Heidelberg History Workshop

“From War to Cold War: The Asian World Order in the Middle of the Twentieth-Century”

Friday, 6 December, Heidelberg University, Karl Jaspers Centre, Room 212

 

Welcome by Organizer Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University)

 

11:00-13:00 Session One: Chair Takuma Melber

1.  Aaron Moore (Edinburgh University) Fantastic Empire: Depictions of Future Warfare in Early Twentieth Century Japanese Magazines

 

2.    Hiroaki Adachi (Tohoku University) Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in the 1940s

 

Lunch 13:00-14:00

 

14:00-16:00 Session Two: Chair Takahiro Yamamoto

3. Till Bärnighausen (Heidelberg University, Medical School), Medical Experimentations on 　Humans by the Japanese Army for Biological Warfare in China, 1932-1945

 

4. Daniel Hedinger (Munich University) -- The End of the Axis Empires and Decolonization

 

Break 16:00-16:30

 

16:30-18:30 Session Three: Chair Hans Martin Krämer

5.　Shigeru Akita (Osaka University) From Empires to Development Aid—A Global Historical Perspective on the Asian International Economic Order in the 1950s and 1960s