Koreanistik

CIVIS KF e-School Consortium Summer School 2025

What is CIVIS-KF e-school consortium?

The CIVIS-KF e-school consortium is an association of five European Korean Studies Departments of Civis Alliance to provide mutual online learning opportunities. The main goal is to diversify teaching and increase in-depth exchange between students and researchers of European Korean studies. The program is supported by the Korea Foundation.

What is CIVIS-KF Graduate Summer School?

The Graduate Summer School includes lectures by professors of Korean Studies and researchers and presentations of master thesis and dissertation topics by students from the participating universities of the CIVIS-KF e-School consortium. 

This is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas with other European Korean Studies students and to receive feedback from renowned professors and researchers from various disciplinaries.

The 2025 Graduate Summer School of the CIVIS-KF e-school Consortium will take place at Stockholm University, June 9 - 13, 2025. Transportation, accommodation and meals will be provided for participants. 

Up to five students are chosen from each partner university.

Participating partner universities:

• Eberhard Karls University Tübingen (Germany, Prof. Dr. You Jae Lee) – financer of the Graduate Summer School of the CIVIS-KF e-school Consortium

• Aix-Marseille University (France, Maître de Conference Hye-Kyung Kim-Crescendo) 

• Bucharest University (Romania, Prof. Dr. Diana Yuksel) 

• Sapienza University of Rome (Italy, Prof. Dr. Antonetta Bruno)

• Stockholm University (Sweden, Prof. Dr. Sonja Häussler) – host of 2025 Graduate Summer School of the CIVIS-KF e-school Consortium

Programm

Time: 9-13 June 2025
Place: Stockholm University, Universitetsvägen 10, Södra hallerna, building F, Hörsal 12 (9 June, 9:00-12:30), room F 420 (9 June, 14:00- 13 June, 16:00)

9 June (Monday):

9:00-9:20Welcome Addresses (Hörsal 12)
Korean Contemporary Literature I: Panel on Han Kang (Hörsal 12)
9:20-9:30Introduction to the panel (Sonja Häussler and Eunah Kim, Stockholm University)
9:30-10:05Antonella Gasdia (Sapienza University Rome): Women's Eco-identities Across the Literary Spectrum: The cases of Han Kang and Yun Ko-eun
10:05-10:30Introduction to the Roundtable discussion: Media Reporting in Response to Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Award (Karin Nykvist, Lund University)Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
10:30-10:45Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
10:45-11:45Roundtable discussion: Karin Nykvist (Lund University), Barbara Wall (Copenhagen University), Eunah Kim (SU), Sonja Häussler (SU)
11:45-12:20Cătălina Dragoteanu (Stockholm University): Reclaiming the Wound: Korean Women Writers and the Politics of Remembering
12:45-14:00Lunch break (Fakultetsklubben Manne Siegbahn, Frescativägen 22 A)
Korean Contemporary Literature II (F420)
14:00-14:45Diana Yuksel (Bucharest University): Literary Cartography and the Mapping of Emotional Spaces in Korean Literature
14:45-15:20 Laurie Galli-Ragueneau (Aix-Marseille University): Writing Loneliness and Madness in Kim Sagwa’s Fiction
15:20-15:35 Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
15:35-16:20Budeanu Diana Ioana (Bucharest University): Recollecting ”the Mother” Through Bodily Imagery in Contemporary Korean Literature
16:20-16:55Mathilde Tholozan (Aix-Marseille University): Monstrous Bodies in Korean Contemporary Literature Through the Study of Cho Yeeun’s The New Seoul Park Jelly
Massacre (2019) and Gu Byeongmo’s Agami (2011)
17:30Dinner (sixth floor, F6, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Lunch room)

10 June (Tuesday):

Modern and Contemporary Society II (F420)
9:00-9:45Lee You Jae (Tübingen University): ‘The empty Adam and the full Eve’. The catholic mission for women in post/colonial Korea
9:45-10:30Rim Joung Eun (Aix-Marseille University): Living Alone Together: Loneliness and the Honbap Phenomenon in Urban Korea
10:30-10:45Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
10:45-11:20Eva Wunderlich (Tübingen University): Intersectional Perspectives: Anti-Asian Racism Against Women in Germany
11:20-11:55Anna Wickenberg (Stockholm University): Balancing Two Identities: Societal Factors Shaping the Experiences of Homosexuals in the South Korean Military
11:55-12:30Annina Miller (Tübingen University): Between Two Giants: Comparing Hedging Strategies in East Asia
12:45-14:00Lunch break (Fakultetsklubben Manne Siegbahn, Frescativägen 22 A)
Modern and Contemporary Society II (F420)
14:00-14:45Thomas Eichert (Tübingen University): Between Cooperation and Conflict: German Business in Cold War Korea
14:45-15:30Gabriel Jonsson (Stockholm University): The Rise of the South Korean Defense Industry and Arms Exports
15:30-15:45Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
15:45-16:20David Mihaela (Bucharest University): Representations of Trauma and Memory of the Korean War in Korean and American Comics
16:45-17:45Korean Literature Night (ARKO author-in-residence Kim Inae 김인애 (Kim Sujung김서정) and visiting authors Shin Hye-eun 신혜은, Song Soo-youn 송수연, Kim Soo-young 김수영, Park Hyo-mi 박효미, Nam Yoon-jung 남윤정) 
18:00Dinner (sixth floor, F6, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Lunch room)

11 June (Wednesday):

Korean Visual Arts I (F420)
9:00-9:35Vivian Hsiao Lei Fan (Stockholm University): Nostalgic for Love: An examination of Taiwanese youth romance films in South Korean public media and social media spaces
9:35-10:10Andreea Sorina Lazăr (Bucharest University): Facing Challenges: The Matrix of Domination in Korean TV Series
10:10-10:20Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
10:20-10:55Christian Gregory (Stockholm University): Skepticism of the US/ROK relationship in the cinema of Bong Joon-ho
10:55-11:30Teresa Lortz (Tübingen University): Korean folklore on the big screen – The shift in representation of Korean folklore in South Korean movies
11:30-12:30Lunch break (Fakultetsklubben Manne Siegbahn, Frescativägen 22 A)
Korean Visual Arts II (F420)
12:45-13:20Sophie Kaczmarek (Tübingen University): Fragmentary aesthetics - An expression of Korean identity and social tensions in the works of Lee Bul
13:20-13:55Émilie Soldani-Piana (Aix-Marseille University): Restoring to transmit: the portrait of King Taejo and Korean cultural memory
15:00-17:15Stockholm Under the Bridges (Boat tour, departure: Strömkajen, Gate C)
18:00Dinner (Restaurant Hermans, Fjällgatan 23 B)

12 June (Thursday):

Korean Literature and Culture (F420)
9:00-9:45Antonetta Bruno (Sapienza University Rome): Verisimilitudes between Novels and Musok: Exploring Narrative Characteristics
9:45-10:20Eleonora Caselli (Sapienza University Rome): Beyond the Veil: Dreams as Portals to Collective Memory and Healing in Korea
10:20-10:55Balea Paraschiva Ioana (Bucharest University): Literature as Memory Keeper in Shin Kyung-sook's Novel I Went to See My Father
10:55-11:10Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
11:10-11:45Tintin Appelgren (Stockholm University): Disability in Korean literature: The Tale of Simch’ŏng
11:45-12:20Andreea Negutu (Bucharest University): “The Other" in Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: A cross-cultural analysis of patriarchy through Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory
12:45-14:00Lunch break (Fakultetsklubben Manne Siegbahn, Frescativägen 22 A)
15:00Visit to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet, Tyghusplan 4) and City Tour
19:30Dinner (Restaurant Ri Cora, Götgatan 93, near subway station Skanstull)

13 June (Friday):

Korean Language and Cultural Impacts on Korean Society I (F420)
9:00-9:45Olivier Bailblé (Aix-Marseille University): The lexical overexposure of English in the Korean language nowadays
9:45-10:30Kim Kyung Mi (Sapienza University Rome): The State's Role in Globalization: Korea's Experience from a Comparative Perspective
10:30-10:45Coffee break (fourth floor, F4)
10:45-11:20Piergiorgio Scollo (Sapienza University Rome): Hyo 孝 between the operating room and the cockpit: A look at the role played by traditional Korean culture in highly demanding professional environments
11:20-11:55Pauline Follet (Aix-Marseille University): Shincheonji cult and the reinterpretation of biblical symbols to legitimize its teachings and authority
11:55-12:30Federico Rozzi (Sapienza University Rome): Mudong and Kinyŏ: a Deep Dive into Chosŏn Palace’s Official Entertainers
12:45-14:00Lunch break (Fakultetsklubben Manne Siegbahn, Frescativägen 22 A)
Korean Language and Cultural Impacts on Korean Society II (F420)
14:00-14:35Daniele Di Pasquale (Sapienza University Rome): Framing Vernacular Epistles in Middle Korean Writing Practices: The Importance of the 'Letters of Na Shin-geol'
14:35-15:10Manon Nicol (Aix-Marseille University): Chŏng Yakyong (1762-1836) and the redefinition of vocabulary: a needed change for the country to arise
15:10-15:45Vanessa Stockfleth (Tübingen University): The Imjin Wars (1592-1598) in the East Asian Context: Military expansion into cultural conflict
15:45-16:00Closing Ceremony
16:00-18:00Annual CIVIS-KF Consortium Meeting (F371)
16:00-18:00Students’ Visit to Bergianska Botanical Garden
18:00 Dinner (sixth floor, F6, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Lunch room)

 

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