[KS] Online Talk: "Navigating Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Korea and Taiwan"

[Jonathan Glade]

*Please join us for a talk on* "Navigating Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial
Korea and Taiwan" *given by* Dr. Alison J Darby *on* *October 4th,
12-1pm *(Australian
Eastern Standard Time)*.*

Register for the event here:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/navigating-interethnic-intimacy-in-colonial-korea-and-taiwan-tickets-998985421287?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail

*About the event:*

This talk examines popular and official discourses on interethnic marriage
in colonial Korea and Taiwan in the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that despite
official endorsements of interethnic unions by colonial authorities,
discourse on colonial intimacy reveals a barely concealed unease about
sexual relationships between colonised and coloniser. More specifically, it
will highlight how debates over youthful interethnic romance expose
persistent anxieties about illicit sexual behaviour and contested loyalties
and suggest that these anxieties go beyond the narrow issue of interethnic
marriage to reveal broader concerns about the unfinished project of
imagining the future of the union between empire and colony.

*About the speaker:* *Dr Alison J Darby* is the Korea Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University. She has a PhD in Pacific and
Asian History from the Australian National University. Her dissertation
titled, *Patriotic Marriage: Eugenics, colonial intimacy and the politics
of the marital family in the Japanese empire, 1931–1945, *was awarded the
joint winner of the 2023 John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies.
Her most recent publication “Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and
Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan” was published in *Asian Studies
Review *in 2023. She is currently preparing her dissertation for
publication as a monograph.

*This talk is co-hosted by the Australian Society for Asian Humanities and
the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture's Judith Neilson Chair of
Contemporary Art. *
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