[KS] Re: Kwangju Conference Schedule

Thu Apr 20 17:13:47 EDT 2000

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

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>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
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> Los Angeles, CA  90066
>
>
>
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