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This symposium represents the fourth meeting of the “Zainichi” Research Consortium, a loosely affiliated international groups of scholars working at the interstices of Japanese and Korean studies, primarily through engagement with the literary and cultural production of ethnic Koreans in Japan. Our previous work has intervened in discourses on empire, race, and diaspora by developing theoretical insights from a context that decenters the West. Now, we seek to broaden our horizons beyond the Japan-Korea binary to explore similar themes across Asia and the transpacific. Presentations explore questions of the local and the global, feminism and intersectionality, representation and power, and transnational pathways of solidarity. Participants attempt to forge new analytical frameworks through which to study the complexity of culture within overlapping imperial spheres in the Asia-Pacific region and across the globe. In the process, we engage self-reflexively with the challenges of scholarship that crosses national, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries.
PROGRAM
All times listed in MST (JST). Click presentation title for abstract.
Friday, December 3, 2021
3:00 – 3:15p (7:00 – 7:15a)
- Welcoming Remarks
3:30 – 5:00p (7:30 – 9:00a)
- Panel 1 - Inter-Asian and Transpacific Exchanges
- Zainichi Chinese Media and Zainichi Koreans in Early Postwar Osaka
- UNODA Shoya (Osaka University)
- Zainichi Chinese Media and Zainichi Koreans in Early Postwar Osaka
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- Langston Hughes and Kim Saryang in Exchange
- Nayoung Aimee KWON (Duke University)
- Discussant: SAKASAI Akito (The University of Tokyo)
- Langston Hughes and Kim Saryang in Exchange
5:30 – 7:00p (9:30 – 11:00a)
- Panel 2 – To the Colonies and Back Again
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- Nobuko YAMASAKI (Lehigh University)
- Contrapuntal Writing: Kobayashi Masaru’s “Bridge Building” and Japan’s Korean War
- Nicholas LAMBRECHT (Osaka University)
- Discussant: David KROLIKOSKI (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
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7:30 – 9:00p (11:30 – 1:00p)
- Panel 3 – Ethnic “Homeland” and the Cross-Straits Gaze
- Standing on the Shores of Memory: Listening in to Kim Sijong’s Song of Clementine
- Catherine RYU (Michigan State University)
- Filming “Homeland” in South Korean and Zainichi Films on Chosŏn Schools
- So Hye KIM (Korea University)
- Discussant: WATANABE Naoki (Musashi University)
- Standing on the Shores of Memory: Listening in to Kim Sijong’s Song of Clementine
Saturday, December 4, 2021
1:00 – 3:00p (5:00 – 7:00a)
- Panel 4 – The Transnational Imagination: Pitfalls and Potentials of Japan-Korea Solidarity
- In the “Company of Treacherous Malcontents”:Refiguring “Futei” Insubordination as Korea-Japan Federation at the Margins of Metropolitan
Media and Narratives
- Andre HAAG (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
- The Transnational View from Ikaino: Japan-Korea Solidarity and “Feminist” Discourses
in Ajukkari (1975-1983)
- Julia Hansell CLARK (University of California, Los Angeles)
- “Apache” Koreans in Postwar Osaka: Figures of Indigeneity in the Postwar Transpacific
- Andrew HARDING (Cornell University)
- Discussant: David ROH (University of Utah)
- In the “Company of Treacherous Malcontents”:Refiguring “Futei” Insubordination as Korea-Japan Federation at the Margins of Metropolitan
Media and Narratives
3:30 – 5:00 (7:30 – 9:00a)
- Panel 5 – Challenges in Diaspora Studies: The Position of Koreans in Japan
- Beyond the Kokuhaku: Passing and the Tenacity of Confession in Zainichi Cultural Production
- Nathaniel HENEGHAN (Independent Scholar)
- Writing Literary History Across Languages: Moving Beyond the Challenges of Zainichi
Studies in Korean/Japanese
- SONG Hyewon (Osaka City University)
- Discussant: Christina YI (University of British Columbia)
- Beyond the Kokuhaku: Passing and the Tenacity of Confession in Zainichi Cultural Production
5:30 – 7:00 (9:30 – 11:00a)
- Panel 6 – Co-opted Colonial Figures
- Son Kijŏng and the Malleability of Representation
- Jonathan GLADE (University of Melbourne)
- Authoritative Gentleness around Colonial Children’s Compositions: On Ch’oi Ingyu’s Tuition (1940)
- TOBA Koji (Waseda University)
- Discussant: Ryan MORAN (University of Utah)
- Son Kijŏng and the Malleability of Representation
7:30 – 9:00 (11:30 – 1:00p)
- Open Discussion