Presenting from her forthcoming book, City of Sediments: A History of Seoul in the Age of Colonialism, Dr. Oh will discuss how to read space and spatial practices as a writing of history. Focusing on Seoul of the 1920s under Japanese colonialism, this talk will demonstrate how the urban space became a site of discursive production for Japanese colonialism and how architecture brought about a new mode of visual experience through which a new notion of history and time was articulated. Because monumental architecture was built on top of the existing matrix of the former capital and Seoul was transformed into a living depository of heterogeneous discursive sediments, this presentation will excavate these sediments as a method of history writing and explore the material and immaterial layers of urbanity to reveal how colonial subjects engaged with, and frequently undermined, the visual regime of Japanese colonialism.