| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, February 12, 2013 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
The post-Liberation days of South Korea, or the early days of post-colonial South Korea (August 1945 to July 1948), witnessed the rise of various competing and conflicting projects. For instance, the nationalist agenda of building a nation-state competed with the agendas that the proponents of ‘overcoming modernism’ and/or ‘pan-Asianism’ formulated. Also, universalistic projects of civilization and democratization contradicted the particularistic race- and region-oriented projects of nationalists and pan-Asianists, and vice versa. These conflicting projects contested for hegemony on the one hand and compromised with each other on the other. This suggests that few, if any, ideas and projects during this time either secured the hegemony or constructed a stereotyped imagination in the contemporary discursive space, to the extent that the post-Liberation days could be termed as ‘an amorphous space and time.’
Chong Myong Im earned his Ph.D degree in Korean history at the University of Chicago. He teaches Korean modern history at Chonnam National University, South Korea. As a Fulbright visiting scholar at UCLA, he is currently writing a book manuscript, titled The State Dialectics of the Republic of Korea for a Modern Nation-State.
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