The Sixth Annual KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2001 Saturday, April 14, 2001 Barker Center, Harvard University All Abstracts
8:15	REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
8:30	OPENING REMARKS: David R. McCann Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature; Acting Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
9:00- 10:30	PANEL I: CULTURAL BORDERS Moderator: Wayne Patterson, Harvard University
Hyun Choe, University of California, Irvine Citizenship and Nationhood in the Republic of Korea Sachiko Kotani, California State University, Hayward Colonization, Migration, and Japan: Life Histories of Elderly Korean Immigrants Yang-Im Lee, University of Stirling, UK Organizational Culture From A Korean Perspective
10:30- 12:30	PANEL II: KOREAN LITERATURE Moderator: David R. McCann, Harvard University
Christopher Hanscom, University of California, Los Angeles Aesthetic Resistance: Tracing the Path of Mediated Desire in Pak T'aewon Grace E. Koh, University of Oxford, UK Literary Criticism in the Koryo Period Joanna Hwang, University of Sheffield, UK Rethinking the Analytical Criticism of Korean Fiction in the 'West' Kyoo E. Lee, London University, UK Sex and the City: The Female Gaze, Resilient Body and Urban Desire in the Poetry of Ch'oe Yong-mi
12:30	LUNCH
1:30- 3:00	PANEL III: MODERN KOREA Moderator: Sung-Yoon Lee, Tufts University
Daniel H. Kim, University of Washington Informal Institutions as a Hindrance to Economic Recovery: The Unwritten Collusion of Banks and Corporations to Thwart Reform in the Post-Crisis Milieu Danny Damron, Purdue University Korean Democracy: A Case Study of the Freedom of Dissent Tae Yang Kwak, Harvard University Belief and Betrayal: Koreagate and Korean-American Relations in the 1970s
3:00- 4:00	PANEL IV: PRE-MODERN KOREA Moderator: Eugene Y. Park, University of California, Irvine
John M. Frankl, Harvard University Images of 'The Foreign' in Pre-Modern Korean Fiction Lori A. Chu, University of Hawaii Indian Influence on Korean Buddhism and Korean Kingship
4:00- 5:00	PANEL V: COLONIAL IDEOLOGIES Moderator: Vipan Chandra, Wheaton College
Chiho Sawada, Harvard University On the Wings of Susanoo: A Trickster Deity, the Imperial Diet, and Debating the "Korea Problem" (1919) Ellie Choi, Harvard University Revisiting Yi Kwang-su's Minjok Kaejoron
5:00- 5:30	OPEN DISCUSSION: The Future of Korean Studies