Day 1: 11th October 2017 (Wednesday)

16:30 – 19:30 Arrival and check-in

19:30 – 21:30 Informal pre-conference drinks at Saints & Scholars (Wilhelmstrasse 44)

Day 2: 12th October 2017 (Thursday)

9:00 – 9:30 Registration (at Großer Senat, Neue Aula)

9:30 –10:00 Welcoming speech by representative of the University

10:00 – 11:30 SESSION 1 – Korean-Chinese: land, language, and identity

(Chair: Dr. Hwang Taejin)

• Anselm Huppenbauer (Freie Universität Berlin)
  The evolution of regionalism in the Tumen River region since 2005

• Aihua Li (Leiden University)
  The Significance of the Apple-Pear to Korean-Chinese Cultural Identity

• Ruixin Wei (Goethe-University of Frankfurt)
  Maintaining an ethnic identity without proficiency in the ethnic language

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15 SESSION 2 – Sociology

(Chair: Prof. You Jae Lee)

• Gwang Soon LIM (Korea University)
  Young Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Their Family Reconstruction in the 1960s and 1970s

• Jaeeun PARK (Université Lyon 2 / Centre Max Weber)
  Middle Class' Urban Village in Seoul as a Socializing Space for Young Parents

• Hyojin PAK (Leiden University)
  Calling the waste workers: from hoodlum (yangach'i) to waste paper elderly (p'yeji noin)

13:15 – 14:30 Lunch at the Faculty Cafeteria

14:30 – 16:00 SESSION 3 – Music and Poetry

(Chair: Jun.-Prof. Jerôme de Wit)

• Christian Lewarth (University of Vienna)
  Isang Yun's Autobiographical Essays

• Nataliya Chesnokova (Russian State University for the Humanities)
  Struggle for democracy and the Korean protest songs in the 21st century: the case of Yun Min Seok

• Medine Pala (Ankara University)
  War and Existentialism in Korean Literature Based on Jang Yeong-hak's "Yohan Shijib"

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 4 – Contemporary Korean Film

(Chair: Jun.-Prof. Jerôme de Wit)

• Alvaro Maldonado (University of Salamanca)
  Contemporary re-interpretations of the colonial past through the biopics of two Koreans: Park Kyung-won and Kim Sin-rak

• Na-Rhee Scherfling (University of Hamburg)
  Representations of Heterotopic Space in South Korean Modernist Movies of the 1960s

• Ji-yoon An (University of Cambridge)
  Superhero Daddies: Hero Narratives in Contemporary Korean Blockbusters

• Jee-Un Kim (University of Tübingen)
  The Graduated Response Regime in South Korean Copyright - Success or Failure?

18:15 – 20:30 Dinner at Schnitzelakademie (Herrenberger Strasse 34)

Day 3: 13th October 2017 (Friday)

9:00 – 11:00 SESSION 5 – Family and Gender

(Chair: Jun.-Prof. Jong Chol An)

• Katri Kauhanen (University of Turku)
  How methods matter? A historical network analysis on the mobilization of a women’s organization

• Mi-Jeong Jo (Goethe-University of Frankfurt)
  Women, Work, and Multicultural Families in Korean Media

• Valentina Popova (Higher School of Economics)
  The development of Family Law in Republic of Korea (1988 – 2016): evolution of women rights to possessions

• Luis Botella (University of Malaga)
  The autonomy of archaeology as an academic field and Seoul National University (1961-1982)

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 SESSION 6 – Chosŏn Foreign Relations

(Chair: Isabella Jukas M.A.)

• Damien Peladan (Université Paris Diderot)
  The pirate raid of 1419: A case study of Japanese piracy in Korea and China

• Daria Grishina (The Academy of Korean Studies)
  Min Young Ik: reflections on Late Joseon’s foreign policy thought first-hand experience in foreign diplomacy

• Kanghun Ahn (Leiden University)
  Understanding the Kwangmu Reform in a Global Context: Focusing on the Cultural Exchanges between Qing China and Chosŏn Korea in the Early Modern Period

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch at the Faculty cafeteria

14:00 – 16: 00 SESSION 7 – Issues of ethnicity and identity

(Chair: Dr. Kim Sungjo)

• Andrew Logie (University of Helsinki)
  The Tide Turns: pseudohistoriography of Early Korea and the new counter critiques

• Jean Hyun (University of Oxford)
  Is there a "Mohe Culture"?

• AhRan Ellie Bae (Rikkyo University)
  Ethnic Nationalism in the Colonial Context: The Issue of Collaboration in the Case of Yi Kwang-su and An Ch'angho

• Yuko Takahashi (Kyushu University)
  Identities Surrounding a Cenotaph for Atomic-bomb Victims

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 18:15 SESSION 8 – Premodern Korea

(Chair: Dr. Andrew Logie)

• Marketa Vojtiskova (Charles University Prague)
  Folk religions and their functions in Biographies of Rebels in the chronicle Koryŏsa

• Giovanni Volpe (Sapienza University of Rome)
  The Role of the Tonggukchŏngun (東國正韻) in the Language Policy of King Sejong

• Marshall Craig (University of Oxford)
  Hanmun vs. Classical Chinese: how different was Classical Chinese in Korea?

• Anastasia Artemova (Russian State University for the Humanities)
  Defining Buddhism influences in Ch'usa Kim Chŏnghŭi's (1786 - 1856) life and artwork

18:30 – 20:30 Dinner at Restaurant Meteora (Weizsäckerstraße 1)

Day 4: 14^th October 2017 (Saturday)

9:00 – 11:00 SESSION 9 – Korean Language and Linguistics

(Chair: Dr. des. Tobias Scholl)

• Ekaterina Logunova (Russian State University for the Humanities)
  Ch'usa (秋史) Kim Chŏnghŭi's Letters Written in Hangŭl: Honorifics and Speech Style

• Younès M'Ghari (EHESS / INALCO)
  Towards a Lexicography of the two Koreas’ Official Languages

• Natalia Bolotova (Kazan Federal University)
  The Semantic Analysis of Korean, Japanese and Tatar Onomotopoeic Words and Phenomimes

• Sara Librenjak (University of Zagreb)
  Construction of digital materials for teaching Korean to Croatian students

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:45 KSGSC General Meeting

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

The KSGSC committee is pleased to announce the 14th convention for graduate students, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Department of Korean Studies. The conference aims to give graduate students in all Korea-related fields an opportunity to present their research, share academic interests, and strengthen ties with other junior scholars.

This conference, now in its 14th edition, will follow the KSGSC’s history marked by successful previous conventions at Ruhr University, Bochum (2004), SOAS, London (2005), the Oriental Institute, Prague (2006), Edinburgh University (2007), Leiden University (2008), Moscow State University (2009), Babes-Bolyai University (2010), Maison de l’Asie, Paris (2011), University of Warsaw (2012), University of Helsinki (2013), Saint Petersburg State University (2014), the University of Malaga (2015), and the University of Copenhagen (2016).

The convention is organized by the KSGSC committee and is funded by the Academy of Korean Studies.