The Memories of WWII Symposium Student Panel

You and your students/colleagues are cordially invited to the following student panel.  

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Doudna Fine Arts Center Lecture Hall

2:45-4:15 p.m. Panel:  “World War II Memories in Japan and Beyond”
– Organized by Dr. Jinhee Lee, History Department, Eastern Illinois University

Student Presenters:

Mitsumi Takei, Eastern Illinois University (History):
“World War II Memories in Japanese Popular Culture under American Occupation”
  
Bridget Quinlivan, Western Illinois University (History):
“Memories of the ‘China War’ in Japan”

Charlie Kim, Northwestern University (Sociology):
 “Civil Society, State, and Memory Movement: The Biographical Encyclopedia of ‘Pro-Japanese Collaborators’ in Korea”

Tristan Soderberg-Baar, Eastern Illinois University (History):
“A Divided Memory: Assessing the Cultural History of Yasukuni Shrine in Postwar Japan”

Discussant:

Dr. Febe D. Pamonag, Assistant Professor of History, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL