Thursday, February 14, 2019

8:30–9:00 a.m. — Registration

 

9:00–9:30 a.m. — Opening Ceremony

Opening Remarks: Yung-Hee Kim, Professor of Korean Literature, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

Welcoming Remarks

  • Edward J. Shultz, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Hawi'i at Mānoa
  • Laura Lyons, Interim Associate Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Mee-Jeong Park, Associate Professor of Korean, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Esther Kwon Arinaga, Esq., Co-sponsor: "Discovering the Origins of a Mother's Voice in the Literature of Modern Korean Women Writers"
  • Hae In Lee — Kayagŭm performance: "Arirang"

9:30 a.m. — Keynote Speech

“Historic Milestones, Gender Questions, and the Genealogy of Korean Women Writers in Modern Times”
Professor Emerita Seo Jung Ja, Former Vice-President, Chodang University, Korea

10:00 a.m. — Session 1: Dynamics of Gender, Class, and Colonialism

  • Kim Yunsun: A Woman Produced by Chosŏn, a Human Being Produced by a Chosŏn Woman: Na Hye-sŏk’s Feminism and Ideology of Human Liberation
  • Chiyeon Hwang: Class and Gender in Pak Hwasŏng’s “Sewer Construction”
  • Song Inhwa: A Sense of Identity of the Intellectual Woman and the Fear of "Modern Girl": A Review of Socialist Female Consciousness in Human Problem by Kang Kyŏng-ae
  • Discussant — L. Ayu Saraswati

[ 12:00 noon — Break ]

1:30 p.m. — Session 2: Korean Liberation, Socio-political Chaos, and Division Literature

  • Heo Yoon: The Rise of Bourgeois Women and the Sexual Politics of Kang Sin-Jae's Novels in 1960's Korea
  • Kim Hyunju: On Nationalism and Gender Consciousness in Han Mu-Suk’s Historical Novels — Focusing on And So Flows History
  • Ji Young Kim: Becoming Diaspora: Family, Gender, and Migration in O Chŏng-hŭi’s “The Monument Intersection”
  • Discussant — Cheehyung Harrison Kim

4:00 p.m. — Session 3: The Korean War and Its Impact on Women’s Status, Role, and Social Expectations

  • Kim Yangsun: Survival Tactics of Women in the Post–Korean War Period: Depression and Hysteria in the Early Works of Pak Kyŏng-ni
  • Kyeong-Hee Choi: Re-reading of Park Wansuh's "Mother's Stake" II and III
  • Kong Imsoon: Ch’oe Chŏng-hŭi’s Gender Politics of "Collaboration" in Pre- and Post-Liberation Korea
  • Discussant — Mary S. Kim