We would like to encourage you to join the following international workshop:
“The Development of Reconciliation Studies in East Asia.”

This three-day workshop, 4-6 March 2021(JST), is held by the KAKENHI project on the Creation of Reconciliation Studies and the Center for International Reconciliation Studies at Waseda University, under the support of the International Association for Reconciliation Studies (IARS).

This workshop is intended for anyone who is interested in the construction of intellectual infrastructure as a foundation for calm dialogues on reconciliation, justice, and memory. The conference will be a virtual format on Zoom. Participation is free, but please register in advance by clicking on the QR code in the file attached.

I would also like your support for the Second Annual Conference by the IARS, which will be held in Tokyo on 5-7 August 2021. We will be seeking panelists and presenters until the end of April.

We welcome examples and structures of domestic and international politics surrounding international norms or those dealing with “resonance” that transcends the level of and relevance to domestic and international systems by focusing on emotion, memory, and value. We welcome proposals on themes that broadly concern historical recognition or reconciliation from various angles. Please click on the IARS logo in the file attached for further information.

Just as observed in the study of international relations, the approach to Reconciliation Studies is divided between a historical and empirical one and a theoretical one, and there are also cases in which they intertwine with each other. The detailed theme of each approach, of course, exists individually, but Reconciliation Studies attempts to create a new current regarding where history and theory examine.

How the complex of emotion, memory, and value, which had been regarded as subjective elements in a nation, is related to any institutions existing both on the domestic and on international level?

Due to a disciplinary division between international politics and domestic politics, the question cannot be explained effectively . I believe this is the reason why many scholars from around the world have gathered for the International Association for Reconciliation Studies.