[KS] Re: Kwangju Conference Schedule

[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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