[KS] Korea on Trial Conference on 4/28/17 at University of Pennsylvania

[Melissa DiFrancesco]

Dear Korean Studies Community,

We are pleased to invite you to the following conference at the University
of Pennsylvania. Feel free to share widely among your networks.

<http://web.sas.upenn.edu/korea-on-trial/>
*Korea on Trial: Law and Justice in the Face of Violence
<http://web.sas.upenn.edu/korea-on-trial/>*
Friday, April 28, 2017 | University of Pennsylvania (Location TBA)
Organized by Justine Guichard, 2016–17 Moon Family Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Kim Program in Korean Studies

At the bar of history, Korea can alternatively be called as a witness, an
accused, or a plaintiff. The multi-secular trajectory of the Korean state
indeed offers not one but a plurality of cases to investigate the
relationships between violence, law, and justice conceived as interrelated
social constructs and realities. Beyond the dichotomy of law as a tool of
oppression or resistance, various Korean contexts particularly invite us to
question the ambivalence of its roles, uses, and imaginings. These contexts
include but are not limited to Korea’s experience with modern and
pre-modern imperialisms, war and militarism, states of emergency and
regimes of exception, systems of hierarchies and practices of
discriminations, nation building and division, mass mobilization and
repression, communism and anticommunism, modernization and globalization,
with their associated modes of power and domination (whether political,
economic, ideological, racial, sexual, etc.).

By enabling comparisons between different periods and processes, this
conference aims at cross-historically and cross-disciplinarily examining
how the production of legal normativity and performativity intersects with
the (un)making of violence in Korea. Sites of analysis may comprise law in
the books (such as bodies of legislation and jurisprudence), in action
(via, for instance, the criminal system, judicial contests, or victims’
movements), and in fiction (through literature and film).
For a full conference schedule, please visit: http://web.sas.upenn.edu/
korea-on-trial/conference-schedule/. The conference is FREE and open to the
public. *Please register here
<http://web.sas.upenn.edu/korea-on-trial/registration/>.*



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Melissa Jen DiFrancesco
Associate Director
James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies
University of Pennsylvania
T: 215.573.8367 | F: 215.573.2561
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/koreanstudies/
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