[KS] Symposium & Film Screening Announcement: The Great Kanto Earthquake : Reconstructing National Disaster and Colonial Atrocity 90 Years Later

[Jinhee Lee]

Dear Korean Studies Colleagues, 

Happy 한가위 추석 to everyone!! I would appreciate it very much if you could inform the Korean Studies and Korean community folks in your area concerning the following upcoming symposium and documentary film screening events. The discussions will focus on the unresolved colonial atrocity of the Kanto Massacre of Koreans in the Japanese empire, 1923, which is the subject of on-going debates and controversies in Japanese textbooks and popular literature even today 90 years later. 

Thanks, 
Jinhee 

Jinhee Lee, Ph .D. 
Associate Professor of History 
Chair of Asian Studies 
Eastern Illinois University 
600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920 
Tel. 217.581.6065 
Fax 217.581.7233 

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For those who reside in the east coast of the U.S., please join us on September 28 at Brown University in Providence, RI for “The Great Kanto Earthquake: Reconstructing National Disaster and Colonial Atrocity 90 Years Later,” a symposium and film screening that commemorates the 90th anniversary of the natural and social disasters, and explores how historians, specialists in literature, and cultural studies scholars are working to understand and analyze its legacies. The event combines presented papers and discussion with a roundtable conversation - with audience members as welcome participants - following the screening of two seldom-seen documentaries which will be featured for the first time in the United States. Both films - "Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923” ( 『 隠された爪跡 』) (1983) and “The Disposed-Of Koreans: The Great Kantō Earthquake and Camp Narashino ” ( 『 払い下げられた朝鮮人 関東大震災と習志野収容所 』) (1986) - are directed by a second generation zainichi Korean director, Oh Choong-kong, and both focus on the organized killings of Koreans and other ethnic minorities in the aftermath of the earthquake itself. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, click here , view the flyer (attached), or contact co-organizers Jinhee Lee ( jlee @ eiu . edu ) and Kerry Smith ( Kerry_Smith at brown. edu ). 

For those who are located in the Midwest and West coast regions, the films will be also screened at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at Michigan State University on October 27, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on November 1, and in the LA area later this fall. If you would like to receive further information about the future screening schedule OR are interested in hosting the film screening, please contact Jinhee Lee at jlee @ eiu . edu . 


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