【開催報告】グローバル経済史研究部会（7月7日）/ Global Economic History Seminar on July 7th

講演者

氏名：周雨霏

所属：国際日本文化研究センター

資格：特任准教授

経歴：こちらからご確認ください

開催概要

開催日時：　2026年7月7日（火）15時05分－16時45分
開催方法：　早稲田大学早稲田キャンパス3号館4階401教室およびオンライン（Zoom） 

講演報告

講演タイトル：Economists and Empire: Colonial Formations and the Making of Economic Knowledge at Keijō/Gyeongseong Imperial University

講演概要：
Established in 1924 as the sixth imperial university of Japan and the first within a colony, Keijō/Gyeongseong Imperial University functioned for twenty-one years as a critical site of intellectual production. During this period, the university maintained four economics-related professorships, engaging over twenty Japanese and Korean scholars as faculty or associates. Despite their significant output—notably the creation of the “Korean Economy Research Institute,” which successfully generated a substantial body of knowledge regarding Korean economy—the academic contributions of these scholars have remained largely neglected in historiography compared to their counterparts at other imperial universities.  
 
This presentation addresses this oversight by examining the role of the Keijō economists in the production of colonial economic knowledge. Although their work often served the administrative needs of the Government-General of Korea, they also sought to define the Korean economy as a distinct field of economic-historical inquiry, separate from earlier studies by Japanese economists. First, they redefined Korea not as a marginal peninsula, but as an economic space that could be investigated, interpreted, and improved through their own scholarly intervention. Second, they developed an on-site research infrastructure through large-scale surveys, statistical collection, and fieldwork. This presentation argues that the economic knowledge produced at Keijō/Gyeongseong Imperial University had a distinct shape and set of characteristics that reflect both the specific pressures of its colonial setting and the intellectual rigor of its participants.