[KS] The 62nd Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum

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The Korean Studies Program and the Institute for Modern Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University are pleased to invite you to attend the 62nd Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Tuesday, October 17th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker will be Yonsei University Lecturer and Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Michigan, Ou-Byung Chae. The title of his talk will be "Nation Form and Ethnic Nation: Homology of Colonial and Anticolonial Cultures."  The abstract of his paper and a brief bio can be found at the end of this email.  
 The presentation will be followed by a dinner reception. I hope you will come to enjoy the presentation, discussion, and reception. Please contact Jennifer Bresnahan at 010-5441-9204, jennifer.bresnahan at gmail.com for further inquiries.  
 
Sincerely,  
Hyuk-Rae Kim
Professor of Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 

 
 
 
 
  

    
        
            
            Abstract: 
            
            How does colonial power manage to embed itself in anticolonial nationalism? Examining the formation of Korean ethnic nationalist discourse during the initial period of colonization, this paper shows the homological relationship established between Japanese colonial/ethnic and Korean ethnic nationalist discourses. Korean nationalists adopted key political and nationalist concepts from , upon which ideological contestation against colonization was deployed. This process can be characterized as a simultaneous hegemonic inscription and ideological contestation of colonial culture. The simultaneous hegemonic inscription and ideological contestation addresses a more general theoretical issue of diffusion of nationalism. The formation of anticolonial nationalism cannot solely be explained by either imitation or rejection of colonial culture. Rather, while concrete anticolonial discourse refutes colonial culture, nation form as epistemological scheme is hegemonically inscribed, which enables simultaneous resemblance and opposition between colonial and anticolonial cultures. 
            
        
    


 

 
Biography:     
Ou-Byung Chae earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology from


Yonsei

University .  His Ph.D. degree in Sociology is expected in December 2006 from


University of

Michigan . His dissertation titled "Non-western Colonial Rule and its Aftermath: Postcolonial State Formation in South Korea" deals with the question of why the post-colonial state in South Korea, despite its ideological opposition to Japan, exhibited the striking resemblance to the political culture of the colonizer. Currently, he is a lecturer of a graduate seminar on modern colonialism in the department of sociology at


Yonsei

University . He is also a researcher in the Center for Modern Korean Studies at


Yonsei

University . His areas of interest include comparative historical sociology, modern colonialism, East Asian modernity and state formation. He is a co-author of "Sociology in an Era of Fragmentation" published in Sociological Quarterly in 2002. His projects in progress involve a book based on his dissertation and a contribution to a book, titled Sociology and Empire, edited by George Steinmetz.

 
 

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