The SRC’s Cooperation Agreement with Keimyung University (Daegu, South Korea) & The First International Seminar of the Korean Border Studies School
2011/06/28
The Global COE Program at the Slavic Research Center (SRC) announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with the new border studies program at Keimyung University on April 11, 2011.
(see http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/BorderStudies/en/news/20110498.htm)
The cooperation agreement demonstrates the SRC’s desire to support this new Korean border studies initiative. Existing studies of Korea-Japan border disputes, such as the Takejima/Dokto issue, have been analyzed solely in political terms, but this new initiative will allow the views of locals at the border site to be heard and incorporated into academic understandings of border issues. We celebrate this Korean project as a trailblazer for academic research occurring in border studies.
The first seminar on “Making Borders and Borderless coexist” was successfully held in Keimyung University on June 25, 2011. Three Japan-based scholars, a US-based scholar, and a China-based scholar presented reports with simultaneous interpretation. Koji Furukawa (Chukyo University) delivered a report on “The Possibilities for Reshaping Japan’s Border Regime Administration” based on the results of the ‘Japan's Network on Border Studies’ seminars held on Yonaguni and Taiwan in May.
(Akihiro Iwashita)
(see http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/BorderStudies/en/news/20110498.htm)
The cooperation agreement demonstrates the SRC’s desire to support this new Korean border studies initiative. Existing studies of Korea-Japan border disputes, such as the Takejima/Dokto issue, have been analyzed solely in political terms, but this new initiative will allow the views of locals at the border site to be heard and incorporated into academic understandings of border issues. We celebrate this Korean project as a trailblazer for academic research occurring in border studies.
The first seminar on “Making Borders and Borderless coexist” was successfully held in Keimyung University on June 25, 2011. Three Japan-based scholars, a US-based scholar, and a China-based scholar presented reports with simultaneous interpretation. Koji Furukawa (Chukyo University) delivered a report on “The Possibilities for Reshaping Japan’s Border Regime Administration” based on the results of the ‘Japan's Network on Border Studies’ seminars held on Yonaguni and Taiwan in May.
(Akihiro Iwashita)
