International Seminar of Hitotsubashi University ‘Special Public Lecture of Advanced Topics in the Social Sciences 17’: November 6th, 2017

date and time:

Monday, November 6th, 2017
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. – Lecture
5:00 – 5:30 p.m. – Reception

 
place: Sano Shoin Hall
 
speaker:

Prof. Lim Jie-Hyun (Professor of Sogang University, Director of Critical Global Studies Institute) title of talk: *Victimhood Nationalism: A Transnational History of World War Memories*
Prof. Lim Jie-Hyun is an internationally known scholar who adopts an innovative perspective of comparative history to discuss a wide range of issues, including global history, Marxism in East Asia and Eastern Europe, socialist societies, cultural history, historical memory, colonialism, and modernity and mass-dictatorship. He has published numerous books on these issues in English, Korean and Japanese. Recently, he has established the “Critical Global Studies Institute” at Sogang University and serves as its director.

 
organizer:

Prof. Jonathan Lewis, Prof.Yoshiko Ashiwa (Institute for the Study of Global Issues, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University)

 
contact address: Maho Yamazaki