2026 International Conference

2026 International Conference on
Japanese Military Sexual Slavery Issue

October 1, 2026 (Thu), 1:00 PM | Post Tower(Myeongdong) 10F Conference Hall

The Absence of a Gender Perspective in
War Crimes Trials and Beyond:

International Scholarship on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Program
Opening Session13:00~13:30
  • Opening & Congratulatory Remarks
  • Keynote Speech : Japanese Sexual Slavery Issue as Methods - Presenter: Yang Hyunah (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University School of Law)

Session 1. An Experimental Field for Feminism: Can Law Become Practice?

Moderator: Kim Elli (Ewha Womans University)

Session 113:30~15:10

  1. 1) What the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery Achieved and What It Missed: At a Crossroads of Critical Inheritance

    - Presenter: Fujime Yuki (Osaka University)

    - Discussant: Jang Wona (The Institute for Korean Historical Studies)

  2. 2) Judicial Justice for the "Comfort Women" Issue: From the Establishment of International Norms to Rulings in Korean Courts

    - Presenter: Lee Sanghee (Task Force on the Japanese - Military "Comfort Women" Issue, Minbyun-Lawyers for a Democratic Society)

    - Discussant: Lee Jaeseung (KonKuk University Law School)

  3. 3) Rethinking Wartime Sexual Violence through a Gendered Lens: The Construction of Victimhood and Perpetration in International Criminal Law

    - Presenter: Sydney Leigh Smith (Princeton University)

    - Discussant: Lee Eunjin (UCLA)

15:10~15:30Break

Session 2. Gender-Based Violence Between War Crimes Trials and Punishment

Moderator: Heo Yoon (Ewha Womans University)

Session 215:30~17:10

  1. 1) Hidden Colonialism: The Invisibility of Korean Guards at Allied POW Camps and Sexual Violence in Class B/C War Crimes Trials

    - Presenter: Her Misun (Waseda University)

    - Discussant: Kong Joon hwan (Chungbuk National University)

  2. 2) The Criminalization of Wartime Sexual Violence and the Politics of “Leniency”: Japanese “War Criminal” Statements and War Crimes Trials in the PRC

    - Presenter: Lee Sunyi (Kyung Hee University)

    - Discussant: Hao Xiaoyang (Kyushu University)

  3. 3) Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, Palestine - The Dual Weaponization of Gender-Based Violence

    - Presenter: Dyung Yaping (BDS Korea)

    - Discussant: Baek Jaeye (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Plenary Discussion17:10~17:40

Plenary Discussion - Chair: So Hyunsoog (Research Institute on Japanese Military Sexual Slavery, Women's Human Rights Institute of Korea )

Closing Remarks