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Reflections on the Symposium at Marquette University: “Integrity of Memory: ‘Comfort Women’ in Focus”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Eunah Lee
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The following is a series of reflections upon Integrity of Memory: ‘Comfort Women’ in Focus, which took place on 1 May 2015 at Marquette University. Readers will find out, first, what motivated me – neither historian nor East Asianist – but someone in philosophy - to take up this project. Secondly, I will report on how the symposium proceeded and was received by the Marquette community. Subsequently, I will talk about the phenomenology of the “apology contention.” Lastly, I will share how I came to incorporate the “comfort woman” issue into my ethics and epistemology course as a case study.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 33 , August 2015 , e4
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Notes

1 Watch the documentary at the Women's Active Museum site.

2 Alexis Dudden, Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008).

3 I would like to take this opportunity to extend my gratitude to the librarians at Raynor Library as well as the curators at the Haggerty Art Museum who helped with the preparation of these exhibitions.

4 Wada Haruki, “The Comfort Women, the Asian Women's Fund and the Digital Museum” in the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, February 2008.

5 “Breaking Silence, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Apologizes for Boston Marathon Bombing,” New York Times, 24 June 2015.

6 Annette Wieviorka, The Era of the Witness, trans. from French, L'ère du temoin (Plon, 1998) by Jared Stark (Cornell University Press, 2006).

7 Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, 2002).