The Tenth Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2006

Saturday, April 29, 2006
Room S020, Case Study Room, Concourse Level, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

8:30	REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
9:00	OPENING REMARKS David McCann Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature; Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
9:30- 10:45	PANEL 1: PRE-MODERN KOREA Discussant: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University Alexander Akin, Harvard University Was the Tongguk yoji sungnam Muzzled for Military Security? A New Approach to Choson Cartography in the Context of East Asian Publishing Gwang Ho An, The Academy of Korean Studies The Stratification of Local Clerks of Low Status in the Late Choson Dynasty
10:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:00- 12:15	PANEL 2: KOREA'S HISTORY AT ITS BORDERS Discussant: Mark Elliott, Harvard University Seonmin Kim, Duke University The Ginseng Connection: Ginseng and Borders between Qing China and Choson Korea Yeunjee Song, UCLA Mansenshi (Manchuria-Korean History): Japan's Modern Invention of Historical Geography(ies) of Northeast Asia
12:15	LUNCH
1:30- 2:45	PANEL 3: KOREAN LITERATURE Discussant: David McCann, Harvard University Javier Cha, University of British Columbia Cosmic Mechanism and the Paradox of Literature in Korean Neo-Confucianism Steven Capener, Yonsei University Paradise Found: Recovery and Redemption In Yi Hyoseok's Later Literature
2:45	COFFEE BREAK
3:00- 4:30	PANEL 4: MODERN KOREA Discussant: Hyung Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia Soon Ju Kim, The Academy of Korean Studies A Colonial Public Hall Survives: Gyeongseong Bumin'gwan and the Politics of Space and Memory in Postcolonial Korea Hoi-eun Kim, Harvard University Erwin Baelz's "Anthropological" Expeditions to Korea and His Theory of the Racial Similarity of Japanese and Koreans Haruka Matsuda, The University of Tokyo The Consequences of Military Exercises among the U.S., South Korea, and South Vietnam in the 1950s
4:30- 5:00	OPEN DISCUSSION: The Future of Korean Studies

For more information or questions, contact Sue Jean Cho, Conference Coordinator, at jharvard@gmail.com.