Room: Espai Cultural (1st floor)
Location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PRF83hSRrfT3WhUc7
Facultad de Filología, Traducción y Comunicación
University of Valencia
Zoom link: https://uv-es.zoom.us/j/91903593800

10-10:10h Welcome 
10:10-11:45h  Panel 1. 
 

Edward Vickers
Kyushu University
Happy birthday, Koxinga! Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Zheng Cheng-gong's (鄭成功) birth in Taiwan, mainland China and Japan

Hyun Kyung Lee
Sogang University
 “The distributed memorial-scape of 'comfort women' statues: the creation of transnational shared visual culture”

Marketa Bajgerova
University of Vienna, Webster University
"One Past, Two Histories: The Memory Politics of Jewish Refugees in Wartime Shanghai in China and Austria"

11:45-12.00  break
12:00-13:20h Panel 2

Raúl Fortes
Universitat de València
"Memoria de la guerra en el cine de  Hayao Miyazaki: los casos de 'Porco Rosso' y 'El viento se levanta"

Jordi Tordera
Florida University
Translating Modality across Cultures: A Comparative Study of Japanese and  Spanish Assertiveness in Godzilla Minus One.
 

13:30h-15:30h lunch  break
15:30-17:00h Tramevic Workshop

SPEAKER’S BIOS

Edward Vickers
Kyushu University

Bio: Edward Vickers holds the UNESCO Chair in Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship at Kyushu University, Japan, and is currently President of the Comparative Education Society of Asia. He researches the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, especially in Chinese societies (the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan). He also researches the politics of conflict-related heritage in Asia. His books include Education and Society in Post-Mao China (2017; with Zeng Xiaodong), Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship (2015; with Krishna Kumar), and Remembering Asia's World War Two (2019; with Mark Frost and Daniel Schumacher). Prof. Vickers also co-authored the 2017 UNESCO report Rethinking Schooling for the 21st Century: the State of Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship in Asia. He is currently working with Mark Frost and Hasini Haputhanthri on an edited volume provisionally entitled Violent Heritage in Modern Sri Lanka: Past Conflict as Public HIstory. Vickers is currently researching the history and politics of education in contemporary Asia, with a particular focus on Chinese societies, politics of public history and memory in Asia, and have been involved since 2014 in the War Memoryscapes in Asia Partnership led by Mark Frost of UCL. 

Hyun Kyung Lee
Sogang University

Bio: Hyun Kyung Lee is an Assistant Professor at Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University in South Korea. Her research interests include difficult heritage (colonial/Cold War heritage) in East Asia, transnational heritage networking, heritage ethics, and peace-building at UNESCO. She is the author of Difficult Heritage in Nation Building: South Korea and Post-conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her co-authored book is Heritage, Memory, and Punishment: Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia written in collaboration with her Taiwanese colleague Shu-Mei Huang (Routledge, 2019).  Her most recent collaboration with colleagues Shu-Mei Huang and Edward Vickers, an edited volume titled Frontiers of Memory: Difficult Heritage and Cross-border Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism is published with Hong Kong University Press (2022). As a heritage professional, as a heritage professional, she is a Member of the Korean Committee for UNESCO Memory of the World, Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea. She focuses not only on analysing transnational memory politics of difficult heritage, but also on examining practical ways of reconciliation and resolving memory conflicts. 

Marketa Bajgerova
University of Vienna, Webster University

Bio: Marketa Bajgerova Verly is a Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, conducting a project relating to the memory politics of Shanghai Jewish Refugees in Xi Jinping’s China. In 2024 she obtained her PhD from the University of Vienna focusing on the research of WWII museums in contemporary China, while simultaneously working as a China expert in the Globalized Memorial Museums ERC project at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Previously she obtained an MA degree in China Studies (Politics and International Relations) from Peking University. In China she led a Dean’s Grant project mapping 30 museums across different Chinese provinces devoted to the memory of the War of Resistance against Japan and its memory politics. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Glasgow in Politics and History. 

Raúl Fortes
Universitat de València

Bio: Raúl Fortes-Guerrero received his BA in Audiovisual Communication, his BA in History of Art with Special Distinction, and his PhD Cum Laude and International Doctor Mention in History of Art from the Universitat de València (University of Valencia), where he has developed most of his career as a lecturer and researcher. He was granted up to four fellowships, thanks to which he could stay at Waseda University (Tokyo), Birkbeck College – University of London, and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). He is a member of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) and the Japanese poetry society Chikuhaku-kai, in whose renowned literary magazine Kokoro no Hana he gets his tanka poems published monthly. Besides his literary works (poems awarded at international contests and published in collaborative books as well as in Spanish and foreign poetry anthologies), he is the author of many scientific articles, book chapters, and books, including a monograph on Hayao Miyazaki (Hayao Miyazaki, Akal, 2019) and a film guide for his movie Spirited Away (“El viaje de Chihiro”. Hayao Miyazaki (2001), Nau Llibres/Octaedro, 2011). In fact, the oeuvre of Hayao Miyazaki is one of his two main fields of specialization together with the influence of Japanese performing arts on Japanese cinema, as shown not only by his publications, but also by his more than forty papers in national and international scientific conferences and symposiums organized by academic institutions such as Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Warsaw, and Salford University. Currently, he combines his job as a teacher of Japanese language and culture at the Universitat de València with his task as coordinator of the Asia and Oceania Committees at the International Observatory of Intangible Culture and Global Village of this academic institution. To this can be added his work as a member of scientific committees for congresses and scientific journals.

Jordi Tordera
Florida University

Bio:Jordi Tordera is a distinguished linguist, translator, and educator with a career that spans continents and languages.Jordi earned his B.A. in English in 1999 at the University of Valencia and completed an M.A. in Japanese Linguistics in 2008 at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan. In 2010, he achieved his Ph.D.at the University of Valencia, with a dissertation comparing Eastern and Western literary styles across English, Japanese, and Spanish. Tordera held at positions at the University of Valencia, Florida Universitaria, and the Valencian International University and at Japanese universities such as Kansai Gaidai and Himeji Dokkyo. Beyond academia, Jordi was part of Lladró Japan’s Tokyo branch, Coordinator for International Relations with the JET Programme, an interpreter, notably for the Nobel