2015 UK CV - warcrimesandempire.com

Arnaud Doglia
Swiss national
22 Victoria Street Basement Flat Cambridge CB1 1JP
+44 7572 776377
[email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2014-present
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies, ERC Project “War Crimes and Empire”
Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK
2013-2014
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2006-2013
Teaching Assistant
Japanese Studies Program, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2001-2002
Teaching Assistant
Romansh Studies Program, University of Geneva, Switzerland
EDUCATION
2005-2012
PhD in Japanese history
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Thesis: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1880-2011: Historical Realities
and the Anatomy of Memory (First Class Honours with Unanimous
Jury Congratulations)
2010-2011
Japan Foundation fellow (PhD research)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan
2005-2006
Foreign research student (PhD research)
The University of Tokyo, Japan
2003-2005
DESS (Master’s Degree) in Interdisciplinary Asian studies
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Thesis: To Construct and Deconstruct History: The Nanking Massacre
in Japanese Collective Memory.
1997-2002
Master’s and Bachelor’s Degrees
Major in contemporary history (minors: English, Romansh)
University of Geneva, Switzerland
Thesis: The Rainbow Warrior Affair in the New Zealand and French
press.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
“’Conversion’ Narratives of Former War Criminals in Postwar Japan” (work in progress).
“L’arme biologique japonaise, 1880-2011: réalités historiques et anatomie de la mémoire”
(“Japanese Biological Warfare, 1880-2011: Historical Realities and the Anatomy of
Memory.”), edition in process, Peter Lang, Bern (forthcoming in September 2015).
Articles and book chapters
“The Birth of a ‘Disney Culture’ in Occupied Japan” (work in progress).
“Ôkunoshima and the Victims of Japanese Chemical Warfare” (book chapter of an
anthology on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forthcoming in 2015).
“Japanese Medical Atrocities and Justice: Postwar Perspectives”, in von Lingen Kerstin
(ed.), Decolonization, Cold War, and War Crimes Trials in East Asia after 1945, Springer
Verlag, Heidelberg (forthcoming in 2015).
“Les cobayes humains de l’Unité 731” (“Unit 731 and Human Guinea Pigs”), in L’Histoire,
Asie-Pacifique 1931-1945: l’autre guerre mondiale, Paris, no. 413-414, pp. 66-70.
“Japanese Mass Violence and its Victims in the “Fifteen Years’ War” (1931-45)”, The
Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence, http://www.massviolence.org, CERI – Sciences
Po, Paris, 2011 (over 10,700 views online).
“Rites commémoratifs dans le Japon de l’après-guerre: hégémonie nationale ou mémoires
locales?” (“Monuments and Places of Memory in Postwar Japan: National Hegemony or
Local Memories?”), in Briegel Françoise, Farré Sébastien (eds.), Rituels et hiérarchies,
Georg, collection l'Équinoxe, Geneva, 2009, pp. 120-134.
Book reviews
“De la nécessité d’une histoire pluridisciplinaire et transnationale: Le cas du programme de
guerre bactériologique japonais (1930-1945)“ (“The Necessity of a Pluridisciplinary and
Transnational History: The Case of the Japanese Bacteriological Warfare Program (19301945)”), extended book review, in Cipango, Cahiers d’études japonaises, Paris
(forthcoming in 2015).
“Les Japonais et la guerre (1937-1952)” (“The Japanese People and the War (19371952)”), extended book review, in Cipango, Cahiers d’études japonaises, N° 20, Paris,
2014, pp. 50-56.
“Morts pour l’Empereur, la question du Yasukuni” (“To Die for the Emperor, The question
of the Yasukuni shrine”), book review, in Vingtième Siècle, Revue d’histoire, N° 118,
Sciences Po, Paris, 2012, p. 235.
Translations
With Tiralongo Michael, “Approche d’un modèle domestique pour l’étude du droit
international” (“A Model of Domestic Approach for the Study of International Law”), Onuma
Yasuaki, “Kokusai hô to kokunai hô”, pp. 55-83 (forthcoming in 2015).
With Konuma Isabelle, “Le procès de Tôkyô, les responsabilités du Japon dans la guerre
et dans l’après-guerre” (“The Tokyo Trials, Japan’s War and Postwar Responsibilities”),
Onuma Yasuaki, “Tôkyô saiban, sensô sekinin, sengo sekinin”, pp. 117-179 (forthcoming
in 2015).
“Les mythes autour des séismes et l’oubli du tabou - Un tremblement de terre au IXème
siècle: Mémoires du séisme de Jôgan” (“Earthquakes, Mythology and the Taboo, the
Memories of the Jôgan Earthquake in the IXth century”), Hotate Michihisa, “Jishin no
shinwa to tabu- no bôkyaku, kyû seiki no daijishin “jôgan jishin” no kioku, abstract, 2013.
RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
2015
Schmidheiny Foundation (Switzerland) contribution towards cost of
publishing book, CHF 3,000
University of Geneva (Faculty of Arts) contribution towards cost of
publishing book, CHF 2,000
University of Geneva – (Institute of History) contribution towards cost
of publishing book, CHF 4,000
2014
ERC Project “War Crimes and Empire” contribution towards cost of
publishing book, £1,000
Research Start-Up Grant on “Science and the Memory of Wartime
Atrocities in Contemporary Japan”, financed by Zayed University,
UAE, AED 10,000
2013-2014
Archival research at the Diet Library, Tokyo, financed by Zayed
University, UAE, AED 10,000
2012
Travel grant to the Association of Asian Studies (Toronto), financed by
the Geneva Academic Society, CHF 1,250
2010-2011
One-year research grant, financed by The Japan Foundation, Tokyo,
¥3,720,000
2005-2006
One-year research scholarship, financed by the Ernest Boninchi
Foundation, Geneva, CHF 12,000
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND TALKS
Conference papers
2015
Sciences Po & CERI, Paris, France (17 December)
World War Two Mass Violence in Europe and Asia, “Japanese
Opposition to the War”
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (31 January)
The Media and How it Shapes History in East Asia, “Morimura Seiichi
and Akuma no hôshoku in the Japanese Media”
2014
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (19 September)
Breakdown of Japanese Empire, “Science, Medicine and War
Atrocities in the Japanese Empire”
2012
University of Geneva, Switzerland (5 May)
Social Sciences in Contemporary Japan, “Discursive
Torsions in Japanese Medical Narratives in the 20th Century, the
Case of Unit 731”
Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada (16 March)
Annual Symposium of the AAS, “Unheard Memories?
Ôkunoshima and the Victims of Japanese Chemical Warfare”
2009
INALCO, Paris, France (18 December)
ADNEJ Conference, “The Constitution of the Memories of War
Atrocities in Postwar Japan”
2007
University of Lausanne, Switzerland (3 November)
CUSO Conference, “Monuments and Places of Memory in Postwar
Japan: National Hegemony or Local Memories?”
University of Basel, Switzerland (16 June)
Orientalisches Seminar, “Memories of World War Two and the
Constitution of Collective Memory in Postwar Japan”
Invited talks
2015
INALCO, Paris, France (13 February)
“State Intervention in Early Modern Japan: Medicine and Bureaucrats”
2014
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (18 November)
“Narratives of Japanese Victims and Perpetrators, 1920s-1950s”
2012
INALCO, Paris, France (14 November)
“The Crisis of Memory: Rewriting History and Rediscovering
Continuities in Postwar Japan”
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland (5 March)
“How to Remember the Past in Popular Culture: Monsters and
Heroes in Contemporary Japan”
2011
University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo, Japan (22 January)
“Gendai nihon ni okeru kako no kôchiku to datsu kôchiku: Kyû nihon
gun no seibutsu heiki to doku gasu no kioku” (To Construct and
Deconstruct the Past in Contemporary Japan, the Memory of the
Japanese Biological Warfare Program)
2010
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland (3 April)
“War Memories and Cultural Perspectives: Japan and its
Neighbors”
2009
University of Venice, Italy (14-17 April)
“The Contemporary Politicization of the Nankin Massacre”
“Godzilla as an Image of the Past in Postwar Japan”
“Monuments and Memory in the City of Wakkanai, Hokkaidô”
2007
University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (19 March)
“World War Two and the Localization of Memories in Japan:
The Atomic Discourse in Nagasaki”
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Lecturing
2014-present
University of Cambridge
“Japanese History, Meiji to the Modern” (Undergraduates, Occasional
Lecturer)
2013-2014
Zayed University
“Japan in East Asian History” (Undergraduates)
“World History” (Undergraduates)
“Asia and the Middle East in the 20th Century” (Undergraduates)
2011-2013
University of Geneva
“Historical Memory in Postwar Japan” (Graduates)
“Methodology and Asian Studies” (Undergraduates, Occasional
Lecturer)
“Studying the Far East through its Cultural and Intellectual History”
(Graduates, Occasional Lecturer)
“History of Modern China, 1840-1989” (Undergraduates, Occasional
Lecturer)
2009-2010
University of Geneva
“An Introduction to the History of Japan” (Undergraduates)
“Memory, Politics and Culture in Contemporary Japan” (Graduates)
“Power Struggles, Exchanges and Imperialism in the Far East”
(Graduates, Occasional Lecturer)
2007-2009
University of Geneva
“Memory, Politics and Culture in Contemporary Japan” (Graduates)
“Power Struggles, Exchanges and Imperialism in the Far East”
(Graduates, Occasional Lecturer)
2006-2007
University of Geneva
“An Intellectual History of North East Asia” (Graduates, Occasional
Lecturer)
Seminars and tutorials
2014-present
University of Cambridge
Translation and analysis of contemporary Japanese texts (Graduates)
2006-2010
University of Geneva
Translation and analysis of contemporary Japanese texts (Graduates)
Language courses
2006-2013
University of Geneva
Japanese language teaching (Undergraduates)
2001-2002
Supervisions
2014-present
University of Geneva
Romansh language teaching (Undergraduates)
University of Cambridge
Student supervision (Undergraduates)
2013-2014
Zayed University
Examiner (Undergraduates)
Student supervision (Undergraduates)
2006-2013
University of Geneva
One-on-one supervising of dissertations (Graduates)
Examiner (Graduates and Undergraduates)
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION
2013- present
Editorial committee of The Online Encyclopaedia of Mass Violence,
http://www.massviolence.org (CERI – Sciences Po Paris)
2013- 2014
Grades First Planning and Implementation group (Zayed University)
2006- 2013
Administration of the Interdisciplinary MA in Asian Studies
Scholarships, student reports, internships, website (University of
Geneva)
Administration of the Japanese Studies Program website (University
of Geneva)
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2015
Web Authoring Workshop: HTML and CSS (April-May)
MBTI Career Development Workshop (28 April)
2014
Workshop in Undergraduate Supervision, Personal and Professional
Development, University of Cambridge (20 October)
2013
Professional Development Week on Teaching and Pedagogy, Zayed
University (15-20 December)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2010- present
Member of the Association of Asian Studies
2010- 2011
WINC Workshop Critical Theory, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2009- present
Member of the European Association for Japanese Studies
EXTRA ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
2009
Interview, Radio Télévision Suisse, “War in the Pacific”, 30 November
LANGUAGES
Native: French
Fluent: English, Japanese
Intermediate: German, Italian