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Vierthaler, Patrick

The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Assistant Professor

Vierthaler, Patrick
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    Basic Information

    Email Address

    • Email Address

      vierthaler.patrick.7akyoto-u.ac.jp

    Professional Memberships

    • Association for Contemporary Korean Studies in Japan
    • The Society of Historical Research
    • International Society for Korean Studies
    • Research Society for Korean History

    Academic Degree

    • 26 Mar. 2018
      京都大学修士(文学)
    • 25 Mar. 2024
      京都大学博士(文学)

    Academic Resume (Graduate Schools)

    • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Contemporary culture doctoral course, Graduated
    • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Contemporary culture M.Litt. course, Graduated
    • University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Department of Japanese Studies, Left Early

    Academic Resume (Undergraduate School/Majors)

    • University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Department of Korean studies, Graduated (B.A.)
    • University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Department of Japanese Studies, Graduated (B.A.)

    High School

    • High School

      Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Steyr, Austria

    Research History

    • From Apr. 2024, To Present
      Kyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Institute for the Research in Humanities, Assistant Professor
    • From Apr. 2021, To Present
      Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of German Studies, Part-Time Lecturer
    • From Aug. 2023, To Sep. 2023
      The Academy of Korean Studies, Research Fellow

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      Research

      Research Interests

      • Contemporary History
      • Korean Studies
      • Contemporary South Korea
      • Global History
      • Disputes over Historical Views
      • Historical Revisionism
      • History Textbooks
      • History Museums
      • New Right
      • Kim Ku
      • Cold War
      • Historical Memory
      • Historical Disputes
      • The South Korean New Right
      • Cultural Memory
      • Media and Memory
      • Syngman Rhee

      Research Areas

      • Humanities & social sciences, Local studies, Korean studies
      • Humanities & social sciences, History - Asia/Africa, Korean Contemporary History
      • Humanities & social sciences, History - General, Global History
      • Humanities & social sciences, History - General, History of the Cold War and the Post-Cold War
      • Humanities & social sciences, History of thought, Mnemohistory

      Papers

      • Unification Discourse in 2000s South Korea and 1980s West Germany: Parallels, Differences, and Historical Lessons
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Sojin Lim, Virginie Grzelczyk, Daniel Ned Mitchum, eds.: Korea and Other Divided Nations (working title), Jul. 2026, Peer-reviewed
      • Between Post-Revisionism and Neo-Orthodoxy: The Origins of the Korean War and ROK State Foundation in South Korean National History Museums
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Shirin, Jan. 2026, Peer-reviewed, Invited
      • Contested Historical Memories of August 15 in Democratic South Korea: A Long-Term Perspective
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Korea Journal, 30 Sep. 2025, Peer-reviewed
      • The Right-Wing Backlash and Historical Revisionism: Parallels and Differences in Japan and South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Mark Caprio and Robert Winstanley-Chesters, eds.: Modern Relations of Korea and Japan, 1850--present (working title), 2025, Invited
      • The Dispute on how to Place August 15th in South Korean History: The New Right and Historiography
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Master's Thesis (Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Contemporary History), 05 Jan. 2018
      • Die Errichtung und Debatten zum "Haus der Geschichte Österreich": kontrastierende Geschichtsbilder im zeitgenössischen Österreich, 1999-2018
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Brücke, Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed, Invited
      • The National Museum of Korean Contemporary History: A Contested Site of Cultural Memory
        Patrick Vierthaler
        European Journal of Korean Studies, 01 Apr. 2024
      • Founding Father or National Traitor? Contested Memories of Syngman Rhee in Mid-1990s South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Korean Studies, 02 Jul. 2024, Peer-reviewed
      • Asymmetric Remembering in Post-Authoritarian South Korea The Contested Cultural Memory of Liberation, Division and State Foundation, 1987-2022
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Doctoral Thesis (Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Dept. of Contemporary History), Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed
      • The Anti-Chosun Movement: Journalism, Activism, Politics, and Historical Memory in Post-Authoritarian South Korea, 1998–2002
        Patrick Vierthaler
        European Journal of Korean Studies, 01 Apr. 2022, Peer-reviewed
      • The New Right and the 1948 Foundation View: A Failed Revision of South Korean Cultural Memory
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 01 Dec. 2021, Peer-reviewed
      • A Reconsideration of the New Right’s Formative Period (2003–2008): Conservative Experiences, Mass Media and Cultural Memory in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        European Journal of Korean Studies, 01 Oct. 2020, Peer-reviewed
      • Austrians in Korea 1945–53
        Patrick Vierthaler; Werner Koidl
        Andreas Schirmer, ed., Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and many others. Vienna: Praesens (Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950; 3), 2020
      • The Life of Francesca Donner-Rhee: A Biographical Sketch of an Austrian who Became South Korea’s First Lady
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Andreas Schirmer, ed., Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and many others. Vienna: Praesens (Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950; 3), 2020
      • Disputing the Republic of Korea’s “Foundation”: The South Korean “History Wars” and the New Right Movement as a Struggle over Hegemonic Cultural Memory
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Twentieth Century Studies, Dec. 2019, Peer-reviewed
      • How to Place August 15 in South Korean History? The New Right, the “1948 Foundation” Historical View, and the 2008 Kŏn’gukchŏl Dispute
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 01 Dec. 2018, Peer-reviewed
      • Der Yasukuni-Schrein als Huldigungsstätte des Militarismus: Ein kurzer Abriss der Nachkriegszeit aus innen- und außenpolitischer Sicht
        Patrick Vierthaler
        MINIKOMI: Austrian Journal of Japanese Studies, 2017, Peer-reviewed

      Misc.

      • Disputes over the Memory of Division and Anti-Communist Dictatorship in 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Memory of Progressives
        Patrick Vierthaler
        研究報告書 三島海雲記念財団, 2023
      • Disputes over the Memory of the Promulgation of the Government and Division in Early 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Collective Memory of Progressives
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Newsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 2023
      • The South Korean "History Wars" as a Global History: On Parallels in the Construction of Museums of Contemporary History in South Korea and Austria
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The 4th RIKS Academy Proceedings, Aug. 2019
      • Conflicting Historical Awareness of How to Evaluate August 15 in South Korea: Focusing on the Emergence of the So-Called "Foundation View" and the 2008 "Foundation Day Dispute"
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Newsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 2019
      • Korean Bathing Culture: Tracing the Roots and Variations of Public Bathing Culture in Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Fourth Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference Proceedings, Apr. 2016

      Presentations

      • (Presentation) "My Desire is Unification": Reflections on the Cultural Memory of Kim Koo in South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        26th ASCJ General Meeting, 25 Oct. 2025
      • (Presentation) Post-Revisionism or Neo-Orthodoxy? Division and the Korean War in South Korean National History Museums
        Patrick Vierthaler
        18th Kyujanggak International Symposium on Korean Studies, 06 Nov. 2025
      • (Comment) Keiran Macrae: "Historiography and the Conservative Pursuit of a Post-1987 Political Formula in South Korea"; Benjamin A. Engel: "Justifying the Unjust: South Korea’s Authoritarian Image Management Campaign in the United States under Chun Doo Hwan"
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Asian Studies Conference Japan 2025, 06 Jul. 2025, Invited
      • (Presentation) Repositioning South Korea’s Collaborator Issue as a Global Cold War History
        Patrick Vierthaler
        2026 American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Jan. 2026
      • (Presentation) Right-Wing Historical Memory and Mass Media in Post-Authoritarian South Korea: Where did “Rational Conservativism” Fail, and Why?
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Workshop: (Un)Democratic Pasts: Historical Memory in Hyperpolitical Times in East Asia and Beyond, 13 Jun. 2025, Invited
      • 【Lecture】History Museums in South Korea: The Cultural Memory of Colonialism, the Korean War, and Anti-Communism
        Patrick Vierthaler
        University of Vienna, Department of Korean Studies, 12 Jun. 2025, Invited
      • (Panel Presentation and Organizer) The Alternative Founding Father: The Kim Koo Memorial Hall and its Place in Democratic South Korea’s Cultural Memory
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Asian Studies Conference Japan 2025, 06 Jul. 2025
      • (Panel Presentation and Organizer) “My Desire is Unification”: Commemorating Kim Koo in Democratic South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        32nd Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, Edinburgh University, 22 Jun. 2025
      • (Presentation) Contested Historical Memories of August 15 in Democratic South Korea: A Long-Term Perspective
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Korea Journal Fall 2025 Special Issue: "Liberation, 1945" Conference, 21 Feb. 2025
      • (Presentation) How have liberation and division been remembered? A social history of historical memory in post-authoritarian South Korea
        Vierthaler Patrick
        Korean Studies Camp 2024, 02 Nov. 2024
      • (Presentation) Korean Division and the Origins of the Korean War in South Korean History Museums: An Examination of Conflicting Interpretations of the Past
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Society of Historical Research Regular Academic Meeting, 19 Apr. 2025, Invited
      • (Presentation) Discourses on Reunification in 2000s–10s South Korea and 1970s–80s West Germany: Parallels, Differences, and Historical Lessons
        Patrick Vierthaler
        2025 IKSU Annual International Conference: The Korean Peninsula and Other Divided Nations, 17 Feb. 2025
      • Presentation: The cultural memory of August 15 in South Korea: focusing on state-led commemorations and conservative-internal changes from the 1990s to the mid-2000s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        104th Humanities and Societz Research Meeting of the ISKSJ, 29 Feb. 2024, Invited
      • Fellowship Colloquium: The Contested Memory of Liberation, Division and Foundation South Korea’s “History Wars” in a Mid-Durée, 1988–2022
        Patrick Vierthaler
        178th AKS Fellowship Colloquium, 26 Sep. 2023, Invited
      • Panel Presentation and Organizer: Transcending the Movement Sphere: Progressive Memories of Liberation, Division and Anti-Communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        AAS in Asia 2023, Kyungpook National University, 26 Jun. 2023
      • Panel presentation: Cold War triumphalism, transitional justice and high school textbooks: the Japanese and South Korean right-wing backlash and its influence in the corridors of power since the 1990s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Korean Peninsula – A Multidisciplinary Perspective, Bar-Ilan University, 22 Jun. 2023
      • Disputes over the Memory of the Promulgation of the Government and Division in Early 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Collective Memory of Progressives
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Monthly Meeting of the Research Society for Korean History, Kansai division, May 2023, 27 May 2023, Invited
      • Panel presentation: The Anti-Chosun Movement: Journalism, Activism, Politics, and Historical Memory in Post-Authoritarian South Korea, 1998–2002
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The 2022 Asian Studies Conference in Japan, Sophia University, 02 Jul. 2022
      • Presentation: Korean Mass Media and the ‘Re-Evaluation’ of Syngman Rhee: Chosun Ilbo and the 1995 ‘Syngman Rhee and State-Building’ Exhibition
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2022, 08 Jun. 2022
      • Presentation: From Journalism towards Academia: Conservative Memory Constructs of Syngman Rhee since the late 1990s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Ninth Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference, Korea University, 27 May 2022
      • Panel presentation: Korean Conservative Historical Consciousness after Democratization: the Post-Cold War Era and the “Re-Discovery ” of Syngman Rhee in the early 1990s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective, University College Cork, 19 May 2022
      • Presentation: Ostasiatische Geschichtsdispute in globalem Kontext: Täterschaft, Elitenkontinuität und umstrittenes Kulturelles Gedächtnis als Globalgeschichte des Kalten Krieges
        Patrick Vierthaler
        22. Weg Kolloquium, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 05 Feb. 2022, Invited
      • Presentation: Founding Father or Traitor to the Nation? Disputed Memories of Syngman Rhee mid-1990s South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Sixth Korean Studies Workshop, Bar-Ilan University, 05 Dec. 2021
      • Presentation: The relationship between mass media and collective memory in historical disputes: the case study of the Chosun Ilbo "re-evaluation" of Syngman Rhee
        Patrick Vierthaler
        2021 Korea Foundation Scholarship Student Workshop, 06 Nov. 2021, Invited
      • Presentation: The Anti-Chosun Movement as an Omen of South Korea’s ‘History Wars’, 1998-2004
        Patrick Vierthaler
        2021 Early Career Researchers and Graduate Students Conference, Edinburgh University, 03 Sep. 2021
      • Presentation: Mass Media as a Contested Space of Historic Memory in Post-Democratization South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The Eight Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference, Korea University, 28 May 2021
      • Presentation: (Not) Coming to Terms with the Past: Mnemonic Disputes over Contemporary History in Post-Authoritarian South Korea in a Domestic and Global Context
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Ostasienforum, University of Vienna, 21 Apr. 2021, Invited
      • Panel presentation and organizer: Beyond Revisionism: A Reconsideration of Korean Conservative Historical Consciousness in the Mid 2000s
        Patrick Vierthaler
        AAS in Asia 2020, 31 Aug. 2020
      • Presentation: The conflict over the Republic of Korea's origins as a "Cultural trauma": focusing on the co-existence of two memory communities in post-democratization South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        The 25th Gendaishi Kenkyukai, 27 Jul. 2019, Invited
      • Presentation: The New Right and the 1948 Foundation View: Historical Revisionism in Contemporary South Korea
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: Gender, Labor and Citizenship, Heidelberg University, 09 Nov. 2018, Invited
      • Presentation: Japanese Wives ‘Returning’ to North Korea: The Expatriation Movement from the Perspectives of Race and Gender
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: Gender and Race, Heidelberg University, 01 Dec. 2017, Invited
      • Presentation: Challenging the public memory on ‘August 15’ in South Korea: The New Right and Historiography
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: History and Memory, Kyoto University, 01 Dec. 2017, Invited
      • Presentation: “‘Establishment of the Government’ or ‘Foundation of the Nation’? The Legacy of Colonialism and the Cold War in South Korean Historiography
        Patrick Vierthaler
        Entangled Pasts in the Global Present: Gender, Labor & Citizenship Project Kick-Off Workshop, Kyoto University, 03 Apr. 2017, Invited
      • Austrians in Korea 1945-53: the wife of Syngman Rhee, a journalist, a diplomat, a doctor, and missionaries
        Patrick Vierthaler
        28th Meeting of the Kyoto Korean Studies Consortium, 06 Nov. 2015, Invited

      Awards

      • 19 Jun. 2023
        京都府名誉友好大使

      Media Coverage

      • Südkoreas Rückschritt in die Zukunft
        Der Standard, 04 Dec. 2024, Paper
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        Education

        Teaching subject(s)

        • From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
          Contemporary History (Seminars)
          8448, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
        • From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
          Basic course of Modern Culture & History (Seminars)
          8655, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
        • From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
          Contemporary History (Seminars)
          8448, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
        • From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026
          European History (Seminars)
          6955, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
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          Academic, Social Contribution

          Social Contribution

          • Kyoto Prefecture Honorary Friendship Ambassador
            Guest, Other
            Kyoto Prefecture, From Jun. 2023, To Present

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