International Conference
Transnational Cultural Interactions
between Korea and Japan,
From the Pre-modern to the Colonial Period
The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 17-19, 2015
Day I, May 17, Sunday
16:00-17:30 Panel 4 Japan and Korean Literature
16:00 – 17:30 Welcoming Remarks
John Treat, Yale University, USA
Wada Yoshihiro, Yonsei University, South Korea
Chul Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
University of Jerusalem
18:00-19:30 Korean Buffet for conference
participants provided by Dr. Lee Kanggeun
Room 501, Beit Maiersdorf
Yuri Pines, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew
Yaacov Cohen, Chair of Korean Studies Forum
Rebecca Meyerhoff Memorial Lecture
Theodore Hughes, Columbia University, USA
“Colonialism, Area Studies, Globalization”
Day II, May 18, Monday
8.30-9:00 Reception and Registration
Abba Eban Hall, Truman Institute
9:00-9:20 Opening Remarks
Menahem Blondheim, Academic Director of the Harry S. Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Nissim Otmazgin, Chair of the Department of Asian Studies
Jooyeon Rhee, Conference Organizer, the Department of Asian Studies
09:20-11:00 Panel 1 Traveling Images: Korea in Japan
Sol Jung, Princeton University, USA
Yoonjung Seo, Forum Transregionale Studien at Berlin, Germany
Pablo N. Barrera, Yale University, USA
11:15-13:00 Panel 2 Korean Students in Japan
Hanna Chong, Yonsei University, South Korea
Ik-Sang Jo, Yonsei University, South Korea
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus, Free University Berlin, Germany
14:00-15:30 Panel 3 Intellectual Exchange between
Colonial Korea and Japan
Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Serikawa Tetsuyo, Nishogakusha University, Japan
Sonja Simonis, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Day III, May 19, Tuesday
09:30-11:30 Panel 5 Rethinking Korean Paintings in
Japan
Peiying Lin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Kazuko Kameda-Madar, Hawaii Pacific University, USA
Shalmit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Satoko Sakaguchi, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
13:00-14:30 Panel 6 Defining and Performing Ethnic
Identity
Jaehoon Lee, Independent scholar, USA
Jooyeon Rhee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Watanabe Naoki, Musashi University, Japan
15:00-16:30 Panel 7 Post-colonial Cultural
Connections and Historical Memory
Shin Jiyoung, Yonsei University, South Korea
Todd Henry, University of California San Diego, USA
Nadeschda Bachem, SOAS, UK
17:00-18:00 Concluding Panel
Ted Hughes, Columbia University, USA
Todd Henry, University of California, San Diego, USA
For details: [email protected]
50th anniversary
Day I, May 17, Sunday
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
Opening of the Conference
11:15-13:00 Panel 2 Korean Students in Japan
16:00-17:30 Welcoming Remarks
Chair: Orna Naftali, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Room 501, Beit Maiersdorf Room
Hanna Chong, Yonsei University, South Korea
“The Topos of Kidok Ch’ŏng-nyŏn in the late 1910s”
Yuri Pines, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Yaacov Cohen, Chair of Korean Studies Forum, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Rebecca Meyerhoff Memorial Lecture
Theodore Hughes, Columbia University, USA
“Colonialism, Area Studies, Globalization”
Day II, May 18, Monday
8.30-9:00 Reception and Registration
Abba Eban Hall, Truman Institute
9:00-9:20 Opening Remarks
Menahem Blondheim, Academic Director of the Harry S. Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Nissim Otmazgin, Chair of the Department of Asian Studies
Jooyeon Rhee, Conference Organizer, the Department of Asian
Studies
09:20-11:00 Panel 1 Traveling Images: Korea in
Japan
Chair: Alon Levkowitz, Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
Sol Jung, Princeton University, USA
“Kōrai: Korea’s Place in Sixteenth Century Japanese
Aesthetics”
Yoonjung Seo, Forum Transregionale Studien at Berlin, Germany
“Does the Nationality of Artists Matter? Goryeo
Buddhist Paintings in Japan”
Pablo N. Barrera, Yale University, USA
“The ’Continental‘ Origins of Japanese Shōheiga: The
Korean Dynamic”
Ik-Sang Jo, Yonsei University, South Korea
“Social Problems’ as Interactive Dynamics: Discourse of
‘Society’ and ‘Its Problems’ among Korean Students in
Japan during the late 1910s”
18:00-19:30 Korean Buffet for conference participants provided by Dr. Lee Kanggeun
Day III, May 19, Tuesday
09:30-11:30 Panel 5 Rethinking Korean Paintings
in Japan
Chair: Jooyeon Rhee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus, Free University Berlin, Germany
“Japanese Protestants and the Education of Korean
Students in Japan, 1905-1920”
Peiying Lin, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Korean Perception of Japanese Prince Shōtoku
(573?-622?): A Study on an Eighth Century Painting”
13:00-14:00, Lunch Break
Kazuko Kameda-Madar, Hawaii Pacific University, USA
“A Sixteenth-Century Korean Landscape Painting and Its
Reception in Edo-Period Japan”
14:00-15:30 Panel 3 Intellectual Exchange
between Colonial Korea and Japan
Chair: Shalmit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shalmit Bejarano, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Imagining Peasants in Korea and in Japan”
Satoko Sakaguchi, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Japan
“Reception of Korean Art in Tokugawa Japan”
Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Images of Korean Culture as Shaped by Japanese
Colonial Folklorists and Anthropologists”
11:30-13:00, Lunch Break
Serikawa Tetsuyo, Nishogakusha University, Japan
“The March First Movement and the Conscience of
Korean and Japanese Intellectuals”
13:00-14:30 Panel 6 Defining and Performing
Ethnic Identity
Sonja Simonis, Free University of Berlin, Germany
“Celebrity Artists as Art Ambassadors: Fukui Kōtei and
Korean-Japanese Art Exchanges in the Early Colonial
Period”
15:30-16:00, Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel 4 Japan And Korean Literature
Chair: Helena Grinshpun, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Treat, Yale University, USA
“ImHwa Before and After Japan"
Wada Yoshihiro, Yonsei University, South Korea
“On the Relationship Between Lim Hwa’s Works on
Modern Korean Literary History and the Japanese
Marxist Discourse”
Chul Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
“Psychoanalysis of National Language”
Chair: Ira Lyan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jaehoon Lee, Independent scholar, USA
“Understanding the Ethnic Relationship between
Ancient Japanese and Korean: Difficulties to Approach
to the Issue from the Archaeological and Historical
Records”
Jooyeon Rhee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
“Two Portraits of Inter-racial Marriage and Family in
Kim Saryang’sInto the Light and Yusasa Katsue’s Red
Dates”
Watanabe Naoki, Musashi University, Japan
“The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Lee Xianglan’s
Films”
14:30-15:00, Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Panel 7 Post-colonial Cultural Connections
and Historical Memory
Chair: Nissim Otmazgin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shin Jiyoung, Yonsei University, South Korea
“Reportage and Rumor in the Literature of Repatriation
in the Immediate Post-Liberation Period: The Short
Stories by An Hoe-nam and Yŏm Sang-sŏp from 1945
to1950”
Todd Henry, University of California San Diego, USA
“Queering the Straits: Japanese-South Korean Interactions in the Making of Post-Colonial Gay Subcultures”
Nadeschda Bachem, SOAS, UK
“Narratives of Language, Gender and Imperial Power in
Postcolonial Japanese and South Korean Short Stories”
International Conference
16:30-17:00, Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Concluding Panel
Chair: Jooyeon Rhee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ted Hughes, Columbia University, USA
Todd Henry, University of California, San Diego, USA
For details: [email protected]
Sponsors:
The Embassy of Republic of Korea in the State of Israel
Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
Korean Cultural Center in Jerusalem
Frieberg Center East Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
Transnational Cultural
Interactions between
Korea and Japan,
From the Pre-modern
to the Colonial Period
The Harry S. Truman Institute
for the Advancement of Peace
The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
May 17-19, 2015
50th anniversary