[KS] Tues 11/29 at UC Berkeley: A Photographic Encounter with 19th Century Korea

[Center for Korean Studies]

Tuesday, November 29, 4:00 pm

 

THE CENTER FOR KOREAN STUDIES and INSTITUTE OF EAST ASIAN STUDIES 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY

cordially invites you to 

 

A Photographic Encounter with 19th Century Korea

Speaker: Jiwon Shin, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley 

IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, Sixth Floor, Berkeley

 
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This talk considers a case of postcolonial archiving with discussion of
recent efforts by South Korean research foundations to digitally archive
photographic images of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Korea
produced by Westerners. Many of the photographs assembled in the South
Korean archive had previously been part of Euro-American archives, produced
in the context of growing Western power in East Asia, and documenting people
and scenery little known in the West. The South Korean digital archives of
these images partially critique the orientalist and imperialist view
inscribed in them; at the same time, the postcolonial taxonomy produces a
self-orientalizing view of Korea's past. 

 

This lecture is presented in conjunction with the photography exhibit "Of
Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters," currently on display at
the Institute of East Asian Studies.

 

Co-sponsor: Center for Korean Studies

 

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