The Eighth Annual Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference

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On April 5, 2003, the Korea Institute sponsored the eighth annual Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference at Harvard University. The day-long conference was organized by June Mee Kim and Aeri Shin, and held for the first time in the recently renovated Harvard Hall. Opening remarks were delivered by Professor Carter Eckert. The presentations were grouped into three broad panels—Korean Literature, Pre- and Post-Colonial Discourses, and Contemporary Korea. Student participants represented the following schools: University of Birmingham (UK), University of British Columbia (Canada), U.C.L.A., Harvard University, Kyungnam University (Korea), and London University (UK). The presentations varied in scope from minjung culture to feudalism in Korean historiography, North Korea special economic zones to an analysis of trauma and politics in the literature of Pak Wansŏ.