Closed workshop
International Workshop
Enacting East Asia
Actors, Ideas and Institutions
09:30 Welcome Address
Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott
10:00-11:30 SESSION 1
<1> Julian Dierkes
“East Asia in the Organizational Structure of Asian Ministries of Foreign Affairs”
<2> Matthias Zachmann
“Men in the High Castle: Visions of a Counterfactual East Asian Order in Wartime Japan, 1937-45”
11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 SESSION 2
<1> Verena Blechinger-Talcott
“Containing China? Japanese Cultural Diplomacy in Southeast Asia”
<2> Kai Ostwald
“China’s growing backyard: China in Southeast Asia”
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 SESSION 3
<1> Eun-Jeung Lee
“Occidentalism” or Images of the West in Korea”
<2> Tim Cheek
“Ordering the World: Statecraft in Eastern Asia in Modern Times”
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 SESSION 4
<1> Paul Evans
“Global Reach: The Changing Pattern of Chinese Presence and Influence”
<2> Eric J. Ballbach
“North Korea’s Emerging Nuclear State Identity: Discursive Constructions and Performative Enactment”
<3> Anna Belogurova
“The world of Socialist Coal: Technology, Economy, and Environment in China and the Eastern Bloc (1945-70)”
19:00 Dinner