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Hi,<br><br>Could you please send out the following announcement? Thank you in advance for your consideration.<br><br>>>>><br><br>Dear list members,<br><br>I am pleased to announce the 2011 overseas conference of the International Association of Comparative Korean Studies (IACKS) at the University of Sourthern California (USC). This conference is co-organized by Eun Kyung Min (English, Seoul National University) and Sunyoung Park (EALC, USC) and is sponsored by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies, the Daesan Foundation, the USC Korean Studies Institute, the East Asian Studies Center, and the Korean Heritage Library. The participants are scholars from Korea and Koreanists from the So-Cal area. If you are living in the region, you are welcome to join us for this exciting academic event. Please see the program below. <br><br>Best,<br>Sunyoung Park <br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The 2011 IACKS-USC Conference</span></u></font><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><b style="">Colonial Modernity and Cultural Politics in 1930s Korea/East Asia</b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">Date: April 21, 2011<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Venue: the
Korean Studies Institute at USC (the KSI Ahn Family House, 809 West 34th St.)<span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This workshop aims to foster transnational intellectual
dialogues about Korea’s experience of colonial modernity by bringing together
Korean and American scholars who share an interest in the cultural politics of
1930s Korea and East Asia. Once regarded as an obscure transitional period
between the activist decade of the 1920s and the total war of the 1940s, the
1930s is today recognized as an era of extraordinary complexity, in which the
increasing political oppression by the Japanese regime went along with
expanding prosperity and economic opportunities for its Korean subjects. By
interrogating the tensions and ambiguities inscribed in the colonial crucible,
this workshop will seek to illuminate some of the social, psychological, and
cultural mechanisms that have defined the Korean heritage from the modern era
to our day.<span style=""> </span>A select group of
experts in the field will present their latest researches, which are
intertwined in various ways, to engage in a collective reflection on the
cultural politics of late colonial Korea. Among the issues to be raised by
these reflections are: the effects of rapid modernization on colonial cultural
institutions; the continuities and transformations in oppositional <span style="">literary</span> practices; <span style="">the construction of modern gender identities
and their contestations; </span>the impact of the assimilation policy on
Koreans’ self-identification; and the changing representations of Korea and the
Koreans in contemporary Japanese cultural discourses. Overall, by reflecting on
these topics and advancing more questions, the workshop will re-examine our
past and present representations of this controversial time as well as explore
future research directions in the cultural studies of colonial Korea.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>Schedule</u></b><b style=""><u><span style=""></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: -120pt;"><span style="">9:15-9:20 am<span style=""> </span>Opening
and Welcoming Remark</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: -120pt;"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Sunyoung Park (USC)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">9:20-9:30 am<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Introduction to the IACKS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>So-Hee
Lee (HYWU, President, IACKS)<span style=""> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: -120pt;"><span style="">9:30-9:40 am<span style=""> </span>Congratulatory
Remark and Introduction to Keynote Speaker</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: -120pt;"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Seong-Kon Kim (SNU, the 7<sup>th</sup>
President, IACKS)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">9: 40-10:30 am <span style=""> </span>Keynote Speech</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style="">Uchang Kim (Korea University, Emeritus
Professor) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">10:30-10:45 am <span style=""> </span>Coffee Break</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: -120pt;"><span style="">10:45-12:45 pm <span style=""> </span><b style="">Panel I</b>: <i style="">The Gendered Construction of Colonial Modernity </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 60pt;"><i style=""><span style="">and Modernism<span style=""> </span></span></i><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""></span><span style=""></span>Chair: Sunyoung Park (USC) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 15.85pt; text-indent: 2in;"><span style=""><span style=""></span>Hyo Sun Kim (Korea University), “Representations of Korean Women in Japanese<span style=""> </span>Magazines of 1930s Korea”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 64pt; text-indent: 96pt;"><span style="">Jennifer Jung Kim </span>(UCLA), <span style="">“</span><span style="">Café Waitresses</span> in Colonial Korea: From Exoticism <span style=""></span>to Empowerment<span style="">”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 159.85pt;"><span style="">Min-Ho Bang (Seoul National University), “The Conceptual Construction of Gyeongseong Modernism in the 1930s” </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.75in;"><span style="">Discussants: Kelly Jeong </span>(UC Riverside)<span style=""> and Christopher Hanscom </span>(UCLA)<span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">12:45-1:45 pm <span style=""> </span>Lunch Break</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">1:45-3:45 pm <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b style="">Panel II</b>: <i style="">Rethinking Colonial Leftist Literary Practices </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Chair: Seong-Kon Kim (SNU)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style="">Jin Sook Park (Chungbuk National University), “Peasant Novels and the Rural Revitalization
Campaign </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 114.05pt; text-indent: 51.95pt;"><span style="">of the 1930s”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 6pt;"><span style="">Sunyoung Park (USC), “‘Gained Was Ideology and Lost Was Art’: Leftist<span style=""> </span>Reportage as a Forgotten Aesthetic in
Late Colonial </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 48pt;"><span style="">Korea”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 45.95pt;"><span style="">Bo Sun Ryoo (Kunsan University), “Transplanted Modernity and Its Alternatives in Im Hwa’s Late-1930s Writings”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 60pt;"><span style="">Discussant: Samuel Perry (Brown University) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">3:45-4:00 pm <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>Coffee Break</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 80pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="">4:00-6:00 pm <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><b style="">Panel III:</b> <i style="">The Cultural Effects of the Assimilation Policy</i></span><i style=""><span style=""><span style=""></span><span style=""> </span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span>and Its Historical Memory</span></i><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="">Chair:
Eun Kyung Min (SNU) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style="">Daeseok</span> Yun<span style=""> </span>(Myungji University)<span style="">, “The Discourse of Blood in 1930s Korea”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style="">Serk-Bae Suh </span>(UC Irvine),<span style=""> “The Location of ‘Korean’ Culture: Ch’oe Chaeso
and Korean Literature in a Time of Transition”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 120pt; text-indent: 40pt;"><span style="">Kristine Dennehy (</span>California State
University<span style="">,</span> Fullerton), <span style="">“Remembering 1930s Korea in Post-Colonial Japan”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40pt;"><span style="">Discussant: Kyung Moon Hwang </span>(USC) and Gerard Clinton Godard
(Cambridge)<span style=""></span></p><br> </body>
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