Activity Report

The research opportunities and experiences at AMU have turned out to be both challenging and constructive. We say “challenging” in the sense that we have never encountered with economic theories as seriously as here at AMU. A new field of research has been opened up. We say “constructive” in the sense that while learning from dialogue with economists, we find that there is something that we can contribute to intellectual development in general and LIBEAC in particular by drawing out the (…)

1) On May 28, 2014, we travelled to Lausanne, Swiss to participate in the ESHET 18th conference on liberalism. We are glad to report that we met many characteristic personalities through this international conference. First of all, Professor Alain Kirman who delivered the keynote speech was impressive in terms of the depth and broadness of his knowledge in economic thought as well as the style of presentation and response to questions. We had some opportunities to talk with him throughout (…)

Returning back to Aix-en-Provence, we worked together to prepare our joint paper to be presented, first, in GREQAM seminar and, secondly, in the upcoming ESHET conference. Reflecting from what we had learned from GREQAM seminars, namely the relevance of theories of justice for exploring a new dimension of liberalism with the focus on the economy, we paid attention to Habermas’ theory of communicative justice and began to explore its economic consequences with respect to a specific historical (…)

1) Professor Ulrich Beck invited us to Munich. So we flied to Munich on May 3 and stayed at Hotel Englischer Garten for 3 nights until May 6, 2014. Currently, he leads an ERC project called which held the first intensive workshop in Potsdam, Germany, late November 2013. Prof. Han joined this workshop as an East Asian partner. An agreement was made that time to hold the second intensive workshop in Seoul National University in July 2014 just before the Yokohama World Congress of Sociology in (…)

1) We were invited to LIA (Laboratory Internationally Associated), and Triangle of Ecole Normale Superiere of Lyon and CNRS from April 28 to April 30, 2014 by Professor Laurence Rolleau-Berger of ENS and CNRS whom we have known well since when we met in Beijing. She had prepared for these academic events carefully inviting many experts and advertising in the website. The host institute covered the full expense of this trip including hotel and TGV train.
2) Upon arrival, on April 28, 2014, (…)

1) Upon arrival at Aix-en-Provence, due to the lack of the full preparatory communication, we had to stay at Concorde Hotel from March 30 until April 16, 2014. We then moved in an apartment located at 9 Rue Mejanes, second floor, a small but furnished apartment at the center of the old city of Aix-en-Provence. The location could not be better. Thus, we finally began to enjoy our life very much.
2) During the day, we frequently went to AMU to study in the office 103 of the Building of Law (…)

1) Consequently, we became active in participating in GREQAM seminars from the beginning. The first seminar was held on April 2, 2014 in which Dr. Luc Foisneau presented his idea of the Limits to contractualism paying attention to social inequality and ecological justice as well. Thus we shared good dialogue. Later, he sent us two of his recent papers written in English and it is our intention to stay in touch with him after we get back to Seoul and Beijing
2) On April 3, 2014, Professor (…)

HAN Sang-Jin, Visiting Professor, Beijing University and Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University
SHIM Young-Hee, Visiting Professor, Beijing University and
Chair Professor, Hanyang University, Korea.

1)We came here with little knowledge of the region of Aix-en-Provence with respect to ecological and intellectual circumstances. To our surprise, Aix-en-Provence is so nice to live in terms of weather, air, water, traffic, and cultural heritages. Thus, we had some cultural excursions within the city as well as such regions as Luberon, Lyon, Arles, and Mountain St. Victoire.
2)Furthermore, we found that AMU had developed a distinctive taste in academic research in the field of economic (…)