This meeting is organized by Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter, co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center and the Arts and Humanities Division at Duke Kunshan University.
This project aims to tell the story of statelessness in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. Building on Hannah Arendt’s classic account of the plight of the stateless, we draw attention in different case studies to the voice of the stateless in the collective effort they made to narrate their own lives. They occupied a third space between being outcasts and being free men and women. Comparisons among different stateless communities in Asia and the Pacific show the different paths out of statelessness during and after the Second World War.
Program
All times are listed as Central European Time (CET)
Thursday, December 1
IES Abroad Barcelona, ronda de St. Pere 5, 08010 Barcelona (Spain), classroom 5.5 on the 5th floor
Zoom Meeting ID: 680 604 2755
1100 Kolleen Guy, Associate Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities of Undergraduate Program at Duke Kunshan University.
Welcome and Introduction
1230 Jay Winter, Professor Emeritus, Yale University and Duke Kunshan University and Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Catholic University
‘Hannah Arendt and the Burden of our times’
1400-1600 Lunch provided on the terrace of IES Abroad Barcelona
All afternoon sessions are on Zoom. Participants can watch at the IES, classroom 5.5 or using Zoom Meeting ID: 680 604 2755
1600 Meredith Oyen: Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (via Zoom)
The international politics of refugee settlement in Shanghai
1700 Gao Bei: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington (via Zoom)
Chinese and Japanese policy towards Jewish refugees in Shanghai
1800 Peter Balakian, Professor, Colgate University (via zoom)
Poems
1900 Rana Mitter, Professor, Oxford University
‘Reinterpreting China’s Second World War’ (live in Barcelona and on Zoom)
2000 Conference dinner for presenters and family
Friday, December 2
IES Abroad Barcelona, ronda de St. Pere 5, 08010 Barcelona (Spain), classroom 3.3 on the 3rd floor
Zoom Meeting ID: 680 604 2755
900 Peter Gatrell: Professor, University of Manchester
Russians in refugeedom in the Second World War
1000 Robert Bickers: Professor, University of Bristol
The end of British Shanghai
1100 Christian Henriot: Professor, Aix-Marseille University
The end of French Shanghai
1200 Kolleen Guy, Professor, Duke Kunshan University, and Jay Winter, Professor, Yale University
‘Statelessness and survival’
Lunch for presenters and partners
Biography
Kolleen Guy is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities of Undergraduate Program at Duke Kunshan University. She has a PhD in History from Indiana University, Bloomington. Prior to joining DKU, she was the Ricardo Romo Distinguished Professor in the Honors College at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Professor Guy’s research focuses on the history of food and wine as highlighted in her award-winning book, When Champagne became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity. Her main research interest is on how the consumption and production of food and drink shape national memory and identity. She has won numerous awards for teaching innovation.
Jay Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. Previously, Winter taught at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Columbia University. In 2001, he joined the faculty of Yale. Winter is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War; Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18; Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History; The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century; Rene Cassin and the rights of man, and most recently, War beyond words: Languages of remembrance from the Great War to the present. In addition he has edited or co-edited 30 books and contributed 130 book chapters to edited volumes. Winter was also co-producer, co-writer, and chief historian for the PBS/BBC series The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, which won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award and a Producers Guild of America Award for best television documentary in 1997. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Graz, the University of Leuven, and the University of Paris.
