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<div align="center"><font color="#000099"><b><big><big><big><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">Fulbright Forum
Presents...</span></font></big></big></big></b></font><small><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></font></small><br>
<big><i><b><small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
Kicking the Hanmun Habit:</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"> The Dynamics
of Language and Power in Late-Choson and Korea's Long
Hanmun Hangover</span></font></small><small><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"><br>
by </span></font></small></b></i></big><big><i><b><small><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">Scott Wells</span></font></small></b></i></big><br>
<br>
<small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">7:00 P.M.</span><span
lang="EN-US"> on </span><span lang="EN-US">Friday, June 24,
2011</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></small><br>
<small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">R.S.V.P. by </span><span
lang="EN-US">Tuesday, June 21, 2011</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></small><br>
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<small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US">The Korean-American Educational Commission
warmly welcomes you to our sixth Fulbright Forum of the
2010-2011 program year with 2010 Junior Researcher Scott
Wells. </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US">Open to all, the Fulbright Forum serves as a
periodic gathering for the Fulbright family at large,
including past and present grantees and friends of the
Commission. To R.S.V.P., please <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJWdmxQQmhaMzdWbTVVRE9ZUzNleGc6MA#gid=0">CLICK
HERE</a></b> and complete the registration form. You may
also R.S.V.P. via e-mail to Alexandra Anderson (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr">executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr</a>)
by Tuesday, June 21st. Regrets need not reply.</span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US">This month's Forum will be held at </span><span
lang="EN-US">7:00 P.M.</span><span lang="EN-US"> sharp on
Friday, June 24th on the 6th floor of KAEC's Mapo-gu building.
Following the presentation, a light reception will be held.
Please visit the KAEC website for maps and directions (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fulbright.or.kr/xe/map">http://www.fulbright.or.kr/xe/map</a>).
</span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US">To respect both the audience and presenters,
guests are asked to please </span><span lang="EN-US">mute or
turn off all cell phones before entering.</span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
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<div align="center"><u><small><font face="Arial"><b><span
lang="EN-US">Summary</span></b></font></small></u><br>
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<small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
<span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></small><small><font
face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US">The final thirty-five years of
the Chos</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">ŏ</span><span
lang="EN-US">n dynasty</span><span style="" lang="EN-US">—</span><span
lang="EN-US">from the opening of relations with Japan
following the 1876 Treaty of Kanghwa, to Japan</span><span
style="" lang="EN-US">’</span><span lang="EN-US">s ultimate
annexation of the Korean peninsula in 1910</span><span
style="" lang="EN-US">—</span><span lang="EN-US">were marked
by rapid, thoroughgoing and often difficult transformations in
Korean society. As Koreans encountered Western imperial powers
and a rapidly modernizing </span><span lang="EN-US">Japan</span><span
lang="EN-US"> at the beginning of this period, Korean society
slowly began its own process of modernization-<i>cum</i>-Westernization,
spurring reappraisals within Korean society of the country</span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US">’</span><span
lang="EN-US">s Sino-centric past and the once-shared
knowledge, symbols and practices of the East Asian
cosmopolitan order. A major consequence of this reappraisal
was the demotion of Literary Sinitic (commonly termed <i>hanmun
</i>in </span><span lang="EN-US">Korea</span><span
lang="EN-US"> today) from its long-held status as the de facto
official written standard of state affairs and its removal
from the center of the curriculum of state-sponsored education
to the periphery in the guise of the newly created classroom
subject <i>hanmunkwa</i>.<br>
</span></font><font face="Arial"><br>
<span lang="EN-US">Helping to bind the region together, the
shared use of Literary Sinitic was one of, if not the most
defining forms of knowledge, symbol and practice in premodern
East Asia. Understanding the demise of Literary Sinitic in </span><span
lang="EN-US">Korea</span><span lang="EN-US"> will improve our
understanding of the disintegration of this formerly vibrant
East Asian cosmopolitanism, and help us apprehend the
lingering effects and influences exercised by such
transcultured practices even after those practices are
reimagined and reconfigured to fit new, nationalized
frameworks as in the case of <i>hanmunkwa</i>.</span><br>
<small><span lang="EN-US"></span><small><span lang="EN-US"></span></small></small></font></small> <small><font
face="Arial"><small><span lang="EN-US"> </span></small></font></small>
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<small><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></font></small>
<div align="center"><u><small><font face="Arial"><b><span
lang="EN-US">Biography</span></b></font></small></u><br>
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<small><font face="Arial"><small><span lang="EN-US"></span></small><br>
<span lang="EN-US">Scott Wells took a B.A. in Korean and
Linguistics from </span><span lang="EN-US">Brigham</span><span
lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">Young</span><span
lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">University</span><span
lang="EN-US"> in </span><span lang="EN-US">Provo</span><span
lang="EN-US">, </span><span lang="EN-US">Utah</span><span
lang="EN-US">, and is finishing his M.A. in Korean Studies at
The University of British Columbia in </span><span
lang="EN-US">Vancouver</span><span lang="EN-US">, </span><span
lang="EN-US">British Columbia</span><span lang="EN-US">. He
will begin a PhD at UBC in September. He and his
long-suffering wife Lindsay, who has accompanied him to </span><span
lang="EN-US">Korea</span><span lang="EN-US">, are parents to a
lively three-and-a-half year-old daughter Shelby.</span></font></small><br>
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