<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3333FF"><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dear Korean Studies Colleagues,</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3333FF" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3333ff;"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3333FF" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #3333ff;"><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy <span id="DWT2350" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">한가위</span> <span id="DWT2351" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">추석</span> to everyone!! </span></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I would appreciate it very much if you could inform the Korean Studies and Korean community folks in your area concerning the following upcoming symposium and documentary film screening events. The discussions will focus on the unresolved colonial atrocity of the </span><span id="DWT2352" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kanto</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese empire, 1923, which is the subject of on-going debates and controversies in Japanese textbooks and popular literature even today 90 years later. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thanks,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span id="DWT2373" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Jinhee</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br><span id="DWT2374" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Jinhee</span> Lee, <span id="DWT2375" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Ph</span>.D. <br>Associate Professor of History<br>Chair of Asian Studies<br></span><div><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;">Eastern Illinois University </span></div><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920 <br>Tel. 217.581.6065<br>Fax 217.581.7233</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span id="DWT2379" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED"><br></span></span></span></div></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #3333ff; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For those who reside in the east coast of the U.S., please join us on September 28 at Brown University in Providence, RI for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: rgb(47, 42, 32);" data-mce-style="color: #2f2a20;"><span style="line-height: 21px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 21px;">“The Great <span id="DWT2353" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Kanto</span> Earthquake: Reconstructing National Disaster and Colonial Atrocity 90 Years Later,” a symposium and film screening that commemorates the 90th anniversary of the natural and social disasters, and explores how historians, specialists in literature, and cultural studies scholars are working to understand and analyze its legacies. The event combines presented papers and discussion with a <span id="DWT2354" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">roundtable</span> conversation - with audience members as welcome participants - following the screening of two seldom-seen documentaries which will be featured for the first time in the United States. Both films - </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " data-mce-style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); " data-mce-style="color: #333333; background-color: #fdfdfd;">"Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the <span id="DWT2355" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Arakawa</span> River Bank to <span id="DWT2356" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Shitamachi</span> in Tokyo, 1923”</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); " data-mce-style="color: #333333; background-color: #fdfdfd;"> (</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " data-mce-style="color: #333333;">『<span id="DWT2357" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">隠された爪跡</span>』) (1983) and </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); " data-mce-style="color: #333333; background-color: #fdfdfd;">“The Disposed-Of Koreans: The Great <span id="DWT2358" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-FIXED">Kantō</span> Earthquake and Camp <span id="DWT2359" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Narashino</span>”</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); " data-mce-style="color: #333333; background-color: #fdfdfd;"> (</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); " data-mce-style="color: #333333;">『<span id="DWT2360" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">払い下げられた朝鮮人</span> <span id="DWT2361" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">関東大震災と習志野収容所</span>』) (1986) -</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); " data-mce-style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: rgb(47, 42, 32);" data-mce-style="color: #2f2a20;"><span style="line-height: 21px;" data-mce-style="line-height: 21px;"> are directed by a second generation <span id="DWT2362" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">zainichi</span> Korean director, Oh Choong-kong, and both focus on the organized killings of Koreans and other ethnic minorities in the aftermath of the earthquake itself. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, click </span></span></span><a href="http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00149399-4110fb4f-0141-1401ec41-00003778events@brown.edu/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://events.brown.edu/events/cal/CAL-00149399-4110fb4f-0141-1401ec41-00003778events@brown.edu/">here</a>, view the <a href="http://brown.edu/academics/history/sites/brown.edu.academics.history/files/uploads/90thflierb_1.pdf" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://brown.edu/academics/history/sites/brown.edu.academics.history/files/uploads/90thflierb_1.pdf"><span id="DWT2363" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">flyer</span></a> (attached), or contact co-organizers <span id="DWT2364" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Jinhee</span> Lee (<a href="mailto:jlee@eiu.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jlee@eiu.edu"><span id="DWT2365" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">jlee</span>@<span id="DWT2366" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">eiu</span>.<span id="DWT2367" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">edu</span></a>) and Kerry Smith (<a href="mailto:Kerry_Smith@brown.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:Kerry_Smith@brown.edu">Kerry_Smith@brown.<span id="DWT2368" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">edu</span></a>).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: small;" data-mce-style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">For those who are located in the Midwest and West coast regions, the films will be also screened at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Michigan State University on October 27, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November 1, and in the LA area later this fall. If you would like to receive further information about the future screening schedule OR are interested in hosting the film screening, please contact </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span id="DWT2369" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">Jinhee</span> Lee at </span><a href="mailto:jlee@eiu.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-href="mailto:jlee@eiu.edu" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span id="DWT2370" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">jlee</span>@<span id="DWT2371" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">eiu</span>.<span id="DWT2372" class="ZM-SPELLCHECK-MISSPELLED">edu</span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">. </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>