Revisionism Workshop: Theories, Concepts and Manifestations
Leiden, 24-25 November 2005
University of Leiden
Venue: Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Steenschuur 25, Leiden
Room A008 (24 November), room A014 (November 25)
Convenors:
Prof. Rikki Kersten & Prof. Axel Schneider
Principle Researchers of the VICI Research Project “Historical Consciousness and the Future of Modern China and Japan: Conservatism, Revisionism, and National Identity”
Workshop program
Thursday 24 November , 2005
14:00 Introductory Remarks
14:15 Opening Address by Harry Harootunian
‘Overview: The State of Revisionism and the State of the Field’
15:00 Discussant: Peter van der Veer
15:15 General discussion
15:45 Coffee and tea
Session 1: Approaches to the Revisionism of History
16:00 Axel Schneider
‘Conservatism and Tradition’
16:20 Victor J. Koschmann
‘Recessionary Revisionism in Japan: Reactions to Postwar Historiography across the Political Spectrum in the 1990s’
16:40 Discussant: Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
16:45 General discussion
17:15 Close of first day
18:00 Dinner
Friday November 25, 2005
Session 2: Marxisms and Revisionisms
10:00 Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
‘Back to the past: historical revisionism in Chinese Marxist historiography’
10:20 Rikki Kersten
‘Umemoto Katsumi and Kuroda Kanichi: defining orthodoxy in Japanese Marxism’
10:40 Discussant: Arif Dirlik
10:55 General discussion
11:30 Coffee and tea
Session 3: Revisionism and War
11:45 Rana Mitter
‘Reading war, revising history: Chinese identity and memory of conflict’
12:05 Chris Goto-Jones
‘Responsibility, penitence, apologia and the philosophy of the Kyoto School’
12:25 Discussant: Harry Harootunian
12:40 General discussion
13:10 Lunch break
14:30 Closing Address: Arif Dirlik
‘The past as ideology and critical resource: politics and historical revisionism after the fall’
15:15 Discussant: Victor J. Koschmann
15:30 General discussion
16:00 Closing remarks
16:15 Close of workshop
This workshop is open to the general public. Registration is required:
Karin Aalderink
Coordinator VICI Research Project
c/o Department of Chinese Studies
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
the Netherlands
T +31-71-527 4172
k.a.aalderink@let.leidenuniv.nl
This workshop is kindly sponsored by the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS)