The Second Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 1997

Saturday, April 12, 1997
Ticknor Lounge (Boylston Hall), Harvard University

8:30- 9:00	REGISTRATION OPENING REMARKS: Professor Vincent Brandt Acting Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
9:00- 10:30	Panel I: Modern Literature Moderator: Kyung-Ja Chun John Frankl "Images of America in Early Modern Korean Fiction: Yi injik's Hyŏl ŭi nu" Seung-Hee Jeon "What Happens after Nora Leaves Home?; A Comparative Study of Henrik Ilben's A Doll's House and Ch'ae Mansik's After Leaving the Doll's House" Jiwon Shin "Yim Hwa at the Crossroads: A Poetic Construction of urban Proletariat Class and the Revolutionary Romanticism in Yim Hwa's Poetry"
10:30- 12:00	Panel II: Japanese Colonial Rule Moderator: Vincent Brandt Mickey J. E. Hong "Ch'oe Seunghui: Japan and Korea as One Body: The Dancer as the Embodiment of Naisen Ittai" Jeffrey P. Bayliss "Someone Else's Minority Problem: Japanese Attitudes toward the Korean Paekchŏng during the Colonial Period" Kyung Moon Hwang "The Emergence of Military Men in the Bureaucratic Elite, 1880-1930"
12:00	LUNCH
1:00- 2:30	Panel III: Contemporary Law and Society Moderator: Edward Baker David Waters "Korean Constitutionalism and the 'Special Act' to Prosecute Former Presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo" Hyeonsoo Kim "Democratization Movement in South Korea" Donald Sohn "Chun Doo-hwan's Manipulation of the Carter Administration"
2:30- 4:00	Panel IV: Constructing the Korean Nation Moderator: Milan G. Hejtmanek Jae-ho Jeon "Using National Heroes: King Sejong and Admiral Yi in the Park Regime" Mark Byington "Late Fourth Century Koguryŏ: The Creation of a National Identity" Scott Swaner "Mirroring and Negotiation: The I-Ching as Paradigm for The Song of Dragons Flying to Heaven"

Please direct all inquiries to John Frankl (ksgsc@yahoo.com).