EVENT DETAILS

"Recent Books in Korean Studies" Colloquium

Featuring UCI graduate students' presentation

Program Schedule

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Coffee and Registration

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM Book Discussion I
Imperial Genus by Travis Workman
https://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Genus-Formation-Limits-Pacific/dp/0520289595
Commentator: David Fedman, Assistant Professor of History

10:00 AM -10:50 AM Book Discussion II
Sovereign Violence by Steven Choe
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Violence-Millennium-Culture-Transition/dp/9089646388
Commentator: Jim Steintrager, Professor of English

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM UCI Grad Student Presentations I
"Migrant Labor, Gender Violence, and Media Representation"
Speaker: Elizabeth Clark, Jessica Conte, Eun Ah Cho

12:15 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM Book Discussion III
The Proletarian Wave by Sunyoung Park
https://www.amazon.com/Proletarian-Wave-Literature-1910-1945-Monographs/dp/0674417178/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495489210&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Proletarian+Wave
Commentator: Mimi Long, Associate Professor of Eash Asian Languages and Literature

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM Book Discussion IV
Writers of the Winter Republic by Youngju Ryu
https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Winter-Republic-Literature-Resistance/dp/0824839870
Commentator: Serk-bae Suh, Associate Professor of Eash Asian Languages and Literature

4-5:15 pm UCI Grad Student Presentations II
"Korea-Japan/Korea-China"
Speaker: Chungjae Lee, Tian Li, Eun Young Seong