Friday, October 28 08:30am to 06pm
Columbia University – International Affairs Building, 150 Kellogg Center
New York, NY 10027

This event is the first in a planned two-part conference that will bring together scholars and experts on history, politics and international law from the US, Japan, Korea, and China to discuss the legacies and problems of the San Francisco Treaty system and the search for an appropriate peace regime for contemporary East Asia.
Agenda:

8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast & Registration

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks: Young-Ho Kim; Charles Armstrong

9:15 – 11:15 PANEL 1: The San Francisco Treaty, History, and International Law
Tae-jin Yi (Seoul National University): “’San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan and the Problems regarding the Exemption of Japanese Blame on the Colonization of Korea”
Jang-Hie Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies): Limitations of the San Francisco Peace Treaty and Peace in East Asia from the Perspective of Colonial State Responsibility”
Jeong-Ho Roh (Columbia University): “The San Francisco Peace Treaty and International Law”
Etsuro Totsuka (Ryukoku University): Japan’s Re-joining Into the Cold War World and its Freezing of the Decolonization Process”
Charles Armstrong (Columbia University): Discussant

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 PANEL 2: The San Francisco System and International Order

Haruki Wada (Tokyo University): “San Francisco Treaty System and Peace State Japan”
Byung-Joon Jung (Ewha Womans University): “San Francisco Peace Treaty with Japan and its Legacy in East Asia”
Chengyou Song (Peking University): “San Francisco Peace Treaty: The War Time Peace Order of East Asia During the Changing Time of the Early Cold War”
Koh Odagawa (Waseda University): Discussant

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch (provided only to speakers)

14:00 – 15:30 PANEL 3: The San Francisco System, Territory and Memory
Dekun Hu (Wuhan University, History): “The San Francisco Peace Treaty and Territorial Disputes”
Fumiaki Nozoe (Okinawa International University, Law): “The Okinawa Problem in the San Francisco Treaty System: A Historical Perspective”
Daqing Yang (George Washington University): “War, Decolonization and Memory in Northeast Asia”
Kimie Hara (University of Waterloo): “Exploring Settlements of Regional Conflicts in the San Francisco System”
Yang Chan(Wuhan University): Discussant

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 –17:45 PANEL 4: The San Francisco System, Legacies, and Beyond
Young-Ho Kim (Academy of Korean Studies): “Beyond the San Francisco System in East Asia”
Myung-Lim Park (Yonsei University): “The San Francisco System, Northeast Asian Exceptionalism, and Beyond for Perpetual Peace”
Alexis Dudden (University of Connecticut): “The San Francisco System, and Current Issues of National Borders”
Carol Gluck (Columbia University): Discussant

17:45 – 18:00 Concluding remarks: Jin-Hyun Kim(World Peace Forum) & Elazar Barkan (Columbia University)

Conference ends

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