| Date | Time | Location |
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| Monday, December 3, 2007 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | External Event, East Asian Studies Lounge, Room 14087, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street |
Prof Matsumoto will discuss critical debates on how the category of ‘colonial modernity’ has been used and deployed in relation to colonialism in Korea. A must talk for those of us working in this field, but also an excellent opportunity to get a very synthetic overview of this problem in general which, as we know, is shaping the field of East Asian Studies more broadly.
Takenori Matsumoto is Professor of the Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department at Tokyo University. He is author of several books on colonial Korea under Japanese rule, including “Colonial Power and Korean Peasants” (Shokuminchi Kenryoku to Chosen Nomin, 1998) and “Korean Villages and the Experience of ‘Colonial Modernity'” (Chosen Noson to ‘Shokuminchi kindai’ keiken”, 2005). His talk at the University of Toronto will critically address the history of the concept of “colonial modernity” as it has been interpreted by historians and scholars in Japan.
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