WORKSHOP ON NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND COLONIAL MODERNITY IN JAPAN AND KOREA

Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Reischauer Institute

9:00-5:30 pm
Friday, April 27, 2007
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

8:30-9:00	COFFEE
9:00-9:15	OPENING REMARKS David McCann, Director of the Korea Institute and Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
9:15-11:45	PANEL 1: CONTESTED LINGUISTIC SPHERES: COLONIAL AND MINORITY VOICES IN NATIONAL LANGUAGE DISCOURSE Discussant: James Dorsey, Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College John Whitman, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, Cornell University "Grammar and Control: Glossing Systems as Regimens of Interpretation and Authority" Seth Jacobowitz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University and Assistant Professor, Humanities Department, San Francisco State University "Visible Speech and Izawa Shûji's Theory of National Language and Script" Sonia Ryang, Associate Professor of Anthropology & International Studies, C. Maxwell & Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and The Korea Foundation Scholar of Korean Studies, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa "The Tongue that Divides Life and Death: ichien gojissen" Yasuda Toshiaki, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University "Investigating the Construction of 'National Language'"
12:00-1:00	LUNCH
1:00-3:30	PANEL 2: CATEGORIES OF LANGUAGE AND THE EXPERIENCE OF COLONIAL MODERNITY IN 1930S KOREA Discussant: Dennis Washburn, Chair and Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College Ross King, Associate Professor of Korean, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia "Another ‘Language that Failed’: The Abortive Attempt at Creating ‘Soviet’ Korean in the Russian Far East, 1922-1937" Chris Hanscom, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Korea Institute, Harvard University and Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College "Embodiments of Speech: Effecting the Real in 1930s Modernist Theories of Literary Language" Lee Kyoung-hoon, Associate Professor of Korean Literature, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University "'Oppa' as the Grammar of the Korean Modern Nation" Micah Auerback, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Religion, Princeton University "Kanazawa Shozaburo 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) and the Linguistic Foundations of the Theory of Common Origins of the Japanese and Koreans"
3:30-3:45	COFFEE
3:45-5:30	ROUNDTABLE: NATIONAL LANGUAGE AND COLONIAL MODERNITY IN JAPAN AND KOREA: UNIVERSALS AND PARTICULARS Moderators: Ross King and Dennis Washburn

Organized by Chris Hanscom (hanscom@fas.harvard.edu) and Seth Jacobowitz (sdjacob@fas.harvard.edu).