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Annual Report Annual Report 82. 2. 2610. 4720 | http://www.ieas21.or.kr | 4720 2610. 2. 82. 서울시 구로구 연동로320 성공회대학교 열림관 4103호(우편번호 152-716) 4103호(우편번호 열림관 성공회대학교 연동로320 구로구 서울시 ANNUAL REPORT 2015 동아시아연구소 성공회대학교 Institute for East Asian Studies at Sungkonghoe University 2015 ANNUAL REPORT REPORT ANNUAL Sungkonghoe Univ. Yeondong-no 320, Guro-gu, Seoul, Korea(152-716) 82. 2. 2610. 4720 | http://www.ieas21.or.kr CONTENTS 2. International / National Conferences 3. Regular Academic Discussions / Seminars 7. Socialization Programs About IEAS (1) The 4th Shanghai-Seoul (Korea-China) Youth Scholar (1) IEAS Open Class: Film Making Class and Open Film Director's Greeting Forum 2014 "City and Affect: The location of Youth" 4. Academic Research Activities and Performances Festival for Immigrants (2) Overlapped Borders-Stowing away, Omura Prison (2) Culture Talk 1. IEAS' Agendas "Asia in Affect: Cultural Politics of Camp, Korean Residents in Japan 5. Partnership Activities (3) Invited Lectures to Advanced Humanities and Social Everyday Life" (3) Comparative Research on the Cold War in Europe and (1) Project Summary: Consortium of Inter-Asia Cultural Science Research Institute, Tsinghua University, China (1) Alternative Knowledge Production Asia Studies Institutions (4) Social Discussion 2014 (2) Mobility Control and Regionalization (4) Location Making in Asian Cities and Space Change: (2) Service as the CIACSI Secretariat (3) Cultural Politics in Affect Beyond Developmentalism and Gentrification (3) Major Activities in 2014 8. IEAS Archive (5) Asia Socialism workshop (4) Major Schedule for 2015 (1) Substantiality and Differentiation (6) Co-Hosted by Korea Cultural Studies Society's Autumn (2) Specialization Regular Academic Conference "Intervening Cultural 6. Education Programs (3) Linkage Studies; The laborization of 'Culture', The Enculturation (1) Curriculums (4) Socialization and Digitalization, of 'Labor'" (2) The Promotion Result of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies' Joint Degree System (3) The Thesis Performances of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies History of IEAS [03. 2003] Institute for East Asian Studies (IEAS) established in affiliation with the Center for Culture and Information Studies at Sungkonghoe Univ. [09. 2003] Humanities and Social Sciences Development Project, 'An Introspective Study on Exchange of Popular Culture in East Asia' embarked on as part of the Fundamental Studies Fostering Program in Korea Research Foundation (KRF) (Sep. 2003 ~ Aug. 2005) [09. 2005] Humanities and Social Sciences Development Project, 'A Study on the Formation of National Culture' and Intra-regional Cultural Traffic in East Asia during the Cold War Period' initiated as part of the Fundamental Studies Fostering Program, KRF (Sep. 2005 ~ Aug. 2005) [08. 2007] 'A Critical Approach to the Production and Regulation of Culture in East Asia' selected as a Research Project for the 2007 Fundamental Studies Supporting Program, KRF (Sep. 2007 ~ Aug. 2009) [11. 2007] 'Asia as Culture: a Reorganization of Asia through Ideology, Institution, and Everyday Life' selected as a Research Project for the Humanities Korea (HK) by NRF to be conducted during Nov. 2007 ~ Aug. 2017 [06. 2008] The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) Summer Camp hosted by IEAS, co-hosted by the Graduate School of Communication and Arts, and the Graduate Program in Culture and Gender Studies at Yonsei Univ., Korea National Univ. of Arts [02. 2009] The first China-Korea Gender Colloquium, 'Searching for a Mobile Asia’s Women's Studies: nation, gender, knowledge', co-hosted by Tianjin Normal Univ., Gender and Social Development Research Center. [03. 2010] Graduate Course in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies launched at Sungkonghoe Univ. [05. 2010] The first issue 『of The Lines』 published [07. 2010] About IEAS Inauguration ceremony for the Consortium of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Institutions (CIACSI) held with IEAS in charge of the Secretariat [07. 2010] The first IACSS Summer School hosted The Institute for East Asian Studies (IEAS) at Sungkonghoe University, since its official establishment in 2003, has served as a [07. 2011] foothold in the production of inter-Asian knowledge and culture, establishing critical cultural politics, and pursuing the formation IEAS Open Class, 2011 summer 'Politicizing Urban Spectacle and Pop-Asianism' [04. 2012] of an Asia where all members peacefully co-exist. To this end, IEAS has endeavored to map out the historical and realistic International Conference 'Asia in Mobility: Practicing mobility within/between empires, Cold-War regime and Division system connections within and out of Asia; going beyond national borders to share and produce inter-Asian knowledge and culture. and Construction of Ethnic Spaces in Asia' [03. 2013] In 2007, IEAS was selected to run a long-term academic research project entitled 'Humanities Korea' by the Korea Research International Conferences 'The Emergence of the Cold-War Asia: The New China and the Korean War' Foundation. The project aim is to realize horizontal relationships in Asia in the 21st century, reformulating 'Asia as culture: a [04. 2013] Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies (IAPMS) Group’s International Conference reorganization of Asia through ideology, institution, and everyday life.' Besides establishing a course in Asian cultural studies 'How to Write Inter-Asia Pop Studies Collectively: The difficulties of Collaborative Research' in the Graduate School of Sungkonghoe University and organizing a consortium with 22 research institutes across Asia for the [09. 2013] Commemorative symposium of IEAS' 10th anniversary and book concert production and reproduction of knowledge, IEAS also has been active in practical activities. IEAS will continue to march forward [11. 2014] to the bright future of peaceful Asia fair and square through the establishment of a practical academism that seeks after political International Conference 'Overlapped Borders: Stowing away, Omura Prison Camp, Korean Residents in Japan' [03. 2015] correctness. 'The Department of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies' was changed to a Joint Degree Course of MA & PhD as 'The Department of International Cultural studies' [11. 2015] International Rosa Luxemburg Conference 2015 in Seoul, Korea 'Socialism in Asia and Europe' 4 5 That is India's 'Act East Policy'. These three countries led Bandung Peace Declaration then, and after 60 years how their different plans will interact. Indo-Pacific region is the intersection of the US' 'Rebalance to Asia' and above all the US’ return to Asia is the largest force for switching Asia to Indo- DIRECTOR'S Pacific system. Thus, it is time to carefully examine a possibility to seek out a new exit in the historic context of correlation through the transposition of the GREETING problem and the regionalization of the problem, not to think about the chance of global power reorganization which was visualized through the emergence of China and Asia today at a national level. The core of the problem is to examine what 'Reorient' and the chance of 'Reorient' mean to most of 'The People' who live in Asia now. Since 17th century, 'The People' in Asia have experienced denationalization through colony and nationalization, immigration and nomadism, and escape etc. following the field line of imperialism, the Cold War and globalization. This can be seen as 'Historicized Asia' overlapped by mobility, fracture and hostilities created by imperialism and the Cold War. However, amid the global capitalization, the Asia of today is not being restrained or managed by the world system led by one nation, but the contexts which compose other Asia and the World is composing new Asia more than ever Director of IEAS, PAIk Won-dam before due to the reorganization of institution and everyday life by practicing more open and de-bordering spatialization. It is a question about how well the people living in Asia today are, and the question starts with none other than the consistent research agenda of IEAS. Another year has gone by. Eight-year IEAS is at the stage of finishing research activities revolving around HK Project. Especially, the year 2015 was the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation and the 60th anniversary of Bandung Peace Conference (Asia-Africa Conference) and amid more IEAS' research activities and socialization project during last year were more active than ever before. Because IEAS' three-stage agenda reached prominent historic and practical relationship problems between the Korean Peninsula and Asia, and between Asia and the World than ever before, it the stage that had to create a new theoretical paradigm of Asia as a culture based on the relation among Ideology, Institution and Everyday Life. was time to seriously introspect whether the IEAS' research agenda called 'Asia as a Culture; Reorganizing Asia as Ideology, Institution and Everyday Life’ has been performed properly. Therefore, that introspection provided with a chance to recheck on historic and practical reality that 'If Asian IEAS' research project has approached the agenda called 'Asia as a Culture' which consists of Ideology, Institution and Everyday Life through Countries in Asia are Well' and an old imagination on the future and the trace of practices called Asian route or the 3rd World route. three clusters such as 'Alternative Knowledge Production', 'Mobility Control and Regionalization' and 'Cultural Politics in Affect'. These clusters have proceeded to understand the aspect of Asia that has moved according to each period of history and capture the dynamics of the historicity and Sixty years ago, Bandung
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