, KU Leuven
15.30-16.00	Shidehara Diplomacy and the Manchurian Question: An Alternative View from the Local Press Andrea Revelant, Ca’ Foscari University Venice	Cho Seung-bog (1922-2012), A Korean Linguist in Motion Kyounghwa Lim, Chung-Ang University	Locating the ’Korea’ in Sino-Korean poetry: An Exploration of Geographical Iconography in Poetry of Enlightenment Era Publications Owen Stampton, University of London SOAS
16.00-16.30	The culture of positivity”: The ideology behind the “Hell Joseon” resurrection Chafik Elidrissi Rachad	Chu Chonggǒn (1895-1936) – Life and Death of a Transborder Korean Socialist Intellectual Vladimir Tikhonov, Oslo University	Old Tales, Original Retellings: The Japanese Legend of Resurrection and Revenge Saida Khalmirzaeva, Okayama University
16.30-17.00	Coffee break
17.00-18.00	Plenary 1: Hannes B. Mosler The Kwangju Democracy Movement and politics of memory in South Korea (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV)) Chaired by Vladimir Tikhonov
18.00-18.10	Break
18.10-20.00	Reception (Unioninkatu 33)

Friday 20 May 2022

SESSIONS 3
Theme	Images of the other	Politics		Discourses on women
Chair/Room	Rie Fuse U3029, Main Building	Hannes Mosler U3039, Main Building		Sachiko Sosa U4080, Main Building
09.30-10.00	Guidebooks as diplomatic tools: the cultural and editorial impact of British guidebooks in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Sonia Favi, University of Turin			In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun: A New Look at Women in Prehistoric Japan Natalie McKay, University of Melbourne
10.00-10.30	Northern Europe in 1928 through the Eyes of the Writer Tani Jōji Gérald Peloux, Cergy-Pontoise University	South Korean Political History: Long Tradition of Authoritarianism from Gojoseon to Roh Tae-woo Era Archie B. Resos, University of Santo Thomas		Feminine Fighters of Justice? Gendered Narratives of the Japan Self-Defense Forces and their Impact on Japanese Security “Normalisation” Miklas Fahrenwaldt, The University of Edinburgh
10.30-11.00		Japan Stumbles on Reviving Ties with South Korea Jeff Kingston, Temple University Japan		Listening to the history: meaning of autobiographies of Zainichi Korean women in Japanese language education program in Kyoto, Japan Sara Park, University of Helsinki
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
SESSIONS 4
Theme	Literature	Religion, ideology, and thought		Society and medicine
Chair/Room	Ji-Hyun Hwang U3029, Main Building	Lasse Lehtonen U3039, Main Building		Jeong-Young Kim U4080, Main Building
11.30-12.00	Communicating Women’s Voices in Pre-modern Society: A Study of Hwajōnka, Songs dedicated to spring outings for enjoying flowers Sonja Haeussler, Stockholm University	Examining the tradition of the Four Gods belief in Japan: with special focus on the development of ceremonial flags Marianna Lázár, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church
12.00-12.30	The <own> and the <foreign> in poetry by Yun Dong-Ju Maria Soldatova, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow	The state ideology in Chosōn Korea and the abolition of government-owned nobi Sangwon Shin, University of London SOAS		A Benevolent Doctor? The Rivalry between Western and Eastern Doctors in Colonial Korea Hyojin Lee, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
12.30-13.00	Poet and Poetry Writing in Korean Verse: notes on perception and representation Anastasia Guryeva, Saint Petersburg University	Reimagined identity: Jinja Honchō and Shrine Shinto as a religion in postwar Japan Ernils Larsson, Uppsala University / Kokugakuin University		Anti-vaccination Movement in Japan during the COVID-19 Pandemic Yoko Demelius and Kamila Szczepanska, University of Turku
13.00-14.00	Lunch (Porthania UniCafe, Yliopistonkatu 3)
SESSIONS 5
Theme	The politics of locality: gastronomy, diversity, and beyond		Miscellaneous
Chair/Room	Mariya Aida Niendorf U3029, Main Building		Bokyung Kim U3039, Main Building
14.00-14.30	Kombu on a Cloud – Koikawa Harumachi’s Yorokonbu hiiki no Ezo oshi and the Edo Period Economic Interest in Ezo Sarah Rebecca Schmid, University of Zürich		Justice in an age of lawlessness: adjudication of conflicts in sixteenth-century Japan Polina Serebriakova, University of Cambridge
14.30-15.00	Unexpected Diversity: Experience and Influences of LGBTQ+ JET Teachers in Japanese Rural Areas Kazuyoshi Kawasaka and Ami Kobayashi, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf		The rage of kitchen haiku Herbert Jonsson, Dalarna University
15.00-15.20	Break
15.20-16.20	Plenary 2: Olavi Fält Views of the Western newspapers published in Japan on the opening up of Korea in 1876 (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV)) Chaired by Juha Janhunen
16.20-16.30	Break
16.30-16.50	NIAS: Japanese and Korean databases/e-resources on the AsiaPortal (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV))
16.50-17.30	General meeting and Closing (Porthania, Suomen Laki (PIV))
17.30-18.30 18.30-	Break Meeting in front of Unioninkatu 34 and Heading to Uunisaari
19.30-22.30	Dinner at Uunisaari

Online presentations are marked in blue.

Thursday 19 May 2022

SESSIONS 1

SESSIONS 2

Friday 20 May 2022

SESSIONS 3

SESSIONS 4

SESSIONS 5