Book launching webinar 《Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific (亞洲的記憶前沿)》

Host: Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University

Time: 5 January 2023 (13:30-15:30 GMT+8)

Webex Meet Link: https://reurl.cc/ymoxQM

Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on the notion of heritage, this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as “heritage” in a number of societies. The authors analyze how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on their political agenda. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of difficult heritage can involve the construction of new borders between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. The studies presented here suggest new directions for comparative research into “difficult heritage” across Asia and beyond, applying an interdisciplinary and critical perspective that spans history, heritage studies, memory studies, urban studies, architecture, and international relations.

The editors of the volume are Shu-Mei Huang (National Taiwan University), Hyun Kyung Lee (Sogang University) and Edward Vickers (Kyushu University). As what follows are chapter authors who will participate in the book launching webinar:

Tomoko Ako is Professor in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

Roslynn Ang works with the Sapporo Upopo Hozonkai, an intangible cultural heritage performance group that focuses on revitalizing Ainu song and dance (upopo and rimse) within their community.

Lachlan Barber is a human geographer interested in cities, heritage, culture and mobility.

Edward Boyle is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and serves as editor of the Japan Review.

Shu-Mei Huang is Associate Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University.

Hyun Kyung Lee is an Assistant Professor at Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University in South Korea.

Pan Lu is Associate Professor at the Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Anoma Pieris is Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Desmond Hok-Man Sham is a Researcher affiliated to the International Center for Cultural Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

Edward Vickers holds the UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan. He is Director of Kyushu University’s Taiwan Studies Program, and Secretary-General of the Comparative Education Society of Asia.

此書主編是本校建築與城鄉研究所黃舒楣（亞比中心成員）、兩位共同編輯分別是韓國西江大學批判全球研究中心的Hyun Kyung Lee和日本九州大學的 Edward Vicker教授，以下是會參與新書座談會的作者名單：

出版社書訊：https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo185844036.html

另外可參考在日本九州大學的官網發布: Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific | EurekAlert!

若對該書及座談活動有任何興趣或指正懇請聯繫主編黃舒楣

Shu-Mei Huang: shumeihuang@ntu.edu.tw