28th AKSE Conference Prague 2017 (AKSE 2017) Hotel Pyramida, Prague, Czech Republic, 20-23 April 2017 Conference Schedule (Tentative & Preliminary) Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:00 - 22:00 Registration Foyer 17:30 - 18:30 Transfer 18:30 - 21:30 Opening Aula Magna - Carolinum - Charles University Friday, 21 April 2017 08:30 - 10:30 Session: Hewing Wood, Drawing Water: The State and the Environment in Korean History Room: S7s modra Chair/s: John S Lee 08:30 Hewing Wood, Drawing Water-T62-P-01 Water, Engineering, and the Urban Imagination in Pre-industrial Seoul: Regulating Watercourses during the Chosŏn Dynasty Wenjiao Cai Harvard University, Cambridge, United States 09:00 Hewing Wood, Drawing Water-T62-P-02 “Pigs, Pines, and Prosperity: International Aid Agencies and Resource Development in South Korea, 1945-1961” Lisa Brady Boise State University, Boise, United States 09:30 Hewing Wood, Drawing Water-T62-P-03 Regime of Engineering: Soyang Dam Construction and Transnational Cooperation in the 1960s Pak Chŏng-hŭi Administration Sang-ho Ro Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 10:00 Hewing Wood, Drawing Water-T62-P-04 Pine Policies and Pine Associations: The Two Courses of Institutionalized Forestry in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1598-1876 John Lee Harvard University, Cambridge, United States 08:30 - 10:30 Session: First-generation Ethnic Koreans in Japan Re-explored: Diversity and Agency Room: S1c zelena Chair/s: YOUNG HAE HAN 08:30 First-generation Ethnic Koreans in Japan-T16-P-01 An Expo of Their Own: How Ethnic Koreans in Japan Appropriated Japan World Exposition in Osaka HoSeok Jeong Seigakuin University, Ageo-shi, Japan 09:00 First-generation Ethnic Koreans in Japan-T16-P-02 Women in Work: First-generation Ethnic Korean Women in Japan Sug In Kweon Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 09:30 First-generation Ethnic Koreans in Japan-T16-P-03 Beyond Profit Seeking and/or Recognition Struggle: Reappraisal of the 'Homeland Investment' by Ethnic Korean Entrepreneurs in Japan in 1960s Baek Yung Kim, Jin Sung Chung Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 10:00 First-generation Ethnic Koreans in Japan-T16-P-04 Political Meanings of Social Investigations on ethnic Koreans in Japan In-soo Kim Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of (South) 08:30 - 10:30 Session: Individual presenters Room: S2c seda Chair/s: Zuzana Vavrincová 08:30 Individual presenters [Postwar Korea]-T1-I-01 “Our Honorable Fight” for Going Home : The Prisoners of War’s Riots in POW Camps in Koje-do during the Korean war Sunwoo LEE Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 09:00 Individual presenters [Postwar Korea]-T1-I-02 The Socioeconomic Meaning of the Living Sphere around the Military Camp in Korea: Focusing on Pyŏngtaek Area (1968~1977) Bowoon Keum Ph.D. Student, Department of Korean History, Korea University, 145 Anamro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 09:30 Individual presenters [Postwar Korea]-T1-I-03 From Hope to Despair: The Rise and Fall of the "Eagle Project" Mark Caprio Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan 10:00 Individual presenters [Postwar Korea]-T1-I-04 North Korea - North Vietnam Relations in the 1970s and North Korean Reactions to the 1975 Reunification of Vietnam MIEN THANH THAO DO Ewha Womens University, Department of History, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 08:30 - 10:30 Session: Rediscovering Korea’s Past: Cultural Heritage, Museum Displays and Collective Memory Room: S6c (b) hneda Chair/s: Virginia Moon 08:30 Rediscovering Korea’s Past-T55-P-01 “Missing Treasures: Illicit Trade and the Return of Korea’s Lost Cultural Properties” Ariane Perrin UMR 8173 "China, Korea, Japan" CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France 08:50 Rediscovering Korea’s Past-T55-P-02 Objects of Contention: Korea's National Treasures and the Art Canon Virginia Moon Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, United States 09:10 Rediscovering Korea’s Past-T55-P-03 Official Introduction and Perception of Korean Art in Europe: Case Study of a Joseon Portrait Painting in a Hungarian Collection Beatrix Mecsi ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary 09:30 Rediscovering Korea’s Past-T55-P-04 Controversial Heritage: Struggles over the Commemoration of Park Chung-hee Guy Podoler Department of Asian Studies, The University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel 09:50 Rediscovering Korea’s Past-T55-P-05 The Seoul City Wall and Cultural Branding: The Reconstruction of a Historic Site Codruta SINTIONEAN Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 12:30 Session: Translating Premodern Korea Room: S7s modra Chair/s: Sem Vermeersch 11:00 Translating Premodern Korea-T77-P-01 Translating Koryŏ texts: In defense of incompletion and partiality Remco Breuker Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands 11:30 Translating Premodern Korea-T77-P-02 Translating Buddhist epigraphy Yannick Bruneton Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, Paris, France 12:00 Translating Premodern Korea-T77-P-03 Translating Official Histories Sem Vermeersch Seoul National Unversity, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South) 11:00 - 13:00 Session: The Making of Anti-Communist Everydayness, 1930s-1970s Room: S1c zelena Chair/s: Jeong Yongseo 11:00 The Making of Anti-Communist Everydayness-T39-P-01 The Propaganda Strategies of the Chosŏn Anti-Communism Association during the Wartime Mobilization Period Tae Hun Lee Dept. of History & Culture, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea, Republic of (South) 11:30 The Making of Anti-Communist Everydayness-T39-P-02 Unifying Time and Space in the Countryside: The Cold War Rice and the Green Revolution in 1970s South Korea Sungjo Kim Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 12:00 The Making of Anti-Communist Everydayness-T39-P-03 Korean Representations in Hollywood War Films and Anti-Communism During the Korean War Jimin Kim Queensborough Community College, New York, U.S.A., Dublin, United States 12:30 The Making of Anti-Communist Everydayness-T39-P-04 Cold-War Entertainment: Propagating Militaristic Anti-Communism in 1950s’ South Korean Comedy Film Chung-kang Kim Hanyang University, Sungdong-Ku, Korea, Republic of (South) 11:00 - 13:00 Session: The Construction of Korean History on Screen Room: S2c seda Chair/s: Jooyeon Rhee 11:00 Korean History on Screen-T09-P-01 Images of Queen Inhyǒn, Noble Consort Chang, and Noble Consort Ch’oe in Historical TV Dramas from 2000 to 2010 Uliana Kobyakova KEIMYUNG UNIVERSITY, Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South) 11:30 Korean History on Screen-T09-P-02 Royal Rage: The Fatal Encounter [Yŏngnin] as an Historical Film Christopher Lovins Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South) 12:00 Korean History on Screen-T09-P-03 The Construction of Crown Prince Sado as Tragic National Hero on Screen Barbara Wall Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany 11:00 - 12:30 Session: Queering Korean Studies: Political Homophobia, Human Rights, and Survival Strategies in the Contemporary Era Room: S6c (b) hneda Chair/s: Todd Andrew Henry 11:00 Queering Korean Studies-T04-P-01 Politicking Sodomy: Military Law and Queer Threats in South Korea Timothy Gitzen University of Minnesota, United States 11:30 Queering Korean Studies-T04-P-02 Between Freedom and Death: The Queer Labors of Female Taxi Drivers in Authoritarian South Korea, 1960s-1980s Todd Henry University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, United States 12:00 Queering Korean Studies-T04-P-03 A Nexus of Transnational Norms? Human Rights Discourse and the Visibility of Korean Homosexual Men in Seattle Patrick Thomsen University of Washington - Seattle, Seattle, United States 12:30 - 13:00 Session: Individual presenter Room: S7s modra Chair/s: Sem Vermeersch 12:30 Individual presenter [Chosŏn identity in the East Asian War (1592-1598)]-T1-I- 01 Chosŏn identity in the East Asian War (1592-1598): reliving the war through Swaemi rok Marshall Craig University of Oxford, London, United Kingdom 12:30 - 13:00 Session: Individual presenter Room: S2c seda Chair/s: Jooyeon Rhee 12:30 Individual presenter [Deracialising Korean Bodies?]-T1-I-01 Deracialising Korean Bodies? Media, Global Beauty Aesthetics and Cosmetic Surgery in Contemporary South Korea Joanna Elfving-Hwang The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia 12:30 - 13:00 Session: Individual presenter Room: S6c (b) hneda Chair/s: Todd Andrew Henry 12:30 Individual presenter [Kim Myŏng-sun’s Fruit of Life and the 1920s Male Discourse of Vitality]-T1-I-01 Kim Myŏng-sun’s Fruit of Life and the 1920s Male Discourse of Vitality Jae-Yon Lee Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South) 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 16:00 Session: The Powers and Limits of the Law: Textual Representation, Narrative, and Legal Practice in Late Chosŏn Korea Room: S7s modra Chair/s: Jisoo Monica Kim 14:00 The Powers and Limits of the Law-T43-P-01 Not every missionary in Chosŏn is a martyr: The anti-Christian cases of 1878-79 reconsidered Pierre-Emmanuel Roux Paris Diderot University, Paris, France 14:30 The Powers and Limits of the Law-T43-P-02 Criminal Justice and the Indiginization of Forensic Knowledge in Chosŏn Korea Jisoo Kim George Washington University, Washington, United States 15:00 The Powers and Limits of the Law-T43-P-03 Law as Ideology: Code Compilation and Dynastic Rejuvenation in Late Chosŏn Korea Anders Karlsson SOAS, London, United Kingdom 15:30 The Powers and Limits of the Law-T43-P-04 Chosǒn Magistrate, the Writing Agent of Legal Texts Hyejong Kang Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of