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"Navigating Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Korea and Taiwan" given by Dr. Alison J Darby on October 4th, 12-1pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
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About the event:
This talk examines popular and official discourses on interethnic marriage in colonial Korea and Taiwan in the 1930s and 1940s. It argues that despite official endorsements of interethnic unions by colonial authorities, discourse on colonial intimacy reveals a barely concealed unease about sexual relationships between colonised and coloniser. More specifically, it will highlight how debates over youthful interethnic romance expose persistent anxieties about illicit sexual behaviour and contested loyalties and suggest that these anxieties go beyond the narrow issue of interethnic marriage to reveal broader concerns about the unfinished project of imagining the future of the union between empire and colony.
About the speaker: Dr Alison J Darby is the Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University. She has a PhD in Pacific and Asian History from the Australian National University. Her dissertation titled, Patriotic Marriage: Eugenics, colonial intimacy and the politics of the marital family in the Japanese empire, 1931–1945, was awarded the joint winner of the 2023 John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies. Her most recent publication “Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan” was published in Asian Studies Review in 2023. She is currently preparing her dissertation for publication as a monograph.
This talk is co-hosted by the Australian Society for Asian Humanities and the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture's Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art.
