with François Foret, IEE-ULB/Cevipol, EASt; Natsuko D'April, ULB-Cevipol, EASt; Guibourg Delamotte, INALCO; Alvaro Oleart, IEE-ULB; Frederik Ponjaert, ULB-IEE, EASt, ...

In collaboration with Institut d'études européennes (IEE) et Waseda Brussels Office (WBO)

An interdisciplinary workshop bringing together scholars from Europe and Japan working on political narratives in Asia and Europe to encourage inter-regional comparative studies of political and societal dynamics on either side.

An interdisciplinary workshop on “Political Narratives in Europe and Asia Compared” coordinated by the Institut d’études européennes (IEE) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in cooperation with the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at Waseda. The workshop’s academic chair was provided by the IEE-ULB’s president, Professor François Foret.

Each of the day’s 3 panels will see 3-to-4 scholars present their work followed by a Q&A with the attending audience. Contributors to the panels hail both from Europe and Japan; represent different disciplines, and are at varying stages of their respective research careers.

The explored political narratives are deemed both symptomatic of political dynamics on both sides, as well as particularly relevant to the EU-Japan partnership. The three selected political narratives – on “leadership”, on “internationalization”, and on “the past” – involve policy areas of either shared interest and which have proven distinctively prevalent in the interregional dialogues between Brussels and Tokyo, be it because these narratives: (i) cover areas of shared interest (e.g. cooperation in higher education and research), (ii) involve long-term comparative scholarly debates (i.e. History and Memory Studies), or (iii) are repeatedly raised as a key challenge to the efficiency and legitimacy of the Euro-Japanese partnership (i.e. leadership).

Program

Monday 3rd March 2024, 9:30am - 5:00pm.

Salle Spaak
Institut d'études européennes
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 39
1000 Bruxelles

Registration here