<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear KS list members, I hope you are well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br>Please note the following seminar organised by Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub. Registration details are also included below. Hope to see you there.</div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br>Many thanks,<br>Sandy.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">_____________<br><br></font></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:</span></b><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"> <u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026<br>Seminar 4</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000" face="arial black, sans-serif"><i><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b><u></u></i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><em style=""><font color="#000000" face="arial black, sans-serif">&quot;</font><b>The Koryo Museum of Art and Re-imagining Historical Landscape from Kyoto, 1968-1988&quot;</b></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt">Dr Shin Takahashi (Monash University Japanese Studies)</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><u></u><u></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></font>Room 221, Learning &amp; Teaching Building (LTB), Clayton VIC 3168 and via ZOOM</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">22nd May, 2-3pm (Melbourne time)</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></font></p><div><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Abstract:<br></strong><span style="font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacing:-0.02rem;text-align:left">In a corner of inner Kyoto City, there is an area that is starkly different from the neighbourhood for its distinctive Korean-style garden, which invites visitors into a rich cultural world, including collections, which are registered on UNESCO\u2019s World Memory Heritage List. The Koryo Museum of Art was founded in 1988 by Chung Jo-Moon, a first-generation ethnic Korean resident in Kyoto, and his friends. Among them are his older brother, Chung Quy-Moon, and Quy-Moon\u2019s neighbour in Osaka, Shiba Ry\u014dtar\u014d, one of the most prominent Japanese historical novelists of the last century; Ueda </span>Masa\u2019aki<span style="font-size:0.875rem;letter-spacing:-0.02rem;text-align:left">, a professor of ancient Japanese history at Kyoto University; Kim Tal-su, a renowned Korean novelist; and Okabe Itsuko, a Kyoto-based essayist.</span></p><div class="gmail-__viper_copy"><p>Since the 1970s, these authors and academics had started to publish a quarterly journal called Korean Cultures in Japan (\u2018Nihon no Naka no Ch\u014dsen Bunka\u2019), and their collective project eventually led to the opening of the Koryo Museum. The questions I have at this preliminary stage are: (a) Why was it built in the middle of Kyoto? (b) What were the ideas behind the founding of this museum? (c) What implications can we draw from the founders\u2019 stories, especially with regard to transcultural memory studies and to understand postwar Japan-Korea relations? Starting with those questions, this research investigates the thoughts and practices of those key intellectuals by tracing their works over the two decades between the 1970s and the 80s.</p></div><p style="text-align:justify;padding:10pt 0pt 0pt"><strong>Bio: <br></strong>Shin Takahashi is a historian of modern Japan and Japan-Asia relations. He is a lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University and the author of <em>Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism</em> (Bloomsbury 2024). He is an Associate Editor for <em>The Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities</em>.<br><br></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.65pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB">Register <a href="https://forms.gle/xWK9chkwAQNJNRjg8" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><br></span></font>__________________<br></p></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span>W<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">arm </span>Regards,</span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Sandy Nguyen</span><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><i>MUKSRH Coordinator</i><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/monashunikorean.edu/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Facebook: MonashUniKorean</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-align:justify;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://twitter.com/MonashUniKorean" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter: @MonashUniKorean </span></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:1.295;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);line-hei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