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Looking to Prosperity from within the Ruins: Korea in Korean Literature

UCLA Center for Korean Studies is pleased to be hosting the 2011 Korean Literature Translation Institute Forum in the U.S. Alongside critics and scholars from Korea and the U.S., three well-known South Korean authors will discuss their work in relation to Korean history across the 20th century and into the present. Open discussion will follow the presentations; simultaneous interpretation will be available.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
314 Royce Hall, Humanities Conference Room
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Moderated by Christopher Hanscom, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, UCLA

2:00 – 2:10	Welcoming Remarks Kim, Joo-youn, President, Korean Literature Translation Institute
2:10 - 2:20	Congratulatory Remarks John Duncan, Professor, Korean history, UCLA
2:20 - 2:40	Keynote Speech John Duncan, Professor, UCLA
2:40 - 3:00	Keynote Speech: Poverty as the Raw Material of Korean Fiction and the Indomitable Spirit of the Nation Kim, Joo-young, Novelist
3:00 - 3:20	Prologue: Looking to Prosperity from within the Ruins: Korea in Korean Literature Wu, Chan-Je, Professor, Sogang University, Literary Critic
3:20 - 3:40	Coffee Break
3:40 - 4:10	Session I: A Tradition of Oppression: Laying the Groundwork for Individuality and Democratization Ch'oe Yun, Novelist Discussant: Namhee Lee, Associate Professor, Korean history, UCLA
4:20 - 4:50	Session II: The Current of Experimental Fiction in Korea Jung, Young-moon, Novelist Discussant: Christopher Hanscom, Assistant Professor, Korean literature, UCLA
4:50 - 5:30	Roundtable Discussion and Q & A Shu-mei Shih, Professsor, Twentieth Century Chinese and Sinophone literature, UCLA Kelly Jeong, Assistant Professor, Comparative literature, UC Riverside Moderated by Namhee Lee, UCLA