[KS] Friday, February 14 at UC Berkeley: Colonial Modernity, Sonic Mediation, and Musical (Dis)Connections in the Japanese Empire: On the Phonographic Turn in East Asian History

[Center for Korean Studies]

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium*
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*Colonial Modernity, Sonic Mediation, and Musical (Dis)Connections in the
Japanese Empire: On the Phonographic Turn in East Asian History*

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies |
*February 14
| 4-6 p.m.* |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?b2223>



 Speaker/Performer: *Yamauchi Fumitaka*, National Taiwan University

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



 This presentation concerns the place of sound and music in a historic
moment of change in East Asian history, namely, a century from the
mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth, initiated by the radical transition from
the millennium-old Sinocentric world order based on the Confucian notions
of tribute and hierarchy to the Eurocentric world order built on the
international terms of nation-states and colonies, and increasingly
complicated by the emergence of Japanese colonialism claiming to forge an
alternative imperial order. This inauguration of colonial modernity as a
key problematic in the region was profoundly marked by what Yamauchi has
coined the phonographic turn: ideologies and technologies of sonic writing
played a central role in fracturing, while being mediated by, the
hierarchical assembly of political communities called the Sinosphere that
had long been coordinated through the literate authority and legitimacy of
logographic Chinese characters, and in advancing instead new visions of
political order idealized in the aural and musical terms of re-sounding the
voice of the people.



The first part of his talk will elaborate on an analytical framework so as
to illuminate, at a theoretical level, how the phonographic regime of the
modern West initiated a politics of sonic immediacy through its two major
modalities, as encoded textually in phonemic writing and musical notation
and mechanically in sound recording, respectively, thereby giving voice to
some of the local differences that had hardly been represented under the
regional literate regime, while at the same time installing new forms of
cultural hierarchy and homogeneity that subsumed the otherwise diversified
voices under the logics of colonialism, nationalism, and capitalism.



In the second part, drawing on material from his comparative-correlational
research into Korea and Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule, Yamauchi will
present an empirical case study to discuss the complicated ways in which an
imperial recording sphere emergent in early twentieth century East Asia
functioned as a major agent of the phonographic regime to simultaneously
articulate musical connection and disconnection--more simply,
(dis)connection--in and beyond the territories of imperial Japan through its
empire- and region-wide manifestations.


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*After the Deportation: New Research on the Soviet Korean Diaspora*



Panel Discussion: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian
Studies | *February 21 | 4 p.m.* |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223
Fulton, 6th Floor) <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?b2223>



Speakers: *German Kim* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Kim>, Director,
International Center for Korean Studies, Kazakhstan National al-Farabi
University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Kim>; *Valeriy Khan*, Vice
Director, Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan

Moderator: *Steven Lee* <http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/157>, Assistant
Professor of English, University of California,
Berkeley<http://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/157>

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



As is now widely known, in 1937 Josef Stalin deported close to 200,000
ethnic Koreans from the Russian Far East to Central Asia. The main goal of
this panel will be to discuss Soviet Korean history beyond the 1937
deportation and, indeed, beyond the Soviet Union. To this end, two of the
world's leading experts on the former Soviet Union's Korean minority will
compare the divergent trajectories of the Koreans of Kazakhstan and
Uzbekistan since the 1991 collapse. In both places perestroika and the
Soviet collapse opened new routes for reclaiming Korean identity, as well
as new contacts with both North and South Korea. Since then, however, the
Central Asian republics have embarked on radically different
nation-building projects, which in turn have led to different minority
policies and different racialization processes. In both republics, the
question facing the Korean minority is adaptation or emigration; and, if
emigration, to foreign countries or to South Korea? In short, the panel
will reveal the diversity of this branch of the Korean diaspora, thereby
highlighting the contingency of what it means to be Korean and, more
broadly, an ethnic minority today.

*Papers:*


*Divergent Processes Among Koreans in the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS) After the Soviet Collapse German Kim, Kazakhstan National
al-Farabi University*

This paper focuses on the former Soviet Union's different political and
socioeconomic trajectories, and the different effects this has had on CIS
Koreans. Arguing that the Soviet collapse has opened a new stage in the
history of CIS Koreans, the paper traces the divergent processes that have
appeared within the once uniform environment of "Soviet Koreans" or "Koryo
Saram". These processes have revealed themselves in several spheres,
including demographics, social structures, and identity-formation.


*Post-Soviet Koreans: Revival and Survival Valeriy Khan, Institute of
History, National Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan*

After the collapse of the USSR, the concepts "revival" and "survival"
express the most important challenges for post-Soviet Koreans. This paper
focuses on the meanings of these concepts, their interpretations and
specificities as applied to Koryo Saram. In this connection, the paper
considers various factors that influence models of behavior and
life-strategies for Koreans across the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS), including strategies for "revival" and "survival". The paper also
provides multiple perspectives on the different possible future
trajectories for CIS Koreans.

Moderator: Steven Lee, UC Berkeley

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









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