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Vierthaler, Patrick
The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research Program-Specific Assistant Professor
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Last Updated :2025/12/18
Basic Information
Email Address
Email Address
vierthaler.patrick.7a
kyoto-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
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 PresentKyoto University, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Institute for the Research in Humanities, Assistant Professor
- From Apr. 2021, To PresentKyoto University of Foreign Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of German Studies, Part-Time Lecturer
- From Aug. 2023, To Sep. 2023The Academy of Korean Studies, Research Fellow
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Last Updated :2025/12/18
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 LessonsPatrick VierthalerSojin 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 MuseumsPatrick VierthalerShirin, Jan. 2026, Peer-reviewed, Invited
- The Right-Wing Backlash and Historical Revisionism: Parallels and Differences in Japan and South KoreaPatrick VierthalerMark 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 HistoriographyPatrick VierthalerMaster's Thesis (Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Contemporary History), 05 Jan. 2018
- Asymmetric Remembering in Post-Authoritarian South Korea The Contested Cultural Memory of Liberation, Division and State Foundation, 1987-2022Patrick VierthalerDoctoral Thesis (Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Dept. of Contemporary History), Mar. 2024, Peer-reviewed
- The Life of Francesca Donner-Rhee: A Biographical Sketch of an Austrian who Became South Korea’s First LadyPatrick VierthalerAndreas 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
Misc.
- Disputes over the Memory of Division and Anti-Communist Dictatorship in 1990s South Korea: Focusing on the Changing Memory of ProgressivesPatrick 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 ProgressivesPatrick VierthalerNewsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 2023
- 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 VierthalerNewsletter of the Research Society for Korean History, 2019
- Korean Bathing Culture: Tracing the Roots and Variations of Public Bathing Culture in KoreaPatrick VierthalerThe 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 KoreaPatrick Vierthaler26th ASCJ General Meeting, 25 Oct. 2025
- (Presentation) Post-Revisionism or Neo-Orthodoxy? Division and the Korean War in South Korean National History MuseumsPatrick Vierthaler18th 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 VierthalerThe Asian Studies Conference Japan 2025, 06 Jul. 2025, Invited
- (Presentation) Repositioning South Korea’s Collaborator Issue as a Global Cold War HistoryPatrick Vierthaler2026 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 VierthalerWorkshop: (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-CommunismPatrick VierthalerUniversity 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 MemoryPatrick VierthalerThe Asian Studies Conference Japan 2025, 06 Jul. 2025
- (Panel Presentation and Organizer) “My Desire is Unification”: Commemorating Kim Koo in Democratic South KoreaPatrick Vierthaler32nd Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) Conference, Edinburgh University, 22 Jun. 2025
- (Presentation) How have liberation and division been remembered? A social history of historical memory in post-authoritarian South KoreaVierthaler PatrickKorean Studies Camp 2024, 02 Nov. 2024
- (Presentation) Discourses on Reunification in 2000s–10s South Korea and 1970s–80s West Germany: Parallels, Differences, and Historical LessonsPatrick Vierthaler2025 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-2000sPatrick Vierthaler104th 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, 1988–2022Patrick Vierthaler178th 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 1990sPatrick VierthalerAAS 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 1990sPatrick VierthalerThe 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 ProgressivesPatrick VierthalerMonthly 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, 1998–2002Patrick VierthalerThe 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’ ExhibitionPatrick VierthalerThe Asian Conference on Asian Studies 2022, 08 Jun. 2022
- Presentation: From Journalism towards Academia: Conservative Memory Constructs of Syngman Rhee since the late 1990sPatrick VierthalerThe 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 1990sPatrick VierthalerCultural 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 KriegesPatrick Vierthaler22. 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 KoreaPatrick VierthalerThe 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 RheePatrick Vierthaler2021 Korea Foundation Scholarship Student Workshop, 06 Nov. 2021, Invited
- Presentation: The Anti-Chosun Movement as an Omen of South Korea’s ‘History Wars’, 1998-2004Patrick Vierthaler2021 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 KoreaPatrick VierthalerThe 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 ContextPatrick VierthalerOstasienforum, University of Vienna, 21 Apr. 2021, Invited
- Panel presentation and organizer: Beyond Revisionism: A Reconsideration of Korean Conservative Historical Consciousness in the Mid 2000sPatrick VierthalerAAS 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 KoreaPatrick VierthalerThe 25th Gendaishi Kenkyukai, 27 Jul. 2019, Invited
- Presentation: The New Right and the 1948 Foundation View: Historical Revisionism in Contemporary South KoreaPatrick VierthalerEntangled 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 GenderPatrick VierthalerEntangled 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 HistoriographyPatrick VierthalerEntangled 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 HistoriographyPatrick VierthalerEntangled 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 missionariesPatrick Vierthaler28th Meeting of the Kyoto Korean Studies Consortium, 06 Nov. 2015, Invited
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Education
Teaching subject(s)
- From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026Contemporary History (Seminars)8448, Fall, Graduate School of Letters, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026Basic course of Modern Culture & History (Seminars)8655, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026Contemporary History (Seminars)8448, Fall, Faculty of Letters, 2
- From 01 Apr. 2025, To 31 Mar. 2026European History (Seminars)6955, Spring, Faculty of Letters, 2
