May 12-13, 2017 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Location: Michigan League
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
Friday, May 12
9:00 – 9:15 Welcoming Remarks | Koessler Room
9:15 – 10:45 Panel 1: Production of Knowledge, History, and Materiality | KoesslerRoom
Elizabeth Lee (New York University) – “Goryeo Potters and Their Partners: The Liao Influence in Goryeo Celadon Ewers”
Sangmee Oh (University of California Los Angeles) – “From Colonial to International: American Knowledge Construction on Korean History 1930-50”
Sumin Myung (Johns Hopkins University) – “Equivocal Expertise: A Scientist’s Journey in the Making of Modern Forestry in South Korea”
Sungik Yang (Harvard University) – “An Old Right in New Bottles: The Historiography of the South Korean New Right”
Discussants: Hanmee Kim (Wheaton College) & Merose Hwang (Hiram College)
11:00 – 11:40 Chapter Workshops | Concurrent Sessions
Koessler Room
So Hye Kim (University of Chicago) – “The Divided Nation and Korean Diasporic Filmmakers’ Bittersweet Return”
Faculty Mentor: Se-Mi Oh (University of Michigan)
Room D
Myungho Hyun (New York University) – “1920s Oil Industry and Royal Dutch/Shell’s Korean Oil Installation Strike of September 1928”
Faculty Mentor: Michael Robinson (Indiana University)
11:45 – 12:25 Chapter Workshops | Concurrent Sessions
Koessler Room
Minwoo Jung (USC) – “World Society in Action: Mobilizing the International in South Korean LGBT Activism”
Faculty Mentor: Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University)
Room D
Young Sun Park (University of Southern California) – “From Fostering to Education: Cultivating Body and Soul at Modern Orphanages”
Faculty Mentor: Michael Robinson (Indiana University)
1:30 – 3:00 Panel 2: Audible Korea | Koessler Room
Chaeyeong Yoo (Seoul National University) – “A Study of Kim Jong Sam’s Poetry: Writing between the Musical World and Reality”
Matthew Vanvolkenburg (University of Washington) – “The 1970 and 1975 Crackdowns on Marijuana in Korea: Drug Suppression, Social Purification, and the ROK-US Alliance”
Cody Black (Duke University) – “One of These Nights I’ll See You Again: Vocality, Alternative Mourning, and Affective Neoliberalism in Post-Sewol Korea”
Yeon-Ju Bae (University of Michigan) – “Sound and Authority: Sound Meditations in Two Korean Buddhist Temples”
Discussants: Susan Hwang (Indiana University) & Juhn Ahn (University of Michigan)
3:15 – 4:45 Panel 3: Troubling Embodiment | Koessler Room
Alex Lee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) – “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and the Reproduction of Gender, Racial, and National Hierarchies”
Kunisuke Hirano (University of Michigan) – “An Alternative Way to be Ethnic Korean? An Ethnographic Case Study at Korea International School in Japan”
Kyoungmi Kim (Seoul National University) – “Erotic Imagination in the Poetry of Joung Hyunjong as Revealed in his Translations of Pablo Neruda”
Ji-Yoon An (University of Cambridge) – “All About the Korean Mother: Depictions of Extreme Motherhood in Korean Cinema”
Discussants: Jiun Bang (University of Michigan) & I Jonathan Kief (University of Michigan)
5:00 – 5:40 Chapter Workshops | Concurrent Sessions
Koessler Room
Hye Eun Choi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – “Munye-bu and Korean Record Production in the 1930s”
Faculty Mentor: Kyeong-Hee Choi (University of Chicago)
Room D
Eunsung Cho (Columbia University) – “The Thread of Juche: Vinalon, a Figuration between Science and Society in North Korea, 1948-1968”
Faculty Mentor: Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Saturday, May 13
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 4: Cold War Koreas | Koessler Room
Youn Soo Kim (Binghamton University) – “Counter-memories of the Korean War: The State, Enemy, and Ideologies in Mongsil ŏnni”
Thomas Stock (University of California Los Angeles) – “Under Attack: Fraternal Criticism and the Development of North Korean Ideology”
Jihyun Shin (University of British Columbia) – “The Remaking of Korean Men: Rationalizing the Pursuit of Individual Money-Making during the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979”
Discussants: I Jonathan Kief (University of Michigan) & Susan Hwang (Indiana University)
10:45 – 11:25 Chapter Workshops | Concurrent Sessions
Koessler Room
Lina Koleilat (Australian National University) – “Catholic Rituals of Protest and Dissent in Contemporary South Korea”
Faculty Mentor: Pil Ho Kim (Ohio State University)
Room D
Joo Young Lee (University of Michigan) – “Beyond the Frames: The Racial Formation of Black Korean Orphans in Print Media and Photographs”
Faculty Mentor: Se-Mi Oh (University of Michigan)
1:00 - 2:30 Professional Development Session - Teaching for Graduate Students Workshop
Dr. Nicole Tuttle (U-M Center for Research on Learning and Teaching)
