[KS] Kwangju Conference Schedule

Walter K. Lew Lew at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU
Wed Apr 19 22:45:30 EDT 2000


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

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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
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Los Angeles, CA  90066





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