Dear Forum members,

Many apologies for cross-posting.

The Centre for East Asian Studies (UTU) warmly invites you to the following online event:

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21.01.2021 (Thursday), 11:00-13:00 CET/12:00-14:00 EET

Lukáš Laš (University of Ostrava, Czechia) and Simon Wellisch (Münster, Germany): "Japanese Media on Territorial Disputes and Political Geography of East Asia"

Abstract: The guest lecture is devoted to Japan's territorial disputes in East Asia based on an article published in 'Asian Geographer' in 2020. We will introduce general issues of political geography in East Asia, then compare all Japanese territorial disputes with neighbouring states and connect the findings to broader international phenomena, meanings and repercussions. In the first part, we will introduce our research design and how we approached deconstructing selected media discourses on Japan's territorial disputes, namely in The Asahi Shimbun, The Japan News and The Japan Times, covering articles from 2002 to 2018. We conducted a mixture of content and discourse analysis with the lexicostatistical tool AntConc in the general framework of critical geopolitics. The outcomes illustrate that nationalist geopolitical imaginations are popular among all researched newspapers with strong dominance of solely Japanese toponyms. On top of that, we will explore other problems - the continental shelf expansion in Japan's and South Korea's naming dispute over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.

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Please drop me a short line (kamila.szczepanska@utu.fi) if you would like to join the event. We hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Kamila
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Dr Kamila Szczepanska
University Lecturer
Centre for East Asian Studies
University of Turku
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Turku
Finland
+358 29 450 4844
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kamila.szczepanska@utu.fi