Tomorrow the UNC Law School will be hosting a one day conference on the April 3, 1948 Jeju massacre (also known as the uprising). This is part of an on-going, international effort to bring attention to the violence on Jeju island that ran from April 1948 through May 1949 in which thousands of residents of the island were killed as part of anti-communist suppression. The efforts have led to extensive discussion in Korea, Japan, and more recently the United States about the massacre and the role of both the Korean government and to a lesser extent the United States' military in suppressing the uprising. And since 2000 there has been the Jeju 4.3 Committee, which has led efforts at documenting the history, memorializing it, and repair -- what we often call transitional justice. As part of this on-going effort, we are hosting a meeting of scholars of Jeju 4.3, victims and their families, and scholars of transitional justice on May 22. Here is the schedule:
Welcoming remarks by Ko Chang Hoon, Jeju National University, Republic of Korea; Yun Kuung Yang and Sang-soo Hur, Jeju People Association; Ho-jin Kang, Juju Residents Association for Autonomy; Oui-soon Park, Jeju Residents Solidarity for Authonomy.
Part 1: Recognition, Responsibility, Reparations and Asian Democracy in relation to Taiwan 2.28 Massacre, Jeju 4.3 Grand Tragedy, and Other Cases 9:30-10:45
Moderator Al Brophy, UNC Law School
Jeh-Hang Lai, Professor Emeritus National Central University Taiwan, R.O.C., The 2.28 Uprising as a Turning Point in Taiwan Political History
Hope Elizabeth May, Central Michigan University, Recognition and Responsibility: The Moral Relevance of Pre-UN history to the Jeju Tragedy
Chang Hoon Ko, Professor Emeritus of JNU, Chair of World Association for Island Studies, South Korea, Jeju World Peace Island Treaty JWPA: From Darkness of Jeju 4.3 Grand Tragedy to Brightness of Jeju World Peace Island Vision, 1947-2017
Discussant: Sung-bin Koh, Professor, JNU, South Korea
Part 2: Theoretical Issues of Reparations and Reconciliation in Relation to Jeju 4.3, 11-12
Moderator Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan
Al Brophy, University of North Carolina Law School, Memorialization of Reconstruction: The Case of Ku Klux Klan Violence in 1870s North Carolina
Carlton Waterhouse, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Indiana University, Slavery Reparations and Social Dominance Theory
Kaimi Wenger, Thomas Jefferson Law School, Micro-Reparations
Discussant: Professor Roy Tamashiro, Webster University, USA
Buffet Lunch at UNC Law School, 12-1:15
Part 3: Genocide Cases and Ways of Reparations 1:15-2:15
Moderator: Carlton Waterhouse, Robert H. Mckinney School of Law, Indiana University
Speakers: Kunihiko Yoshida, Hokkaido University, Japan, Taxonomies of Reparations Compared to Other Asian cases
Timothy Webster, Case Western University Law School, World War II Litigation in East Asia: Individual Litigation and Group Disappointment
Robert Westley, Tulane University Law School, Building a Norm of Redress Through Reparations Activism
Part 4: Social Healing Through Jeju Peace Academy, Communication and Dark Tourism, 3-3:45
Moderator: Hope Elizabeth May, Central Michigan University, Social Healing Through Jeju World Peace Academy
Roy Tamashiro, Webster University, USA, Jeju 4.3: Planetary Consciousness and Psychosocial Processes for Social Healing and Reconciliation
Dr. Ae-Duck Im, Chang Hoon Ko, (JNU) and Rachel Brooks (Fulbright English teacher September 2014- August 2016, USA) South Korea, Social Healing Through Generational Communication
Part 5: Final Discussions 4-5
Audience
I will take advantage of the location here in Chapel Hill to talk about a key moment of transitional justice in the United States -- the movement away from slavery and towards freedom in the wake of Civil War and how that was undone simultaneously through violence and appeals to the "rule of law" here in Orange County and in surrounding counties. This is a piece of a project I've been working on regarding the memorialization of Saunders Hall on the UNC campus. I've been working on this project for a while and am excited to have the chance to talk about this work that links a micro history of William Saunders and the Klan to larger themes in what "rule of law" meant in the United States during the difficult times of Reconstruction and its end (what was once known as the period of "redemption").
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