Korean History Symposium: Toward a Postnationalist History of Korea
Date and Time
Location
Workshops and Conferences
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Organizers: Yumi Moon (Stanford University), Sungik Yang (Arizona State University), and Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University)
9:00am – 9:45am Opening Remarks
Nicholas Harkness, Director, Korea Institute; Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Melissa McCormick, Department Chair, East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard College Professor, Harvard University
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Dean, Division of Arts and Humanities; Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean, Division of Social Sciences; W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Eun Mee Kim, President, Ewha Womans University; Professor, Graduate School of International Studies
“Carter Eckert: Institution Builder, Intellectual Beacon, and Martini”
9:45am – 10:00am Break
10:00am – 12:00pm Panel I: Mobility, Ideology, and Transnational Korea
Moderator: Si Nae Park (Harvard University)
Discussants: Hyung-Gu Lynn (The University of British Columbia) and Kirk Larsen (Brigham Young University)
Ilsoo Cho (Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Seoul National University), “Decentering the King of Chosŏn: Early Muromachi Wars in Northern Kyushu and the Maritime “Korean World Order””
Yumi Moon (Stanford University), “Northern Refugees and the Rise of Cold War Nationalism in South Korea, 1945-1949”
Michael Kim (Yonsei University), “Collaboration and Assimilation within Japan’s Multi-ethnic Empire: Uniting the “Eight Corners of the World Under One Roof” in Colonial Korea”
Sungik Yang (Arizona State University), “From the Third Way to Third Worldism: Anti-Western and Antiliberal Internationalism in Postcolonial Korea”
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm Panel 2: Markets, Rural Society, and Postwar Capitalism in Korea
Moderator: Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University)
Discussants: Tae Yang Kwak (Ramapo College of New Jersey) and Tae Gyun Park (Seoul National University)
Sujin Han (Harvard University), “A Druggist’s Account: Rural Healthcare in South Korea”
Will Sack (Harvard University), “A White Revolution in South Korea: 4-H, Greenhouses, and the Rural Bourgeoisie”
Anna Lee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), “Rethinking Markets: Governing Traditional Markets in Modern South Korea”
Peter Kwon (University at Albany, SUNY), “The “K-Defense” (K-Pangsan) Effect: Park Chung Hee, Defense Industrialization, and South Korea’s Quest from Client State to Global Pivotal Power”
3:00pm – 3:15pm Break
3:15pm – 5:15pm Panel 3: Religion, Culture, and Kinship in Modern Korea
Moderator: Nicholas Harkness (Harvard University)
Discussants: Christine Kim (Georgetown University) and Kyu Hyun Kim (University of California, Davis)
Chong Bum Kim (University of Central Missouri), “Between Nation and Empire: Protestantism in Colonial Korea”
Motokazu Matsutani (Tohoku Gakuin University), “Education, Religion, and Politics in Colonial Korea: Soongsil College and Tohoku Gakuin in the late 1920s”
Ellie Choi (Brown University), “Northern Bourgeois Subjectivity and Korea’s First Modern Landscapes”
Nuri Kim (University of Cambridge), “Genealogies of Misinformation: Claiming and Contesting Clan Membership in Modern Korea”
5:15pm – 5:30pm Closing Remarks by Carter J. Eckert
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To attend this online event, please register here.
Generously supported by the SBS Foundation Research Fund at the Korea Institute, Harvard University