<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_MailOriginal"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">The
Center for Korean Studies</span></b></font></a></p>

<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">University of California, Berkeley</span></b></font></p>

<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:16pt"><font color="#000000">Cordially invites you to the following colloquium </font></span></i></p>

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<b><span style="font-size:16pt"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Empire as a
Moral Problem: Religious Cosmopolitans and Colonial Modernity in Northeast Asia</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Colloquium:
Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | November 6 |
4 p.m. |  </span><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Speaker: </span><a href="http://www.niu.edu/history/faculty/profiles/atkins.shtml"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">E.
Taylor Atkins</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Presidential
Teaching Professor of History, </span><a href="http://www.niu.edu/history/faculty/profiles/atkins.shtml"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Northern
Illinois University</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsors: </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute of East Asian Studies
(IEAS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">In the early
twentieth century, against the backdrop of colonial violence, the Japanese
annexation of Korea, and World War I, religious and secular groups in East Asia
voiced support for a new ethos of humanitarian internationalism. <br>
<br>
This presentation examines the confluences between millenarian "new
religions" such as Chŏndogyo (Korea), Ōmotokyō (Japan), and Daoyuan
(China), Bahá'ís, Esperantists and other groups espousing world peace, gender
and social equality, and religious unity. Under the scrutiny of the Japanese
imperial state, these communities presented teachings that were inimical to
colonial hierarchies, but they had to do so without resort to the standard
means and methods of social, economic, and political reform, such as protests,
provocative civil disobedience, lobbying, electioneering, coercion, and either
the threat or actual use of political violence.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event
Contact: </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:18pt">Other upcoming events…</span></i></b></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"><img src="cid:ii_14204e8aea7c9f64" alt="Inline image 2" width="200" height="146"><br>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">Korea Peace Day</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Special
Event: Center for Korean Studies | <b>November 8</b>
| 4 p.m. | </span><a href="http://www.browercenter.org/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">David
Brower Center</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Goldman
Theater</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Location: 2150 Allston
Way, Berkeley, CA 94704</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Featured
Speaker: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_at_No_Gun_Ri"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Charles
Hanley</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Pulitzer-prize
Winning Journalist<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Panelist/Discussants: </span><a href="http://www.mufilms.org/about/"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Deann Borshay Liem</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">Producer, Director, and
Writer, </span><a href="http://www.mufilms.org/about/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Mu
Films</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">; </span><a href="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/liem.html"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Ramsay
Liem</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Professor
Emeritus of Psychology, </span><a href="http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/liem.html"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Boston
College</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsor: </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute of East Asian Studies
(IEAS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Special Lecture by Charles Hanley (Pulitzer Prize-winning
Journalist)</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt"><br>
<br>
Lecture Title: "No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth"<br>
<br>
Although South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has investigated
many of more than 200 alleged cases of what it categorizes as civilian
massacres committed by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War, a war that has yet
to be ended with a peace treaty, the U.S. government has investigated only one,
the refugee killings at No Gun Ri. The U.S. government’s 300-page report on
that inquiry exonerated the U.S. military of wrongdoing. President Clinton
stated that the evidence was not clear that there was responsibility “high enough
in the chain of command.” In reporting their findings, however, the U.S. Army
investigators ignored and left undisclosed many of the most relevant documents
and testimony. The most significant example is the “Muccio letter,” in which
the U.S. ambassador to South Korea informed the State Department that the Army,
fearing infiltrators, had decided to fire on South Korean refugees approaching
U.S. lines despite warning shots. The No Gun Ri carnage began the next day.<br>
<br>
<b>Film Screening of "Memory of
Forgotten War" (A film by Deann Borshay Liem and Ramsay Liem)</b><br>
<br>
Four Korean American survivors testify to the brutality of the Korean War and
the pain of divided families, 60 years later. Interwoven with the history of
the war, their stories speak loudly for a long overdue end to the unresolved
Korean War.<br>
<br>
<b>Panel discussion by Paul Liem (Korea
Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan (ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American
Friends Services Committee)</b></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event
Contact: </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">______________________________</span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></i></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><img src="cid:ii_14204e9419036da1" alt="Inline image 3" width="200" height="149"><br>

</span></i></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></i></b></p>

<h3 style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16pt">Satire and National Identity in North Korean Comedy Series
My Family's Problem</span></h3>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Colloquium:
Center for Korean Studies | <b>November 12
| 3:30 p.m.</b> |  </span><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Speaker: </span><a href="http://www2.binghamton.edu/aaas/people/i-kim.html"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Immanuel
Kim</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Assistant
Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, </span><a href="http://www2.binghamton.edu/aaas/people/i-kim.html"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Binghamton
University</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsor: </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Center for Korean Studies (CKS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>



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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Media
coverage of the DPRK in the past and today hardly focuses on the production of
comedy films. The stern and dismal portrayal of the nation-state leaves
anything but the consideration of its citizens’ ability to laugh at their own
national crisis for observers outside of the DPRK. However, this kind of
representations from the media (both in and outside of the DPRK) not only perpetuates
the seemingly draconian regime but also ossifies the presuppositions of the
nation-state. Scholars on North Korean film have made attempts to understand
the country through its film medium, only to conclude that film serves as yet
another tool for raising the ideological consciousness of the viewers and for
nation-building. In fact, such studies on North Korean film often examine
dramatic films or melodrama, assuming that the grand narrative of the DPRK is
articulated through the repository of such serious and nationalistic films.
Comedy films, on the other hand, may offer a new or add to the existing
scholarship on North Korean film by projecting a slightly different
understanding of the process of the cultural production. This talk examines the
process of making Uri Ji Munje (My Family’s Problem), which debuted in 1973, as
the agent of laughter for the North Korean audience as well as for any viewers.
By utilizing the North Korean film critic Kim Yŏng’s analysis of the film, Immanuel
Kim highlights comedic moments in My Family’s Problem that have posed problems
in the filmmaking process. Kim Yŏng writes that situating the problematic wife
of the protagonist as the source of national crisis has enabled the filmmakers
to overcome some of the lackluster moments typified in other DPRK films and has
intensified the comedic value of the film. This talk elaborates on two of Kim’s
implications: first, the domestic space, occupied by the wife of the
protagonist, is the agent of political subversion; and second, the subversive
potentiality of the domestic space inversely targets national politics (or the
duty of men) as the true source of comedy.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event
Contact: </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">_______________________________________</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><b><span style="font-size:16pt">70th Anniversary of the Korean Language Program at UC
Berkeley</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Panel
Discussion: Center for Korean Studies | <b>November 15
| 4 p.m.</b> | </span><a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
Conference Room</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Panelist/Discussants: <b>Kay
Richards</b>, University of California, Berkeley; </span><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/facultypage.php?id=10214"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Hye-Sook
Wang</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">, </span><span style="font-size:14pt">Associate
Professor of East Asian Studies, </span><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/facultypage.php?id=10214"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Brown
University</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">; </span><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/lee.shtml"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Hyo Sang Lee</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">Associate Professor of East
Asian Languages and Cultures, </span><span style="font-size:14pt;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/lee.shtml" style="color:rgb(3,149,156)">Indiana University,
Bloomington</a><font color="#4d5963">,</font></span><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ko.html"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Kijoo Ko</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">Korean Language Program
Coordinator, </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ko.html"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">University of California, Berkeley</span></a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Sponsor: </span><a href="http://ieas.berkeley.edu/"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">Institute of East Asian Studies
(IEAS)</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></p>

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</span><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Kay Richards
(UC Berkeley)<br>
Topic: "History of the Korean Language Program at UC Berkeley"<br>
<br>
Kijoo Ko (UC Berkeley)<br>
Topic: "Current Status of the Korean Language Program at UC Berkeley"<br>
<br>
Hye-Sook Wang (Brown University)<br>
Topic: "Korean Language Education in U.S. Higher Education: History,
Evolution, and Prospects"<br>
<br>
Hyo Sang Lee (Indiana University)<br>
Topic: "What Do We Teach?: The Fallacy of Teaching Grammar in Korean
Classes"</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Event
Contact: </span><a href="mailto:cks@berkeley.edu"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(3,149,156);text-decoration:none">cks@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:14pt;color:rgb(77,89,99)">,
</span><span style="font-size:14pt">510-642-5674<span style="color:rgb(77,89,99)"></span></span></p>

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