Yeounsuk Lee (Hitotsubashi University/UBC)
| DATE: | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
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| TIME: | 4:00-6:00 p.m. |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Korean Studies |
It is well-known that Imperial Japan executed a series of language policies in Colonial Korea in the name of promoting "national language" (Japanese) to the Korean colonial subjects. In 1941 Korean language was completely removed from the school curriculum. This seminar concerns how Imperial Japan's language policies in Colonial Korea were molded, applied, and implemented by focusing on the role of Hoshina Koichi (1872-1955), who offered key ideas and policy suggestions to the colonial government. Hoshina, who studied in detail the example of colonial language policies in Germany toward Poland under the financial support of the Government General, envisioned the imperial assimilation of colonial subjects through the "national language" movement in relation to the vision of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. This seminar will trace his intellectual trajectory to see what was really behind his endeavor and how his ideas worked for Imperial Japan's colonial rule of Korea.
Professor Yeounsuk Lee (Ph.D., Hitotsubashi) teaches graduate seminars at the Graduate School of Language and Society of Hitotsubashi University in Japan. Her main research interests involve the role of language in the construction of nation-state in modern Japan and language policies in East Asia. Her major works include The Thought of National Language: Perceptions of Language in Modern Japan [Kokugo to iu shiso] (Iwanami shoten, 1996), which was awarded Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities in 1997, and articles on ethnic minorities and languages, language and modernity, and ethnic selfhood and language.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
