33.3421, FYI: Lecture Announcement: “Becoming White: The “Japanese” Language in the Modern Global Order” with Prof. Atsuko Ueda (Princeton)

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Subject: 33.3421, FYI: Lecture Announcement: “Becoming White: The “Japanese” Language in the Modern Global Order” with Prof. Atsuko Ueda (Princeton)

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Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:09:43
From: Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd [haedodd at gmail.com]
Subject: Lecture Announcement: “Becoming White: The “Japanese” Language in the Modern Global Order” with Prof. Atsuko Ueda (Princeton)

 
Tokyo College at the University of Tokyo be hosting a Zoom Webinar with
Professor Atsuko Ueda (Princeton University) on the topic of her book,
Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
(University of California Press, 2021). The talk is on Friday, November 18th,
2022, 9:00AM-10:30AM (JST). The abstract of the talk is as follows:

Language, Nation, Race explores the many language reforms at the onset of
modernity in Japan, when the “national language” (kokugo) was produced in
order to standardize the Japanese language. In the mid-to late-1800s, the
literacy level was low, written and spoken languages were disparate, and
multiple dialects existed, the disparity of which impeded basic communication
among the inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago. Faced with the threat of
Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms—whether it
be the rejection of Chinese characters, the use of Romanized syllabic scripts,
or even the adoption of English as the national language—to standardize the
language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses with new forms of
knowledge imported from the West. This was a chaotic moment in the history of
modern Japan. 

In this talk, Prof. Atsuko Ueda focuses on Ueda Kazutoshi’s reform. She
departs from prior studies of his reforms by specifically examining his tropes
of racialization. Meiji was a race war. It is crucial to inscribe race in our
investigation since no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible
without the concept of race.

For more information, including how to register, please see the following link
to the Tokyo College event page:
https://www.tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/ai1ec_event/7821/
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Language Family(ies): Japonic





 



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