The Eighth Annual
KOREAN STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2003

Saturday, April 5, 2003
Harvard Hall, Harvard University

9:00	REGISTRATION
9:30	OPENING REMARKS Carter J. Eckert Professor of Modern Korean History Director of the Korea Institute, Harvard University
10:00- 12:00	PANEL I: KOREAN LITERATURE Moderator: David R. McCann, Harvard University Ellie Choi, Harvard University "Kim Suyong's poetry as a Redemption for Korea's Bifrucated Literary History" Mickey J. E. Hong, UCLA "Desire and Decadence: The Poetic Self in Colonial Modernity" Seung-Hee Jeon, Harvard University "Between Facts and Fiction: Negotiating the Historical Truth between the Psychology of Trauma and the Politics of Oppression in 'the Age of the Extreme' in Pak Wansŏ's 'Mother's Stake 2'" Leif P. Olsen, University of British Columbia "Itinerant Identities: Images of Laborers in Hwang Sŏgyŏng's 'Kaekchi'"
12:00	LUNCH
1:00- 2:30	PANEL II: PRE & POST COLONIAL DISCOURSES Moderator: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard University Danton Ford and Dean Ouellette, Kyungnam University "Dismantling the Old and Constructing the New: Religion's Demise and Contribution to the DPRK" Owen Miller, London University "Feudalism in Korean Historiography: Marxism, Nationalism and Universal Schemes of History" Yumi Moon, Harvard University "From Periphery to Social Frontier: Pyongan Province, 1896-1904"
2:30- 4:00	PANEL III: CONTEMPORARY KOREA Moderator: Carter J. Eckert, Harvard University Eliot Jung, Youngsoo Kim, and Takayuki Kobayashi, Harvard University "Going Global: North Korea's Special Economic Zones" June Mee Kim, Harvard University "The Case of Chosŏnjok Labor Migrants in Seoul: Challenging Traditional Conceptions of Citizenship, Cultural Homogeneity, Ethnic Solidarity and Locality" Kyung Kim, University of Birmingham, UK "Questioning a Paradigm shift in South Korea: From the 1980's Minjung Culture to the 1990's Popular Consumer Culture"
4:00- 5:30	OPEN DISCUSSION: The Future of Korean Studies

Please direct all inquiries to June Mee Kim or Aeri Shin (ksgsc@yahoo.com).