The Fifth Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2000

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8:15 - 8:30 Registration

8:30 Opening Remarks by Professor David R. McCann, Harvard University

9:00 - 10:30 Panel One:
STATE POLICY AND PUBLIC DISCOURSE IN SOUTH KOREA

Moderator:
Edward J. Baker
Associate Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

Youngshik Bong
"State Policymaking Behavior and the Island Disputes in East Asia: ROK-Japanese Dispute on Tokto/Takeshima"
University of Pennsylvania

Soo-Jung Lee
"Changing Discourse on and Identities of Separated (North-South) Family Members"
University of Illinois

Hyun Chool Lee & Byung-ok Kil
"The Political Construction of the State and Political Legitimacy in the Case of South Korea"
Konkuk University and Kent State University

10:30 - 11:25 Panel Two:
TONGHAK MOVEMENT

Moderator:
Carter J. Eckert
Professor of Modern Korean History, Harvard University
Director, Korea Institute

George Kallander
"Divine Pronouncements: Ch'oe Si-hyong and the Haewol Sinsa Popsol"
Columbia University

Carl Young
"Tonghak After the Tonghak Rebellion, 1895-1901"
University of London

11:25- 12:20 Panel Three:
LITERARY IMAGINATIONS

Moderator:
David R. McCann
Professor of Korean Literature, Harvard University

Grace Koh
"Vision and Reconstruction of History through the Use of Literary Imagination in the Samguk Yusa"
Oxford University

Jiwon Shin
"Dance of Agony: Anso Kim Ok's Translations of Symbolist Poetry"
Harvard University

12:20 - 1:30 LUNCH

1:30 - 3:15 Panel Four:
REPRESENTING PRE-MODERN IDENTITIES

Moderator:
Milan Hejtmanek
Professor of Pre-Modern Korean History, Harvard University

Joy Kim
"Recasting Slavery (Nobi-je) in Korean History"
Columbia University

Bonnie Kim
"Corrupt Functionaries, Institutional Breakdown, or Bad Weather? Varied Approaches to Dating the Sillan Census Register"
Columbia University

En Young Ahn
"Problems in the Study of Traditional Korean Aesthetics"
Monash University

Richard King
"Documentary Sources on Kaya: A Survey of Extant Records"
Oxford University

3:15 - 5:00 Panel Five:
COLONIAL CRITIQUES AND POST-COLONIAL PERCEPTIONS

Moderator:
Vipan Chandra
Professor of History, Wheaton College

Somei Kobayashi
"GHQ/SCAP's Perception Toward Korean Residents in Japan: 1945-1948"
Hitotsubashi University

Chiho Sawada
"Heavy Brains, Hairy Bodies, and Higher Civilization: Namgung Byok's Critique of Japan's Cultural Assimilation Policy in Colonial Korea"
Harvard University

Scott Swaner
"Historiography and Fact or Ideology and Fetish? Looking Back at the Japanese Annexation of Korea"
Harvard University

Sue Jean Cho
"Outside the Diasporic Paradigm: The 'Atypical' Experience of Koreans in America"
Harvard University

5:00 - 5:30 Open Discussion: THE FUTURE OF KOREAN STUDIES