[KS] February Colloquia at UC Berkeley Center for Korean Studies

Fri Feb 1 16:36:19 EST 2013

The Center for Korean Studies

University of California, Berkeley

Cordially invites you to the following colloquia in February

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Wither in Hong Songsoo - A reading of a story by Kyung Hyun Kim

Preceded by "Weather in Hong Sangsoo (video essay by Kyung Hyun Kim, 21 min)

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies | February 6 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=3315> Kyung Hyun Kim, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The speaker will read from a story about an imaginary dialogue that takes place between the narrator, a retired film critic, and Hong Sangsoo, an amnesiac filmmaker. It is set in 2022. The story attempts to braid together a few concerns in the works of Hong Sangsoo that encompass the possibility of nondualistic relations: between authenticity and falsity, between humility and vanity, and between cultivation and resolute action. 

Preceding this reading of a story entitled “Wither in Hong Sangsoo” is a 21-minute video essay called “Weather in Hong Sangsoo.” “Weather in Hong Sangsoo” is a compilation film that collages footage from films Hong has thus far directed in a career that spans over the past 15 years—one that began with his debut film, “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996), and continues most recently with “In Another Country” (2012). The video essay foregrounds cryptic themes found in Hong Sangsoo’s films, such as weather, trees, and the unseen, and argues that they are constant forces of passion, renewal, and even transmigration in Hong’s work. 

Kyung Hyun Kim is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of Critical Theory Emphasis at UC Irvine. He is the author of "The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema" [Duke University Press, 2004] and "Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era" [Duke University Press, 2011].

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Law and/or Justice in Island Disputes in East Asia

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Center for Japanese Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | February 11 | 4-6 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), IEAS Conference Room

Speaker:  <http://www.aiu.ac.jp/en/faculty/profile02.html> Tetsuya Toyoda, Associate Professor, International Law, Akita International University

Sponsors:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/> Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS),  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/> Center for Japanese Studies (CJS),  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS),  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/ccs/> Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)

The remaining three major territorial disputes in East Asia are over small islands: the Dokdo/Takeshima dispute between the Republic of Korea (and DPRK) and Japan, the Senkaku/Diaoyutai dispute between Japan and China (and Taiwan), and the Paracel and Spratly dispute between China (and Taiwan), Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines. With the rise of nationalism in East Asia, disputes over these islands have become serious impediments to regional cooperation. One of the reasons for this unease comes from the fact that the rules of modern international law for territorial demarcation do not fit the sense of justice maintained by the peoples of East Asia. 

The speaker will explain the possible solutions that best fit this sense of justice, and thus are least unacceptable in the region, with particular attention to Art. 121(3) of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea which provides that rocks which cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own shall have no exclusive economic zone or continental shelf.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cjs-events at berkeley.edu> cjs-events at berkeley.edu, 510-642-3156

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What Is the K in K-pop? The Soft-Power Industry and the Hollowed Tradition in South Korea

Colloquium: Institute of East Asian Studies | February 14 | 4-6 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor), IEAS Conference Room

Moderator: Elaine Kim, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Speaker:  <http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/john-lie> John Lie, Professor, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Sponsors:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/> Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS),  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

How do we make sense of the global expansion of South Korean popular music? By considering its history and the production process, this talk will explain not only the sources of K-pop's export success but also provide a window that illuminates contemporary South Korean political economy and Korean culture.

This talk is part of a series of presentations by IEAS Residential Research Fellows.

Event Contact: 510-642-2809

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Seeking Asylum, Finding God: Religion and Moral Economy of Migrants' Illegality

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies | February 15 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/jaeeun_kim/> Jaeeun Kim, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The literature on immigration and religion has recently focused on how religion provides an alternative imaginary geography of belonging beyond the nation-state. Such works have analyzed how membership in a faith community provides illegal migrants with a path to de facto incorporation into the “local” society or a sense of belonging to a “transnational” community of faith, despite their de jure exclusion from the “national” citizenry in their state of residence. 

This talk will discuss the hitherto underexplored question, namely, how asylum procedures in contemporary immigration states prompt a certain group of migrants to take on a particular religious identity in pursuit of legal status. Drawing on ongoing research on the migration careers, legalization strategies, and conversion patterns of ethnic Korean migrants from China to the United States, the speaker shows that asylum-seeking is a contingent, temporally unfolding, and essentially an interactive process, guided not by long-term planning, but by everyday pragmatism, shifting state policies, and various middlemen informing migrants’ perception of these policies. Kim also shows how religious institutions -- which have developed distinctive understandings of the nation, the community of faith, and divine justice -- get involved in, respond to, channel, and give meanings to this particular legalization strategy, and how the newly acquired religious identity reshapes these migrants’ “cartography of belonging,” through which they make sense of their place in the local society, in the states of origin and residence, and in the transnational community of faith.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Introducing Hearts of Pine: Songs in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese "Comfort Women"

Colloquium: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | February 19 | 4 p.m. |  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic> Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker:  <http://individual.utoronto.ca/kippen/Ethnomusicology/faculty.html> Joshua Pilzer, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

In this presentation ethnomusicologist Josh Pilzer introduces the book that has resulted from his ten-year project on musical lives of South Korean survivors of the ‘comfort women’ system. During the long era of public secrecy about Japanese military sexual slavery, Korean survivors made use of veiled expressive forms such as song to reckon with their experiences and forge social selves without exposing their already opaquely public secrets. In the era of the “comfort women grandmothers” protest movement, which began in the early 1990s, the women became star witnesses and super-symbols of South Korea’s colonial victimization at the hands of Japan; and the new normative constraints of this role compelled the women to continue to express taboo sentiments and continue the work of self-making behind the veils of song, often in the most public of places. The women’s songs are thus simultaneously records of traumatic experiences; transcripts of struggles to overcome traumatic memory and achieve different kinds of cultural membership; performances of traumatic experience for an expectant public; and works of art that stretch beyond the horizons of traumatic experience and even those of Korean cultural identity. 

Speaker Biography

Joshua D. Pilzer (PhD University of Chicago 2006) is an ethnomusicologist of Korean and Japanese music. His current research concerns the place of music in the texture of post-colonial Korean life, music’s social utility and social poetics, and music as alternative history. He is interested in particular in the relationships between music, survival, traumatic experience, marginalization, socialization, public culture, and identity. He is the author of Hearts of Pine (Oxford University Press, 2012). Pilzer has published articles in Ethnomusicology, Dongyang Umak Yeonggu, and The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), and has forthcoming articles in The Oxford Handbook of Applied Ethnomusicology and Music and War. He is currently conducting fieldwork for his next book project, an ethnography of music and song among Korean victims of the atomic bombing of Japan and their children in Hapcheon, “Korea’s Hiroshima.”

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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Balancing, Bandwagoning, or Standing Alone?: China's Rise and the Future of the Korean Peninsula

Colloquium: Center for Chinese Studies: Center for Korean Studies: Institute of East Asian Studies | February 27 | 12 p.m. | 223  <http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?moses> Moses Hall

Speaker:  <http://www.cimoon.net/index.html> Chung-in Moon, Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University

Sponsor:  <http://ieas.berkeley.edu/cks/> Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

What is South Korea’s perception of China’s rise? How has China’s rise influenced its interactions with the two Koreas as well as the ROK-US alliance? What is South Korea’s most ideal strategic choice? Balancing, bandwagoning, standing alone, or shaping a new regional order? What implications might these options have on the future of Korean peninsula?

Chung-in Moon is a professor of political science at Yonsei University and Editor-in-Chief of Global Asia, a quarterly magazine in English. He is also Director of the Kim Dae-jung Presidential Library and Museum. He served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative, a cabinet-level post, and Ambassador for International Security Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Republic of Korea. He has published over 45 books and 250 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals. His recent publications include What Does Japan Now Think? (in Korean, 2013), The Sunshine Policy-In Defense of Engagement as a Path to Peace in Korea (2012), Exploring the Future of China (in Korean 2010 and Chinese in 2012), The United States and Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues, and New Order (with John Ikenberry 2008), and War and Peace in East Asia (2006). He attended the 1st and 2nd Pyongyang Korean summit as a special delegate. He is a recipient of Public Policy Scholar Award (the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C.), the Lixian Scholar Award (Beijing University), and the Pacific Leadership Fellowship (UCSD). He served as the President of the Korea Peace Research Association and Vice President of the International Studies Association (ISA) of North America. He is a member of ASEAN Regional Forum-Eminent and Expert Persons (ARF-EEPs) representing South Korea and served as co-chair of the first and second AFR-EEPs meetings in June 2006 and February 2007.

Event Contact:  <mailto:cks at berkeley.edu> cks at berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674

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And other related events…

Asian Business & Innovation Seminar

Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, February 6 – noon-1:45 pm (IEAS Conference Room)

Speakers (in alphabetical order):  

(1) Ms. Seiko ARAI, University of California, Berkeley

(2) Mr. Osamu ONODERA, Director of Silicon Valley Office of the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) (A former Director of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Government of Japan (METI))

(3) Mr. Ting-An WANG, Director, Science & Technology Division, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office (TECO) in San Francisco

Overview of Technological Catch-up in East Asia and Governments’ Role

(1)     NEDO's Role in Japanese Technology Policy and Recent Projects in the US

(2)     Industry and Science & Technology Policy of Taiwan

Location: Institute of East Asian Studies Conference Room (6th Floor, 2223 Fulton Street, Berkeley, CA)

*Maps can be found at these URLs:

http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml?athletic 

http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Public_Works/Level_3_-_General/berkeleyMap.pdf 

Abstract: This seminar introduces the roles of public policy and government-funded organization that promote science & technology and high tech industries in Japan and Taiwan. Mr. Onodera, NEDO, will talk about NEDO’s recent activities and the Japanese government policy on industry and technology. Mr. Wang, TECO, will explain how the industry and science & technology policy helped the success of Taiwanese high tech industries as well as the current policy of the Taiwanese government. Seiko Arai will introduce empirical studies on how Korean and Taiwanese firms upgraded technologies and how their governments contributed to the success.

Sponsor: Asian Business and Innovation Forum 

Contact information: Seiko Arai (Dr)

University of California, Berkeley

Institute for Business Innovation (IBI)

Haas School of Business 

Email: seiko_arai at haas.berkeley.edu

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