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--></style></head><body lang=IT><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear List Members,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am pleased to share with you the program of the <b>15th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention</b> that will take place at <b>Sapienza University of Rome</b>, Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO), Marco Polo Building, from 27th to 29th September. </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><u>Conference Program<o:p></o:p></u></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Day 1: 27th September 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>9:30 –10:00 <b>OPENING SESSION</b> (Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Introduction: Giovanni Volpe, KSGSC Committee)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Alessandra Brezzi</b> (Director of ISO, Sapienza University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Welcoming speech</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Antonetta L. Bruno</b> (Director of Korean Studies at Sapienza University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Welcoming speech</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Soomyoung LEE</b> (Director of Korean Cultural Center)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Congratulatory remarks</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>10:00 – 11:00 <b>SESSION 1</b>. <b>Family Studies</b> (Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Giuseppina De Nicola, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Mi-Jeong Jo</b> (Goethe University of Frankfurt)</p><p class=MsoNormal>State Intervention and Reproductive Rights: From Population Control to State-Multiculturalism in South Korea</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Youngeun Koo</b> (University of Tübingen)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The Development of Korean Adoption to Sweden and Trans/national Imaginaries</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11:20 – 12:20 <b>SESSION 2. South Korean Cinema</b> <b>/ Modern History </b>(Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Mara Matta, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Vicent Plana Aranda</b> (SOAS)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Ha Gil-jong and the Cinema of the Yushin Era</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>AhRan Ellie Bae</b> (Rikkyo University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The Metamorphosis of the <i>Chin’il’pa</i> Criteria: From 1947 to Early 2000s</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>13:50 – 15:50 <b>SESSION 3. History of the Korean Language</b> (Aula 102)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Arianna D’Ottone Rambach, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Giovanni Volpe</b> (Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The <i>Hunmin Chŏng'ŭm</i> <span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif'>訓民正音</span> and the Reconstruction of the Missing Leaves of the Kansong Edition</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Younès M'Ghari</b> (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The <i>Wŏrinch'ŏn'gang chi Kok</i> <span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif'>月印千江之曲</span>: Perspectives of Research on a (not so) wellknown</p><p class=MsoNormal>Pre-modern Manuscript</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Ekaterina Logunova</b> (Russian State University for the Humanities)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Vowel sequence constraints and phonological rules of Modern Korean</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sungji Hong</b> (Kookmin University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Dialect Revision Process in John Ross's Book of Luke (1882, 1883, 1887)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>16:10 – 18:10 <b>SESSION 4. Economics / Social Studies</b> (Aula 102)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Marco del Bene, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Charlotte Webb</b> (SOAS)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Labour management and technical development in the DPRK: with particular reference to the introduction of the Taean Management System</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Evgenia An</b> (Goethe University of Frankfurt)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Career trajectories of transnational labor migrants: the case of post-soviet Koreans in South Korea</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Patricia Chica Morales</b> (University of Malaga)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The role of Korean ODA in Colombian Conflict</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Jee-Un Kim</b> (University of Tübingen)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Regulating and Controlling Music: The Transformation of Copyright Law in the 1990s and 2000s in South Korea</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Day 2: 28th September 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>9:00 – 11:30 <b>SESSION 5. Pre-Modern History</b> (Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Davor Antonucci, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Jean Hyun</b> (University of Oxford)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Burial Practices of the Mohe/Malgal</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Fudie Zhao</b> (University of Oxford)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The Source Challenge of Evaluating Intelligence Work of Joseon Korea’s Embassies during the Revolt of the Three Feudatories (1674-1681)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Marshall Craig</b> (University of Oxford)</p><p class=MsoNormal>How a Japanese turncoat became the pride of Chosŏn: the tale of Kim Ch'ungsŏn</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Jing Hu</b> (Leiden University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Digital Inquiry into Korean History Research: A Study on the Social Network of the Chungin Group</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Anastasia Artemova </b>(HSE, Moscow)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Tea and Lantern: life and oeuvre of Seon Buddhist monk Ch’oŭi <span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif'>草衣</span> (1786 - 1866)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>11:50 – 13:20 <b>SESSION 6. Korea and the Western World (19th-early 20th century) </b>(Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Filippo Salviati, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Ga Ryeong Pyo</b> (Seoul National University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>How the Chosŏn Literati Imagined the World</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Katharina Süberkrüb</b> (University of Hamburg)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Collecting in the End of Chosŏn Dynasty: European Encounters with Korean Material Culture</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Goeun Lee</b> (Academy of Korean Studies)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The Christian Landscape at Jongno in Early Twentieth Century: Focusing on the Christian Literature Society of Korea</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>14:50 – 16:50 <b>SESSION 7. Korean Literature</b> (Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Mi-Jeong Jo, Goethe University of Frankfurt)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Byungyong Yoon</b> (Seoul National University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Death of a Virtuous Woman, Birth of a Poet - The inner consciousness of Chosun women and</p><p class=MsoNormal>the meaning of writing poetry as revealed in <i>Myeongdojatansa</i> (<span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif'>명도자탄사</span>)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sejin Jeon</b> (Seoul National University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeong Ji Yong and Fra Angelico - Focusing on the concept of ‘Incarnational Image’</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Yulia Kovalchuk</b> (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The North Korean Images in the Contemporary South Korean Prose: The Imagological Approach</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Lucie Angheben</b> (Aix Marseille University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>The literary works of young Korean writers: images of an incurable suffering opening up to</p><p class=MsoNormal>the world</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>17:10 – 18:40 <b>SESSION 8. Nationalism and National Identity </b>(Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Antonetta L. Bruno, Sapienza University of Rome)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Aihua Li </b>(Leiden University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Diaspora Identity Creation as seen in Historical and Literary Research by Korean-Chinese scholars from the 1980s: focusing on the writer Kim Hak-Ch’eol</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Evgenia Lachina</b> (University of Haifa)</p><p class=MsoNormal>In Search for National Identity Far away from Homeland: A Story of a North Korean Taekwondo Master</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Grace Jung</b> (UCLA)</p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=KO style='font-family:"Malgun Gothic",sans-serif'>“</span>Infinite Challenge: Nationalism and its Transgressions on Yenŭng Television”</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Day 3: 29th September 2018<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>9:00 – 10:00 <b>SESSION 9. ROK International Relations</b> (Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: You Jae Lee, University of Tübingen)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Robert Lepertine</b> (SOAS)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Self Interest, Sport, and the Soviet Union: South Korea’s Rise and North Korea’s Boycott</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Francesca Frassineti </b>(University of Bologna)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Traces of developmentalism in South Korea`s foreign policy: The influence of the <i>sŏnjinguk</i> discourse on middle power diplomacy</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>10:20 – 11:20 <b>SESSION 10. Korean Language and Pragmatics </b>(Sala riunioni, III piano)</p><p class=MsoNormal>(Moderator: Ekaterina Logunova, Russian State University for the Humanities)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Ekaterina Malik</b> (Stockholm University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>A study of strategies for teaching compliments and compliment responses to Swedish learners of Korean</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Daria Selezneva</b> (Moscow State Linguistic University)</p><p class=MsoNormal>Attributes of South Korean Bias-Free Language, Political Correctness and Euphemia </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Giovanni Volpe<br><br>Ph.D. Student, Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Korean Studies<br>Sapienza University of Rome, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>