Members
14th
Term: Apr. 2024 ～
:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
● VIERTHALER Patrick Assistant Professor
Research Interests: South Korean contemporary history, Cold War history, Mass media and cultural memory
Research Topic: Contested Memories of Perpetration and Collaboration in Former "Cold War Frontlines": A Global History of Post-Cold War Mnemonic Disputes
Host Department: Institute for Research in Humanities
Previous Affiliation: Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
Short Introduction
My research focuses on how collectives remember and dispute “history,” and how debates over “history” influence politics, society, and academic research. In my MA and PhD research, I analyzed how South Koreans collectively remember their autocratic past and on-going division. In particular, I analyzed how politics, journalism, scholars, and civic activists are engaged in struggles over the cultural memory of division and South Korean state foundation since 1987, and argued that the post-authoritarian South Korean mnemonic landscape is best described as an “asymmetry in remembering” between the two dominant socio-political camps.
Latest News
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Oct. 9, 2024
Assistant Professor Patrick Vierthaler (14 batch・Institute for Research in Humanities) published a paper online (European Journal of Korean Studies).
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Jul. 16, 2024
Assistant Professor Patrick Vierthaler (14batch・Institute for the Research in Humanities) published a paper online. (Korean Studies)
