[KS] Fulbright Forum ~ June 24th with Scott Wells

[executive.assistant]

*Fulbright Forum Presents...*
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Kicking the Hanmun Habit:The Dynamics of Language and Power in 
Late-Choson and Korea's Long Hanmun Hangover
by *//*Scott Wells*/

7:00 P.M.on Friday, June 24, 2011
R.S.V.P. by Tuesday, June 21, 2011


The Korean-American Educational Commission warmly welcomes you to our 
sixth Fulbright Forum of the 2010-2011 program year with 2010 Junior 
Researcher Scott Wells.

Open to all, the Fulbright Forum serves as a periodic gathering for the 
Fulbright family at large, including past and present grantees and 
friends of the Commission. To R.S.V.P., please *CLICK HERE 
<https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJWdmxQQmhaMzdWbTVVRE9ZUzNleGc6MA#gid=0>* 
and complete the registration form. You may also R.S.V.P. via e-mail to 
Alexandra Anderson (executive.assistant at fulbright.or.kr) by Tuesday, 
June 21st. Regrets need not reply.

This month's Forum will be held at 7:00 P.M.sharp on Friday, June 24th 
on the 6th floor of KAEC's Mapo-gu building. Following the presentation, 
a light reception will be held. Please visit the KAEC website for maps 
and directions (http://www.fulbright.or.kr/xe/map).

To respect both the audience and presenters, guests are asked to please 
mute or turn off all cell phones before entering.

_*Summary*_

The final thirty-five years of the Choso(n dynasty---from the opening of 
relations with Japan following the 1876 Treaty of Kanghwa, to Japan's 
ultimate annexation of the Korean peninsula in 1910---were marked by 
rapid, thoroughgoing and often difficult transformations in Korean 
society. As Koreans encountered Western imperial powers and a rapidly 
modernizing Japanat the beginning of this period, Korean society slowly 
began its own process of modernization-/cum/-Westernization, spurring 
reappraisals within Korean society of the country's Sino-centric past 
and the once-shared knowledge, symbols and practices of the East Asian 
cosmopolitan order. A major consequence of this reappraisal was the 
demotion of Literary Sinitic (commonly termed /hanmun /in Koreatoday) 
from its long-held status as the de facto official written standard of 
state affairs and its removal from the center of the curriculum of 
state-sponsored education to the periphery in the guise of the newly 
created classroom subject /hanmunkwa/.

Helping to bind the region together, the shared use of Literary Sinitic 
was one of, if not the most defining forms of knowledge, symbol and 
practice in premodern East Asia. Understanding the demise of Literary 
Sinitic in Koreawill improve our understanding of the disintegration of 
this formerly vibrant East Asian cosmopolitanism, and help us apprehend 
the lingering effects and influences exercised by such transcultured 
practices even after those practices are reimagined and reconfigured to 
fit new, nationalized frameworks as in the case of /hanmunkwa/.

_*Biography*_

Scott Wells took a B.A. in Korean and Linguistics from 
BrighamYoungUniversityin Provo, Utah, and is finishing his M.A. in 
Korean Studies at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, 
British Columbia. He will begin a PhD at UBC in September. He and his 
long-suffering wife Lindsay, who has accompanied him to Korea, are 
parents to a lively three-and-a-half year-old daughter Shelby.

--
Alexandra Lee Anderson
Executive Assistant
Korean-American Educational Commission
168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu |Seoul 121-874

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