Oct 26-27, 2018 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Weiser Hall, 10th Fl (500 Church St. Ann Arbor, MI)
Friday, October 26
10:00 Welcome Remarks
Nojin Kwak, Director, Nam Center for Korean Studies and Professor & Chair, Communication Studies, University of Michigan / Juhn Ahn, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan
10:15 Soonil Hwang | Dongguk University
Buddhist Sustainable Happiness
11:15 C.H. Park (Ven. Chŏngdŏk) | Dongguk University
Secular Happiness and Ultimate Happiness in the Story of the Monk Josin’s Dream of the Samguk Yusa
1:00 Mark A. Nathan | University at Buffalo
Buddhism, Meditation, and the Happiness Crisis in South Korea: In Pursuit of Emptiness or Happiness?
2:00 David J. Kim | SUNY Purchase College
3:00 Se-Woong Koo | Korea Exposé
"Happiness Is Here and Now": Repackaging Buddhism for an Ailing Nation
4:00 Keynote Roundtable
Robert Buswell | UCLA
Hwansoo Kim | Yale University
Seong-Uk Kim | Columbia University
Jin Y Park | American University
Saturday, October 27
10:00 Inkyu Kang | Penn State Behrend
Here and Now: The Art and Politics of Happiness of South Korean Millennials
11:00 Song-Chong Lee | University of Findlay
The Ssial as a Paradigmatic Reconciliation on Happiness
12:00 Joseph Owiti | Academy of Korean Studies