Justice, Gender and the Trans-Humanities in East Asia and the U.S.

Justice, Gender and the Trans-Humanities in East Asia and the U.S.

Friday, November 6, 2015 - 10:00am to Saturday, November 7, 2015 - 4:00pm
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale See map
155 Temple Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Ewha Womans University Attendees:

  • Eunice Kim special adviser to Ewha President and Professor of Ewha Law School

  • Ki-Jeong Song, Professor, Department of French Studies, Director of Ewha Institute for the Humanities

  • Pilwha Chang, Korean Women’s Institute, “Surviving to Reconstruct; 40 years of Women’s Studies and Social Change in Korea”

  • Eunshil Kim, Korean Women’s Institute, “The Politics of Unspeakability and the Subject of Defilement”

  • Kyungmi Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Sense of Justice in Women’s Petitions of Joseon Dynasty”

  • Ae-Ryung Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Reconstructing Memories of Gendered Place : ‘Pandora Photo Project (2009-2012) in Yongsan, Seoul”

  • Soo Ja Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “A Study on the Korean women’s political empowerment (1945-1960)”

  • Kyung-Ran Lee, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “What am I to them?”: The Politics of Positioning in ‘Comfort Women’ Narratives”

Yale University Attendees:

  • Daniel Botsman, Professor of History, “‘Sexual slavery’ and prostitution: Historical perspectives on Japan’s wartime ‘comfort women’”

  • Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, and American Studies, “Protesting Sexual and State Violence in India”

  • Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor, History of Art, “Gender, Power, and Pagodas in Medieval East Asia”

  • Laura Wexler, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies, “Not Looking at ‘I Saw It!’: Issues in the Transnational Adoption of Keiji Nakazawa’s Atom Bomb Manga.”

  • Rebecca Fu, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Speaking up in Writing: Women’s Negotiating for Justice in Medieval China (200–1000)”

  • Woo Chang Kang, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in Political Science, “Trauma and stigma: The long-term effects of wartime violence on political attitudes”

  • Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures (discussant)

  • Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Professor, History of Art (discussant)

  • Dima Mironenko, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures (discussant)

  • Juliet Nebolon, Graduate Student, American Studies (discussant)


Friday, November 6, 2015

Location: The Omni Hotel, Harbour Room, 19th Floor
 
9:30 a.m.  Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Welcome Remarks

Jing Tsu, Professor of Chinese Literature & Comparative Literature, Chair, Council on East Asian Studies

Ki-Jeong Song, Professor, Department of French Studies, Director of Ewha Institute for the Humanities

10:15 – 12:00 p.m.

Session 1

Discussant: Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures

  • Ae-Ryung Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Reconstructing Memories of Gendered Place : ‘Pandora Photo Project (2009-2012) in Yongsan, Seoul”

  • Laura Wexler, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies, “Not Looking at ‘I SAW IT!’: Issues in the Transnational Adoption of Keiji Nakazawa’s Atom Bomb Manga.”

  • Inderpal Grewal, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology, and American Studies, “Protesting Sexual and State Violence in India”

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch

Location: Davenport Room, 19th Floor

1:00 – 2:45 p.m.

Session 2

Discussant: Juliet Nebolon, Graduate Student, American Studies

  • Pilwha Chang, Korean Women’s Institute, “Surviving to Reconstruct; 40 years of Women’s Studies and Social Change in Korea”

  • Woo Chang Kang, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in Political Science, “Trauma and stigma: The long-term effects of wartime violence on political attitudes”

  • Soo Ja Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “A Study on the Korean women’s political empowerment (1945-1960)”

2:45 – 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.

Session 3

Discussant: Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Professor, History of Art

  • Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor, “History of Art, Gender, Power, and Pagodas in Medieval East Asia”

  • Rebecca Fu, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Speaking up in Writing: Women’s Negotiating for Justice in Medieval China (200–1000)”

  • Kyungmi Kim, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “Sense of Justice in Women’s Petitions of Joseon Dynasty”

 

Saturday, November 7, 2015

Location: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 203
 
9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

Location: Luce Common Room, Second Floor

10:00 – 11:45 a.m.

Session 4

Discussant: Dima Mironenko, CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Literatures

  • Daniel Botsman, Professor of History, “‘Sexual slavery’ and prostitution: Historical perspectives on Japan’s wartime ‘comfort women’”

  • Kyung-Ran Lee, Ewha Institute for the Humanities, “What am I to them?”: The Politics of Positioning in ‘Comfort Women’ Narratives”

  • Eunshil Kim, Korean Women’s Institute, “The Politics of Unspeakability and the Subject of Defilement”

11:45 a.m.  Closing Remarks

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