[KS] Fwd: [GWIKS] 09/28 - Premodern Korea Lecture Series with Franklin Rausch

Wed Aug 31 12:23:27 EDT 2022

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Premodern Korea Lecture Series in the Korean Studies List:

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*The GW Institute for Korean Studies presents:*
*The 2022-2023 Premodern Korea Lecture Series*
*Online Series Details*
The GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS) is excited to welcome four (4)
new lecturers for the 2022-2023 *virtual *Premodern Korea Lecture Series.
*Franklin Rausch**(Lander University)*
*The Famous and the Nameless: The Lives and Afterlives of Chosŏn Catholic
Martyrs*
September 28, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT.

*John S. Lee**(Durham University)*
*Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Korea, 1392-1910*
October 26, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT.

*Janet Yoon-sun Lee**(Keimyung University)*
*Lovesickness in Premodern Korean Fiction*
January 25, 2023, 9:00 AM EST.

*Masato Hasegawa**(National Taiwan University)*
*Politics of Geography and Transport in the Qing-Chosŏn Borderland*
March 1, 2023, 9:00 AM EST.

September 28th, 2022:
The Famous and the Nameless: The Lives and Afterlives of Chosŏn Catholic
Martyrs
*Online Event Details*
Franklin Rausch is our first lecturer in the Series. This lecture will be
held on *September 28, 2022 at 2:00 PM EST via Zoom.*
The Chosŏn dynasty looms large in the history of Korean Catholicism. Korean
Catholic saints are presented in visual media, from art to movies, as
wearing imagined traditional Chosŏn dress in locations shot through with
imagery from and references to the dynasty. And Korean Catholics need not
travel abroad to go to holy sites, but can find plenty throughout their
homeland, many of which are connected to the Chosŏn state and are
celebrated by the local Korean government and by the Vatican and UNESCO as
“international.” However, there is an awkwardness in such memories, as it
was principally that Korean government that killed Catholics, who at the
time were accused of subverting Confucian values, such as filial piety and
the accompanying ancestor rites, that are celebrated by many Koreans today.
And of course, from a contemporary nationalist perspective, Korean
Catholics could in some cases be argued to be traitors who violated the
laws of the nation and supported foreign imperialism. And even Korean
Catholic martyrs against whom no such charges could be made still represent
Koreans being killed by other Koreans, an uncomfortable memory,
particularly considering the internecine conflict of the Korean War and
ongoing division. This presentation will therefore ask "what is being
remembered about these persecutions and how is it being remembered?"
Through an exploration of the life of Saint Father Andrew Kim Taegŏn, the
first Korean Catholic priest and recognized “patron” of UNESCO and his
associated holy sites, and the history of Haemi Holy Site, which is
celebrated as a place of “nameless” martyrs, this presentation will help us
to better understand the realities of anti-Catholic persecution during the
Chosŏn dynasty and how that history of religious persecution is being
presented positively in a contemporary context by minimizing criticism of
the Chosŏn people who were responsible for the persecutions, while exalting
Korean Catholic martyrs as good subjects of the state, responsible members
of society, and pioneers of the transition from the premodern to the
modern.

*Franklin Rausch* received his Ph.D. from the University of British
Columbia and is an Associate Professor in the History and Philosophy
Department at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. His research
focuses on Korean religious history, particularly Catholicism. He has
published on such subjects as voluntary martyrdom, Fr. Emil Kapaun (an
American Catholic chaplain who died in a POW camp during the Korean War),
the Korean Catholic archives, and has contributed two articles on Korean
Catholicism to *The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia*.
His recent translation, carried out with Dr. Jieun Han, *An Chunggŭn: His
Life and Thought in His Own Words*, was published by Brill in 2020, and has
published an article comparing An Chunggŭn’s thought with that of American
abolitionists Frederick Douglass and John Brown. He is currently conducting
work on Korean Catholic responses to Covid-19 and Korean Catholic
historiography.
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