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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><br>
<i><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></i></div>
<h4 align="center"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US">"Hansen’s Disease in
Korean Society: Social otherization and integration in the
20<sup>th</sup> century." </span></i></font><i><span
style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> by Joji Kohjima</font></span></span></i></h4>
<div align="center"><small><b>7:00 P.M. on Friday, September 2nd,
2011</b><br>
R.S.V.P. by Wednesday, August, 31st, 2011</small><br>
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</small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>The
Korean-American Educational Commission warmly welcomes you
to our seventh Fulbright Forum of the 2010-2011 program year
with 2010 Fulbright Junior Researcher Joji Kohjima.<br>
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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 <b>R.S.V.P</b>.,
please<a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?pli=1&hl=en_US&formkey=dHBNeEFvTm9RTkprSjQwWDFtMVQwZVE6MQ#gid=0"><u>
</u>CLICK HERE</a> and complete the registration form. You
may also R.S.V.P. via e-mail to Jim McFadden (<a
href="mailto:executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr">executive.assistant@fulbright.or.kr</a>)
by Wednesday, August 31st. Regrets need not reply.<br>
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This month's Forum will be held at <b>7:00 P.M</b>. sharp
on <b>Friday, September 2nd </b>on the 6th floor of KAEC's
Mapo-gu building. Following the presentation, a light
reception with snacks and beverages will be held. Please
visit the KAEC website for maps and directions (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fulbright.or.kr/xe/map">http://www.fulbright.or.kr/xe/map</a>).
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>To
respect both the audience and presenters, guests are
asked to please mute or turn off all cell phones before
entering.</small></font></li>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small> To
respect both the audience and presenters, late arrivals
will not be allowed to enter after 7:05 P.M.</small></font></li>
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<h1 align="center"><small><small><small><u>Summary</u></small></small></small></h1>
<small>Hansen's disease in Korea historically existed at endemic
levels until effective drugs became available in the 1930s to
1950s. It has been referenced in Korean literature for
centuries even including some Chosun era mask dances. In the
20th century, Hansen's disease patients became what professor
Jeong Keun-Shik of Seoul National University refers to as "the
most significant social other" in ethnically homogeneous
Korean society. They have alternately been used as symbols of
national shame, Christian salvation, Japanese imperial
benevolence, and finally Korea's national "han," or sorrow. <br>
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Joji Kohjima’s research deals with the efforts of Hansens’s
disease patients to tell their own story, and to seek
restitution for their treatment under Japanese colonialism and
post-colonial Korean governments. He has been researching
the social and medical conditions of Hansen’s disease in
modern Korea in conjunction with several institutions
including the Catholic University Medical School’s Leprosy
Center in Seoul, the 518 Memorial Hall at Jeonnam National
University, Aeyangwon hospital in Yeosu, and Sorokdo National
Leprosy Hospital in Sorok Island, Jeollanamdo. This forum
will explore leprosy in Korean society as a phenomenon
originating at the microscopic level of bacteria but extending
to the level of social constructs in the discrimination,
otherization and isolation faced by leprosy patients. Largely
originating in Japanese colonial policy, patients have
historically faced quarantine, forced labor, and forced
sterilization as they were caught in the triangle of Japanese
colonial government, missionaries, and an often hostile Korean
population. </small><u><u><br>
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<div align="center"><u><u><b>Biography</b></u></u><br>
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<small>Joji Wilson Kohjima is originally from Tacoma,
Washington. He is the great grandson of Robert Manton Wilson,
an American missionary who worked as a doctor on Hansen’s
disease in Korea from 1907 to 1941. Joji graduated in
International Studies from the University of Washington where
he also studied pre-medicine with a focus on biochemistry. He
will apply for medical school to begin in 2012. He hopes to
continue studies in medical anthropology in conjunction with
medical school.</small> <br>
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<small>-- <br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">James McFadden</span><br
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<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Executive Assistant</span><br
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