[KS] Re: Kwangju Conference Schedule

[Lionel Babicz]

It seems I made a mistake too. My apologies to all list members.

Lionel Babicz


>Dear Hyung Il,
>
>I have just received this message. Il seems you made a mistake...
>
>Lionel
>
>
>>dear walter,
>>I am sorry to miss you. school is too crazy to go down on friday since I
>>also have a japanese translation of meiji documents that day.
>>I think I am going down next weekend if we could meet. that would be great.
>>Hyung Il Pai
>>Associate Professor
>>East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
>>HSSB Building
>>University of California, Santa Barbara
>>CA 93106, U.S.A.
>>Fax: 805) 893-3011, Tel: 805) 893-2245
>>Email: Hyungpai at humanitas.ucsb.edu
>>
>>
>>----------
>> >From: Lew at humnet.ucla.edu (Walter K. Lew)
>> >To: korean-studies at mailbase.ac.uk, friendsnetwork at egroups.com
>> >Subject: Kwangju Conference Schedule
>> >Date: Wed, Apr 19, 2000, 7:45 PM
>> >
>>
>> > Fellow list-members,
>> >
>> > I post below the full schedule of the international Kwangju conference
>> > (Thursday-Saturday) since I do not believe that it has appeared yet on 
>>this
>> > list, although mention may have been made of the website
>> > <www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/EASC/kwangju.html>. I have had a chance to read
>> > preliminary drafts of a good number of the papers: they are 
>>informative, in
>> > a few cases quite bold, and, shd you be able to attend, well worth hearing
>> > and questioning in person. Tomorrow's panels and the first keynote address
>> > are at USC; Friday's and Saturday's events will be convened at UCLA.
>> > Yours, Walter K. Lew
>> >
>> > "Kwangju After Two Decades: Historical and Comparative Perspectives"
>> > Thursday - Saturday, April 20 - 22, 2000
>> >
>> > (Thursday, 4/20, at East Asian Library, USC &
>> > Friday and Saturday, 4/21-22, at UCLA Faculty Center in California  Room)
>> > http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/EASC/kwangju.html
>> >
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> > Day 1:  Thursday, April 20
>> > Remembrance and Reflection
>> >
>> > Opening Remarks (9:30-10:00)
>> > Welcoming Remarks: Dean Joseph Aoun, USC
>> >
>> > PANEL 1 (10:00-11:45): Shifting Meanings of Kwangju
>> >
>> > 1. Keunsik Jung, Chonnam University, Korea
>> > "The Kwangju Democratization Movement: Its Development and Historical
>> > Significance"
>> >
>> > 2. Tim Shorrock, Independent Journalist
>> > "The US and Kwangju: Twenty Years Later"
>> >
>> > Chair: George Totten, USC
>> > Discussant: Barbara Mori, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
>> >
>> > Luncheon (12:00-1:30) USC Faculty Center
>> > Keynote Address: Dr. Dong Won Kim, "The 5.18 People's Uprisings and Korean
>> > Democratization"
>> >
>> > PANEL 2 (2:30-5:00): Contested Memories
>> >
>> > 1. Don Baker, University of British Columbia
>> > "The Yin and Yang of May 18: The People of Kwangju as Victims and Heroes"
>> >
>> > 2. Linda Lewis, Wittenberg University
>> > "Public Memor(ies)/ Private Histor(ies): Remembering May 1980 in Kwangju
>> > after 20 Years"
>> >
>> > 3. Mark Peterson, Brigham Young University
>> > "Kwangju and the Victims: An examination of the sequence of events 
>>from the
>> > eyes of both the perpetrators and the victims"
>> >
>> > Chair: Kyung Moon Hwang, USC
>> > Discussant: Timothy Lee, UCLA
>> >
>> >                                      _______________________
>> >
>> > Day 2:  Friday, April 21
>> > Comparative Understanding
>> > (UCLA Faculty Center, California Room)
>> >
>> > PANEL 3 (9:00-11:00): Media Coverage
>> >
>> > 1. Shin Dong Kim, Hallym University, Korea
>> > "Manufacturing Events: A Comparative Study of the US Media Reports on the
>> > Kwangju Uprisings and the Tiananmen Crisis"
>> >
>> > 2. Serguei Kourbanov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
>> > "The Kwangju Uprisings Reflected in Principal Soviet Newspapers"
>> >
>> > 3. Lucie Cheng, University of California at Los Angeles
>> > "Media Coverage of the Kwangju Uprisings in the PRC and ROC"
>> >
>> > Chair: John Duncan, UCLA
>> > Discussants: Teresa Watanabe, LA Times; Walter Lew, UCLA
>> >
>> > Luncheon (11:30-1:00) UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room
>> > Keynote Address: The Honorable William Gleysteen, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to
>> > Korea, 1978-1981
>> > Welcoming Remarks:
>> > Vice Provost Phillip Trimble, UCLA
>> > Consul General Myongbai Kim, Korean Consulate General of Los Angeles
>> >
>> > PANEL 4 (1:30-3:00): Diffusion and Impact
>> >
>> > 1. Jeff Wasserstrom, Indiana University
>> > "Mass Media and Mass Action in East Asian Student Movements: From the
>> > Kwangju Massacre to the Chinese Anti-Nato Protests of 1999"
>> >
>> > 2. Jung-Kwan Cho, Yale University
>> > "The Kwangju Uprisings as a Vehicle of Democratization from a Comparative
>> > Perspective"
>> >
>> > Chair: Joon Young Choe, Kwangju University, Korea
>> > Discussant: Daniel Chirot, University of Washington
>> >
>> > PANEL 5 (3:30-5:00): Official Stories
>> >
>> > 1. Sallie Yea, Wellington University, New Zealand
>> > "Politics of Place: The Role of the Kwangju Uprising in Sustaining S.
>> > Cholla's Democratic Image"
>> >
>> > 2. Lynn Turk, Chief Political Officer, U.S. Embassy to Korea 1987-1990
>> > "Why After Nine Years?: The 1989 US Government Statement on Kwangju"
>> >
>> > Chair: Gi-Wook Shin, UCLA
>> > Discussant: Joe Manguno, CNN
>> >
>> > Reception and Dinner at the UCLA East Asian Library (6:00-8:00)
>> > "Celebrating the UCLA Archival Collection of Korean Democratization and
>> > Unification"
>> > Remarks: Mr. Wan Key Kim, Deputy Mayor of Kwangju
>> > Music by Jin Chul Yun and Jeong Muk Oh
>> >
>> >                                      _______________________
>> >
>> > Day 3: Saturday, April 22
>> > Forming a New Culture
>> > (UCLA Faculty Center, California Room)
>> >
>> > PANEL 6 (9:00-10:30): Literature and Culture
>> >
>> > 1. Kyeong-Hee Choi, University of Chicago
>> > "Arrested Time and Re-lived Self: Testimonial Representations of the
>> > Kwangju Uprisings"
>> >
>> > 2. Chungmoo Choi, University of California at Irvine
>> > "Narrativizing and Memorying Kwangju: Women's Writing"
>> >
>> > Chair: Sung-Ock Sohn, UCLA
>> > Discussant: Miriam Silverberg, UCLA
>> >
>> > PANEL 7 (11:00-12:30): Korean American Movements
>> >
>> > 1. Inbo Sim, Young Koreans United USA
>> > "5.18 and Korean American Movements"
>> >
>> > 2. Min Song, Boston College
>> > "Morae Sigye, Korean Americans, and Historical Knowledge"
>> >
>> > Chair: Kyeyoung Park, UCLA
>> > Discussant: Edward Chang, UC Riverside
>> >
>> > Closed Session on Conference Volume (12:30-1:30)
>> >
>> > Sponsors:  The UCLA Center for Korean Studies, the USC Korean Studies
>> > Institute, the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at USC, and the 5.18
>> > Memorial Foundation of Kwangju.  Co-Sponsors: Kwangju University, Dongshin
>> > University, the UCLA-USC Joint East Asian Studies Center, and the Young
>> > Koreans United of USA.
>> >
>> > UCLA Center for Korean Studies
>> > International Studies and Overseas Programs
>> > (310) 825-3284
>> > http://www.isop.ucla.edu/korea
>> >
>> > Walter K. Lew
>> > 11811 Venice Blvd.  #138
>> > Los Angeles, CA  90066
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >



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