4th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST)
May 13 & 14, 2016 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Friday, May 13
All Friday activities will be held at U-M School of Social Work Building, ECC Room
10:10 - 11:40am Panel 1: Representing Authentic Korean
Kim, Sora, Seoul National University
Finding North: Directionality in the Kwangmu (1898-1904) and the Colonial Land Survey (1910-1918) in Korea
Lee, Hee Jin, UCLA
Literary Practice During the Era of Language Reform: Sinsosŏl and the (Re-)Emergence of the Korean Vernacular
Lee, Soo You, Seoul National University
They Live by Themselves: Aging and Sense of Self Among the Rural Elderly in South Korea
Smith, Kevin, UC Davis
Boots, Soiling My Dream's White Page: Militarization and Japan's Total Empire in the Bilingual Poetry of Yi Sang
Yi, Ivanna, Harvard University
Continuing Orality in Modern and Contemporary Korean Poetry
Discussant: Juhn Ahn, University of Michigan
12:00 - 1:15pm Panel 2: Demarginalizing Politics
Han, Woori, University of Massachusetts
Iban' and 'Sexual Minority': Korean sexual identity formation in the changing civil society 1993-2007
Yulee, Jiwoon, University of Washington
Neoliberal temporality of feminized janitorial labor in contemporary South Korea
Eda, Haruki, Rutgers University
National Unification Meets Queer Diaspora: Knowledge and Belonging in Transnational Korean Community Organizing
Eo, Kyunghee Sabina, University of Southern California
Afro-Korean Lesbian Romance Revamped: Chung Hanah’s Little Chicago as Queer Post-Camptown Narrative
Discussant: Jaeeun Kim, University of Michigan
3:00 - 4:10pm Panel 3: ‘8x8’ Changing Standards Across Space
Cho, Sarah, University of Massachusetts
Korean Advantage: Current Issues Regarding Racial Disparity in American Beauty Supply Entrepreneurship
Dunkel, William, Korea University
The Virtual Wardrobe: The Suppression of Fashion Identity among Korean Online Gamers
Lee, Jenny Jong-Hwa, UCLA
Internationalization and South Korean Higher Education
Saltzman, Moira, University of Michigan
Jejueo talking dictionary: A collaborative online database for language revitalization
4:30 - 6:00 Keynote Lecture
NamHee Lee, UCLA
Saturday, May 14
All Saturday activities will be held at the Rackham Building, 4th Floor
10:30 - 12:00 Panel 4: Creating Korean Subjects
Heo, Na Sil, University of Toronto
Milk for Our Children’: Political Economy of Milk in Cold War Korea
Pyo, Jung Wook, University of Illinois
Book Culture, the Civil Service Examination, and Philosophical Identity in Seventeenth-Century Chosôn Korea
Lee, Sina, University of Maryland
Leaving Home in Search of the Homeland Transnational Subjectivity Formation by Adopted Korean Returnees
Oh, Hyun Joo, University of Toronto
New Global Mobilities? International Schools as Spaces of Convergence in South Korea
Kim, Bohyeong, University of Massachusetts
Financial camaraderie: an ethnography of wealth-tech in South Korea
Discussant: Michael Robinson, Indiana University
12:20 - 1:20 Professionalization in and for Korean Studies
with Professor Michael Robinson, Indiana University
3:00 - 4:15 Panel 5: Cultures of Criticism
Hall, Emily, University of Washington
Ambiguity by Design: the Liminality of Kim Sŏnghwan’s Mr. Kobau and the Editorial Cartoonists Experience (1958-1963)
Jeon, Kihwa, Seoul National University
A Study on the Female Critic Character of <Yeowachon>
Lee, Soo Hyun, University of Minnesota
Seoul Mouse and the Country Mouse: Representation of the City and the Country in Korean Films
Song, Eunkyung, Rutgers University
Anonymity and Citizenship in the 2008 Candlelight Protests in Korea
Discussant: NamHee Lee, UCLA
4:35 - 5:45 NEKST Forum
Korean Studies and the Commitment to the Political
