<div dir="ltr">2015 NEKST conference<div>University of Michigan</div><div>May 8-9, 2015 </div><div><br></div><div>KEYNOTE ADDRESS: </div><div><br></div><div>Michael Robinson (Indiana University)</div><div>"Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Korean Studies, Area Studies, and the New Academy"<br><div><br></div><div>PANELS: </div><div><br></div><div><div>POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY IN A DIVIDED KOREA</div><div><ul><li>Young Oh Jung (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto) "The Normalization of Universal Male Conscription in South Korean Society and the State Regulation of Draft Evasion and Conscientious Objection: 1950-1993"</li><li>Keehyun Ryu (History, Seoul National University) "The Organization and Activities of the Korea-Soviet Cultural Association: 1945~1950"</li><li>Donghyun Woo (History, Seoul National University) "The Soviet Korean in the Early History of North Korea, 1945-1948: Historiography and Sources"</li></ul></div><div>Discussant: Michael Robinson (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University)</div><div><br></div><div>THE MUNDANE AND THE SPECTACULAR: VISUAL AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS</div><div><ul><li>Jaeeun Park (Sociology, Université Lyon 2) "Sociological Portraits of the Middle Classes of Seoul in Wan-suh Park’s Novels"</li><li>Sophie Bowman (Korean Literature, Ewha Womans University) "Castle or Chicken Coup? Apartments as Experienced by Housewives in Korean Fiction"</li><li>Saena Ryu Dozier (Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota) "Spectacle as a Poetic Cinematic Language in Blockbuster Sagŭk"</li><li>Boyoung Chang (Art History, Rutgers University) "Constructing a new national identity: Contemporary Korean photography since the late 1980s"</li></ul></div><div>Discussant: Youngju Ryu (Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)</div><div><br></div><div>GENDER AND CLASS IN WAR-TIME KOREA<br></div><div><ul><li>Yuri Doolan (History, Northwestern University) "Before Yoon Geum Yi: A History of Camptown Women’s Social Movements, 1945-1992"</li><li>Sunho Ko (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto) "Will to Relief: Slash-and-burn Farmers and Colonial Elites in Wartime Colonial Korea, 1937-1945"</li><li>Yunji Park (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California) "Avant-garde Après Girl and the Aspiration for a New World in 1950s South Korea"</li><li>Kyunghee Han (Korean Literature, Seoul National University) "A Study on the Representations of War in O Chŏng-hŭi’s Novels"</li></ul>Discussant: Christopher Hill (Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)<br></div><div><br></div><div>BORDER-CROSSINGS AND THE KOREAN DIASPORA<br></div><div><ul><li>Stephen Cho Suh (Sociology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) "Nostalgic for the Unfamiliar: Korean Americans in South Korea"</li><li>Miya Qiong Xie (Comparative Literature, Harvard University) "Translation in Transculturation: Translations of Kim Tong-in’s “The Red Mountain” and the Position of Korean People in Manchukuo"</li><li>Naeyun Lee (Sociology, University of Chicago) "From Mono to Dual Nationality: Reshaping the Legal Boundaries of Citizenship in Korea and Japan"</li><li>Zhang Muyun (History, Tsinghua University) "1945-1949: the Living Status of Korean Diaspora in Northeast China"</li></ul>Discussants: Jaeeun Kim (Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan), Young Chae Seo (Professor, College of Humanities, Seoul National University)<br></div><div><br></div><div>ROUNDTABLE: </div><div>Studying “Chosŏn” as “NextGen” Humanities Scholars: The Terms of Inquiries<br></div><div>Participants:</div><div>Songhwa Chae (Korean Literature, Seoul National University)</div><div>Eunji Lee (Korean Literature, Seoul National University)</div><div>Kyung Hwa Lee (Archeology & Art History, Seoul National University)</div><div><div>Haeim Lee (Philosophy, Seoul National University)</div><div>Chair: Ki-in Chong (Korean Literature, Seoul National University)</div></div><div><br></div><div>See attached for more details.</div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">__________________________________</font></div><div><font color="#666666"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Do-Hee Morsman</font><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> | </font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Center Administrator </span></font></div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">정도희 | </span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">실장</span></font><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#666666"><br></font><div><font color="#666666"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Nam Center for Korean Studies | University of Michigan</font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"> </span></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">1080 S. 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