<div dir="ltr">Dear Korean Studies list member,<div><br><div><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">The School of Art</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">, Arizona Arts, and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, are</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">excited to invite you to our first symposium on Asian photography, a three-day virtual symposium entitled “Photography and Korea: History and Practice,” to be held on Thursday, February 24 from 5-7:30 pm MST; Friday, February 25 from 5-8 pm MST; Saturday, February 26 from 4-8:30 pm MST.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This </span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">symposium</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> is free and open to the public. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Please register using the link below.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This symposium is supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-C-014)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Please visit the symposium website for further details:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://asianphotography.art.arizona.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">https://asianphotography.art.arizona.edu/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Please contact </span><a href="mailto:jeeheykim@email.arizona.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">jeeheykim@email.arizona.edu</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> and </span><a href="mailto:JacksonFoxM@ccp.arizona.edu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">JacksonFoxM@ccp.arizona.edu</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> with any questions. We look forward to seeing you.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">All the best—</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Jeehey Kim, organizer, assistant professor, art history, University of Arizona</span></p><p align="center" aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Photography and Korea: History and Practice</span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Time: February 24-26, 2022</span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Zoom Registration Link:</span></p><p align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvcuugqT8jH9dd-Vxf999U_p-Yhb1tJ6Kk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">https://arizona.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvcuugqT8jH9dd-Vxf999U_p-Yhb1tJ6Kk</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11.5pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">The introduction of photography</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> in Korea</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> was considered part of an enlightenment effort by the royal court and the intelligentsia as it incorporated advances in scientific knowledge and technological developments. Progressive intellectuals considered the knowledge required for photography, including chemistry and production of glass plates, to be related to other scientific and military endeavors necessary to make the country competitive with modern nation-states such as Japan and the US. </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(14,16,26)">From 1910 to 1945, Japanese colonialism structured photographic practices and culture in the Korean peninsula. Visualization of the Korean people was a part of ethnographic and anthropological studies during the colonial period, while the Japanese photographers opened studios in urban centers and Koreans went to Japan to learn the technology. The cold war hegemony played a crucial role in postcolonial Korean society, impacting photographic practices in various ways.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(14,16,26)">How did the Japanese photographers visualize Korea and its people during the colonial period? What have women photographers been addressing in their photographic practices? How have Korean photographers been interacting with postcolonial and the Cold War social changes through their works? What colonial legacy has been continued and denounced in Korean photographic scenes? Are there different ways of interpreting prominent photographers, including Youngsoo Han and Myung-duck Joo?</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style=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