REGISTER: https://korea.fas.harvard.edu/event/territory-and-sovereignty-korean-peninsula
Organizer: Bridget Martin, Fall Term 2022 & AY2021-22 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences, Korea Institute, Harvard University; Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Korean Studies, University of Mississippi
Guest moderated by Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia
PROGRAM SCHEDULE AND PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
1:00 – 1:05 WELCOME REMARKS
Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University
1:05 – 1:10 INTRODUCTION
Bridget Martin, AY 2021-22 and Fall 2022 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences, Korea Institute, Harvard University, and Croft Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Korean Studies, University of Mississippi
SESSION I:
GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATIONS IN A DIVIDED KOREA
1:10 – 2:20 KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND PLACE IN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA
The Discourse on the Location of Old Chosŏn in the DPRK / Vadim Akulenko, Research Professor, HK+RCCZ, Chung-Ang University
Sovereignty and Academia: The Birth of Kim Il Sung University and the Origins of the North Korean Intelligentsia / Ria Roy, PhD Student, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
The Cold War Imaginaries of Early South Korean Geographers / Jinsoo Lee, PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Manchester
2:20 – 3:10 UNIFICATION NARRATIVES
The Origins and Development of ‘Peaceful Unification’ in the Korean Peninsula / Choongil (Peter) Han, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
A Re-Examination of South Korean Unification Policy, 1948-1979 / David Singh Raymond Hall, PhD Candidate, School of Humanities, Languages, and Global Studies, University of Central Lancashire
When a Nation-State Becomes a Nation and State(s): North Korea and Its People in South Korean Intellectual Thought of the 1960s and 1970s / Ria Chae, Lecturer, Seoul National University, and Affiliate Researcher, East Asian Studies, Yale University
SESSION II:
MILITARIZED KOREA
3:20 – 4:00 THE TERRITORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Photographic Reverberations: Sensing the Korean DMZ and Expropriated Lands / Jung Joon Lee, Associate Professor, Theory and History of Art and Design, RISD
Distanced Presence: The U.S. Military Occupation and War Photographs of Jeju 4ꞏ3 / Youjoung (Yuna) Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
4:00 – 4:40 MILITARIZED ENVIRONMENTS
Abandoned Bases: Military Waste and Territorial Power in South Korea / Tony Cho, PhD Student, Science Studies and Communication, University of San Diego
Knowledge Production through Legal Mobilization: Environmental Activism against the U.S. Military Bases in South Korea and Japan / Claudia Junghyun Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Relations and International Affairs, City University of Hong Kong
SESSION III:
THE EAST ASIAN REGIONAL ORDER
4:50 – 5:40 GENEALOGIES OF EAST ASIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORY
(Re)Negotiated Sovereignty: Late Goryeo Adaptation as a Chinggisid Realm (1259-1368) / Aaron Molnar, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of British Columbia
Sovereignty and Territory in Qing-Chosŏn Investiture Practices / King Kwong Wong, PhD Student, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
An East Asian Genealogy of a Non-Territorial Modern International Order: Transformations of Fractal Space / Inho Choi, USC-Berggruen Fellow, Berggruen Institute and University of Southern California Dornsife Center on Science, Technology and Public Life
SESSION IV:
BEYOND THE TERRITORIAL TRAP
5:50 – 6:40 LIQUID BORDERS AND AIRY TERRITORIES
Territorializing the Air: Border-Crossing Air Pollution and the Geopolitics of Atmospheric Science in South Korea / Sungeun Kim, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, KAIST
Drawing Lines in the Water: The Peace Line and the Struggle for Maritime Sovereignty / Gene Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
Strategic Contention Between South Korea and China in the Yellow Sea / Sojeong Lee, Global Security Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Geography and Great Power Military Intervention in China-Korea Relations / Ji-Young Lee, Associate Professor of International Relations and CW Lim and KF Professor of International Studies, School of International Service, American University
7:00 – 7:50 EXCEPTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS
Territory of Exception: Special Laws, Colonization, and the Land Question in Jeju / Youjeong Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Kaesong Industrial Complex as a Gendered Space of Exception / Hyunjoo Jung, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University
Cyber Sovereignty and Cyber Territory in North Korea / Abhishek Sharma, PhD Student, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
7:50 – 8:00 CLOSING DISCUSSION