[KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 79, Issue 25: Lecture Series and Workshop on Truth and Reconciliation (Monica Kim)

david_calleja at foreignpolicyjournal.com david_calleja at foreignpolicyjournal.com
Tue Jan 26 09:13:08 EST 2010


Hi Monica,

I was wondering if you can advise as to whether notes or summaries
regarding the workshops will be available online. I am in Australia and
would be interested in seeing such documents.

Thanks for your assistance.

Regards,

David Calleja 
Writer - Foreign Policy Journal
email: david_calleja at foreignpolicyjournal.com
website: www.foreignpolicyjournal.com



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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. MLA CFP II (Kelly Jeong)
>    2. Binghamton University establishes Center for Korean Studies
>       (Chungse Jung)
>    3. Lecture Series and Workshop on Truth and Reconciliation
>       Commission in Korea (Monica Kim)
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:11:08 -0800
> From: Kelly Jeong <kelly.jeong at ucr.edu>
> To: koreanstudies <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
> Subject: [KS] MLA CFP II
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> Dear colleagues,
> 
> I would also like to advertise an MLA panel I'm organizing for Jan. 2011
> meeting.  Please see below.  Thank you.
> 
> 
> *Session type*:Division*Organization*:East Asian Languages and
Literatures
> after 1900*Title of session*:Narrating Tortured Lives in East
> Asia*Submission
> requirements*:250-word abstracts*Deadline for submissions*:4 Mar. 2010*
> Description*:Papers on personal narratives of gender, class or social
> oppression, fictional or historical. Comparative East Asian perspectives
> welcome.
> 
> In recent centuries, narrating lives in East Asian contexts have often
been
> manifested, on the one hand, as 'private' forms of literature such as
> essays, diaries and letters, and, on the other, as biographies of
> exceptional individuals whose tumultous life stories lead us to question,
> problematize and complicate East Asian cultures' agenda for progress and
> enlightenment.  And as such, these texts are motivated by and connected
to
> issues of power and possible changes in the existing status quo, whether
> social, cultural, sexual or political.  This panel hopes to shed a new
> light
> on these issues by exploring the theme of "torture," widely defined, and
> challenges to oppression through historical changes found in the
narration
> of extraordinary lives in East Asian literature. Comparative East Asian
> perspectives are welcomed.
>   *Contact person information*Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong at ucr.edu)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kelly Y. Jeong
> Assistant Professor,
> Department of Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages
> UC Riverside
> 900 University Avenue HMNSS 2401
> Riverside, CA  92521
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> Tel  951 827 5007
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> Binghamton University establishes Center for Korean Studies
> 
> Binghamton, NY - Binghamton University, State University of New York, has
> established a Center for Korean Studies to enhance Korean linguistic and
> cultural learning opportunities and activities. The Center, which is a
part
> of the University's Institute of Asia and Asian Diasporas, plans to
support
> Binghamton University's academic and research programs on Korea. Serving
as
> the Center's founding director is Sungdai Cho, associate professor of
> Korean and linguistics and a chair of Korean Special Interest Group (SIG)
> at American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Cho is
> also co-chair of the "National Standards for Learning Korean" task force
> associated with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
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> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:52:31 -0500
> From: Monica Kim <monkim at umich.edu>
> To: koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> Subject: [KS] Lecture Series and Workshop on Truth and Reconciliation
> 	Commission in Korea
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> Series of Lectures on the Work of the Truth and Reconciliation  
> Commission in Korea
> Organized by the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea
> January 28th thru February 9th - Various Universities
> 
> In 2005 the South Korean National Assembly established a Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commission in keeping with its maturation as a  
> constitutional democracy. The Commission sought to ?reveal the truth  
> behind civilian massacres during the Korean War and human rights  
> abuses during the [South Korean] authoritarian period and the anti- 
> Japanese independence movement.? Join us to learn about the struggle  
> to write truth into Korea?s modern history and recent evidence of  
> U.S. and South Korean responsibility for the massacre of civilians  
> before and during the Korean War.
> 
> Professor Dong-choon Kim, a former commissioner of the Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commission, will give his reflections upon the work  
> achieved and limitations encountered by the commission during his  
> tenure, and the consequences of the Commission?s work on the current  
> socio-political landscape. What kind of legal and social limitations  
> surrounded the beginning of the commission? Was this commission able  
> to break the structuralized silences within Korean society?  What  
> kind of ?truth? was the commission able to attain? And what kind of  
> obstacles has the commission had to overcome in order to continue its  
> work?
> 
> Please feel free to forward this information widely.  If you have  
> questions regarding a specific talk, please contact the host  
> institution directly.
> 
> For questions regarding the lecture series, and especially events at  
> University of Michigan, contact me, Monica Kim, at monkim at umich.edu.
> 
> Thursday, January 28:
> University of Chicago
> Lecture:
> The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ROK (TRCK):  
> Uncovering the Hidden Stories of the Korean War
> TIME: 4:00 PM ? 6:00 PM
> PLACE: Social Sciences 122
> 
> Friday, January 29:
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
> Korea Workshop: Disquieting Traces: Critical Reflections on the Truth  
> and Reconciliation Commission
> TIME: 1:00 PM ? 3:00 PM
> PLACE: Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building
> 
> Monday, February 1:
> Johns Hopkins, SAIS
> US Korea Institute
> Lecture: Disquieting Traces: Critical Reflections on the Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commision
> TIME: 12:00 PM ? 2:00 PM
> PLACE: BOB 500 (SAIS)
> 
> Tuesday, February 2:
> University of Michigan
> Center for Korean Studies
> TIME: 4:00 PM ? 5:00 PM
> PLACE: Room 1644, School of Social Work Building
> Conversations on Archives: Graduate Student Research Workshop
> Professor Dong-choon Kim will talk with graduate students about the  
> archives of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
> 
> Wednesday, February 3:
> University of Michigan
> Center for Korean Studies
> TIME: 4:00 PM ? 5:30 PM
> PLACE: Room 1636, School of Social Work Building
> Lecture: Disquieting Traces: Critical Reflections on the Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commission
> Discussion Panelists: David Lloyd, Professor of English, University  
> of Southern California; Monica Kim, Ph.D. Candidate in History,  
> University of Michigan
> 
> Friday, February 5:
> Cornell University
> East Asia Colloquium
> Lecture:
> Disquieting Traces: Critical Reflections on the Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commission
> TIME: 4:30 PM ? 6:00 PM
> PLACE: Uris Hall
> 
> Monday, February 8:
> University of Toronto
> Centre for Korean Studies
> Lecture:
> Disquieting Traces: Critical Reflections on the Truth and  
> Reconciliation Commission
> TIME: 12:00 PM ? 2:00PM
> PLACE: 208N, North House
> 
> Tuesday, February 9:
> University of California, San Diego
> School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
> Lecture:
> Hidden Shores of the Korean War: Critical Reflections on the Work of  
> the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
> TIME: 4:00 PM
> PLACE: Location: IR/PS Robinson Complex, Gardner Room
> ****
> 
> Monica Kim
> Ph.D. Candidate in History
> University of Michigan
> Steering Committee Member, ASCK
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