Duke University
Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall
240 John Hope Franklin Center
2204 Erwin Road
Durham, NC
Thursday, 12 November 2015
3:00pm Welcome
3:10 – 5:10pm Divided Knowledge and Trans-Borders
Chair: Eileen Chow, Duke University
Awakening from Ruin: Ch’oe Inhun and the Unfulfilled Bildungsroman of the 1960s Intellectual
We Jung YI, Penn State University
Placing North Korean Literature in Korean Studies
Immanuel J. KIM, Binghamton University SUNY
Redacted Autobiography, Forced Decolonization in Yi T’aejun’s Early North Korean Literature
Ji Young KIM, University of Chicago
Discussion: Gaehwa Bae, Dankook University & Harvard Yenching Institute
Friday, 13 November 2015
9:00am Welcome
9:10 – 11:00am Sino-Korean Imaginations in Early Modern Asia
Chair: Morgan Pitelka, UNC Chapel Hill
Imagined Geography as Ethical Utopia: Envisioning Worlds in Late Chosŏn Literature
Sookja CHO, Arizona State University
Rethinking the ‘Sinographic Sphere’ Through the Poetics of Japanese and Korean Chronicles
Wiebke DENECKE, Boston University
British-Korean Encounters: Late-Chosŏn Diplomacy and 1930’s Medievalism
Sophie BOWMAN, Ewha Womans University
Discussion: Jiwon Shin, Arizona State University
Michael Pettid, Binghamton University, SUNY
11:00 – 11:15am Coffee Break
11:15am – 1:00pm Translation and Mobility
Chair: Leo Ching, Duke University
Mobility on Track: Locomotive Modernity in Colonial Korean Cinema
Han Sang KIM, Boston University
Sapphic Marriage and Fairytales of the Self-made Man
Yoon Sun YANG, Boston University
Representing Transnational Women in 1950s South Korea
Yunji PARK, University of Southern California
Discussion: Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University
Kelly Jeong, UC Riverside
1:00 – 2:30pm Lunch
RSVP for Friday lunch with dietary restrictions to Debbie Hunt (ddhunt@duke.edu).
2:30 – 4:20pm (Re)Mapping and Crossing Borders
Chair: Shai Ginsburg, Duke University
Stories of Unification: Korean and German Perspectives on an Era of Change
Birgit Susanne GEIPEL, UC Riverside
Minjung as an Unfinished Project: A Non-Teleological Reading of Shin Hak-Chul’s History of Modern Korea Paintings
Kevin Michael SMITH, UC Davis
Korean Literature as National and Global
Jonathan GLADE, Michigan State University
Discussion: Dafna Zur, Stanford University
Ellie Choi, Cornell University
4:20 – 4:30pm Break
4:30 – 5:45pm Roundtable: New Directions for Global Korean Studies
With Mai Shaikhanuar-Cota, Managing Editor, Cornell East Asia Series, East Asia Program, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
6:15 – 8:30pm Special Event: Contemporary Novelist in Focus (Perkins Library 217)
Featuring KANG Young-Sook, acclaimed author of Rina, and other novels,
with literary critic, KIM Jonghoi and Associate Director of Dalkey Archive Press, Jake Snyder.
Reading and reception open to the public.
Sponsored by Duke University Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Korea Forum, The Novels Project @ Duke, Franklin Humanities Institute, and Literature Translation Institute of Korea.
For more information, please contact Nayoung Aimee Kwon (na.kwon@duke.edu).
