BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;East Asia Program pr esentsBringing East Asia to the SU Classroom Series A Militarized Peace: E ast Asia Between World War II and the Korean\nWar When and how did World W ar II end? Historians have spilled oceans\nof ink on the causes and conduc t of the war\; far less attention has been trained on what\nhappened when the guns fell silent and the mobilized came home. Although major combat op erations in\nWorld War II ceased in August 1945\, many of the social proce sses unleashed by the war continued\nto shape life in East Asia well into the postwar. Using the concept of militarization as a lens\,\nthis talk wi ll focus on the late 1940s and early 1950s\, looking at events that includ ed the\ndeconstruction of the Japanese colonial empire\, the occupations o f Korea and Japan\, the revolution in China\, and\nthe outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula.Connor MillsPostdoctoral Fellow Harvard UniversityCon nor Mills received his PhD from Princeton University in 2020\nand is a pos tdoctoral fellow in the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard Univers ity’s\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is currently worki ng on revising his dissertation to\nproduce a book manuscript\, tentativel y titled American Bases\, Japanese Towns: Everyday Life\nand Militarizatio n in Postwar Japan. Other \;current research projects\ninclude work on the history of prisons in twentieth-century Japan and an investigation in to hundreds of Japanese who impersonated U.S.\nmilitary service members du ring the Allied Occupation.Click here to registerFor more information\, pl ease contact Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request accommod ation arrangements\, please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu.&nb sp\; DTEND:20210414T163500Z DTSTAMP:20260307T212244Z DTSTART:20210414T154000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:A Militarized Peace: East Asia Between World War II and the Korean War UID:RFCALITEM639084973641127104 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs \;

East Asia Program presents


Bringing East A sia to the SU Classroom Series

A Militarized Peace : East Asia Between World War II and the Korean\nWar


When and how did World War II end? Historian s have spilled oceans\nof ink on the causes and conduct of the war\; far l ess attention has been trained on what\nhappened when the guns fell silent and the mobilized came home. Although major combat operations in\nWorld W ar II ceased in August 1945\, many of the social processes unleashed by th e war continued\nto shape life in East Asia well into the postwar. Using t he concept of militarization as a lens\,\nthis talk will focus on the late 1940s and early 1950s\, looking at events that included the\ndeconstructi on of the Japanese colonial empire\, the occupations of Korea and Japan\, the revolution in China\, and\nthe outbreak of war on the Korean Peninsula .


Connor Mills

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University


Connor Mills received his PhD fro m Princeton University in 2020\nand is a postdoctoral fellow in the Progra m on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University’s\nWeatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is currently working on revising his dissertatio n to\nproduce a book manuscript\, tentatively titled American Bases\, Japa nese Towns: Everyday Life\nand Militarization in Postwar Japan. Other  \;current research projects\ninclude work on the history of prisons in twe ntieth-century Japan and an investigation into hundreds of Japanese who im personated U.S.\nmilitary service members during the Allied Occupation.


Click here to register


For more information\, please contac t Havva Karakas Keles\, hkarakas@syr.edu or to request accommodation arran gements\, please contact Morgan Bicknell\, mebickne@syr.edu. \;

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