제99차 연세-KF 한국학포럼이 2010년 5월 13일(목) 저녁 6시, 연세대 국제학대학원 새천년관 702호실에서 개최됩니다. 동 포럼은 영어로 진행됩니다.

- 발표: Dr. Ken Kawashima, Associate Professor,Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada*10년 체한연구펠로
- 주제:Biopolitics and the Alatory Event(s) of Capitalism: The micropolitics of recession and Korean day worker struggle in Japan, 1917-1937

biography | Professor Ken Kawashima is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies. He received his PhD at New York University, Department of History. He also is the author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan, Duke University Press, 2009.

abstract | In this talk, I discuss the historical case of Korean day workers in interwar Japan from the perspective of the commodification of labor power and economic cycles. I argue that what needs further historical and theoretical clarification is the category of surplus populations, especially as it is related to what Foucault called biopolitics. At the same time, the problem of biopolitics remains limited without further considerations of the commodification of labor power. Finally, I argue that the notion of the "minority", especially in light of Japanese imperialism and fascism, needs to be critically rethought in ways that can account for the production of state knowledge of populations.

연세-KF 한국학포럼은 재단 체한연구 펠로 및 국내외 한국연구학자 등 체한연구 중인 해외 학자들에게 정기적인 논문발표 기회를 제공함으로써 국내외 학자들간 네트워크 구축 및 연구주제 관련 정보 공유가 가능토록 2001년 가을부터 10년째 재단 지원과 연세대 국제학대학원 주관으로 학기당 5회 연간 총 10회 개최하고 있습니다.