Following modernization, Okinawa has undergone drastic transformations, including the abolition of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the 1870s, the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, and the reversion of Okinawa to Japan in 1972. This presentation introduces the concept of Sa-ishiki,...
In the summer of 2018, a Korean company announced that it had located the wreck of the Dmitrii Donskoi, an armoured cruiser of the Imperial Russian Baltic Fleet scuttled off Ulleungdo Island at the close of the Battle of Tsushima in May 1905. The ship, the company...
PAN Lu is Associate Professor at Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Pan is author of three monographs: In-Visible Palimpsest: Memory, Space and Modernity in Berlin and Shanghai (Bern: Peter Lang, 2016), Aestheticizing...
Fumiaki Kamegai is a curator at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (Okimu), where he is responsible for photography and video works related to Okinawa. Born in Hokkaido, he is now based in Okinawa. In 2021, he curated “Mao Ishikawa: Bad Ass and Beauty –...
Lau Kek-Huat (Malaysia/Taiwan) is a filmmaker working in both fiction and documentary. His films have been selected for the Busan International Film Festival, the Golden Horse Awards, and Cannes Cinéfondation’s Atelier, and have received major honours, including the...
