East Sea/Sea of Japan Workshop

Filed Under: Events, Japan, South Korea, Events

The US-Korea Institute at SAIS and the Society for East Sea present

A Workshop on the Naming
of East Sea/Sea of Japan

Thursday, June 12, 2014
9:00AM – 1:00 PM (lunch provided)
Kenney Auditorium
1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036

The US-Korea Institute at SAIS and the Society for East Sea will hold a workshop in on the naming issue of East Sea/Sea of Japan. Since the early 1990’s, the name of the sea area between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago has been a cause of friction and debate. The workshop aims to engage in a constructive discussion on the naming issue.

 9:00-9:30 AM  Registration
9:30-10:30 AM  Session I: Paper presentations
10:45-12:00 PM  Session II: Panel discussion
12:00-1:00 PM  Luncheon

 Featuring the following speakers/discussants:

Nohyoung Park, President, The Society for East Sea
Jae H. Ku, Director, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
Eui-sang Yoo, Ambassador for Geographic Naming, Republic of Korea
Sungjae Choo, Vice President, The Society for East Sea
Joseph Stoltman, Professor, Western Michigan University
John Rennie Short, Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Alexis Dudden, Professor, University of Connecticut
Jin-Hyun Kim, Chairman, World Peace Forum; Advisor, The Society for East Sea

Please RSVP to Sarabeth Craig () by Tuesday, June 10