Intersections of Science, Language, and Literature in Modern and Premodern Korea

Date
Fri November 4th 2016, 9:30am - Sat November 5th 2016, 7:30pm
Event Sponsor
Humanities Center; STS; DLCL; History Department; HPST; CEAS; APARC; EALC; Korean Literature Association; Literature Translation Institute of Korea
Location
Lathrop Library, Room 224, 518 Memorial Way

This is a two-day conference, running from Friday, November 4, to Saturday, November 5, 2016.

Due to space limitations, this event is only open to students affiliated with the units sponsoring this event (see above).

 

Itinerary

  • Friday Nov 4 (9:30-11:30). Discussant: Chris Hanscom, UCLA

John Kim, Research Associate, Harvard University: “As the Crow Flies: Yi Sang’s Aerial Poetics”
Jina Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College: “Science, Technology and the Mystery Genre”

  • Friday Nov 4 (13:00-15:00). Discussant: Ban Wang, Stanford EALC

Sunyoung Park, Associate Professor, USC: “Toward a History of Science Fiction in South Korea, 1960s-2010s”
Benoit Berthelier, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales / Yonsei University: “Encountering the Alien: Alterity and Innovation in North Korean Science Fiction since 1945”

  • Friday Nov 4 (15:30-17:30). Discussant: Yumi Moon, Stanford History

Sixiang Wang, Mellon Fellow, Stanford University: “Knowledge and the Written Word: Authority and the Indigenous in Late Chosŏn Korea (1700–1850)”
Sanghyun Kim, Associate Professor, Research Institute of Comparative and Culture, Hanyang University: “Science, Technology, and the Imagination of Modern Korea: Representations of Science and Technology in Sassangye, 1950s-1960s.”

  • Saturday Nov 5 (9:30-11:30). Discussant: Janet Poole, U of Toronto 

Changhwan Kim, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature Department, University of Georgia: “Gender Politics and Science in Early Modern Korea through Pedagogic Magazines.”
Yoonsun Yang, Assistant Professor, Boston University: “The Anatomy of Pains, the Autonomy of Mind: (Pseudo-) Medical Science in Modern Korean Literature in the late 1910s and the early 1920s”

  • Saturday Nov 5 (13:00-15:00). Discussant: Hector Hoyos, Stanford DLCL

Haerin Shin, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University: “The Neurocognitive Criminology of Avenging Memories: The Reflexive Mechanism of Dissociative Violence in Young-ha Kim’s The Mnemonics of a Murderer”
Namgyong Yeon, Assistant Professor, Ehwa Women’s University: “The Post-Human and Trans- Border Imagination in South Korean Literature” 
Sophie Bowman, Graduate Student, Ehwa Women’s University: “Frankenstein’s Customers: remodeled humans in Kim E-whan’s Your Metamorphosis”

  • Saturday Nov 5 (15:30-17:30): Roundtable with Dafna Zur, EALC, Stanford (Special location: Knight Building Room 102, 521 Memorial Way)
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