Friday, November 7 | Palmer Commons - Forum Hall
9:00-9:15 Welcoming Remarks
Nojin Kwak (The Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan)
John B. Duncan (Center for Korean Studies, University of California-Los Angeles)
9:15-10:15 Keynote Address (in Korean, with English translation)
Myong Kwan Chi (Formerly: Editor of Sasanggye, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Korean Broadcasting Systems, Professor and Director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at Hallim University): Lurching Toward Democracy: On the Significance of the Troubled 1970s in Modern Korean History
10:15-1035 Break
10:35-12:20 Panel I: Material and Consumer Culture
- Moderator: Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan)
- Han Sang Kim (University of California-San Diego): “My” Sweet Utopia in the Next Decade: The Popular Imagination of Private Ownership during the Yushin Period
- Eunhee Park (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Kyebaram–The Culture of Money and Investment Fever in the 1970s
- Se-Mi Oh (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Yoido: Master Plans and Urban Dream
- Discussants: Namhee Lee (University of California-Los Angeles), Paul Chang(Harvard University)
12:20-1:20 Lunch
1:20-3:05 Panel II: Media and Visual Culture
- Moderator: Micah Auerback (University of Michigan)
- Jina Kim (Smith College): The Documentary Impulse in Radio Culture of the Yushin Era
- Inkyu Kang (Penn State University, The Behrend College): Yushin as a Visual Metaphor: A Semiotic Analysis of the Fourth Republic’s Comic Art Propaganda
- Irhe Sohn (University of Michigan): Peripheral Visions of Yushin: Techniscope and Returned Colonial Action Heroes
- Discussants: Osamu Ota (Doshisha University), Kyung Moon Hwang (University of Southern California)
3:05-3:25 Break
3:25-5:50 Panel 3: Literature and Popular Discourse
- Moderator: David Chung (University of Michigan)
- Hwisang Cho (Xavier University): [De]Popularizing a Confucian Master: Yushin and the Birth of T’oegye Studies
- Seung-Hee Jeon (Yonsei University): Between “Overzealous Moms” and “Laudable Mothers”: A Study on Motherhood Discourse During South Korea’s Yushin Period
- Sunyoung Park (University of Southern California): Dreams of Dissidence: Science Fictional and Fantastic Imaginations in 1970s Literature and Film
- Serk-Bae Suh (University of California-Irvine): Oh, Lord Come by Here: Christianity and Literature in 1970s South Korea
- Discussants: John Duncan (University of California-Los Angeles), Hwasook Nam(University of Washington), Henry Em (Yonsei University)
Saturday, November 8 | Palmer Commons - Great Lakes North and Central
9:00-11:00 Interview and Roundtable Discussion (in Korean only)
- Myung Kwan Chi (Formerly: Editor of Sasanggye, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Korean Broadcasting Systems, Professor at Hallim University); Ota Osamu (Doshisha University): Yushin-era Intellectuals and the Politics of Resistance
