UBC Awareness for WWII in Asia - Forum

Dear members:

I'm organizing a seminar for members who are interested. My focus for the seminar will be on war responsibility.

The format of the class will be like a 400-level seminar history/political science class. I'll be distributing academic journals online (I'll try to keep it under 20 pages) for everyone to read, and we'll discuss the issues raised in the article.

Although I don't want to be discriminatory, , thus I prefer the participants to have some background knowledge of the topic(s) being discussed, as I want to maintain the discussion at a certain level. However, this isn't limited to Art students.

To all of AWWA members who're interested, please send me an email at tsang6482@gmail.com, where I'll create a mailing list to send the reading material, and the time and place for the seminar. I'll go ahead with the seminar once there's sufficient interest (about 5 people excluding me) for the seminar.

From the feedback at the 2 Dec meeting, it looks like many who are interested would like the seminar to be held between 21-23 Dec. We can tentatively set the date at 22 Dec (but can be changed).

I've also picked out the first article for the proposed seminar, as the topic raised in this article will somewhat go into why AWWA exists.

For those who can't wait, the article is..

YANG, Daqing. "Mirror for the future or the history card? Understanding the 'history card.'" In Chinese-Japanese Relations in the Twenty-first Century: Complementarity and Conflict, 10-31, edited by Marie Soderberg. NewYork, NY: Routledge, 2002.

It has come to my attention that many of you don't want to read and discuss articles that are over 10 pages long. But at the same time, the President and I would like to hold some sort of discussions on the issue of war responsibility, because part of the club's mandate is to educate the members.

Thus, in order to generate greater interests, I've decided to change the format of the seminar. The discussion would be around the articles I wrote on my blog, which has been subsequently posted on this discussion forum. After discussing with the President, we're planning to have the seminar around early February, and we'd be discussing "Don't give the CCP so much credit in the 'history problem'", which is about the role of the Chinese Government's role this entire controversy.