CAROLI Rosa

Academic position:

Associate Professor (East Asian History – L-OR/23)

Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies

Professional activities

• Member of the Teaching Committee, Comparative International Relations (Second Cycle Degree Programme). http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=53470

• Member of the Scientific board, DEP Deportate, Esuli, Profughe (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

• Member of Japanese-Language Proficiency Test Administration Committee (Istituto Giapponese di Cultura in Roma)

• Planning Board Member, Kokusai Ry?ky?-Okinawa gakkai (International Association of Ryukyuan and Okinawan Studies, IAROS) http://www.iaros.org/modules/news/

• Visiting researcher, Waseda daigaku Ry?ky?-Okinawa kenky?sho (The Institute for Ryukyuan and Okinawan Studies in Waseda University) http://www.waseda.jp/prj-iros-waseda/

• Visiting researcher, Okinawa bunka kenky?sho (Institute of Okinawan Studies) – H?sei University http://www.hosei.ac.jp/fujimi/okiken/

• Guest scholar, Kokusai Nihongaku kenky?sho (Institute of the International Japan-Studies), H?sei University,(http://aterui.i.hosei.ac.jp/)

• The 21st Century Program – Center of Excellence, Center for the International Japan-Studies, H?sei University, ??????????’Nihon ishiki’ no saikent? (Rethinking ‘Japanese consciousness’), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (April 2011–March 2016)

Previous position and main professional activities

• Assistant Professor, East Asian History, Department of East Asian Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (1996-2001).

• Associate Professor, East Asian History, Department of East Asian Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2001-2010).

• Head of studies, Language, Culture and Society of Eastern Asia (undergraduate degree courses); Languages and Economic and Legal Institutions of Eastern Asia (postgraduate degree course);

• Language and Culture of Eastern Asia (postgraduate degree course) (2006-2009).

• Member of the Teaching Committee, Language, Culture and Society of Eastern Asia (undergraduate degree courses); Languages and Economic and Legal institutions of Eastern Asia (postgraduate degree course); Language and Culture of Eastern Asia (postgraduate degree course) (2001-2010).

• Member of the PhD Board, Graduate School of Languages, Cultures and Societies – East Asian Studies PhD. ( -2010).

• Council member, Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi (Italian Association for Japanese Studies, AISTUGIA, 2005-2011).

• The 21st Century Program – Center of Excellence, Center for the International Japan-Studies, H?sei University, ???????? Nihon ishiki’ no saikent? (Otherness in Japan), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (April 2006–March 2011).

Education

• 1992. Ph. D. in History and Institutions of Modern and Contemporary Asia and Africa, Faculty of Political Science, University of Cagliari. Dissertation: “Le minoranze nel Giappone moderno e contemporaneo: il caso di Okinawa” (Minorities in modern and contemporary Japan: Okinawa

• 1987. Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures – Japanese, Department of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome. Grade: 110/110 summa cum laude. Dissertation: “La discriminazione dei burakumin nella transizione del Giappone verso la modernità” (The discrimination of burakumin during the transition of Japan towards modernity)

• 1984. Diploma in Japanese Language, advanced level, Japanese Institute of Culture, Rome

• 1982. Diploma in Japanese Language and Culture, Institute for the Middle and Far East (Is.M.E.O), Rome

Membership:

• Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi (Italian Association for Japanese Studies, AISTUGIA),

• European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) (http://www.eajs.org/)

• Kokusai Ry?ky?-Okinawa Gakkai (International Association of Ryukyuan and Okinawan Studies, IAROS)

• Okinawa Bunka Ky?kai (The Association for Okinawan Culture)

• Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi (Italian Association for Chinese Studies, A.I.S.C.)

Scholarship, grants and academical awards:

• 2009: The 31st Okinawa Bunka Ky?kai prize ?31???????? (Higa Shunch? award ?????) for research on Okinawan history (The last Ryukyuan King Sh? Tai).

• 2005-2006. Japan Foundation’s Fellowship. Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University. Tutors: Prof. GABE Masao; Prof. GOTO Ken’ichi.

• 1999-2000. Japan Foundation’s Fellowship. Department of Political and Economic Studies, Waseda University. Tutor: Prof. HORI Makiyo

• 1992-94. Institute of International Law and Politics, Faculty of Political Science, University of Milan: post-doctoral fellowship. Tutor: Prof. Enrica COLLOTTI PISCHEL

• 1993. Institute of Social Research, Waseda University: post-doctoral research. Tutor: Prof. KAWAHARA Hiroshi

• 1989-90. Institute of Japanese History, T?ky? University: doctoral research

Organization of national and international symposia:

• Convegno internazionale “Ritratto di Venezia e del Veneto: le istituzioni, l’economia e le interazioni culturali e scientifiche con il Giappone” ?????????????????????????????????????????????Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia – Confindustria Venezia – Università H?sei (Tokyo, September 20, 2011)

• International Symposium “Historiography on Japan and East Asia. State, trends and perspectives”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – University of Geneva (Venice, November 5-6, 2010)

• International Symposium “Orientarizumu wo koete” (Beyond Orientalism), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – University of Kanagawa (Venice, September 14, 2010).

• International Conference “Avant-garde in Japan”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (September 14-15, 2009)

• International Conference “1868- Italia e Giappone: intrecci culturali”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (May 22, 2008)

• XXXI Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi (31st Conference of Italian Association for Japanese Studies), Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (20-22 settembre 2007)

• 5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies “Imagined Okinawa: Challenges from Time and Space”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 14-16 September 2006 http://venus.unive.it/okinawa

Conferences and seminars

• “Giappone e giapponesi a Ca’ Foscari”, Convegno internazionale “Ritratto di Venezia e del Veneto: le istituzioni, l’economia e le interazioni culturali e scientifiche con il Giappone”?????????????????????????????????????????????? H?sei University (Tokyo, September 2011)

• “Individuo, società e politica dopo l’11 marzo: i possibili percorsi della democrazia”, Tavola rotonda “11 marzo: bilancio (provvisorio) di una tragedia”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (June 2011)

• “Historiography on modern Okinawa: between self-Orientalism and Global History”, International Symposium “Historiography on Japan and East Asia. State, trends and perspectives”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice-University of Geneva (Venice, November 2010)

• “Identities in conflict: ‘Okinawa’ in Yanagita Kunio and Iha Fuyu’s discourses”, Colloque International “Le Japon et son identité: formation et reactions”, Département d’études japonaises de l’Université de Strasbourg-CEEJA Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (Kientzheim, Octobre 2010)

• “More Oriental than Japan: Okinawa in Japan’s national discourse”, International Conference “Orientalism/Occidentalism: Languages of Cultures vs. Languages of Description”, Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation (Moscow, September 2010)

• “Orientarizumu o koete – Okinawa no baai” (??????????????????Beyond Orientalism: The case of Okinawa), International Sympoisum “Orientarizumu wo koete” (Beyond Orientalism), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice – University of Kanagawa (Venice, September 2010)

• “Y?roppa ni okeru Okinawa kenky?” ???????????????(Okinawan studies in Europe), PhD Program in International Relations (advisor Prof. GOTO Ken’ichi), Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies – Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (Tokyo, July 2010)

• “Forging a nippocentric world: the role of Ry?ky? in Tokugawa Japan”: “War memory and peace memorials in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa”, Université Paris Diderot – Paris VII, U.F.R. Langues et Civilisation de l’Asie Orientale – LCAO (Paris, May 2010)

• “Giappone: morire con arte, morire per onore”, Punta della Dogana (Venezia, January 2010)

• “Okinawa-ken secchi ni okeru Sh? Tai no yakuwari wo megutte” ?????????????????????(On the role of Sh? Tai during the establishment of Okinawa prefecture), International Symposium on “Nihon ni totte Okinawa to wa nanika”(The meaning of Okinawa in Japan), H?sei University (Tokyo, December 2009).

• “Umi to aidentiti. Venezia to T?ky? no baai” ??????????? ? ????????????? (Sea and identity: the case of Venice and Tokyo), Kanagawa University (Yokohama, December 2009)

• “‘Oriento’ no ‘Oriento’ e: J?h?kakumei to gur?baru-ka no jidai ni okeru Okinawa-shi o ayumu” ???????????????? :???????????????????????? (At the orient of the orient. The history of Okinawa in the era of information revolution and globalization), Dai 31kai Okinawa Bunka Ky?kai sh? jush?shiki (Awarding ceremony for the 31st Prize of the Society for the Research on Okinawan Culture), Waseda University (Tokyo, November 2009)

• “Itaria ni okeru Nihon kenky?. Ibunka kara mita Nihon”?????????????? ??????????(Japanese studies in Italy: Japan as seen from outside), Meiji University (Tokyo, October 2009)

• “1921 nen no k?taishi Hirohito no Itaria h?mon. S?go imeji-hy?sh?”?1921?????????????????????????(The visit of Crown Prince Hirohito in Italy in 1921: Mutual images), International Symposium on “Image of‘Japan’in Modern Europe”, Kanagawa University (Yokohama, October 2009)

• “Ry?ky? no bunka to Edo bakufu ni yoru sono seijiteki riy?”??????????????????????(The political uses of Ry?ky?’s cultural otherness in Edo Japan), International Symposium on “Islands and cross-cultural contacts, Graduate School of Humanities-The Port Cities Research Center, K?be University (March 2009)

• “War experience and peace discourse in Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Okinawa”, Université de Genève, Unité de Japonais (Genève, November 2008)

• “The Role of Ryukyuan Kingdom between Tokugawa Japan and Qing China”, Université de Genève (November 2008)

• “From bushid? to war crimes: the Japanese military forces in WW II”, Université de Genève (November 2008)

• “Comfort Women. Una lettura di genere”, Convegno internazionale di studi “Mass Rape in the Twentieth Century. Feminist Studies on Gender, Nation and Militarism”, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (October 2008)

• “’Nihonjin’ wo tsukuru – Okinawa to Hokkaid? ni taisuru d?ka seisaku” ???????? – ?????????????? (The making of Japanese: Assimilation Policy in Okinawa and in Hokkaid?), Kokusai Nihongaku kenky?sho (Institute of the International Japan-Studies), H?sei University (Tokyo, August 2008)

• “Dalla nazione all’impero: teoria e pratiche del colonialismo giapponese”, Convegno della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Impero, imperi, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (May 2008)

• “Okinawa nella storia nazionale e nella memoria del Giappone di oggi”, Università degli Studi di Milano- CARC Contemporary Asia Research Centre, (Milano, April 2008)

• “La degenerazione del codice d’onore e l’impiego della violenza nelle forze armate giapponesi”, Convegno su Le guerre mondiali in Asia Orientale e in Europa: violenze, collaborazionismi, propaganda, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (December 2007)

• “Itaria ni okeru Nihon kenky? no rekishi, genj?, kadai” ??????????????????????? (Japanese studies in Italy: history, state and themes), International Conference on “Current state and perpectives of Global Japanese Studies”, Meiji University, (Tokyo, November 2007)

• “Minoranze linguistiche e integrazione degli stranieri in Giappone” (Taio, October 2007)

• “Storia e storiografia in Giappone: dai crimini di guerra ai criminali di guerra”, Convegno internazionale “Memoria e Rimozione. I crimini di guerra in Italia e in Giappone”, Gabinetto Viesseux (Firenze, September 2007)

• “Ainu and Okinawans between modernization and colonialism”, Duisburg University (May 2007)

• “Le nuove frontiere dello stato nazionale giapponese: ainu e okinawani tra assimilazione e discriminazione”, Università di Bologna (April 2007)

• “D?ka to teik? no hazama – Sh? Tai no baai”?????????? – ??????(Between Assimilation and Resistance. The last Ryukyuan King Sh? Tai), 5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies “Imagined Okinawa: challenger from Time and Space”, ???????????????????? ??????????????????Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (September 2006)

• “Ry?ky? shobun to saigo no Ry?ky??” ????????????? (The “disposal for Ry?ky?” and the last king of Ry?ky?), Institute of the International Japan Studies, H?sei University, (Tokyo, July 2006)

• “La storia bellica nel Giappone contemporaneo: i luoghi della memoria”, Museo d’Arte Orientale Chiossone (Genova, April 2006)

• “Recent Trends of Historiography on Modern Okinawa”, International Symposium on State, Current Developments and Future Tasks in Japanese Studies, Bonn University (February 2006)

• “Il lessico della memoria bellica in Giappone”, Convegno su Il testo in Asia e Africa: produzione, trasmissione, fruizione, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (September 2005)

• “A Peaceful Last King? Sh? Tai Between Memory, Historiography and Myth”, 11th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (Wien, September 2005)

• “The ‘Peace Triangle’ in Japan: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Okinawa”; International conference of study for the 60th anniversary of the Resistance and Liberation ‘Places of memory. Places of reconciliation’ (Bologna, April 2005)

• “Il colonialismo giapponese in Asia: storia, memoria e rimozioni”, Dipartimento di Studi Internazionali dell’Università degli studi di Milano – Casa della Cultura (Milano, March 2005)

• “Storie nella storia: percorsi al femminile tra sfera privata e vita sociale in Giappone”, Assessorato alle politiche femminili del Comune di Merano (May 2004)

• “Vecchi e nuovi equilibri della politica giapponese nel dopoguerra fredda”, Convegno in ricordo di Enrica Collotti Pischel: Asia e Africa oggi. Mutamenti, conflitti, prospettive, Università di Milano 2004

• “Ry?ky?-Okinawa no aidentiti ni tsuite”????????????????(On Ryukyuan-Okinawan identity), International Conference “Okinawan Identity” ???????????????????? ?H?sei University – Kokusai Nihongaku Kenky?jo (Tokyo, March 2004)

• “Giappone: lo Stato Meiji tra politica e religiosità”, Centro Studi Internazionali (CESPI) – Dipartimento di Studi Internazionali, Università di Milano (2004)

• “Recenti sviluppi del revisionismo storiografico in Giappone: la Nazione e l’Altro”, XXVII Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Università della Calabria (Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, 2003)

• “Il rapporto tra il Giappone e il mondo esterno: dall’epoca Meiji ai giorni nostri”, Istituto Giapponese di Cultura (Roma 2002)

• “1921 nen k?taishi Hirohito no Itaria to Bachikan h?mon”?1921???????????????????· ???(The visit of Hirohito in Italy and in Vatican in 1921), Associazione Alessandro Valignano (Takamatsu 2002)

• “Omogeneità e diversità in Giappone”, Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (Milano 2002)

• “Re-inventing Okinawa: from ‘Ryukyuness’ to ‘Japaneseness’”, 4th International Conference on Okinawa Studies (Bonn 2002)

• “Gli studi di Kita Sadakichi sul Nihon minzoku”, XXV Convegno di Studi Giapponesi (Venezia 2001) · “La Cina reinventata dal Giappone Meiji”, VIII Convegno A.I.S.C. (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi), Università di Lecce 2001

• “Il dibattito storiografico sul fascismo giapponese”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 2001

• “La ‘samuraizzazione’ della società giapponese”, Università di Pavia 2001

• “La storiografia giapponese sul periodo bellico: dal pentimento all’orgoglio”, Ateneo Veneto, Venezia 1999

• “La democrazia in Giappone: cultura e pratica politica”, XXII Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Cortina d’Ampezzo 1998

• “Riflessi dell’antisemitismo nel Giappone bellico”, XX Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Sassari 1996

• “Lo shint? giapponese”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1996

• “L’agricoltura giapponese nella modernizzazione”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1996

• “Razza, etnia, nazione. Alcune considerazioni sull’identità collettiva in Giappone”, XIX Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Urbino 1995

• “L’esistenza quotidiana dei giapponesi di oggi”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1994

• “Esistono tensioni etniche in Giappone?”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1994

• “Sviluppo agricolo nel Giappone moderno”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1994

• “La concezione della natura in Giappone”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1994

• “Gli esclusi dal benessere in Giappone: i burakumin e gli abitanti di Okinawa”, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali (CESPI) – Università di Milano 1993

• “L’edificazione del moderno stato giapponese e la definizione dei suoi limiti territoriali. L’intervento del Giappone Meiji nelle Ry?ky?”, XVI Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Auronzo 1992

• “Buraku mondai: sopravvivenze della tradizione nella società giapponese contemporanea”, XII Convegno di Studi Giapponesi, Roma 1988