Friday, April 22nd
April 22, 2011 -Registration at 8:30 AM
19 West 4th Street
9AM
Welcome and Introduction by Henry Em, NYU and JT Takagi, Third World Newsreel
Keynote Address: Prof. Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago
“History and Memory in The Korean War: Apocalypse, Absence, Amnesia”
Bruce Cumings at Event
Panel 1: Cultures of War
10:10 – 12:10 PM
Panel Chair: Henry Em, East Asia Dept, NYU
Cultures of War Panel
Participants/Presenters
Eun Heo Korean History, Korea University
“The Korean War, Bio-politics and Hegemony of the U.S. in the East Asia”
Daniel Kim Associate Professor, English, Brown University
“Black Korea, 1950-53: African Americans and the Conflict in Korea”
Monica Kim, PhD candidate, History, University of Michigan
“The Pedagogy of Desire in the Interrogation Room: Imperial Lessons in Truth and Free Will in U.S.-controlled POW Camps of the Korean War”
Discussant: Youngju Ryu, Assistant Professor.Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Michigan
12:10 PM Lunch
Panel 2: Cold War Epistemologies
1:30-3:30 PM
Panel Chair: Jae-Jung Suh Associate Professor, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University
Audience for Panel 2: Cold War Epistemologies
Participants/Presenters
Yongwook Chung Korean History, Seoul National University
“Social Scientists Between ‘Cold War Enemy’ and ‘Oriental Society’”
Christina Klein Associate Professor, English, Boston College
“Cinematic Memories: Traces of the War in Contemporary Korean Cinema”
Discussant: Xudong Zhang,Professor, Comp Lit & East Asian Studies, NYU
Panel 3: Decolonization and Empire
3:40 – 5:10 PM
Panel Chair: Jack Kuo Wei Tchen, Associate Professor, History, Social & Cultural Analysis, NYU
Panel 3: Decolonization and Empire
Participants/Presenters
Christine Hong Assistant Professor, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
“Unfinished Liberation: North Korean Rescue and the Antipolitics of Unending War”
Jodi Kim Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside
“Arrested Decolonization and the Imperial Temporality of Political Violence”
Discussant: Henry Em, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, NYU