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The American Studies Association of Korea
The American Studies Association of Korea
DAY ONE (Friday, September 20, 2019)
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-11:30 Sessions 1-3
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-14:30 Sessions 4-6
14:40-16:40 Sessions 7-9
16:50-18:00 Keynote Speech I
18:20-20:00 Reception
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
09:00-10:00 Registration
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
10:00-11:30 Session 1 (Graduate Session) America, Now and Then Room 106
Chair Hyeyurn Chung Sungshin Women’s University, Korea
Presentation 1 Zhu Ziyi Doshisha University, Japan
Cross Representation of Zelda Fitzgerald in Pop Culture, Now and Then
Presentation 2 Sara H. M. Hasanat Doshisha University, Japan Fascism in America: Then and Now
Presentation 3 Jun Hyeok Seo Sogang University, Korea American TV Now: Remaking the Desirable Body in Netflix Series Pose
Discussants Minhee Bang Sogang University, Korea Eun Shim Sogang University, Korea Unji Oh Korea University, Korea
Session 2 (Graduate / Korean Session) US Today: Diplomacy, Voting and Presidency Room 107
Chair Shang E. Ha Sogang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Seungmi Lee Ewha Womans University, Korea Beyond Fire and Fury: How Does the US Encounter Kim Jong-un?
Presentation 2 Sinjae Kang, Byungjae Lee Yonsei University, Korea Religious Affiliation and Political Participation in LGBT Voters: Social Network as a Moderator
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Presentation 3 Seong Hyeon Park Seoul National University, Korea Polarized We Check: How Polarized Parties Have Strengthened the Congressional Check on Presidential Unilateralism
Discussants Jiyeon Jeon Ewha Womans University, Korea Shang E. Ha Sogang University, Korea Jungkun Seo Kyung Hee University, Korea
Session 3 (Graduate Session) Ways of Seeing: Representation of American Time-Space Room 108
Chair Cheol-U Jang Kangwon National University, Korea
Presentation 1 Inna Yoo Seoul National University, Korea Innocence in The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Presentation 2 Toshiko Irie Doshisha University, Japan Transnational Takarazuka Women: All-Female Takarazuka Revue during the Occupation Era in Japan
Presentation 3 Zhu Lin Doshisha University, Japan Oriental Encounter on/behind the Stage: Chinese Opera Performance in 1930’s America
Discussants Yeong In Park Hanyang University, Korea Hyun Jung Kong Seoul National University, Korea Junggyung Song Yonsei University, Korea
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
11:30-12:30 Lunch Break
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▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
12:30-14:30 Session 4 (Korean Session) Personalities, Ideas and American Foreign Policy Room 106
Chair Inhwi Park Ewha Womans University, Korea
Presentation 1 Taesuh Cha Sungkyunkwan University, Korea The End of Exceptionalism?: The Lost Soul of American Hegemony in the Trump Era
Presentation 2 Junseok Kim Dongguk University, Korea President Donald J. Trump and US Foreign Policy
Presentation 3 Shang E. Ha Sogang University, Korea Rationalizing Voters, Partisan Media, and American Foreign Policy
Discussants Inhwi Park Ewha Womans University, Korea Yujin Kim Seoul National University, Korea
Session 5 Contested Desires: Transnational Asian/American Identities in the US Room 107
Chair Valerie Seo San Francisco State University, USA
Presentation 1 Jenny Wang Medina Emory University, USA Good Hair: Korean Americans in the Ethnic Beauty Supply Industry in the U.S.
Presentation 2 Jinah Kim California State University, Northridge, USA Desiring Korea: Precarity, the Death Drive and the Diasporic Consumption of Korean Dramas
Presentation 3 Kristy Kang Nanyang Technological University, Singapore The Seoul of Los Angeles: Contested Identities and Transnationalism in Immigrant Space
Presentation 4 Valerie Soe San Francisco State University, USA Intersections of Cultural Memories: Love Boat: Taiwan
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Session 6 Body Issues: Gender Trouble in Transnational Asian/America Room 108
Chair Kyung-Sook Boo Sogang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Joseph Jonghyun Jeon University of California, Irvine, USA Her Revenge: Low Birthrate Cinema in Lady Vengeance and The Villainess
Presentation 2 Anita Mannur Miami University, Ohio, USA We Are What We Watch: Mukbang, Eating for One and the Formation of Intimate Eating Publics
Presentation 3 Hyungji Park Yonsei University, Korea The Biopolitics of Lunacy in The Handmaiden and Fingersmith
Presentation 4 James Kyung-Jin Lee University of California, Irvine, USA Disability as Liberation: Body Dysmorphia and Model Minority Toxicities in Christine Hyung-Oak Lee’s Tell Me Everything You Don’t Remember
Discussants Seunghyun Hwang Incheon National University, Korea Eunha Na Seoul National University, Korea Kangyl Ko Yonsei University, Korea Nami Shin Incheon National University, Korea
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
14:40-16:40 Session 7 (Korean Session) Foreign Policy and Partisan Politics in America Room 106
Chair Byoung Kwon Sohn Chung-Ang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Jungkun Seo Kyung Hee University, Korea Politics Starting at the Water’s Edge? US-North Korea Relations in the Trump Era
Presentation 2 Alex Soohoon Lee Korea University, Korea Explaining the Decision on the War on Terror through Bureaucratic Process Model
Presentation 3 Juri Kim Korea Institute for National Unification, Korea Partisan Politics in “Intermestic” Policy: Implications from the Obama Presidency for the Future of Arms Control Treaties and U.S. Nuclear Posture in the Trump Presidency
Presentation 4 Bo Ram Kwon Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, Korea Et Tu, the Republican Party? Factional Politics and Its Effects on the Trump Administration’s North Korea Policy
Discussants Byoung Kwon Sohn Chung-Ang University, Korea Jongkon Lee Ewha Womans University, Korea
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Session 8 (AAAS Delegates Session) Division and Tolerance Reconsidered: Biopolitics, Bilingualism and Immigration Room 107
Chair Donghee Om Kyungpook National University, Korea
Presentation 1 Fred Lee University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA Asian/Asian American Critique of Race and Species in Joon-ho Bong’s Okja
Presentation 2 Shawn M. Higgins Temple University Japan Campus, Japan Active Toleration and Decolonization in the English Language Classroom
Presentation 3 Ka-eul Yoo University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Curing the Silence of “Orphan Bachelors”: Disability and Rehabilitative Violence in McCarthy-era Chinatown
Discussants Hye Jean Chung Kyung Hee University, Korea Yoon-Young Choi Dongduk Women’s University, Korea Min Hoe Kim Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Session 9 (Graduate / Korean-English Session) Life Cycle of America and Literary Analogy Room 108
Chair Jieun Kwon Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Presentation 1 Bokyung Han Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea The Possibility of Coexistence between Self and Other: Vampire as Immigrant in Dracula and Fledgling
Presentation 2 Soo Jin Park Yonsei University, Korea Rewriting Humanism in the Post-9/11: Han Kang and Franz Kafka’s Posthuman Metamorphosis
Presentation 3 Jaejoon Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea Representation of 9/11 in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: Formation of New Generation after the Trauma
Discussants Taehyeong Kim Seoul National University, Korea Juhye Kim Seoul National University, Korea JinMee Lee Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
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▶ Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
16:50-18:00 Keynote Speech I Tolerance, Liberty and Community in American Culture
Moderator Nam-Kook Kim Korea University, Korea
Speaker Russell A. Berman Walter A. Hass Professor in the Humanities and Professor of
German Studies and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA
▶ Crimson Lounge, 1201 Media Hall
18:20-20:00 Reception Moderator Ewha Chung Sungshin Women’s University, Korea
Opening Remarks Yangsoon Kim President, ASAK; Korea University, Korea
Welcoming Remarks Jin-Hee Ryu Executive Vice President, Korea University, Korea
Congratulatory Remarks Mikayo Sakuma JAAS; Gakushuin Women’s College, Japan James Kyung-Jin Lee AAAS; University of California, Irvine, USA
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DAY TWO (Saturday, September 21, 2019)
09:00-10:00 Registration
10:00-12:00 Sessions 10-13
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:10 Keynote Speech II
14:20-16:20 Sessions 14-17
16:30-17:30 Roundtable
17:30-17:40 Closing Ceremony
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor
09:00-10:00 Registration
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor & Global Conference Hall
10:00-12:00 Session 10 The Politics and Aesthetics of Korean Migration Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
Chair So-Hee Lee Hanyang Women’s University, Korea
Presentation 1 Lili M. Kim Hampshire College in Amherst, USA Korean Argentine Women and Transit Belongings: The History of Korean Migration to Argentina and Remigration to the United States
Presentation 2 Robert Ji-Song Ku Binghamton University, USA This Could Only Happen in Korea: A Korean American Rumination on Meokbang and the Transnational Spectacle of Korean Food
Presentation 3 David S. Roh University of Utah, USA Korean America Discovers Osaka: Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko
Presentation 4 Christopher T. Fan University of California, Irvine, USA Engineers for Korea: The Science Fictionality of Native Speaker
Discussants Koobyoung Park Ajou University, Korea In Shik Bang Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea Junghyun Hwang Hansung University, Korea Sung Hee Yook Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
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Session 11 America, Inside and Out: Constant Battle and Emerging Challenges Room 106
Chair Sung Yup Kim Seoul National University, Korea
Presentation 1 Kera Lovell University of Utah, Asia Campus, Korea Designing Parks for the People: Coalition and Divide within Vietnam Era Spatial Protests
Presentation 2 Dean J. Kotlowski Salisbury University, USA Political, Policy, and Gender Connections in the New Deal Era: Mary Elizabeth Switzer and Paul V. McNutt, 1939-1945
Presentation 3 Liora Hendelman-Baavur Tel Aviv University, Israel From Friends to Foes: National Identity, Post-colonialism and Perceptions of “America” in Iran
Discussants Chanhaeng Lee Korean University of Technology and Education, Korea Ji-Hye Shin Yonsei University, Korea Yeonhaun Kang Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Session 12 American Lives Embodied: Literature, Documentary and Screenplay Room 107
Chair Jae Eun Yoo Hanyang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Joori Lee Chonnam National University, Korea The Feast of Words in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: Junot Díaz’s Joyce
Presentation 2 John R. Eperjesi Kyung Hee University, Korea Caves as Storied Matter: The Jeju April 3 Event and US Imperialism
Presentation 3 Soo Yeon Kim Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea Unqueering Love: Endings of Fight Club and Call Me by Your Name
Discussants Sunyoung Ahn Korea University, Korea Myoung-Sun Song Sogang University, Korea Chung-hwan Joe Seoul National University, Korea
Session 13 (Graduate Session) US-Asia Relations: Domestic vs. Overseas Room 108
Chair Peggy Cho Kyung Hee University, Korea
Presentation 1 William Silcott Binghamton University, USA Hsu Who?: Race, Decolonization, and Asian/American Anthropologist
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Presentation 2 Sunwoo Paek Korea University, Korea Axis of ‘Nuclear’ Evil: U.S. Counterproliferation Strategies against Libya and North Korea
Presentation 3 Sang Hoon Kim Korea University, Korea Complementing Military U.S.-ROK Alliance with Soft Power
Discussants JeongWoo Lee Korea University, Korea Alexandrova Iordanka Sasheva Korea University, Korea Jiwon Jung Ewha Womans University, Korea
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
▶ Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
13:00-14:10 Keynote Speech II “Red Scare” 2020
Moderator Soo Yeon Kim Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea
Speaker Barbara Demick New York Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times, USA
▶ LG-POSCO Hall, 1st Floor & Global Conference Hall
14:20-16:20 Session 14 (JAAS-AAAS-ASAK Delegates Session) Transitions and Junctions in American History, Sociology, Arts and Literature Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial
Memorial Samsung Hall
Chair Youngjeen Choe Chung-Ang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Miya Shichinohe-Suga JAAS; Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan Linking Historical U.S. Census Data to Early Japanese Transpacific Migration History: 1860-1880
Presentation 2 Tina R. Lee, Jeannie Kim, Chenelle Seck AAAS; Teachers College at
Columbia University, USA Moving the Clock Beyond Racial Triangulation: An Analysis of American Civil Unrest
Presentation 3 Hyun-Song Lee ASAK; Hankuk University of Foreign University, Korea Americans’ Sense of Status Hierarchy
Presentation 4 Joon Hyung Park Pukyong National University, Korea From Rail to Reel: Metaphorical Implications of the Railway in Elia Kazan’s A Streetcar Named Desire
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Discussants Eunhye Kwon Sogang University, Korea Sodam Choi Korea University, Korea Jin Hee Kim Kyung Hee Cyber University, Korea Hyungseob Lee Hanyang University, Korea
Session 15 (Korean Session) Unfinished Revolution and the Other’s Democracy in the US Room 106
Chair Hyun Hur Chungnam National University, Korea
Presentation 1 Hyun Hur Chungnam National University, Korea Misplaced Honor?: Lincoln’s Reconstruction and the Failure of Reconstruction
Presentation 2 Jeong-Eun Kim Chonnam National University, Korea North Carolina’s Clemency after Revolutionary War
Presentation 3 Yong-tae Kim Kangwon National University, Korea Immigrant Suffrage and Democracy in Nineteenth Century America
Presentation 4 Jongkyu Hong Catholic Kwandong University, Korea The March 1st Movement in the New York Press
Session 16 White or Not, That Is the Question Room 107
Chair Joewon Yoon Korea University, Korea
Presentation 1 Jee Hyun An Seoul National University, Korea The Birth of a Nation (The Clansman) as the Birth of a White Imperial America
Presentation 2 Kaori Mori Want Konan Women’s University, Japan America’s Struggle over Unwanted Immigrants: Reading Racial Divide in Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic
Presentation 3 Adam F. Braun McCormick Theological Seminary, USA Will Green Tolerate Black?: The Green New Deal in Critical Race Perspectives
Presentation 4 Ivan Cañadas Hallym University, Korea The Perils and Limitations of Being PC, or (White)Washing Away the Sins of the Past: The Two Versions of Dumbo (1941; 2019)
Discussants Boosung Kim Ewha Womans University, Korea Jungha Kim Seoul National University, Korea Jung-Suk Hwang Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Hyun-joo Yoo Ewha Womans University, Korea
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Session 17 Theoretical and Philosophical Reasoning of the American System Room 108
Chair Ki Yoon Jang Sogang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Manav Ratti Salisbury University, USA Intersectionality Theory and the Minority Racialization of Religion in the US
Presentation 2 Arthuur Jeverson Maya & Imelda M. J. Sianipar Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Indonesia Comparison of Kant and Derrida Hospitality of Trump’s Travel Ban Policy
Presentation 3 Peter Y. Paik Yonsei University, Korea Neo-Reaction, the Dark Enlightenment, and the End of the American System
Discussants Sooyoung Lee Hanyang Cyber University, Korea Ju Young Jin Soonchunhyang University, Korea Kelly S. Walsh Yonsei University, Korea
▶ Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
16:30-17:30 Roundtable America, Nation of Great Divide and Tolerance Moderator Jae H. Roe Sogang University, Korea
Presentation 1 Mikayo Sakuma JAAS; Gakushuin Women’s College, Japan Poetics of Atonement: Transformation of Xenophobia in American Renaissance
Presentation 2 Min-Jung Kim Ewha Womans University, Korea Engendering the Black Subject: Epistolarity in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me
Presentation 3 Sung Yup Kim Seoul National University, Korea A Jazzman from Saturn Visits the USA: Sun Ra, Black America’s Ancient Future, and the Countercultures of Modernity
Commentators Russell A. Berman Stanford University, USA Barbara Demick Los Angeles Times, USA
▶ Global Conference Hall, B109 Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
17:30-17:40 Closing Ceremony Moderator Jungman Park Secretary of International Affairs, ASAK; Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies, Korea
Closing Remarks Jae H. Roe President-Elect of ASAK; Sogang University, Korea
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Campus Map
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01 4.18 Memorial Hall02 Auditorium03 Hyundai Motor Business Hall04 Business School Main05 KU-Lyceum06 Robot Convergence Building07 College Of Engineering Building08 College Of Engineering Annex09 Science Library10 Alumni Hall11 Hana Science Hall12 Structural Dynamic Test Lab.13 International Studies Hall14 KBSI seoul Branch15 Dongwon Global Leadership Hall16 College of Liberal Arts17 Media Hall18 International Center for Converging
Technology19 Centennial Memorial Samsung
Hall / Museum20 College of Law Annex21 College of Law22 College of Health Science Justice
Building23 College of Health Science Truth
Building24 College of Health Science Student
Union Building25 College of Health Science Horim
Building26 Health Science Library27 Main Hall28 Main Hall Annex29 College of Education Building #130 Hyundai Motor Hall (renewal)
31 College of Education Building #232 Techno Complex Research Center33 Life Science & Biotechnology Green
Campus Building34 Life Science & Biotechnology East
Building35 Life Science & Biotechnology West
Building36 College of Nursing Woo-jung Hall37 Basketball Gym38 College of Science Asan Hall39 Asiatic Research Center40 Ice Link41 Funeral Hall42 University Dormitory(A)43 University Dormitory(B)44 University Dormitory(V)45 University Dormitory(C)46 Woman Student's Dormitory(D)47 Aegineung Cafeteria48 Aegineung Student Union Building49 Foreigner's Residence(E)50 Woodang Hall51 Woo Jung Information&
Communications Building52 Uncho-Useoun Hall53 Anam Hospital54 College of Medicine Main Hall55 Medical Hall56 Medical Library57 College of Science Annex58 Inchon Memorial Hall59 Radio Engineering Lab60 College of Political Science &
Economics61 Information & Computing Center
62 1st. Lab.63 1st. Lab. Annex64 College of Engineering #265 2nd. Lab.66 X67 X68 Central Plaza69 Graduate School70 Main Library71 Garage(University Press)72 Innovation Building73 Chungsan-MK Cultural Hall74 Sport & Recreation Hall75 The Athletic Training Center76 Tiger Plaza77 Wind Tunnel Lab.78 Frontier House79 Hana Square80 R.O.T.C. Building81 Student Union Building82 College of Nursing Annex83 Korean Studies hall84 Haesong Law Library85 Communication Building86 Tiger Dome87 Environmental Engineering Lab.88 CJ Food Safety Research Building89 CJ International House90 LG-POSCO Hall
1. From Incheon International Airport- By Subway_ Take Airport Railroad, transfer to Line 6 at Gongdeok Station, and exit at Korea University Station (Exit No.1) or Anam Station (Exit No.2).
- By Limousine Bus_ Take bus no. 6101 and get off at Korea University or Sungrye Elementary School stop.
2. From Gimpo Airport- By Subway_ Take Airport Railroad, transfer to Line 6 at Gongdeok Station, and exit at Korea University Station (Exit No.1) or Anam Station (Exit No. 2).
- By Limousine Bus_ Take bus no. 6101 (heading for Surak Terminal) and get off at Korea University or Sungrye Elementary School stop.
3. From Seoul Station- By Taxi_ About 20 minutes (Tell the driver to go to the Front Gate of Korea University).- By Subway_ Take Line 1, transfer to Line 6 at Dongmyo Station, and exit at Korea University Station (Exit No.1) or Anam Station (Exit No.2).
4. From Yongsan Station- By Taxi_ About 30 minutes (Tell the driver to go to the Front Gate of Korea University).- By Subway_ Take Line 1, transfer to Line 6 at Dongmyo Station, and exit at Korea University Station (Exit No.1) or Anam Station (Exit No.2).
5. From Sotetsu Hotels The Splaisir Seoul Dongdaemun- Free Shuttle Bus_ during the conference days (Sept. 20-21, 2019), shuttle transportation will be available from the Splaisir Hotel to the conference venue every morning and from the venue back to the hotel at the end of the day.
- By Subway_ Take Line 2 at Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station, transfer to Line 6 at Sindang Station, and exit at Korea University Station (Exit No. 1) or Anam Station (Exit No.2).
- By Bus_ Take bus no. 144 for Ui-dong at Gwanghuidong stop (across from the hotel and near Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station). Go for 8 stops, and get off at Korea University stop. Go across the street to the Front Gate of the University.
How to Get to the Conference Venue / Korea University
Korea Univ. Station Exit no. 1
Anam Station Exit no. 2
Anam Station Exit no. 2
Front Gate
Media Hall
Centennial Memorial Samsung Hall
LG-POSCO Hall
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