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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><font face="times new roman, serif">February 22-23,
2018<span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><font face="times new roman, serif">Seminarhaus
0.017, Campus Westend, Goethe University of Frankfurt<span></span></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><font face="times new roman, serif">[Thursday, February
22]<span></span></font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">9:00</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">9:30</span></u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">
Registration <span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">9:30</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">10:00</span></u><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">
Welcome Remarks by Prof. Dr. <b>Elisabeth Hollender</b>, Dean of the Faculty of
<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Linguistics, Culture, and Arts, Goethe
University of Frankfurt<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Welcome
Remarks by Prof. Dr. <b>Bumhym Bek</b>, Consul General of Republic of Korea, <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Frankfurt<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Opening Remarks by Prof. Dr. <b>Yonson Ahn</b>,
Director of Korean Studies, Goethe <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif"> University
of Frankfurt<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">10:00</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">11:00</span></u><b><span style="line-height:115%"> </span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Keynote Speech I</span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"> </span></b><span style="line-height:115%">by<b> </b>Prof.<b> </b></span><b><span style="line-height:115%">Brenda S.A. Yeoh </span></b><span style="line-height:115%">(National
University of Singapore)</span><span style="line-height:115%">
Transnational Migration and Families on
the Move in Asia: Negotiating <span style="color:black">Intimacies
and Identities Across Borders<span></span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="color:black">11:00</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="color:black">11:15</span></u><span style="color:black">
Coffee Break<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">11:15</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">13:15</span></u><b><span style="line-height:115%"> <span style="color:rgb(46,116,181)">Panel I Migration and Gender <span></span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">(Chair: Dr. Ruth Achenbach)</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Kyoung-Hee Moon</b> (Changwon National University)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Gender, Race, and Migration: The Experiences of ‘First-Generation’
Korean Women in Australia <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span lang="DE" style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Minjung Kim</b> (Kangwon National
University)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Between Personal Choice and Social Exclusion: Diaspora Identities
of Intermarried Korean Women in the Philippines</span><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Mi-Jeong Jo </span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">(Goethe University of Frankfurt)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Gender and "Co-ethnicity":
Koryŏ saram Migrant Women and Family Relations in South Korea<span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="color:black">Dukin Lim</span></b><span style="color:black"> (University of Tokyo) <span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black">Reshaping Identity Through Family and Work: The Case of</span>
<span style="color:black">Highly Skilled Korean Migrant Women in Urban Japan</span><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u>13:15</u><u>–</u><u>14:45</u> Lunch Break<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">14:45</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">16:15</span></u><span style="line-height:115%"> </span><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Panel II Migration and Media <span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">(Chair: Prof. Changzoo Song)</span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"> </span></b><u><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></u></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Younghan Cho
& Mikah Lee </b>(Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black">Cultural Translation on YouTube: Self-Perceptions and Representation
of</span> <span style="color:black">Contemporary South Korea by Foreign
Expatriates</span><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">So Hye Kim</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"> (University of Chicago) <span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">In and Out of Uri (Us):
South Korean Documentary Films on Zainichi Korean Students in Chosŏn Schools<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Vicki Sung-Yeon Kwon</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"> (University of Alberta)
<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Reversing the Route of
Migration of Labours: Mixrice’s Return, 2006<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u>16:15</u><u>–</u><u>16:30</u> Coffee
Break<span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">16:30</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">17:30</span></u><span style="line-height:115%"> </span><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Panel
III Transnational Mobility in Historical Perspective <span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">(Chair: Prof. Stephen Cho Suh)</span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Javier Cha </b>(Seoul National University)<b><span></span></b></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Transnational Mobility,
Hybrid Identities, and the Founding of the Chos</span><span style="line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">ŏn Dynasty. </span><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Dolf Neuhaus</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"> (Free University of Berlin)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">“Awakening Asia”: Korean
Intellectuals in Japan, The Asia Kunglun, and Asian Solidarity, 1919–1923<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">19:00</span></u><span style="line-height:115%"> Group Dinner at Demera <span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:115%"><b><u><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><font face="times new roman, serif">[Friday, February 23] <span></span></font></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">09:30</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">10:30</span></u><b><span style="line-height:115%"> </span></b><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Keynote Speech II</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"> </span><span style="line-height:115%">by Prof. <b>Wayne Patterson</b> (St. Norbert College)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif">Korean
Immigration to the United States, 1903-1905: A New Look at Japanese Imperialism<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><u><span style="color:black"><span><span style="text-decoration-line:none"><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="color:black">10:30</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="color:black">10:45</span></u><span style="color:black">
Coffee Break<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">10:45</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">12:45</span></u><b><span style="line-height:115%"> <span style="color:rgb(46,116,181)">Panel IV Korean Diaspora and Return
Migration <span></span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">(Chair: Dolf Neuhaus)</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> German Kim</b> (Kazakh National University
& Konguk University) <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Correlation Between
Ethnic Identity and Return Migration from the CIS to South Korea<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Prof.<b> Matteo Fumagalli</b> (University of St
Andrews)</span><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Re-defining the
Homeland-Diaspora Nexus: South Korea and Koryŏ saram <span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Changzoo Song</b> (University of Auckland)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Koryŏ saram Diasporic
Returnees in South Korea: Constructing Identity as Lesser Koreans<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Stephen Cho Suh</b> (University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black">Diasporic
Reconciliation: Living as “Overseas Koreans” in South Korea</span><span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(31,78,121)"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">12:45</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">14:15</span></u><span style="line-height:115%"> Lunch Break<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(31,78,121)"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">14:15</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">15:45</span></u><span style="line-height:115%"> </span><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)">Panel
V Overseas Koreans: Family, Work, and Belonging <span></span></span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%">(Chair: Prof. Matteo Fumagalli)</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(46,116,181)"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="color:black">Jieun Lee</span></b><span style="color:black"> (University of Georgia) <span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="color:black">The Cartography of Korean Adoptees’ Transnational Mobility
and Identity:</span> <span style="color:black">Remapping Kinship, Citizenship
and Belonging in Eric Sharp’s Middle Brother<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Prof.<b> Yonson Ahn</b> (Goethe University of
Frankfurt)<span></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Caring for Others:
Korean Nurse “Guest Workers” in Germany</span><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Ruixin Wei </span></b><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">(Goethe University of Frankfurt)<span></span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="times new roman, serif">Linking, Bonding,
Bridging: Korean Chinese Students’ Use of Communication Technologies in Seoul,
Korea<span></span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><u><span style="line-height:115%">15:45</span></u><u>–</u><u><span style="line-height:115%">16:15</span></u></font><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Q&A and Closing Remarks<b> </b>by Prof. <b>Yonson Ahn</b></font> <font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size:12pt"><span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><br></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>-</b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif">Contact: Yonson Ahn (<a href="mailto:y.ahn@em.uni-frankfurt.de">y.ahn@em.uni-frankfurt.de</a>)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"> Mi-Jeong Jo (<a href="mailto:jo@em.uni-frankfurt.de">jo@em.uni-frankfurt.de</a>)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif">Best regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="line-height:115%"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><br></b></font></span></p></div>