[KS] Harvard KSGSC 2000

[Jiwon Shin]

KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2000

Saturday, April 15, 2000, Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University

8:15 - 8:30  REGISTRATION

8:30 Opening Remarks by Professor David R. McCann, Harvard University

9:00 - 10:30  PANEL ONE:  STATE POLICY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN SOUTH KOREA

Moderator:  Edward J. Baker

Youngshik Bong, University of Pennsylvania, "State Policymaking Behavior
and the Island Disputes in East Asia: ROK-Japanese Dispute on Tokto/Takeshima"

Soo-Jung Lee, University of Illinois, "Changing Discourse on and Identities
of Separated (North-South) Family Members"

Hyun Chool Lee & Byung-ok Kil, Konkuk University and Kent State University,
"The Political Construction of the State and Political Legitimacy in the
Case of South Korea"

10:30 - 11:25	PANEL TWO:  TONGHAK MOVEMENT 

Moderator:  Carter J. Eckert

George Kallander, Columbia University, "Divine Pronouncements: Ch'oe
Si-hyông and the Haewôl Sinsa Pôpsôl"

Carl Young, University of London, "Tonghak After the Tonghak Rebellion,
1895-1901"

11:25-12:20 PANEL THREE: LITERARY IMAGINATIONS

Moderator:  David R. McCann

Grace Koh, Oxford University, "Vision and Reconstruction of History Through
the Use of Literary Imagination in the Samguk Yusa"

Jiwon Shin, Harvard University, "Dance of Agony: Ansô's 1921 Translations
of Symbolist Poetry"

12:15 - 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 - 3:15 PANEL FOUR:  REPRESENTING PRE-MODERN IDENTITIES

Moderator:  Milan Hejtmanek

Joy Kim, Columbia University, "Recasting Slavery (Nobi-je) in Korean History"

Bonnie Kim, Columbia University, "Corrupt Functionaries, Institutional
Breakdown, or Bad Weather? Varied Approaches to Dating the Sillan Census
Register"

En Young Ahn, Monash University, "Problems in the Study of Traditional
Korean Aesthetics"

Richard King, Oxford University, "Documentary Sources on Kaya: A Survey of
Extant Records"

3:15 - 5:00 PANEL FIVE:  COLONIAL CRITIQUES AND POST-COLONIAL PERCEPTIONS

Moderator:  Michael Robinson

Somei Kobayashi, Hitotsubashi University, "GHQ/SCAP's Perception Toward
Korean Residents in Japan: 1945-1948"

Chiho Sawada, Harvard University, "Heavy Brains, Hairy Bodies, and Higher
Civilization: Namgung Byôk's Critique of Japan's Cultural Assimilation
Policy in Colonial Korea"

Scott Swaner, Harvard University, "Historiography and Fact or Ideology and
Fetish?  Looking Back at the Japanese Annexation of Korea"

Sue Jean Cho, Harvard University, "Outside the Diasporic Paradigm: The
'Atypical' Experience of Koreans in America"

5:00 - 5:30 Open Discussion:  THE FUTURE OF KOREAN STUDIES

For more information please visit our homepage:
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/>.






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