[KS] The 75th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum (Professor Hyuk-Rae Kim, GSIS, Yonsei University)

김혁래 hyukrae at yonsei.ac.kr
Wed Oct 31 00:53:20 EDT 2007


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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 75th Yonsei-KF Korean Studies Forum, which will be held on Thursday, November 8th at 6:00 PM in Room 702 of New Millennium Hall at Yonsei University. The speaker is Whitney Haejin Hwang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley. The discussant is Professor Michael Kim, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. The title of her talk is “Power and Space: Negotiating Military Landscapes in the Republic of Korea, 1945-1965.” The abstract of her 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 StudiesDirector, Institute for Modern Korean Studies
GSIS, Yonsei University 
 



    
        
            
            Abstract: 
            In the first twenty years of American military presence in Korea
            
            , beginning with the United States Military Occupation to the post-Korean War years ending in 1965, the garrison building projects took shape in several phases. The expansion from simple usurpation and modification of pre-existing Japanese colonial structures, to erection of Quonsets after the war, followed by construction of some concrete and steel buildings and limited dependent family housing by the late 1950s, indicated the changing nature of American military purpose in the peninsula from temporary to semi-permanent status.  Corresponding to this structural evolution, the socio-cultural milieu created by Koreans and Americans interacting in these American Army camps and the surrounding camptowns became more elaborate and entrenched. This discourse on landscapes and human interactions examines how power relations manifested themselves in the shaping of physical environ, and conversely, how these landscape developments impacted political, cultural, and social dynamics from the international to the “ground” levels.
            
            
        
    


 

Biography:
Whitney Taejin Hwang received her B.A. in History and American Ethnic Studies at The Colorado College and her M.A. in History at the

University of

California,

Berkeley. Currently Hwang is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at the

University of

California,

Berkeley. Her three primary fields of historical studies are 20th Century, Modern Korea, and Modern Japan. Her research interests include transpacific migration of institutions, peoples, and cultures during the Cold War, as well as Korean diaspora studies. Hwang is a Korea Foundation Field Research Fellow for 2007. Having recently completed her field research in September, she is now engaged in her dissertation write-up. 

 

 
 


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