Friday, May 17
9 - 10am - Panel 1: Globalization and Transnational Relations
Marcie Middlebrooks (Cornell University) - Found in (mis)Translation: Korean Buddhism’s Pluripotent Powers in the Regenerative Ethics of Global Stem Cell Science
Carolyn Choi (University of Southern California) - Love Me ‘Tender’: Erotic Labor of Migrant Hostesses in Los Angeles Koreatown Bars
Sherri Ter Molen (Wayne State University) - Taking Cover and the Cover Up: The Bridge at No Gun Ri
Hyejeong Jo (University of Pennsylvania) - Habitus Transformation: Immigrant Mother’s Cultural Translation of Educational Strategies in South Korea
Discussant: Dr. Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan)
10:40am - 12:20pm - Panel 2: Production of Nation
Chunfu Li (Sungkyungwan University) - Terminological Border Between Minjok and Kookmin on Overseas Korean
Chaewon Baek (Seoul National University) - The Usage of ‘Eon-mun Ilchi’ and Its Problems
Chi-Hoon Kim (Indiana University) - A Feast Reserved for the Eyes: The Role of Plastic Food Models in Korean Gastro-Nationalism
Discussant: Dr. Yang Seung-gook (Seoul National University)
2 - 3:40pm - Panel 3: Text, Image, and Body
Susan Hwang (University of Michigan) - From J.P. Sartre to D.H. Lawrence: Dissident Readings of European Literature in the Criticism of Paik Nak-chung
Jaebin Yoo (Seoul National University) - Translation of Image: Jeong Yakyong’s Unique Adaptation of Mechanical and Scientific Illustrations from China and Europe
Min-Jeong Kim (Seoul National University) - Redefining Tradition through the Phenomenology of Body
Discussant: Dr. Sung Chang Park (Seoul National University)
3:45 - 5:45pm - Keynote Talk
Serk-Bae Suh (University of California, Irvine) - Translation and the Colonial Desire for Transparency
Saturday, May 18
9 - 10:40am - Panel 4: Korea-Japan Connections
Sujin Lee (Cornell University) - Racialized Bodies and Identified Identities: Physical Anthropology in Colonial Korea
Hiroaki Matsusaka (University of Michigan) - Anticolonialism in the Imperial Language: Korean Radicals in 1920s and 1930s Japanese Publications
Young Shil Youn (University of Toronto) - Three Types of ‘Heroes’ in Sonyeon (The Youth) and East Asian Contexts
Kyung-rim Lee (Seoul National University) - A Study of Janghanmong
Discussant: Dr. Serk-Bae Suh (University of California, Irvine)
10:40am - 12:30pm - Roundtable: Translating Korean Studies
Moderator: Susan Hwang (University of Michigan)
Seoul National University: Ki-In Chong, Domin Kim, Jin-Kyu Kim
University of Michigan: Ha Yeon Lee, Irhe Sohn
Organized by
Korean Studies Graduate Working Group (University of Michigan)
Woosong Korean Studies Graduate Fellows (Seoul National University)
Sponsored by
- Nam Center for Korean Studies (University of Michigan)
- College of Humanities (Seoul National University)
