Local resistance to mass violence in Asia and Europe

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

 

DAY III

 

CIVILIANS AT STAKE: MASS VIOLENCE IN ASIA AND EUROPE

FROM 1931 TO THE PRESENT

16th to 18th DECEMBER 2015

In partnership with:
the Asia-Pacific Journal,
the Center for History  at Sciences Po.

and with the support of:
the French Ministry of Defense (DMPA, IRSEM),
the Région Ile-de-France,
the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
 

 

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18th December 2015

 

Comparisons between European and Asian patterns of war and violence can contribute to new understandings of these issues. With Japan’s empire as its focus, the conference seeks to develop analytical methodologies and comparative approaches to local, grassroots resistance to mass violence.

In contrast to the voluminous literature on resistance in France and Italy and on Chinese military resistance to the Japanese invasion, there is relatively little scholarly work on local resistance to wartime occupation in Asia. Will the understanding of resistance in occupied Europe also apply to Asia under Japanese domination? And how did the experience differ in colonized nations like Indochina and sovereign nations like China?

The task is also to investigate possible patterns of resistance. Although by now the study of those who stood against genocide is well established, civil opposition to other types of mass violence is less well treated. A study of civil opposition to mass violence may help to identify patterns of unarmed civil resistance and provoke more research to local resistance even under brutal wartime occupation regimes.

9:30 am
PANEL 5: LOCAL RESISTANCE TO MASS VIOLENCE AS A TOPIC OF RESEARCH

 

Moderator: Jean-Marc Dreyfus, University of Manchester

Speakers:

Claire Andrieu, Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire: Constructing and Rebuilding an Archetype: from 1940 to the Present

Joachim Scholtyseck, University of Bonn: John Rabe: Nankin-Berlin 1937-1945, from Rescue to Inaction

Discussant: Elissa Mailänder, Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire

11:15 am
PANEL 6: LOCAL RESISTANCE TO MASS VIOLENCE IN SOVEREIGN NATIONS

 

Moderator: Michael Lucken, INALCO, Paris

Speakers:

Arnaud Doglia, University of Cambridge: Resistance in Japan, 1931-1945

Rana Mitter, Oxford University: Refugee Flight, Collaboration and Resistance to Japanese Occupation in the Initial Phase of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-38

Masha Cerovic, Centre d’études franco-russes de Moscou: The People’s War: Insurgency and Civil War in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1941-1944

 

Discussant: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University

2:30 pm
PANEL 7: LOCAL RESISTANCE TO MASS VIOLENCE IN COLONIAL ASIA

 

Moderator: Alain Delissen, EHESS, Paris

Speakers:

Celine Marangé, Institute for Strategic Research (IRSEM), French Ministry of Defense: Vietnamese Communists and the Japanese Occupation of Indochina, 1940-1945

Remco Raben, University of Amsterdam & Utrecht University: Local Resistance to Japanese Occupation in Indonesia

Michiko Nakahara, Waseda University: Reclaiming Agency: the ‘Comfort Women’ and Feminist Activism

Discussant: Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima Peace Institute & Hiroshima City University

4:30 pm
ROUNDTABLE

 

Moderator:Riva Kastoryano, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

Speakers:

Claire Andrieu, Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire

Ariel Colonomos, Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS

Neta Crawford, Boston University

Carol Gluck, Columbia University

Yuki Tanaka, Hiroshima Peace Institute & Hiroshima City University

 

Scientific Committee: Claire Andrieu (Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire), Ariel Colonomos (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS), Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire), Arnaud Doglia (University of Cambridge), Jean Marc Dreyfus (University of Manchester), Carol Gluck (Columbia University), Riva Kastoryano (Sciences Po-CERI, CNRS), Elissa Mailänder (Sciences Po-Centre d’histoire), Karoline Postel-Vinay (Sciences Po-CERI), Mark Selden (Asia-Pacific Journal).

 

Sciences Po-CERI: 56, rue Jacob 75006 Paris (salle de conférences)