[KS] 2025 USC Graduate Conference in Korean Studies

[sunyoung park]

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

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