October 14-16, 2010 | The University of Michigan
Thursday, October 14
4:00-7:00 PM
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FORUM A (Moderator: Kyeong-Hee Choi) Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation: A Conversation with Translators and Publishers of Korean and Japanese Fiction |
4:00-4:20 PM |
Greetings and Congratulatory Remarks Don Lopez (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) |
4:20-4:40 PM |
Chi-Young Kim (Translator) “Translation for the American Market” |
4:40-5:00 PM |
Michael Emmerich (Translator; Columbia University) “The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Translating Japanese Literature in 2010” |
5:00-5:20 PM |
Break |
5:20-5:40 PM |
Chad W. Post (Director of Open Letter Books; Managing Editor of Three Percent, University of Rochester) “Indie Presses & Literature in Translation” |
5:40-6:00 PM |
Jonathan Segura (Deputy Reviews Editor; Publishers Weekly) “Translating and Publishing Korean Literature to Appeal to the U.S. Local Market: From a Reviewer’s Perspective” |
6:00-7:00 PM |
Discussion and Q & A |
7:00 PM |
Reception |
Friday, October 15
7:00-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Dining Hall (ER) / Campus Inn Dining Room |
8:40-9:00 AM |
Opening & Welcoming Remarks by Nojin Kwak (Director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies, U-M), Kyeong-Hee Choi & Youngju Ryu |
9:00-11:00 AM |
Session I (Moderator: Jin-Kyung Lee) Colonial Identities Jina Kim - "Early 20th century Department Stores and Fashioning of Identity in Colonial Korea and Taiwan" Christopher P. Hanscom - "Modernism, Hysteria, and the Colonial Double Bind" Su Yun Kim - "Racialization and COlonial Space: Intermarriage in Yi Hyo-sok's Works" (Discussants: Chan E. Park; Samuel E. Perry; Catherine Ryu) |
11:00-11:10 AM |
Break |
11:10-12:00 PM |
Plenary meeting I (Facilitator: Kyeong-Hee Choi) |
12:00-1:00 PM |
Lunch at Dining Hall (ER) |
1:00-2:30 PM |
Session II (Moderator: Michael Pettid) Modern Womanhood in Transition Ji-Eun Lee - "New Women to New Housewies: Changing Discourses in Sinyosong, 1923-1934" Yoon Sun Yang - "Enlightened Daughter and Benighted Mother" (Discussants: Jin-Kyung Lee; Hyangsoon Yi) |
2:30-3:20 PM |
Special Session (Facilitator: Bruce Fulton) Informal Discussion on Academic Publishing Young-mee Yu Cho; Kyeong-Hee Choi; Kelly Jeong; Kyung Hyun Kim; Jin-Kyung Lee; Chan E. Park; Michael Pettid; Hyangsoon Yi |
3:20-4:50 PM |
Session III (Moderator: Kelly Jeong) Ideology and Re-vision Sunyoung Park - "Rereading Colonial Leftist Literature after the Cold War" Travis Workman - "Rethinking Colonial Period Cultural Nationalism" (Discussant: Kyeong-Hee Choi) |
5:00-7:00 PM |
FORUM B (Moderator: Chinwoo Nam) A Conversation with Kim Young-ha & Shin Kyung-sook ***Dinner at your own discretion*** |
8:00-9:30 PM |
(Optional program) "So the Arrow Flies" Award-winning one-woman show by Esther Chae Studio 1, Walgreen Drama Center, 1226 Murfin Ave. |
Saturday, October 16
7:00-8:30 AM |
Breakfast at Dining Hall (ER) |
9:00-10:30 AM |
Session IV (Moderator: Jin-Kyung Lee) Sound in Language, History in Film Young-mee Yu Cho - "Linguistic Exuberance in Contemporary Korean Literature: Emerging Rhyme Schemes and Puns Kyung Hyun Kim - "The End of History, the Beginning of Historical Films: Korea's New Saguk" (Discussant: Bruce Fulton; Young Jun Lee) |
10:30-10:40 AM |
Break |
10:40-12:10 PM |
Session V (Moderator: Chan E. Park) Adaptation and Re-creation Sookja Cho - "Butterfly Lovers' in Korea: From a Love Story to a Ritual Song" Hye Seung CHung - "The Man with No Home: Shan Comes Back in a 'Manchurian Wester'" (Discussants: Kelly Jeong; Michael Pettid) |
12:10-1:10 PM |
Lunch at Dining Hall (ER) |
1:10-2:30 PM |
Plenary MeetingII (Facilitator: Kyeong-Hee Choi) |
2:45-3:30 PM |
Open/Informal Session |
3:30-3:45 PM |
Closing Remarks |
4:00-6:00 PM |
FORUM C (Moderator: Youngju Ryu) Fiction Reading Venue: Helmut Stern Auditorium University of Michigan Museum of Art |
7:00 PM |
Banquet Dinner (hosted by KLTI) Rackham East Conference Room |
Participants
Sookja Cho Arizona State University Young-mee Yu Cho Rutgers University-New Brunswick Kyeong-Hee Choi University of Chicago Hye Seung Chung Oakland University Bruce Fulton University of British Columbia Christopher P. Hanscom University of California-Los Angeles Kelly Jeong University of California-Riverside Jina Kim Smith College Kyung Hyun Kim University of California -Irvine Su Yun Kim Hamilton College (formerly) JI-Eun Lee Washington University in St. Louis |
Jin-Kyung Lee University of California-San Diego Young Jun Lee Harvard University Chan E. Park Ohio State University Sunyoung Park University of Southern California Samuel E. Perry Brown University Michael Pettid State University of New York-Binghamton Catherine Ryu Michigan State University Youngju Ryu University of Michigan Travis Workman University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Yoon Sun Yang Arizona State University Hyangsoon Yi University of Georgia |
