Populism, Alternative Truths, and Voices from the Fringe in Korea

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 *RSVP Required to attend the conference. Please email samkoo@upenn.edu to RSVP.
 
Conference Agenda
 
Schedule
 
09:30-10:00 Registration and Breakfast
10:00-10:20 Opening: “Conceptualizing the Fringe” (Nuri Kim)
10:20-12:20 Panel 1: “Alternative Knowledge Regimes”
12:20-13:40 Lunch
13:40-15:00 Panel 2: “Marginalized Voices Speak”
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-17:20 Panel 3: “Politics of the Fringe”
18:00 Reception (Conference Participants)
 
Panel 1: Alternative Knowledge Regimes (Discussant: Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton)
1. John Lee (Yale): “Sylvan Fates: Geomancy and the Politics of Forests in Koryŏ Korea, 918-1392”
2. John Kim (Harvard): “The Shaman Specter: The Horror of Alternative Cosmologies in Kim Tong-ni’s “The Shaman Painting” and Na Hong-jin’s The Wailing”
3. Narae Kim (Kennesaw State): “Knowing North Korea, Making North Korea: Suki Kim and Truth Claims”
 
Panel 2: Marginalized Voices Speak (Discussant: Seok Lee, Penn)
1. James Flowers (Johns Hopkins): “Healers on the Margins in Japan-ruled Korea, 1910-1945”
2. Youme Kim (Yonsei): “Political Repressions and the Voices from the Fringe”
 
Panel 3: Politics of the Fringe (Discussant: Albert Park, Claremont McKenna) 
1. Brendan Wright (Carleton): “Bereaved Families and the Question of Leftism in the Second Republic”
2. Justine Guichard (Penn): “Disputing the Vietnam War: South Korean Veterans’ Struggles for Victimhood Recognition and Denial”
3. Youjeong Oh (UT Austin): “Jeju Island and the Politics of Dispossession at the Margin”