Thursday, October 25
Michigan League, Michigan Room
Keynote, 5:00 PM
The Melodrama of Mobility, Continued: South Korea's Fragile Cosmopolitans
Nancy Abelmann (University of Illinois)
Friday, October 26
Michigan Union, Anderson Room D
Panel 1: Through the Lens of Transgression
9:30-10:30 AM
Cyborgs and Castaways: "Thoughtful Transgressions" Toward an Ecumenopolitics
Christopher Hanscom (University of California, Los Angeles)
Unfinished Business: Transgression as a Secular Value?
Juhn Ahn (University of Michigan)
Panel 2: Redrawing Boundaries of Gender & Sexuality
10:50-12:20 PM
Perception of Gender Role and Sexuality in South Korean Advertisements: Transgression or Confucian Dynamism?
Joseph Obok Owiti (Academy of Korean Studies)
Flesh in the Closet: The Secret Wife Tradition among Eminent Monks of Korean Buddhism
Sujung Kim (Columbia University)
Virtuous Slaves: Gendered Imaginations of Loyalty in Late Chosŏn Korea
Joy Kim (Princeton University)
Discussant: Micah Auerback (University of Michigan)
Panel 3: Transgression in the Legal Imagination
1:50-3:20 PM
Tradition and Transgression in the Korean Legal System
Yong-Sung (Jonathan) Kang (University of Washington)
Portrait of an Epileptic as a Murderess: Locating Transgression in the Case of a Modern Cannibal
Se-Woong Koo (École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales)
Transgression in Legal Writing in Pre-modern Korea
Hyejong Kang (Yonsei University)
Discussant: Faith Sparr (University of Michigan)
Panel 4: The Liminality of Youth
3:40-4:50 PM
Stories of Cruel Youth: the South Korean Anti-Teen Film
Peter Yoonsuk Paik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Let Us Boil Our Parents' Blood and Bones!": Yi Kwangsu's Treatise on the Centrality of Children and the Emergence of Children's Literature in Twentieth Century Korea
Dafna Zur (Stanford University)
Discussant: Youngju Ryu (University of Michigan)
Saturday, October 27
Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room
Panel 5: Transgression as an Agent of Social Transformation
9:30-11:00 AM
Allures of Transgression: Traditions and Salsa Dance in South Korea
Michael Reinschmidt (University of Arizona)
Transgressive Academic All-Stars and Conventional Teen Idols: An Ethnography of School-Age South Koreans "Gaming the System"
Bonnie Tilland (University of Washington)
Political Conversion as an Act of Transgression
M. Sahm Suh (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Nojin Kwak (University of Michigan)
Panel 6: Normalizing Transgression
11:20-12:30
The Trickster as Transgressor in Traditional Korean Society
Charles La Shure (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Secular Transgression of Subversion as Divine Prescription: No Yông’s Painted Lacquer Revisitied
Karen Hwang (Vassar College)
Discussant: Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
