Cities of Peace: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

The Cities of Peace: Hiroshima & Nagasaki workshop concludes the final lecture this Thursday. Don't miss this opportunity to partake in the final showing of 1000 Cranes: Prospects of Peace in a Nuclear Age. Over the last two weeks this exhibit has been foundational in providing KSU with a forum for dialogue for our community, as well as engendering the mantra of the exhibit - envisaging a world unburdened by the atrocities that nuclear weapons pose.

January 28, 2010 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop) Douglas R. Reynolds, Georgia State University "Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Tale of Two Cities in War and Peace" Social Science 1019 *12:30*

Dr. Reynolds is a specialist in modern Chinese history, with an associated research field in modern Japanese history. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels covering all periods of Chinese and Japanese history, as well as world history. His research and major publications emphasize modern China-Japan relations, focusing on cultural interactions between China and Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research has taken him to China and Japan as well as to major research libraries in the United States. His book China: 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan(1993) was nominated for several national academic prizes in the United States. On the strength of this book, he was awarded Japan's prestigious To-A Dobun Shoin Memorial Prize in 1996. This book's Chinese translation was published in China in 1998 and reprinted in 2006. Other writings by Reynolds have been awarded two different Modern Sino-Japanese Relations Prizes of the Association for Asian Studies. He has just completed a book manuscript, East Meets East: Chinese Discover the Modern World – in Meiji Japan, 1877-1895, under final review for publication. Reynolds has given frequent presentations at meetings and academic conferences locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, including Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (in Chinese), Japan (in Japanese), Hong Kong, and Singapore. His Selected Publications are: Christian Mission Schools in Comparative Perspective: A Comparison with Japan's To-A Dobun Shoin in Shanghai, 1901-1945, and Their Legacies, in Glen Peterson, Ruth Hayhoe, and Yongling Lu, eds., Education and Society in 20th Century China (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001), 82-108. Training Young China Hands: Toa Dobun Shoin and Its Precursors, 1886-1945, in The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937, eds. Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), 210-271. Awarded the 1991 Modern Sino-Japanese Relations Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, administered by the Mid-Atlantic Region, AAS. A Golden Decade Forgotten: Japan-China Relations, 1898-1907, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fourth series, 2 (1987), 93-153. Awarded the 1988 Modern Sino-Japanese Relations Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, administered by the Mid-Atlantic Region, AAS. Chinese Area Studies in Prewar China: Japan's Toa Dobun Shoin in Shanghai, 1900-1945, The Journal of Asian Studies, 45.5 (November 1986), 945-970. One of two publications mentioned in the award letter of the To-A Dobun Shoin Memorial Prize, Tokyo, 1996.

Mike Ryan Lecture Series

January 26, 2010

"Against Forgiveness" John J. Stuhr, Emory University Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & American Studies Social Science 1019 *12:30*

"This presentation critically analyzes the nature of forgiveness across its religious, ethical, psychological, and medical dimensions. It concludes by outlining troubling assumptions and problems in the practice of forgiveness." Dr. Stuhr is professor of philosophy and chair of philosophy at Emory University. Professor Stuhr’s areas of research include social theory and political philosophy, ethics, pragmatism and American philosophy, 19th and 20th century European philosophy, philosophy and contemporary culture. He has published on a wide array of topics such as Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy (Routledge, 2003); Genealogical Pragmatism: Philosophy, Experience, and Community (SUNY, 1997); John Dewey (Carmichael and Carmichael, 1991). Editor of100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's 'Epoch-Making' Philosophy (Indiana, forthcoming, 2009);Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2000); Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Culture (SUNY, 1993). Current Projects include books on forgiveness and the unforgivable, pragmatism and philosophical criticism, and American philosophy, and a research project with the Kettering Foundation on media, public good, and democracy.

Cities of Peace: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

January 19, 2010 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)

“Double Exposure: Tsutomu Yamaguchi and the Luck of War Reflections of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”

Christopher Jespersen, Dean School of Arts and Letters (North Georgia State College and University) Social Science 1019 *12:30*

Dr. Jespersen is Dean of the School of Arts and Letters. He also teaches in the History Department. Dr. Jespersen received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1991. He taught at the University of Arizona and Clark Atlanta University before joining North Georgia in 2001. He is the author of American Images of China, 1931-1949, co-editor of Architects of the American Century: Individuals, Ideas, and Institutions in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy, and editor of Interviews with George F. Kennan, in addition to numerous articles. He has been a fellow at the Salzburg Seminar (twice) and the East-West Center. In 2000, he received a Meritorious Service Award from the United Negro College Fund.

January 19, 2010 (Part of Cities of Peace Workshop)

A Reading--

"A Day, Just Like Any Other Day: On a Birthday 75 Years Later" David Jones, Atlanta Center for Asian Studies Social Science 1019 *6:00 P.M.*

Dr. Jones is professor of philosophy, editor of Comparative and Continental Philosophy (Equinox) and East-West Connections, director of the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies, and has been visiting professor of Confucian Classics at Emory. His current books include The Fractal Self and the Evolution of God with John L. Culliney and Zhu Xi Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Great Ultimate (State University of New York Press), edited with He Jinli. He is co-editor of Asian Texts -AsianContexts: Encountering the Philosophies and Religions of Asia (State University of New York Press, 2009) and editor of Confucius Now: Contemporary Encounters with the Analects (Open Court, 2008), Buddha Nature and Animality (Jain, 2007), and The Gift of Logos: Essays in Continental Thought. A past president of the Southeast Regional of the Association of Asian Studies and present president of the Comparative & Continental Philosophy Circle, he was the East-West Center's Distinguished Alumnus in 2004-2005.

January 21, 2010

"Current Nuclear Issues" (1000 Cranes Teleconference with Hibakusha) Steven Leeper, Chairperson of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Ms. Miyoko Watanabe, Hibakusha. Ms. Watanabe was 15 years old and a third year student at a girls school at the time of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. She was exposed to the bomb when she stepped outside of her house located 2.2 kilometers (1.4 miles) from the ground zero. Social Science 1019 *7:00 P.M.*

Goguryeo Renderings: Contemporary Fabric Re-Visions of Traditional Korean Tomb Wall

The Philosophy Student Association of Kennesaw State University and the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies, an affiliate of the Asian Studies Development Program of the East-West Center, are honored to present:

Goguryeo Renderings:

Contemporary Fabric Re-Visions of Traditional Korean Tomb Wall Paintings

By

Haeseon Hahn

January 11-15, 2010

Social Science Atrium

Kennesaw State University

Quilt making is one of the most prevalent and continuous domestic folk art forms. Continuing to this day and traditionally practiced by Anglo and African-American women in rural areas of the U.S., the art is also practiced by Native American women as well. The art of quilt making provides a medium of cross-cultural understanding and appreciation at the most fundamental grass roots level of our experience as human beings. Quilt making is a shared art form that transforms cultural difference. As such, quilt art provides a mechanism for the promotion of ethnic harmony and mutual understanding. Haeseon Hahn’s quilts offer an opportunity that not only shares with American quilt artists, but provides openings for greater understanding and acceptance of cultural and ethnic difference. Her art provides a venue for transcending ethnic and cultural difference as well as offering expertise to American quilt artists through her own work. From this interfacing as observed in her art, the art of quilts is enhanced and transforms itself to a new artistic level. Haeseon Hahn is an extraordinarily talented artist. The U.S. has a long standing tradition in quilt-making and Haeseon Hahn is simply one of the best quilt artists living. She is a living treasure of the art in her Korean heritage context.

About the artist:

Haeseon Hahn is Associate Principal of the Sejong Korean American School of Georgia, which is part of the Korean American Education Foundation of Georgia. The Sejong School provides a vital service to the Atlanta region’s vibrant and growing Korean population. As a heritage school, Sejong is committed and devoted to preserving Korean culture and language for young Korean Americans. Under the direction of Mr. Joon Heo, Chairman of the Korean American Education Foundation of Georgia and founder of the Sejong Korean American School, Ms. Hahn is the point person who facilitates the exceptional work performed there. Haeseon Hahn holds a Master of Design degree from Sangmyung University in Fabric Art with a focus on quilt study based on Korean ancient tomb wall painting. She also holds the Bachelor of Design in dress design from Duksung Women’s University. A consistent winner of the Korean Fine Art Association in 2000, 2001, and 2002 and The Art of the World Contest (2000) as well as a prize winner in the Georgia Quilt Show Contest in 2008, she has had many exhibitions of her quilts in Seoul and in the U.S.