[KS] Friday, February 21 at UC Berkeley: After the Deportation: New Research on the Soviet Korean Diaspora

[Center for Korean Studies]

*The Center for Korean Studies*

*University of California, Berkeley*

*Cordially invites you to the following colloquium*

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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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*And other upcoming events...*



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 *Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to
Shitamachi in Tokyo, 1923*

Film - Documentary: Center for Korean Studies | *March 3 | 4 p.m.* |  Institute
of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th
Floor)<http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?b2223>



 Speaker: *Jinhee
Lee*<http://www.eiu.edu/include12/global/profile.php?id=jlee>,
Associate Professor of History, Eastern Illinois
University<http://www.eiu.edu/include12/global/profile.php?id=jlee>

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



 In 1923, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake shook Tokyo and Yokohoma, essentially
leveling Japan’s two largest cities and causing more than 100,000 deaths.
The subsequent aftershocks, fires, and ensuing panic bred rumors that
“malcontent Koreans” living in Japan were setting the fires, poisoning
water wells, and plotting a revolution. To prevent this alleged uprising,
vigilantes along with police and the military massacred more than 6,000
Koreans.

Partly to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the massacre, two unreleased
rare documentaries from Japan have been touring the United States since
last September. The films feature interviews with Japanese and Korean
survivors, and the first of the two sequel films "Hidden Scars: The
Massacre of Koreans From the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo,
1923” will be shown. The movie was directed by Choonkong Oh, a Korean
resident of Japan, and is in Japanese and Korean with English subtitles.

The documentary is under an hour long, and will be followed by a discussion
featuring Jinhee Lee, a history professor at Eastern Illinois University
whose research focuses on the competing narratives of collective violence
in the Japanese empire.

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



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*Prospects for Korean Reunification: Opportunities and Challenges for
Neighboring Countries*

Conference/Symposium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian
Studies | *March 7 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.* |  The David Brower
Center<http://www.browercenter.org/>



 Location: 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/>,
Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San Francisco



 Panel 1) Opportunities and Challenges of Reunification: Politics after the
Purge

Panel 2) Inside Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: Society and Economy

Panel 3) U.S. and its Allies: Roles for Reunification

Speakers:

Charles Armstrong, Columbia University
Stephen Bosworth, Former Ambassador to South Korea and former U.S. Special
Representative for North Korea Policy
Jerome Cohen, New York University
John DeLury, Yonsei University
Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley
Stephen Haggard, UC San Diego
Jean Lee, Associated Press, North Korea
Sunny Lee, Stanford
Jonathan Pollack, Brookings Institution
Matthew Reichel, Pyongyang Project,
Orville Schell, Asia Society of New York
Gi-wook Shin, Stanford University
Kathleen Stephens, Former Ambassador to South Korea

Panel 1) Opportunities and Challenges of Reunification: Politics after the
Purge
Moderator: Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley

What is the direction of North Korea’s domestic politics after the purge,
and what are the implications for its relations in Northeast Asia and with
the United States? How do we create an accurate model for factional
struggles, bureaucratic competition, and other issues under the framework
of one‐man rule, and how can looking back at Chinese politics in the Mao
era provide insights into the opportunities and challenges of
reunification?

Panel 2) Inside Kim Jong Un’s North Korea: Society and Economy
Moderator: Orville Schell, Asia Society of New York
What are the significant recent changes in North Korean society, and what
are the implications for opening and reform, stability, and improvement in
human rights? What roles might non‐governmental organizations and media
play in deepening outsiders’ understanding of the situation inside North
Korea?

Panel 3) U.S. and its Allies: Roles for Reunification
Moderator: John DeLury, Yonsei University

How will the U.S. “pivot to Asia” influence relations among America and its
allies, and their relations with China, in regards to North Korea,
particularly on the nuclear issue? How do the U.S., South Korea, and others
maintain policy coordination while at the same time taking proactive steps?
What policy lessons can be learned from the experience of U.S.‐China
relations and applied to the case of North Korea?



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