<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><span><p class="ydp4a9ef87fMsoNormal">EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges and the UCI Center
for Critical Korean Studies will be co-hosting a conference, “Korea at Natures
Edge,” which will be on environmental issues on the Korean peninsula on <b>April
19 and 20</b> at UC Irvine. Organized by Eleana Kim (UCI), David Fedman (UCI)
and Albert L. Park (Claremont McKenna College), this conference is one of the first events to examine environmental
issues in Korea from different disciplinary angles.</p>
<p class="ydp4a9ef87fMsoNormal"><span></span></p><div style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><br></span></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><span><p class="ydpc4eb149fNormal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">KOREA AT NATURE’S EDGE:</span></b></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fNormal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">ENVIRONMENT & SOCIETY ON THE
KOREAN PENINSULA</span></b></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fNormal1" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">CONFERENCE AGENDA</span></b></p>
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<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Thursday, April 19, 2018</span></b></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"> </span></b></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Humanities Gateway (room 1030),
West Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA, 92697</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black"> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Welcoming Remarks</span></u><span style="color:black"> (8:45am): </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kyung Hyun Kim, Albert Park, David
Fedman, & Eleana Kim</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Panel
1 (9-10am):<i> Surveying the Physical Context </i></span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">What
are the defining features of the geophysical context of the Korean peninsula?
What challenges do they pose to the analysis of environmental issues on the
peninsula and how will our conference/edited volume address these challenges? <i></i></span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Speakers:</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Marc Los
Huertos, Pomona College</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Patrick
Fox, Swedish Red Cross </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Panel 2 (10-12pm): <i>Cultivating
Korea </i></span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Agriculture has shaped life and
landscape on the peninsula for centuries. What historical actors and agents
have shaped agriculture production? What have been the larger implications of
agricultural regime shifts? How might we use agriculture as a lens into
local/regional history in Korea? How do environmental issues around agriculture
illuminate political, economic, and cultural issues in Korea?</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Paper 1: “Cultivating the North: Agricultural Improvement and
Frontier Settlement in Chosŏn Korea,"</span> <span style="color:black">Wenjiao
Cai, Harvard University</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Paper 2:
“<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Communal Environmentalism in the Organic
Farming Movement in South Korea, 1976-1994,” </span>Yonjae Paik, Australia
National University</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Discussant:
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Break for Lunch</span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Panel 3 (1:30-3:30pm) <i>Landscape
and Affect</i> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Conceptions of Korean nature took
shape in the minds of its residents as much as in the landscape itself. How,
then, have Koreans in different periods imagines, visualized, or described the
natural world? How have Korean notions of landscape shaped their own sense of
national identity and the peninsula’s place in the world?</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Paper 1:
“</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Promise of the Wild:
the Political Life of Jeju Island’s Indigenous Forest,” </span><span style="color:black">Jeongsu Shin, University of Illinois</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Discussant: Margherita Long, University of California, Irvine</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Friday, April 20, 2018</span></b></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Humanities Gateway (room 1030),
West Peltason Dr., Irvine, CA, 92697</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black"> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Panel 4 (9-11am): <i>Global
Inflections</i></span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">People, ideas, natural resources,
and diseases have flowed fluidly in and out of the peninsula for centuries. It
stands in many respects as a cross-cultural conduit of Northeast Asia. What
role has the Korean peninsula played in shaping transnational environmental
trends, forces, or patterns? How might we use the peninsula as a lens into
larger environmental issues (such as industrial pollution or global warming)
that transcend national boundaries? What does the study of Korea offer to the
field of environmental history more generally? </span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Paper 1:
“The Politics of Environmental History in North Korea: Between Developmentalism
and Humanitarianism,” Suzy Kim (Rutgers University) & Ewa Erikkson (The Red
Cross)</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Paper 2:
“<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Global Ecologies, Unruly
Earthquakes, and South Korea’s Nuclear-Energy <span class="ydpc4eb149fm-3182597187620514052highlight">Entanglements,”</span></span></span> <span style="color:black">Nan Kim, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Discussant:
Youngmin Choe, University of Southern California</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black"> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Panel 5 (1-3pm): <i>Conservation
and Conflict</i></span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Situated between China, Japan, and
Russia, Korea has long been subject to imperial rivalries, occupation, and
foreign war. Efforts to manage Korea’s natural resources have routinely spawned
conflict. How, then, have different governing structures approached natural
resource management? What have been the ecological consequences of these
conflicts? How are the legacies of war inscribed on the landscape?</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="color:black">Paper 1: “</span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Outpost of Empire: The Mongol Origins of Korean Environments</span><span style="color:black">,” John S. Lee, Yale University</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Paper 2: “Making Communal Rules on
Collection of Forest Resources in the 20th Century,” </span><span style="color:black">Yi Uy</span>ŏ<span style="color:black">n, Seoul National
University</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;"> </p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 40.5pt;">Discussant:
Char Miller, Pomona College</p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><u><span style="color:black">Panel 6 (3:30-5:30pm): <i>Materiality
and Modernization</i> </span></u></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Amply endowed with natural
resources (including coal, timber, and gold), the Korean peninsula has long
been viewed as a repository of materials essential for state-building. How have
different regimes viewed, managed, conserved, and exploited the Korean
landscape and to what ends? How have the uses of Korea’s natural materials
changed over time and how in turn has this shaped the evolution of Korea’s
material culture? </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Paper 1: “Dammed Fish: Japanese Hydropower, Korean Expertise,
and the Remaking of a Piscatorial Periphery at the Yalu River,”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span><span style="color:black">Joseph Seeley, Stanford University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;color:black">Paper 2: “What's in a name: the discursive construction of waste
work in South Korea,” </span><span style="color:black">Hyojin Pak, Leiden
University</span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color:black">Discussant: Sunyoung Park, University of Southern
California</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="ydpc4eb149fMsoNormal"> </p>
<div style="text-align: left;"><b><span><p class="ydpf8270856MsoNormal"><span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Albert
L. Park</span></div>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Co-Principal
Investigator for EnviroLab Asia (<a href="http://envirolabasia.claremont.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://envirolabasia.claremont.edu/</a>)
and Associate Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College (The Claremont
Colleges)</span></p>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Associate
Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)—Korea</span></p>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Chair
of NEAC (Northeast Asia Council , AAS), 2018-2019</span></p>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Building
a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">: <a href="http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9354-9780824839659.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9354-9780824839659.aspx</a></span></p>
<p class="ydp415de555MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Iskoola Pota",sans-serif">Encountering
Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America: <a href="http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9135-9780824839475.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9135-9780824839475.aspx</a></span></i></p></span><br><p></p></b></div></span></div></span><p></p><span><div style="text-align:center"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span></span> </b></div></span><br></div></span></div></div></body></html>