Monthly Archives: January 2018

Friday, January 26th: Sandra Park “Crusading for the Twentieth Century: Christianity, Chaplaincy and Militarism in Cold War South Korea, 1945-1973”

Sandra Park

“Crusading for the Twentieth Century: Christianity, Chaplaincy and Militarism in Cold War South Korea, 1945-1973”

Friday, January 26th, 3-5 p.m.
Location: CEAS 319 (1155 E. 60th St.)
Co-sponsored with the Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop

Discussant: Jun-Hee Lee (PhD Candidate, History)
This Friday, East Asia Transregional Histories Workshops and Arts and Politics of East Asia workshops are proud to host Sandra Park (PhD Student, History). She will be presenting a draft of her dissertation proposal, which she summarizes as follows:
My anticipated dissertation, “Crusading for the Twentieth Century: Christianity, Chaplaincy and Militarism in Cold War South Korea, 1945-1973,” elucidates the origins of Christianity’s increasing social and political influence from the Korean War (1950-1953) through 1973, when the Billy Graham Seoul Crusade attracted over three million people (the largest gathering in global Church history). Two decades before the Seoul Crusade, Graham visited American GIs and Korean Christians during the Korean War in 1952. At the time, wŏllam (those who went south) Korean Christian leaders like Han Kyung-Chik (who interpreted for Graham) and Hwang Ŭn-gyun articulated the conflict with communism in North Korea in eschatological language, invoking the imagery of medieval European crusades. My proposal engages the trope of “crusades” articulated during the Korean Cold War as reflective of the ways in which Christianity and militarism were folded into each other. At this stage, I expect to trace three currents that were formative to the relationship between Christianity and militarized politics in Cold War South Korea: the discursive, transpacific politics of Billy Graham and Han Kyung-Chik (1945-1950), the institutional history of the Republic of Korea (ROK) military chaplaincy from its inception in 1951, and the hegemonic culture of militarism and dissent.

Sandra’s paper can be found in the post below.

As always, first-time attendees are welcome. Please make note of the distinct time and location for this event.

 

Monday, January 8th: Alex Jania “For Us, The Earth Still Shakes: Thoughts on Disaster Memorialization in Japan and Methodologies of Emotional History”

Alex Jania

PhD Student, Department of History, University of Chicago

” For Us, The Earth Still Shakes: Thoughts on Disaster Memorialization in Japan and Methodologies of Emotional History”

Monday, January 8th 12:00-1:15 PM

The Library at the Martin Marty Center [Swift Hall]

Discussant: Paride Stortini, PhD Student, University of Chicago Divinity School

Please join the East Asia: Transregional Histories workshop in welcoming Alex Jania as he presents his work-in-progress, titled “For Us, The Earth Still Shakes: Thoughts on Disaster Memorialization in Japan and Methodologies of Emotional History” Mr. Jania provides the following abstract:

This paper, based on pre-dissertation archival and field research, presents a methodology that attends to the emotional aspects of natural disaster memorialization in modern Japan. In particular, the paper proposes a methodology that utilizes the combination of material culture, oral history, and textual sources in order to compose an emotional history. Using relevant examples from the archives and the field, this study will exhibit this new approach to emotional history and discuss its general relevance for the discipline of history as a whole.

Alex’s paper can be found in the post below.

As always, first-time attendees are welcome. Please make note of the distinct time and place for this event. In addition, a lunch will also be served at this event.

If you have any questions or require assistance to attend, please contact Spencer Stewart at sdstewart@uchicago.edu or Robert Burgos at rburgos@uchicago.edu

 

Winter Quarter 2018 Schedule

The East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop is excited to announce our schedule for Winter quarter! Unless otherwise noted, all meetings take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science 224) and refreshments will be served.

Winter 2018

1/8  Alex Jania, PhD Student in History, University of Chicago
Title: “For Us, The Earth Still Shakes: Thoughts on Disaster Memorialization in Japan and Methodologies of Emotional History”
12:00-1:15 PM, Martin Marty Center (Swift Hall)
Co-sponsored with the Religion and Human Sciences workshop

1/11 Umemori Naoyuki, Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Title: Lunch Talk with Professor Umemori
12:00-1:30 PM, Tea Room

1/26  Sandra Park, PhD Student in History, University of Chicago
Title: ” Crusading for the Twentieth Century: Christianity, Politics and the Cold War in South Korea and Korean-U.S. Relations, 1945-1973″
4:00-6:00 PM, CEAS 319
Co-sponsored with the Art and Politics of East Asia workshop

2/8  Eilin Rafael Pérez, PhD Student in History, University of Chicago
Title: “The Half-Life of Sovereignty: The DPRK and the Thirteenth World Festival of Youth and Students”
3:00-5:00 PM, JHF Room

2/15  Dan Knorr, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Title: “A City of Springs: Local Geography and Imperial Presence in High Qing Jinan”
4:00-6:00 PM, Tea Room

2/23  Kang Sung Hyun, Professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sungkonghoe University
Title: Transnational Archives: Cold War, Postcolonialism, and Korean Studies
3:00-5:00 PM, CEAS 319
Co-sponsored with the Art and Politics of East Asia workshop

3/8  Alex Haskins, PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Chicago
Title: “‘Reimagining Japanese Modernities’ – Alertness, Dignity, and Foreign Learning in Sakuma Shozan’s Thought”
4:00-6:00 PM, JHF Room