HeKKSaGOn Global History from Asian Perspectives Joint Research Project
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (ONLINE VIA ZOOM)
1-3 September 2021

Keywords: Japan and Asia; global history, imperialism, transwar, decolonization, economicdevelopment, internationalist intellectuals, technology and the environment, historical memory,transcultural perceptions

SEPT 1 (Wednesday) DAY ONE (from 5PM Japan Time/10AM German Time) OVERVIEW OF
TRANSWAR AND GLOBAL CONTEXT (Chair: Adachi)
1. Welcome and Introduction Akita Shigeru and Harald Fuess, Overcoming and Connecting NationalHistories
2. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen), (KEYNOTE) The Place of East Asia in the Contradictory Worldsof Historiography

SECTION ONE: IMAGING EMPIRE AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER (Chair: Melber)
3. Hedinger Daniel (HeKKSaGOn/LMU Munich), The Imperial Nexus of the Second World War. TheJapanese Empire and its Legacy in Transimperial Indochina
4. Hiroaki Adachi (Tohoku), The Life and Afterlife of the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere":Japan and Southeast Asia from the 1910s to the 1960s
5. Nadin Heé (Osaka), Decolonizing Transimperial Waters: The Japanese Empire and its Aftermath inManaging Fish as a Global Commons

SEPT 2 (Thursday) DAY TWO (from 5PM Japan Time/10AM German Time)SECTION TWO: CONSTRUCTING TRANSWAR ORDERS (Chair: Ericson)
6. Shigeru Akita (Osaka), Historical Origins of “the East Asian Miracle” —A Global Historical
Perspective on International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s
7. Takahiro Yamamoto (Heidelberg), The long shadow of the ‘equatorial dream': Subaltern
imperialists in the Nan'yō and the formation of Japanese Micronesian society
8. Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka), Americanists in the Japanese Empire and its Aftermath

SECTION THREE: THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL (Chair: Fujihara)
9. Kjell Ericson (Kyoto), Looking for Diamonds in Japan's Pearl Country, 1930s-1950s
10. Harald Fuess (Heidelberg), Kyoto and the Atomic Bomb
11. Till Knaudt (Kyoto), MARS-System: War, Cybernetics, and the Computerization of Japan National
Railways

SECTION FOUR: POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND MOBILITY (Chair: Heé)
12. Nobuyuki Nakamura (Osaka) Multiculturalism in cultural exchange: : The Japan-America Student
Conference (JASC), 1930-1954
13. Christopher Craig (Tohoku), The Empire at Home: Village Mayors and Transwar Decolonisation inJapanese Farming Villages
14. Tatsushi Fujihara (Kyoto), Japanese Agricultural Thought from the 1920s to the 1960s

SEPT 3 (Friday) DAY TWO (from 5PM Japan Time/10AM German Time)SECTION FIVE: CONTESTING AND COMMEMORATING NATIONS (Chair: Craig)
15. Collin Rusneac, Tohoku/Heidelberg University) Tangled Legacies: Japan’s “Colonial Cemeteries” in
Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea
16. Steven Ivings (Kyoto), Human Aspects of Decolonization: The Socioeconomic Transition of Former
Residents of Colonial Karafuto in Postwar Japan
17. Takuma Melber (Heidelberg), From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Commemorative
culture and legacies of World War II in the relationship of Japan and the United States of America
18. Yuka Tsuchiya (Kyoto), A Global Expansion of the Japanese Deep-sea Tuna Fisheries in the Early
Cold War Era: Continuity and Discontinuity from the Interwar Years

SECTION SIX: GENERAL DISCUSSION AND FUTURE PLANS (Chairs: Adachi, Akita, Fuess, Fujihara)