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Konferenssi: Japan & Finland 1945–1990

CALL FOR PAPERS

Japan and Finland in Transition, 1945–1990

Multidisciplinary conference, August 27–28, 2009
Faculty of Humanities, University of Oulu


The aim of the conference is to address Japan and Finland from the
point of view of similarities and dissimilarities in their
development after World War II. We invite scholars to discuss about
their research on Finland and/or Japan and to discover the potential
for comparing the two states and societies.

Japan and Finland were defeated by the Allied in World War II and
subjected to foreign control, in Japan’s case actual occupation, in
1945–1952. During these years reconstruction was the dominating
phenomenon in both countries. In the following decades they
experienced huge economic development that evolved hand in hand with
rapid urbanization. Industrialization, democratization and expansion
of the education system, student radicalism, changes in gender
system, stability in domestic politics from 1950s to 1980s, and
finally, the foreign politics – the role of Japan as an economic
giant and former military power in Asia and Finland as a state that
sought balance between the Soviet Union and western Europe –
characterize some of the aspects that call to compare the development
in these two countries during the post-war decades.

However, it seems that the consequences of the outwardly similar
development in Finland and Japan differ greatly. In Finland, the
state failed to prepare the society for the population growth and
rapid modernization which led to the immigration of hundreds of
thousands of Finns to Sweden. In Japan people were expected to devote
their energies to the rebuilding of the nation. Therefore, we need to
study closer these outcomes by taking into consideration, for
example, the individual, communal and state levels. We welcome papers
from scholars in different disciplines that analyze the development of
Japan and/or Finland from theoretical or empirical point of views.

Deadline for paper abstracts is April 15th, 2009. The abstracts of
the proposed papers should be in English, not exceeding 250 words.
The abstract should include the title of the paper, your name,
affiliation, and e-mail address.  Please, send the abstract to
seija.jalagin at oulu.fi 
The accepted papers are announced on April 30, 2009.

Conference languages: English and Finnish

The papers will be published as an edited volume during 2010.

Conference is free of charge (no conference fee). However,
participants are responsible for their own travel costs and
accommodation.


For updated information of the conference, visit the website:
http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/historia/en/research/events.html

The conference is organized by the Department of History and Japanese
Studies.

Best regards, 

Olavi K. Fält, Professor	
Seija Jalagin, University Lecturer
Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, University Lecturer

Department of History
P.O. Box 1000
FIN-90014 University of Oulu
http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/historia/en/

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Ilmoituksen lähetti: Seija Jalagin <seija.jalagin at oulu.fi>
Ilmoitus vanhentuu: 15.04.2009
Lisätietoja WWW-osoitteesta:
http://www.oulu.fi/hutk/historia/en/research/events.html