The Ninth Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2004

Saturday, April 17, 2004
Thompson Room, Barker Center, Harvard University

8:30	REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
9:00	OPENING REMARKS Carter J. Eckert Professor of Modern Korean History; Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
9:30- 11:00	PANEL I: UNCLE SAM'S EARLY HAND IN MOLDING KOREAN SOCIETY Moderator: Sung Yoon Lee, Tufts University John DiMoia, Princeton University "In Due Course: Images of Science Mobilized under the USAMGIK, 1945-1948" Motokazu Matsutani, Harvard University "US Occupation Policy on Shinto in Post-Liberation Korea and Japan" Jeong Sub Nam, State University of New York, Buffalo "Korea Imagined in Hollywood Films: A US Military Town and a Battle against Evil Communists"
11:00- 12:30	PANEL II: CH'ANGJAK KWA BIP'YONG: KWAGO WA HYONJAE [CREATION AND CRITIQUE: PAST AND PRESENT] Moderator: Young Min Kwon, Seoul National University Leif Olsen, University of British Columbia "Gendered Filiality and Heroism in the Tale of the Golden Bell, a Choson Fictional Narrative" Diana Hinds Evans, Harvard University "The Challenge of Translating Korean Poetry: Theories and Methodologies" Mia Minjung You, Harvard University "Kiss & Tell: Physical Expressions of Lofty Love in Han Yong-un's Love's Silence and Walt Whitman's Calamus"
12:30	LUNCH
1:30- 3:00	PANEL III: POLICY-ING NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS: THE COLONY AND THE COLONIZED PERCEPTIONS Moderator: Vipan Chandra, Wheaton College Martin Petersen, University of Copenhagen "Restoring the Minjok Spirit: An Analysis of the Representation and Influences of the Choson Government-General Building in Contemporary Korea" KeyOne Yu, Teacher's College, Columbia University "Methodist Mission Schools and Nation-Building in Korea" Shino Toyoshima, SOAS, University of London "State Schools and the Local Community in Colonial Korea"
3:00	COFFEE BREAK
3:15- 4:45	PANEL IV: ENRICHING TRADITIONAL TOPICS: RENEWING HISTORY, ART AND POLITICS Moderator: Jae Chung, Korea Institute, Harvard University Owen Miller, SOAS, University of London "The Myonjujon: A Silk Merchants' Guild in Late Choson Korea" Hwa Young Choi Caruso, Teacher's College, Columbia University "Art as a Political Act: Expression of Cultural Identity, Self-Identity, and Gender in the Work of Two Korean/Korean-American Women Artists" Young Mi Kim, University of Sheffield "Explaining Government Instability in South Korea (1997-2002): The Role of Party Organization and Institutionalization"
4:45- 5:30	OPEN DISCUSSION: The Future of Korean Studies

Please direct all inquiries to Aeri Shin (ksgsc@yahoo.com).