“Nationality and Transnationality in Modern Korea”, July 7-8, 2017 in Tübingen

Thursday, July 6, 2017

8.00 pm Optional Pre-Conference Gathering

Ludwig’s Café/Restaurant/Bar (Hotel Krone, Uhlandstrasse 1)

DAY ONE: Friday, July 7, 2017

09:00-09:20 Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Opening: You Jae Lee, Director of the Tuebingen Global Korea Project
• Welcome: Jürgen Leonhard, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Tübingen
• Introduction: Taejin Hwang, Co-organizer of the Conference

09:20-1:00 SESSION I: Nationality and Citizenship
Moderator: Jong-Chol An (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• 09:20-10:10 Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University, Korea)
  Re-problematizing the Nationalist Imagination of Korea in the Global Memory Space
• 10:10-11:00 Jeong-Seon Lee (Hallym University, Korea)
  The Legal Status of the “Joseonin (Korean)” during the Japanese Colonial Period and Japanese-Korean Intermarriages
  
  11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
   
• 11:20-12:10 Chulwoo Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)
  The Law and Politics of Ethnizenship: The Creation and Preferential Treatment of Kin-Foreigners in Comparative Perspective
• 12:10-1:00 Sung Ho Kim (Yonsei University, Korea & Keio University, Japan)
  Room of One’s Own: Making of We the People of (South) Korea

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-5:20 SESSION II: Migrations and Border Crossings
Moderator: Taejin Hwang (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• 2:30-3:20 Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan, USA)
  Ethnic Capital and Flexible Citizenship in Unfavorable Legal Contexts: Stepwise Migration of the Korean Chinese
• 3:20-4:10 Eleana Kim (University of California at Irvine, USA)
  From Immediate Family to Invasive Alien: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Production of Deportability
  
  4:10-4:30 Coffee Break
   
• 4:30-5:20 Hae Yeon Choo (University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada)
  Producing Migrant Containment: Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship

5:20-6:00 Publication Plans Discussion

6:30 Dinner Reception (Die Kelter Restaurant, Schmiedtorstrasse 17)

DAY TWO: Saturday, June 13, 2017

09:00-12:40 SESSION III: Cold War Connections and Transnational Organizations
Moderator: You Jae Lee (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• 09:00-9:50 Ingu Hwang (University of Chicago, USA)
  The WCC’s Human Rights Advocacy and Transnational Democratization in South Korea during the 1970s
• 9:50-10:40 Jane S. H. Kim (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
  Re–evaluating the World Health Organization and Leprosy Work in Korea
  
  10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
   
• 11:00-11:50 Jeyeon Oh (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
  Interweaving of the Cold War and Post-Colonialism: Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League and South Korea
• 11:50-12:40 Seuk Ryule Hong (Sungshin Women's University, Korea)
  A Ping-Pong Diplomacy Without a Thaw: The US-North Korea Relations during the Détente Period

12:40-1:00 Closing Remarks & Group Photo
1:15-3:30 Lunch Reception (Restaurant Mauganeschtle at the Hotel am Schloss)
4:00-5:00 Optional Activity (Boat Ride on the Neckar River)

The Department of Chinese and Korean Studies at the University of Tuebingen is pleased to announce the inaugural international conference of the Tuebingen Global Korea Project. With the Tuebingen Global Korea Project, we situate our research on modern Korean history and society beyond the nation, but without neglecting it, by prioritizing transnational perspectives and methodologies. For this inaugural conference to examine the central theme of “Nationality and Transnationality in Modern Korea,” we seek to engage in in-depth and innovative discussions on the three topics of Nationality and Citizenship, Migrations and Border Crossings, and Cold War Connections.

Under the framework of “Nationality and Citizenship,” the conference seeks to assess the historical changes in the imaginings of nationality and practices of citizenship in modern Korea from the late 19th century to the “waves” of postcolonial liberation, the Cold War, and today’s post-Cold War globalization. Especially in light of the irrefutable diversity and increase in in-migration to contemporary Korea, we seek to explore the ways in which transnational “Migrations and Border Crossings”—the second central theme of the conference—complicates assumptions about nationality and citizenship as well as what shaping consequences it has had on Korea. For the related sessions on “Migrations and Border Crossings” and “Cold War Connections,” the aims are to investigate the dynamic intersections and diverse interrelations of Cold War institutional connections and ideological crossings with that of Korea’s development and modernity. Migrations or “crossings” are conceptualized to include transnational flows of not only people, but also of mobility across institutions and borders as well as reciprocal exchanges of ideologies that took place during the Cold War. It seeks to bring together researchers across disciplines working on wide range of topics related to this theme in order to assess the impact of these transnational crossings and Cold War connections on modern Korea.

The conference will take place at the University of Tuebingen from the morning of Friday, July 7, 2017, to the afternoon of Saturday, July 8, 2017.

The conference is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies for the Core University Program for Korean Studies and is organized by Prof. You Jae Lee and Dr. Taejin Hwang of the Chinese and Korean Studies Department, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tuebingen.