[KS] 2025 USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies
Sandra Fahy
smfahy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 22:17:08 EST 2025
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Sandra Fahy, Ph.D. Anthropology (SOAS)
Associate Professor
Global and International Studies Program
Carleton University
2214 Dunton Tower, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON
Canada, K1S 5B6
Former Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program
Former Post-Doc EHESS, Paris France
Former Post-Doc, Korean Studies Institute, USC, LA
*Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea's Rights Abuses on the Record*
(Columbia University Press, 2019)
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dying-for-rights/9780231176347
*Marching Through Suffering* (2015) is now available in paperback at 30%
off from this site
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using the promotion code "CUP30"
On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 07:13 sunyoung park <syoung90 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Please see below the 2025 Program of the USC Graduate Conference in Korean
> Studies.
>
> Happy Lunar New Year,
> Sunyoung Park
>
>
> * 2025 USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies*
>
>
> *Friday, February 7th- Saturday, February 8th USC Ronald Tutor Campus
> Center, Franklin Suites (350/351/352)*
>
>
> *Friday, February 7th*
>
> *8:15 - 8:45 Registration and Morning Refreshments*
> *8:45 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks by the Organizing Committee*
>
> *9:00 - 10:20 Panel 1. Sinitic Heritages in Korea and Beyond*
> *Kayeon Roh *Emperor at Home, King Abroad:
> Coexistence of Multiple Emperors
> (U of Southern California) in Historical East Asia
> *Nick Allaman *A Great Youth of the 80s: Han
> Wŏn’guk and a Vision of the New
> (Ohio State U) Chosŏnjok Self
> *Alan Dai *Colonial Modernity and the
> Connected Literary Histories of Korea
> (UC, Los Angeles) and Vietnam
> Discussant: *Miya Qiong Xie* (Dartmouth U) (*virtual*)
>
> *10:30-11:50 Panel 2. (De)constructing Space and Race*
> *Chul Namgung *Life as Exception: Post-imperial
> Racialization of Zainichi Koreans
> (UC, Los Angeles) in the U.S.-Occupied Japan
> *Heejin Kim *Disappearing Skins: Reading
> Absence through Yi Sang and Na Hye
> (Duke U) Sŏk
> *Janine Sun *Effacing Place: Divergent
> Worldbuilding and Cultural (De)specificity
> (U of Southern California) in A-1 Pictures’ Solo Leveling
> Discussant: *Youngmin Choe* (U of Southern California)
>
> *11:50-1:30 Lunch Break*
>
> *1:30-2:50 Panel 3. Religions as Sites of Resistance*
> *Marie Koh* The Transformation of
> Jeonggamnok and Mount Gyeryong:
> (Seoul National U) Prophecy, Politics, and Religion in
> Korean History
> *Jusung Lee *Navigating Boundaries: Kim
> T’aehŭp, Avalokiteśvara Faith, and the
> (Yale U) Complexities of Colonial Korean
> Buddhism
> *Fiona Xu *Why They Abandoned the Secular
> World: Double Deviance in
> (U of Southern California) 1980s Korean Buddhist Nuns’
> Autobiographies
> Discussant: *Lori Meeks* (U of Southern California)
>
>
>
>
> *3:00-4:20 Panel 4. Critical Perspectives on South Korean
> Political Theory and Law*
> *Dohyung* *Kim* The Primitive Accumulation in
> South Korea and the Confinement of
> (UC, Irvine) Puranga
> *Damhee Shin *The Revitalization of the United
> Nations Command: The New Cold
> (George Washington U) War and East Asian Security Dynamics
> *Aiden Kim *South Korea’s Immigration Policy
> Shift: Diversification and
> (UC, Irvine) Exclusivity
> Discussant: *Pil Ho Kim* (Ohio State U)
>
> *5:00 Dinner at the Ahn House*
>
> *Saturday, February 8th*
>
> *8:15-9:00 Morning Refreshments*
>
> *9:00-10:20 Panel 5. Reading and Living Transgender Korea*
> *Christina Jang *Relational (Mis)readings of the
> Trans Body and Envisioning Trans
> (UC, Los Angeles) Feminism(s) in Kim Bi’s Novels
> *Yeon Jae Hwang *Examining the Relationship among
> Experiences of Multiple Familial
> (UC, Los Angeles) Discrimination, Queer Community
> Connectedness, Internalized
> Transphobia, and
> Depressive Symptoms among South Korean
> TGNC Individuals
> *Jiyun Gu *Between the Aesthetic and
> Essential: Reframing Plastic Surgery as
> (Asian Center for Women’s Medical Transition for Transgender Women in
> South Korea
> Studies)
> Discussant: *Judy Han *(UC, Los Angeles)
>
> *10:30-11:50 Panel 6. Media and the Environment across the
> Transpacific*
> *Minji Kim *Reforestation and
> State-Sponsored Films in South Korea
> (U of Southern California)
> *Haerin Do *Translating Archives:
> Transpacific Reception of Nam June Paik’s TV
> (UC, Irvine) Garden at the 11th Videobrasil
> *Heejoo Kim *Virtual Water: Perceiving
> Contemporaneity in the Korean Video Art
> (Princeton U) circa 2010
> Discussant: *Akira Lippit* (U of Southern California)
>
> *11:50-1:30 Lunch Break*
>
> *1:30-2:50 Panel 7. Queer Representations and Politics in
> Contemporary Korea*
> *Shiyi Zhao *Queering Impotence in Korean
> Cinema – The Case of Park Hae-il
> (U of Southern California)
>
> *Adam Miller *Spectacular Sexuality: Queer
> Revenge in Jang Cheol-soo’s *Bedevilled*
> (UC, Irvine) (2010)
> *Sungwon Heo *Writing Tattered Dream: Queer
> Student Politics in South Korea
> (UC, Davis)
> Discussant: *Ungsan Kim *(U of Washington) (*virtual*)
>
> *3:00-4:20 Panel 8. Gender, Reproductive Politics, and Feminist
> Possibilities?*
> *Daphne Yang *A Quiet Revolution: The Effect of
> Gender Inequality on Birth Rate
> (U of Southern California) Decline in South Korea
> *Da In Choi *Practicing Care: Comfort and
> Feminist Activism in South Korean
> (UC, Los Angeles) Documentary
> *Soojin Jeong *Hidden Labor, Visible Conflicts:
> Marriage Migration and Social
> (UC, Irvine) Reproduction in South Korean
> Reality TV show, ‘Mother-in-Law,
>
> Daughter-in-Law: A Multicultural War’ (2013-2021)
> Discussant: *Laura Kang *(UC, Irvine)
>
> *4:30-5:00 Closing Remarks by Professor Sunyoung Park, Director of
> the Korean Studies Institute*
>
> *6:30-8:30 Dinner at Thai by Trio, 2700 S Figueroa St #101
> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/2700+S+Figueroa+St+%23101?entry=gmail&source=g>*
>
>
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