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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG><FONT size=3>Scientizing Korea:
(Post)colonialism, Modernity and the Cultures of
'Enlightenment'</FONT></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>April 17, 2008 (9:30am-5:30pm)<BR>SOS 250
(Social Science Building, 3520 Trousdale Pkwy)<BR>University of Southern
California<BR><BR><EM>Scientizing Korea</EM> aims to explore the place of
science and technology in the formation of (post)colonial modernity in Korea. In
fin de siècle and early 20th century Korea, a series of scientific and
technological innovations arrived as the “shock of the modern” in people’s
everyday lives -- innovations often involving novel biomedical knowledge,
pharmaceutical products, hygienic practices, and transportation and
communication systems. Despite the crucial impact that these developments had on
the shaping of modernity, the political, social, and cultural dimensions of
these new advancements remain in most part unexplored and await critical
scholarly assessments. <EM>Scientizing Korea</EM> serves as an opportunity to
bring together scholars who have recently begun to investigate these
understudied areas of research in modern Korea. The symposium in particular
takes into consideration questions of colonial power and the contestations among
scientifically-minded colonial officials, nationalists, social reformers,
scholars, and collaborators in their definitions of the modern, as well as in
their quest for “enlightenment.” The symposium further seeks to bring into light
the affective grid, as well as disciplinary bodily regimen, of emergent
scientific, medical, and technological systems in late Chosŏn and colonial
Korea. In other words, <EM>Scientizing Korea</EM> does not simply explore the
affinity between science and modernity at the institutional and policy levels.
It seeks also to excavate an array of psychic (dis)orientations, disciplinary
contours, and spatial rearrangements in everyday life that were tightly knitted
with the shock of the modern. How this shock of the modern and the logic of
enlightenment at the turn of the century and in the period of Japanese colonial
rule unfolded and became redefined in postwar, post-colonial Korea is also an
important issue with which the symposium will be
engaged.<BR><BR><STRONG>SCHEDULE</STRONG><BR><BR><STRONG>9:45AM
Introduction </STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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by Kyung Moon Hwang, Department of History, University of Southern California
<BR><BR><STRONG>10:00-12:00PM Panel I: Scientizing Modernity:
Hygiene and Surveillance </STRONG><BR><BR>"Same Bed, Different Dreams:
Engagements with ‘Hygienic Modernity’ in Colonial
Korea”<BR>
Todd Henry, Department of History, Colorado State University<BR><BR>"Sanitizing
Korea: The Anti-Cholera Activities of the Sanitary Police in Early Colonial
Korea"<BR> Yunjae
Pak, Department of Medical History, Yonsei University, Korea
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Discussant: Kyung Moon Hwang, University of
Southern California <BR> <BR><STRONG>1:15-3:15PM
Panel II: Scientizing “Koreanness”:
Knowledge, Space, and Temporality </STRONG><BR><BR>"Defining
Locality in Transition: The Idea of "Koreanness" under the Spread of Scientific
Universalism"<BR>
Soyoung Suh, Department of East Asian Languages & History of Science,
Harvard University <BR><BR>"'Embodying' Koreans: Genealogy of Futei Senjin in
the Japanese Empire,
1910s-1920s"<BR>
Jinhee Lee, Department of History, Eastern Illinois
University<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Discussant: Jennifer Jung-Kim, University of
California, Los Angeles<BR></FONT></FONT><STRONG><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>3:30-5:30PM Panel III: Scientizing
the Body: Gender and Disease </FONT></STRONG><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>"Care of Maternal Health and 'Women's Disease' in Colonial Korea”
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Sonja Kim, Department of History, University of California,
Berkeley<BR><BR>"Corporeal Colonialism: Gynecology, Early Marriage, and Racial
Disease in Colonial Korea,
1926-1932”<BR>
Jin-kyung Park, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern
California<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Discussant: Charlotte Furth, Department of History,
University of Southern California<BR> <BR>Contact information:
<BR>Telephone :
213-740-0005<BR>Email : <A
href="mailto:ksi@usc.edu">ksi@usc.edu</A>
<BR>Website : <A
href="http://college.usc.edu/ksi/">http://college.usc.edu/ksi/</A>
<BR><BR>Sponsored by the USC Korean Studies Institute</FONT></DIV>
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Kim<BR>Research Fellow, Program on Science, Technology & Society<BR>Kennedy
School of Government, Littauer 351 (Mail Box 17)<BR>Harvard University <BR>79
JFK Street<BR>Cambridge, MA 02138<BR> <BR>E-mail: <A
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