[KS] Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026

[Sandy Nguyen]

Dear KS list members, I hope you are well.

Please note the following seminar organised by Monash University Korean
Studies Research Hub. Registration details are also included below. Hope to
see you there.

Many thanks,
Sandy.

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*Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:*




*Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2026Seminar 4*


*"The Koryo Museum of Art and Re-imagining Historical Landscape from Kyoto,
1968-1988"*


Dr Shin Takahashi (Monash University Japanese Studies)



  Room 221, Learning & Teaching Building (LTB), Clayton VIC 3168 and via
ZOOM

22nd May, 2-3pm (Melbourne time)



*Abstract:*In a corner of inner Kyoto City, there is an area that is
starkly different from the neighbourhood for its distinctive Korean-style
garden, which invites visitors into a rich cultural world, including
collections, which are registered on UNESCO’s World Memory Heritage List.
The Koryo Museum of Art was founded in 1988 by Chung Jo-Moon, a
first-generation ethnic Korean resident in Kyoto, and his friends. Among
them are his older brother, Chung Quy-Moon, and Quy-Moon’s neighbour in
Osaka, Shiba Ryōtarō, one of the most prominent Japanese historical
novelists of the last century; Ueda Masa’aki, a professor of ancient
Japanese history at Kyoto University; Kim Tal-su, a renowned Korean
novelist; and Okabe Itsuko, a Kyoto-based essayist.

Since the 1970s, these authors and academics had started to publish a
quarterly journal called Korean Cultures in Japan (‘Nihon no Naka no Chōsen
Bunka’), and their collective project eventually led to the opening of the
Koryo Museum. The questions I have at this preliminary stage are: (a) Why
was it built in the middle of Kyoto? (b) What were the ideas behind the
founding of this museum? (c) What implications can we draw from the
founders’ stories, especially with regard to transcultural memory studies
and to understand postwar Japan-Korea relations? Starting with those
questions, this research investigates the thoughts and practices of those
key intellectuals by tracing their works over the two decades between the
1970s and the 80s.


*Bio: *Shin Takahashi is a historian of modern Japan and Japan-Asia
relations. He is a lecturer in Japanese Studies at Monash University and
the author of *Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and
Grassroots Regionalism* (Bloomsbury 2024). He is an Associate Editor for *The
Journal of the Society for Asian Humanities*.

Register here <https://forms.gle/xWK9chkwAQNJNRjg8>.

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Warm Regards,

Sandy Nguyen

*MUKSRH Coordinator*

Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub
<https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub>

Facebook: MonashUniKorean <https://www.facebook.com/monashunikorean.edu/>

Twitter: @MonashUniKorean <https://twitter.com/MonashUniKorean>
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