Colloquiums


[2nd Colloquim] The Expansion of Empire and Transformation of Open Ports

12 Jan 2019


Date2009/06/25 15:00
PlaceKMU Complex Building Seminar room(214)
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Theme: "The Expansion of Empire and Transformation of Open Ports: Making of Japanese Settlements and the Cultural Interactions"
Speaker: Yi, Gyu Soo(Research Prof. of Institute of East Asian History, Sungkyunkwan University)
Report:
Prof. Yi proposed to illuminate the social characters and colonial control mechanism of the open ports by grasping the historicity and patterns of miscegenations, conflicts, and reorganization between Korea and Japan focusing on Japanese lived in Korean open ports under Japanese Imperialism. He expressed the potentials that the sea port cities could be considered as the place of resonance by means of the studies on Japanese civilians lived in Korean sea port cities in relation to the agenda of our project.