【演講活動／Speech】Ritual Mediations and the Postmemory of the Cheju Massacre in Korea 儀式媒介與韓國濟州島四三事件的後記憶

Speaker：Seong Nae Kim 金成禮(Visiting Scholar, Sociology, Soochow University; Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, Sogang University, South Korea)
Time：2019/05/10(Friday) , 15:00-18:00
Venue：Room 106A, HA2 Bldg, NCTU 交通大學人社二館106教室

This talk inquires into questions of violence, memory, silence and memorialization with respect to a formative historical event, the Cheju Massacre or April Third (4.3 Sasam) Incident on Cheju Island in 1948 which was regarded as one of the first outbreaks of violent ideological conflict in the early Cold War. It explores the way in which the imagery of violent deaths in the family and villages during the massacres is ritually mediated through spirit possession and the re-burial rites of dead bodies that have been exhumed from mass graves sixty years after the event. In the ritual communication and public commemorations, the “ghostly” status of the massacre victims is granted new status as “the ancestor” of family and also acquired newly as “the victim” of state violence. This “ritualized hospitality” toward these new collective dead operates in variant forms of re-placing the dead victims across multiple scales of social relations involving families, local villages, the island, and finally, the South Korean state. The massacre victims shift their position from one of “nonplace” to “placed.” It was precisely due to their social alienation and historically liminal status that such nonaligned spirits served as the ideal object of ritual practices in ways that attest to a new paradigm of memory politics in which all dead are equally and permanently venerated. The talk envisages the new paradigm of memory work in the post–Cold War era


1948年在濟州島發生的四三事件（濟州島大屠殺）是冷戰初期最早爆發的意識形態暴力衝突之一，這次講座將討論與之相關的暴力、記憶、沉默、紀念等課題。講座將會探討，如何透過亡靈附身以及六十年後撿骨再安葬的宗教儀式，以儀式媒介屠殺中家人與村民的死亡。在儀式傳播與公眾紀念中，屠殺受難者由「亡靈」轉化為家族的「祖先」，並被賦予國家暴力的「受害者」身份。這些儀式把亡者重新置放在家族、村莊、濟州島上以及南韓國家當中，屠殺的受難者由「非場所」轉化至「有所在」。正是其社會上異化及歷史上臨界的位置，使得無所偏倚的靈魂，成為理想的儀式對象，讓所有死者均受同等與永恆尊崇的。本講座期許開拓後冷戰時代記憶政治的新範式。


* The talk will be conducted in English. 講座將以英語進行。


經費來源： 高等教育深耕計畫─特色領域研究中心計畫：「衝突、正義、解殖：亞際社會批判研究」
主辦單位： 國立交通大學/台聯大系統文化研究國際中心、交通大學社會與文化研究所、亞際文化研究國際碩士學位學程（台灣聯合大學系統）