[KS] UHawaii Conf May 1~2, 2025. Mirrored Developments: Technoscience & Statecraft in Two Koreas

[Cheehyung Harrison Kim]

Hello, KS Community!
The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is
delighted to announce the following conference.


*Mirrored Developments: A Conference on Technoscience and Statecraft in the
Two Koreas*
Thursday, May 1 – Friday, May 2, 2025
Center for Korean Studies Conference Room
University of Hawaii at Manoa

This conference explores the ideology and practice of development in North
Korea and South Korea by focusing on the two Koreas’ mutual but opposite,
responsive but divergent discourse-formation and societal transformation
contingent on the universal rationality of technoscience geared for the
masses. The technoscientific developments of the two Koreas are critically
juxtaposed—mirrored across the impermeable border—to analyze not only the
binary comparative perspectives between North and South but also the
diversified directions and entangled historical moments of colonialism, the
Cold War, and global modernity. The term “technoscience and statecraft”
then describes the confluence of operations between population management,
technological education, and scientific primacy imposed on the ordinary
people.

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*Session 1. Technoscience and Mass Practice. Thursday 9AM – 12PM.*
*Welcoming Remark*
      Christopher Bae (CKS Director)


*Popular and Progressive: Science Mobilization in Early Cold War North and
South Korea, 1930-1960*      Derek J. Kramer (University of Sheffield, UK)


*Instruments for Modernization, the Cold War, and National Development: The
Discourse of Science and Technology in Sasanggye (思想界), 1950s~early 1960s*
    Sang-Hyun Kim (Sogang University, South Korea)


* Science for the Workers’ Nation: Choe Eung-seok and Industrial Hygiene in
North Korea*      Sookyeong Hong (Tsuda University, Japan)


* Session Discussion. State Power and the Masses*
      Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin–Madison, US)
      Sungjo Kim (Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, South Korea)
      June Hee Kwon (California State University, Sacramento, US)
      Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US)


*Session 2. Technoscience and Materiality. Thursday 1PM – 5PM.*

*Cold War Things: Material Representations of Development and Daily Life in
North and South Korea in the 1960s and 70s*      Eunsung Cho (Sogang
University, South Korea)


*Technicians’ Olympics: Vocational Skills as Signs of National Potential in
South Korea in the 1970s*      Tae-Ho Kim (Jeonbuk National University,
South Korea)


*Solitude in Multitude: North Korean Computing and Technology Import
Strategies during the Cold War*      Benoit Berthelier (University of
Sydney, Australia)


*From Survival to Prosperity: The Dual Role of Science and Technology in
North Korea*      Hojye Kang (Free University of Berlin, Germany)


*Session Discussion. Materiality as Statecraft*      Charles Kim
(University of Wisconsin–Madison, US)
      Sungjo Kim (Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, South Korea)
      June Hee Kwon (California State University, Sacramento, US)
      Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US)


*Session 3. Technoscience and Livelihood. Friday 9AM – 2PM*

*North Korea’s Children of War: Orphan Management and Pyongyang’s Moment of
Critique, 1950 – 1961*      Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa, US)


*Sheltering Freedom: the American-Korean Foundation’s Homes for Korea
Project and Housing Construction Imaginaries in the 1950s*      Jimin Kim
(Comfort Women Action for Redress and Education, US)


*Feeding the People: Collective Dining and Science in Postwar North Korea*
    Sunho Ko (York University, Canada)


*Cold War Fruits: Citrus Trees from Japan to Jeju Island*      June Hee
Kwon (California State University, Sacramento, US)


*Concluding Discussion. Technoscience, Statecraft, and Everyday Life*
Charles Kim (University of Wisconsin–Madison, US)
      Sungjo Kim (Yonsei University, Mirae Campus, South Korea)
      June Hee Kwon (California State University, Sacramento, US)
      Cheehyung Harrison Kim (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, US)
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