[KS] November Colloquia at UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies

Thu Nov 1 18:13:09 EDT 2012

The Center for Korean Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Cordially invites you to the following colloquia in November

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Colonial Modernity in Question: Hollywood Movies and Gender Discourse in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1931-1945

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | November 8 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://history.stanford.edu/moon_yumi> Yumi Moon, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

U.S. films were the major medium through which Koreans perceived America during Japanese colonial rule (1910–45). In the past few decades, the paradigm of “colonial modernity” has provided a dominant frame within which to interpret Korea’s transformation under Japan’s colonial rule. Does this concept offer a relevant framework for characterizing cultural and ideological changes that occurred in colonial Korea? Yumi Moon investigates the popularity of American movies during wartime colonial Korea (1931–45) and the different reception of American movies by Korean versus Japanese consumers. She surveys the articles on movies and gender in Chosôn Ilbo, the Korean daily newspaper, and Keijō Nippo, the major newspaper for Japanese settlers, and traces the influence of American films on the gender discourse in colonial Korea. Through this survey, she suggests that the Korean discourse of “New Women,” the epitome of modernity in colonial Korea, had separate origins from the Japanese settler discourse of women.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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A Martyr's Grievance: Flesh as Burden in the Prison Letters of Lutgarde Yi Suni (1782-1801)

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | November 9 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker: Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/index.html> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

In 1801, hundreds of Korean Catholics were executed for engaging in religious activity not sanctioned by the Chosŏn state. Yi Suni, a young female Catholic awaiting execution, wrote two letters from prison. These letters reveal Yi’s identity as positioned between Korean tradition and the Catholic worldview. Yi’s letters articulate the standard modes of formality, advice-giving, and filial piety typical of women’s writing in late Chosŏn Korea, while also revealing that her Catholic identity allows her to transcend certain gender-based boundaries. Yet this new identity brings its own burden. When Yi’s letters are examined against the motif of han (suffering, grievance) characterizing a subgenre of Chosŏn women’s writing, we find that the new burden remains subtextualized rather than articulated. This qualifies the common perception that Catholicism was a liberating force for late Chosŏn women. At the same time, Yi’s new identity, even with its unacknowledged burden, gives her a uniquely self-conscious voice.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Colonial Madness: Psychiatry under Japanese Colonial Rule

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | November 30 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://manoa.hawaii.edu/history/node/115> June Yoo, Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

This paper examines the social pathology of mental illness under Japanese colonial rule and how madness became an object of medical discourse and a privileged site for constructing normality. In contrast to the earlier periods, colonial authorities resorted to modern forms of surveillance (what Michel Foucault terms “bio-power”) as it took a great interest in the regulation of public health. In part, this was achieved by the utilization of “specialists” (from economists to psychiatrists, demographers to medical doctors) to conduct studies about the life processes of the Korean people. For the first time, surveys and studies of Korean mental health, crime, genetic illnesses, and other topics proliferated in both the private and state sectors. In particular, it will analyze the emergence of three discursive sites (e.g., medicine, psychiatry, and criminology)—and their corresponding institutions (e.g., hospital, asylum, and prison) and how these new apparatuses of power sought to manage the subject population through means of normalization and social control. It will probe the emerging field of psychiatry and how it deployed gender categories to frame and quantify new social pathologies like the hysteric (a female malady), recidivist, imbecile, and the likes. One of the central aims is to analyze the moral connotations attached to these new diagnostic labels and the processes by which standards of normativity were framed in the Korean context. Likewise, it seeks to understand the changing socio-economic conditions that contributed to the rise of these statistics.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Korea in the Cross-Fire: The War Photographs of John Rich

Exhibit - Photography: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | September 19, 2012 – February 4, 2013 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The year 2013 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the armistice that ended what we now commonly call “the Korean War.” Seen as the first open conflict of the cold war, the Korean conflict pitted north against south as defined by the 38th parallel. Only a few short years after the end of world war, the Korean “proxy war” began. NATO forces, overwhelmingly American, engaged initially Korean, and ultimately Chinese, armies, in a conflict that raged northward and southward with a destructive power that ravaged the countryside and left enormous numbers of dead, destitute, and homeless. 

Yet the Korean War is often referred to in the US as a “forgotten war,” despite widespread coverage by the popular press. One of the photo-journalists documenting the war for American readership was John Rich, a veteran correspondent who had covered the Pacific War and Japanese occupation. Following the war in his images, through to the final days of armistice and withdrawal, Rich witnessed and captured with his lens both key moments of action by the highest officials and the daily life of the cities and countryside. Rich turned the unblinking eye of his camera on a people caught in the cross-fire of civil war.

This display comprises not the images he took for popular consumption but his personal photographs, revealing his vision of the conflict and destruction around him. The opening of this exhibit will be marked by a panel on the legacy of a divided Korea today, and will close in 2013 with a program exploring the regional and international origins of the Korean War.

Wednesday, September 19, 2:00 pm

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

Panel: "Scarred Heritage: Achieving Peace and Reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula"

Thursday, January 31, 2013, 2:00 pm

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

Panel: "The Origins of the Korean War in International Context"

IEAS and CKS gratefully acknowledge  <http://www.seoulselection.com/main.html> Seoul Selection for providing the pictures in this exhibit

Event Contact:  <mailto:ieas at berkeley.edu> ieas at berkeley.edu, 510-642-2809

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