[KS] 2023 Kyujanggak Colloquium #128: Derek Kramer

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1월 13일 금요일, 규장각한국학연구원에서 제128회 컬로퀴엄을 개최합니다. 이번 행사에서는 규장각 펠로로 와계신 위스콘신대학-매디슨의 Derek Kramer 교수님께서 "원자 시대의 역사: 히로시마와 나가사키 원폭에 대한 한국 초기 기록 (Histories of an Atomic Age: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings)"이라는 주제로 발표를 해주실 예정입니다. 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.
(본 행사는 영어로 진행될 예정입니다.)

주제: “원자 시대의 역사: 히로시마와 나가사키 원폭에 대한 한국 초기 기록”
“Histories of an Atomic Age: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings”

발표자: Derek Kramer (위스콘신대학-매디슨/규장각한국학연구원)
사회자: 임종태 (서울대학교)
토론자: 조은성 (서강대학교), John P. DiMoia (서울대학교)

일시: 2023년 1월 13일 (금) 10:00~12:00
장 소: 온라인 Zoom 회의실 (사전등록처: https://forms.gle/muYgMmGAHTDbxLKu9 https://forms.gle/muYgMmGAHTDbxLKu9)

자세한 문의는 icks at snu.ac.kr mailto:icks at snu.ac.kr (Tel: 02-880-9378)로 연락 주시기 바랍니다.


The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies is hosting the 128th Colloquium with our fellow Derek Kramer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He will give us the presentation on his research titled “Histories of an Atomic Age: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings”.
(The event will be held in English)

Topic: “Histories of an Atomic Age: Emancipation and Erasure in Early Korean Accounts of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings”

Presenter: Derek Kramer (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison/Kyujanggak)
Moderator: Jongtae Lim (SNU)
Discussants: Eunsung Cho (Sogang Univ.), John P. DiMoia (SNU)

Date & Time: January 13 (Fri) 10:00~12:00 (KST)
Venue: ZOOM, Register here (https://forms.gle/muYgMmGAHTDbxLKu9 https://forms.gle/muYgMmGAHTDbxLKu9) for participation.

For more information, please contact International Center for Korean Studies (icks at snu.ac.kr mailto:icks at snu.ac.kr, 02-880-9378).

About the Presenter
Derek Kramer is a research fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University. His degree was conferred by the University of Toronto in 2021. Trained in East Asian studies, science & technology studies, and modern history, Derek’s work crosses multiple disciplinary, geographic and temporal lines. His research has appeared in positions: Asia Critique, the International Review of Social History and is forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Studies. At present, Derek is writing an intellectual and cultural history of the atomic age in early Cold War North and South Korea.

Presentation Abstract
While tens of thousands of Koreans were subject to the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, early peninsular analysis of the bombings rarely grappled with the existence of these individuals. The general exclusion of colonial subjects from the story of the atomic bombings has long been identified as part of a nationalization of the wartime years, a move that situates the history of the attacks as a specifically Japanese experience. Less understood is how postcolonial intellectuals in Korea encouraged this historiographical trend. Across the peninsula, a common commitment to the idea of science as emancipatory enabled postcolonial Korean writers to conflate political liberation with advancements in the field of atomic science. This fusion of postcolonial developmentalism and atomic scientism, common in both the North and the South between 1945 and 1950, drowned out the critical temporalities introduced by peninsular survivors of the atomic attacks. The sections below first highlight the forms of atomic liberation that appeared in North and South Korea after 1945. Themes of historical emancipation are further investigated by way of descriptions of “Science War.” A final section outlines the historiographical obstacles Korean bomb victims posed to emancipatory accounts of the attacks. This is done through a reading of one of the few early narratives of the Hiroshima bombing by a repatriated Korean survivor. As this singular source illustrates, postcolonial bomb victims were interpolated into a postwar community that was physiologically unable to leave the fact of the bombings in a colonial past.

International Center for Korean Studies
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Seoul National University
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