[KS] Committee on Korean Studies Spring 2023 Newsletter
Cheehyung Harrison Kim
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*Spring 2023 Newsletter*
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Dear Members of the Committee on Korean Studies,
I hope this message finds you all in high spirits! As we begin the Year of
the Water Rabbit, I wanted to express my gratitude for your many
contributions to the Korean Studies community. Thank you for your continued
dedication and hard work.
It's exciting to see that the COVID-19 situation is improving, and I am
optimistic that we will be able to enjoy more in-person encounters and
exchanges in the coming year. To that end, please mark your calendars for
our annual meeting at the 2023 AAS on Saturday, March 18th from
12:15pm-1:45pm at the Hynes Convention Center, Meeting Room 200 (second
level). This year, thanks to extra funding from the Korea Foundation, we
are able to offer a lunch buffet. Let's all come together to enjoy great
food, the company of fellow Koreanists, and maybe even make some new
friends!
If you are already in the Boston area on Thursday, March 16th, consider
joining us for the inaugural Korean Object Study Workshop (KOSW) at the
Harvard Art Museums. We will have a special viewing of Korean objects from
the museum's collection, ranging from Three Kingdoms ceramics to
embroidery, painting, and late 19th-century photographs. This is a
fantastic opportunity to learn more about Korean visual and material
culture and connect with other scholars in the field. For more information
and to sign up, please visit https://www.koreanstudies.org
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.
I am also delighted to share that our Korean Studies Mentorship Program is
scheduled to take place in a hybrid format, both preceding and during the
AAS conference. It is a vital aspect of our mission to nurture and guide
the next generation of scholars within the Korean Studies community, and
therefore I wish to express my profound gratitude to both the mentees who
submitted applications and the mentors who volunteered to provide their
invaluable guidance and insights. Their willingness to invest their time
and energy into the program is a testament to the enduring commitment of
our community to support and nurture the next wave of Korean Studies
scholars.
I look forward to giving a warm welcome to the two new board members who
will be elected in forthcoming weeks. They will be replacing outgoing
members Travis Workman and Sohoon Yi. Travis Workman has made invaluable
contributions to our community as previous CKS Chair, and Publication
Director/Newsletter Editor Sohoon Yi’s dedication and passion for the
newsletter have ensured that our community remained and remains
well-informed and engaged.
As always, if you have any questions about CKS, please don't hesitate to
reach out to me or any other board member. I look forward to seeing many of
you in Boston and to an exciting year of Korean Studies!
Warmest regards,
Maya Stiller
Chair, Committee on Korean Studies
*CKS EVENTS DURING AAS2023*
*Korean Object Study Workshop (KOSW)*
*(Organized by CKS together with the AAS Local Arrangements Committee & the
Harvard Art Museums)*
When? : Thursday, March 16, 3:00pm-4:30pm
Where? : Art Study Center, level 4, Harvard Art Museums
*AAS Annual Meeting of Committee on Korean Studies*
When? : Saturday, March 18, 12:15pm-1:45pm
Where? : Hynes Convention Center – NEW Meeting Room 200 (Second Level)
- 12:15-12:45pm Opening of the buffet
- 12:45-1:00pm Greeting and introductions, including new members
of the board
- 1:00pm-1:15pm News and feedback about programs organized by CKS
- 1:15pm-1:30pm Ross King's report on the IUC at SKKU
- 1:30-1:45pm Open floor and sharing of members' news
*Editors' comments*
It's been my honor to serve the Korean Studies community the last three
years. Many tasks still remain to be done to promote Korean Studies, build
a sense of community, and publicize research by Koreanists, but I leave it
in the capable hands of the incoming board members. My special gratitude to
Jieun Kim at Ewha Womans University for the editorial support the last two
years.
Best Regards,
Sohoon Yi
Newsletter Editor, Committee on Korean Studies Board Member
*Please be informed that the CKS Board reserves the right to not publish
content in the CKS Newsletter that is deemed irrelevant to members and/or
goes against the public stances of the Committee.*
*Newsletter Table of Contents*
- CKS Program at the AAS: Korean Object Study Workshop (KOSW)
<#m_208875288028382629_Mentoring+Workshop>
- AAS Panels on Korea by CSK Members <#m_208875288028382629_AASpanels>
- Member News <#m_208875288028382629_Member+News>
- Call for Papers <#m_208875288028382629_cfp>
- Other Information and Updates <#m_208875288028382629_Others>
- Digital Database on Korean Studies
<#m_208875288028382629_KS+Digital+Database>
- Korean Studies Programs Updates <#m_208875288028382629_programsupdates>
*cfp *
- cfp: International Conference at Autonomous University of Barcelona
- cfp: 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Literature Association
- IKS Book Manuscript Workshop
- AKSE conference 2023
- UT Austin Workshop
*Other Announcements*
- 2023 IKSU Annual International Conference
- MA Scholarships in North Korean Studies
- PhD Scholarship in Research on Korea
*Digital Database on Korean Studies*
<#m_208875288028382629_KS+Digital+Database>
- Science Fiction in Korea: Between History, Genre and Politics
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- Autographic Atlas of Korea
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*Korean Studies Programs Updates* <#m_208875288028382629_programsupdates>
- Retirement of Professor Clark W. Sorensen
- Updates from the Korean Studies at the Autonomous University of
Barcelona
- Fall 2022 Colloquium and Graduation Ceremony, IUC at SKKU
*CKS Program at the AAS: Korean Object Study Workshop (KOSW)*
*When? Thursday, March 16, 3:00pm-4:30pm Where? Art Study Center, level 4,
Harvard Art Museums*
KOSW is a new initiative organized by the AAS’s Committee on Korean Studies
(CKS) with the purpose of encouraging Asian Studies scholars to incorporate
Korean visual/material culture in their teaching and research. While this
event is particularly geared towards Committee on Korean Studies members,
general AAS members are warmly welcome to join. Participants will be able
to view a variety of objects and materials that are currently not on view
in the galleries, including modern and pre-modern Korean painting,
embroidery, print, photography, and ceramics. This year’s workshop will be
led by Maya Stiller, currently Chair of the Committee on Korean Studies and
Associate Professor of Korean Art & Visual Culture at the University of
Kansas.
Participation in this workshop is free of charge. Please note that the
Harvard Art Museums are waiving admission fees for all AAS registrants
during the conference. Students of all ages/institutions are also always
free (must show school ID).
To participate in this workshop, please register at this Google form
<https://koreanstudies.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b84c05785aa59e86eff5d5226&id=bf437e9599&e=933bc597f5>.
The number of participants is limited to 15. Registration will be accepted
on a first-come-first-served basis.
*CKS Guide to AAS Panels on Korea*
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This guide lists select Korea-related panels and papers by CKS
members. Check the AAS program for abstracts and panel descriptions.
*Transnational Forms of Knowledge in and out of Korea: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives of Student and Scholar Mobility*
*Date & Venue: *Saturday, March 18, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Hynes
Convention Center Room 107 (Plaza Level)
*Organizer & Chair: *Stephanie K. Kim (Georgetown University)
*Presenters: *Joon Young Jung (Seoul National University), Hanmee N. Kim
(Wheaton College), Sang Mee Oh (George Mason University Korea), Stephanie
K. Kim (Georgetown University)
A rising number of students crossing national borders to study as well as
increasing transnational research and institutional networks have led
scholars to explore how higher education institutions are adapting to and
reflecting an increasingly interconnected world. Put differently,
globalizing forces are often treated as contexts to the movement and the
interconnectedness of ideas and people in higher education. While
acknowledging the importance of these questions, this panel also seeks to
explore a question less explored—its flipside. Namely, in what ways are
these institutions the very sites that shape globalizing dynamics and the
movement of people and ideas? In what ways are students going overseas
agents and shapers of these globalizing dynamics? This panel explores these
questions with a focus on Korean students studying overseas and academics
in Korean academic institutions. Bringing in both historical and
contemporary perspectives, this panel locates universities as crucial sites
and students and scholars as key agents in articulating and disseminating
transnational forms of knowledge and shaping mobility patterns. They not
only connect people and ideas across borders, but also shape ways in which
to do so. The panel explores this topic across different time periods.
Hanmee Kim examines Korean students in the U.S. during the colonial period,
while Joon Young Jung explores Japanese researchers at Keijo Imperial
University (Seoul) from 1926 and their significance to postwar Japan.
Sangmee Oh takes the discussion to the 1950s/60s Korean American students,
and Stephanie Kim explores contemporary South Korean students in the
California higher education system.
Link for more information
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*“Religioscape” Under Reconstruction: Korean Evangelical Christianity and
Its Transpacific Entanglements*
*Date & Venue:* Thursday, March 16, 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Boston
Sheraton Hotel - Clarendon (3rd Floor)
*Organizers: *Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan), Myung-Sahm Suh (Ewha
Womans University)
*Chair:* Nicholas H. Harkness (Harvard University)
*Discussants: *Nicholas H. Harkness (Harvard University), Yookyeong C Im
(Harvard University)
*Presenters: *Helen Jin Kim (Emory University), Myung-Sahm Suh (Ewha Womans
University), Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan), Erica Vogel (Saddleback
College)
This interdisciplinary session examines how the “religioscape” of the
Korean evangelical church (broadly conceived), both home and abroad, has
been constituted, contested, and transformed by the transpacific
circulation of people, money, information, and meanings, focusing on the
first two decades of the twenty-first century. This period is characterized
by the advent of the “New Cold War” with renewed geopolitical tensions, the
advancement in gender equality and sexual minority rights, the (far) Right
mobilization against such liberalization, and the rise of South Korea as an
important node of transnational migration within and beyond northeast Asia.
Drawing on archival and ethnographic data, the papers analyze various ways
in which Korean Christians with the evangelical leaning have responded to
these economic, political, and cultural reconfigurations inside and outside
the Korean peninsula. Helen Jin Kim and Myung-Sahm Suh examine the
intersection of Cold War and gender/sexual minority politics. They shed
light on how Cold War imaginaries and the place of evangelical Christians
in “world affairs” are renegotiated and transformed through their
transpacific entanglements with American politics over the course of the
Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. The transpacific entanglement that
Jaeeun Kim and Erica Vogel focus on is transpacific migration into and out
of South Korea, shaped profoundly by global capitalism, economic
inequality, restrictive immigration policies, class anxieties, and
missionary aspirations. They examine the tension-ridden encounters between
Korean evangelicals with coethnic “brethren” on the one hand, and
ethnoracial “others” on the other, in South Korea, northeast China, the
U.S., and Latin America.
Link for more information
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*Boundless Translations: Religious Encounters in Transnational Asia*
*Date & Venue: *Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, Boston
Sheraton Hotel - Back Bay A (2nd Floor)
*Organizer: *Shalon Park (Princeton Theological Seminary)
*Chair: *Donald Baker (The University of British Columbia)
*Discussant:* Jungwon Kim (Columbia University)
*Presenters: *Violetta Ravagnoli (Emmanuel College), Meng-heng Lee
(Columbia University), Franklin Rausch (Lander University), Shalon
Park (Princeton Theological Seminary)
This panel examines the fluidity of borders and identities within East
Asian cross-cultural religious encounters with a focus on global Catholic
histories. Taking translation as a critical framework for examining the
process of knowledge production ranging from religious, legal, literary,
linguistic, inter-semiotic, and performative, the panel examines the
boundary-making process within the global Catholic exchanges. The panel
delves into the question of translation and global Catholic histories by
asking: What histories, events, practices, and agents have been involved in
translating and forging the new concepts and identities within the Catholic
network? What are the links between global and local religious histories?
What is the significance of translation in the critical study of religion?
Link for more information
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*Buddhist Sounds in Contemporary Japan and South Korea*
*Date & Venue: *Saturday, March 18, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Hynes
Convention Center - Meeting Room 201 (Second Level)
*Organizer & Chair: *Barbara Wall (University of Copenhagen)
*Discussant: *Katherine Lee (University of California, LA)
*Presenters: *Duncan Reehl (Boston University), Iljung Kim (University of
British Columbia), Erez Joskovich (Tel Aviv University), Barbara Wall
(University of Copenhagen)
In the Diamond Sutra the Buddha admonishes those who try to seek Buddha in
sound are practicing non-Buddhist methods. Although the relationship
between Buddhism, music and “patterned expressions of sounds” is
complicated, sounds play an important role in many practices of Buddhist
cultures. This panel will explore Buddhist sounds and especially their
popularization in contemporary Japan and South Korea.
Link for more information
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*Roundtable on South Korean Soft Power and Public Diplomacy*
*Date & Venue: *Saturday, March 18, 2023, 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM, Hynes
Convention Center - Meeting Room 103 (Plaza Level)
*Organizer:* Kyong Yoon (University of British Columbia)
*Chair:* Hyung-Gu Lynn (University of British Columbia)
*Discussants*: Dal Young Jin (Simon Fraser University), Kyong Yoon
(University of British Columbia), Irina Lyan (Hebrew University of
Jerusalem), Sarah A Son (University of Sheffield)
The recent growth of South Korean popular culture in the global mediascape,
known as the Korean Wave, has triggered academic analysis not only for its
cultural or economic effects, but also for its potential as a diplomatic
and soft power tool in international relations. This roundtable session
examines how and why the Korean Wave affects and is integrated into South
Korea’s foreign relations and explores larger implications for notions of
public diplomacy and soft power.
According to Hallyu-as-soft power proponents, popular culture has generated
significant benefits for South Korea’s national image as these texts and
commodities have been more impactful than the power acquired through
orthodox diplomatic efforts. In contrast, there have been cases such as
relations with Japan where continuous popular culture flows have seemingly
had little effect on state-level bilateral relations. By analyzing the
process in which South Korea’s popular cultural resources are utilized for
public diplomacy, and the specific conditions under which these might or
might not be effective, the roundtable aims to develop a theoretical and
methodological framework for critically understanding popular culture as a
potential tool and component of soft power and public diplomacy.
The discussants are part of a larger project on South Korean public
diplomacy, with research experience on the diplomatic impacts of Hallyu in
different geo-cultural contexts and settings. Dal Yong Jin discusses the
changes and developments of the Korean government’s attitude to the Korean
Wave, showing how the government’s reinterpretation of popular cultural
content allowed it to appropriate private sector products as materials for
national soft power. Kyong Yoon explores how popular culture-driven
nationalism emerged among the general public in Korea and is incorporated
into the government’s politics of discourse. Irina Lyan examines
Hallyu-inspired fan nationalism – the promotion of Korea’s positive
national image abroad as grassroots soft power fueled by the activities of
international fans. Sarah Son investigates the representation of North
Korea and its people in contemporary South Korean screen productions and
how these have become points of contention in inter-Korean relations.
Hyung-Gu Lynn will chair the session while proposing analytical approaches
based on existing theoretical and comparative works.
Link for more information
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Member News
*Ahn, Ji-Hyun (University of Washington Tacoma)*
- 2023. "K-pop Without Koreans: Racial Imagination and Boundary Making in
K-pop." International Journal of Communication. 17: 92-111.
- 2022. "Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Selected Contemporary South Korean
Television Genres." In S. Roy et al. (eds), The Oxford Encyclopedia of
Race, Ethnicity, and Communication. Oxford University Press.
- 2022. "Televised Korean Dream: A Critical Look at Racial/Ethnic Diversity
in a Survival Audition Program in South Korea." In D. C. Oh (ed), Mediating
the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of Difference in the
Post/Neocolonial Nation-State (pp. 66-84). University of Michigan Press.
*Baker, Don (University of British Columbia)*
- 2022. "Seongho and the Natural World." Sŏngho hakpo (Journal of Sŏngho
Studies). 24: 37-66.
- 2022. "Dasan Jeong Yagyong on Emotions and the Pursuit of Sagehood." In
Edward J. Y. Chung and J. Sophia Oh (eds), Emotions in Korean Philosophy
and Religion: Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives.
Springer Nature.
*Clements, Rebekah (ICREA & Autonomous University of Barcelona)*
- 2022. "Fighting for Forests: Protection and Exploitation of Kŏje Island
Timber during the East Asian War of 1592-1598."
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Environmental History. 27(3): 415-440. Winner: 2023 Vandervort Prize from
The Society for Military History. (with Baihui Duan).
- 2022. "Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma,
Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries: Pottery, Power and Foreign Spectacle."
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Transactions
of the Royal Historical Society. 32: 135-158. (Note: this article concerns
Korean potters in Japan, captured during the Imjin War).
*Creutzenberg, Jan (Ewha Womans University)*
- 2022. "The P’ansori Experience in Europe."
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the world of music (new series) 11(1): 109-132.
- 2022. "Korean Traditional Music on Global Stages."
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the world of music (new series) 11(1): 5-22. (Co-authored with Anna
Yates-Lu, introduction to a thematic issue of the journal we co-edited,
besides ours with articles by Hee-sun Kim, Sang-Yeon Sung, Ju-Yong Ha &
Cholong Sung).
*Fedorenko, Olga (Seoul National University)*
- 2022. "From Unsaid Feelings to Frank Communication: Portrayals of Jeong
in Orion Choco Pie Advertisements and the Encroachment of Emotional
Capitalism in South Korea."
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Korea Journal. 64(4): 226-252.
- 2022. "The Advertising Museum in Seoul: Dream-Images and the Freedom to
Advertise."
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Positions.
30(4): 595-624.
- 2022. "Taejabo: Remediations and Materiality of South Korean Wall
Posters."
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Journal of Korean Studies. 27(2): 353-79.
- 2022. "Squid Game's Foreigners: Orientalism, Occidentalism,
Sub-Imperialism."
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Communication, Culture and Critique 15(4): 538-39.
*Fulton, Bruce (UBC)*
[Published Translation]
- 2022. "Number 474" by Jung Yongjoon. Ploughshares. 48(3): 63-79. (with
Ju-Chan Fulton).
[Refereed Article]
- 2022 (December). "The Poetry of Synn Ilhi: An Appreciation." Acta
Koreana. 25(2): 189-92.
[Encyclopedia Entries]
- "Introduction: East Asia as a Region," In Literature: A World History,
ed. David Damrosch and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, vol. 1, Before 200 CE, ed.
Anders Pettersson (West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2022), pp.7-9. (with
Zhang Longxi and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada).
- "Korean Literature," in Literature: A World History, ed. David Damrosch
and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, vol. 2, 200-1500, ed. Bo Utas and Theo D’Haen
(West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2022), pp.333-44.
- "Korean Literature," in Literature: A World History, ed. David Damrosch
and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, vol. 3, 1500-1800, ed. Zhang Longxi (West
Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2022), pp.746-53.
- "Korean Literature," in Literature: A World History, ed. David Damrosch
and Gunilla Lindberg-Wada, vol. 4, 1800-2000, ed. Djelal Kadir (West
Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2022), pp.1075-89.
[Other Publications]
- 2022 (February 9). "Can You Hear the Voices of the Girls? One Left and
the Korean "Comfort Women.""
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University of Washington Press Blog. (with Ju-Chan Fulton).
- 2022 (December). "Review of Murder in the Palace, a novel by Bonnie
Bongwan Cho Oh." Acta Koreana. 25(2): 179-81.
[Invited Lectures]
- 2022 (February 24). "What Is Korean Literature?" Book Talk. Center for
Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley. (with Youngmin Kwon).
- 2022 (May 16). "Translating Titles." Presentation to the
Korean Association of Translators and Interpreters. Hankuk University of
Foreign Studies.
- 2022 (May 16). "A Translator’s Manifesto." Presentation to the Graduate
School of Translation and Interpretation, Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies.
[Readings and Interviews]
- 2022 (March 26). “Hanguk munhak pŏnyŏk ŭi taega, Pŭrusŭ P’ult’ŏn int’ŏbyu”
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(Interview with Bruce Fulton, leading figure in the translation of Korean
literature). Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange.
- 2022 (April 6). Readings from “Motel Prostitute” by Kim Hŭisŏn,
trans. Aeri Song; “The Fastest of Them All” by O Chŏnghŭi, trans. Bruce and
Ju-Chan Fulton; and From Tonnio, trans. Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton, Book Talk
on the feature “Genre Fiction in Korean Literature,” Azalea 14 (2021),
University of British Columbia.
- 2022 (August 18). Reading (with Ju-Chan Fulton) from Catcher in the
Loft by Ch’ŏn Un-yŏng, Elliott Bay Book Company.
- 2022 (September). “K’ŏbŏ sŭt’ori: Hanguk munhak pŏnyŏkka Pŭrusŭ P’ult’ŏn
int’ŏbyu (Cover story: Interview with Korean literature translator Bruce
Fulton). Munhak sasang (Literature and thought) 599: 22-33.
*Han, Seung-Mi (Yonsei University, GSIS)*
- 2023. "Coethnic, Multicultural, or Cosmopolitan?: Cultural Citizenship,
Enfranchisement, and the Contested Category of Korean-Chinese in
Globalizing South Korea." Journal of Korean Studies. 28(1): 163-191.
*Jang, Wook Huh (University of Washington)*
- 2022. "Langston Hughes's Short Fiction in 1930s Korea." In Vera Kutzinski
and Anthony Reed (eds), Langston Hughes in Context. Cambridge University
Press.
- 2022. "Ŏmma's Baby, Appa's Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers
of Diaspora." In Heekyoung Cho (ed), The Routledge Companion to Korean
Literature. Routledge.
*Istad, Felicia (Korea University)*
- 2022. "In Search of Talent: Startup and Immigration Policy in South
Korea." European Journal of Korean Studies. 22(1): 43-70.
- 2022. "Start-Up Visa: Rethinking Entrepreneurship and Human Capital in
Immigration Policy."
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Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy. 11(1): 30-49.
- 2022. "More or Less a Foreigner: Domestic Reception of Multinational
K-Pop Groups."
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Asian Journal of Social Science. 50(4): 268-75. (Co-authored with Jenna
Gibson and Nathaniel Ming Curran).
- 2022. "Banal Koreanness: National Imagery in Multicultural-Themed
Television Shows."
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Critical Studies in Television. (Co-authored with Min Jung Kim and
Nathaniel Ming Curran).
*Kim, Jaeeun (Department of Sociology, University of Michigan)*
- 2022. "Between Sacred Gift and Profane Exchange: Identity Craft and
Relational Work in Asylum Claims-Making on Religious Grounds." Theory and
Society. 51(2): 303-33.
- Jaeeun Kim accepted the courtesy appointment invitation by the University
of Michigan Law School, the term of which started in January 2023.
*Kim, Jinsook (Emory University)*
- 2022. "Wikiality within the Manosphere: Namuwiki, Gender Equalism, and
Antifeminist Disinformation in the Post-Truth Era."
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 48(1): 97-123.
- 2022. "A Tale of Two Homosocialities: Gender, Sexuality, and Global
Political Economy in Squid Game."
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Communication,
Culture and Critique. 15(4): 540-542. (with Minwoo Jung).
*Kubat, Muhammed Cihad (Bilkent University/ Inonu University)*
- 2022. "A Muslim Intellectual in Korea: Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857-1944) and
Situating Korea in the Pan-Asian World Order."
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Korea Journal. 63(3): 178-203.
- 2022. "North Korean military proliferation in the Middle East and Africa:
Enabling violence and instability."
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Mediterranean Politics. Online First. (Book Review).
*Lyan, Irina (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)*
- 2023. "Shock and Surprise: Theorization of the Korean Wave through
mediatized emotions."
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International Journal of Communication. 17: 29-51.
- 2023. "Ex-periphery: South Korea in the development discourse."
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In Yonson Ahn (ed), Korea and the Global Society (pp.59-76). Routledge.
- AAS: Roundtable on South Korean Soft Power and Public Diplomacy
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*Martin, Bridget (University of Mississippi)*
- 2022. "American Imperial Sovereignty and Militarised Land Dispossession
During the Korean War."
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Geopolitics.
*Oh, David C. (Ramapo College of New Jersey)*
- 2022. "Neocolonial Ambivalence and Race in So Not Worth It." In Yonson
Ahn (ed), Korea and the Global Society: Engagement, Reciprocity, and
Tension. Routledge.
- edited a special forum for Communication, Culture, and Critique in 2022
titled "The Politics of Representation in Squid Game and the Promise and
Peril of Its Transnational Reception
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*Oh, Youjeong (University of Texas at Austin)*
- 2022. "Insta-Gaze: Aesthetic representation and contested transformation
of Woljeong, South Korea."
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Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Place, Space and
Environment. 24(6-7): 1040-1060.
*Park, Sunyoung (USC)*
- 2022 (June). Editor, "Science Fiction in Korea: Between History, Genre,
and Politics."
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USC Libraries’ Digital Exhibition Project.
*Saeji, CedarBough T. (Busan National University)*
- 2022. "Building a K-Community: Idol Stars Challenging Foreign Fans to
Learn Korean Traditions." Acta Koreana. 25(2): 133-158.
*Sebo, Gabor*
- 2023 (March). "Korea: A History. Written by Eugene Y. Park, Redwood, CA:
Stanford University Press. 2022. xiv, 414 pp.”
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Pacific Affairs. 96(1): 177-179. (Book Review).
- 2022 (July 27). "Interviews with North Korean Defectors: From Kim Shin-jo
to Thae Yong-ho. Written by Lim Il and Adam Zulawnik, London-New York:
Routledge. 2021. 296 pp."
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European Journal of East Asian Studies. 21(3): 341-343. (Book Review).
- 2023. Two Virtual Panel in AAS: Participations 1. Chair in the "V1-405 -
Transnationalizing North Korea: Border-Crossing Webs of Dialogues,
Cooperation, and Peace" and 2. Panelist in "V1-109 - Northern Exposure:
Past and Present Cultural Engagement out of North Korea."
*Shin, Kyoung-ho (Northwest Missouri State University)*
- 2022. "Gangnam (Life)Style as Global Culture: Consumption and Connections
for Upward Mobility." Journal of Urban Research Research. 25(2): 175-912.
*Stiller, Maya (University of Kansas)*
- 2022. "Warrior Gods and Otherworldly Lands: Daoist Icons and Practices in
Late Chosŏn Korea."
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Religions. 13(11): 1105.
- Autographic Atlas of Korea.
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Digital exploration tool, relational database & search engine of graffiti
sites in Korea.
- 2022 (May 20). "Autographic Atlas of Korea: Interview with Dr. Maya
Stiller,"
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by Elizabeth Lee. The Digital Orientalist.
*Tanter, Marcy L. (Ranger College)*
- 2022. "Breaking the Stereotype of Domestic Adoption in K-dramas." In
Marcy Tanter & Moises Park (eds), Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of
Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave. Lexington Books.
*Wall, Barbara (University of Copenhagen)*
- 2023. "Translation beyond the Written Word: Imagining the Transnational
Spread of The Journey to the West in East Asia." In Cawley, Kevin and Julia
Schneider (eds), Transnational East Asian Studies. Liverpool University
Press.
- 2023. "Kim Sisǔp – the Ghost Story Teller: From Obscurity to the Screen."
In Glomb, Vladimir and Miriam Löwensteinová (eds), The Lives and Legacy of
Kim Sisŭp (1435-1493). Brill.
- 2022. "An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature. Compiled and edited
by Peter H. Lee." Acta Koreana. 25(2): 171-176. (Book Review).
*Yi, Joseph (Hanyang University)*
- 2023. "'Low-Road' Liberalism: Censoring public discourses on communist
North Korea and imperial Japan."
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Society.
- 2022. "(Bounded) Exit, Voice, and Politics: pandemic education in US and
South Korea."
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Asia Pacific Journal of Education.
- 2022. "Bounded exit and voice in North Korea."
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International Migration. 00: 1-15.
- 2022. "Parable of Talents: How North Korea-related, Faith-Based Workers
respond to Enhanced Sanctions and a Global Pandemic." Journal of Korean
Religions. 13(1): 121-152.
- 2022. "Asian-American Religiosity and Politics."
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Journal of Political Science Education. 18(2): 228-241.
- 2022 (October 11). "Japan and South Korea are better off discussing
differences: Nagoya and Philadelphia debates on Statue of Peace show value
of dialogue."
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- 2022 (October 7). "How faith-based groups can help North Korea — if
they’re ever able to return."
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- 2022 (March 15). "Will Yoon Suk-yeol Finally Reform South Korea’s
National Security Law?"
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The Diplomat.
- Heterodox East Asia Academy (HEAC) announces our spring fora on academic
freedom and viewpoint diversity on sensitive topics. Please contact Joseph
Yi (joychicago at yahoo.com) and Shaun O’Dwyer (Kyushu University,
confucianisminmodernjapan at gmail.com) for more information.
#1 Academic Freedom in China (Hong Kong) and China-West relations. March 23
Thurs 9pm EST; March 24 Fri 10am KST, 9am Hong Kong. Dr. Lap Yan Kung
(Divinity School), Chinese University of Hong Kong <kungly at cuhk.edu.hk> #2
Talking about North Korea. April 21 Fri 10am KST Gabe Segoine, founder of
NK’s first surfing camp.
*Mediating the South Korean Other: Representations and Discourses of
Difference in the Post/Neocolonial Nation State *Edited by David C. Oh.
University of Michigan Press. 2022. Link to the Publisher
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*100°C: South Korea's 1987 Democracy Movement *By Choi, Kyu-Sok. University
of Hawaii Press. 2023.
(Series editor: C. Harrison Kim)
In gritty and historically accurate detail, 100°C captures the moment in
South Korean history when the country’s enduring struggle for democracy
finally reached the boiling point. Readers will encounter in the pages of
this arresting graphic novel a primer on modern Korean history, a
rumination on revolutionary politics, and a transgenerational tale of
self-awakening and self-empowerment in a time of barbarism.
—Youngju Ryu, University of Michigan
*Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape
Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul*
By Stephanie K. Kim. The MIT Press. 2023.
How universities in the US and South Korea compete for global student
markets—and how university financials shape students' lives.
The popular image of the international student in the American imagination
is one of affluence, access, and privilege, but is that image accurate? In
this provocative book, higher education scholar Stephanie Kim challenges
this view, arguing that universities -- not the students -- create the
paths that allow students their international mobility. Focusing on
universities in the United States and South Korea that aggressively grew
their student pools in the aftermath of the Great Recession, Kim shows the
lengths to which universities will go to expand enrollments as they draw
from the same pool of top South Korean students.
Kim closely follows several students attending a university in Berkeley and
a university in Seoul. They have chosen different paths to study abroad or
learn at home, but all are seeking a transformative educational experience.
To show how student mobility depends on institutional structures, Kim
demonstrates how the universities themselves compel students' choices to
pursue higher learning at one institution or another. She also profiles the
people who help ensure the global student supply chain runs smoothly, from
education agents in South Korea to community college recruiters in
California. Using ethnographic research gathered over a ten-year period in
which international admissions were impacted by the Great Recession,
changes in US presidential administrations, and the COVID-19 pandemic,
Constructing Student Mobility provides crucial insights into the purpose,
effects, and future of student recruitment across the Pacific.
*International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea: A Country
Left Behind with Cloaked Society*
By Sojin Lim. Routledge. 2023.
This book examines international aid in North Korea, in particular the
ongoing policy of withholding aid, through the lens of the impact on the
general population to present an argument for sustainable development.
Focusing on the human rights of North Koreans and presenting a case for the
use of aid as a provision for social change, it explores an alternative
narrative to the existing long-drawn-out rhetoric of
‘denuclearisation-first’. The book’s scope includes evaluations of the
causes of international sanctions and their impact, the Kim regime’s
mitigation of sanctions through marketisation and a digital economy as well
as barriers to aid monitoring and the reason for the absence of any mass
anti-regime movement. It also posits that North Korea is a fragile state
but cloaked by the image of a strong regime. The book succinctly
demonstrates that the key to unlocking the potential of North Korea’s
‘cloaked society’ does not lie in sanctions, but is to be found in
engagement with development aid. As such it will appeal to students of
Korean Studies, Development Studies, Asian politics and International
Relations.
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*TOGANI *Translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. University of Hawaii
Press. *Forthcoming in April 2023. *Link to the publisher
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*Politics, International Relations and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula*
Edited by Sojin Lim. Routledge. 2023.
This edited volume explores the past, present, and future of the Korean
Peninsula, with special focus on South Korea, by connecting developments in
politics with those in international relations and diplomacy. The book
focuses on how South Korea’s politics and international relations have
evolved since the founding of the First Republic in 1948, with particular
attention to the period surrounding the 2022 presidential election. The
authors provide new insights into Korean politics, including South Korean
electoral reform and relations with China and Japan, North Korea’s nuclear
capacity, and North–South diplomacy. Beginning with a commentary by Colin
Crooks, Britain’s current Ambassador to South Korea and former Ambassador
to North Korea, on recent British foreign policy changes and UK–Korea
relations, this book will appeal to scholars and students of politics,
international relations, diplomacy, and Korean Studies.
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*Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in
the Korean Wave *Edited by Marcy L. Tanter & Moises Park. Lexington
Books. 2022.
*Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and
Transportation*
By Han Sang Kim. Harvard University Asia Center. 2022.
In 1916, a group of Korean farmers and their children gathered to watch a
film depicting the enthronement of the Japanese emperor. For this
screening, a unit of the colonial government’s news agency brought a
projector and generator by train to their remote rural town. The colonial
authorities, as well as later South Korean postcolonial state authorities,
saw film as the most effective medium for disseminating their political
messages. In Cine-Mobility, Han Sang Kim argues that the force of
propaganda films in Korea was derived primarily not from their messages but
from the new mobility of the viewing position. From the first film shot in
Korea in 1901 through early internet screen cultures in late 1990s South
Korea, Cine-Mobility explores the association between cinematic media and
transportation mobility, not only in diverse and discrete forms such as
railroads, motorways, automobiles, automation, and digital technologies,
but also in connection with the newly established rules and restrictions
and the new culture of mobility, including changes in gender dynamics, that
accompanied it.
*Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and
Consumption of Film in Asia*
Edited by Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Takushi Odagiri & Moonim Baek. Indiana
University Press. 2022.
Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled
intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to
contemporary legacies in and of Asia.
The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film
form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the
colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that end,
contributors begin by excavating little-known archives and perspectives
from the colonies as a departure from a prevailing focus on Europe's
imperial histories and archives about the colonies. The collection
pinpoints various forms of devaluation and misrecognition both in and
beyond the region that continue to relegate local voices to the margins.
This pathbreaking study on global film history advances prior scholarship
by bringing together an array of established and new interdisciplinary
voices from film studies, Asian studies, and postcolonial studies to
consider how the present is continually haunted by the colonial past.
*Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War *By Suzy
Kim. Cornell University Press. 2023.
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*The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories*
Edited by Bruce Fulton. Penguin Books. *Forthcoming in April 2023.*
This eclectic, moving and richly enjoyable collection is the essential
introduction to Korean literature.
Journeying through Korea's dramatic recent past, from the Japanese
occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south
and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book
of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of vivid storytelling.
Here are peddlars and donkeys travelling across moonlit fields; artists
drinking and debating in the tea-houses of Seoul; soldiers fighting for
survival; exiles from the war who can never go home again; and lonely men
and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The
collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest writers, including
Yi Sang, Yi Munyol and Pak Wanso, as well as many brilliant contemporary
voices, such as Han Yuju and Kim Yongha. Curated by Bruce Fulton and
introduced by Kwon Youngmin, this is a volume that will surprise, unsettle
and delight.
*Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads.*
By Olga Fedorenko. University of Hawaii Press. 2022.
Flower of Capitalism: South Korean Advertising at a Crossroads is an
interdisciplinary account of how advertising has been a frontier in
political and cultural contests over the limits of capital’s command in
postmillenial South Korea. Historically, the local cultural logic of
advertising (captured by the popular cliché “advertising, the flower of
capitalism”) downplayed its marketing purposes and privileged its potential
for promoting virtue and enabling diverse mass media, whether or not those
public-service commitments served the material interests of advertisers.
This vision came under attack with neoliberalization in the 1990s, and
deregulatory efforts culminated in 2008, when freedom to advertise was
recognized as constitutionally protected. Flower of Capitalism
ethnographically details the subsequent clash of advertising’s old
obligations and new freedoms, as it was navigated by advertising producers,
censors, audiences, and activists.
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*Call for Papers*
*cfp Table of Contents*
- cfp: International Conference at Autonomous University of Barcelona
- cfp: 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Literature Association
- IKS Book Manuscript Workshop
- AKSE conference 2023
- UT Austin Workshop
*cfp: International Conference at Autonomous University of Barcelona*
*Mastering of Materialities: Resources and Technology in Post-Imjin East
Asia (1598-1650)*
*Date and location:* 4-5 September 2023, Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Spain
*Organizers: *Dr. Joshua Batts and Dr. Barend Noordam, Aftermath of the
East Asian War of 1592-1598 project, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
*Submission Deadline: 10 April 2023*
The “Mastering of Materialities” conference will examine knowledge
production, technological development, and resource management in
post-Imjin East Asia, which we define as the period between the Imjin War
of 1592-1598 and the Manchu conquest of the Ming empire, roughly 1598-1650.
The conference organizers invite scholars in all relevant fields and at all
stages of their careers to submit proposals that explore how technological
priorities and resource management evolved in East Asia during this
period. During the Imjin War, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese societies
mobilized extraordinary amounts of human, mineral, and natural resources,
deploying them in innovative ways within the crucible of conflict. But how
did priorities shift when resources and technological experimentation no
longer needed to be funnelled toward campaigning?
We encourage applicants who work in seventeenth century East Asian history
on topics such as mining, silver, timber, weapons, ceramics, medical
ingredients or on other forms of material resources, as well as those
working on the East Asian history of bonded labor and the movement of human
capital. We also welcome applications from scholars working on the history
of Iberian Asia who can shed light on the role of Portuguese and Spanish
interlocutors in the circulation of materials, objects, expertise, and
bodies. In particular, we solicit proposals which do not define East Asia
through an Iberian lens, but use Iberian sources as a point of reference
and comparison for developments in East Asia.
In addition to presenting a paper, successful applicants will also be
invited to participate in one of several roundtables with other
participants during the conference. These roundtables will be organized
around a particular material, technology, or theme to be decided when the
list of participants is confirmed. In contrast to the paper presentations,
participation in these roundtables does not require any special preparation
beforehand by the participants but will be an additional opportunity for
dialogue and discussion.
All interested candidates are requested to send a 200-500 word abstract to
Barend Noordam (Barend.Noordam at uab.cat) by *10 April 2023*.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC)
under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
(grant agreement No 758347)
*cfp: 2023 Annual Meeting of the Korean Literature Association*
*The Posthuman, the Human, and the Non-Human: New Narratives and Critical
Perspectives in Korean Studies*
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
November 10-11, 2023
The posthuman, the human, and the non-human have become frequently debated
categories in recent decades in response to an intensifying global
environmental crisis, the rapid development of artificial intelligence and
biotechnology, and the rise of new ways of thinking about gender, race,
society, and justice. While these stances are not always mutually cohesive
or even compatible, posthumanism as a general field seeks to both define
and reconfigure the relationship between the human and the non-human in all
of its forms, which are understood as including the mechanical, the
computational, the cybernetic, the biological, animals, plants, the
geological realm, the environment, and more. Within such a broad framework,
posthumanist researchers are nowadays producing useful and exciting
critiques of the anthropocentric assumptions of traditional humanism; they
are probing into the socially inclusive as well as exclusive functions of
the concept of humanity; and they are critically contributing to the
transhumanist project of developing technologies that improve our lives
through the enhancement of human intellectual, physical, and psychological
capacities.
The Korean Literature Association calls for proposals that engage Korean
studies in (re)thinking the human and the non-human through the lens of the
posthuman. The conference aims at creating an opportunity for thinking
about some of the most pressing intellectual challenges of our era from
within the fields of Korean literary and cultural studies. We welcome both
individual papers and team panels across the periods, the media, and
disciplinary and geographical boundaries, as long as they are relevant to
the study of Korean literatures and cultures. Possible thematic areas
include but are not limited to the following:
- The historical construction as well as contestation of traditional
notions of the human;
- Representations of subhuman, inhuman, and posthuman bodies and their
racial, gender, and social implications;
- Interrelations between the human and the non-human;
- Environmental activism and popular culture;
- Posthumanism and decolonization;
- Imaginations of the Anthropocene and other ends of the human
civilization;
- Artificial intelligence, bioengineering, and other futuristic
technologies in literature and visual media;
- Posthuman approaches to literature and arts;
- The possible problems and pitfalls of posthumanism as an analytical
framework.
For this conference, the KLA (http://korlit.org/wp/
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seeks submissions from researchers at any stage of their careers. While the
official conference language is English, we will also be open to
Korean-language presentations of innovative researches. We are currently
planning an in-person conference at the University of Southern California,
with possible optional hybrid presentations in cases where travel poses
difficulties. To apply, please send your CV and a 300-word abstract to
korlitorg at gmail.com. A team proposal should include the individual
abstracts along with a 300-word panel abstract. Those selected to present
will be required submit a presentation paper in advance.
This year’s conference will also coincide with the KLA’s biannual Book
Manuscript Workshop, which is primarily dedicated to researchers whose
manuscript is near completion. One or two manuscripts will be chosen, and
feedback will be provided by senior scholars in the field as well as by
select conference participants. Those interested should submit a brief
summary or proposal for the project (including a timeline for completion),
a sample chapter, and a short CV to korlitorg at gmail.com. The manuscript for
review will be due for submission about six weeks ahead of the workshop.
All participants in the conference and the workshop will be required to
register as KLA members and will receive hotel accommodation. All efforts
will be made to defray the cost of travel especially for junior scholars.
The deadline for submissions is April 10, 2023. If you have any questions,
please contact the local organizer, Sunyoung Park, at sunyounp at usc.edu.
*IKS Book Manuscript Workshop*
*AKSE Conference 2023*
The University of Copenhagen will host the 31st biennial AKSE Conference as
an in-person event from 22 (Thursday) to 25 (Sunday) June 2023 in
Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is co-organized by the University of
Copenhagen with the AKSE Council. The Association for Korean Studies in
Europe, founded in 1977, is the main scholarly society for Korean Studies
in Europe. Its objectives are to stimulate and coordinate academic Korean
Studies in all countries of Europe, and to contribute to the spread of
knowledge of Korea among a wider public.
The biennial AKSE conferences provide an opportunity for European scholars
of Korean Studies to gather and exchange research. The conferences host the
AKSE membership meeting, making this the most important event of the
association as such. AKSE conferences are also a way for European scholars
to communicate with the global academic community. We thus warmly welcome
non‐Europeans and non‐members.
*Registration deadlines:*
Active participants (presenters, discussants, chairs) of the AKSE
Conference 2023 need to register by *March 1, 2023. *
Guests of the conference who are not involved in any panel or presentation
can register until *May 1, 2023.*
Conference website: https://conference-service.com/akse2023/welcome.html
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*UT Austin Workshop*
UT Austin is holding a workshop, titled "Decolonization of Korean Studies:
Alternative Knowledge Production, Methods, and Praxes."
*Date:* Friday, March 31, 2023
*Time: *9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
*Location: *RLP 1.302D
*Organizer: *Youjeong Oh (University of Texas at Austin)
*Paper Presenters*
- Jesook Song, Professor, University of Toronto
- Yoonkyung Lee, Professor, University of Toronto
- Hosu Kim, Associate Professor, City University of New York
- Laam Hae, Associate Professor, York University
- Youjeong Oh, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Bridget Martin, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
- Sujin Eom, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
- Yewon Andrea Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Tübingen
- Yeongran Kim, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Sarah Lawrence College
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Other Relevant Announcements
*2023 IKSU Annual International Conference*
Dear all,
You are warmly invited to attend the *2023 IKSU Annual International
Conference* taking place offline at Samlesbury Hall, Preston (UK) and
online (via MS TEAMS) on 3 and 4 April 2023.
The theme for this year’s conference is ‘*Economic Development and
International Development Cooperation of the Korean Peninsula: Past,
Present and the Future*.’ The speakers will be giving presentations about
different subjects including development assistance to South Korea and its
effects on economic development, South Korean aid and their assistance to
North Korea, and the experience of development in South Korea.
*Please see below for further details and the registration links.*
*2023 IKSU Annual International Conference*
*Economic Development and International Development Cooperation of the
Korea Peninsula: Past, Present and the Future*
*University of Central Lancashire, UK, 3-4 April 2023*
Venue:* Samlesbury Hall, PR5 0UP, UK *(https://www.samlesburyhall.co.uk/
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*To attend the conference, please register.*
*Online participation: *
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*This conference is open to all.*
*Programme*
Day 1: 3 April 2023 (Monday)
Opening Session
*Opening Session*
9.30 AM –
9.50 AM
Registration
9.50 AM –
10.00 AM
Opening Remarks
- Sojin Lim, Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies
* Session 1: Development Assistance to South Korea and Its Implications for
Economic Development*
10.00 AM –
11.50 AM
Chair: Virginie Grzelczyk (Aston University, UK)
Speakers (30 minutes x 2 speakers, 60 minutes)
- Fostering new allies in the face of an 'aggression': Italy's aid to
South Korea in the wake of the Korean war / Marco Zappa
(Università Ca’Foscari Venezia, Italy)
- The German Economic Advisory Group (DVB) to Korea, 1962-1968 / Max
Altenhofen (University of Tűbingen, Germany)
Discussant (20 minutes)
- Kevin Gray (University of Sussex, UK)
Discussion with Q&A (30 minutes)
* Session 2: Development Assistant from South Korea and the Implications*
2.00 PM –
3.50 PM
Chair: Marco Milani (Bologna University, Italy)
Speakers (30 minutes x 2 speakers, 60 minutes)
- Analysis of South Korean ODA in Mongolia under a Gender Mainstreaming
Approach / Patricia Chica-Morales (University of Malaga, Spain)
- Towards Trilateral and Multilateral Cooperation beyond Aid / Jae-Eun
Noh (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Discussant (20 minutes)
- Sojin Lim (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Discussion with Q&A (30 minutes)
Day 2: 4 April 2023 (Tuesday)
* Session 3: Development Assistance from South to North Korea*
9.00 AM –
10.50 AM
Chair: Kyoungyun Moon (Junbuk University, South Korea / Visiting Scholar at
University of Cambridge, UK)
Speakers (30 minutes x 2 speakers, 60 minutes)
- Altruism or Ulterior Motives? South Korean Aid towards North Korea’s
Sustainable Development / Queralt Boadella-Prunell & Lauren Robertson
(University of Central Lancashire, UK)
- Economic Sanctions on North Korea: The Role of Legislatures and
Effects on Development Assistance from South Korea and the United States /
Matt Abbott (Chicago Council on Global Affairs, US)
Discussant (20 minutes)
- Marco Milani (University of Bologna, Italy)
Discussion with Q&A (30 minutes)
* Session 4: Experience of Development in South Korea and Its Implications*
11.00 AM –
12.50 PM
Chair: Jeong-Im Hyun (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
Speakers (30 minutes x 2 speakers, 60 minutes)
- When Film Met Aid: The Transformation of Korea Model / Suweon Kim
(Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
- Transposing Miracle from the Han River to the Mekong River? Revisiting
Roles of South Korea’s Economic Development to Mekong River Basin Countries
/ Juhee Jeong (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Discussant (20 minutes)
- Juliette Schwak (Franklin University Switzerland, Switzerland)
Discussion with Q&A (30 minutes)
* Closing Session*
12.50 PM –
1.00 PM
Closing Remarks
- Sojin Lim, Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies
*MA Scholarships in North Korean Studies*
The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at the University of
Central Lancashire (UCLan) is offering *MA scholarships in North Korean
Studies* for *2023/24 academic year*. We seek highly motivated students who
have excellent academic grades at undergraduate level and are committed to
high quality critical study of North Korea.
Applications are open to students of any nationality, and the scholarship
is for the value of partial tuition fee waiver (*£7,500*). Successful
candidates will be expected to work with our academics *as research/
project assistants* (3 hours per week).
IKSU was established in 2014 as a multidisciplinary hub of research,
teaching and public policy in the study of contemporary Korea. IKSU is
based in the School of Humanities, Language and Global Studies at UCLan,
bringing together university wide research expertise on global Korea in the
context of development, political economy, anthropological discourse,
society and culture, language, and international relations surrounding both
Koreas.
Closing date for receipt of applications: *3 July 2023*
*Applications* should be made at
*https://www.uclan.ac.uk/study_here/postgraduate/apply.php*
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selecting following entries:
- Level of Study: Postgraduate Taught
- Mode of Study: Full Time
- Year (To start study): 202324
- Course Title: Master of Arts in North Korean Studies (ULKORE181)
Upon completion of online application, *email* the following information to
IKSU-AKS at uclan.ac.uk:
- Your *application number* (starting with ‘G’)
- A short *statement *(max. 250 words), including why *you are applying
for the MA North Korean Studies*, along with your *dissertation research
plan **or** internship placement plan*, in MS-Word file.
- More details about dissertation or internship can be found at:
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Although Korean language ability would be an advantage, we welcome
applications from all. In case you have not achieved your *BA degree (2:1
or above) *by 3 July 2023, you will need to submit your final grades by 30
July 2022.
*PHD Scholarship in Research on Korea*
The International Institute of Korean Studies (IKSU) at the University of
Central Lancashire (UCLan) is offering PhD scholarship in research on
Korea, within the discipline of Development Studies, Anthropology,
Sociology, International Relations, or relevant field of studies. We seek
highly motivated individuals who have excellent academic grades at Masters’
level and who are committed to original and high-quality research.
Inter-disciplinary methodologies are particularly welcome.
Applications are open to students of any nationality, but the scholarship
covers the value of UK tuition fee waiver for PhD programme, plus stipend.
Non-UK fee paying students will receive a partial fee waiver to the value
of UK tuition fees and the stipend. The duration of the scholarship is for
the first two years (start date: September 2023).
Total amount of scholarship is as following.
- 2023/24 academic year: £20,800 (tuition fee waive and stipend)
- 2024/25 academic year: £21,300 (tuition fee waive and stipend
Applications should be submitted, including research proposal, via:
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- Type of Study: Research Degree (Postgraduate)
- Course: Master of Philosophy/Doctor of Philosophy
- You should provide reference number where it is required in the
application, as well as at the beginning of your personal statement:
*RS/22/27.*
- You should upload your CV and research proposal along with other
required documents.
Any inquiries, please contact via IKSU-AKS at uclan.ac.uk
*Digital Database on Korean Studies*
Science Fiction in Korea: Between History, Genre, and Politics.
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USC Libraries’ Digital Exhibition Project, June 2022.
Autographic Atlas of Korea
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Digital exploration tool, relational database & search engine of graffiti
sites in Korea. www.aaok.info
*Korean Studies Programs Updates*
*Retirement of Professor Clark W. Sorensen*
Clark W. Sorensen, professor, Chair of the Korea Studies Program, and
inaugural director of the Center for Korea Studies at the University of
Washington, will fully retire in June, 2023, concluding his 3 years of
post-retirement service.
Professor Sorensen came to the Jackson School of International Studies at
the University of Washington in 1989, and became Korea Program Director in
1998, succeeding the late James B. Palais. After the retirement of
Professor Palais, Professor Sorensen’s successful fundraising activities,
with the help of the late Senator Paull Shin and Mr. Ick-hwan Lee, endowed
two positions in the Korea Studies Program, ensuring its continued
existence into the future. Professor Sorensen was PI of the two grants
totaling over $1 million over 10 years that allowed the establishment of
the Center for Korea Studies and its activities from 2006 to 2016. Upon
retirement, Professor Sorensen plans to complete his final book addressing
Korean Folk Religion and Shamanism.
UW-CKS thanks Professor Sorensen for his years of service and leadership.
Congratulations, Clark!
*Updates from the Korean Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona*
*1. Teaching and Research Staff*
The Korean section of the Department of Translation and Interpreting and
East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) now
includes three full time members, Ester Torres-Simon, Mihwa Jo and Hyunjoon
Rhee, and four part time members, Youngmi Jeong, Mihee Seo, Kang Seunghwa
and Uhjeen Lee. Within other sections there are also full and part time
members of the Department whose reaching includes Korean topics: Amelia
Sáiz López (Korean gender and society), Just Castillo Iglesias
(International Relations) and Gustavo Pita Céspedes (Korean politics).
In addition, the Department also hosts an externally-funded, 5 year
research project that employs researchers working on Korean Studies: The
“Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598” project, sponsored by the
European Research Council (Horizon2020, PI Rebekah Clements). During the
2021-2022 year, the Aftermath project consisted of seven full time members,
Rebekah Clements, Sangwoo Han, Barend Noordam, Baihui Duan, Joshua Batts,
and Jaime Gonzalez, and one part time member, Jing Hu. The Department also
hosts a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation which was
awarded to the Research Group GREGAL (Circulación Cultural
Japón-Corea-Cataluña/España). This project concerns the boom of South
Korean Popular Culture in Spain and its social economic and political
aspects (PI: Blai Guarné).
*2. Academic Program*
At B.A. level, four courses on Korean language are now offered. A
specialization in Korean (minor) is offered for other B.A.s in the
university. Eight final degree projects linked to Korean Studies were
presented this year on topics ranging from the history of fashion to
feminism in K-dramas. At MA level, three Korea-related dissertations were
presented within the MA in East Asian and Global Studies: a study on
linguistic diversity in Korea, an analysis of the film ‘Parasite’ and a
comparison of the Korea-Spain Strategic Partnership to similar agreements.
The following PhD students are currently pursuing their PhD Thesis:
- Hyunjoon Rhe, *En torno al fenómeno de la miratividad: un análisis
comparativo entre el español y coreano*, PhD in Languages and Cognitive
Science.
- Kang Seunghwa, *Análisis discursivo y sintáctico sobre la llamada
marca de tópico -(n)un en coreano*, PhD in Languages and Cognitive
Science.
- Margarita Postrelova, *The Influence of national culture on the
corporate culture of South Korea*, PhD in Translation and Intercultural
Studies.
The following students completed their PhD Thesis during 2022:
- Maria del Valle Guerra*, El impacto de la música pop de Asia Oriental
en América Latina. Estudio de caso de Mayday (Taiwan-China) y Super Junior
(Corea del Sur) en Argentina*, PhD in Translation and Intercultural
Studies. April 22, 2022 (Cum Laude).
- Baihui Duan, *Managing Epidemics in Post-Imjin Korea: War,
Environment, Infectious Diseases, and Medicine, 1576-1720*, PhD in
Translation and Intercultural Studies. April 29 (Cum Laude).
*3. Talks and Webinar Series*
Korean topics feature prominently in the Department’s yearly PhD Summer
School in East Asian Studies, and the Department also hosts the Aftermath
of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 Webinar Series. The Aftermath Webinar
Series takes place online via Zoom once a month during term time.
International colleagues who wish to attend are invited to contact the
organizers and view the schedule at: https://aftermath.uab.cat/webinar/
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*Fall 2022 Colloquium and Graduation Ceremony, IUC at SKKU*
The IUC at SKKU
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(Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at SKKU) is now in its
seventh year of operation and welcomed a new batch of students at the end
of February 2023. The IUC provides intensive instruction in advanced
academic Korean for researchers, and is currently renewing its fellowships
agreement with the Korea Foundation. The photo here is from last semester’s
final colloquium, where the following researchers presented the results of
their work over the term:
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▮Presenters
1. HyunWook Noh (Pomona College)
“Militarism and Industrial Policy During the Park Chung Hee Regime : A
Focus on the Roles and Tasks of "Industrial Warriors"
2. Yon-Jun Kim (University of British Columbia)
“The Need for a Transnational Approach to the Current Discourse on
Joseon-Ming "Sadae" Relations”
3.Ewa Rzanna (Institute for Documentation and Research on Polish Literature)
“Ambivalent modernizers : Political biographies of An Jung-geun and Józef
Piłsudski”
4. Aleksandra Bykova (Yonsei University)
“World, Human Beings, and Nature as Seen in Toegye's The Ten Diagrams on
Sage Learning”
5. Kerstin Norris (Stanford University)
“Hybrid Coloniality in South Korea: U.S.-R.O.K. Relations and Wartime
Operational Control”
6. Spencer Lenfield (Yale University)
“Problems of Translation and Adaptation in Richard E. Kim's The Martyred
and Yu Hyǒnmok's Sun'gyoja”
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