2021 Symposium of Yale Korean Language and Studies

2021 Symposium of Yale Korean Language and Studies

Friday, December 10, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
via Zoom See map

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Welcoming Remarks

  • Aaron Gerow     Chair and Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures & Professor of Film Studies
  • Hwansoo Kim     CEAS Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies
  • Seungja Choi      Senior Lector II of Korean, East Asian Languages and Literatures

5-Minute Thesis Presentations (List below available to download here)

                 Program organizer: Angela Lee-Smith, Senior Lector II of Korean, EALL

Time

Presenter

Research focus, Affiliation

Presentation Title

Undergrad

6:15-6:20

Nathan Chan-Yeong Kim

 Ethnicity, Race, & Migration; Statistics and Data Science

(’22)

The IMF and Global Dispossession

6:20-6:25

Daisha Roberts

East Asian Studies; History of Science and Medicine

(’22)

Korean Narcotic Policy Development

6:25-6:30

Formosa Deppman

Comparative Literature; East Asian Studies (’21)

Discontents of the Young Intellectual in Colonial East Asia

6:30-6:35

Sarah Baskin

Comparative Literature (’21)

Non-Western Globalization Through the Messages of BTS

6:35-6:40

Victoria Quintanilla

Fulbright Scholar to Korea (2021-22),

 History (‘21)

Crossing Peninsulas: Early 20th- Century Korean Flexible Nationalisms in the Yucatan Peninsula”

6:40-6:45

Jenna Shin

William’s Prize Award Winner,

East Asian Studies (’21)

Comfort Women Redress Movement without Comfort Women

6:45-6:50

Christopher Kim

William’s Prize Award Honorable Mention,

Political Science

 (’20)

Multicultural Churches in Korean Civil Society: The Co-evolution of Protestant Christianity and Civil Society in a Globalizing Korea

Graduate

(PhD Programs)

6:55-7:00

John G. Grisafi

Modern Korean Religion, Religious Studies

(3rd Year)

North Korean Historiography of Religion, through North Korean Textbooks in the Yale East Asia Library

7:00-7:05

Jusung Lee

 Religious Studies

(First Year)

Buddhism in colonial Korea beyond a nationalistic political perspective

7:05-7:10

Eugene Kwon

Film Histories of Japan and South Korea, Media Theory, Intersection between contemporary art and cinema,

Combined Program in Film and Media and East Asian Literatures

(4th Year)

Media Concept in South Korea and Japan, 1980s-1990s (K)

7:10-7:15

Spencer Lee-Lenfield (Young-il Lee) 

Comparative Literature

(4th Year)

A Translator Lost in Time: Younghill Kang’s Translations of Han Yong-un

7:15-7:20

Meera Choi

Sociology

(3rd Year)

Unwelcomed by My Previous Self: Spatial Exclusion of Mothers and Their Sense of Place in Urban South Korea

7:20-7:25

Madeleine Han

(Seunghwa Han)

American Studies

(3rd Year)

Far from Hollywood: The Legacy of the Korean War at Camp Pendleton

7:30-8:00 (Optional)                                      Comments & Q/A  Virtual Happy ½ Hour

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