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Sponsored by Korea Institute, Harvard University
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Harvard University Asia Center
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8:15 – 8:45 Breakfast & Registration
8:50 – 9:00 Introductory Remarks by Professor Sun Joo Kim
9:00 – 10:45 Session I: Form and Freedom in Korean Literature
Moderator: Sun Joo Kim (Harvard University)
Discussants: Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), Bruce Fulton (University of British Columbia)
Seung-Hee Jeon (Yonsei University)
Creative Adaptation of Traditional Korean Sijo Forms in Contemporary English Sijo Poems: A Study of Prosodic Experimentations in David R. McCann’s English Sijo Poems from the Perspective of Generative Metrics Theory
Young-Jun Lee (Kyung Hee University)
Always Present: Unredeemable Time in Modern Korean Literature
Sunghee Kim (Harvard University)
Use and Utility: New Hermeneutic Possibilities and Ethical Inquiries in the Study of North Korean Literature
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Session II: Voices from the Margins
Moderator: Paul Y. Chang (Harvard University)
Discussants: Mark Peterson (Brigham Young University)
Ellie Choi (Cornell University)
Northern silhyangmin (西北 失鄕民) writers in colonial Keijō
Ivanna Yi (Harvard University)
Creating the Self with the Other: Empathy and the Imagination in Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, and Shin Kyung-Sook
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch (Remarks by Korea Foundation Executive Vice President Nam-jin Zeon)
1:30 – 3:15 Session III: Materiality of Literature
Moderator: Yoon Sun Yang (Boston University)
Discussants: Stephen Owen (Harvard University), Kyeong-Hee Choi (The University of Chicago), Alexander Zahlten (Harvard University)
Jamie Jungmin Yoo (Harvard University)
Location of Texts: Sino-Korean Book Circulation and Reception of Ming and Qing Literature in Late 18th-Century Korea
Jiwon Shin (Arizona State University)
Chinese Image, Korean Text, and Cultural Objects in Circulation, 1800’s-1940’s
Wayne de Fremery (Sogang University)
Graph, Map & Tree—New (and Old) Algorithms for Performing Korean Literature
3:15 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:15 Session IV: History and Literature
Moderator: Carter J. Eckert (Harvard University)
Discussants: Karen Thornber (Harvard University), Mi-Ryong Shim (Harvard University), Christopher Hanscom (University of California, Los Angeles)
John M. Frankl (Yonsei University)
Liberated by Oppression: Colonial Korea between the United States and Japan
Jung Ja Choi (Harvard University)
Playing with Voices: Rewriting Women’s History in Ko Chŏnghŭi’s Poetry
Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University in St. Louis)
Searching for Memory: Writing Trauma in Post-1987 Korean Literature
5:15 – 5:30 Closing Remarks by Professor David R. McCann
The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Sunshik Min Endowment for the Advancement of Korean Literature.