Sunday, May 18 2025, 2 - 3pm Zoom Type of Event: Lecture Colonial Flâneur and Fugitive Archives: A Talk by Jooyeon Rhee Date: Friday, April 18, 2025Time: 2:00 PM ESTLocation: Online (via Zoom)Register and Join via Zoom https://shorturl.at/ykyc5 The University of Georgia welcomes Dr. Jooyeon Rhee, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, for a virtual talk titled: “Colonial Flâneur and Fugitive Archives: Yŏm Sangsŏp’s On the Eve of the Uprising” Drawing from the figure of the flâneur in European modernist fiction, Dr. Rhee explores the role of this urban observer in colonial contexts through the lens of Korean writer Yŏm Sangsŏp’s novel On the Eve of the Uprising (1922–1924). The talk considers the protagonist as a “colonial flâneur”—an educated male stroller navigating and documenting the colonial city. Through sensorial and detailed descriptions of urban space, this disempowered figure challenges the everyday violence of imperial power and reveals the complex intersections of race, gender, and colonial subjectivity. By placing Yŏm’s work in conversation with Edgar Allan Poe’s “Man of the Crowd” and Edogawa Rampo’s “The Stalker in the Attic,” Dr. Rhee demonstrates how the figure of the flâneur operates as both fugitive and detective, constructing an alternative archive of colonial modernity. This event is sponsored by: Department of Comparative Literature Center for Asian Studies Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies Willson Center for Humanities and Arts For more information, please contact:Dr. Miryong Shim at miryong.shim@uga.edu Jooyeon Rhee
