The Third Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 1998

8:30-9:00	Registration Opening Remarks by Professor David R. McCann Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University
9:00-10:00	Panel One: Colonial Period Moderator: Carter Eckert Matt J. Christensen, "The Nature and Evolution of Private Law in Colonial Korea" Remco Breuker, "The Question of Historical Objectivity in Colonial Historiography"
10:00-12:00	Panel Two: Writing and Exile Moderator: Kyung-Ja Chun Jiwon Shin, "Landscape and Letters in the Poetry of Yun Sondo" John M. Frankl, "Tradition, Modernity, and America in Yi Kwangsu's Mujong" Grace Koh, "Cholmunnal ui Ch'osang and Issues Pertaining to Comparative Literature" Scott Swaner, "The Price of Poetry in South Korea, or Postmarxist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Pak Nohae"
12:00-1:00	Lunch
1:00-1:30	Harvard-Yenching Library Tour Choong Nam Yoon
1:30-3:30	Panel Three: Politics of War Moderator: James West Thomas Lee, "Challenges to Realism: Asymmetrical Alliances and Third Country Intervention in Korea and Vietnam" Tae Yang Kwak,"The Vietnam War and the Failure of Korean Democracy" John S. Park, "An Examination of the 1994 US-North Korea Agreed Framework and Its Impact on Inter-Korean Relations" James K. Freda, "Why the Homogeneity Thesis Is All Mixed Up: Korea and Schizophrenia in the Nation-State System"
3:30-4:30	Panel Four: Individual Presentations Moderator: David R. McCann Ariane Perrin, "The Cosmological and Mythological Elements in Tokhungni Tomb's Mural Paintings" Tae-Gyun Park, "Same Destination, Different Roads"
4:30-5:30	Open Discussion: Korean Studies Present and Future