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JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series「The Fantasy of Immunity to Speech: Literary Sinitic, Sound, and Voice in Japanese-Colonial Taiwan」開催のお知らせ
この度、GASのJF-GJSイニシアティブ活動の一環として2026年7月21日（火）に対面形式による下記のイベントを開催することになりました。下記のフォームより事前登録をお願いいたします。
日時：2026年7月21日（火）16:00-18:00
会場：Conference Room 1 (304), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo
題目：The Fantasy of Immunity to Speech: Literary Sinitic, Sound, and Voice in Japanese-Colonial Taiwan
講演者：Dr Fang-Ru LIN, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica
司会：Dr Joel Littler, JF-GJS Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University
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使用言語：English
概要：
While Literary Sinitic structurally avoided attachment to specific speech forms, its adherents could develop a fantasy that it did not represent speech at all—a belief that enabled particular forms of cultural authority. In this talk, I examine the fantasy of what I call “immunity to speech” and the sonic dimensions of this process. I argue that this fantasy rested on a prior subscription to Literary Sinitic as a “writing system” rather than a “language,” which gave rise to complex cultural and colonial dynamics in Japanese colonial Taiwan. In particular, the sonic culture of traditional theater operated to invite non-literate masses into “ritualistic acoustic spaces” while suppressing their vernacular appreciation. Such dynamics illuminate the acoustic dimensions of colonial subjectivity that exceed conventional categories of “native” versus “colonial” languages. The proposed sonic approach not only uncovers insights into the cultural practices that sustained Literary Sinitic’s century-long promise to transcend regional linguistic borders but also speaks to broader questions about how the shift from logographic to phonocentric language ideologies reconfigured colonized subjects’ claims to ownership over shared Sinographic traditions. This invites us to rethink postcolonial analysis, which is often premised on one’s language identity yet without a tool to address the intermediary spaces between literacy and orality that colonial subjects inhabited.
講演者紹介：
Fang-Ru Lin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. She received her Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in cultural and comparative studies with a focus on Imperial Japan and colonial Taiwan. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of script, speech, and sound in the Japanese empire, drawing on recent theoretical work on East Asia’s Sinographic Cosmopolis to examine how the imperial context destabilized the entanglement between textual authority and belonging.
主催：JF-GJS Initiative, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
お問い合わせ：Joel Littler, joel.littler@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
登録種別：研究会関連
登録日時：ThuJul209:57:352026
登録者 ：GAS事務局・神林
掲載期間：20260703 - 20260721
当日期間：20260721 - 20260721
