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Monday, 1 December – Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025
The University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand |
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Earlybird registration (until 30 September)
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Standard registration (from 1 October)
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Kyung Moon Hwang is Korea Foundation Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University and currently serves as Director of the ANU Korea Institute. He is the author of Fate and Freedom in Korean Historical Films (2023), A History of Korea (Third Edition, 2021), Past Forward: Essays in Korean History (2019), Rationalizing Korea: The Rise of the Modern State (2015), and Beyond Birth: Social Status in the Emergence of Modern Korea (2004). At ANU, he teaches courses on Korean history, politics and society, culture and language. Recently, he also has appeared as an interviewee in media outlets to provide analysis on the South Korean political crisis.
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Sango Mahanty is professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. She is a human geographer and studies the politics of social and environmental change in the Mekong region. Mahanty has researched and published on forest governance, land conflicts, smallholder market engagements and nature-society disruption. Her 2022 book with Cornell, Unsettled Frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands, explored the dynamic networks, migration and land-claiming that drive smallholder markets, and shape their unequal outcomes. Mahanty’s recent work has explored local and civil society responses to dramatic nature-society transformations or “rupture”. Currently, she is returning to her earlier interests in pollution and toxicity in new research on chemical entanglements in Asia’s poultry industry. She works with civil society and government in Australia and the Asia-Pacific and teaches postgraduate courses at ANU on pollution/waste and social impact assessment.
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Chris Ogden is Associate Professor / Programme Director in Global Studies specialising in the interplay between identity, culture, security and domestic politics in India, China, South Asia, East Asia and the Indo-Pacific. Based in the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland, his expert knowledge concerns – shifting world orders; global authoritarianism; the Asian Century; great power politics; Hindu nationalism; and the global rise of India and China.
Chris is recognised as a Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy (HEA), and has been appointed as a Senior Research Fellow with the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) in London, as an Honorary Fellow in the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), and as a Visiting Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2018, he founded the European Scholars of South Asian International Relations (ESSAIR) research network, and in 2022 Chris was the Series Consultant for the BBC TV series ‘India: The Modi Question’. He is currently developing ideas concerning the impact of AI upon global democracy, a political history of great powers over the last 300 years, and India’s authoritarian descent. |
His latest monograph is The Authoritarian Century: China's Rise and the Demise of the Liberal International Order (Bristol: Bristol UP, 2022). For more information on this, and his wider work, see https://chris-ogden.org/
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Mordecai George Sheftall is an American author and scholar living in Japan since 1987. He is a professor of modern Japanese cultural history and communication in the Faculty of Informatics at Shizuoka University, a branch campus of the Japanese national university system. Sheftall's writing and research activities focus on the modern evolution of Japanese national identity, with particular emphasis on the Japanese experience in World War II and the lingering effects of that conflict on both collective and individual Japanese consciousness.
Fluent and literate in Japanese, he is a frequent commentator on modern Japanese history, culture and identity issues in public symposia and both Japanese and international broadcast and print news media. He has contributed chapters to scholarly volumes on the legacy of the Second World War in modern Japanese society and on the historical, cultural and sociological analysis of the effect of military defeat on modern societies. His most important works to date have been the critically acclaimed Penguin Group titles Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze (2005), based on interviews with survivors of Japan's wartime kamikaze program, and Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses (2024) and Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses (2025), based on interviews with Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese survivors of 1945 atomic bombings. Sheftall graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, attended the United States Military Academy at West Point for two years as a member of the Class of 1984, and received a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from Fordham University in 1985. |
He holds master's degrees from California State University and the University of Birmingham, and received his PhD in International Relations Studies from Waseda University in Tokyo. Sheftall's Waseda dissertation employs a methodological framework based on Terror Management Theory to analyze the evolution of kamikaze ideology during Japan's Imperial Era (1895-1945) and the interpretive discourse of this historical legacy in postwar Japan.
From 2012-2013, he was a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, researching discourses of war memory in postwar Japan and the effect of same on modern Japanese culture. |
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Conference Venue
Faculty of Arts and Education 201 Building The University of Auckland Symonds Street, Auckland About Auckland We hope you will have some time to explore Auckland in your own time either before or after the conference. Click here for some tourist information for your reference. |
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