January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Yonson Ahn (PhD, University of Warwick, 2000) is a professor and chair of Korean Studies at Goethe University of Frankfurt. Her research interests include gender and migration; Korean diasporas; gender-based violence in conflicts; and historical controversies in East Asia. Yonson Ahn, Professor Dr. (PhD, Warwick University, Grossbritannien, 2000), vertritt gegenwärtig als Direktorin die Studienrichtung Koreastudien an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt/Main. Ihre Forschungsgebiete sind: Geschlechterforschung und Migration; koreanische Diaspora in internationaler Perspektive; geschlechterbasierte Gewalt in Konflikten; historische Kontroversen in Ostasien.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
• „Return visit mobility and identity negotiation of Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany”. Ewha Sahank Yongu. Vol 53. 2016. pp.1-36.
• “Together and Apart: Transnational Women’s Activism and Solidarity in the Comfort Women Redress Campaign in South Korea and Japan.” Comparative Korean Studies, Vol. 23 No. 1, 2015. pp. 93-116. (ISSN 1226-2250)
• “Wianbu munje kiŏk hagi: manggakesŏ kiŏkŭibumŭro (Remembering ‘Comfort Women’: from Oblivion to Memory Boom). Suheng inmunhak (The Journal of Performative Humanities) Vol.38 No.1 (May 2008). Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, pp.61-85 (ISSN 1975-7859).
• "The Contested Heritage of Koguryo/Gaogouli and China-Korea Conflict". Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, January 11, 2008. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Yonson-Ahn/2631
• “China and the Two Koreas Clash Over Mount Paekdu/Changbai: Memory Wars Threaten Regional Accommodation”. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, July 27, 2007. http://www.japanfocus.org/-Yonson-Ahn/2483
• “The Korea-China Textbook War -What's It All About?”, History News Network, March 6, 2006, George Mason University, http://hnn.us/articles/21617.html
• “Competing Nationalisms: The mobilisation of history and archaeology in the Korea-China wars over Koguryo/Gaogouli”, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, February 9, 2006, http://www.japanfocus.org/-Yonson-Ahn/1837
• “Nationalisms and the Mobilisation of History in East Asia: the ‘War of History’ on Kokuryŏ/Gaoguoli”, Internationale Schulbuchforschung (International Textbook Research) Vol. 27 (2005), Hannover, Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, pp.7 – 21 (ISSN 0172-8237).
• “Chikakute tooi Dokdo/Takeshima montaino ichikôsatsu” (Reading the Issue of Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute From Near and Far), Gendai shisô (Contemporary Thought), Vol. 33/6, June 2005, Tokyo, Seidosha, pp. 107-111 (ISBN 4-7917-1136-X).
• (Korean version as a book chapter) “Mŏlisŏ kakkaisŏ Tokdo/Takeshima munje ilki” (Reading the Issue of Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute From Near and Far), Panil-kwa Tongasia (Anti-Japan and East Asia), Seoul: Somyŏng, (2005), pp.135-142 (ISBN 89-5626-198-9).
BOOK CHAPTERS
• „Wianbumunjerŭl tullŏssan kŭllok'al yŏsŏngundong“ (Glocal women’s movement on the issue of comfort women). In Kŭllok'ŏl sidae asia yŏsŏngkakkwa yŏsŏngundongŭi chaengjŏm (Issues in Asian Women’s Studies and Women’s Movement in the Glocal Era. Edited by Pilwha Chang et.al. Seoul. Hanul. 2016.
• Kyŏngje gaebal sigi chendŏhwa doen iju (Gendered migration during the economic development period in Korea). In Chogukkŭndaehwa ŭi chendŏjŏngch'i (National Development and Gender Politics: Family, Labor and Sexuality). Edited by Jae Kyung Lee et.at. Hongch'ŏn: Arŭk'e. 2015. pp179-204. (ISBN 978-89-5803-146-8)
• “Resillience: Women in Asia”, East Asia Feminism:FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, 2015, pp.30-35. (ISBN 978-89-94849-60-703600)
• “Gender under reconstruction: negotiating gender identities of marriage migrant women from Asia in South.” In After Development Dynamics: South Korea's Engagement with a Changing Asia. Edited by Anthony P. D'Costa. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. (ISBN 978-0-19-872943-3)
• “Gendering Migration: Koreanische Arbeitsmigrantinnen im Pflegesektor in Deutschland.” In Unbekannte Vielfalt: Einblicke in die koreanische Migrationsgeschichte in Deutschland. Edited by Young-Seoun Chang-Gusko et.al. Berlin: DOMiD, 2014. (ISBN 978-3-9816133-1-5)
• “Rewriting the History of Colonialism in South Korea.” In Broken Narratives: Post Cold War History and Identity in Europe and East Asia. Edited by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik. Leiden: Brill. 2014. (ISBN 1574-4493)
• “‘Taming Soldiers’: The Gender Politics of Japanese Soldiers in Total War”, In Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship, Edited by Jie-Hyun Lim and Karen Petrone, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. pp. 213-234 (ISBN 978-0-230-24204-3).
• ‘“Pyŏngsa Kildŭrigi: Asia t’eppŏngyang chŏnjenggi ilbon kuninŭi gender chŏngchi’”, Tejung tokjewa yŏsŏng. In Mass Dictatorship and Gender Politics. Edited by Jie-Hyun Lim, Seoul: Humanist (2010), pp. 441-468 (ISBN 978-89-5862-305-2).
• “Kyôyûsareta Kokuryono Rekishito Bunkaisano meguru Ronsô” (Contests over the shared past and heritages of Koguryŏ/ Gaogouli). In Higashi Ajia no Rekishi-Seisaku (History Policy in East Asia). Edited by Takahasi Kondo, Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, (2008). pp.44-67 (ISBN 978-4-7503-2828-7).
• “Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’ and Historical Memory: The Neonationalist Counterattack”. In The Power of Memory in Modern Japan. Edited by Sven Saaler and Wolfgang Schwentker. London: Global Oriental. (2008), pp.32-53 (ISBN 978-1-905246-38-0).
• “Introduction: Denationalising and Renationalising the Past”. In Contesting Views on a Common Past: Revisions of History in East Asia. Edited by Steffi Richter. Berlin: Campus (2008), pp.11-21 (ISBN 978-3-593-38548-8).
• “The Colonial Past in Post-colonial South Korea: Colonialism, Modernity and Gender”. In Contesting Views on a Common Past: Revisions of History in East Asia. Edited by Steffi Richter, Berlin: Campus (2008), pp.157-180, (ISBN 978-3-593-38548-8).
MONOGRAPH
• Sŏngnoye-wa pyŏngsa mandŭlgi, (Making Sexual Slaves and Warriors), Samin, Seoul, Korea, 2003, (monograph, ISBN 89-87519-91-0) http://books.google.co.za/books?id=uUv1AAAACAAJ&dq=안연선&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NUKiT-nnMPGZ0QWOne3JCA&redir_esc=y.
BOOK REVIEW
• Review of Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: The Korean Experience (Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, Daqing Yang) New York: Routledge, 2008, H-Soz-u-kult, Reviews for geschichte transnational und H-Soz-u-Kult, (March 2010). http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/id=12544.
PROCEEDINGS
• “History of gendered migration: Korean migrant Nurse in Germany”, Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Women and Their Culture, Ewha Women’s University (Korea), 2016.
• “Cross-border feminist activism against gender violence and war in Asia and Africa” Proceedings of the 6th Ewha Global Empowering Program, Ewha Women’s University (Korea), 2014.
• “Searching for cross-border feminist activism in Asia and Africa”, Proceedings of the 5th Ewha Global Empowering Program, Ewha Women’s University (Korea), 2014.
• “Women’s movement and transnationalism in Asia and Africa.” Proceedings of the 4th Ewha Global Empowering Program, Ewha Women’s University (Korea), 2013.
• “The Perils and Possibilities of Transnational Feminist Activism”, Proceedings of the 3th Ewha Global Empowering Program, Ewha Women’s University (Korea), 2013.
• “Transnational Feminist Activism in ROK and Japan: Focusing on the Comfort Women Redress Campaign”, Proceedings of the Conference, Polarization in Divided Societies: Korea in a global context conference, Central European University, (Budapest), 2013.
• “Gender Politics in East Asia: Case Study of South Korea”, Proceedings of the 3rd Global COE Program: Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies: Borders in Asia, Hokkaido University (Japan) 2012.
• “Transnational Activism and Solidarity”, Proceedings of the 1st Ewha Global Empowering Program, Ewha Women’s University (Korea) 2012.
• “Yellow Angels: Negotiating Identities of Former Korean Nurses in Germany”, Proceedings of the Conference, Korean Diaspora: Beyond Colonialism and Cold War, University of Tübingen (Germany), 2011.
• “Remembering and Forgetting Trauma: ‘Comfort Women’ in South Korea”, Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), 2011.
• “The Contested Mount of Paekdu/Changbai and China-Korea Conflict”, Proceedings of the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Leiden University (the Netherlands), 2009.
• "Making ‘Comfort Women’; Femininity and Sexuality of Korean ‘Comfort Women’”, Proceedings of the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Dourdan (France), 2007.
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January 31st 2019
6.15 pm, room IG 411, ground floor of the Main Building at Campus Westend of the Goethe University, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, 60323 Frankfurt
Afrasian Futures is a series of four cutting-edge lectures that mark the conclusion Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO), a major transdiciplinary research project at Goethe University Frankfurt that has investigated transregional African-Asian interactions and entanglements since 2013.
We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming AFRASO Lecture: "Indians and Pakistanis in African Universities: The Cultural Politics of Postcolonial Knowledge-Production" by Shobana Shankar (AFRASO Fellow 2018). The lecture will take place on June, 21st in room SH 0.107 (Seminarhaus, Campus Westend) from 4 pm - 6 pm.
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