‫ד"ר גיא פודולר‬
Dr. Guy Podoler
Research Areas
Modern and contemporary history of Korea. (Minor area: modern and contemporary
Japan.)
Position
Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Education
Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellowship recipient, Hebrew University, 2006/7.
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Korean Research, UBC, summer 2005.
Ph.D. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005.
M.A. East Asian Studies with focus on Korea, Hebrew University.
B.A. Japanese Studies, Hebrew University.
List of Publications
Books
Editor – War and Militarism in Modern Japan: Issues of History and Identity,
Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2009.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
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“Nation, State and Football: The Korean Case,” The International Journal of
the History of Sport 25, no.1 (January 2008): 1-17.
“Space and Identity: Myth and Imagery in the South Korean Patriotic
Landscape,” Acta Koreana 10, no. 1 (January 2007): 1-35.
“Japanese Colonialism, National Memory and Korean Football,” Japan Focus
(February 2006); available at http://www.japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=520.
“Revisiting the March First Movement: On the Commemorative Landscape
and the Nexus Between History and Memory,” The Review of Korean Studies
8, no. 3 (September 2005): 137-154.
“Remembering Colonialism: Monuments Commemorating the Period of
Japanese Occupation in South Korea,” Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 86
(Spring 2004): 96-105 (In Hebrew).
Articles in Books:
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“Seoul: Aspects of Identity Construction through the Urban Landscape,” in
Memory, Forgetfulness and Spatial Construction, edited by Haim Yacobi and
Tovi Fenster. Jerusalem: Hakibutz Hameuchad and Van Leer Institute,
(Forthcoming) (In Hebrew).
“Introduction,” in War and Militarism in Modern Japan: Issues of History and
Identity, edited by Guy Podoler, pp. 1-8. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental,
2009.
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“The Effect of Japanese Colonial Brutality on Shaping Korean Identity: An
Analysis of a Prison Turned Memorial Site in Seoul,” in War and Militarism
in Modern Japan: Issues of History and Identity, edited by Guy Podoler, pp.
199-214. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2009.
(Co-authored with Michael Robinson) “On the Confluence of History and
Memory: The Significance of the War for Korea,” in The Impact of the RussoJapanese War, edited by Rotem Kowner, pp. 183-198. London and New
York: Routledge, 2007.
“The Autocrat” [on Park Chung Hee], in Men of the Global South: A Reader,
edited by Adam Jones, pp. 217-220. London and New York: Zed Books, 2006.
“Dark Dawn and Sparks of Nationalism: Korea and the Implications of the
War,” in The Forgotten Campaign: The Russo-Japanese War and its Legacy,
edited by Rotem Kowner, pp. 343-361. Tel Aviv: Ma’arachot, 2005. (In
Hebrew).
Book Reviews:
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Review of Rethinking Historical Injustice and Reconciliation in Northeast
Asia: The Korean Experience, edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Soon-Won Park, and
Daqing Yang, (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), In Pacific Affairs
80, no. 3 (Fall 2007), pp. 530-531. (Solicited by the journal).
Others:
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“Designing History, Defining Identity: The Case of South Korea’s
Independence Hall,” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of
Design History and Design Studies, edited by Haruhiko Fujita, pp. 250-253.
Osaka: Osaka University, 2008.
Korean-language version of “Japanese Colonialism, National Memory and
Korean Football,” published by OhmyNews under the title “Nambukhan
chukguwa sikmintongchiui gieok” (February 14, 2006); available at
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no
=274265&rel_no=1&character_article_code=01.
“On North Korea’s Achievement: the Nuclear Weapon as a Bargaining Chip,”
solicited by Yedioth Aharonot daily newspaper (September 20, 2005), p. 4 (In
Hebrew).
“Naturalness Imagined: The March First Movement and Memory Politics in
South Korea,” The Association for Korean Studies in Europe—2005 Biennial
Conference, University of Sheffield (July 2005), pp. 139-143.
Works in Progress:
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“Seoul: City and Identity,” in Remembering, Forgetting and the Production of
Urban Space, edited by Tovi Fenster and Haim Yacobi. Ashgate.
“Death as a Nationalist Text: Reading the National Cemetery of South Korea,”
in Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in Korea: Critical
Aspects of Death from Ancient to Contemporary Times, edited by Michael J.
Pettid and Charlotte Horlyck.
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Papers at Academic Conferences
2009. "Korean Football: A Case Study in Sport Nationalism," International
Conference of Asian Scholars (ICAS 6), August, Daejeon, South Korea.
2009. "Korea's Hanna Senesh: The Story and Historical Significance of a Fighting
Girl," the Eighth Annual Meeting of Asian Studies in Israel, June, Tel Aviv
University.
2009. "A Nation Rises: The March First Movement in Colonial Korea," Conference:
"May Fourth" – Ninety Year to 1919, May, University of Haifa.
2009. "Martyrs, Filial Piety, and the Spirit of the Big Dipper: The Religious Elements
in Modern Nationalist Narratives in South Korea," Conference: Monotheism in Asia:
Inter-Religious Issues, March, Bar Ilan University.
2008. “Designing History, Defining Identity: The Case of South Korea’s
Independence Hall,” 6th International Conference on Design History and Design
Studies (ICDHS), October, Osaka.
2008. “’Shiri’ (1999): Representing the Divided Nation in the First Korean
Blockbuster,” the Seventh Annual Meeting of Asian Studies in Israel, May, Hebrew
University.
2007. “The Empire’s Foreign Subjects: Korea and the Koreans During the War,”
delivered in the conference: 70 Years to the Outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
(1937-1945) – The Conflict that Changed East Asia, November, University of Haifa.
2007. “Sport and Nationalism in Korea,” the Sixth Annual Meeting of Asian Studies
in Israel, June, University of Haifa.
2007. “An ‘Other’ Discovered: Japan in the Early Hebrew Press in Palestine at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century,” the International Conference on Japan in Honor of
Professor Ben-Ami Shillony, May, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2006. “Seoul: City and Identity,” International Workshop on: One Place – Different
Memories: Rethinking the Role of Planning in the Production of Urban Space,
December, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
2006. “Under the Heavy Shadow of the Past: Japan through Korean Eyes, Then and
Now,” Academic Conference: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Japan’s Admission
to the UN: Japan’s Present International Standing in Historical Perspective,
November, University of Haifa.
2006. “Security in Identity: Memories and Forgetting in Korea,” the Fifth Annual
Meeting of Asian Studies in Israel, June, Tel-Aviv University.
2006. “On Tigers and Red Devils: Football and Nationalism in South Korea,” at the
conference: What is Football: Sport, Religion or Politics? May, University of Haifa.
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2005. “Naturalness Imagined: The March First Movement and Memory Politics in
South Korea,” the Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in
Europe, July, University of Sheffield.
2005. “Power of the Image: Colonial Memory and the Museum in South Korea,” the
Fourth Annual Meeting of East Asian and Indian Studies in Israel, May, Hebrew
University, Jerusalem.
2005. “Woman, Society and Politics: The Korean Case,” the Annual Meeting of The
Israeli Association of Political Science, May, Tel-Aviv.
2004. “Patriots in the Commemorative Landscape: Nationalism and the Politics of
Selecting and Representing National Heroes in South Korea,” the 6th Symposium of
Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies, August, Göteborg University,
Sweden.
2004. “Sites of Memory and National History in South Korea,” the 56th Annual
Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, March, San Diego.
2004. “The Memory of Colonialism in Korea – The Memory of the Holocaust in
Israel: Aspects for Comparison,” the Third Annual Meeting of East Asian and Indian
Studies in Israel, February, University of Haifa.
2003. “Shamanism in Korea: A Prism for Observing Modern Society,” the Second
Annual Meeting of East Asian Studies in Israel, January, Tel-Aviv University.
2002. “Nationalism in Korea,” the First Annual Meeting of East Asian Studies in
Israel, February, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Invited Lectures
2008. “Japan through Korean Eyes – the Role of the Press: Opinion Polls and Political
Caricatures,” July, Department for History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität,
Berlin.
2008. “History on Display in South Korea: Contextualizing the Commemorative
Landscape of the Colonial Past,” June, Korean Studies Institute, Ruhr-Universität,
Bochum.
2007. “Seoul 88’: Democratization, Nationalism and the Strengthening of
International Status,” Sports and Politics in the Olympic Games: Towards the Beijing
Olympics, October, Tel-Aviv University.
2007. “Korea – Developments and Historical Transformations,” study day: ‘Land of
the Morning Calm – Korea: Characteristics, Trends and Business Opportunities’ at the
Open Enrollment Program for Executives, Businessmen and Decision Makers,
January, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
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Other Academic Activity
2007. Organizer: the International Conference on Japan in Honor of Professor BenAmi Shillony, April 29 – May 2, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2005. Invitee to, and participant at, the World Koreanists Forum, October, The
Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.
2002. Scientific consultant to M. Sofer, Japan: The Geography of a Country. [A
junior high school textbook authorized by the Ministry of Education] Tel Aviv:
Kineret Publishing House.
PhD Supervision
Kim Jung Hwan, 2009 – (with Michael Eppel), Korean perspectives on the conflicts
in the Middle East.
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