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All info below from this link: http://www.capi.uvic.ca/events/nanjing-massacre-75-years
* P8 N$ v& q% b' u1 e# ZThe Nanjing Massacre: 75 Years On6 i8 Z" R" a; A% y7 k

- n4 X" k* `$ O& G! J( X6 xTime: November 16, 2012
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: Y! g$ J# }( a; g- L5 y. fNovember 17, 2012
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Place: Harry Hickman Building,Rm 105
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3 q1 @. s) Y: m7 V" O- NFree and open to the public.
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/ V2 m% g5 N3 J2 AOn December 13th, 1937, theJapanese Imperial Army entered Nanjing, theformer capital of the Republic of China. In the six weeks thatfollowed, thousands of civilians and soldiers died, their bodies found later inmass graves around the city. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Nanjing atrocity.. |6 m: \- K1 [& Z( g7 Z
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OnNovember 16 and 17, The Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives and the Departmentof Pacific and Asian Studies are holding a symposium on the Nanjing massacre. The symposium will look atthe events of 75 years ago, and examine what they mean today for China, Japan,Canada, and the Asia Pacific region. # e. g5 e3 I  f/ K& E1 T' r

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1 v2 H6 M9 r, S& H! DFull schedule:
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Friday, November 16th 7:30 pm( y- O5 F* r! `3 A
University of Victoria. q8 ^, M' H2 E! f
Harry Hickman Building, Rm 105
$ ^0 R  t3 T% `( T0 }# C9 L1 K  _Lansdowne Lecture and Keynote Address:, S1 i- B+ k2 I3 r1 H7 H3 [$ I; U' B
Diana Lary, Professor Emerita, Universityof British Columbia
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Saturday, November 17th2 J9 E8 g: o4 F
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  Harry Hickman Building, Rm 1056 Z9 F* Q& `3 r) ]4 N

- p; Y' l# M) B2 A% U9:00-9:15 am Welcoming Remarks) _( K0 R6 {6 {( f  ~$ e; a
Helen Lansdowne, Associate Director, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
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9 _4 P0 [( v7 J. n8 l3 [9:15-10:45 am Panel One: The Politics of Remembering
- z6 v8 A/ r0 ^9 jChaired by: Desmond Cheung, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History,
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8 {( J' ^( G; B' {" E- pGuoguang Wu, Departments of Political Science, History, University of Victoria
7 _% Q. i# [/ Q' f. G“Nanjing, Beijing, and Tokyo: Positioning the Memory of Nanjing in ContemporarySino-4 S2 [9 ~8 I$ g9 D
Japanese Relations”
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“Is Today’s East Asia a Repetition of the 1930s?”; r# F9 H- F( B) |
Hugh Stephens, Executive-in-Residence, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada andSenior
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( l4 F1 _% O- [* c6 p$ S' w11:15-12:30 pm Panel Two: Cultural Interpretations
2 a8 G6 t& l0 F/ N* Q, J( IChaired by: Helen Lansdowne, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University ofVictoria/ B" a- X; c) ~7 k) I
Richard King, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria' L4 ~* [0 c3 E
“Searching for Heroes in the Rubble: Nanjing 1937 in literature and film”. \8 T, E% M* d# b0 n8 G. T; G
Timothy Iles, Department of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Victoria: V: L, Z* L9 W; S% N4 D$ O. C1 J
“Yasukuni Shrine: Forgetting and Remembering Nanjing: A report on a festivaland a protest”
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1 Y8 a5 c( a$ Q1 U( {12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
- K( J% N& e( R9 i1:30-3:00 pm Round Table One: The Historiography of Nanjing' J5 I/ b# U# n( P7 x  d. w
Moderator andPresenter: Gregory Blue, Department of History, University of Victoria$ x* m* z- e1 R0 @& _
“Contemporary Western Reactions”
7 {0 t& b  j8 QBob Tadashi Wakabayashi, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, YorkUniversity
4 k8 |6 a' J6 }9 {8 Z“The Nanjing Atrocity: Three Points of Contention”
& r# {2 _$ Z+ o$ KTimothy Brook, Department of History, University of British Columbia
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3:30-5:00 pm Round Table Two: Asian Canadian Conversations3 t: a3 o* A& X' j" g7 f% D
Moderator: John Price, Department of History, University of Victoria
* X5 H' M3 l9 F& ZJoy Kogawa, Honored Canadian poet and novelist, recipient of the Order ofCanada, author/ c5 x5 k6 V# \+ ~* ?
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4 t& U0 o9 D8 G; JJoseph Wong, M.D.f, Founder and governor of the Yee Hong Centre for GeriaticCare and
9 a2 ]4 @- y7 H  v+ Frecipient of 2005 Humanitarian Award
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3:00-3:30 pm Refreshment Break/ o# q8 E# G* u
7:00-9:00 pm Film Viewing: Flowers of War (Directed by Zhang, Yimou)
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