Harvard to host `Politics and Past in Turkey and Japan’ International
Security Seminar
21.11.2009 15:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On December 3, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs will host `Let the Historians Decide?
Politics and the Past in Turkey and Japan’ International Security
Seminar.

Politicians in both Turkey and Japan have argued that the persistent
controversies over aspects of their countries’ pasts should be left to
the professional analysis and evaluation of historians. This seminar
will analyze the politics of the past in each of these states,
demonstrating the continued relevance of traumatic or shameful pasts
in each country’s politics and the ways in which domestic and
international considerations influence the shaping of official
histories.