Friday, May 17, 2019 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Location: Weiser Hall (All events will be in Room 1010 unless otherwise indicated)
8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks
Nojin Kwak (Director, Nam Center for Korean Studies)
Wooseok Kim (Chair, NEKST Organizing Committee)
9:00-9:50 Panel I: Women and the Labor Force in Post-Colonial Korea
Dahye Jeong (Yonsei University)
“Gendered Biopolitics of Public Health in Postwar South Korea: Midwives as Practitioners and Researchers in South Korea, 1950-1960s”
Da In Choi (Harvard University)
“Becoming a Professional Worker: Representational Changes and Training Programs for Housemaids in South Korea, 1966-1979”
Discussants: Rory Walsh, Joan Cho
9:55-10:45 Panel II: Social Critique in Contemporary Korean Cinema
Angeliki Katsarou (Stockholm University)
“Korean Police Stories: the Critical Representation of Law Enforcement in Contemporary South Korean Cinema”
Eun-hae Kim (Duke University)
“Indigestible Bodies: Ethnic Return Migration and the Limits of South Korean Multiculturalism in The Yellow Sea (2010)”
Discussants: Hye Won Kim, Travis Workman
10:55-11:35 Chapter Workshop I
Room 355
Jisoo Hyun (University of Washington) “Education at the Crossroads of Pacific Imperialisms: Korean Schooling in Territorial Hawaii, 1906–1940”
Discussant: Jaeeun Kim
Room 955
Minhyoung Kang (Johns Hopkins University)
“From Solidarity to Fragmentation: Explaining Dualism and Inequality at the Shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries”
Discussant: Michael Robinson
12:35-13:15 Chapter Workshop II
Room 355
Hayeon Lee (University of Michigan)
“In the Interstices of the Korean Dream: Vietnamese Women’s Transnational Selving and the Marriage Migration Cycle”
Discussant: Hae Yeon Choo
Room 955
Agnes Sohn (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)
“Home Alone: Retreat and Resistance in the Jeju House/Home”
Discussant: Se-Mi Oh
13:25-14:40 Panel III: Crossing Borders – Korean Education
Hong Jin Jo (University of Chicago)
“Ivy League above “SKY”: Stranded Dream of Korean (Upper-) Middle-Class”
Sarah Lipura (University of Auckland)
“Korean Student Mobility in Atypical Study Destinations in the Asia-Pacific: Precarity, Possibilities and Potentialities”
Woojin Kim (University of California, Berkeley)
“Peer Effects from Education on Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from North Korean Refugees”
Discussant: Seung-Cheol Lee
14:45-15:35 Panel IV: Quantifying Social and Political Upheaval
Seung Youn Baek (Korea University)
“Labor Scarcity and Economic Development in Colonial Korea”
Edward Goldring (University of Missouri)
“Keeping up with Kim: An Individual-level Theory and Analysis of Autocratic Elite Purges in Kim Jong-un’s North Korea”
Discussant: Joan Cho
Saturday, May 18
9:00-10:15 Panel V: State-Building and Nation-Building in Korea – A Historical Perspective
Jongryol Bae (Yonsei University)
“Vigorous Maritime Trade around the Korean Peninsula during ‘the Dark Ages’, 1170–1270s”
Hyesong Lim (University of California, San Diego)
“Dangerous Bodies on the “Red Island”: Mobilization of Civilians as Agents of Violence in Jeju 4.3 Incident, 1947-1954”
Jaeyoung Ha (University of California, San Diego)
“Diligence by Design: Resettlement and Rehabilitation of “Mountain Dwellers” during the Pak Chŏng Hŭi regime, 1965-1978”
Discussant: Juhn Ahn
10:20-11:10 Panel VI: State-Building and Nation-Building in Korea – Literary Responses
Maarika Rickansrud (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Reimagining Political Community Across Borders: Chaeil (Zainichi) Journals from the 1960s-1970s”
Minji Kim (Chonnam National University)
“The Prison and the Family: Two Epistemes of Kim Namju’s Poems about ‘May, Gwangju’”
Discussant: Travis Workman
11:20-12:00 Chapter Workshop III
Room 355
Chelle Jones (University of Michigan)
“Are You a Member? Migrants Negotiate Belonging, Safety and Visibility in South Korean Lesbian Spaces”
Discussant: Todd Henry
Room 455
Jeong Eun Annabel We (Rutgers University)
“Sustainable Destruction: Contemporary South Korean Women Writers’ Disaster Fictions”
Discussant: Kelly Jeong
13:00-14:20 Professional Development Workshop
Christopher Dreyer (University of Michigan Press)
“Navigating the Book Publishing Process”
14:30-15:30 Elevator Pitch Competition
