[KS] Commemorating the Great Kanto Earthquake: A Symposium and Film Screening (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, September 28, 2013)

[Frank Joseph Shulman]

This announcement that was posted on H-Japan should be of interest to members of the Korean Studies community.

Frank Joseph Shulman
Bibliographer, Editor and Consultant for Reference Publications in Asian Studies
9225 Limestone Place
College Park, Maryland 20740-3943 (U.S.A.)
E-mail: fshulman at umd.edu
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Subject: H-Japan (E): Commemorating the Great Kanto Earthquake:  A Symposium and Film Screening

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                           September 1, 2013

From: Kerry Smith <kerry_smith at brown.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:27:00 -0400


Symposium and Film Screening Announcement

Please join us on Saturday,  September 28 for "The Great Kanto Earthquake: Reconstructing National Disaster and Colonial Atrocity 90 Years Later," a symposium and documentary film screening.  The purpose of the event is both to help mark the 90th anniversary of the disaster and its aftermaths, and to reflect on the forms that commemoration and remembrance of the catastrophe have taken.  Featured speakers that day include:

Alex Bates, Dickinson College
Andre Haag, University of New Mexico
Jinhee Lee,  Eastern Illinois University
Jooeun Noh,  University of Tokyo and Harvard-Yenching Institute
Kerry Smith, Brown University

In addition, the symposium will also screen two seldom-seen documentaries by director Choongkong Oh.  "Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923¡± (¡ºëL¤µ¤ì¤¿×¦ÛE¡») (1983) and ¡°The Disposed-Of Koreans: The Great Kant¨­ Earthquake and Camp Narashino¡± (¡º’B¤¤Ï¤²¤é¤ì¤¿³¯õrÈË év–|´óÕðžÄ¤ÈÁ•Ö¾Ò°…§ÈÝËù¡») (1986).  A roundtable discussion will follow the screenings.

Location:  The symposium will take place at Brown University on the third floor of Pembroke Hall,  172 Meeting Street, Providence, RI 02192.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is supported in part by the Brown University Humanities Initiative. A detailed schedule will be distributed shortly.  Please contact Kerry_Smith at brown.edu for more information.