| Akiko Hashimoto, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar from University of Pittsburgh | Interests: Cultural and Power, Global and Comparative Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Cultural Trauma, Memory, and National Identity, War and Peace in Popular Cartoons, Aging, Family, and Policy, Media and Popular Culture, Japanese Culture and Society. Projects: My book, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan (Oxford University press, 2015) explores the stakes of war memory in Japan after its catastrophic defeat in World War II. The book shows how and why defeat has become an indelible part of national collective life in Japan, especially in recent decades. Divisive war memories lie at the root of the contentious politics such as Japan's pacifist constitution and remilitarization, and fuel the frictions in East Asia known as Japan's "history problem." The Long Defeat has won the Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and is now published also in Japanese and Chinese language editions. Prior to this project, I have also published three books in the area of aging, family, and policy. Scholarly activities: - The Chinese edition of my book The Long Defeat (2019) has now sold 10,000 copies, and I am grateful that the publisher has just renewed the copyright for another 10,000 copies.
- In 2023, the total worldwide sales for The Long Defeat reached 17,000 copies (three languages).
- The Japanese education of The Long Defeat (2017) has now become a standard reference in the field. A new book has just been published based on the concept of cultural trauma that I introduced to Japan's scholarly community.
- I've been invited to join a research project at Yale's Center for Cultural Sociology that considers cutting-edge work in cultural sociology worldwide. The project will begin in the fall of 2023.
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| Dong-Kyun Im. Ph.D., Visiting Scholar from Seoul National University | Dong-Kyun Im is an associate professor in the department of sociology at Seoul National University, South Korea. His area of research includes cognitive sociology, culture and cognition, social psychology, and political sociology. He is interested in examining how the interplay between cognition and motivation shapes individuals' social action and how such cognitive and motivational structures are shaped by society. He is also interested in uncovering cognitive-motivational mechanisms that generate large-scale social phenomena. He is a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year. |