[KS] Wednesday, Nov. 6 at UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies: "Empire as a Moral Problem"

Tue Oct 29 11:54:31 EDT 2013

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium *

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*Empire as a Moral Problem: Religious Cosmopolitans and Colonial Modernity
in Northeast Asia*

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies |
November 6 | 4 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor) <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223>

Speaker: *E. Taylor
Atkins*<http://www.niu.edu/history/faculty/profiles/atkins.shtml>,
Presidential Teaching Professor of History, Northern Illinois
University<http://www.niu.edu/history/faculty/profiles/atkins.shtml>

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>
, Center for Korean Studies (CKS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/>

In the early twentieth century, against the backdrop of colonial violence,
the Japanese annexation of Korea, and World War I, religious and secular
groups in East Asia voiced support for a new ethos of humanitarian
internationalism.

This presentation examines the confluences between millenarian "new
religions" such as Chŏndogyo (Korea), Ōmotokyō (Japan), and Daoyuan
(China), Bahá'ís, Esperantists and other groups espousing world peace,
gender and social equality, and religious unity. Under the scrutiny of the
Japanese imperial state, these communities presented teachings that were
inimical to colonial hierarchies, but they had to do so without resort to
the standard means and methods of social, economic, and political reform,
such as protests, provocative civil disobedience, lobbying, electioneering,
coercion, and either the threat or actual use of political violence.

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

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*Other upcoming events…*

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*Korea Peace Day*

Special Event: Center for Korean Studies | *November 8* | 4 p.m. | David
Brower Center <http://www.browercenter.org/>, Goldman Theater

Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Featured Speaker: *Charles
Hanley*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_at_No_Gun_Ri>,
Pulitzer-prize Winning Journalist

Panelist/Discussants: *Deann Borshay Liem*
<http://www.mufilms.org/about/>, Producer,
Director, and Writer, Mu Films <http://www.mufilms.org/about/>; *Ramsay Liem
* <http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/liem.html>, Professor
Emeritus of Psychology, Boston
College<http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/psych/people/affiliated/liem.html>

Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks>

*Special Lecture by Charles Hanley (Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist)*

Lecture Title: "No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth"

Although South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has investigated
many of more than 200 alleged cases of what it categorizes as civilian
massacres committed by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War, a war that has
yet to be ended with a peace treaty, the U.S. government has investigated
only one, the refugee killings at No Gun Ri. The U.S. government’s 300-page
report on that inquiry exonerated the U.S. military of wrongdoing.
President Clinton stated that the evidence was not clear that there was
responsibility “high enough in the chain of command.” In reporting their
findings, however, the U.S. Army investigators ignored and left undisclosed
many of the most relevant documents and testimony. The most significant
example is the “Muccio letter,” in which the U.S. ambassador to South Korea
informed the State Department that the Army, fearing infiltrators, had
decided to fire on South Korean refugees approaching U.S. lines despite
warning shots. The No Gun Ri carnage began the next day.

*Film Screening of "Memory of Forgotten War" (A film by Deann Borshay Liem
and Ramsay Liem)*

Four Korean American survivors testify to the brutality of the Korean War
and the pain of divided families, 60 years later. Interwoven with the
history of the war, their stories speak loudly for a long overdue end to
the unresolved Korean War.

*Panel discussion by Paul Liem (Korea Policy Institute), Sarah Sloan
(ANSWER Coalition), and Stephen McNeil (American Friends Services Committee)
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Event Contact: cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Satire and National Identity in North Korean Comedy Series My Family's
Problem

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | *November 12 | 3:30 p.m.* |  Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223>

Speaker: *Immanuel Kim* <http://www2.binghamton.edu/aaas/people/i-kim.html>,
Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton
University <http://www2.binghamton.edu/aaas/people/i-kim.html>

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

Media coverage of the DPRK in the past and today hardly focuses on the
production of comedy films. The stern and dismal portrayal of the
nation-state leaves anything but the consideration of its citizens’ ability
to laugh at their own national crisis for observers outside of the DPRK.
However, this kind of representations from the media (both in and outside
of the DPRK) not only perpetuates the seemingly draconian regime but also
ossifies the presuppositions of the nation-state. Scholars on North Korean
film have made attempts to understand the country through its film medium,
only to conclude that film serves as yet another tool for raising the
ideological consciousness of the viewers and for nation-building. In fact,
such studies on North Korean film often examine dramatic films or
melodrama, assuming that the grand narrative of the DPRK is articulated
through the repository of such serious and nationalistic films. Comedy
films, on the other hand, may offer a new or add to the existing
scholarship on North Korean film by projecting a slightly different
understanding of the process of the cultural production. This talk examines
the process of making Uri Ji Munje (My Family’s Problem), which debuted in
1973, as the agent of laughter for the North Korean audience as well as for
any viewers. By utilizing the North Korean film critic Kim Yŏng’s analysis
of the film, Immanuel Kim highlights comedic moments in My Family’s Problem
that have posed problems in the filmmaking process. Kim Yŏng writes that
situating the problematic wife of the protagonist as the source of national
crisis has enabled the filmmakers to overcome some of the lackluster
moments typified in other DPRK films and has intensified the comedic value
of the film. This talk elaborates on two of Kim’s implications: first, the
domestic space, occupied by the wife of the protagonist, is the agent of
political subversion; and second, the subversive potentiality of the
domestic space inversely targets national politics (or the duty of men) as
the true source of comedy.

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

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*70th Anniversary of the Korean Language Program at UC Berkeley*

Panel Discussion: Center for Korean Studies | *November 15 | 4 p.m.* |
Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?b2223>,
Conference Room

Panelist/Discussants: *Kay Richards*, University of California,
Berkeley; *Hye-Sook
Wang*<http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/facultypage.php?id=10214>,
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown
University<http://www.brown.edu/Departments/East_Asian_Studies/facultypage.php?id=10214>
; *Hyo Sang Lee* <http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/lee.shtml>, Associate
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University,
Bloomington <http://www.indiana.edu/~ealc/people/lee.shtml>, *Kijoo
Ko*<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ko.html>,
Korean Language Program Coordinator, University of California,
Berkeley<http://ieas.berkeley.edu/faculty/ko.html>

Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>

 Kay Richards (UC Berkeley)
Topic: "History of the Korean Language Program at UC Berkeley"

Kijoo Ko (UC Berkeley)
Topic: "Current Status of the Korean Language Program at UC Berkeley"

Hye-Sook Wang (Brown University)
Topic: "Korean Language Education in U.S. Higher Education: History,
Evolution, and Prospects"

Hyo Sang Lee (Indiana University)
Topic: "What Do We Teach?: The Fallacy of Teaching Grammar in Korean
Classes"

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

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

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