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Asia Pacific Center
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Jaeeun
Kim will talk about her award-winning book Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership
Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea (Stanford University
Press, 2016).
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and
their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial
minorities. Kim shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state
relates to people it views as "external members" such as
emigrants and diasporas.
Contested Embrace
is a comparative, historical, and ethnographic study of the complex
relationships among the states in the Korean peninsula, colonial-era
Korean migrants to Japan and northeast China and their descendants, and
the states in which they have resided over the course of the twentieth
century. Extending the constructivist approach to nationalisms and the
culturalist view of the modern state to a transnational context, Contested Embrace illuminates
the political and bureaucratic construction of ethno-national
populations beyond the territorial boundary of the state. Through a
comparative analysis of transborder membership politics in the
colonial, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods, the book shows how the
configuration of geopolitics, bureaucratic techniques, and actors'
agency shapes the making, unmaking, and remaking of transborder ties.
Kim demonstrates that being a "homeland" state or a member of
the "transborder nation" is a precarious, arduous, and
revocable political achievement. The talk will flesh out these claims
through the analysis of (1) South Korea’s effort to create its own
docile citizens out of ethnic Koreans in Japan in the fierce
competition with North Korea; and (2) South Korea’s effort to control
its territorial and membership boundary from ethnic Korean “return”
migrants from China.
Jaeeun Kim
is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She
was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton (2011–2012) and Stanford
(2012–2013), and a former member at the Institute for Advanced Study
(2016–2017). Her book won multiple book awards from the American
Sociological Association and the Social Science History Association.
Cosponsored by
Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Korean Studies, Center for the
Study of International Migration, Department of Sociology
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This
conference aims to engender transnational conversations about
indigenous knowledge, with Taiwan as its comparative pivot and
relational node. Setting discussions on indigenous knowledge and
settler colonialism in Taiwan in dialogue with those in the United
States, Okinawa, and the Philippines, this conference explores some
initial and necessarily broad questions: What is indigenous knowledge
and how is it defined in different places? How is indigenous knowledge
relevant to such taxonomies as philosophy, epistemology, ontology, or
cosmology? How has it been suppressed and/or erased, and how has it
transformed and grown over time? What is being preserved, lost, and
strengthened, and what might be the politics and poetics of
preservation, loss, transformation, and growth? How have settler
colonizers perceived, represented, and usurped indigenous knowledge?
What imaginary of the future does indigenous knowledge present? How is
indigenous knowledge a resource for all?
In Taiwan, the indigenous Austronesian peoples have been subjected to
settler colonialism by waves of Han people from China for over three
centuries, during which other colonial regimes came and went, including
the Dutch Formosa in southern Taiwan (1642-1662), the Spanish Formosa
in northern Taiwan (1646-1662), and Japanese colonial rule (1895-1945).
For Austronesians, as is the case for all indigenous peoples living
under settler colonialism, colonialism is a “structure” (Wolfe) almost
impossible to overcome. Seen in this light, postcolonial theory as an
academic discourse in settler colonies, such as Taiwan and the United
States, is a disavowal of indigeneity and settler colonialism, and can
be understood as another settler’s “move to innocence” (Tuck and Yang)
or “strategy of transfer” (Veracini). For indigenous scholars and
activists everywhere, what has been indispensable to their resistance
against settler colonialism is the centering of indigenous knowledge as
an act of decolonization and a way to envision a better world (Goeman;
LaDuke; Moreton-Robinson), resulting in a wide-spread indigenous
knowledge movement of which Taiwan’s indigenous discourse, though
little known, is a constitutive part. For this and other reasons, this
conference hopes to bring comparative and relational insights to indigenous
knowledge formation in different parts of the world to see how
situating Taiwan’s indigenous studies in a global context recalibrates
indigenous studies in general and Taiwan studies in particular.
Part of the UCLA-National Taiwan Normal University Taiwan
Studies Initiative. Cosponsored by American Indian Studies
Center, Center for Chinese Studies, Terasaki Center for Japanese
Studies, and the UCLA Taiwan Studies
Lectureship.
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Cosponsored by Center for India and
South Asia
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Crescent Moon Symposium
Susan Chan Egan, retired securities analyst)
Liu Cong, Qufu Normal University
Tony S. Hsu, physicist, entrepreneur turned writer
Sasha Su-Ling Welland, University of Washington
Michelle Yeh, UC Davis
UCLA faculty Michael Berry, King-Kok Cheung, and Louise Hornby
Friday, May 4, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Faculty Center California Room
UCLA
Organized by Department of English
and cosponsored by several departments
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See attached flyer for
more information
Organized by East Asian Library and
cosponsored by several departments
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