Seminar series Nonstate actors in regional and global wars in 19th century East Asia Examining the role of nonstate actors in the Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars Add to calendar 2025-03-13 15:30 2025-03-13 17:00 Europe/Rome Nonstate actors in regional and global wars in 19th century East Asia Sala Belvedere Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 13 2025 15:30 - 17:00 CET Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Department of Political and Social Sciences GGP: Global Governance Programme Join this discussion to learn more about how Vietnamese and Korean forces actively shaped the outcomes of 19th-century conflicts in East Asia, challenging traditional narratives of victimhood and colonial inevitability. During the Sino-French War (1884-1885) and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), regular and irregular Vietnamese and Korean forces took up arms both alongside and against French, Japanese, and Chinese troops. Rather than treating this multitude of armed (and unarmed) participants in Nguy?n Vietnam and Choson Korea as purely passive observers (invisible) or hijacked partisans (incompetent or corrupt), this study empirically demonstrates how the monarchy, government officials, local administrators, scholars, religious networks, merchants, mercenaries, peasants, rebels, paramilitary groups, and righteous armies (nghia quân in Vietnamese; uibyong in Korean) forged strategies and armed alliances. By centring Vietnam and Korea in the analysis, it moves away from victimhood narratives, where Vietnamese and Koreans are portrayed as objects of imperial action—first by China, then by France and Japan respectively. It also avoids the trap of treating European-style colonialism in East Asia (and elsewhere) as inevitable, viewing it as more than just a changing of guards over already-subjugated polities. Related events Read more Conference From 12 Jun 2025 14:00 CEST to 13 Jun 2025 18:00 CEST Villa Ruspoli, Piazza Indipendenza n. 9, Florence, University of Florence Conference Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Botticelli v. Warhol: Comparative perspectives on the use of cultural heritage images Speakers: Alessandro Simoni (University of Florence) Gabriele Gori (Fondazione CR Firenze) Silvia Zonnedda (Fondazione CR Firenze) Antonella Ranaldi (SABAP-FI) Vittoria Barsotti (Fondazione CR Firenze) Alessandra De Luca (University of Florence) Ariane Thomas (Louvre Museum) Jennifer Celani (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio of Florence, Pistoia and Prato) Simone Torricelli (University of Florence) Giorgio Resta (Roma Tre University) Amy Adler (New York University) Cecilie Hollberg (Harvard University) Eleonora Rosati (University of Stockholm) Paolo Catallozzi (Italian Supreme Court) Alessandro Cogo (University of Torino) Gordon Humphreys (EU Intellectual Property Office) Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) Giacomo Pailli (University of Palermo) Massimo Sterpi (Gianni e Origoni) Marketa Trimble (University of Nevada) Marina Markellou (University of Groningen) Eduard Treppoz (Panthéon-AssasUniversity Paris II) Lucrezia Palandri (Univeristy of Insubria) Caterina Sganga (SantÁnna School of Advanced Studies) Silvia Scalzini (LUISS University) Giulia Dore (University of Trento) Anna Pirri Valentini (IMT School for Advances Studies Lucca and LUISS University) Rina Elster Pantalony (Columbia University Libraries) Deborah De Angelis (Wikimedia Italia & Creative Commons) Niccolò Galli (European University Institute)
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