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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Diana Kim\, (Assi
 stant Professor\, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service)\, who wi
 ll discuss Japanese colonial legacies in Southeast Asia. \n\nThis Gatty Lec
 ture will take place at the The Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will 
 be served. For questions\, contact seapgatty@cornell.edu.\n\nAbout the Talk
 \n\nFor over a century\, Southeast Asia was ruled by multiple European powe
 rs. Then\, between 1940 and 1945 during World War Two\, there was a tempora
 ry changing of the colonial guard as the Japanese empire occupied the regio
 n. The ideological bases and discourses for arrogating political authority 
 changed\, with a self-avowed Asian empire professing to liberate fellow Asi
 ans from the old yoke of Western imperialism and build a so-called Greater 
 East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. It was also a time of heightened emotions\,
  both great material losses and gains\, as well as extraordinary physical\,
  sexual\, and symbolic violence. And in retrospect\, it is an era that peop
 le remember in different ways\, from a time of war\, material deprivation a
 nd acute hardship\, and the indignities of a “double occupation\,” to a tur
 ning point towards independence and the birth of new nations.\n \nThis talk
  explores the significance of the Japanese occupation (1940-1945) for under
 standing the legacies of European colonial institutions across Southeast As
 ia today. It examines how agents of wartime empires stationed across Southe
 ast Asia implemented varieties of formal arrangements for governing territo
 ries under Japanese military control that variably destroyed\, kept\, or al
 tered extant institutions\, while sometimes introducing new ones altogether
 . The Japanese occupation as such\, I argue\, generated different pathways 
 for transmitting pre-war European colonial institutions into independent So
 utheast Asia. By exploring these varieties of wartime institution-building 
 processes\, this talk grapples more generally with what constitutes a meani
 ngful rupture to historical continuity when studying the long-term effects 
 of colonial institutions upon contemporary outcomes.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n
 \nDiana S. Kim is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in the Edmun
 d A. Walsh School of Foreign Service\, and a core faculty member of the Asi
 an Studies Program. She is the award-winning author of Empires of Vice: The
  Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton University Pres
 s 2020)\, and is currently writing a new book on global untouchability. Her
  scholarship is animated by concerns with how modern states develop capacit
 y to define people at the edges of respectable society\, constructing what 
 it means to be illicit\, marginal\, and deviant\, and crosses disciplinary 
 boundaries between political science and history\, with area focus on South
 east and East Asia.
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia: Through the Len
 s of Japan’s Wartime Empire
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/rethinking_colonial_legacies_across_so
 utheast_asia_through_the_lens_of_japans_wartime_empire
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